Kind of fun to compare the various meme posts across the Vast Rightwing Internet. I’m rather fond of the GOML 3000 and the John Deere protestor harvester. Soylent Green FTW!
I was thinking they should emulate the Germans and the way they handled the glued-to-the-asphalt protestors by pouring fast-expanding foam into those tubes around their chained-together arms, purely as a safety measure to cushion the protestors pink and pasty flesh from injury, then chunk out the concrete or jaws-of-life the doors of the cars they were chained to and release them under their own recognizance.
The ‘whiff of grapeshot’ is more associated with tyrants than those opposed to them, tyrants being more likely to have the resources to own cannon.
The lawn mowing metaphor is also more associated with tyrants than their targets, tyrants having a habit of cutting down those who stand taller than the average citizen.
I’m not really sure it changes things if you’re worried about a tyranny of the majority.
In freedom land the cannon were traditionally private property. As were the cannon armed ships.
If it’s lots of tyranny, and it is specifically a “gun” meme (as opposed to, say, a grenade meme “to whom it may concern”, a long range artillery meme “dear grid square”, et cetera), then cannon as ‘gun’ packed with lead shot/scrap metal/ball bearings/3/8″ nuts would be my choice to deal with “lots of tyranny,” given the option. Once could also supply crew-served weaponry, naval cannon, aircraft mounted guns, and so on.
whoopsie. 249 they were brand new for 24ID when I got out. Fun gun. Spent -way- more time “feeding the pig” the M-60. But alas, the Mailclerk was only permitted an M-16A1 Rifle. (grin)
But we both appear to be fans of “chamber music”.
—–
“Today, we introduce you to the M-2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.”
…..
“Sergeant, that thing has a -twenty five- millimeter -chain gun-? … “Sergeant, suddenly my pants don’t fit.”
I still fondly remember the first time I got behind an M-60 on a fam fire way, way back when. Much fun. Over too fast. My only question was “Don’t they make longer belts?”
I need guns because the cops say they need guns – and anyone who says I don’t need guns is an advocate for militarized police and a police state.
Also, there’s an older meme I’ve saved the text from:
Enough debates. Just go out and get it already. It protects you, your family and everyone in the community. It’s been scientifically, mathematically and statistically proven to make everyone safer. The communities that got them are overwhelmingly safer. The chances of side effects or accidents are so unbelievably small that it’s completely absurd to not get one already.
Quit being selfish, quit arguing online and go purchase a firearm.
? A decent 10-22 with decent ammo can hit a man-sized target at 200m. The factory supplied sights are not well suited to that, but any decent scope or red-dot will solve it, or better iron sights if your eyes still work well
Me: I want a few lead-heads for my Type A2 Far Trader next time I go into the Wilds. I’ll launch it from the turrets, right next to the sandcasters and pulse lasers. Just as the Founders intended. ;-)
Slight problem. Marxists are everywhere. Like cockroaches or bad smells, they accumulate wherever Freedom isn’t. I’d much prefer to resettle areas that are not still glowing…
The Viking helmet dude in the tank … Why do I have a feeling a number of guys in other armies are going to show up with something like that, just because?
My brother used to attach a crashed witch to the back of his truck for Halloween season. Other truckers would call him on the CB: “Hey, you’ve got my mother-in-law plastered on the back of your truck!”
Re. the 1970s one. One of the other teachers and I were comparing notes on “things going on in the Cold War when we were in Europe and Stateside”. He’s a little older than I am. Rote Armee Fraktion? Check. Red Brigade in Italy? Check. I.R.A. in England et al? Check. Glancing under cars for explosives? Check. Inflation, gas lines, and other fun stuff? Check.
Sort of like “The 1950s were dull and nothing happened.” Riiiiiiight. Suuuuuuuure. Korea, Suez Canal, Hungary, East Germany, start of the Great Leap Forward, Norman Borlaug starts the Green Revolution and ends famine in much of the world, the first sit-ins and civil rights protests, …
Back in the ’80s they were just happy the job got done sooner. There may or may not have been some bruised oranges here and there, but the job got done on time with half the crew! That means it’s okay, right?
