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Posted by beckett2 on November 6, 2018, at 0:51:52
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by alexandra_k on November 5, 2018, at 22:45:43
>Pretty freaky how Fallout whatever it's called automatically turned everyones microphone on in game without permissions...
I hadn't heard about that. I'm not a gamer, but my kid plays some. Not Fallout. Right now it's Red Dead Redemption 2. I'll ask him about the Fallout thing.
Posted by beckett2 on November 6, 2018, at 1:09:05
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by alexandra_k on November 5, 2018, at 22:52:13
> oh, my, kangaroo mice are cute!!! Opossums are not cute. NZ possums are cute:
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> https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/07/baby-possums-drowned-at-drury-school-s-inhumane-fundraiser.html
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> and we are incredibly mean to them.
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> I was amazed at how tiny chipmunks were. I was raised on alvin and the chipmunks and they were at least knee high. I couldn't believe chipmunks.. Or maybe I'm thinking of squirrels... Damn... I'm confused...
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>You're right, it's chipmunks. They're adorable as an anime character. Here's a comparison (if you can view it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRjI0TwjoBE
Posted by alexandra_k on November 6, 2018, at 2:17:54
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM » alexandra_k, posted by beckett2 on November 6, 2018, at 1:09:05
Yeah, I've been watching some Red dead II...
I just saw this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kickstarter/comments/6rduyq/project_resurgence_kickstarter_cancelled_no/
Now, that's a shame.
That's one of my favorite guys on let's plays -- but he is starting to come across as 'canned' or 'non genuine'.
I started watching him when he was about the wife and cat and kid (in a way that was, perhaps, slightly creepy)... But I'm starting to see he has more of a plan for himself in a way that seems disrespectful of his backers...
Aka he doesn't remember the people who backed him from what he was into what he is...
Which should dictate where he goes (IMHO).
Tis sad.
Posted by alexandra_k on November 6, 2018, at 2:27:09
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by alexandra_k on November 6, 2018, at 2:17:54
Yeah... I don't know...
I have sympathy for making the best you can of what you've got... Even when the people in your vicinity don't really have anything you particularly feel like backing... What are you suppposed to do?
Like me? Shut yourself away and then never get to accomplish anything because people never feel that you're on 'their side'....
Or... Blend.... And bide your time...
Seems awful... But what you gonna do??
Tis a hard thing.
Posted by sigismund on November 6, 2018, at 4:19:40
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by sigismund on November 5, 2018, at 20:04:09
Ann Coulter is not Kelly Anne Conway, I just realised.
Posted by sigismund on November 6, 2018, at 4:27:29
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by beckett2 on November 5, 2018, at 21:17:40
I realised I get Pat Robinson mixed up with Pat Buchanan.
The there are people you can't forget. Oral Roberts and his tower deserve thanks.
As my brain turns to mush............
Posted by sigismund on November 6, 2018, at 4:36:40
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by sigismund on November 6, 2018, at 4:27:29
Everyone merges with everyone else. We get a generic picture of fundamentalist religion, interesting and various sexual lives, campaigners against homosexuality spotted at the airport with page boys leaving for Israel for a bit of counselling. It has been going on for a while. It's hard to keep up.
Posted by sigismund on November 6, 2018, at 8:04:21
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM » sigismund, posted by alexandra_k on November 5, 2018, at 21:13:19
>I miss the tree possums from Canberra. Little sugar glider things. I used to sit with my friend at dusk and we'd smoke and watch them glide through the trees...
Many Australians knock Canberra but I have always loved it. I've never seen a sugar glider. We have possums up north. They are much bigger and make truly weird noises in the night.
Posted by sigismund on November 6, 2018, at 8:14:29
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by beckett2 on November 5, 2018, at 21:34:31
Are all the native mammals of Australia marsupials? I exclude the dingo. There are monotremes too. We have native rats, but for the life of me I've never been able to know the difference between those and the standard rat.
