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Catawu

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Not impressed with money, power, celebrity or threats. Find another way.

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mcc, to random
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Been thinking about getting some sort of Android tablet to read comics on, but worried my preferred feature set ("rectangular screen" "rectangular means the edges of the displayable area are ninety degree angles. that's not a rectangle" "cheap, like tablets were five years ago back when you could still get tablets with rectangular screens" "preferably not Samsung") might reduce the pool of available devices to zero

Catawu,
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@mcc Surface worked really good. Do they still make those?

ai6yr, to venturacounty
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Shelter in Place for a bear lifted in Santa Paula.

Catawu,
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@ai6yr Or it’s in your kitchen. My friend came home one day and a Big ass Black Bear (we later learned was drunk) broken into her kitchen through a window in the mudroom, which it broke into through those double pained windows there… and was eating a bag of dog food. She had her rifle (just came in from hunting), fired a shot into the floor (bullet still there), and he ran off…through the same windows. Typically, bears make their way in & another way out of houses.

Catawu,
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@kfcrosby @ai6yr Bears have poor eyesight and stick to their territory in the woods for a reason. Clear cut logging has destroyed dens, territory, including fishing and berries, so that is what moves them into towns. Desperation. If the logging co were fined $5K+ for every bear/town encounter, logging practices would change, & it wouldn’t be a problem. A sow with cubs will attack anyone.

Catawu,
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@ai6yr So, yeah, he was blammo drunk. It was mid summer so no one expected ‘bears getting drunk in the back yard’. There’s so much fish in the streams, berries and typical forage by then. I guess the wind was blowing the right way. And yes, drunk bears also puke, and worse. “Got him outta the house just in time!” She laughed. It coulda been sooo much worse!

Catawu,
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@ai6yr Yeah, apparently another neighbor was making Cointreau, and he makes it by the cauldron full (gifts it to friends around the holidays). Had about 50 gallons on the go, slow simmer, outdoors…along comes Mr. Bear, can’t believe his luck. He dove in and drank almost the full first cauldron, staggered over, tipped over the 2nd, got it all over himself, same to the third… my friend said he smelled ‘kinda fermenty, fruity, alcoholly’.. it was 6 hrs later when neighbor came home & found results

Catawu, to random Spanish
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The GOP has purged any in their ranks who had integrity, intelligence, compassion, or a desire to actually help people. What is left is the nakedly ambitious, the soul sellers and their enablers who see a path to immunity as they act out all their worst fantasies on other human beings, guaranteed to be celebrated rather than imprisoned. Niki Haley is on board with all of it, and so is her ambition.

shoq, to random
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I’m going to repost this every few days until the election. People need to memorize some basic differences so they can recall them on demand when talking to anyone who still doesn’t understand the stakes of the 2024 election. Please share this post, the image, or both.

Catawu,
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@cosvak @shoq What part of Russia are you in?

shoq, to random
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I don’t get it. My very expensive AfterShokz bone-conductive headphones arrived, and they vibrate my temples to distraction, just like the clones did. Maybe my bones are just atypical? I can’t believe anyone finds this pleasant. Oh well, back they go.

Catawu,
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@shoq I’m glad you said something. I thought they had to be just below the temples. This is not something I can handle.

samhainnight, to random
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Today's view
I had to cut my lunch break shirt as some guys showed up to power wash the deck at the home I was cleaning, so I only had a moment to take a picture. Sadly I couldn't get the sea cave or the little waterfall. Gorgeous house, though.

Catawu,
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@samhainnight Pebble Beach?

Catawu,
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@samhainnight California coast is all public lands. That just looked vaguely familiar as Pebble Beach area.

Catawu,
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@samhainnight Very cool. Forgive me my envy. drooling

dangillmor, to random
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@hiltzikm is one of the consistently best business commentators in daily journalism. Here, he pulls apart the corporate sleaze -- and gross mismanagement -- that pushed Red Lobster into bankruptcy.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-05-21/column-it-wasnt-just-the-endless-shrimp-red-lobsters-corporate-owners-drove-it-into-bankruptcy?utm_source=press.coop

Catawu,
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@dangillmor @hiltzikm from where I sit, it just looks like everyone decided to cash out, and run.

