Open Thread WED 6 MAR 24 ~ Civilization and Cooperation


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Negotiation and Reflection
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Welcome to today, a rendition of yesterday and tomorrow.
Working on an adventure series, like a retelling of the journeys
that brought me here. In our writing class. Up to episode 3 now.
Purging the memory banks, making withdrawals seem like deposits.

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What is in your mind today?
Share ahead.

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cast skillet by Hugh Hayden
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/hugh-hayden-skillet-sculptures/

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QMS's picture

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Pea soup fog outside today. Ground is saturated and spongey.
More rains on the way. Very wet indeed. Time to strap on the
hip waders. Maybe trap some catfish in the street. Wink

cheers!

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Lookout's picture

A steady 2.25" rain yesterday and last night. Two days off, and then back to another expected 2". This is our time of year to recharge our aquifers, so not a bad thing. It has come down such that the road hasn't washed (which is good).

I'm hoping my 30+ YO car has been repaired to day. Burnt valve on the second cylinder. Replacement valve only cost $30, but replacing it and all the valve seats will be considerably more. I'm lucky to be a mile away from my mechanic, which is the closest business to us. He also comes to my place and helps me with the 60+ YO tractor wherever it has issues. It is an essential tool on our place.

Machinery requires maintenance and repair, just the way of things.

Enjoy your story telling, and thanks for the OT!

EDIT to add:
Finally got our landline phone operational again AND reliable internet. Sure make working on line easier when you're not bumped off every few minutes!

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

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@Lookout
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the burnt valve not so much
working on a radiator leak today
a baseboard in the bathroom
thank the stars for Marine-Tex
2 part epoxy

always something ..

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QMS's picture

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First cookies Nuland jumps ship.
Next, Nikki Hillary bails.

Meanwhile, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden mocked Haley’s hawkish politics.

“John Bolton in heels was not a viable candidate? Who could have imagined?”

I can imagine quite a few donors counting their losses.

Perhaps investing in endless war doesn't pay as well these days?

Now, about Austin and the Pentagoons ..

https://www.rt.com/news/593885-trump-rival-us-race/

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Learned to play air guitar with that song.
Rain and snow flurries yesterday, lightening up today. hovering around low 40s day and 32 night.
Found a Credit Union offering 5.25% on a savings account. Voting with my feet and money and opening an account.
The banks get away with raising their rates on a whim but never raise it for savings accounts.
I do see it as conspiracy to defraud but all the state and federal AGs are tainted and owned.
I'm fighting back by taking business away from them by lending money to close family at 2% interest.
I'm still making almost 2% more than the interest I earn for having it in a savings account, which is .005%.
I stay away from any financial instrument because I demand instant access to my money.
Because of my age, the Feds are forcing me to take money out of my 401k account which they expect me to spend ( go shopping!--Bush 2007), or put it in the stock market, or put it in a .005% savings account.
Plus, the govmint get the tax revenue.
The fleecing of America has so many facets one cannot keep up.
Thanks for the OT.

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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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@earthling1
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for a 'savings' account
mine is .02%
the bankers do not "incentive"
accounts to leave money with
them. Go figure. Dead weight?

Good luck with the weather.

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Ukraine is our next "South Vietnam."

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“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon

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@Cassiodorus
with a rooftop?
Asking for a friend.

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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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@earthling1

Sure. The entire scheme to impeach Trump was staged out of the US Embassy in Kiev. All the key wittneses worked out of that embassy.

Ukraine's goose is cooked if Trump gets back in the White House.

No problem for Israel, though. Genocide has always been a key USian value.

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IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"

This morning, I discussed with a friend the fun adventure a riverboat cruise can be. The problem is expense, that is, if you are cruising in the US $10k per person to float down the Mississippi for a ways in 5 days is considered cheap. The Danube, Volga, Yangtze, and Maine, by comparison, are truly cheap.
What came in the mail today? A brochure for a Danube cruise. Start in Munich, end in Prague 12 days later, for $3,799.
Been there, done that, and it is always an amazing adventure!
I know we all miss Nikki Haley, amirite?
Thanks for the OT, my friend!

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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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@on the cusp
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used to get paid to run biggish boats on that river
no expensive cocktails and your basic cajun cuisine
but still, it ain't some lost paradise

cheers!

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@QMS through several states that cost $28,000 per person. When you finally get to the destination and disembark, you pay for taxis, hotels, and your flight home. All of the river cruiselines are about the same in price.
Effing 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

so far it doesn't seem to sink in.

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-03-05/minnesota-uncom...

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) -President Joe Biden won almost all the Democratic nominating contests on "Super Tuesday" but a sizeable protest vote in Minnesota and six other states against his support for Israel again raised uncomfortable questions for his reelection campaign.

With almost 90% of the expected votes counted in Minnesota, 19% of Democrats marked their ballots "uncommitted" to show their opposition to Biden's backing for Israel's attacks against Hamas in Gaza.

The "uncommitted" vote was also on the Democratic ballot in six other Super Tuesday states - Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Support in those states ranged from 3.9% in Iowa to 12.7% in North Carolina, with more than 85% of the votes counted in each of those states, according to Edison Research.

The Israeli military action has created a humanitarian disaster and killed over 30,000 people, Palestinian authorities in Hamas-ruled Gaza say. Israel is responding to Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks that killed 1,200, according to an Israeli tally.

Students, suburban women and liberal Jewish activists were among those who joined Muslim Americans to vote uncommitted, Edison said.

More than 100,000 people, or 13% of all voters, staged a similar protest in Michigan's Democratic primary last week.

Organizers in Minnesota had said they did not expect the protest to attract the same level of support as it did in Michigan, home to a large Arab American population. Instead, its share of the vote was even higher.

"That is a powerful way to send the administration a message," said Christian Peterson, 22, a law student at the University of Minnesota. "Biden needs to stop sending military aid to Israel."

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4511878-joe-biden-donald-trump-sup...

Pro-Palestinian Democrats
The most striking result from a Democratic contest — excluding American Samoa — came in Minnesota. And it was bad news for Biden.

A campaign to vote “uncommitted”, driven by pro-Palestinian dissenters unhappy with Biden’s policy on Israel and Gaza, drew almost 20 percent of the vote.

Organizers of the effort noted that they had campaigned for just one week and spent a paltry $20,000.

The result outstripped the one achieved in Michigan last week, where 13 percent of Democratic primary voters chose “uncommitted.”

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or “RTX” as the company seems to have recently renamed itself.

This fact, combined with the Gaza genocide, is prompting some artists to boycott SXSW this year.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/06/sxsw-musicians-palestine-w...

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I thought this might be a good time....

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@exindy
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thanks for sharing the video

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