On February 24, millions of us made a choice. Not a white flag, but the blue and yellow one. Not fleeing, but facing. Resisting & fighting.
It was a year of pain, sorrow, faith, and unity. And this year, we remained invincible. We know that 2023 will be the year of our victory! pic.twitter.com/oInWvssjOI— ????????? ?????????? (@ZelenskyyUa) February 24, 2023
When all you have is a ‘my priors’ template, everything looks like ‘another American quagmire’…
did you know that a group of weasels can be called a business of weasels? this article has a business of weasel words all the way through. just a ton of "[x] *could* happen" statements that should've been cut if anyone competent were editing it.
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) February 24, 2023
My bar for calling something a forever war is to wait until after at least a single solider is sent into combat. https://t.co/bcBkuOaOyU
— Mike L. Goodman (@TheM_L_G) February 24, 2023
I will be legitimately angry for a long time about the cohort of people who demanded less war, got a president who does less war and decided to pretend he was doing war anyway.
— Mike L. Goodman (@TheM_L_G) February 24, 2023
… But at least the ‘forever war’ doomsters haven’t sunk to Reicht-winger ‘if we shut our eyes, nobody can see us’ levels:
Putin bootlickers are now reaching flat earth levels of delusion by claiming that the "lack of live footage" means the Ukraine war isn't real. No, it's real. You're just losing. pic.twitter.com/F5WsHdy1Jv
— Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) February 25, 2023
Not even Russian media is pretending this war isn't happening.
You absolute puddings have memed yourself into a stance that is so ridiculous even Russian propogandists looked at it and went, "no, that would just be nuts."
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) February 25, 2023
these people are all like the guy who tried trolling buzz aldrin about the moon landing and found out, they’re saying it on the internet where you can’t get your teeth broken for being a bastard
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) February 25, 2023
he has killed hundreds of thousands of innocents for no reason other than his own ego, but you have to respect him for also hating gay people.
we are definitely The Good Guys here. https://t.co/e8CArI6tfY
— brent is begging for some snow ?? (@brent858) February 23, 2023
? This is not war footage.
? The video was not taken in Ukraine.
? It does not show the media using "crisis actors" to fake the growing death toll of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/0fWvYTwg4H
— snopes.com (@snopes) February 25, 2023
Zelenskyy:
„What will happen to Russia?
I don’t care. It’s their own business, not mine. If they cared about the development of their country they wouldn’t be at war.”Via @NatalkaKyiv
pic.twitter.com/97EOjvcx3z— Daniel Foubert ???? (@d_foubert) February 25, 2023
Music and Postcards – Tonight It’s Country
karen marie
Ahh, the freshness of a new thread. Can’t you just smell the fresh scent?
PS: Has the edit window always been 15 minutes? I don’t remember it being that long.
Alison Rose
I love Ze’s forcefulness in that last clip. And he’s exactly right.
Also LOL forever at putin caring about “the nuclear family”, sure okay, a man who isn’t married and has random mistresses and probably legit forgets he has children out there and would not give a single fuck if any of them died.
Alison Rose
@karen marie: So long as it doesn’t smell like country music, I’m happy :P No shade meant, but I was like “Oh yay a music thread oh wait country never mind”.
karen marie
@Alison Rose: I am with you on that. Nice that what’s his face is donating proceeds from his song to Ukraine but … yeesh … I’d pay to NOT have to listen to it. It sounds like every other bad country western song.
PS: I’m owning the shade. If I had more, I’d throw it.
Chetan Murthy
@Alison Rose:
That’s so unfair! He’s a family man, devoted to his wives! Why, when he divorced his first wife, he made sure she got properly remarried, and to a man twenty years her junior! What a kind and loving (ex-)husband, wouldn’t you say?
aaaaaahahahahhaaa (thud (falls off barstool))
Alison Rose
@karen marie: I felt the same. I tried to listen and made it about 45 seconds in. I can go for a Dolly song here and there, and I do enjoy some bluegrass, but country and I in general don’t get along.