The problem with pallet jacks is that they just weigh too much to be able to use a leaf blower (even a high CFM one – all we have are modern 18v ones) to start pushing you. Maybe if we got more than two at a time …
I used to be able to right-click on the memes and save most of them for later distribution. Lately more and more have been not jpegs, not bmps, not pngs, but webp. Which if you right-click and hit “save image” doesn’t really save image.
Chrome browser, Microshaft OS, and no, I’m not too awful good at this. I last took classes on computers back in the days of version 3.1….which I liked. *irritated grumbling*
Occasionally with a webp that I really like I will screencap, open Paint 3d, paste it, crop, and save-as, but that’s a whole lot of fuss for each one. Is there a solution other than “keep doing that” or “get a smertfone”?
I’ve had sporadic luck with right-click, open in new tab, then right-click-save-as, but not always. However, the one I found here where that did not work, I was able to right-click-copy image and paste it into Paint and save.
There’s an extension I use (for Firefox, but I’d imagine similar would be available for Chrome) called “Don’t accept webp”. It simply has the browser remove webp from the list of image formats it tells the server it can accept. Which means that any standards-compliant web server (which is most, but not all, of them) will fall back to sending you a .jpg or a .png file instead of a .webp file. You might still get some .webp files from servers that don’t bother to follow the specifications they’re supposed to be following, but mostly you’ll end up with image formats that you know what to do with.
Regarding the sixth meme (at least I think it was the sixth; it was the one with the angry women and the kitty) — reminds me of a joke I heard an elderly Scottish woman tell on TV many years ago:
It seems a young married couple was in a terrible auto accident. While both survived, the woman’s face was horribly injured. She needed a skin graft to restore any semblance of her beauty, but like the good, dedicated man he was, the husband volunteered to donate his flesh to restore hers.
After thinking the matter through, the doctors decided that the only place they could extract suitable doner skin from was the man’s hindquarters. They excised several sections of the fellow’s backside and applied them to his wife’s face. The surgery worked like a charm, and eventually the woman healed up just fine.
Not long after, the grateful woman said to her husband, “What you did was so wonderful, and I could never properly express my gratitude. How can I ever thank you?”
“No need to worry about that, my dear,” said her husband. ”Whenever your mother kisses you on the cheek, that’s all the thanks I’ll ever need!”
Interesting tidbit: Harambe was shot at the Cincinnati Zoo, whose gorilla exhibit is actually sponsored by Gorilla Glue, which is manufactured in the northern reaches of the Cincinnati area.
Don’t let anyone ever tell you Magic isn’t real. Every morning most of you are brought back to live by a potion made from dried ingredients from nations around the world. ☕
And another thing, why in the hell would anyone use eye of newt in a potion unless they were trying to improve an amphibians vision? Asking for a fiend.
hahaha! That pallet jack one: back before I left for school I worked on the loading dock of a big department store that anchored one wing of our lovely mall. My friend and I once got written up for drag racing the store’s pallet jacks across the loading dock. The security guy said it was hilarious… And then still reported us.
Re “it is already illegal for non-citizens to vote”. Actually, it isn’t. The Constitution says something quite different: those eligible to vote for Congress are the same who are eligible to vote for the most numerous branch of the State legislature. So if, say, CA were to allow aliens, or even illegal aliens, to vote for the CA state House, they would also thereby become eligible to vote in CA for Congress.
Similarly, the Constitution says that each state will appoint Electors for president in such manner as the state legislature may direct.
It would be good to have a Constitutional Amendment that says only citizens can vote in any election anywhere (and it should likewise say that only citizens can be elected — which is already the rule for Federal office but that doesn’t currently bind the states).
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C4C
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That was a great set of memes, Sarah, until the last one.
Then it became fantastic.
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Same, I’m not even tradpubbed and the final one was the perfect capper.
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The only problem with sending you so many memes is when you use them all, the ratio of ones that are new to me goes down. #firstworldproblems
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Kind of fun to compare the various meme posts across the Vast Rightwing Internet. I’m rather fond of the GOML 3000 and the John Deere protestor harvester. Soylent Green FTW!
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I liked the suggestion they protesters need to disrupt goods travel, on the rails.
