Open Thread 02-01-22 - Help Wanted

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Lookout's picture

Preparing an OT can be easy. I've missed having an art based OT with paintings, poems, and so on. It doesn't have to be a complex time consuming essay...but of course can be if that's your pleasure. Also, you can schedule it to post in the morning ahead of time, so no need to rise early if that's not your thing. Just a few words of encouragement for some brave soul.

A cool and thin trade day, but I finally found another pair of earmuffs that I like. Got to visit around with a few buddies too. At least it is sunny, and headed toward 60 today.

Hope your day is a good one!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Lookout

I have the time and the energy but not the skills. If you doubt this just read my recent exchanges with snoopydawg.

My building finally got around to plowing. I guess their mini golf course electric one-seater with shovel front contraption was in the shop for a few days.

Cold but sunny and I enjoyed first outing in a few days.

Next longer one with chums for a walk later on coming up at 2:00.

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NYCVG

@NYCVG
I happen to know someone who can help you with your skill deficiency. Biggrin

Glad you're getting out with your chums!

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@JtC No. You are overly optimistic.

Getting out was great and we saw Ricky driving the cart when we arrived back near home. He stopped and chatted with us. We said, "You look like you're having fun."

"It's a lot better than a shovel," was the reply and we all laughed.

Nobody said, "The snow started on Friday night. Where were you?"

We appreciate and reward our staff with very large Xmas bonuses and tips all year long. If the system broke down it was not going to be their fault.

The Landlord, OTOH, benefits when an elderly person decides to leave his/her rent-regulated home for sunnier climes.

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@NYCVG

Go ahead and do the OT and start off with keeping it simple and building from there. Any time you need help just ask and someone will be by to help you. I’d like to know more about your neighborhood and the places you haunt. Parks and fun shops in your area if you need any hints.

Looking forward to seeing your work.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

@snoopydawg I have no idea how to use the "Preview" function, for example. Which would need to be a big step in doing a complicated thread.

I'll play around with trying new things and get back if it goes well and specific things need explaining.

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NYCVG

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@NYCVG

to learn the few tricks involved. I have a template to get you started, if that could be of some help.

Thanks,
Q

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@QMS Not ready yet.

That's not a firm no. Just a not yet.

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NYCVG

@Lookout
two bits!

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Good morning, people!
A bit rainy here, but not too chilly, at least.
I accomplished a great deal yesterday. I had a jail conference with a defendant whom we all suspect needs to be evaluated by a psychiatrist. I extracted from him his solemn promise he would not call the judge a motherfucker, ever, ever, again.
Good times!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

@on the cusp
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Sirius is a dog.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

@Bisbonian
a sirius spell checker error.

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@JtC

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@humphrey "destroyed" our country.

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@humphrey
with Tulsi on that one.

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Hawai. /S

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/navy/592275-pentagon-to-fight-hawaii-...

The Pentagon has decided it will fight Hawaii’s order to drain fuel from tanks at a storage facility following a leak that contaminated Pearl Harbor’s drinking water, a top Defense official said Monday.

The Defense Department first said earlier this month that the Navy would comply with the emergency order from the Hawaii Department of Health to empty the underground tanks at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The order came after the facility’s leak contaminated the Navy’s drinking water system for 93,000 people, sickening numerous military families.

But after a Monday meeting with Hawaii Gov. David Ige (D) to discuss “how we can work together through some pending legal matters,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said the Pentagon would file an appeal to fight the state order.

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@humphrey The Navy is Okay with poisoning the Island's Water Supply?

Things have deteriorated much more than It would have seemed possible a year ago.

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@NYCVG  
they don’t really care about us, the people of Hawai‘i; we’re just an inconvenience that happened to come along with what they really value, namely the strategic siting for the empire’s military bases.

Like with Okinawa, or the Chagos islands (Diego Garcia), or Airstrip One (= the British Isles) in Orwell’s 1984

Oh, sometimes the system will pretend to care and look like it’s giving us a say. But when push comes to shove, it’ll always end up as you, Rachel Corrie, versus the IDF bulldozer…

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earthling1's picture

2024;
Biden....
Harris....
Trump.....
Gabbard....
Putin......

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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@ MSM....no Trucker Convoy stories
@ Jacobin....no Trucker Convoy stories
@ CommonDreams....no Trucker Convoy stories
@ WSWS....no Tucker Convoy stories
@ CounterPunch....no Trucker Convoy stories

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

@ggersh to the list: scheerpost.
Are they afraid they will be censored? Or do they believe the truckers are Nazis? Time will tell...