Odie Hugh Manatee
I just want to say that Oregon’s laws regarding edibles are weird. You are limited to 1 pound of candy per day. For example, you can buy one brand that has 100 mg. of the good stuff per every 2 oz. for a total of 800 mg. of the good stuff in a pound. Or you can buy another brand that has 100 mg. of the good stuff per every .42 oz for a total of 3,800 mg. per pound. The first one costs $138.00 + tax and the latter one costs $247.00 + tax.
I buy the latter, better value. They call it a “one and done”…lol!
eddie blake
i mean, i know it’s all bullshit, like we’ve been watching combat footage for a year now, but are they expecting american journalists to be embedded in with ukranian units? the ones they are calling nazis?
…maybe catturd and tuckems can ask putin for press passes.
Chetan Murthy
@eddie blake: I’ve seen footage of (arguably fascist-curious at best) UK journos embedded w/Putin’s Shitty Horde. Surely there’s at least one American, too.
Major Major Major Major
@Odie Hugh Manatee: on the one hand, that’s a weird way to regulate it… on the other hand it’s a relatively low-friction regulation. A pound is a pound, no cheating, no need for lab tests.
West of the Rockies
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Are there edibles that taste okay (not like weed)? I smoked briefly for a year and have never tried edibles. Smoking was hit or miss: half the time it did nothing, a quarter of the time in enhanced a red wine buzz. A quarter of the time it made me wicked anxious.
Also, related to previous threads, did Mneso (spelling?) declare a hiatus or just stop commenting? I liked her contributions.
Major Major Major Major
@West of the Rockies: the gummies usually just taste like gummies. It sounds like the fact that they’re conveniently measured would be helpful for you.
HumboldtBlue
@West of the Rockies:
What the hell? You’re talking about Minnesota-emosyne is how I vocalized the nym. mnsemone, there’s a Y in there somewhere.
Speaking of rarely seen nyms, aimai showed up the other day.
Steeplejack
@West of the Rockies:
Mnemosyne just stopped commenting, but a couple of people here kept in touch with her. Then she reappeared briefly last year around the time of some of her books becoming available. She provided this link.
Chetan Murthy
@HumboldtBlue: Heh, and Mnemosyne is the goddess of memory, right?
PIGL
@West of the Rockies: I swear, buy edibles myself; but if you find yourself getting the anxieties, go with Indica strains, and stay away from the Sativa.
Odie Hugh Manatee
The edibles are pretty darned good now. Brands like Smokeez (100 mg. THC per pkg, 10 pieces at 10mg. per piece in 2 oz total weight), IOW lotsa candy and a bit of good stuff. The ones I like are called Drops and they are 100 mg. THC total in two pieces of candy weighing a bit under 1/2 oz. total weight.
Smokeez taste like candy are and are good for those who are sensitive to dosing. Drops also taste good but you can taste the good stuff in the background. They are still damned good as the strains they use vary with the flavors and the pairings play well together for overall taste. Drops are good for those of us who feel the need for weed and are looking for an elephant-level dose.
I eat a 50 before bed and another one in the middle of the night when nature calls. It really helps my sleep and reduces pain flareups while resting.
HumboldtBlue
@Chetan Murthy: I forget.
West of the Rockies
@HumboldtBlue:
Hers is one of those names that my brain just can’t recreate. I was afraid of fubaring my comment by going back to ascertain the proper spelling.
West of the Rockies
@Steeplejack:
Thanks, Steep!
West of the Rockies
@PIGL:
I will do that. Much appreciated!
West of the Rockies
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
I’d probably start pretty light and with something that won’t gum up dental work.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@PIGL:
I’ve never noticed the difference between indica and sativa in the candies, just in smoking them. The difference there is that the indica is far more powerful than most sativas. I’ve been enjoying the green since 1971 (when it was four-finger bags of green shit). The sativa years were much better but the good times came when indica hit our shores.
