richarddoz.bsky.social
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Parental child abuse will skyrocket during the next four years. Trump supporters believe that parents own their children.
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I miss my Potrero Hill neighbor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti who I was introduced to in the 1970s by my poetry instructor, Allen Ginsberg.
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To say nothing of China's Cultural Revolution, where untold numbers of professors were killed or tortured or humiliated, gutting the universities.
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You have an audio problem: your level is fluctuating due to some setting. Sorry I can't be more specific. Great show (and room)! @sykescharlie.bsky.social
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I'm not understanding that part. Why would the Russians have been willing to attack Ukraine had they kept their nukes many years before they actually did?
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And, increasingly, omnipresent.
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It owes much to Entropy Theory.
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I was stunned by the power of HyperCards in 1989, having only the vaguest awareness of the Internet and how those things could be merged.
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Yeah, that never actually happened, Mark.
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Oh, that's going to gain support from blue collar Americans! Student loan forgiveness was one of the dumbest things the Biden Administration did. It helped to defeat Kamala.
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It seems that she has grown quite a lot in the office.
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Yes, to all of that, although I would replace "green" with "nuclear." It's time to get real.
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And he can't whistle for shit!
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My favorite Gene Hackman movie - one he seemed not to know whether he liked or not. "The Conversation."
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My concern is that people who didn't bother to vote, or who voted badly, will see this as a viable alternative.
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Still trying to figure out what benefits accrue to being a planet...
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The conceit of "effective altruism" is that "they" will be the ones knowing and deciding where the greatest good lies.
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Your grim pessimism is infectious! You're my go-to guy when I find myself being unwarrantedly insouciant! As Charlie Sykes used to say, daringly, for the time: "We have a voter problem." Now, no one doubts it.
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Can't wait for the flood of Russians with offshore bank accounts! Just like Belgravia!
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It impedes with "freedom of the road" in their fevered imaginings.
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People who wear sunglasses indoors receive immediate credibility demerits.
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Oh, I thought that's how they hitchhike!
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Sarah, how the hell can you stand to listen to these idiots?
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Do they even know what "depose" means? It makes no sense in this context.
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She kind of blew her line but it was a good one!
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Et Voila!
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The only way you're going to be able to [have sex with] him is to be thrown into the same cage with him. Be my guest!
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You took that exactly right, Jake! Many of your commenters here seem to think that informing someone about lexical misuse makes them: "pedantic," "grammar police," or "full of themselves." I think that makes them angry, defensive and incurious.
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The other point to make is that the overwhelming majority of cops want such perpetrators of violence to face the music in court & sent to prison, not gotten off the hook by a quick kill. It's fanciful to imagine this (vicious) killer is more likely to be shot than arrested. What happened was typical
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Most of these are, what they call, "good kills." Some are not & need to be prosecuted. But the numbers without reference to criminality & relative contributions by population & the initiation of violence are not terribly meaningful.
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Yes, it's the police who are "executing" not the actual assassin they just picked up. Where he's going, he's going to wish he had been executed.
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The sheer depravity of the malignant narcissists who would turn a vicious killer into a sex symbol. Disgusting!
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Despicable!
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Throw him in a fucking cage!
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Two words: Life without! This prick is going down!
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As frightening as the prospect is, he has a point and we, regardless, have no choice. It's all going to play out without our consent, now.
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I've lived in SF for 40 years and I'm terrified of MAGA! The more I listen to them, the more frightened I become. Perhaps it helps that I came from "Flyover."
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Yours' is the correct take. I can see Sarah's point in that one has to believe that people can improve the quality of their thinking and that things can get better but, can they, really? I fear that something really terrible has happened to our society. Something irreparable.
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Karla had a very mysterious and seductive allure. Right out of a spy novel.
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It is said to be a "veterinary gun." That was a bit of a head scratcher to me, not realizing that guns were part of their usual practice or that they need to be silenced. I'm guessing it's for large animals & so as not to upset the others. It's a good thing doctors don't often use guns on patients.
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I think you need to separate those unrelated groups before making a statement about "them." That's the problem with "LGBTQandwhatever the "+" is for, it pretends that we all have the same things in common and that there are no conflicts of interest between us.
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I can attest to that. Many of the people "flying over" it, once "flew away FROM" it, to begin with.
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Too bad they place so little priority on education or the old-fashioned virtue of self-betterment.
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I would point out that many of us "coastal elites" came from "flyover country" and we're now happy to just "fly over it" without stopping. There's a reason why we left.
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As did I. Imagine, thinking that those scandals would pale into insignificance in comparison to our current, Trumpian reality!