Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Walked into a large hotel the other day and there was some kind of board game convention going on. All the people were loudly banging on about how good they are at their game and how quickly they got their last checkmate.

And I thought, ugh, I've had enough of these chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.

#ALweather #ALwx
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FXUS64 KMOB 232247 CCA
AFDMOB

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Mobile AL
411 PM CST Sat Dec 23 2023

...New NEAR TERM, LONG TERM, MARINE...

.NEAR TERM...
(Now through Monday)
Issued at 406 PM CST Sat Dec 23 2023

A large upper cutoff low will evolve over the central US Sunday night
into Monday, with a potent negatively tilted shortwave ejects over
the lower Mississippi Va https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/p.php?pid=202312232211-KMOB-FXUS64-AFDMOB-CCA

You know Alabama Senator #Tuberville is just *itching* to say the N-word!
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Tuberville on Trump’s ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ comments: ‘I’m mad he wasn’t tougher’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4367999-tuberville-trumps-poisoning-blood-country-comments-mad-he-wasnt-tougher/

@AlliFlowers @johnettesnuggs @todayilearned

You both have good taste. If I was to believe the old Starkist Commercial, either you have good taste or you taste good.

I'm almost positive that Boebert has/does neither.

As to the state of Gaza up until Oct 7th, Israel removed all of its settlements and military presence from Gaza in 2005.

The blockade of Gaza started after Hamas came to power in order to prevent Hamas from obtaining more and better weapons with which to attack Jews and eliminate Israel, though water, food and commercial goods have always been allowed in.

@rameshgupta @peterbrown @camerondotca

Yup. I really think it's a case of some people not realizing, or not being willing to accept, how horrific Hamas are, and that having them remain in power in Gaza is not only a threat Israel cannot live with, but that it makes peace pretty much impossible.

When the UK and #France handed over Sudetenland over to Hitler, those negotiations were done without Czechoslovakia. No peace negotiations between #Russia and #Ukraine can be done without Ukraine. Early in the war, when peace feelers were being sent out after Russia's failure to take Kyiv, President Zelensky talked about security guarantees. I can't imagine Ukraine taking any deal that doesn't allow them to continue their pursuit of a NATO membership. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine-war-cease-fire.html

@tomcapuder @riggbeck @lednabwm One of the "rules" of classic rhetoric is that it's impossible to prove universal non-existence of something. Purple unicorns may indeed exist in some galaxy of which we have no information and no way to get that information. Thus to debate something's existence in any meaningful way, the burden of proof falls on the person declaring the existence of something. If something exists there will be empirical evidence of its existence.

We are in a surge where COVID levels are higher than they have been for over 90% of the pandemic. One of the reasons that the authorities aren't properly warning you about it is that, inconveniently, the largest COVID surges happen during the biggest shopping season of each year.