I quit smoking it about 10 years ago, changing to vaping (w/ a bong and a pen) which works great for me.
If it tastes good then I like it! :)
Odie Hugh Manatee
@West of the Rockies:
Your mouth will feel like there is a film on if you chew or dissolve the candy in your mouth. The feeling will go away real quick, usually less than 10 minutes. It’s almost a squeaky feeling of sorts, not bad at all though.
Yes, dental work could be a problem but they do completely dissolve on their own so it would probably clear up real quick. Our dispensary has all kinds of candy, cookies, sodas, drinks and such with the good stuff in it.
Check it out!
Major Major Major Major
@West of the Rockies: there are so many options these days, it can’t hurt to just go into a shop and browse if it’s convenient.
Craig
OT? I have 2 questions about giant tech corps. (Another ?, do I need another period to end that last sentence? Could actually use a grammar police person here). (And that period too)
First, is there a way that I’m missing to get notifications of replies to my comments here, or do I need to just look at the dead threads, where I’m usually catching up to the end of the dead thread?
Second. I’ve been writing pithy little movie/tv reviews on shitty ass FB for a few years now. I’m trying to go back and copy the text out of those posts. Unsurprisingly FB is making it difficult to navigate the past. I can’t seem to find a way to just go back to 2015 and see my timeline as it was. Can’t even go back and see 2020 as I posted it. Am I wrong in thinking that the proposed FB/Meta/Fuckallwhatevertheircalling it+ is going to be charging you to look at your own FB timeline history?
Any help is much appreciated.
Soprano2
So I see that Scott Adams has set his career on fire and burned it to the ground, all to have the “satisfaction” of saying incredibly hateful, racist things about black people. Don’t the MAGA’s get mad when someone says all white people are racist? Why would one of them think it was ok to say that about black people? Or to promote segregation? Do any of them ever think there will be consequences for what they say? Sounds like zero papers or websites will be carrying his strip by Monday. Cue the whining about “cancellation” in 5..4..3..2..1….
Gretchen
@Alison Rose: I used to like country until I worked with an awful person who kept her radio on the same country station all day every day. Now when I hear country, I’m back with Trisha, and I don’t want to be there.
@Alison Rose:
Chetan Murthy
@Craig:
I’m not a Twit/FB user, but my understanding is that the EU’s data-privacy and -ownership laws forced these companies to provide an interface allowing you to “export” all your data — a giant zipfile/tarball most likely — from their system. Perhaps it might be worth looking for that? It’d be an ugly mess, but at least, you’d have it all, and with some scripting/programming you might be able to extract what you want from that.
I could be 100% wrong about this though.
Chetan Murthy
@Gretchen: When you play a country song backwards. You get your house back. You get your dog back. You get your best friend Jack back. You get your truck back.
I’m no country fan either, but still …. Iris Dement, Nancy Griffith, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, probably a few others. They’re good stuff. But most of it? That first sentence up there is what I thnk of. And the accents! I just can’t get past the “twang”, which (having grown up in TX) I always associate with shit-kickers and anti-intellectual morons. Ah, well.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Soprano2:
Karma is a bitch and Scott Adams is being made karma’s bitch.
All he does is bitch anyways…lol! Racist gets what racist deserves, now comes the screams of CANCEL CULTURE!!
Craig
@Soprano2: they totally believe there are no consequences. They are white people. They can say whatever they want. 1st Amendment!!!!¡¡¡111,!!!… ! They really don’t understand anything in the Constitution. It’s the same as the Bible. Just cherry picking random quotes. Did you see that crazy blonde white lady screaming about a TV being on a spanish speaking channel in a pizza place outside Philly the other day-Speak English Or Die. Life’s so short and this is how she decided to burn her life.