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They did that already in Bismarck during the DAPL protests
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I was thinking they should emulate the Germans and the way they handled the glued-to-the-asphalt protestors by pouring fast-expanding foam into those tubes around their chained-together arms, purely as a safety measure to cushion the protestors pink and pasty flesh from injury, then chunk out the concrete or jaws-of-life the doors of the cars they were chained to and release them under their own recognizance.
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En masse, as it were.
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America is “second world”.
Old = first
New = second
subsequent developing = third.
You are welcome.
(grin)
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That’s… not how that works.
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Old = Earth. (first)
New = Terraformed solar planet? (second)
Third = Earthlike world in new system? (third)
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facepalm
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HUGS.
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Rule of COOL.
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Just ONE!?!?
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Noone can eat just one…
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It’s a suggestion for the freedom-curious who are hesitant.
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Queue “A few minutes later” meme and show the lad eyebrows deep in Hayek and listening to Milei speeches…
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We need to get the ratchet effect working in the direction of freedom, since it’s been toward totalitarianism for the past hundred-plus years.
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Every journey starts with a single step.
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… out of the helicopter.
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As long as it’s the right tzar.
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The “why you need a gun meme…”
That last one being an AR? Disagree. For lots of tyranny, why not go with the classics? Cannon filled with grapeshot. Mow that lawn good.
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The ‘whiff of grapeshot’ is more associated with tyrants than those opposed to them, tyrants being more likely to have the resources to own cannon.
The lawn mowing metaphor is also more associated with tyrants than their targets, tyrants having a habit of cutting down those who stand taller than the average citizen.
I’m not really sure it changes things if you’re worried about a tyranny of the majority.
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In freedom land the cannon were traditionally private property. As were the cannon armed ships.
If it’s lots of tyranny, and it is specifically a “gun” meme (as opposed to, say, a grenade meme “to whom it may concern”, a long range artillery meme “dear grid square”, et cetera), then cannon as ‘gun’ packed with lead shot/scrap metal/ball bearings/3/8″ nuts would be my choice to deal with “lots of tyranny,” given the option. Once could also supply crew-served weaponry, naval cannon, aircraft mounted guns, and so on.
Your mileage may, of course, vary.
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Mini-gun.
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Claymores.
The green plastic splodey type, not the Scottish sword type.
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Why not both? :-D
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Why not both?
Although I prefer a Wakazashi.
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Easier to tote the AR.
But if we are going to go with crew served weapons, I’ll take an M248 Squad Automatic Weapon.
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M249 (or preferably the 7.62 MK48) – turning cover into concealment since 1984 (2003)
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whoopsie. 249 they were brand new for 24ID when I got out. Fun gun. Spent -way- more time “feeding the pig” the M-60. But alas, the Mailclerk was only permitted an M-16A1 Rifle. (grin)
But we both appear to be fans of “chamber music”.
—–
“Today, we introduce you to the M-2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.”
…..
“Sergeant, that thing has a -twenty five- millimeter -chain gun-? … “Sergeant, suddenly my pants don’t fit.”
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I still fondly remember the first time I got behind an M-60 on a fam fire way, way back when. Much fun. Over too fast. My only question was “Don’t they make longer belts?”
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Play some chamber music for Ma, shall we? How about The Dance Of The Butterfly, or is that two triggering?
What? Sorry, I didn’t hear you over the music. I must be all thumbs tonight.
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Artillery
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I need guns because the cops say they need guns – and anyone who says I don’t need guns is an advocate for militarized police and a police state.
Also, there’s an older meme I’ve saved the text from:
Enough debates. Just go out and get it already. It protects you, your family and everyone in the community. It’s been scientifically, mathematically and statistically proven to make everyone safer. The communities that got them are overwhelmingly safer. The chances of side effects or accidents are so unbelievably small that it’s completely absurd to not get one already.
Quit being selfish, quit arguing online and go purchase a firearm.
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“ purchase a firearm.“
A???
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Well, at least one for each family member.
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Also, the “for far away tyranny” one is a 10/22, fer criminy’s sake.
Yeesh.
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? A decent 10-22 with decent ammo can hit a man-sized target at 200m. The factory supplied sights are not well suited to that, but any decent scope or red-dot will solve it, or better iron sights if your eyes still work well
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Well, sure, but can think of lots more authoritative “far tyranny” tools than 22lr.
