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classical guitar, chess, golf, duplicate bridge, etymology, semantics, yoga, physics, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, Homeric Greek
Environmentalist Pothead Luddite Polymath
Club of Rome -> Limits To Growth
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lednabwm, to random

Holy errors, Batman...

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@DaWoDerPfeffer @Robert_R_Freitag_II @JoeQuinlan @lednabwm
The Herod stories are the ones that truly label the NT as fiction. First, the underlying reason for Mary and Joseph being in Bethlehem at all was to pay taxes, showing that the authors knew nothing about the procedures Romans used to collect taxes. Second, why in the world would Joseph take his late term pregnant wife with him - riding on a donkey!? It's interesting to note that Mary doesn't become a virgin for another 3 hundred years.

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@DaWoDerPfeffer @Robert_R_Freitag_II @JoeQuinlan @lednabwm
The NT authors tell us that Herod was killing first born Jewish sons to preempt a Messiah from dethroning him, retelling the Ramses legend and Passover. Besides the fact that the Jews themselves do not remember this - and they do remember stuff like this - the Romans didn't either. Romans were real bean counters, and they would have kept records of both Herod's edict and how many Jews they killed, day by day. They don't exist.

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@DaWoDerPfeffer @steven @Robert_R_Freitag_II @JoeQuinlan
@lednabwm
The English/Germanic days of the week are all pagan, named after the Teutonic pantheon,, except for Saturday. Xianity didn't really go over big up north until deep into the Dark Ages.

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@Jeramee @steven @DaWoDerPfeffer @Robert_R_Freitag_II @JoeQuinlan @lednabwm
I generally bring up Sherlock Holmes as a comparison, and now that the copyrights have expired, there are new Sherlock Holmes stories by new authors popping up, just like the NT. I recall that Sherlock was modeled on a French police detective familiar to Conan Doyle, so something similar could have taken place with Yeshua. In any case, the NT is definitely fiction: The Further Adventures of Jesus Christ, Superstar.

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@lednabwm @Jeramee @steven @DaWoDerPfeffer @Robert_R_Freitag_II @JoeQuinlan
Joseph Smith the Glass Looker, for example.

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    @raymondpert
    There is no reason to support any of the governments in the Middle East, including Israel and Turkey. The Middle East offers us nothing at this point but an expense and an international political headache, because we are now totally fossil fuel independent and we need the ME for absolutely nothing. (We export as much oil as we import, so we should stop importing AND exporting oil entirely.) We should do a Vietnam, declare victory and leave - completely. Let them fight without us.

    Threadbane, to random
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    Allowing Nikki Haley to spout nonsense in front of a classroom of impressionable children should be punishable as child abuse.
    What a moron. The abominable Chris Christie is the only Republican POTUS contender with a brain. She can't even state the standard "the South will rise again" line, that it was a matter of states' rights including the right of citizens to own slaves if their state allowed it) .

    maddad, to random
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    Biden Campaign TORCHES Trump Rally In Blistering Hitler-Invoking Condemnation

    keeps ranting like and we all know how that ended for Germany.
    We can't let this become POTUS ever again.

    We can stop him in his tracks.
    All we need to do is VOTE them out. If they are not elected, they have no power.

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/biden-campaign-torches-trump-rally-in-blistering-hitler-invoking-condemnation/

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    @maddad
    The only people who care or even know about Hitler are in their 80s and 90s now. WWII is as remote for most people as the Civil War. The press is really jumpin' on this as a gotcha for Trump, but it isn't. I daresay that most of the people who are aware of Hitler these days are PRO Hitler, like a considerable fraction of both Congress and the GOP base. The White Xian Nationalists are flying swastikas on their pickup trucks.

    Free_Press, to news
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    Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., filed a complaint Friday alleging judicial misconduct by a federal judge who has overseen various Jan. 6-related cases.