Chetan Murthy
@Soprano2: Amen. I used to read Dilbert daily as part of my list of 3-4 cartoons I had bookmarked. Gotta admit: it was getting old, but hey, it was a daily ritual. Yesterday I removed the bookmark. Buh-bye, Scotty-boy.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Chetan Murthy:
Country music is all about loss. The trailer, the truck, the dawg, the woman, the job…
It’s a state of mind and a way of life!
I prefer rock, 60’s to early 90’s… 80’s hair metal is fun. I play guitar and in fact am getting ready to sit down for my nightly two songs to keep my arthritic fingers moving (and the calluses in place!). Tonight’s songs are The Troggs, Love is all around and AC/DC, A touch too much.
I rarely ever played AC/DC but after the arthritis struck I found it easy and actually fun to play.
Craig
@Chetan Murthy: ugh, a tar file? Wow, that’s been a long while. Thank you. I’ll spend some time looking into that tomorrow (read: I’ll send my geek friend who likes challenges after that.) I’ll report back. Appreciate it.
Amir Khalid
I just got back from the mall. Stopped by the Pet Lovers Centre and acquired a few kitty-appropriate things — a carrier, food bowls, ear cleaner, kitty body wipes, treats. I’ve got money committed to my next cat, and I’m definitely not backing out now.
Steeplejack
@Craig:
Balloon Juice does not have a way to notify you of replies to your comments. You have to read the threads. Search for your nym to make it easier.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Amir Khalid:
Good luck, I have five of the critters around here. Three are mine and two are homeless guests, one staying around the house and the other preferring the garage. I’m hoping to convince the outside one to move in with her girlfriend.
Cats and I just get along for some strange reason and I’m OK with that…lol
Chetan Murthy
@Craig: It could be worse: maybe they’ll export a gynormous XML file (*shudder*).
sab
@Amir Khalid: Good for you.
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
Happy hunting!
HumboldtBlue
I’m surprised at the reaction to country music here.
Country music is roots music, a drum, a string, a voice.
A tale, a sound, an echo, in dells and hollows from the stamp of the feet.
And the hammer.
Good country music is like all good roots music — it’s hungry.
Insistent, relentless, tasty, bitter, and you know when you’ve reached the good parts.
sab
@HumboldtBlue: Country music is not my first preference music genre but I do like it a lot. Like all really popular genres there is a lot of bland out there. People wandering in meet that, and that is their impression.
sab
@Soprano2: Did Scott Adams do this by inadvertantly (my guess, like JK Rowling but with a smaller base of support and even more toxic views) , or was he trying to blow up contracts ( my husband’s view) ?
My RWNJ brother thought he was funny long after I was appalled.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
Well, you don’t see this every year…
Winter in Glendale, snow on the Verdugo Hills..
PBK
@Amir Khalid: I’m so glad to hear this. Bianca will guide you in your search.
sab
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: 25 years ago when I lived in Marin County it snowed briefly, perhaps an inch, and every little kid around me was out with a camera, recording the amazing event.
ETA NE Ohio. Now we pine for snow. Dealing with winter snow used to be part of who we were, and now nothing. February now and we have April plants blooming.
I don’t know what to do about my garden. I would hate to be a farmer, or a bird deciding when to migrate. I just saw a robin in my yard last night? Are the worms thawed yet?
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@sab: I’ve lived in Glendale for 35 years, this is only the second time I’ve seen snow on the Verdugos. Folk at work said there was measurable snow in the Crescenta Valley(on the other side of the Verdugos from downtown Glendale).
sab
bjacques
@Odie Hugh Manatee: when the ever-dwindling number of rightwing friends on Facebook whine about “Cancel Culture” I just tell them they misspelled “Capitalism”. Businesses are just chasing dollars like they always have, and now nonwhite and LGBTQ+ dollars are worth more than white dollars, or at least come at a lower maintenance cost. It’s the real reason Bocephus, Limbaugh, and now Adams got the brush. I usually sign off with a full-throated GOD BLESS CAPITALISM! because angry conservative tears really are a tonic.
sab
@Odie Hugh Manatee: OT I have a grand-daughter seriously on the spectrum. She is nine and mostly happy.
