For other highly imaginative and decidedly fictitious ways to recharge a TAH with built-in batteries, see Crank: High Voltage (2009).

I would put it in my "lame movie" thread except I can't find link to a freely streamable version of it. 🤷‍♂️

@jon-nyc said in Florida Man bad, New York Man good?:

In fact one genre of piece you’ll see in the media is ‘when can we start hating Cuomo again?’

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Send me a cute enough honeypot and they can definitely get their sample.

Once I was in a cynical mood while going through airport security. I was looking at all the time and expense that went into it. Hundreds of man years wasted per day just by people all over the country standing in line. Not to mention the ritual of taking off your shoes. I called it the modern equivalent of jizyah, the tax that non-believers had to pay to their Muslim rulers.

Anyway every time I see that fence for the rest of my life the phrase ‘Magat tax’ will come to mind. It’s the enduring physical symbol of Trump’s Great Lie.

This is a lesson taught by Paul Revere

Cut communications

@copper said in The Four:

I refuse to believe that we have a member who is not an expert on Lithium reserves.

Okay props, that's a good one. 😄

@taiwan_girl said in Today's Science Tidbit: Wombat Poop:

I wonder why they developed like that? What advantage did square poops give them over round ones? LOL

Angel: But the creatures are round, everything about them is round. Why would—how can such a creature make... poop cubes?
God: 555555555!

Luke’s girlfriend was over last night.

Me: Luke, is your sense of taste getting better?

Luke: A little.

Me: Hannah, how about your taste?

Hannah: Oh, I never had COVID... Why do you ask?

Me: Well, I figured you must have lost your taste if you started dating Luke...

...

...

Luke: You do realize that one day you are going to be connected to life support, and the decision will be in my hands, right?

When our place opened a new building, with new ORs, the heart surgeons were insistent on having a good sound system installed.

Being insistent ≠ being smart.

The speakers were positioned on the walls, toward the foot of the OR table. So, anyone standing at the table would hear everything from one ear, depending on whether they were standing to the right or left of the patient.

However, the gas-passer would face the foot of the table, so he would be facing both speakers.

A much more satisfactory audio experience as far as heart surgery goes.

Just sayin'.

This guy also liked Mason Williams, I might add.

@copper said in Masks & Food:

Your wife

Don't forget your wife

Separation of church and state...

@klaus said in Twitter suspends another. Why?:

Twitter as somehow protecting child sex crimes.

I posted a story about a week ago about Twitter not suspending someone who posted, er, suggestive videos of a teenager. When the parents contacted Twitter, they were told that this was "not a violation of their policies." They're suing.

You're right, this might be it.

@horace Fair enough.

@george-k

Yeah. Even Trump knows there aren’t any good people in the Confederate states. 😉

WSJ:

A surveillance judge clarifies that the FBI can falsify evidence without much fear of punishment.
The government employees of the “resistance” who never accepted Donald Trump as our president have finally performed a useful public service. Together with the judges of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, they have demonstrated for all Americans how easy it is to turn the spying tools of the federal government against domestic political opponents.

Even after the Obama-appointed inspector general of the Department of Justice found “at least 17 significant errors or omissions” in a series of approved surveillance warrant applications to spy on Trump associate Carter Page—and even after a criminal conviction of an FBI attorney for doctoring an email to make it appear that the patriotic Mr. Page had never assisted U.S. intelligence—the FISA judges are still refusing to apply any significant punishment to the government officials who misled them.

Has to do with the X-Waiver...

https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/14/trump-admin-nearly-all-doctors-buprenorphine/

Bach and George can weigh in if they wish...

@doctor-phibes said in Best small town in every state:

@jolly said in Best small town in every state:

they have a helluva golf course

I guess there's a down-side to every area.

Well, they also have a haunted antebellum mansion.

Chagrined could be one word. Stupidly reactionary might be another.

Innovation occurs at the lower levels. Where someone actually wants or has to do something.

OK, I cooked it down substantially today and added chipotle pepper and more cumin. Now tastes more like chili and less like beef stew.