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7:36 AM

@Færd Meh, Trump didn't score anything either.

No one's going to change sides because of the debate

Probably the determining factor is whether some people will be convinced to stay home

Færd

8:18 AM

@M.A.R. Nevertheless, it would have served the Democrats better if they'd nominated somebody who wouldn't be outdebated by a dotard like Trump.

8:59 AM

10:13 AM

After a 29-km run 4 days ago, an 11-km run feels like a small effort. I should regularly run 30-km runs, this apparently raises the limit.

11:12 AM

@Færd you can say that again

reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/j32bhn/… -- Wow OK, good to know, fixes some perceptions about Canada

11:35 AM

@Robusto well that's what you'd call it. And also what the video calls it right in the title. But the question is what I would call it.

Also, dude, Cajun is not the correct nomenclature. Rice with crawfish, please.

Cajun cuisine

Cajun cuisine (French: Cuisine cadienne, [kɥizin kadʒæ̃n]), (Spanish: Cocina acadia) is a style of cooking named for the French-speaking Acadian people deported by the British from Acadia in Canada, incorporating West African, French and Spanish cooking techniques, in region of Louisiana. Cajun cuisine is sometimes referred to as a 'rustic cuisine', meaning that it is based on locally available ingredients and preparation is relatively simple. An authentic Cajun meal is usually a three-pot affair, with one pot dedicated to the main dish, one dedicated to steamed rice, special made sausages, or...

@Robusto when the speed goes towards infinity, the time goes towards 0. QED.

Færd

11:52 AM

> Psychotherapist
Psycho The Rapist

12:19 PM

> One voter, Ruthie from Pennsylvania, a vital swing state, became an instant internet star. She had been undecided, she said, but would now vote for Biden – who she had watched trying to “win an argument with a crackhead”.

12:36 PM

@tchrist good to know that Ruthie, a vital swing state, will not vote Trump

After the shock of 2016's election results, analysts pored over the data to try to figure out what the hell just happened. Their excuse for their 2016 blindness? "Hindsight is 2020." Well ok then, it's 2020 so what's your excuse going to be this year?

@Færd you're only noticing that now? It's been an Internet meme for 25 years now.

Therapistfinder.com
Penisland.com
Whorepresents.com
Expertsexchange.com
Itscrap.com
Speedofart.com
Nobjs.com
Dicksonweb.com

Those are on every "top 100 stupid domain names" list ever.

noobjs

Yeah I think that one was like North Ossetian Jewish Singles or something.

Or whatever state or county you have starting with an O.

I can't think of any actually.

Oklahoma?

12:48 PM

Oregonian Lesbian Syngles Clubbe

Also, what does the B even stand for, then.

Lemme look it up.

@RegDwigнt The video calls it cajun music. No mention of a cajun accordion. And, as I said, I should have thought to search for cajun accordion.

Ah yes, "North Of Boston Jewish Singles".

Newly Objective Jabba's Crypt

@M.A.R. of course the sad part is that that's not how that image came about. The face was properly modeled, but then some wanker scraped it and added the cartoon features instead. (And you don't even need to know anything about sculpting to realize that, simply looking at the picture a bit closer gives it away.)

@Robusto well yeah, no mention of garmoshka, either, and yet that's exactly what it's called in Russian.

12:52 PM

But we weren't speaking Russian. We were speaking Cajun. Or English. I forget which.

AQI at 202 up near the northern Colorado fires this morning. Smoke kinda lay down overnight and the dawn seems like it will be clear-ish, though I expect the smoke and red-orange sun to return as the day warms.

@Robusto yeah no I'm afraid I'm not speaking any of that. (I guess you could verify simply by reading my shit, but I'm too busy to do that.)

@tchrist 48 here.

They're claiming 17 here; dunno that I believe that.

We have fallen between plumes, as luck would have it.

12:55 PM

I can't even see Boulder through all the overlays.

Yeah.

Blue dot is me.

Looks like a funeral veil.

Dragon's breath.

Or dragon farts.

12:56 PM

Speedofart.com

This is why you need to doff your speedos.

Hilary Doff?

Hi Larry Kin go fetch a sketch fame.

Or frame.

1:18 PM

@Robusto I opened the north door: the air no longer stinks of woodsmoke. But the south door's air suggests that Little Lady Stinkbottom still lurks nearby, probably under my deck.

I had a great-horned owl hooting in the right-next-to-me tree last night. Maybe he got her.

> The Falcon 9 countdown has aborted at T-minus 18 seconds “due to an out-of-family ground sensor reading

I wonder what that is. "Out-of-family" reading.

@ RegDwigнt Meanie. — Edwin Ashworth 6 mins ago

Haha. I am contemplating answering

Sep 10 at 12:42, by RegDwigнt

@Edwin Ashworth Thanks babe — neverturnedback 30 mins ago

@tchrist How do you know it's a lady?

Come on now. We learned that in school in fifth grade.

1:34 PM

@RegDwigнt It's a subtler question than you suppose.