Your information is hugely important for parents coming along dealing with this. And also for those who are not dealing with adapting in a hostile environment.
My locally grocery is committed to hiring on spectrum employees. They are obvious. Very friendly and helpful if you don’t demand eye contact. Seems acceptable and normal to me. Some of the cashiers have issues but management does not care that you have problems with the polite weird kid.
Family dealing with my grand-daughter (she is a delight, so not much dealing) we have discovered that others of us are on the spectrum. Well duh. How did you never notice?
Cameron
@West of the Rockies: In my misspent youth I did most of the cooking for the guys I shared a house with. One of the ways we stretched our dope budget was with magic curries: take all the seeds and stems you’d usually toss,fry them in oil for a few minutes,then filter the oil and use it to make the curry of your choice (I tended to make vindaloo). Tasted like curry,trashed you like reefer,since the oil absorbed that lovely THC.
MagdaInBlack
@Amir Khalid: I am happy you are ready for a new feline room-mate, and I look forward to the pictures ❤️
sab
Ohio Republican just died at 46. Very sad, except that a few years back he chased his wife around their house with a gun until she called police because she was so scared. Then she divorced him. This is who he was. Now he is dead.
ETA Kris Jordan.
MagdaInBlack
I’ll echo one twitter comment: If these clowns think the war is fake, they’re certainly welcome to take a little trip to Ukraine and check it out for real.
sab
@sab: 35 when he was terrorizing his wife. 46 now. Apparently only the good die young ain’t neccasarily true. Also sometimes the other guys die young. So sad. 46 is not so young as 35, but still young.
divF
@Cameron: obligatory:
https://youtu.be/GNWw2NFo_ec
Cameron
@divF: 😉
lowtechcyclist
@Chetan Murthy:
Same here. It makes me go all Nick Danger “how does he make his voice do this?” Who talks or sings like that, aside from a country music record or performance? It’s just tribal signaling, AFAICT.
lowtechcyclist
@Chetan Murthy:
An old joke, but still funny!
bjacques
@lowtechcyclist: and you get out of jail
lowtechcyclist
@HumboldtBlue:
Maybe that’s what it once was, and maybe it’s still like that in some out-of-the-way corners of our media world.
But these days, when I hear a random country song over a store’s sound system or wherever, it’s a song about being ‘country’. It’s gone meta, it’s swallowed its own tail.
The rock n’ roll equivalent would be a station that only played songs like “The heart of rock n’ roll is still beating” and “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” and other self-referential stuff.
kalakal
@Amir Khalid: Good luck and we look forward to seeing your new friend
kalakal
The Country music post was interesting to me because I don’t know the genre at all. Not a thing in the UK, you’d get the odd thing in the UK pop charts, most of which I hated ( the Twang! )I knew nothing on the playlist, so I’m going to go through it and at the end I may or may not like some or none of it but at least I gave it a fair try.
I’m pretty much a dinosaur musically having been living in a cave since about 1990 and I was never that into the ‘pop’ side of it anyway.
So now to crash my truck, get bitten by my dog, spill my beer, watch my woman walk away, and step in a cow pat. All with extra twang
ETA I think I have to get my hat out of jail as well, or something
tybee
@divF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1sPmbj3t6E
trnc
@karen marie:
I think it was 5 minutes, so it’s great if it’s been upped to 15. I wouldn’t have minded 5 so much if it recognized activity and didn’t cut someone off in the middle of an edit.
ETA: I see it’s still 5 min, but the time resets each time you edit.
trnc
I’ll adopt that where possible, although I don’t do FB or twitter.
WaterGirl
Does the US have an exit strategy for Ukraine?
First off we aren’t actually in Ukraine, like we were with the wars that were mentioned.
Setting that detail aside for the moment, the US strategy is for Ukraine to WIN.
Exit strategies are for when you don’t win, and can’t win.
