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Yeah, I guess there were no shopping carts handy. Too bad, he called their bluff- not only a bad thief, but a really bad gambler too boot.

Glory Days! Well they'll pass you by Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye Glory days, glory days

Our dog is so old, she can smoke and join the army. Gonna be drinking age soon enough.

@jolly said in The new CEO of Twitter: @xenon said in The new CEO of Twitter: @jolly said in The new CEO of Twitter: @xenon said in The new CEO of Twitter: @aqua-letifer said in The new CEO of Twitter: @xenon said in The new CEO of Twitter: @jolly said in The new CEO of Twitter: That would be the case if Twitter was a small shop that held a dozen people. If my name was Stalin, I would love the way Twitter is currently set up. Facebook, too. He who controls the information, controls the public. But you're the one arguing that the government should send them a notice saying: "You've become too powerful, we set your rules now." Well intentioned rules to begin with, for sure. Also - let's look at the actual issue with censorship. Let's take the Hunter Biden stories. The real problem was not twitter blocking links to articles. I read many many articles about the censorship. The real issue was left-leaning sources not reporting on it. Regulating social media doesn't fix that. Right. What you're really talking about is implied consensus through coercion. But the problem is that social media is the explicit tool used to enact that coercion. It's manufacturing consent. What's hilarious to me is that this is one of those bizarre scenarios in which conservatives would whole-heartedly agree with an idea formulated by Noam Chomsky. Agreed. But I think we'd have to get very heavy-handed with government intervention if we were to try and legislate that coercion out of existence. Social media allows groups of ideologues to coerce others. Twitter is just the tool of the day. I think we need to learn how to deal with the impulse to coerce. This is what happens when you decentralize media power. Again, public square. There are multitudes of things you can and cannot do in a public square. This is not rocket surgery. We've had this stuff 99% figured out since the 19th century. It's simply not that hard. Practically what you're saying is that large online forums must have zero moderation - outside of illegal acts. Not quite, but you're getting warmer. I guess my perspective on no censorship online is informed by places like 4chan. Online forums without moderation can devolve into filth pretty fast. (Filth is not necessarily illegal)

Thanks for bringing the true meaning of the holiday spirit to the forum. I've forwarded the link to my daughters, just to remind them what it's really all about,

@jon-nyc , didn't you get a speeding ticket in Germany about a year ago?

@axtremus said in You know, I might actually eat this: Bun it arguably unnecessary. Not gonna argue.

@horace said in Just another day on the homestead...: That's some serious athletic potential. I guaranty she gets a lot of reps in every week.

@horace said in "I can see your house from here": Mostly forgettable planet but for the fact that Donald Trump was born there. Post of the week(end).

@george-k said in I raised her right: She had a flat tire about six months ago. She didn’t have a clue out of how to take care of it so I went over and change the tire for her. This morning she texted and said she has a slow leak in another tire and she wanted to come over to the condo so she wouldn’t have to change it in the rain. She went down to the garage, and did it all by herself. I’m pretty proud!

@brenda said in Hey Brenda: @jolly said in Hey Brenda: Where'd ya get the skillet? Lots of places sell the pans. You'll find them at some hardware stores, Target, Williams - Sonoma, Amazon, eBay, Nordicware (online), Kohl's ..... Yeah, got ours through Nordicware. They're good for other things, too!

Not on my Christmas donation list.

@bachophile said in 7.3 Hgb: The country with the best medical infrastructure in the world has to rationalize giving some poor old guy with cancer two units of blood. That’s very sad. Give him the fucking blood. And make a local blood donation drive. I have to tell you that in all my years, I’ve certainly considered varied indications for giving blood. I don’t ever remember a blood bank shortage being a reason to deny someone who could benefit from it. First unit is hanging, but we have recently sat on some patients, simply because we have extremely low supplies. A couple of weeks ago, I walked down the hallway to tell a doc that the next step was for me to hang an incompatible unit, on his signature, because I didn't have a damn thing that would work, and couldn't get anything that day that would. So my best choice was to hang a Rh positive unit on a Rh negative patient, knowing I was going to sensitize him.

Go Wildcats!

Can't wait to see the new shows. We loved the first series.

Certain maids had their own handbook and dress code... [image: qjckdy1552441768653.jpg?fmt=webp&v=1]

Didn't they reverse engineer those?