    Stefanik, a staunch ally of Donald Trump and member of House GOP leadership, formally requested an ethics investigation into U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell over what the New York Republican called a “highly inappropriate political speech” by the judge in November.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/elise-stefanik-files-complaint-judge-ruled-jan-6-trump-cases-rcna129878

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    @Free_Press
    For my money, Stefanik is one of the top ten most evil people in Congress. There are a lot of morons, straight up criminals and Xian crazies, but Elise is a Machiavellian psychopath.

    DrALJONES, (edited ) to Palestine
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    @DrALJONES
    The idea that European and American Jews have some sort of genetic linkage to the Palestinian land they've invaded is wholly bogus. The invaders have barely any Hemitic/Semitic DNA left at all, being mostly German, Polish, Russian, etc. Giving away Palestine to the northern European Jews is the biggest mistake the UN ever made.

    paulbusch, to Canada

    Good Morning
    Today we have a rare off-season edition of . Duncan B.C. owns the world's largest hockey stick, at 62-metres and attached to the Cowichan Community Centre for the past 35 years. It's in a bad state of repair due to a pesky woodpecker and it needs a new home. But any new owner will get the 2nd largest hockey stick as Lockport in Illinois will soon install a 76.2-metre version outside a local arena.


    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/largest-hockey-stick-for-sale-duncan-1.7049728

    Threadbane,
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    @jd @paulbusch
    All the Canada geese are natural born US citizens. They migrate to the mid-Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf to lay their eggs, then migrate north to Canada for the summer.

    davidr, to Birds
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    I came across a meme that showed someone putting oats into a greasy pan to dispose of the grease and then feed .

    Since the kids have moved out, we don't go through enough jars to put meat fat into (the drain is out of the question). Win win!

    Trying to confirm, google was only giving me garbage, but I found a pretty trustworthy link that specifically called out grease, rendered fat, seeds and oats.

    https://www.audubon.org/news/holiday-cooking-birds

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    @davidr
    I mix cereal and bread scraps with bacon grease all the time. We feed the crows chicken bones, any meat scraps, fish, fat, french fries and they love it. Crows won't eat stuff like asparagus, broccoli, celery, etc. Those things we compost. The only things that go in the garbage are non-recyclable plastic and packaging, medicine bottles and so forth. Coffee filters and coffee grounds both compost very nicely. We produce very little garbage for the garbage trucks. 8^)

    dangillmor, to random
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    The Murdoch family's Fox "News" did its best to foment national fear and loathing with its dangerously bogus claim that the car explosion at Niagara Falls was terrorism.

    It's a reminder that Murdoch and his underlings relentlessly inject poison into our civic bloodstream, for profit and power.

    If you subscribe to cable/satellite TV or a digital equivalent, you are sending them money every month.

    Please stop. Please cancel. Do not support this evil company.

    Threadbane,
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    @dangillmor
    Severing cable means severing the only Left leaning broadcast as well, MSNBC, the only anti-fascist channel out there, since CNN is merely FOX Lite now and the other news outlets are mainly "celebrity TV" and "mass murder" coverage. One can still turn to the BBC I suppose, but there's nothing else out there to stream, and MSNBC the next day seems somewhat empty. I'd love to get rid of all stomach-turning religious programming, too, like Eternal World Television Network and 700 Club.

    CelloMomOnCars, to TeslaMotors
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    About those "abated" or "unabated" #FossilFuels :

    "We found that scenarios with more gas were reliant on potentially unachievable levels of #CarbonCaptureAndStorage (#CCS) and #CarbonDioxideRemoval (#CDR) .

    This suggests that narratives around #gas as a “bridge”, “transition”, or “cleaner” fuel may be misplaced."

