Bear Pit: now the sole domicile of politics at LuLa

[TechTalk]

You avoided answering the questions because you know Democrats played loads of games and still are. 

Bait someone else. I'm not interested.

[digitaldog]

Your narrative is false, full of false premises and ignorance of essential facts, and has been discussed into the ground. There's no value in discussing it with you any further. In short... it's a huge waste of time for everyone except yourself, as you simply repeat the same false narrative endlessly and you seem to enjoy it.

Put this into context, what you're seeing is explained in Hannah And Her Sisters:

Mickey : How could I ruin myself?
Hannah : I don't know. Excessive masturbation?
Mickey : You gonna start knockin' my hobbies?

Its Alan masturbating via keyboard again.

[LesPalenik]

I just finished watching a debate between two robots. 3 years old video, but quite impressive. The robots run on some kind of AI software, but learn new words and phrases as they go. In this case from the previous or current discussions. I guess, similar to Tesla FSD software, which learns from the data collected by other cars. Anyway, the hundreds of pages in this discussion thread would provide for such debaters plenty of material to learn from or to repeat the most salient points.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y3XdwTa1cA&t=29s

[Peter McLennan]

If he did that then he was wrong, very wrong.

IF he did that?  Really, Alan? IF?  It's a matter of public record.  IYou are once again practicing recreational ignorance.  It's appalling. It's ugly.  It's telling.

 

  But frankly, I don't care anymore about Trump.

If you really "don't care anymore" about Trump, then either you're once again practicing recreational ignorance or you truly are the prejudiced idiot you appear to be. You should be ashamed of yourself.

In addition to betraying his oath to uphold your constitution, Trump is attempting to do nothing less than subvert democracy.  YOUR democracy.  The democracy that most Americans purport to hold in the highest esteem.

It's not really apparent which is worse: you pretending to know nothing about that recorded, public phone call, or actually not knowing about it.

[Alan Klein]

I guess he made a decision to fund the vaccine research after intensive reading.
In his next speech, Trump will say that he saved also Tesla by getting them the much-needed semiconductors before the other carmakers could lay their hands on them.

He better hurry before Mercedes gets it done first.  Here's a new 2-minute ad for their new Mercedes AA battery all-electric model advertised by the Julia Dreyfus of Seinfeld fame.  Seems like a winner. (watch until the end.)
https://iplayerhd.com/player/video/dae6a69a-adb1-4692-aaba-cff7e6bcd493/share

[LesPalenik]

He better hurry before Mercedes gets it done first.  Here's a new 2-minute ad for their new Mercedes AA battery all-electric model advertised by the Julia Dreyfus of Seinfeld fame.  Seems like a winner. (watch until the end.)
https://iplayerhd.com/player/video/dae6a69a-adb1-4692-aaba-cff7e6bcd493/share

I wonder when they made this video. She nailed it quite closely.

[Peter McLennan]

He better hurry before Mercedes gets it done first.  Here's a new 2-minute ad for their new Mercedes AA battery all-electric model advertised by the Julia Dreyfus of Seinfeld fame.  Seems like a winner. (watch until the end.)
https://iplayerhd.com/player/video/dae6a69a-adb1-4692-aaba-cff7e6bcd493/share

Hilarious!

[Jonathan Cross]

+1, Brilliant

Jonathan

(very happy owner of a Mercedes EQA electric car!)

[Alan Klein]

+1, Brilliant

Jonathan

(very happy owner of a Mercedes EQA electric car!)

Do you use AA Energizer or Duracell? 

[Jonathan Cross]

Duracell with a regular delivery from Amazon. 🤗

[Alan Klein]

Duracell with a regular delivery from Amazon. 🤗

I'll tell you a story that happened to me when I ordered AA batteries from Amazon.  I forget now which brand it was.  But it was a major brand like Duracell or Energizer. 

Anyway, when the blister pack arrived, the batteries had an expiration date of like 7 months hence (I don't remember the exact date but it wasn't the expected ten years.)  However, the blister pack had an expiration date three years earlier.  Now I can understand how a pack could get lost in a warehouse.  But how do you explain the difference of dates on the package vs. the enclosed batteries?   Has the shipper been using old batteries and repackaging? 

I had a similar problem with film I ordered from Amazon that expired in a few months hence when B&H expires in 13 months.  I returned both the batteries and film.  The whole thing has turned me off against Amazon.  I'm very careful when I order from them and will frequently order from a manufacturer directly.  I think there's a lot of finagling going on with Amazon suppliers.  They let anyone use them so I think a lot of products don't have the standards you expect. 

I now order water filters directly from LG for my refrigerator rather than the ones on Amazon.  How could Amazon supplier charge 3 or 4 times less in price?  Are the filters on Amazon really charcoal filtered or some other crap? 

[PeterAit]

Put this into context, what you're seeing is explained in Hannah And Her Sisters:

Mickey : How could I ruin myself?
Hannah : I don't know. Excessive masturbation?
Mickey : You gonna start knockin' my hobbies?