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@on the cusp ever since that happened it's been a slippery slope downward and to
the center for most "Left Leaning" sites, especially for those listed.

http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

@ggersh zerohedge and infowars made the list? TOTALLY NUTS!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@ggersh

Joshua somebody said that they will be removing their content from Spotify until Rogan shuts his yapping. I asked him if he had ever watched the show to see all the misinformation. He hasn’t answered yet. Silly people.

Graham Nash has also removed his music. Love how the people who once sang about sticking it to the man have joined the man. Kneel Young is moving his stuff to Amazon. Yeah that’s sticking it to the establishment.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

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@snoopydawg

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

@ggersh n/t

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@TB mare and I don't see anything.

OK, found it but it's from 1/28 and considering how big
it is I would've thought they would want this front and
center.

I did have to go searching for it....sigh

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/01/29/fcon-j29.html

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

@ggersh @ggersh Dunno!

ETA: Different article. I don’t know how to do links, sorry.

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@ggersh

Nevertheless, the vaccine mandate has been bitterly denounced by a small minority of owner-operator truckers, many already active in far-right politics and conspicuous in their opposition to all anti-COVID-19 containment measures, including mask mandates. Egged on by other far-right and outright fascist forces, including the likes of Rebel Media, they launched their cross-country Freedom Convoy.

The claims advanced by this unrepresentative minority, made up overwhelmingly of far-right activists, conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers, are fatuous and absurd. Tamara Lich, an official in the far-right, western separatist Maverick Party and the organizer of a GoFundMe campaign that to date has raised more than $6 million to support the convoy (much of it from anonymous donors), rails against the government “overreach” and “tyranny” of elementary public health measures.

In truth, no individual has the “right“ or “freedom” to go around infecting others with a potentially deadly virus. To the extent that vaccines are freely available, there is no legitimate reason for workers to refuse them. Arguments to the contrary are based on a combination of unscientific nonsense and social Darwinist and fascistic conceptions of “survival of the fittest.”

The only “freedoms” the protesters support are the freedom of the virus to run rampant and the “freedom” of big business to keep operating at full tilt, herding workers into unsafe workplaces amid a raging pandemic, so as to maximize profits.

Geezus where to start? Most of the truckers have been jabbed, but for some reason that fact is usually left out in the articles that call the truckers fascists and white supremists. Are all the people supporting the protest also fascists and anti vaxxers too? How in the hell could anyone know, but they just make the accusations anyway. This guy sure seems to be making lots of assumptions without providing any information on how he has come to making them.

Getting one of the FREE vaccines doesn’t stop people from spreading the virus or doesn’t he know that? And it’s not just about the mandatory jabs that they are protesting against. It’s about how their government has destroyed people’s rights because it’s an emergency just like what happened here after 9/11 when congress abolished the bill of rights for us when congress passed the patriot act and then Obama rescinded habeous corpus. It’s also about vax passports that have gone global which to me is a show me your papers. Not sure how anyone can support a mandatory medical procedure because it’s the start of a slippery slope. If governments can make you inject something you don’t want into your body then why wouldn’t they be able to mandate that you get something taken out. Guess people have forgotten that it was legal once to force women to be sterilized. That only ended 50 years ago.
Since the jabs don’t actually keep people from getting infected and spreading the virus I don’t understand why people think that every person should have to get them when they don’t even consider natural immunity.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

enhydra lutris's picture

take offense at your advertisement's speciest selection criteria. Corporations, legal persons by law, are free to apply while other entities such as aquatic mammals are not. Harummmph!

Nonetheless, thanks for the OT even if I am way late to the party today. Truly massive amounts or personal business + slept in + coopers' hawk in the orange tree required mucho observation until he finally moved on. Weather stays stuck on mid thirties to low forties as a low, most of the am, to low sixties high later. Sux, even though it is far warmer than elsewhere they say. My parsley seems to like it, however, damn thing is over 2 feet in diameter by about 3 feet high and amazingly bushy. Looks like a lot of persillade will be in the offing.

Meanwhile, ponder this:

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OR

fractal

????

In either case, stay calm and
Monkey+Wrench_2

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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be rude like a German and can write just an itsy bit and short thingy I could try...I feel so so bad never to contribute anything but nonsense.

Sorry that was a joke. I can't write. May be I just write when I feel like I have something to say. And as I am with the "Unreliable Allies Association" on the other side of the Atlantic, that will probably not happen.

I love you all.

Peace and Love (in eyo's words). Survive and be as well as you can be.

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If it is that would mean that the Dogon people of northern Africa's origin story which involves extraterrestrial contact is right.

They would have known a fact which they (or any humans) would not have had any opportunity to know until technology enabled its observation, only a few years ago. How would they have learned this? The way they explained it! Visitors claiming to be from the triple star system told them, thousands of years ago. Indeed, rock art depicting the events in Dogon mythology have been dated as thousands of years old.

See "Is Sirius a Triple Star"

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