The Swamp

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Oct 7 to March 14. So about 150-160 days is the required time before jewish americans people speak up about the israeli government. 30,000+ is apparently the number of dead required. Well, it was the length of time that it took Chuck Schumer to say anything. Plenty of other Jewish Americans have be...

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A_B wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:17 pmRun kid run!

Her name isn't Lola, is it?

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Holy shit, that's great Rass.

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It's so funny how those tastes change. When my son was in his early-mid teens, he was a big metal fan. Even Norwegian Death Metal. By the time he's 22, when we were driving to the Rose Bowl, he was playing more Boring Old Man music than I was. "Casey, do we have to listen to Closer to Fine *aga...

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We got caught up on Masters of the Air last night. How realistic is it that the Germans would have so much information about downed pilots? I'm thinking both of Bucky (Buck?) and the Tuskegee Airmen. When the interrogator says that Bucky's name isn't on the lists of pilots and crews on the mission w...

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https://twitter.com/malsaafin/status/1767595431423299584?s=46&t=kdPrYCXX_0ddBVc4CeNcXA How can this be read any other way than a US Senator saying an ally will stop intentionally starving civilians if they get what they want? Yeah, this is nuts. So many people have lost their minds over October...

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When I'm driving with my daughter, she picks the music. When she's driving, she picks the music. Because there's no way in hell I'm going to argue with her (and also I'm just happy to have the time in the car with her - that works so much better than trying to "hang out" together). Luckily...

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That is so great to hear.

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Even looking at this tweet, the only other name I recall from the Challenger astronauts is Judith Resnik.

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Gunpowder wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:29 pm One of the best Bears passing seasaons ever was a random year of Erik Kramer.

Jim Miller is probably in the top 5 in my lifetime.

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The only astronauts I can name come from the Apollo missions/lunar landing era. So, my 88 and 83-year-old parents have pre-written their own obituaries. I was helping my mom with hers. She asked me, “Should I mention that I was on the Senatorial campaign staff for [former astronaut who died just be...

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"If I'da known Paul was going to throw a no-hitter, I'da thrown one too"?

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Is this watchable in the US?

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!!! yeah echoing Sybian here - tell more! what do you mean by "we" - your family? school? club? this is so cool and unique - Rush you've got a story here! We as in family. my mom's partner has always been fascinated with the Arctic, etc. When I was 7 or 8 we got two Husky-Malamute puppies...

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This thread pulled out a memory of watching Ivan de Jesus have one of the worst years ever. Because my grandparents lived in Highland Park, and then because WGN was one of two "cable" channels (TBS being the other) I watched a lot of really bad baseball. Just looked it up. 1981. Batted .1...

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Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:39 am
Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:41 pm
I'm curious what new think you learned from this story. That calling in bomb threats is a crime?

That I fucked up and thought it was the Twitter thread.

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The forecast is for 50 mph winds here tomorrow at noon, with pouring rain and temps dropping from 47 to 32. Should be a great time in the standing section. Well, that was something. I’ve never gotten to experience a lightning delay and make snow angels on the field in the same game. https://twitter...

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The forecast is for 50 mph winds here tomorrow at noon, with pouring rain and temps dropping from 47 to 32.

Should be a great time in the standing section.

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Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:49 pm We're getting 99% in Toronto.

Fucking Trudeau.

I forgot the exchange rate had gone up so much.

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Real Salt Lake is celebrating their "twentieth anniversary" at their home opener Saturday.

This annoys me way too much. It's not their twentieth anniversary, it's the beginning of their twentieth season.

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Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:49 am [Thread topic to be read aloud like Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon]

My mind went with Elvis Costello's Veronica.

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mister d wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:55 pm I have absolute confidence he'll be there for the people who installed him when they need him most.

Oh, sure. He'll be a solid vote to find the NLRB unconstitutional.

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And yet, (at least) four justices voted to grant cert.

I hate to say this, but Brett Kavanaugh is our only hope.

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Yeah, this is really shitty. Somehow these guys managed to put Bush in the White House in only three days - but this new case has to take months? WTF.

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Ugh that's so terrible.

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But if the default assumption becomes something is fake, what's real? Essentially, a decade from now, how can you trust anything you didn't personally witness? Right. It's only a silver lining in the case of fake porn of students. It's a fucking disaster for news. On the other hand, think how great...

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Yeah, that's not how AI technology is progressing. We are in the stage RIGHT NOW where we can (mostly) tell. Particularly with video. With still images, I think we're pretty much past the threshold. But we're probably 12-24 months away from it being almost impossible to tell. Shit needs to get regu...

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I say this without any sarcasm at all: Videos like that are the only way AI is going to be regulated before it becomes impossible to decipher what’s real. Sure hope they hurry up. Students at school in Beverly Hills reportedly created and shared nude AI-generated images An investigation is underway...

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They can't object if they don't know about it. What steve is saying, as a law expert guy, is that it’s always better to ask for forgiveness of a judge than to ask for permission. As a law expert guy, I can tell you that it's better not to have to ask for either. So just don't get caught. Edit: That...

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They can't object if they don't know about it.

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brian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:07 am (For anyone confused bc you’re not on Facebook and/or not friends with me on FB, I delivered 21 tons of Hawaiian Punch yesterday.)

Hopefully you said "How'd you like a nice Hawaiiian Punch" when you delivered them.

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It just dawned on me that about one year ago, when we were in Bern, Switzerland, we were staying two houses down from the Israeli Embassy. The walk to the tram stop took us right past the embassy. It was so calm and quiet. There were gates at either end of the street and a security kiosk out front, ...

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Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:52 pm Also, you can also just say "that's just the way it is" and avoid using the "it is what it is" nonsense.

Six syllables instead of five.

Even more if you keep going with the "Do-do-doo do-do-doo, do-do-doo" in your head.

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And they say American ingenuity is dead.

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There was an explosion of euphoria yesterday in Cub world when they re-signed Bellinger.

At our local Greek breakfast place, a guy was wearing both a Cubs jacket and a Cubs hat. (Not a ballcap, but a driving cap - it looked really cool actually.) He had me beat because I just had a Cubs sweatshirt.

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Aren’t those more efficient than “there’s nothing we can do about that” and “even though that’s the case”?

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