Open Thread 15 JAN 25 ~ swampland


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Wasting Time in Gatorville
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Doing the swamp shuffle back from the pool the other day, came across this
fine specimen of a large reptile sunning itself by the path. No danger,
just different sorts of critters hanging-out down this way.

Open thread, so add your flavor to the stew below.

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QMS's picture

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The daily gnus is a potpourri of weirdness
it seems. Pick your meme ..
Ukie failure, LA incompetence, Trump transition,
Gaza ceasefire?, financial bedlam, Yoon arrested (yay) &etc.
As the bubbles pop, how do you say dystopia in German?

Carry on.

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question everything

Lookout's picture

Hope you're enjoying the southern weather. We're headed to the 50's today, but back in the deep freeze next week.

Watch out for the gators, and enjoy your get away!

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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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About 10 degrees with the wind in RI.
Can't say I miss that!

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question everything

enhydra lutris's picture

how do you say dystopia in German?

- it's been many decades since high school Deutsch, but, iirc, that would be Die Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika. 37 degrees in the East Bay this morning, which is why we're packing to get off to Mazatlan and other points Mexicana come Sunday rather than sit through Coyote only knows how long of a stretch of high fifties for the daily highs.

Nothing much going on around here that isn't part of the greater miasma, but, then again, I've barely glanced at the news so far. The big news is that a doofus named Smith has convicted Trump of ??? in his own mind and in the press, even though there is no evidence that he could stack the jury sufficiently to overcome all the telling arguments that a competent defense attorney would surely raise, as well as some allegation that Biden's handlers have decided to have him allege that he will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsore of terrorism so that Donald can put it back on. Tom foolery in high places, as they say.

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 --

enhydra lutris's picture

From Live Science: https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/dark-matter/something-in...

Something invisible and 'fuzzy' may lurk at the Milky Way's center, new research suggests

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Dubbed "fuzzy" dark matter, these hypothetical particles are so light that their quantum-wave nature manifests on larger, macroscopic — even galactic — scales. This means they can stabilize into giant clumps of invisible matter, forming dark stars.

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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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@enhydra lutris
"This fuzzy matter is the angels gathering for their return."
Yes, you can make this stuff up.
Thanks for the link.

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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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Aren't they pretty fast on their feet?
Thanks for the pix and 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.