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complete missed the point. "I would hazard to say that it is more likely this is an act of reprisal than a 13 year old being a genuine threat." and this is why you fail. you leap to a conclusion w/o meaningful support. keep in mind, am not doubting the arrest, however... nothing save rebekah jones tweet is provided as evidence that the the meme posted gets a person arrested in florida. even from ms. jones tweets it sounds as if there were an internet dialogue including more than an insular meme posting which resulted in the arrest. and again, even if it turns out that ms. jones were correct and the meme were the reason her son were arrested, you had no support for your posted observation save for your belief that the arrest were the result o' political motivated vengeance. litmus fail... again. edit: helpful links https://www.huffpost.com/entry/6-year-old-fingers-shape-of-gun-suspended_n_6813864 https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/cops-charge-7-year-old-for-bringing-toy-gun-to-class/2103430/ http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/new.york.doodle.arrest/index.html these stories should not be new as they had previous been referenced on this board. states and schools in many states has asinine zero-tolerance policies particularly in the context o' school violence... and given the recent events in tennessee... regardless, am waiting for kp to share with us his support for his meme on snapchat observation other than the rebekah jones tweets, support which he no doubt had knowledge o' previous to making his post but convenient didn't share. HA! Good Fun!

have never bothered to check out youtube save as the result o' a search... what we mean is, am never having intentional gone to https://www.youtube.com/. the algorithm says we is interested in pbs, legal stuff, quantum mechanics, fluid dynamics, cooking, pc strategy games, msnbc, chopin, noam chomsky, led zepplin, cinematography and ... is also a video entitled, jesper goes down on dima the stableman which am so not interested in viewing... though am admitting if it were pbs we might reflexive click. edit: am admitted kinda baffled by so much msnbc (we view msnbc vids even less frequent than fox.) and has been literal at least a couple years since our most recent noam chomsky search. HA! Good Fun!

as most here is aware, am not a fan o' desantis, but am also thinking this kinda viral "news" is a litmus test for 21st century stoopid. embrace the narrative o' a freaking tweet from a mom whose son has been arrested w/o any support to corroborate? maybe not the most objective source, eh? if you cannot wait for more reliable info before picking a side or reaching a conclusion, then you are part o' the problem even if you believe you are fighting against the bad guys. the folks following desantis' war on woke also believe they is fighting the bad guys and somehow such gives their unCosntitutional and anti-liberty efforts legitimacy. even if the story ends up being complete true, not waiting for meaningful corroboration and a more in-depth explanation than a mom defense means you are no more discerning than the qanon troglodytes waiting for jfk jr to rise from the dead. if you believe a story 'cause the narrative supports a conclusion you already hold firm as 'posed to relying on meaningful reflection o' facts and coupled with a healthy dose o' cynicism, then you are failing an ez test. litmus test fail. HA! Good Fun!

am suspecting an impeachment by wi republicans would have a similar impact as did the overturn o' roe. democrats vote less reliable than does republicans, but if they is motivated by anger or fear, they will show up at the polls in their multitudes. an impeachment would make the democrats even more active in the next election. impeachment sure ain't gonna win over the independents who is always pivotal in close elections. at the moment the gop is complete dedicated to the politics o' grievance which am s'posing is meant to keep trump and his base happy. 'course indulging trumpism is a devil's bargain and it may be the bill is already coming due. the gop needs such stoopid as the war on wokeism and qanon nonsense to retain the trump base, but by indulging the base/trump, they galvanize democrats and distance themselves from independents. 'course is equal true democrats typical fail at crafting a message which simultaneous resonates with their voters and appeals to independents. our prediction for wisconsin is we see the equivalent o' a south park slap fight. HA! Good Fun!

Pence won’t appeal ruling that compels his grand jury testimony on Jan. 6 cnn free version HA! Good Fun!

have personal been waiting to play beyond early act 2 as we hoped to see a few bugs addressed in a patch. new patch better than nothing HA! Good Fun!

