@LuFins-Dad said in What LuFin didn't tell us...: Yeah, the group that thinks School Teachers and Guidance Counselors can make medical and mental well-being decisions without Parental notification won a 6-3 majority. Sue the bastards!

@LuFins-Dad said in Absolutely shocked.: Oh, and she’s a Chaturbate star, not Onlyfans… Oh...

I love it. She goes from talking about being non-binary to then telling the officer she has mental health problems. Ummm, no need to be redundant! Also I love when she said she has bad social anxiety and the cop said "you and me both", you could immediately see her realize what it feels like when someone claims that.

@Doctor-Phibes said in I'm bloody French. And Irish.: @Aqua-Letifer said in I'm bloody French. And Irish.: Soooooo, between the two of us, it sounds like I'm the one who's more British? Guaranteed I drink more tea and get more pedantic about language, so I suppose that tracks. What kind of documents did you find? Anything cool about the great-great-grandmother? It's mostly census records. She appears to have married a guy in Brighton (or Brighthelmeston as it was called then), and then they divorced and she moved up to Hale Barns, which is near where all my mum's family are from. She married my great great grandfather, had kids, and then her new husband died, so she re-married again. We have a painting of my great grandfather that my grandfather drew (he was quite an accomplished artist, we have a ton of his stuff). The guy she divorced seems to have somebody doing their family tree, so I've been spying on that. It's annoying my great grandfather was on my dad's side was a professional portrait painter, and there's my grandfather on my mother's, and I can't draw for shit. I need to dig more into it - I go through phases. There are suggestions for ancestors going back to the 16th century. Being adopted, DNA testing is one thing, but living ancestry is quite the minefield. I received an alert one day that said, "we found more DNA relatives!" I think the service is intended to let you know that your Uncle Jack got on Ancestry and hey, isn't that cool, pair his record-finding with yours and learn more stuff kind of thing. It's quite different for someone like me. I was told I had a first cousin in Kentucky. I reached out in a very careful way, knowing she got the same message as me. Let her know what my situation was, the extent to which I understood my own biological ancestry (which isn't much), and if she knew any info that she would be willing to share, cool, but if she didn't or preferred not to discuss it, completely understandable and that's okay, she shouldn't feel any obligation to reach back. She did, but boy oh boy, was she uncomfortable. She launched recklessly into some kind of "I don't know anything about that I'm just on here for family history this is what I'm doing I live in Kentucky" explanation. This might be reading too much into it, but exasperated as she appeared to be, she had definite disinterest in discussing it further, but there wasn't any "WTF" confusion in her response. Which was the opposite of what I expected. Considering the nature of my birth and the time period, what a lot of people did was just to never talk about it. Most of those folks got a little older, had kids, and never told them there's an older half-sibling walking around out there. I know of one person who found out their history and now has wonderful relationships with their two younger half-siblings. Another friend of mine learned his birth was an absolute horror story involving inbreeding and the Amish. Which, good God. Anyway, I didn't want to make things hard on her so I just left it. Very hard to know how to handle these things.

@Copper said in Long Island Goes Red: Maybe people on Long Island like having money that is worth something. I doubt it. They appear to love to pay property taxes.

Consider this thought experiment: Impose a restriction that says one can only publich online one "long" post every other day (can be written words or music or video or drawing/diagram) and three "short" posts every day (which can include responses to the "long" pieces posted before). Will that cut down on the ratio of "dumb" things you see online? Or will the overall volume of things posted online goes down but the "dumb" ratio stays about the same?

@Copper said in Ballot Stuffing?: Do democrats prefer mail-in for some reason? Because Republicans are generally healthier and have their own transport so are able to get to the polling place. On the other side, they vote more "early voting" which indicates that they make snap decisions without waiting for all the facts and analyzation of the politician. LOL

Maybe Emily at Vox can help.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Let me Voxplain inflation to you.: Vox isn't news. It's for telling young millennials and Gen Z what they want to hear. I'm not being snide about that, I'm being literal. Yeah, no argument on that. This is what you get when you don't actually have to invest in printing and physical distribution in order to publish stuff.

@jon-nyc said in Bipartisan: If that tweet is all they got this is a mistake. She explicitly states - in original tweet not after the fact - that she means the expression in a “peaceful coexistence” way. I suspect the xeet was just the cherry on top of a decent size anti-Semitic sundae.

Interesting history. (BTW, you always have interesting posts and history)

We live on the rural route, so we get a decent number of packages. Most comes by USPS and some by UPS. Occasionally, FedEx Ground.

Shakespeare portrait sent to edge of space to celebrate 400 years since ‘First Folio’ William Shakespeare’s influence over the world remains unwavering more than four centuries after the renowned dramatist began his career. To mark the continued resonance of the famed playwright’s words 400 years after the publication of his “First Folio” on November 8, 1623, British filmmaker Jack Jewers has sent a portrait of Shakespeare along with a speech from one of his best-known works to the edge of space. Around 1,000 copies of the folio, originally published as “Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies,” were printed seven years after his death. The volume of more than 900 pages included a collection of 36 plays. Without it, 18 plays, including “Macbeth,” would have been lost, according to Reuters. Attached to a weather balloon, with a camera and GPS tracker, the portrait, accompanied by a speech from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” was taken to Earth’s upper atmosphere, according to a press release from inVerse Films. A team from aerospace company Sent Into Space helped with the space flight. [image: 1699497196752-70e707c9-ab8a-47d2-8670-e5f07d5a7dba-image.png] https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/style/shakespeare-portrait-space-folio-celebration-intl-scli-scn/index.html

@Jolly said in “Rich Women in Northwest Richmond”: @LuFins-Dad said in “Rich Women in Northwest Richmond”: And the Virginia Republicans didn’t even get a coin to publicly fvvk themselves. Well, at least they got to see Gibson's political career come to a climax... I wonder if her campaign finances are in arrears.

Slit Skirts is great. I think it was on Rough Boys.

I saw this story on our local news. HIs backstory is interesting. Pack-a-day smoker for about 10 years, then vaping. Got the flu and I assume a bacterial superinfection which trashed his lungs.

@Jolly said in With Guns Drawn: What say our more liberal contingent? Assuming the way they're describing it is what happened, then I hope he wins

Well, they did bring slaves back from various other areas. Were Neanderthals black?

It certainly was. They're going to drag all sorts of things in under that umbrella and claim them to be protected.