Catawu, to random Spanish
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Putting Costello on (without Abbott), made the defense look like everything the prosecution said was not only true, but understated the depth of depravity both in personality and acts committed by their client.

shoq, to random
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I miss the good old days when random DMs with total strangers could actually be fun.

From my archives:

Catawu,
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@shoq 😂

shoq, to random
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“I didn’t realize he was still alive.”

In a manner of speaking. In addition to his ridiculous radio show, he does regular walk-ons at Mike Lindell (My Pillow) rallies for Trump. He’s a shooting star!

Catawu,
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@shoq @Nazani @ienvision They should cast him as a zombie in Walking Dead. It would be so appropriate.

Green_Footballs, to random
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Trump Quietly Avoids Eye Contact With Rudy Giuliani Begging For Change Outside Courthouse

https://www.theonion.com/trump-quietly-avoids-eye-contact-with-rudy-giuliani-beg-1851484268

Catawu,
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@Green_Footballs The Onion will either save us, or forecast to us like Cassandra.

dangillmor, to random
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Meet the "private equity" people who did so much to drive Red Lobster into the ground -- the top executives at Golden Gate Capital.

https://goldengatecap.com/team/?_sft_function=operating-executives

They sold off the restaurant real estate to help pay for the buyout, and leased it back at what the bankruptcy filing describes as "priced above market rates."

Catawu,
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@dangillmor Selling entire stores of equipment, supplies, furniture & fixtures for pennies on the dollar, was deliberate direction to create a massive loss, which they will write off on taxes while skimming off all the profits (think pensions employees will never see)

Catawu,
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@dangillmor They also leverage the assets against ‘loans’ they never pay back because ‘bankruptcy’ and those ‘loans’ are pure profit. It’s theft disguised as business. It’s how Romney made his fortune.

shoq, to random
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I’m old enough to remember my fellow liberal students running up and down the halls at college, just thrilled that the Shah was gone, and Ayatollah Khomeini was returning to Iran.

Moral of the story, young Jedis: be careful what others wish for.

Catawu,
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@shoq shudder

shoq, to random
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Did you know that repeated earbuds use leads to increased production of cerumen (ear wax?). I only developed the problem when I started using them after years of only using over-ear headphones. Two doctors have told me to go with the bone condenser AfterShokz headphones. Anyone had success with those?

Catawu,
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@shoq Let me know if you use those and how you like them. I need something that is better than the average.

davidaugust, to random
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BREAKING: Alito says, "I hate America, and everything she stands for, I thought that was obvious by now."

Catawu,
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@davidaugust I wonder if he has a jacket “I really don’t care, do you?” In neon paint on it.

shoq, to random
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I’ve now had 3 conversations about the nature of “trust” in the last 2 days. Lots of people think about it. But I still haven’t heard of a credible way society might restore much of it to journalism, broadcasting, government, and public interest missions and agendas of all kinds. I don’t think it’s impossible, but I do think it will be a fairly elite pursuit of a very small group of people for a very long time.

Catawu,
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@shoq One way is to divest the monopolies on media. Break them up and make them compete. We might end up with choices that make sense.

Catawu, to random Spanish
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I believe republicans have crapped all over our government. If they can’t have it, they will, like bad renters, damage it deeply, maybe set it on fire. They can’t afford for it to work as designed because that would mean at some point they will be investigated for their crimes.

shoq, to random
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Bo Burnham is the latest [white] musician asking (by video) why he should vote for Joe Biden?

Are these kids all that stupid? It’s not about who we “prefer.” It’s about the FUCKING ALTERNATIVE? It’s just NOT complicated.

They need to put down their phones, read a newspaper (if they can find one), and figure it out. While they still can.

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Catawu,
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@shoq This whole “earn my vote or I’ll help democracy die” mentality is sickening.

Wraithe, to random
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So, yesterday fam went to the Fuller Craft Museum to the “The Red Dress” exhibit on its last stop on this tour (it leaves the Fuller May 19th)

While we were there, there’s an exhibit of works “The Button Man”
Some wild stuff!

Catawu,
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@Wraithe I don’t have pixified accounts. Just here so if there’s a link that works for me, I’d love to see it.

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