Dan Kelly calls Wisconsin Supreme Court winner Janet Protasiewicz a 'serial liar' as he lashes out in his concession speech the ten point margin o' victory is the important part. wisconsin Courts has been noteworthy aggressive in their efforts to turn back the calendrer on voting rights and free speech protections. appropriate for @Guard Dog this is yet another election conservatives lost almost entirely 'cause o' the SCOTUS overturning o' roe as protasiewicz ran her campaign laser focused on characterizing the choice 'tween her and kelly as a referendum on abortion rights. and apologies if gd and his wi girlfriend is no longer a thing. HA! Good Fun!

bill clinton's popularity shot up after he lied under oath about his lewinsky relationship. after perjuring himself, clinton became more popular with democrats? is also good to recall how unpopular trump were when he won in 2016. is only 'cause trump were running against even less popular hillary that he eked out an electoral college victory. somehow four years o' impotence, impeachments and brazen unconstitutional behaviour resulted in 45's enshrinement as the cult leader o' the gop? am no longer shocked by how political bad guys doing bad things become more popular at least in the short term. am also gonna suggest IF the feds decide to charge trump for the mar-a-lago documents, that is the case which looks most solid at the moment. (clarification: keep in mind am basing such an opinion on public known info available to everybody else. we don't know what evidence franni willis has and am not certain o' wapo and nytimes info regarding the fed's documents or jan6. cases. no special knowledge and new info could complete change our opinion, so take with a healthy grain o' salt.) am knowing conservative media has been doing the svengali bit regarding the possible espionage act charges in play which might be applicable to trump, but please keep in mind we has now seen fed judges pierce the attorney-client privilege veil for this case and is no way that happens unless is already compelling evidence not only o' wrongdoing by trump but by his attorneys. initially we were suspicious o' the suggestion the feds were trying to prosecute trump for his theft o' documents. is only extreme rare cases when somebody is prosecuted for such and those prosecutions always involve intent to share such documents with foreign powers or something equal sinister. we noted specific in our earliest posts on the matter that it were possible the feds ultimate and overriding goal were to get the documents back and once that happened they would consider it a victory and that might be the end o' the issue. what has become increasing apparent since the mar-a-lago story first broke is the clear and unrepentant obstructive efforts trump indulged to prevent the return o' government documents. court docs suggest the government is unconvinced all relevant documents has been returned even after their subpeona search and subsequent trump team searches. mar-a-lago docs is so not like the discovery that pence or biden had classified documents in their possession, 'cause those two individuals cooperated fully with the feds in retrieving doc and is no evidence they lied 'bout such material. trump is not being targeted 'cause he had government documents in his possession but rather 'cause once he were aware he had such documents, he were bold in his efforts to obstruct and he went to extreme lengths to maintain his possession o' documents which he had no right to keep. georgia also looks like a strong case, but... trump is gonna face a jury in the possible fed cases as well as georgia and to say am suspicious o' juries is an understatement. feel free to discuss the law and facts o' a case, but keep in mind juries as often as not is deciding based on factors you is unaware. jurors may not like a prosecutor or judge. too much eye contact or not enough eye contact from the defendant? a key prosecution witness looked "shifty?" the feds ordinarily don't go to trial unless is a slam dunk. state and local prosecutors is elected and they often need show results if they wanna get reelected. is gonna be circumstances wherein state prosecutors go to trial with less airtight cases. the georgia case sounds strong and is multiple recorded phone calls o' trump pressuring state officials. multiple smoking guns. even so, is a better than fair chance at least one juror won't wanna convict trump and they will possible tie selves in knots trying to find an excuse for trump. the feds appear to have video o' trump rifling through boxes containing classified govt documents after he received the subpeona to return such documents and the piercing o' attorney-client privilege suggests there is compelling evidence trump specific told his attorney to do something illegal. serious? in georgia, am assuming the defense for trump is gonna be that the x-prez believed the 2020 election were illegitimate and that it were his duty to try and convince georgia officials to do the right thing to uphold the law. is ridiculous and maybe not even relevant, but at least 1/3 o' the country already believes such hokum, so the chances one georgia juror is willing to refuse to believe what their own eyes and ears tells 'em is hardly beyond reason. repeat for emphasis: gonna suggest the media is in fact underreporting the significance o' the piercing o' attorney-client privilege to have trump lawyer(s) testify. such news is huge. HA! Good Fun!

