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Re: NBC: 'President Biden declares major disaster in Texas following severe winter storm' - 4 days ago

QuoteSteveO The commercial power grid in these affected areas of Texas should be paying for every_penny of these damages including wrongful death lawsuits. They are the ones who chose to leave their customers literally in the cold after being formally given the recommendations by the Feds that would have fixed these issues 10 years ago. I agree that the power operators ought to be held account

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Beyond the public beta - StarLink accepting preorders! - 15 days ago

Thank you for posting this - I signed up for the beta last summer, was asked to update my address from simply a zip code to a specific location in the fall, and have heard nary a peep since (and I'm in a service location I would think is eligible for SpaceX testing in NE WI near the UP.) Disappointed I never got an official beta invite. Concerned that SpaceX may be playing favorites in som

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Re: Presidential seal stationery? - 20 days ago

Shouldn't the subject be Presidential Steal Stationary??!

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Working mini PoweMac G3 - 24 days ago

That is a case I could see putting my Pi into... hm... now to figure out how to make one out of Lego!

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Re: Snow should be measured by weight, not by volume - 24 days ago

Snowblowers are for wimps... real men use Snowovels! But getting back on-topic, yes, weather reporting it's X inches isn't as helpful as Y-foot-gallons or something like that, in other words one square foot of snow is the equivalent weight of so many gallons of water... feels a little more specific than SWE.

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Re: '...disowning me and claiming I'm possessed by the devil.' - 24 days ago

Problem is, Kinzinger's from Illinois, and I predict he'll flame out in disgrace or corruption like other Illinois Republican proteges and impresarios such as Aaron Shock, Jack Ryan , Bruce Rauner, or even Dennis Hastert, or just to name a few who come to mind off the top of my head. And of course honorable mention should go to the Illinois Gubernatorial Incarceration Rate!

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: “ A zero-emissions US is now pretty cheap “ - 24 days ago

I just want to point out that as our grid becomes increasingly renewable-powered, zero emissions will slip away from our grasp thanks to upcoming energy-consumption increases from the likes of EVs (currently our gas/diesel/ethanol vehicles aren't accounted on the power grid) as well as blockchain-derived virtual currencies and training/utilization of increasingly pervasive AI. And let's not forge

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Remember "The Swamp" that needed draining? - 27 days ago

Quotehal President Trump rescinded an executive order early Wednesday morning that had limited federal administration officials from lobbying the government or working for foreign countries after they leave their posts, undoing one of the few measures he had instituted to fulfill his 2016 campaign promise to “drain the swamp.” Trump had signed the executive order with much fanfare in an Ov

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Headline I'd like to see: "Joe Biden UNPRESIDENTS Donald Trump" - 5 weeks ago

It's been a day of memories... And past this I'm content to let the 45th President slip in to memory except for occasional updates on his hopefully ongoing legal defeats for criminal malfeasance! But maybe a T-Shirt that says "I survived... and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt and a flu that was supposed to go away by April." Too soon?

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Re: Jehovah’s Witnesses is bankrupt? - 6 weeks ago

I was thinking this thread would be about the organization declaring bankrupcty as a way to get out of liability due to a New York State law this year allowing those who have experienced abuse at the hands of an organization (think JW or the one that sounds like Science but ends in -tology) at any point in the past to file suit against the organization. Netflix has a show about it I think...

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Re: Twitter Bans President Trump (Finally!!) - 6 weeks ago

QuoteLemon Drop So when future historians want to write about Trump, how do they get these tweets? Its the primary record of his presidency. .They are not in the public domain and never will be. Links to his tweets embedded in thousands of existing articles are now dead. This is nerdy me thinking out loud, not that important. This site still has records, so maybe the content is accessible vi

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Reminder: COVID-19 is still rampaging through our nation - 6 weeks ago

QuoteAcer If they all died in one day, we'd be invading a country, any country, the next day. Since much of this elevated death rate is due to one man refusing to wear or advocate for wearing a mask and constantly undermining the science of his own administration's health officials, let's start there. Seize his properties and use the profits as restitution for the families of the dead. Or at le

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Murkowski!! - 6 weeks ago

Quotenumbered (Murkowski) is no Bernie, but if Schumer can offer the right incentives (e.g., committee assignments), we might not need Kamala as a tie breaker. I think having Kamala BE the tie breaker is great exposure and makes her a much more active, participatory Veep than her predecessor... so ideally keep the numbers 50-50 as much as possible to wield the cudgel of the Vice Presidency.