    (It's always useful to ask WHO is pushing for a particular solution. The fossil fuel industry pushes for CCS and CDR).

    https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-all-fossil-fuels-must-decline-rapidly-to-stay-below-1-5c/

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    @enobacon @CelloMomOnCars
    For a century? More like a millennium. I really thought that most people understood the problems with perpetual motion by now, but apparently not. We learned it in about 3rd or 4th grade back in the early1950s, but all they teach these days is...well, I have no idea, come to think of it. Certainly not science of any description.

    stevesilberman, to random
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    Every reporter in America should stop what they're doing, read, and absorb the importance of what Will Bunch says here. We are one election away from a fascist state ruled by a career mobster with a sadistic craving for revenge. That's what's at stake in 2024! https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/journalism-free-press-gaza-extremism-20231105.html

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    @stevesilberman
    And everybody except psychologist Dr. Mary Trump refuses to say that he's out of his mind. Trump is WAY more than a mobster, he's a demented, delusional psychopath with serious cognitive impairment who should be in an institution for the criminally insane.

    ProPublica, to maps
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    Wisconsin’s Legislative Are Bizarre, but Are They Illegal?

    Wisconsin’s case has garnered national attention. But a little-explored aspect of the suit — the pervasive presence of “Swiss cheese” districts (see some examples below) — could have huge ramifications for the outcome.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-legislative-maps-bizarre-are-they-illegal?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

    Map showing Wisconsin's 48th and 79th Districts. It spotlights a disconnected "island" portion of the 79th floating in the middle of the 48th. That island, shown in an inset map, contains just 2 houses and a manufacturing plant. Caption reads: In Dane County, the Town of Burke is made up of disjointed tracts, resulting in noncontiguous boundaries for the town. Tiny portions of the town are in two different Assembly districts, both held by Democrats.
    Map of Wisconsin's 2nd and 88th Districts. An inset map spotlights two disconnected "islands" that belong to the 88th district, but which are entirely surrounded by the 2nd. Caption reads: The 88th District, which features eastern sections of Green Bay as well as more rural areas, includes two detached islands surrounded by the 2nd District. Those islands correspond to the boundaries of two towns. The islands don’t seem to benefit either party. Both districts are represented by Republicans.
    Map of Wisconsin's 47th District, showing how, in addition to its large, oddly shaped contiguous portion, it has numerous disconnected "islands" that do not in any way connect with the rest of the 47th. Caption reads: The Town of Madison, which had noncontiguous boundaries and was part of the 47th Assembly District, ceased to exist in 2022 when it was absorbed by the cities of Madison and Fitchburg. Yet the resulting islands in the legislative district remain. The district is notable for its large number of people living in noncontiguous areas.

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    @ProPublica
    There is really no reason for computer voting terminals (or even in-person voting for that matter), but computers are the quick and easy answer to drawing voting precincts. An off-the-shelf GIS can draw equal population adjoining polygons without resorting to weirdness, totally unbiased and fair without human intervention. To stop gerrymandering we have t take humans out of the creation of voting maps completely.

    LeftistLawyer, to solar

    A revealing article on the headwinds facing the transition to -energy.
    From the article:

    1. and stocks are declining due to higher costs of raw materials and slow supply response.
    2. chargers and copper mining, critical for the energy transition, face demand uncertainties and reluctance in investment, and
    3. Despite government subsidies, energy sectors struggle with high costs and interest rates, indicating a slower and more expensive transition than anticipated.

    This is the problem with entrusting matters of such dire importance to -- especially in an age of resource scarcity. As I say in my pinned toot:

    Capitalism is little more than an ideological hangover produced from a time long past when low hanging fruit was everywhere for the taking and people thought it would never disappear.

    That quote has deeper context than most suspect. I penned it years ago shortly out of law school after taking a Wildlife Law class from the, now deceased, Professor Dale Goble. He literally wrote the book on the Act. There he introduced me to the reason species have, historically, been driven to -- new technology + capitalist opportunism:

    Gun powder killed the mega-predators. Whales? Spear gun. Passenger pigeon? Net guns. I could go on. But then we invented the petroleum economy, and in the opportunistic race for economic growth the decline has quickened by means of the collateral damage caused by degradation. Which, brings me to my point ---

    The ideology that is capitalism was built around gluts. It cannot exist without low hanging fruit to fuel the necessary to get past the bottleneck of widespread consumer adoption. We are seeing the problem in stark outline today. Without in the resource extraction sector, generating the necessary momentum to survive the capitalist "valley of death" is nearly impossible.