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two in a row... and equal unlikely, a superhero flick am looking forward to, albeit with reservations. first were fantastic. in our top three o' sooperhero movies. we were quite skeptical o' the first miles morales movie before seeing it. glad we were wrong. our initial thoughts is a spiderverse sequel is understandable from an economics pov but am seeing as all too likely to diminish the story. nevertheless, am looking froward to #2 in spite o' some reservations. HA! Good Fun!

it isn't the fuel which ignites. is the gaseous fumes from the fuel which is burning. an aircraft traveling at ~300kmh wherein the fuel is not contained in tanks but rather open to the great blue sky is gonna be a challenge to set alight and result in any meaningful damage regardless. the fuel dump itself were kinda silly as am assuming the drone is built to fly through heavy rains which is gonna be more immediate impactful than would the largely aerosolized fuel dump. HA! Good Fun!

made beans and greens https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021902-braised-white-beans-and-greens-with-parmesan we don't much follow the 'bove recipe but our version is a close approximation and is one o' the few ways am willing to eat kale. am making 'bout 1/2 what is called for in the nytimes version and even so am only using 1/2 C o' chicken stock as posed to 2C and am adding 2x as much red pepper flakes. added 4 cloves garlic, but that were 'cause one o' the cloves were just a wee little thing. ordinarily we skip the fennel and use more onion. today was "ordinarily." broccoli rabe or escarole is gonna be our go to greens, but we also like kale for this concoction, so we used one fair sized bunch o' kale. no mozzarella in our version but we do use a decent amount o' parmesan. obvious if you want more healthy you are gonna reduce cheese. we chose not to reduce the cheese. the times for cooking in the linked recipe is wrong for us. it always takes more than four to six for the kale begin getting wilty and our single can o' cannellini beans (again, am doing 'bout 1/2 the recipe) demands at least the eight minutes to be reaching proper tenderness. admitted, to begin having the kale become wilted we cook covered medium-low as 'posed to uncovered medium. to finish am adding a healthy drizzle o' olive oil and fresh grated parmesan . no lemon juice, though that would bring brightness to the dish. am not a vegetarian by any means, but we do enjoy beans and greens. HA! Good Fun!

am looking forward to an owen wilson film. am looking forward to an owen wilson film? a signs o' the apocalypse moment. HA! Good Fun!

@Gorth we viewed the newish jacques pépin video we linked in the youtube algorithm thread and it occurred to us we did not recognize the brand o' olive oil he uses. is noteworthy monsieur pépin, while not hard up for cash, is rare splurging on exotic and overpriced ingredients when doing his home cooking. he uses mccormick spices, mazzola corn oil, and generic grocery store brand beans. unpretentious. am mentioning 'cause we didn't immediate recognize the brand o' extra virgin olive oil he uses. https://cobramestate.com.au/ or https://www.cobramestate.com/ not sooper expensive regardless if is ca or australia. we tagged gorth for this 'cause is likely he is gonna have ez access to cobram australia olive oil. we didn't start using costco for anything but gasoline until the pandemic, but am admitted a limited convert to the warehouse grocery culture and one item we do not hesitate to purchase is the kirkland brand 2l italian extra virgin olive oil. in spite o' the low cost am having no qualms 'bout the quality. even so, am gonna at least try cobram the next time we run low on olive oil. HA! Good Fun!

0 subscriptions... evar. we do current check out atk regular. has been at least a year since jacques pépin posted anything at his site or pbs/kqed, so am not checking him with any frequency. (edit: literal checked jacques pépin moments ago and noticed a new video at kqed... six days past and first new in over a year. gonna note how from mr. pépin we learned a couple decades past to cut along the bone o' chicken thighs to get more even cooking... is something he does in the linked vid. so obvious in retrospect but for years we never thought to do so. however, we will observe how particular for a guy in his 80s he should be more careful handling raw chicken.) other than cooking, most o' the stuff we follow is kinda technical legal or science. is a few history channels we do peek at and a couple is even entertaining. the atun-shei is kinda a hoot, so maybe once a month we look. even so, 0 subscriptions and am feeling no handicap in finding info. HA! Good Fun!