Its Alan masturbating via keyboard again.

Umm, this is really inappropriate and unnecessarily nasty.

[Frans Waterlander]

Umm, this is really inappropriate and unnecessarily nasty.

Yes, that's classic Andrew Rodney.

[digitaldog]

Yes, that's classic Andrew Rodney.

Classic Frans:
Still no proof he can take a snapshot, let alone make a photograph.
You seem lost here at Luminous Landscape and on the wrong site:

Luminous-Landscape has focused on photographic education and providing a comprehensive information resource for Photo Enthusiasts around the world.

[Peter McLennan]

How'd we get sucked back into talking about Trump again? He's gone a year already.

You'd love everyone to simply forgive and forget, wouldn't you?  He's still there, pulling the strings of millions of Republican puppets both big and small, to the detriment of democracy, truth and common decency.

pasted from today's NYT:

One year after the smoke and broken glass, the mock gallows and the very real bloodshed of that awful day, it is tempting to look back and imagine that we can, in fact, simply look back. To imagine that what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 — a deadly riot at the seat of American government, incited by a defeated president amid a last-ditch effort to thwart the transfer of power to his successor...

[digitaldog]

You'd love everyone to simply forgive and forget, wouldn't you?  He's still there, pulling the strings of millions of Republican puppets both big and small, to the detriment of democracy, truth and common decency.

Some in the GOP refused to forget:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/01/02/larry-hogan-2020-election-republicans-sotu-vpx.cnn

'It's crazy': GOP governor responds to polls of GOP voters

Republican Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland discusses polling that shows that an overwhelming majority of Republican voters believe the former President Trump's election lies.

Profile in courage.
Meanwhile:

Thirty-four percent of Americans think violent action against the government is sometimes justified, according to a new poll from The Washington Post and the University of Maryland released days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the insurrection at the US Capitol.

[Alan Klein]

Umm, this is really inappropriate and unnecessarily nasty.

thanks for your support. I just try to ignore him.

[digitaldog]

I just try to ignore him.

Another failed attempt.
"The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity". – Steve Aylett

[TechTalk]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a Quebec television station people who do not get vaccinated against COVID-19 are often racist and misogynistic extremists.

https://youtu.be/5I0tk6OO5sw (in French)

A fine example of how to create a false narrative. A fringe right-wing Canadian "news" source makes an edited 50-second handheld video of a TV screen playing a moment from a talk-show discussion and presents it with zero context as to what the discussion is about. Then they put a deceptive title on it and post it on YouTube for the gullible to swallow. They're so proud of what they've done that they call it "An original video production by the Western Standard".

It wasn't easy to sort this out, but after some digging, I can provide you with the full context, full video, and an accurate narrative. Let's begin with when this was broadcast and the source.

This was from September of last year from a talk-show called La Semaine des 4 Julie. That's the when and where. What they were discussing is an incident from a few days earlier when an anti-vaccination protester yelled a nasty slur about Trudeau's wife and challenged him to a fight. The article below will provide the context of the TV interview discussion and includes a picture of the protestor which you also see in the full talk show video just before Trudeau's remarks. The people he was describing were "people fiercely opposed to vaccination" that had been harassing hospital and medical workers... and shouting slurs about his wife at him.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-lashes-out-protester-derogatory-remark-wife

Trudeau lashes out at protester who used slur about his wife

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was met with more angry protesters Monday, including one man who challenged him to a fight and hurled a slur about his wife.

The verbal exchange was also on the same day as a series of protests were staged outside hospitals and medical centres, including in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Charlottetown, Montreal, Halifax and Ottawa. Crowds varied in size from over a dozen to more than 100 people.

The demonstrations were organized by two Ontario nurses who have promoted conspiracy theories about COVID-19. The organizers also attended rallies in the U.S. for those who think the pandemic is a "fraud."

The protester was yelling profanities at Trudeau, who was supposed to sit for an interview outside Global News; after discussions with RCMP the interview moved inside. Sophie Grégoire Trudeau was not present when the protester made the offensive remark.

When asked Tuesday if he regrets his response, Trudeau said he has a thick skin but attacks on his family cross the line.

"He went after my family. He said hateful, misogynistic things about my wife," he said.

The full video is linked below. You can turn on auto-generated english subtitles, but like other auto-generated translations, they are a bit of a verbal mess at times.

https://www.youtube.com/La Semaine des 4 Julie | Season 3 / Episode 4 | Justin Trudeau (Sept 17, 2021)

[LesPalenik]

A fine example of how to create a false narrative. A fringe rightwing Canadian "news" source makes an edited 50-second handheld video of a TV screen playing a moment from a talk-show discussion and presents it with zero context as to what the discussion is about. Then they put a deceptive title on it and post it on YouTube for the gullible to swallow. They're so proud of what they've done that they call it "An original video production by the Western Standard".

It wasn't easy to sort this out, but after some digging, I can provide you with the full context, full video, and an accurate narrative. Let's begin with when this was broadcast and the source.

Thank you very much for your research and for the explanation of all the facts.