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Co-worker got to just over 500 with regular 22LR a couple weeks ago.
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“What about nukes?!”
Me: I want a few lead-heads for my Type A2 Far Trader next time I go into the Wilds. I’ll launch it from the turrets, right next to the sandcasters and pulse lasers. Just as the Founders intended. ;-)
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Bah. Nooks? Messy things. Once you get the targeting problem fixed, BFRs drop from really high up do the same job without the radioactive fallout.
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But nukes are preferred by the Society for the Thermonuclear Eradication of Marxism!
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Slight problem. Marxists are everywhere. Like cockroaches or bad smells, they accumulate wherever Freedom isn’t. I’d much prefer to resettle areas that are not still glowing…
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Marcism is cancer. Excision and radiation is a good solution.
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Well in this case a Far Trader is a starship from Traveller so using it in space would be less of a problem.
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Ahhh, finally!
I won’t say that Sarah’s meme thread is the highlight of my internet week, but it IS a necessity for it. ;)
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Pretty sure that’s my cat on the bench…
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The Viking helmet dude in the tank … Why do I have a feeling a number of guys in other armies are going to show up with something like that, just because?
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I’m waiting for the dragon’s head muzzle brake.
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I talked to a guy who wanted to mount steer horns on the front of his tank, a la Boss Hogg’s Cadillac.
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Longhorns on a track? Been done.
Fuzzy dice.
Track-nuts.
Also a trussed-up “Soviet” mannakin on the front with a deer tag through the lip.
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Better: a Ham-Ass terrorist dummy.
My brother used to attach a crashed witch to the back of his truck for Halloween season. Other truckers would call him on the CB: “Hey, you’ve got my mother-in-law plastered on the back of your truck!”
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Boombox with “immigrant song” is just essential.
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Re. the 1970s one. One of the other teachers and I were comparing notes on “things going on in the Cold War when we were in Europe and Stateside”. He’s a little older than I am. Rote Armee Fraktion? Check. Red Brigade in Italy? Check. I.R.A. in England et al? Check. Glancing under cars for explosives? Check. Inflation, gas lines, and other fun stuff? Check.
Sort of like “The 1950s were dull and nothing happened.” Riiiiiiight. Suuuuuuuure. Korea, Suez Canal, Hungary, East Germany, start of the Great Leap Forward, Norman Borlaug starts the Green Revolution and ends famine in much of the world, the first sit-ins and civil rights protests, …
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“we didn’t start the fire…”
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Speak for yourself….
(Need more strike-anywhere matches…)
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Always nice to see these, especially when three of your contributions end up making the cut! :)
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Would you believe that Farce Book actually Fact Checked the Less Marx, More Miley meme?
The Stupid is Strong in Farce Book!
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“Can I help?” – What? No directions? Should be “Can I help? They are that away. Lets fly.”
Also:
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Regarding the pallet jack one – I feel called out.
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Not that I ever actually did something like that, of course. That was definitely my evil twin.
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Safety training demonstration. What not to do. Completely legit.
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Well, back in the ’80s, no one really said anything about it, anyway.
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Back in the ’80s they were just happy the job got done sooner. There may or may not have been some bruised oranges here and there, but the job got done on time with half the crew! That means it’s okay, right?
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The floor buffer was just sitting there.
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My reaction to that one was, “Wait, you mean that’s NOT a scooter?!”
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The problem with pallet jacks is that they just weigh too much to be able to use a leaf blower (even a high CFM one – all we have are modern 18v ones) to start pushing you. Maybe if we got more than two at a time …
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Shades of Sergeant Schlock.
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yes, thank you, I will take that Mario one. XD
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Pedantically speaking… in Japanese the family name is given first so Itsumi would be his last name in the west.
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Can anyone advise on the dot-webp problem?
I used to be able to right-click on the memes and save most of them for later distribution. Lately more and more have been not jpegs, not bmps, not pngs, but webp. Which if you right-click and hit “save image” doesn’t really save image.
Chrome browser, Microshaft OS, and no, I’m not too awful good at this. I last took classes on computers back in the days of version 3.1….which I liked. *irritated grumbling*
Occasionally with a webp that I really like I will screencap, open Paint 3d, paste it, crop, and save-as, but that’s a whole lot of fuss for each one. Is there a solution other than “keep doing that” or “get a smertfone”?