It's a relief anyway. I love Chris Hedges for daring to call out heretics and fascists. Of course Australia is not at all immune. We have just been sheltered somewhat from the worst of neoliberalism and the resulting nightmare. The ALP is by no means perfect but compares very well with the Democratic Party.
Posted by sigismund on November 6, 2018, at 12:13:06
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by alexandra_k on November 5, 2018, at 22:52:13
>Opossums are not cute.
Are they American? They have them?
Posted by beckett2 on November 6, 2018, at 16:22:35
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by sigismund on November 6, 2018, at 8:14:29
> Are all the native mammals of Australia marsupials? I exclude the dingo. There are monotremes too. We have native rats, but for the life of me I've never been able to know the difference between those and the standard rat.
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> It's a relief anyway. I love Chris Hedges for daring to call out heretics and fascists. Of course Australia is not at all immune. We have just been sheltered somewhat from the worst of neoliberalism and the resulting nightmare. The ALP is by no means perfect but compares very well with the Democratic Party.Duck billed platypus?
Posted by beckett2 on November 6, 2018, at 16:24:21
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by sigismund on November 6, 2018, at 4:19:40
> Ann Coulter is not Kelly Anne Conway, I just realised.
Haha nor is she Laura Ingram.
Posted by beckett2 on November 6, 2018, at 16:30:06
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by sigismund on November 6, 2018, at 8:14:29
> Are all the native mammals of Australia marsupials? I exclude the dingo. There are monotremes too. We have native rats, but for the life of me I've never been able to know the difference between those and the standard rat.
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> It's a relief anyway. I love Chris Hedges for daring to call out heretics and fascists. Of course Australia is not at all immune. We have just been sheltered somewhat from the worst of neoliberalism and the resulting nightmare. The ALP is by no means perfect but compares very well with the Democratic Party.The case with the Thylacine makes me and my son very sad. The last film and the poor thing paces in a cage. Anything in a cage (except finches and some birds) is miserable. (Maybe snakes don't mind either, depending on the confines.)
Posted by beckett2 on November 6, 2018, at 19:21:26
In reply to one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by beckett2 on November 5, 2018, at 19:17:45
I'm scared. Our polls close in three hours. I daren't look.
2016 was an arrow to my heart.
Is anyone up and want to chat?
Posted by alexandra_k on November 6, 2018, at 21:28:16
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM » alexandra_k, posted by sigismund on November 6, 2018, at 12:13:06
somewhere you said something about older guys having a hard time... and that guy thinking he knew why...
i am not reprasing this very well...
i hope i haven't been... prescriptive. or dismissive. of how older guys feel.
i learned that older guys are high suicide risk in the US. i actually didn't know that... maybe it was just a faint memory... over here, it's about the young guys. and girls, too. but primarily the guys. the girls just self-harm in non-lethal ways. the 'gesture' thing. the guys actually tend to succeed in ending their lives.
anyway...
i don't really know much of anything about being an older guy. i hung out with older guys in the gym in Aussie. but they probably weren't 'normal' for older guys. it's also possible (i genuinely do not know) that they were a little chemical enhanced. i genuinely do not know.
i went to a lecture about prostate stuff a while back. it was the usual line on trying to justify why we don't test for prostate cancer or offer treatment for it if it happens to be found. he had a line on how older guys felt, too...
at the time... i might just have brought it hook and sinker. now... i guess you live you learn. i've learned rather a lot more about rather a lot more stuff than even i realise, sometimes...
Posted by alexandra_k on November 6, 2018, at 21:30:17
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by beckett2 on November 6, 2018, at 19:21:26
> I'm scared. Our polls close in three hours. I daren't look.
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> 2016 was an arrow to my heart.
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> Is anyone up and want to chat?i see... election stuff. sorry... i was swimming. or... trying to...
i need to read, now. otherwise i will have done nothing productive today. and trawl through journal list...
