Jesus. If I can stomach seeing it again I will post this screed my niece posted about women’s ‘body autonomy’. It is the most tortured, twisted, belligerent defense of abortion I’ve ever seen.

Can someone 'splain this to me? I'm an old geezer, so please type really slow. I understand that one can create a 'bot to do things. How, exactly, does that work on social media, like Twitter. After all, you have to create an account, then a password, then verify. Then, you have to have the bot find specific stuff...etc. I really don't get it. Please type slowly.

@George-K said in Armed female bystander kills man firing at party in West Virginia: @Copper said in Armed female bystander kills man firing at party in West Virginia: And for some reason the bbc wasn't able to get a picture of the perp. The Sun did. I'm sorry, time to end this shit.

@LuFins-Dad popcorn, right? That's OK.

@Mik said in A new high: And the dems are essentially bragging about it. This one anyway. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/democratic-sen-stabenow-brags-it-doesn-t-matter-how-high-gas-prices-are-because-she-drives-an-ev/ar-AAYbXH3?bk=1&bk=1&ocid=msedgntp&cvid=20f7537332af41939c6f0a5b26dfec87 Let them eat drive Teslas...

@Axtremus said in Thinking about a new Mac...: So … it was like you spent all that money, time, and effort for no difference? Anyway, please post pics of your new setup, just because. Er, no. My settings are exactly like my old (2014) iMac. Speed is noticeably greater, and with the I/O that the studio affords, it's very nice. My desk with all peripherals attached. I went with an LG 32" 4K monitor. Seems pretty nice, but I have to play with settings to get the contrast up a bit. I am struggling a bit getting my wireless keyboard to connect, so it's a hard-wired USB Apple keyboard connected to a hub. Behind the display, on the right, is my HP printer. [image: 1654637593855-screen-shot-2022-06-07-at-4.29.48-pm-copy.jpg] On the shelving unit adjacent to my desk is where the Mac Studio sits. On top of it is a nice USB hub that can house 2 SSDs - on 2.5 inch SATA and another NVME. I have one of my backup drives installed in that. You can see USB dongles for mouse, etc. On the shelf below that is my Thunderbay IV enclosure. Behind it is a UPC. The Thunderbay houses 4 HDDs. One is a Time Machine drive. One is a backup that I use via Carbon Copy Cloner. One is a "Music" drive which houses all the CDs I've ripped over the years, and the 4th houses movies and home videos. All of those media files are backed up to my backup drive that I mentioned earlier. I need to do some serious cable management to get things tidy, but that's a project for another day. [image: 1654637911115-screen-shot-2022-06-07-at-4.23.54-pm-copy.jpg]

Those willing to self-mutilate in service of their perception of reality which differs from the tangible reality everybody else shares, might not be reliable political allies when it comes to literally anything with literally any underlying general principle.

@Mik said in Just pop in a tape...: Wonder what our Disney tapes are worth. I looked one time and it was underwhelming. What would it take to be overwhelming? https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=beauty+and+the+beast+vhs&_sop=16 [image: 1654630025314-4bc2deee-e3e0-41f2-a2be-20b839ef4db7-image.png]

@Axtremus said in Rules to live by: Hmm … I’ve had ostrich steak, but never elephant meat. Pro tip: Don’t order the full rack of ribs.

@89th said in Multigenerational Housing: @Horace said in Multigenerational Housing: Maybe now is the time to lock in a fat 30 year mortgage. Those dollars are going to be confetti in a couple decades. We were lucky to lock in at 2.75% in March 2021, or unlucky in that it was probably like 2.15% a month prior. Anyway... my strategy is to buy a million dollars of stamps, then resell them in 10 years. Awesome. Interest rates can be refinanced down the road when they come down. The principal is forever.

Biden is such a dumbass. The time to address food is NOW. Actually, would have been better back in February. Much of the South has an almost year-round growing season. Utilize it. Much land is in CRP. End it.

I first heard Robert Randolph about 20 years ago. He was getting a lot of airplay on a local not for profit radio station here, CKUA. His playing completely blew me away then and continues to do so now. I have a few of his albums. Randolph, Greg Leisz and the late Sneaky Pete Kleinow (Flying Burrito Brothers) are in a whole different class of pedal steel players. Robert Randolph playing Hendrix’s Voodoo Child https://m. Link to video

@George-K said in Rittenhouse Suit: Supercut. https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1458060865039749121?s=20&t=gQSuXV1JwkYCEMNLzUuBfA Meh, a lot of that didn’t rise to defamation, but a few did and were really bad… The much more interesting test is Social Media. Has that really been tested in court yet?

@89th said in On this date in history...: @Jolly said in On this date in history...: He should remember, since he was probably in the first wave... I thought it was Hillary who had the military warzone experience? Chris Christie is the guy who really knows how to clear a beach.

Nice.