All questions always are.

I'm used to that.

Study Suggests Fundamental Laws of Nature Change Throughout the Universe

That said, in my capacity as a Reginald, certainly anything I have to say on stinkbottoms must be the final word.

> It's a common misunderstanding that only white people are racist. All kinds of enthnicities can be racist. It's only that white people are superb at that, just like at everything else.

@Robusto Well of course the study suggests that. If it didn't, nobody would care about it.

1:39 PM

@CowperKettle Not only that, but I've had arguments with Black people who insist that Black people can't be racist.

girl gets the answer very wrong

@Robusto which in itself is racist.

The moment anyone uses the word "black" at all, they are being racist by definition.

That's not my definition. That's the dictionary's.

Which dictionary says this?

Every dictionary.

Name one that does not.

Webster's

AVENUE Q - 'Everybody's a Little Racist,' Broadway Cast

1:44 PM

Name one that does.

Webster's.

Web sirs?

Yes, expertsexchange.com and dicksonweb.com.

True, you can find anything you want to believe on the web.

Nah, too much work.

Just write anything you want to believe on the web yourself.

1:48 PM

yup

Aug 12 at 22:04, by RegDwigнt

On the Internet, you never read. You only write.

The lost art of reading

RIP

It's not even an art. It's just a skill every four-year-old can master.

But yeah. These days if you can read at all, it's like playing the violin. Everyone shouts "OMG you're so talented".

Dec 4 '18 at 12:31, by RegDwigнt

"Talent" is a commonly accepted shorthand for "I could do that, too, but I am lazy".

@RegDwigнt "Black lives matter" is positive towards black people, not negative towards anyone else. Any dictionary will tell you that "racist" is "antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group" (lexico), which "black lives matter" is not.

@MattE.Эллен yeah yeah and feminism is positive towards men.

I'm not talking about an ideal not worth the pixels it's printed on. I am talking actual implementation as of right now.

1:52 PM

???

I can't think of what implementation you mean

Any "ist" is ist-ist

or tsk tsk

@MattE.Эллен everything in the streets right now.

People burning down their own neighborhoods.

@RegDwigнt that was done by a gender reveal party, no?

And bunches of people kneeling before bunches of other people simply because of skin color.

but seriously, BLM protests don't start fires

1:56 PM

@MattE.Эллен yeah on TV it does look a lot like a stagdew gone wild.

@MattE.Эллен yeah nobody ever does. It's just spontaneous combustion all the time.

Woman gives a powerful speech on whats happening we don't own anything #georgefloyd

I don't blame anyone. People have been locked in for so many months, they need to vent. They're tired of kicking their family and long for kicking some street furniture.

@Robusto I saw that. As you well know, because it was on Last Week Tonight.

They're tired of being kicked, more to the point

was life expectancy at the time, or now?

I wonder if life expectancy has gone up or down in those areas since Trump took office

2:03 PM

@MattE.Эллен Mine has certainly gone down.

everyday :D

one less day to live.

Sometimes that feels like a comfort.

::pink floyd::

aye

@Robusto )))

@Robusto So you are relentlesly pushed by the Universe towards being a Trump supporter every second of your life.

As your life expectancy decreases.

That's the secret of Trump.

2:07 PM

@CowperKettle Never.

@MattE.Эллен it says in the chart, Life Expectancy at 2018

> To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

Sounds like description of the controls for Witcher 4.

Melville.

I have the book.

2:09 PM

It's not enough just to have it. You have to read it too.

I prefer that chapter, I dunno maybe nine or seven, where he lists off all the inscriptions on gravestones in a cemetery.

And I suppose your favorite part of the Iliad was the catalogue of ships?

It's like that chapter from Picture of Dorian Gray where Wilde tries to list all the gemstones he can think of, for ten pages, because otherwise the book would've been too short to count as a novel.

Well, I'm off to get ready to ride. Have a good one, folks.

Thank you.

2:11 PM

cya

I shall be leaving myself very soon.

Choir rehearsal.

CU

@Robusto I found the book hard to read. I read several dozen pages, and stopped.

Mitch

2:29 PM

@Robusto It's not the same definition of 'racist' as yours.

It is the same situation as in 'Dear White People' when the protagonist is talking to her professor. She explains:

> Black people can't be racist.
Prejudice? Yes. But not racist.
Racism describes a system of
disadvantage based on race. Black
people can't be racist since they
don't benefit from such a system.

Logically black (or african americans) -could- be racist (by my definition of racist which is more like 'prejudiced'), but not by that definition of 'racist'.

But I came to say something else:

> A shambolic bumbleplex of wanktastic dimensions.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

@RegDwigнt flagged as offensive

@Mitch my first thought was Yahtzee Croshaw and my second was Jeremy Clarkson

as a person who would say that

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен The author of the 'Strong Language' blog didn't reference it so I can't tell if it is 'public domain' or they just made it up right them.

although I think Clarkson would more likely say "proportions"