We are so not there.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: There will be others with various kinds of music.
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: Very happy for you, Amir! I love how you are approaching it, too. Nibbling around the edges getting the things you need, getting the house prepped, getting used to the idea of another kitty after Bianca.
She who can never be replaced, but another kitty to love, and to love you back.
Denali5
Highly recommend the Leonard Cohen Hallelujah documentary on Netflix.
Brit in Chicago
@WaterGirl: Second, if the elected government and a large majority of the poplulation welcome your contribution to the war effort you’re in a situation quite unlike the US’s (GWB/Dick Cheney’s) ill-advised Iraq and Afgahanistan ventures.
Another Scott
@Amir Khalid: Excellent. Enjoy your new critter! Keep us updated when you can.
Cheers,
Scott.
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: Oh I know, and there have been many :) I was just making note is all.
J R in WV
@West of the Rockies:
Last time we were in Denver, en route to Pueblo for friends’ 40th anniversary, we tried chocolate truffle edibles. Two of them made for a slightly giggley high, then our last day, returning the rental to the airport desert we had 6 left, did three each just before hitting Hertz, was the best flight ever into Atlanta, even the late night connection back to WV was nice.
Tasted like chocolate truffles with a great buzz. I used to smoke a lot, just tapered off 20 years ago or so. But edibles appear to be great.
VOR
re: the claim the Ukraine war isn’t real, Jordan Klepper of the Daily Show went to Trump’s first campaign rally in South Carolina a few weeks ago. He talked to a woman who believes the war is a fake because she never sees any footage on the news. When asked, she responded that her primary news source is NewsMax. Klepper responds that he recently went to Hungary (for another piece) and met a bunch of refugees. She thinks they are all crisis actors. The clip is on YouTube, start at 4:20 for this intellectual giant.
This has to be a coordinated point on the right, not just something a rando on Twitter came up with.
The Lodger
@lowtechcyclist: If the FDA regulated what you hear on the “country” radio stations, they’d have to call it “country music product.”
Sister Golden Bear
@West of the Rockies: Big Pete’s cinnamon cookies taste just like the non-magic versions. I’m also partial to the mini peanut butter cups from Emerald Sky.
Darkrose
@PIGL: I deal with the anxiety by going heavy on CBD. A 20:5 CBD:THC ratio is good for getting me to sleep.
Ruckus
@West of the Rockies:
She took a break quite a while ago. We have emailed a couple of times but I haven’t heard from her in just over a year.
She is feisty and was spending too much time being herself online and she is a writer and wanted to spend more time writing her books, which she has been getting published.
Ruckus
@HumboldtBlue:
And some of us just don’t like country well enough to listen to it.
And even saying that, it’s not all bad, and if you like it that’s good.
Most classical music I don’t care for either, other humans differ on that. Dad liked classical music. I didn’t get that gene.
We are all different in many ways. Food we like/don’t like. Music we like/don’t like, some drink alcohol/some don’t. Etc, etc…..
Ruckus
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m a bit farther east so the same range here has a bit less snow, but it still has some, except at Big Bear, which has a lot more. But then they are used to a tad bit of snow there.
Ruckus
@sab:
When I lived in Gahanna, OH we got a Giant Eagle market (good stuff, great organic section right when you walked in the door, much better selection, pricing and service than Meijer’s across the street. Even had a gas station which if you swiped your store card, gave you a discount. ANYWAY. The majority of the baggers were teens on spectrum. Far better than “normal” teens, they were happy, good at bagging, attentive, and actually knew how to act like humans, something that a lot of teens seem to never learn. It made the place a better store. Made grocery shopping a far better experience.
SteverinoCT
@lowtechcyclist:
When I was in the service in Scotland, Thursdays were “big hat night” at the Enlisted Men’s Club, the only time headgear could be worn inside. The local bands had normal Scottish accents until they sang, and said “Thenk yew!” with a fake Southern drawl. Not that I stuck around.