Posted by alexandra_k on November 6, 2018, at 21:33:39
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by alexandra_k on November 6, 2018, at 21:30:17
oh, my, 'The Boston College Third World Law Journal' lolz.
Posted by sigismund on November 7, 2018, at 6:06:54
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by beckett2 on November 6, 2018, at 19:21:26
It could have been worse. Beto didn't make it, nor did Gillem (sp?).
What do you think of David Pakman? I've almost finished his 3 hour thingo. He seems nice. Have you ever tried Fernet, I assume he meant Fernet Branca?
The problem will be that if the US electorate rejects responsibility for the dislocations resulting from climate change and foreign policy (Honduras! Thanks, Hilary. Count the coups.) the result may well be something like fascism as the problems generate a political reaction. Brazil was terrible. The Intercept has been good on that. I don't recall exactly. I recall maybe Kyle Kulinski talking to Glen Greenwald.
To what extent do you think this is a consequence of the Democratic party not standing for anything? When I think back to the Kavanaugh hearings, the Democratic senators were pretty weak. And no one, except one retired old supreme court judge gives sufficient emphasis to the fact that it is not only at all about the rape allegations. It is that in his response Kavanaugh showed himself unfit. In no other recent time or place would it have been. 'It seems like Ancient Rome.'
The nice thing about looking at this from outside the anglosphere is that only there is the overton window, the mind control, so strongly organised. Bloody Murdoch. Well, I'm not an expert, I haven't paid for a Murdoch publication since 1975. That was enough for me.
It is scary. That's why I relax with history. These things are not unusual.
Posted by sigismund on November 7, 2018, at 6:21:33
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM » beckett2, posted by sigismund on November 7, 2018, at 6:06:54
A vaseline covered Dracula in an ill-fitting suit? Did I hear that?
Posted by sigismund on November 7, 2018, at 7:24:34
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by sigismund on November 7, 2018, at 6:21:33
https://therealnews.com/stories/democrats-take-the-house-what-now
Posted by sigismund on November 7, 2018, at 14:28:30
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by sigismund on November 7, 2018, at 7:24:34
I don't know her name, that lovely girl (forgive me, it's my age) on the Majority Report, she delighted me with......
'It's all flattened into equivalent bite sized pieces of the spectacle.'
Posted by beckett2 on November 7, 2018, at 18:41:27
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by sigismund on November 7, 2018, at 14:28:30
> I don't know her name, that lovely girl (forgive me, it's my age) on the Majority Report, she delighted me with......
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> 'It's all flattened into equivalent bite sized pieces of the spectacle.'
>I forget her name as well-- I enjoy her wit too.
While things aren't 'as' bad as they could be, the lack of a sharp rebuke of trump is worse than I imagined. A california representative toady indicted on 60 corruption charges (or more) won his re election to the House.
My suspicion has been confirmed by a few papers that the idiotic approach to the Kavanaugh led to a strengthening of the rep Senate.
The Democratic Party needs to make room for younger leadership.
Are people absolutely stunned by climate change? I can't imagine anything worse than that lurking in the subconscious. Or is it unconscious?
Two causes for joy; Florida felons will be allowed to vote again (maybe the state will shift a bit left); and Chris Kobach, leader of the defunct voter fraud committee lost his bid for Governor of Kansas.
Oh yes, and Devin Nunes will be defanged.
But Rosenstein will likely be fired before then. And whatever, because the Supreme Court.
Posted by beckett2 on November 7, 2018, at 18:43:09
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM, posted by alexandra_k on November 6, 2018, at 21:30:17
> > I'm scared. Our polls close in three hours. I daren't look.
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> > 2016 was an arrow to my heart.
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> > Is anyone up and want to chat?
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> i see... election stuff. sorry... i was swimming. or... trying to...
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> i need to read, now. otherwise i will have done nothing productive today. and trawl through journal list...
>Hope you got some good reading done. Thanks for checking in last night. I appreciate it.
Trying to swim? Was there an issue at the pool?
