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[gero]

Trump Jr. calls for "total war" over election

Today is the 9th of November. We remember those who have been murdered, slaughtered, tortured. We remember this who suffered. We remember the voiceless, we remember the victims. We also remember the majority of people who stood there and did nothing. We remember those who did something, who denounced their neighbours, who threw stones into windows, who burned temples. I remember my grandfather, who went to war being eighteen, and as far as I know most have been at least one of those who did no…

[Purplecat]

Cool sound from dropping a chunk of ice down a borehole

An explanation of why it makes such a great “pew” sound at the end. The cylindrical bore hole acts as a waveguide, in which acoustic waves travel. Waveguides reduce loss of energy in transmission, but the speed of the traveling waves in a waveguide (the group velocity) varies with frequency, with higher frequencies traveling faster. This phenomenon is known as dispersion. When the ice chunk hits the bottom, it produces sound over a broad range of frequencies; we hear the high frequencies first b…

Great first post on the BBS. We need more of this!

[Sally_Mahoney]

Mike Pompeo: "There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration"

Considering how many times Biden’s age was brought up during the campaign, I’m genuinely surprised that there is someone who didn’t get the message that he wasn’t born yesterday.

[DukeTrout]

Biden wins Arizona, first Dem to take state since Clinton era

Yeah, it’s the “largely from” part that got me. Obviously, @beschizza isn’t one to dilute the real progress that was made here, but the national narrative has been pretty frustrating and once again puts all/most of the success on fickle white people. I really don’t want to hear four more years of why I need to pity some bigot who saw the light for five minutes while people who fought through institutional adversity to vote are ignored.

Seriously. It’s been said before, but I’ll repeat: if the media want to interview people who made the difference in this election, they should be interviewing Black women.

[FGD135]

Trump on verge of conceding in Rose Garden speech, changes mind mid-sentence

Substitute “seatbelts” for “lockdowns” in your comment and it will be equally valid. There is no question that lock downs have horrible consequences. Victims of domestic abuse, substance abuse and neglect suffer more than others and are absolutely at risk. We have lost a quarter of a million souls to this so far, and it is accelerating. There is no medical cavalry coming for months. Avoiding contracting the disease is literally the only thing we can do right now. I am speaking as a doctor.…

[Sally_Mahoney]

If you noticed something different about Trump's appearance you are not alone

The hair has conceded. We just need it to get through to the brain.

[GulliverFoyle]

Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 1)

That is not how this works. I have been grossly overweight my entire adult life. In that time I have fought for, and earned, the love of an incredible partner, built a career including running the infrastructure for the sixth-largest website in the world, provided philanthropic security, hosting, and consulting services to a ton of org’s and amazing people, survived an early adulthood that literally had me sleeping on the street outside Toronto city hall, and, in the process of trying to deal …

[Sally_Mahoney]

Trump "frantic" as lawsuits fail and hopes for legislative coup dim

If we go there, I petition that MAGA types be renamed the Jerkobites. eta: Wouldn’t Trump be the GREAT Pretender?

[Sally_Mahoney]

Millions of American travel and gather for Thanksgiving, despite COVID warnings

This goes back to the very roots of Thanksgiving in 1621 with the Wampanoag. “Travel Far, Bring Disease, Kill People”. Thanks to H.S. for the insight.

[smulder]

Republican Congressional group opposing "The Squad" names themselves after X-Men villains

Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale compared his re-election campaign to the Death Star. The campaign referred to Trump as Thanos. Trump has compared himself to Bane and the White Walkers in Game of Thrones. I detect a theme here.

[Sally_Mahoney]

High school student newspaper exposes Nazi symbols in local police training videos

I think it’s time we flip it around and use phrases like “there are some good apples”.

[Ratel]

The news needs to be doing a better job of explaining exactly who Gabriel Sterling is, and why he deserves not one iota of sympathy. He’s not a truth-teller, he’s racist garbage actively assaulting democracy.

Outraged Georgia election official to Trump and GOP on violent threats against election staff: 'This has to stop!'

It’s rather gratifying that the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party is now nibbling on some actual leopard faces, for a change. Yeah, I’m listening to him saying, over and over, “It’s gone too far, this has to stop,” and wondering whether it only crossed the line when it started impacting him and his (fellow Republicans). Like, ok, the party is now a toxic monstrosity, but that’s cool and - whoa, whoa, whoa, now it’s trying to bite me, that’s not cool at all! Maybe he’s more principled than…

[Immutable_Mike]

Arecebo Observatory destroyed in final collapse

I dare you to find a better analogy for America’s withdrawal from the leadership of the Enlightenment.

[FGD135]

Commie Library of Memes

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[Akimbo_NOT]

2020 Election Thread (Part 2)

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This.

[Ratel]

@teknocholer

@Akimbo_NOT

An 81-year-old man named William Shakespere has become the second person to get the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine

“If you prick me,” he was heard to ask, “do I not bleed?”

  

[Sally_Mahoney]

HACKED: FireEye discloses breach and theft of internal hacking tools

Whoa whoa whoa, relax. It’s not an act of war if your President hangs out in the same Jacuzzi as their President.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Biden-Harris coronavirus PSA: 'Wearing a mask isn’t about politics—it’s science'

Yeah but the people they’re trying to reach with the PSAs would burn their own hands if Trump asked them to touch the bright, glowy spirals on the stove.

[ChuckV]

Republicans: Racist or Redeemable?

After the events of this year and watching interviews of folks at rallies who supported/enabled them (and wanted more of the same), I no longer believe that’s possible. They’ve proven themselves to be intolerant and selfish to the point of supporting the extermination of those who don’t share their beliefs. They want a separate country and a different form of government. The demands some of them are making now aren’t merely bullying, they’re the tactics of an abuser whose target has gained t…

[MrShiv]

If You See Something (IRL), Post Something! (Part 1)

Your prescience was well minded for a time 'til haste and exhaustion stripped it from my mind i’the course of most untimely battle. We passed a week in October on our tract, and as I took to slashing at the vile tree-borne serpents, one did chance a stinging blow across my cheek. It did burn and swell, but I persisted, laboring as I was to free the gnarled chain of my saw from a vine-tensed trunk. I could have seen the end of this cursed touch had I bathed and wrapped myself in fresh garments…

Also, comment #1000!