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There is an extension “Save as png” that I use with Vivialdi (chrome variant).
I have not tried simply changing the extension to png. That might work, I just haven’t tried it.
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I hadn’t thought of that, so when I read your comment, I tried it and it worked. Thanks!
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I’ve had sporadic luck with right-click, open in new tab, then right-click-save-as, but not always. However, the one I found here where that did not work, I was able to right-click-copy image and paste it into Paint and save.
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I use the snipping tool and save the snip in a useful format.
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copy, paste in your program and save.
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There’s an extension I use (for Firefox, but I’d imagine similar would be available for Chrome) called “Don’t accept webp”. It simply has the browser remove webp from the list of image formats it tells the server it can accept. Which means that any standards-compliant web server (which is most, but not all, of them) will fall back to sending you a .jpg or a .png file instead of a .webp file. You might still get some .webp files from servers that don’t bother to follow the specifications they’re supposed to be following, but mostly you’ll end up with image formats that you know what to do with.
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Thanks, I’ll poke around and see if I can find such a control.
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I think I might need the toaster bath pretty soon.
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In many cases where you think you need the toaster bath, it is somebody else who needs the toaster bath.
(h/t Douglas Adams, at least in spirit.)
P.S. Sometimes the toaster swimming pool is more efficient, if you can get the pool party guest list right.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEDz8k-_ckY
“Hell sometimes I think we need electric bleachers”
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Just remember to take out the GFCI first.
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Regarding the sixth meme (at least I think it was the sixth; it was the one with the angry women and the kitty) — reminds me of a joke I heard an elderly Scottish woman tell on TV many years ago:
It seems a young married couple was in a terrible auto accident. While both survived, the woman’s face was horribly injured. She needed a skin graft to restore any semblance of her beauty, but like the good, dedicated man he was, the husband volunteered to donate his flesh to restore hers.
After thinking the matter through, the doctors decided that the only place they could extract suitable doner skin from was the man’s hindquarters. They excised several sections of the fellow’s backside and applied them to his wife’s face. The surgery worked like a charm, and eventually the woman healed up just fine.
Not long after, the grateful woman said to her husband, “What you did was so wonderful, and I could never properly express my gratitude. How can I ever thank you?”
“No need to worry about that, my dear,” said her husband. ”Whenever your mother kisses you on the cheek, that’s all the thanks I’ll ever need!”
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Interesting tidbit: Harambe was shot at the Cincinnati Zoo, whose gorilla exhibit is actually sponsored by Gorilla Glue, which is manufactured in the northern reaches of the Cincinnati area.
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I don’t care about the news anymore, just tell me when it is time to start shooting Democrats/Enemies of the Constitution.
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Pay attention election night evening. If they pull the same shit as 2020, then it may be time.
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Don’t let anyone ever tell you Magic isn’t real.
Every morning most of you are brought back to live by a potion made from dried ingredients from nations around the world. ☕
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And another thing, why in the hell would anyone use eye of newt in a potion unless they were trying to improve an amphibians vision?
Asking for a fiend.
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hahaha! That pallet jack one: back before I left for school I worked on the loading dock of a big department store that anchored one wing of our lovely mall. My friend and I once got written up for drag racing the store’s pallet jacks across the loading dock. The security guy said it was hilarious… And then still reported us.
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Re “it is already illegal for non-citizens to vote”. Actually, it isn’t. The Constitution says something quite different: those eligible to vote for Congress are the same who are eligible to vote for the most numerous branch of the State legislature. So if, say, CA were to allow aliens, or even illegal aliens, to vote for the CA state House, they would also thereby become eligible to vote in CA for Congress.
Similarly, the Constitution says that each state will appoint Electors for president in such manner as the state legislature may direct.
It would be good to have a Constitutional Amendment that says only citizens can vote in any election anywhere (and it should likewise say that only citizens can be elected — which is already the rule for Federal office but that doesn’t currently bind the states).
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Only citizens should count for the federal census, and toward state electoral vote count. For foreign workers paying federal taxes? Thank you.
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Agreed, but that’s not what the Constitution says today.
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