Posted by sigismund on November 7, 2018, at 20:07:18
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM » sigismund, posted by beckett2 on November 7, 2018, at 18:41:27
Maybe not many people have tried Fernet Branca? (That was from David Pakman. He said he was Jewish Argentinian, and they drink Fernet there.) My wife wouldn't't touch it. I'd read it was the only drink ever to cure hangovers. One other time I read it contained codeine (waste of time). I finished that bottle quickly enough and never bought another. David Pakman surprised me by saying "I don't care about the Bible.' That was nice and liberating but perhaps I prefer to remain angry at those who use the religion in this way. I can't see why they should get away with it. One of the things I like about Chris Hedges is that he went to Harvard Divinity School and is an ordained Presbyterian (?) minister.
Posted by alexandra_k on November 7, 2018, at 23:58:00
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM » alexandra_k, posted by beckett2 on November 7, 2018, at 18:43:09
hey.
sigh.
i just get... upset about things, sometimes.
advertising in supermarkets. sometimes it rolls off my back. whatever. other times it really upsets me, a lot. how dare they blast advertising at me when i'm doing something hard like trying to compare ingredient lists... or do a price comparison.
lane sharing in swimming. i understand that lanes fill up and you have to share lanes. okay. but i don't understand why people share your lane when there are free lanes. i similarly don't understand why people use the elliptical (or bike or whatever) right next to me when there are a good 6 or 9 other ones with nobody on them. it's a personal space thing.
it annoyed me, yesterday that someone wanted to share my lane with me when there were free lanes and when i was doing breaststroke (where you simply can't kick properly if you are forced up against a wall or forced between two people in a lane sharing situatio.
i think...
people are used to freestyle, mostly, and don't understand a wide breastroke kick (to think that that is an issue at all). i also think... that people swim by pace (e.g., aim to swim for 30 minutes or whatever at a steady pace) and that probably the person thought my pace would be constant and by swimming with me we would both encourage each other to keep up our pace throughout the time (when one or the other would intermittently get the urge to slack off). but i swim different. i prefer to swim bursts / intervals. and i prefer to swim breastroke, mostly. and i prefer to try and be a torpedo through the water following the centre line precisely and i prefer to focus on what i'm doing instead of focusing on kicking narrow and swimming to the side of the lane (which means i'm kicking under the lane and into the next one, too, often)...
it's just a pain the *ss. it's... overcrowding. that's all.
i just get... an aversion / hypersensitivity to things, sometimes, is all. i'm okay...
i'm waiting to hear whether i have an interview or not (should hear over the next few days). they really leave it until last minute (flight prices will be well up).
and (of course) i haven't heard anything about my thesis...
I found some journal stuff last night that was nice. Partly about sexual abuse in our hospitals. as in... senior surgical staff telling people to do intimate (vaginal, anal, genital) on people anesthetised for surgery (without their consent). apparently... med students actually write they are uncomfortable about this... ethical dilemma stuff... most people do the exams because they are afraid they will be flunked if they don't... most people... feel bad about / write about these as ethical dilemmas... anyway... the thing was that this article was written by a senior person in the hospital system / a senior research person... they didn't say whether there was evidence that teh (few) students who did not comply were punished or flunked... but... well... milgrim experiment irl... anyway... there was a clear statement that such activity does in fact constitute sexual misconduct / abuse. so... that's good. i was worried that things were that bad, here, that nobody would see it as abusive / inappropriate, at all. i can write to the author and ask them about evidence of punishing the ones who didn't comply... ask for help knowing how to handle myself appropriately in such contexts... sounds like that isn't formally part of the curriculum at present... i am concerned i'll be flunked for such a thing. i believe i was flunked out before because i said things like 'maaori need control of their food supply chain' and so on... stuff that was different from what their political elites wanted me to spout...
anyway...
i'm ok.
you okay about election stuff? I am reading along... but i don't really understand... it's... space weather to me...
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