obvious answer: people miscalculated. would hardly be the first time in history that happened, yes? is much easier to sit at your kitchen table and discuss as a family how raising a goat for eventual slaughter is gonna be difficult than it is to live the moment where a young person needs sacrifice an animal with which they has emotional bonded. talk 'bout responsibility. discuss the emotional side. have everybody at the kitchen table reach an agreement based on clear-headed reflection. fantastic. unfortunate, talk, discuss and agree is all too often not gonna prepare people for reals. *shrug* as shady noted, he had seen more than a few youngsters go through a last minute change o' heart. we saw a few fair day tear explosions our self. am suspecting in most such cases the individuals involved thought their day at the fair would go different. it happens. it happens often enough that it ain't a surprise save to those persons who predictable miscalculated. the la times didn't write a story about parental and young person error with the 4-h and ffa animal husbandry programs 'cause is not newsworthy. happens all the time. shasta's response were what were different. HA! Good Fun!

am a bit older so our recollections show a kinda evolution. when we were young am recalling at least a handful o' kids initial backing out of future farmers or 4-h sales, but those reluctant children were never allowed to win such conflicts as parents would step in and utilize increasing corrective pressure up to and including the application o' a beating just outta view o' fairgoers. is one example o' how am thinking some progress has been made in child rearing as we has seen a clear temporal trend in favour o' avoiding the use o' force or emotional blackmail to make children reach a correct choice. ... gonna admit that a few decades past we woulda' read the story and been nonplussed by the involvement o' law enforcement, but given the way we were raised and the time in which we grew to adulthood, our initial reaction woulda' been to blame parents for not teaching their child responsibility. "“Our daughter lost three grandparents within the last year, and our family has had so much heartbreak and sadness that I couldn’t bear the thought of the following weeks of sadness after the slaughter of her first livestock animal,” she wrote to Shasta District Fair Chief Executive Melanie Silva." 80's Gromnir: sorry but everybody has a hard luck story and it don't sound as if the grandparents all died within days before the sale o' the goat, so were the parent's responsibility to prepare their child for what was going to be nowhere near the hardest choice she would need eventual make. suck it up buttercup 'cause life only gets harder from here. 80's Gromnir were a bit less huggable. is also worth noting how shasta county is kinda like a nightmare brigadoon with too many residents channeling an 1800s mentality... or maybe 1600s 'course the academic support for teaching children lessons through corporal punishment and/or emotional trauma is non-existent, so in spite o' our own experience, am now firm opposed to the shasta county, "teach this little girl a lesson," efforts. is more than a few studies which conclude that treating kids as if they is very short marines going through bootcamp is bad and while there is indeed a few studies which is ambivalent on the matter, we have yet to see support for the soul crushing approach save for the unconvincing anecdotal, "when i was a kid," kinda evidence. however, am not a parent, so am also recognizing how is far easier to be judgy w/o needing raise a child who is perhaps less amenable to kindness and gentle persuasion. am only kinda kidding 'bout shasta btw. on the positive side, is doubtful @Hurlshotand his daughter need worry they could end up being part o' the next la times story 'bout goats on the lamb as is doubtful gilroy and santa clara county would take the shasta approach. HA! Good Fun!

am thinking they might disown you anyway if a 2-day pickle is resulting too much sourness. just sayin. edit: @Keyrock point possible missed. you expressed the desire to add more carrot to your soup take the edge off the sour from the pickles when the obvious solution is to choose a less sour pickle alternative. is plenty o' authentic polish dill pickles which is existing in the half sour range. ask the grocer in pineville for a recommendation. the soup is not meant to use extreme fermented dills which is gonna result in more sour even w/o vinegar. HA! Good Fun!

late unsolicited advice: instead o' adding carrot for more sweetness, either make your own pickles or use a brand o' polish dill which is tending towards less vinegar. there ain't no vinegar used in making dill pickles but near every store brand has vinegar. go figure. even if eschewing vinegar, store brand dill pickles is almost invariably gonna be on the sour end o' the spectrum so look specific for "half sour" if you buy from store. am finding krakus is a nice peppery polish dill w/o too much vinegar. HA! Good Fun!

curious, we mentioned another film score by sakamoto not long ago ... hesitate to mention, but thomas dolby and sakamoto were collaborators, which always had us wondering... ff to 2:53 if you don't feel the need to indulge almost four minutes o' quintessential 80's pop. HA! Good Fun!

new lamplighters dev diary. HA! Good Fun! ps fixed... maybe. aside, devs says they ain't doing "camp," so am taking them at their word, but the characters sure sound and look to be humorously exaggerated while leaning heavy on the clichés. is accidental?