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Re: The confederate flag in the Capitol - 6 weeks ago

QuoteLemon Drop This is the culmination of 20 years of ignoring our right wing domestic terror problem. They were a contingent in search of a general and they found him in Donald j trump. It bears repeating, that's a guy who's said on more than one occasion that "I am the least racist person in the room." - which of course is a sure sign he is far from it... So it can reasonably be

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: The list of traitors - 6 weeks ago

I'm a little surprised that everyone's favorite alt-Pirate Dan Crenshaw is not on the list. Mildly pleased that he has some sense of true patriotism and duty. I still don't agree with his politics at all but at least he's not completely trolled by or subjugated to this kleptokakistocracy. Speaking of which since their motto is "Stop the Steal" is anyone paying attention to what

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: 25th amendment - 7 weeks ago

QuoteSpeedy Why? What has Pres. Trump actually done to deserve impeachment and conviction? He is not responsible for the actions of the Deplorables. At the rally prior to the storming of the Capitol he told the crowd "I will lead you to the Capitol and we will show our support to those brave Senators... and some we won't show so much support for" or something similar. In Trump-speak

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: After the smoke clears, will the repubs continue their objection to certification? - 7 weeks ago

I fear they now will use the excuse that "since congress could not get the electoral votes counted on the duly appointed day, we must resort to selecting the President by a vote of the States' delegations." Which since they have something like a 26-24 (or maybe 27-23) majority of states with majority Republican representation means they very well can select Trump as their President. May

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Best AA and AAA battery deals right now? - 7 weeks ago

I need some batteries to go with some of presents received over the holidays... Had a 30-some pack of AAs for a few years, and a 10-20 some pack of AAA energizers roughly over the same duration. Used to have a bunch of energizer and duracel rechargables too, mostly AA with a few AAA thrown in... but they never seem to last for more than a few dozen recharge cycles (which admittedly is better than

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Re: I May Be The Last To Know This, But... Fake 2TB Flash Drives - 7 weeks ago

I was suckered by some fake 512GB and 1TB drives a few months ago, definitely fell into the "too good to be true" category... I think the 512 was $12 and the 1TB was $28? Problem is they each only wrote - slowly - about 120GB of data before acting goofy. Fortunately I was able to return them to Amazon.

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Re: Why are Donald and melania flying back to DC early ? - 7 weeks ago

You forgot the choice "Grab Putin by his Putschy"

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Re: Bomb reason - 8 weeks ago

QuoteGGD Maybe call myself PAnon, and see how many people I can manipulate. Naah, too obvious. PKnown or Rando I like the user name dwnjL - rotate it 180 degrees!

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Re: Pixar's Soul would have been a blockbuster! - 2 months ago

QuoteArtP Movies used to be based on ticket sales in $$$$ but wonder how the new home streaming is going to figure what movie will be number 1 next week? Yes it will be interesting indeed because the various streaming services regard their data regarding stream views to be proprietary and information they prefer to not to disclose... While they may announce membership revenue, it doesn't necess

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Re: Traitor Trump tries to blame China for cyber attack - 2 months ago

Quote$tevie []'s been laundering money for [] for years. He should never have been allowed to run for President, someone somewhere knew this and never said a peep. Quotegraylocks WTF does Putin have on him? The real question should be - what does Putin have on whoever could have uncovered the laundering and prevented this poser presidency?

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Re: December 16, 1994: Mac Clone Era Begins - 2 months ago

I had dreams of Motorola selling StarMax 6000s dual booting Windows NT and taking over the corporate world... then Steve Jobs returned to Apple and pulled the rug out from under them and Motorola had to take a half billion write off. That was the beginning of the end for them... Just imagine if Moto had been able to retain their microprocessor performance dominance AND their wireless capabilities

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Re: The Pen(cil) is mightier than the m$word? Apple pencils on sale - 2 months ago

Which iPads work with which pencil versions? I'm not sure I want to reward the bad behavior of mid-2010s Apple with their confusing naming and product rollouts and compatibility issues... but I do want an Apple Pencil for my $330 6th gen iPad 128GB from 2018.

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Re: Chance to blow up a Trump casino - 2 months ago

QuoteFilliam H. Muffman Is there a fund we can join to blow up all the other building with his name on them? No, no, blowing them up will still give him attention. Rename them.

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Re: 50 in congress have tested positive (9.3%) - the country as a whole: 5.2% - 2 months ago

QuoteRgrF QuoteOmbligo I would like to see it broken down by party Why would that matter? It hasn't changed thinking up to now. Because if the infection rate is considerably higher for one party than the other, it suggests something about their (lack of) thinking about this disease and keeping people healthy.

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Re: How's printing on the new M1 macs? - 2 months ago

Quoterz I would doubt the M1 will affect printing, but would be Bug Sur I think you meant this:

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Re: More space news - paging Larry! 'only' $2.5M to get to space! - 2 months ago

Yeah but why pay when you can get OTHERS to use your products in their payloads??

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Re: Barr leaving on 12/23 - 2 months ago

Quotedavester This is the ultimate case of "no good deed goes unpunished". Barr has only done one good deed during his entire tenure (refusing to support Trump's election fraud claims) and based on that he's history. What a $#itshow! Given that Christmas is a Friday, I truly fear the President's Christmas Present to the nation given how many other terrible headline stealing, weekend t

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting