Happy Memorial Day weekend.
And, remember: when someone at the cookout asks you who you like for 2020, tell them the candidate you like the most, not the one you assume an imagined person at a diner somewhere might like.
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) May 24, 2019
New NATIONAL @MonmouthPoll (that has major debate implications):
Biden 33%
Sanders 15%
Harris 11%
Warren 10%
Buttigieg 6%
O'Rourke 4%
Klobuchar 3%
Everyone at or below 1 percent https://t.co/gBns6E96M8— Zach Montellaro (@ZachMontellaro) May 23, 2019
Repeating myself a bit, but when the former VP is below 30% and the 2016 runner-up is below 20%, you see why many candidates can imagine themselves breaking out and beating them.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 23, 2019
I’m feeling pretty good about Imaginary Democrat That Presumably Agrees With Me About Everything https://t.co/EOO2dK70Eu
— Molotov Frappuccino Thrower (@agraybee) May 24, 2019
Monmouth has Biden 33%, Sanders 15%, Harris 11%, Warren 10%. https://t.co/kP3donwKEj I think there are some trends attached… Biden is up pre-launch, but down from immediate post launch. Warren is up but not much in last few weeks. Sanders has stabilized for now. Harris steady. pic.twitter.com/flC9Hn8MWU
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) May 23, 2019
.@MonmouthPoll: Bernie Sanders support among voters age 50+
May: 4%
April: 10%
March: 19%— Aron Goldman (@ArgoJournal) May 23, 2019
When Sanders starts polling 3rd it's a tipping point. https://t.co/FC059ZA5bC
— Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) May 24, 2019
Mary G
I do love watching Wilmer going lower and lower.
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
OzarkHillbilly
In decidedly Not Blech news: Woman found alive after two weeks in Hawaii forest park
NotMax
Weekends are for kicking back and relaxing. In that vein –
Need a grin? Spend a minute looking at a couple of things that never caught on. And no, these are not from some precursor to The Onion, these were actually available on the market. #1 – #2
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Bernie Wouldna Won
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: I had seen the car record player before, but not the radio newspaper receiver.
Baud
That Yang and Gabbard are higher than Castro is sad.
NotMax
On a more serious note, perhaps others here more attuned to economic statistics can help shed some light. While realizing it is a single data set, it appears to be worrisome and indicative that we’re operating more and more within what I call the Hollow Economy (emphasis added).
Baud
So the youngs are propping him up? That’s sad.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: It is the inevitable result of chaos at the top.
ETA trickle down economics
Baud
Baud! 2020!
Raven
My bride has a friend flying in on the redeye from the bay area for the weekend. Apparently she just spllt with her partner of 30 years so that should be interesting. Oh, did I mention the record heat?
satby
@Raven: sounds like the perfect time for you to go fishing.
@OzarkHillbilly: ?
satby
@Baud: the youngs have always propped him up, but as they grow they gain enough wisdom to notice he hasn’t changed his routine in four years. Nothing screams”old” like that.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
For nearly 40 years, whenever someone tries to go off about the (so-called) magic of trickle down economics I calmly ask them to explain to this lunkhead how that differs from dogs being arbitrarily tossed scraps from the dinner table.
So far, not a one of them has been able successfully to do so.
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: Talk about Blech, Ucky Blech.
Raven
@satby: IT”S TOO HOT TO FISH!
I will wander out to the LZ Friendly Memorial Day Campout. The membership is fading and they are starting to consider selling the property and buildings so it should be even more depressing than usual.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: I always ask them how it differs from being pissed on by the rich.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone???
satby
@Raven: that sounds… fun?
Baud
@Raven: Chinese hoax.
@rikyrah: Good morning.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?
It’s rained pretty much every day for what seems like two weeks. Going to storm today and maybe tomorrow. I’m thinking about just harvesting my grass at this point. Should be able to get a couple of bales out of it.
NotMax
@Raven
Memories of marching for what seemed hours under a stark and unforgiving sun as part of a Cub Scout troop in the local Memorial Day parade, then being rewarded at the end with hot dogs which had been boiling for who knows how long – probably since dawn, and the grayest franks one has ever seen – and warm lemonade.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
That would be stream down economics.
;)
@satby
Broke records for high temps here for most days of the past week. Up into the mid 90s. So far, hottest May ever, and it’s not over yet.
rikyrah
Elections matter
Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) Tweeted:
BIG NEWS on disaster aid
Puerto Rico has reportedly secured b/w $900 million and $1.4 billion in additional funding (estimates vary widely rn), per aides
In February, The White House initially wanted PR to give ~$0~ additional money to Puerto Rico
Huge shift due to House Ds https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1131630799080574977?s=17
JPL
@Raven: I have a house full of company and the heat is relentless. My old Air Conditioner is struggling to keep up.. ugh
Raven
@satby: Yea, I’ve been a member since I’ve lived down here so there are some old buddies I like to see so I do it for a few hours. While it is still pretty alcohol centered most people don’t get hammered like they used to.
This is from the website:
“Of great concern is the dwindling number of members, lack of new members and member support of the organization in maintaining the grounds and structures. Old soldiers do die and that is of great concern.
All members should try to attend these meetings. The advice and suggestions of each member is needed so a possible solution can be made to avoid the demise of our lands. Or all the effort in the past will not be lost.”
Raven
@JPL: Yikes!
WereBear
@NotMax: I’ve seen the highway record player. As if.
No wonder 8 tracks (briefly) caught on.
rikyrah
Big Boss (@escapedmatrix) Tweeted:
Picking up trash at your residence while black, will get 8 police guns drawn on you in America.
This man almost died. Wake up America. #SurvingAmericasPolice
https://t.co/vZUpyoS5a0 https://twitter.com/escapedmatrix/status/1131677605135101953?s=17
rikyrah
Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) Tweeted:
WARNING: We are in grave danger. Trumps says he declassified all allied intelligence fm FBI, GCHQ, MI6, AVID & ASIS for AG Barr to get revenge. This is the end of the 5-EYES relationship. No one will EVER share intelligence with us again. #Imoeach to Save our Nation’s Security. https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1131965411266895872?s=17
bystander
My theory: Barr is twitler’s willing dupe in releasing confidential information that benefits Putin in some way. Doing Putin’s bidding but no telltale twitler fingerprints.
I haven’t worked out the entire theory yet, so feel free to speculate.
NotMax
@WereBear
Also found while poking about –
Why is the PIN for modern ATMs four digits and not more?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax:
That’s not true.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: Hey, do you have any idea the horrific damage that can be done by a blackman with a trash clamper???? Those things are deadly, unlike an AR-15 in the hands of a true red WHITE and blue patriot.
OzarkHillbilly
@bystander:
He’s not a dupe. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
rikyrah
Uh huh ??
Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) Tweeted:
Facebook is very responsive to my office when I want to talk about federal legislation and suddenly get marbles in their mouths when we ask them about dealing with a fake video. It’s not that they cannot solve this; it’s that they refuse to do what is necessary. https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1131992365609177094?s=17
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
?? ATMs here require a 6-digit PIN.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax:
Hmmmmmm… Most people in America had no problem at all memorizing dozens of 7 digit numbers back in the pre-cell phone days. Hell, I still remember my parents home phone and that one has been gone for 13 years.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Also too, you didn’t say “PIN number” and “ATM machine”.
//
WereBear
@NotMax: That is absolutely hilarious. Thanks.
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
There are countries, not as free as America where, the police don’t do this.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: We say that in ‘Merica, land of the free.
rikyrah
Mr. Weeks ?? (@MrDane1982) Tweeted:
Ms Zero Fucks Hillary Clinton,
She defend Nancy Pelosi against Donald Trump stating,
“Now it is sexist trash,” she said, which was met with cheers and applause. “But it is also a sign that Trump is running scared.”
This is why stand with Pelosi, Hillary Clinton got her back. https://twitter.com/MrDane1982/status/1132073065427419136?s=17
TS (the original)
@OzarkHillbilly:
Defined by real economists as: Lets take the money and run. None of the last tax reductions trickled down. Much went to shareholders via buy-backs and the rest to top level employees, no doubt as bonuses for their great work.
trickle down is the great economic myth brought to you by right wing economists. A tax reduction or bonus to the lowest paid workers is the best way to generate economic growth but that doesn’t fit the republican theory of “keep the workers poor”.
rikyrah
???
Zack Ford (@ZackFord) Tweeted:
If you haven’t been paying attention, Trump has now undone every rule the Obama administration put in place to protect transgender people from discrimination: https://t.co/rl9ltciV4l https://twitter.com/ZackFord/status/1132039732303716353?s=17
OzarkHillbilly
@TS (the original): Hey now, wait a minute, didn’t you get your frozen pizza this week? Man, I’d complain to the management if I were you.
rikyrah
Huh??????
The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) Tweeted:
Mount Everest has gotten so crowded that climbers are perishing in the traffic jams https://t.co/YaOUte8z3a https://t.co/JsPdLXW3Wi https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1132238897449263104?s=17
Kay
I think it has to be higher than that for Pelosi to do it. Of course, to get it higher it’s perfectly legit to lobby them to impeach but this isn’t a majority position yet, so whether you think it’s “Pelosi holding it up” or “Pelosi listening to her members” she has plenty of company on the “not yet” side.
Kay
I also think, as a practical matter, “starting an impeachment inquiry” means “impeach” because they have enough to impeach and they know it, so they (rightly) believe there’s no difference between these two questions. I just think making a distinction between “start an inquiry” and “impeach” is a false middle ground. If you want them to impeach then you’re all in on having impeachment be the entire focus, because it will be. Which is fine! But there’s no middle ground. A decision on one is a decision on the other.
germy
Adam Silverman would enjoy this clip:
Chyron HR
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
The neoliberal establishment is rigging the polls by letting Democrats say they’re going to vote for other candidates.
debbie
@Kay:
There is no better lobbying tool than investigations.
OzarkHillbilly
Astonishing Video Shows How I-55 Became a River Last Night in South St. Louis:
Now, a viral video shot by St. Louis rapper Nick Menn is drawing the severity of the situation into focus for St. Louisans on the south side, with the surreal sight of I-55 completely submerged and dotted with stranded, flooded vehicles.
In 25+ years of living on the South Side, I never saw the like. Not even in ’93.
Bonus: Sewer turned into geyser.
Quite the hoax.
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
As I understand, there is a years-long waiting list for permits to ascend Everest. And the Roof Of The World has a long-standing issue with cleaning up the trash left by all the climbers.
debbie
@rikyrah:
But isn’t it all on hold now because that Texas rep refused to join in unanimous consent?
Amir Khalid
From the Guardian, a sobering read for those who have animals in their care.
Kay
@debbie:
I think there has to be at least a recognition that the elected members who have publicly supported it are not a majority. This matters in a legislative body. You can’t say “it’s in the constitution!” as a reason to impeach and ignore that it’s a minority position among members. They’re not an executive branch constitutional office. They execute only with a majority- since Pelosi understands that “starting impeachment inquiry” means “impeach” what she’s looking at is not enough votes to impeach. You all know her well enough by now to know she doesn’t bring it unless she has the votes.
randy khan
@OzarkHillbilly:
Phone numbers are broken up into blocks of 3 and 4 numbers in the U.S. Some of that was accidental, but some of it was intentional. Of course, in other countries numbers are not arranged the same way, so that suggests that 4 isn’t a natural break point. IIRC, the magic number for easy memorization is 7 digits, with larger numbers being meaningfully harder to memorize.
Probably more relevant to the ATM PIN question (and this comes from work I did on telephone numbers years ago), there’s research that indicates that you have about a 1% chance of pressing the wrong button on a number keypad for each number you have to press. So a 6-digit PIN would have roughly 48% more erroneous entries than a 4-digit PIN.
SRW1
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
He couldda been a contender.
Brachiator
@NotMax:
Here’s the thing:
You might be right. Who knows. You can’t tell anything from a single data point. And the economist quoted is just making shit up. But since journalism abhors a quotation vacuum, somebody’s opinion must be noted.
NotMax
Hey, rikyrah (and everyone else).
Found on Prime, Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Lifesavers. A historical niche of dedication and heroism.
Kay
@debbie:
What if she knows she doesn’t have the votes to impeach? In the House? Let’s imagine Donald Trump’s glee if Nancy Pelosi goes forward on the advice of political commenters and then Democrats (for whatever reason- good reasons, political reasons, cowardice, I don’t care- pick) cannot muster a majority in the House?
Could that be what she means when she says Trump wants this? She has 40, total, publicly. She needs more than that.
cleek
FFS, there are 8 months until the first primary vote is cast.
polls tell us nothing about who the nominee will be at this point.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: It would seem that even a box of rocks such as trump can recognize the fact that all the current investigations have the same end point as their collective goal: him out of office. Whether by impeachment or a lost election it doesn’t really matter.
NotMax
@randy khan
Strictly anecdotal, I have always better remembered phone numbers from when they began with two letters of the exchange than since they became all numerals.
Immanentize
@randy khan:
In the US most banks allow PINs up to 7 or 8 digits. But in Europe, the standard bank PIN is still 4. How do I know this? Went to Sweden with a 7 digit PIN and could not use the ATMs.
OzarkHillbilly
@randy khan:
Yes, that is what I have read. It may have been just luck that our ph #s are 7 digit, or it may be by design. I can’t recall which.
debbie
@Kay:
Absolutely, Trump wants this. He wants to be Peter O’Toole hanging on his cross in The Ruling Class. And until investigations reveal incontrovertible proof of obstruction and criminality, Dems will only be playing into his hands and, even worse, into his second term.
bystander
@OzarkHillbilly: You’re right. I accidentally heard Danielle Pletka on MTP say that no one has any reason to believe Barr will do anything improper with the material. Even The Toddler had to object to that idiocy.
Xavier Onassis
@Baud: I’m guessing those results are based on very small numbers, which are statistically unreliable.x
Xavier Onassis
@satby: Wilmer hasn’t changed his routine in four decades. But it’s a routine I happen to like.
Immanentize
@NotMax:
I once had a beautiful Volvo P-1800e (like this pic)
Bought it from a guy in South Florida who sorta collected cars. He got it for his wife. She didn’t like it so much….
Anyhoo, he had a 1957 red Chrysler 300 convertible (white top) that he was rightly proud of. It had an under-dash record player. He told me that Chrysler supplied/sold the records as they were odd sized 33&1/3 or something. The one he had was converted by the original owner to a straight up 45 player which I am sure was a popular hack. He said, there was no way these things really worked when the car was driving — but they were great for parking!
Duke of Clay
@NotMax: Thank you, Mrs. Shepherd-Barron. I too have a digit-span of four.
@OzarkHillbilly
I can’t (never could) remember phone numbers. I can only remember my own phone number because I requested a repeat of the same number four times. Smart phones have been a god-send because it remembers important numbers for me.
Otherwise, I have an excellent memory and managed to earn two masters degrees and a doctorate.
germy
SFAW
@SRW1:
Instead of a bum, which is what he is,
CharlieSRW1Of course, there are still a few persons who remember the Brooklyn Bums with fondness.
Brachiator
@cleek:
You’re right. Polls mean nothing at this point, and pundit navel gazing about polls is especially meaningless. And yet even though people complain about political horse race analysis, they love indulging in political horse race analysis.
But I will note that I understand why people enjoy seeing Wilmer decline or stall in the polls.
That said, l liked this Twitter response
donald’s view:
Prison 48% (+10 years)
His Majesty 38%
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
I remember hearing it was by design. The 3 + 4 thing mentioned by randy khan being the reason/justification, I think.
Immanentize
@NotMax:
Murray Hill!
Xavier Onassis
@TS (the original): We tried trickle down for 40 years and it didn’t.
Immanentize
@cleek: @Brachiator:
I think the CW that early polling is “meaningless and not predictive” is maybe just a bit of bullshit?. I understand why people don’t want them to be, but the evidence is otherwise.
Kay
@debbie:
You guys are bluffing. Saying “we will have the votes when we take the vote!” is based on absolutely nothing. Shouldn’t there be some kind of counting and individual lobbying of members going on rather than these broad assurances that Pelosi is standing in the way of the majority of the D House- the majority no one has identified? She carefully lines up votes for much less important things than “impeaching the President” but in this one instance she would go forward without a clear majority? Why would she do that?
Brachiator
@randy khan:
This can’t be true. We stumbled into this number of digits, phone numbers now include area codes, and in the early days, phone numbers included alphabetical prefixes.
I always had trouble remembering my own phone number because I never called myself.
And this thread brought to mind one of the few phone numbers that I have never forgotten.
https://youtu.be/Us18AUBM2RI
Kay
@debbie:
I listened to a (former) lawyer for the federal government who is some kind of pundit now and then an actual pundit on public radio, both pro- impeachment and I was struck by how there was this assumption that a majority of D House members support it. There’s no evidence to support that and some evidence to indicate it simply isn’t true. When we’re lobbying for something we count votes, right? Why not now? Why do I hear this omitted middle step between “40 members” and “a majority”? Are you even at the senate process yet? Don’t you have to clear the House with it first?
debbie
That’s the narrative Trump would have the country believe. Big, bad … Crazy Nancy!
Immanentize
@Kay: My understanding is that Clyburn Is a pretty damn good Whip. He knows the numbers. Which is why the leadership ‘struggle’ was so much theater. I can see why Pelosi et al don’t want to be talking about the actual caucus vote numbers because they might give Trump a sense of winning. The current situation is what she wants — growing pressure to impeach in a divided caucus but looking like she is filled with restraint.
NotMax
@Brachiator
Obligatory.
;)
tokyokie
@OzarkHillbilly: I can still remember the time and temperature phone number for Tulsa — (918) LU2-4381 — and I haven’t lived in that area code since 1971.
Immanentize
@Brachiator:
867-5309
Cheryl Rofer
@Kay: LOL. I responded to a Twitter comment last night that was claiming that most Dems supported impeachment by asking about the numbers. Ended the conversation, but I think in a good way. It looked to me like the person I was talking to simply hadn’t thought about that, and did when I asked the question,
different-church-lady
OzarkHillbilly
@Duke of Clay: Heh, congratulations! You are the exception to the rule! ;-)
Memory, being a muscle that needs exercise, is now failing me on the 7 digit scale because of cell phones, tho important #s I can still retain quite easily.
@NotMax: Same here, Yorktown 6, Taylor 1… I don’t recall any of the other exchanges.
NotMax
@tokyokie
Where lived during the fifties and sixties all one had to remember was to dial NERVOUS. Never did bother trying to remember the digits.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: I thought so, I just can’t be certain.
different-church-lady
@Cheryl Rofer:
I wish that trick would work on all conversations.
OzarkHillbilly
@tokyokie: Oh gawd, time and temp, that rings a bell!
OzarkHillbilly
@Cheryl Rofer:
Definitely not a Republican as they hardly ever stop and think.
different-church-lady
@germy:
Facebook must die.
Brachiator
@Immanentize:
So, if you do a deep analysis of a year or more of polling data, you might get some interesting data. And still Silver and maybe political junkies here are hung up on a need for prophecy and prediction. We want to know who will when before any actual voting happens. Hell, some people seem to prefer polling to voting.
Still, no one is doing the deeper analysis that 538 talks about. And even here there are weasel words and equivocation.
But let’s look at one of the conclusions.
“Rarely” tells us nothing. There ain’t no such thing as a “national primary vote.”
But even ignoring all this, no one in the poll cited is polling at 35 percent or higher. But it might be interesting to take this as an indicator and see how it might apply in the future.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
“Ding”
germy
@different-church-lady: Agreed.
germy
@NotMax: I like the old pre-code movies where one would simply pickup the receiver and bark at the operator.
Kathleen
@OzarkHillbilly: If Democrat were in office this would be headline story.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Even in the smartphone age, you can still dial up the time in hours, minutes, seconds
O. Felix Culpa
@Kay:
Oh you, with your *reason* and *logic* and all. //
different-church-lady
Dammit, people, impeachment is a process, not a trigger you pull.
The best thing Pelosi can do right now is keep people interested in the idea of impeachment — the idea that there’s a sword of over Trump’s head. “Maybe it will fall on him, maybe it won’t, it’s really hard to say.” Little by little the belief that Trump is deserving of impeachment will take hold.
Ben Cisco
@randy khan: I remember the last NYC number my parents had. We left in 1973. Weird.
different-church-lady
@NotMax: You’re saying the fax machine never caught on?
tokyokie
@OzarkHillbilly: I just tried the number, and it no longer works. I remember trying it a couple of years ago, and it was still good, but I guess whatever bank sponsored it decided that it wasn’t a good investment.
O. Felix Culpa
@different-church-lady:
And just think of how that must mess with Dolt45’s mind [sic]! Delicious!
Kathleen
@TS (the original): Aided and abetted by the Furrowed Brows at NPR, PBS, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, etc etc etc.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: DOH! I still find myself looking at bank clocks for the time, my excuse is that my cell phone is buried in a pocket of my pants.
Brachiator
@tokyokie:
From a 2017 story
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
The changeover was disruptive.
tokyokie
@Ben Cisco: Hell, having had it pounded into my head in kindergarten (“Remember your name and address, and your telephone number, too…”) I not only recall my parents’ old phone number, I’ve frequently used it as a PIN.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
From the same article. Dunno if still true but kind of cool nevertheless.
--bd
And here’s one for you Detroiters:
“For the best in home improvement,
we’re known throughout the state,
call TYler 8 – 7100,
for your home improvement date!”
MomSense
@Brachiator:
Pennsylvania 6-5000
lurker dean
@NotMax: yikes! that car phono reminds me of first generation cd players for cars, most of which skipped terribly over every bump. basically the same tech, lol.
Kathleen
@Brachiator: Wilson Picket 634-5789:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2apquxKKQ
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
23% of 300 million is 69 million people, and I would guess quite a few of them probably don’t wear watches either.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Speaking of, has the weather calmed down in your area?
different-church-lady
@Brachiator: Now try to imagine living in a time when clocks were a luxury item and for the hoi-polloi the most sophisticated timekeeping method available was the chiming of the village church bells.
NotMax
@ –bd
Jingle from the Philly area:
“There’s something about a Muntz TV
Poplar 9 oh three oh three”
;)
NotMax
@different-church-lady
Used it previously but cannot resist.
“Gnomon, coordinate.”
:)
NeenerNeener
@randy khan: In college psych classes they called it “the 7 plus or minus 2 rule”. People can remember as few as 5 or as many as 9 numbers/characters in a string.
--bd
Amir Khalid
@germy:
If someone barked at me over the phone, I would respond by hissing and spitting. Caterwauling would not be ruled out.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: That is kinda cool.
germy
@Amir Khalid: Everyone barked in the old pre-code movies. Fast, loud talking.
I’m so old, I remember calling the operator, giving them the name and general address of the person I was trying to reach, and being connected.
--bd
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: For the moment.
Miss Bianca
@–bd: AAAGGGHHH, going back in time!! (Detroit-suburbanite here!)
JGabriel
@Raven:
Everyone once in a while I remind myself how much has changed in the recent past by looking at a sentence and thinking, “How would someone from, say circa 1750, interpret that sentence?”
I mean, what would they make of the phrases ‘flying in’ or ‘redeye’? What would they interpret ‘the bay area’ as referring to?
--bd
Belevedere Construction
different-church-lady
@JGabriel: “weekend” would trip them up too.
Bill Arnold
@rikyrah:
Further details on Trump’s threat to Five Eyes. This is getting a lot of people riled up particularly in the UK and Australia:
Donald Trump wants investigation into Australia’s role in ‘Russian hoax’ – This is the first time the US president has publicly named Australia while discussing the FBI inquiry into his election campaign (Melissa Davey, Sat 25 May 2019)
Basically Trump is saying that Barr has unrestricted access to all Five Eyes sources and methods, and some people are rightly worried that this information will either leak or be deliberately leaked to the Russians. (Although the Russians would be nearly as happy if their (possible) puppet(s) in Kremlin-West simply broke Five Eyes. This is because since D.J. Trump’s past and present Russia connections continue to be very concerning. There are no certainties so these concerns are probabilities. (between 0 and 1)) Bold mine:
OzarkHillbilly
@different-church-lady: On ships, clocks were never a luxury. I recall a competition for an accurate time piece for the purposes of navigation… Yes, John Harrison:
It was sorely needed.
eta: his was the first that worked, their were of course many improvements over the years.
Brachiator
@different-church-lady:
Timekeeping in ancient times was even more fun.
No one was able to perfect a wrist sun dial.
Ben Cisco
@tokyokie: Yup. My brother and I got that same speech. I still have perfect recall of the address too.
NotMax
@Brachiator
Not much good for timekeeping but, oddly, about as good for making intelligible phone calls as is the cell phone.
;)
L85NJGT
Once upon a time, Cole had a post up about how high-end couture eventually ended up in Appalachian dollar racks. The short version is commoditization. All consumer brands end up there eventually. Devine understood in 2016 they were busting out brand Wilmer, and got real paid. The 2020 campaign is clearance rack Wilmer. Be wary of political analysis that use his 2016 valuation.
NotMax
@L85NJGT
T J
MaxxMinn.;)
Brachiator
@NotMax:
Ha!
More seriously, my cellphone is an essential device. I can’t leave home without it.
But I often text more than I use it for phone calls.
A bunch of staff were out having lunch together when we got a friendly text from someone back at the office about an upcoming party for a friend. This quickly turned into a wild group conference text session.
Another Scott
@NotMax: WWV:
Exciting! ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@Another Scott
Yeah, we used to coordinate the clock (military time digital wheel clock, thank you very much) on the transmitter control panel at the college radio station with WWV at least once daily, as required by the FCC after we went from carrier current AM (a/k/a gas pipe transmission) to licensed FM.
Getting through the process of that transition was a travail the like of which i hope to never have to experience again.
The Lodger
@NeenerNeener: Discovered at Bell Labs (where else?)
Uncle Cosmo
@Amir Khalid: Yerpeen ATMs generally require a 4-digit PIN. USAns preparing to travel Over the Pwnd are routinely advised to ask their banks & credit card corps to replace any longer PINs with ones of length 4 in order to use them for cash withdrawals Ovah Thar.
Stan
538.com disagrees,says they have some predictive value.
Sister Golden Bear
@rikyrah: And they’re just getting warmed up.
As I talked about last night, the latest move to repeal healthcare protections for trans people is also laying the groundwork to declare that “sex” is assigned at birth and cannot be changed.
Thereby defining trans people out of legal existence, and therefore there can’t be any anti-trans discrimination because “trans” doesn’t exist.
Following their logic to its conclusion means that my Social Security info — which is key to getting all other legal ID — reverts back to listing me as male, as would passport, and even though CA has trans protections, my drivers license might change too if I want to have a Real ID drivers license.
All of which aside from the specific cruelty in itself is designed to make trans people vulnerable to other discrimination from anyone who sees my ID (especially after making anti-trans discrimination legal).
And before anyone says that that can’t happen, think about all the norms that the administration has already blown through.
Also, a Pence presidency wouldn’t be much worse for LGBTQ folks, since Pence and his minions are already implementing their agenda.
Ruckus
@OzarkHillbilly:
It is after all tinkle down economics. People just continue to misspell it as trickle down.
Ruckus
@NotMax:
Awww, gray hot dogs, floating in steaming water with lumps of red dye. Lunch dinning at Great Lakes Naval Station 50 yrs ago. What could be better?
Almost anything……. And no it wasn’t the liver and onions that was the other choice on that day of the week. Forced to march to lunch and take food, none of which I partook of for the 3 months I was there. Because they forced us to go, to take but not to eat. They weren’t stupid enough to think that anyone could eat that crap and keep it down.
Porlock Junior
@Amir Khalid: From La Callecita Street in San Diego to the El Camino in Silicon Valley, the hoi polloi are punching their PIN numbers into ATM machines to get cash to buy a GPS system for excursions to the La Brea Tar Pits.