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torment has gotten more love than most older games which didn't sell, fallout being a noteworthy exception. https://www.beamdog.com/games/planescape-torment-enhanced/ https://www.inxile-entertainment.com/games/torment-tides-of-numenera the inxile title had actual planescpe developer folks working on their updated version. converse, josh sawyer was the web guy for torment. obsidian don't have a planescape license and their ties to the title is increasing remote. so... HA! Good Fun!

is a long list o' rich people who has gone to prison, including micheal cohen... and is worth mentioning cohen 'cause ny is gonna try and says cohen went to prison for trump. 'course convicting trump for the pr0n star hush-money is not as ez as a few pundits make it sound in part 'cause the system is rigged in favour o' defendants, as tough as that may be to believe for all the angry libs out there. european countries don't have anything like the exclusionary rule and the whole grand jury process itself went outta vogue for euros in the late 1700s. standards o' proof is much higher in the US compared to near all europe and asia. however, even in 2023, most juries assume cops is telling the truth which ain't a matter o' law but o' culture. etc. the reason(s) we got so many in prison here in the US is social, economic and cultural (and kinda unforgivable) but the US legal system is in fact far more defendant friendly than other western nations and democratic republics. however, is true you ain't getting a full and vigorous defense in the US unless you pay for it, so the rich do enjoy substantial benefits. heck kyle rittenhouse weren't wealthy but arguable one reason he stayed outta prison for his stoopid is 'cause his crowdfunding efforts resulted in a significant war chest for his criminal defense. regardless, if trump don't go to prison for pr0n star hush-money is gonna be less 'cause the rich get away with everything as 'posed to fact nobody has ever been successful convicted in ny for what the manhattan da is attempting to prosecute trump. the US Government went after john edwards for something similar in 2011 and they failed. ny faces a tougher challenge than US v. edwards, so... trump is a terrible person, but you don't go to prison for being terrible. our overcrowded prisons would have 100x as many people locked up if being terrible were enough to get you imprisoned. for those who loathe trump and want to see justice done, am recommending not holding your breath waiting for the guilty verdict from ny. the tax evasion thing is a real problem for trump if bragg went that way, but am just not confident trump ends up behind bars for hush-money payment reporting fails. edit: also is noteworthy the doj didn't choose to go after trump for the fed election/tax issues once 45 left office. am understanding the main hurdle for indictment were the fact the feds thought michael cohen were a terrible witness, and am gonna suggest that for a successful hush-money prosecution, cohen needs be better than terrible. also, as difficult as is gonna be to believe, from our pov the more significant legal news from today is not the hoopla regarding trump. dude. ... dude. "In its partial ruling in favor of Dominion, the court did determine statements made by Fox were statements of fact and were not statements of opinion." "The court also determined that Fox "cannot avail themselves of certain defenses like the neutral report and fair report privileges or the privilege for opinion"" furthermore, punitive damages were not excluded, which am thinking is nevertheless a tough mountain for dominion to climb but such damages is the kinda thing which could result in serious pain for fox and real changes to US journalism in general. fox reaction to today's dueling summary judgement rulings. HA! Good Fun!

up until 2016 we voted based on individual candidate character, competence and goals as 'posed to party affiliation, but we tended towards choosing moderate republicans more often than not. the thing is, in 2023, the republicans has become a party which downplays or even defends the the inhumane treatment o' immigrants, the use o' masked federal agents in unmarked vans to kidnap individuals w/o a warrant or even probable cause, the events o' january 6 and book banning. even if we ignore the corpulent orange elephant in the room, am not seeing how is possible to vote conscience and republican in 2023 albeit with one exception. regardless, even if you are in favour o' fiscal responsibility and small government (which is maybe not current gop values but is definite not major issues for the democrats) am seeing as near impossible to align self with the party banning the kite runner, the handmaid's tale and 1984. am also agreeing raskin is "good at this" kinda thing but admittedly the current gop makes it ez. HA! Good Fun!