    I conclude, there must first be an ideological transition away from the hangover that is capitalism, if we ever want to transition sustainable green-energy. The fruit is gone, folks. If we ever want it back, capitalism won’t take us there

    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/has-the-energy-transition-hit-a-wall.html

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    @LeftistLawyer
    And conserving resources is never even part of the equation. Does everybody have to have an SUV, do we need riding lawnmowers or thermostats set to 68 when the temp is 100F? Under Carter, there was a fleeting time to use less, to turn the lights out when you left a room, carpool, put on a sweater instead of turning up the heat. Now, we just try to meet rising demand, with no effort to encourage lowering demand.

    Free_Press, to news
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    Mike Lindell needs to get his nose out of the coke...

    Steve Bannon helping MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell promote major sales as his friend struggles to pay off legal fees from his election lawsuits and his company faces financial hardships that have crippled operations

    https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-tries-save-mypillow-mike-lindell-slashes-prices-1843917

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    @Free_Press
    Finally, some good news on my timeline this morning.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Good. Keep slamming.

    “ compares 's 'vermin' remarks to rhetoric

    Biden slammed former President Donald Trump's remarks last weekend that characterized his political opponents as "vermin" who pose threats within the country.”
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-compares-trumps-vermin-remarks-nazi-rhetoric-rcna125266

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    @GottaLaff
    The only problem is that the MAGA are flying Nazi flags alongside Trump flags, while 40% of the country prefers Putin and Hitler to Biden.

    lednabwm, to random

    Yes, dear....

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    @MugsysRapSheet @nosmaharba @avi917 @lednabwm
    'Atheist are DEFINED by their "faith"' Like saying that totally bald people are defined by their hair color. Give your god(s) the boot. They're just a waste of time and money, unless you're making money off of them.

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    @MugsysRapSheet @nosmaharba @avi917 @lednabwm
    "Bald people don't insist they have hair."
    Non sequitur. It would appear that you have untidy thought processes, likely a root cause of your delusion that supernatural gods exist. I believe in your god(s) as much as you believe in:

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    @MugsysRapSheet @nosmaharba @avi917 @lednabwm
    Basic definitions of the word "religion".

    The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, regarded as creating and governing the universe.

    A particular variety of such belief, especially when organized into a system of doctrine and practice.

    A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.

    Note that atheism has no "practices". We have no doctrine. You are not speaking English.

    lauren, to random
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    Other GOP leaders are defending the GOP senator who tried to get into a fist fight yesterday with a witness during a Senate hearing (Bernie Sanders stopped him). This shouldn't surprise anyone, because the GOP leadership is now dominated by moronic thugs, bullies, and charlatans.

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    @lauren
    The operant word for the GOP leadership (and membership) is psychopathic. That they are thugs, bullies and charlatans is merely symptomatic. Fifty years ago, the Republicans were the "smart" party. Hard to believe, eh?

    GW, to random

    America’s War Economy and the Urgent Call for Peace in the Middle East

    Twenty-three years and more than two wars later, this statement reads as a tragic footnote to America’s Global War on Terror that left an entire region of the planet immiserated. It contributed to the direct and indirect deaths of close to 4.5 million people while costing Americans almost $9 trillion and counting.

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/11/06/americas-war-economy-and-the-urgent-call-for-peace-in-the-middle-east/

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    @GW
    They should refer to the war in Iraq as Cheney's war.

    marcelias, to random
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    @marcelias
    All the problems vanish if we just go to all mail-in.
    No polling sites to set up/protect, heat or air condition.
    No poll workers.
    No voter intimidation.
    No computer security problems.
    No computer voting terminals, or people to set them up and maintain them.
    No waiting in line.

    Forcing people to vote in person borders on insanity.
    It has NOTHING to recommend it, NOTHING to justify it. It's a waste of money and a waste of everybody's time.

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