Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1217 (SoD #2132) - The Endless Torture of Being Santa - Hodge Podge for 2012.19
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MURDER SANTAS - https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/13-craziest-interpretations-of-santa-claus-to-ever-slide-down-a-chimney/
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https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3373411/comprehensive-look-history-murder-santas/
Hi Mom,
Here we are again. Hey Mom #1217 and Sense of Doubt post #2132. I have not done a Hey Mom post since Thanksgiving, but now I am going to have three in short order. The next HEY MOM post will mark a milestone: 2000 days since you died. This number seems worth acknowledging lest anyone forget that I returned to daily blogging two days after you died and ran HEY MOM consecutively for three years. And then, Christmas, which I tend to always make a HEY MOM post.
It seems like I just wrote one of these introductions because I did, just two days ago for SoD #2129, which was delayed to Wednesday because of GRADING HELL. These blog posts take time, especially these WEEKLY HODGE POSTS, and yet these weeklies are my most popular posts!
Though Wednesday’s only has 21 views so far that’s the lowest. I usually average between 40-80, though some tank, such as #2104 with just 30 views. Not as many people were as thankful as I for “TRUTH, diversity, and rational good sense.” Okay, granted, not one of my better themes.
But some HODGE PODGES are hits like the Halloween edition (#2084) with 117 views so far; #2034, which themed as “Justice is what love looks like,” with 139 views, and #1963 on how BLM is not a symbol of hate = 87 views. I think my hash tags, especially on Twitter, help the traffic.
I am proud of my blog, but especially the WEEKLY HODGE PODGE and its themes. Not that it is all that original or creative to cobble together dozens of articles, images, and tidbits from the week. And I could probably do better with variety adding more videos and less of the things I read every day, like WONKETTE. And yet, when I scroll through the list, I am proud of what I see.
I wasn’t always doing themes, but right around June, I hit my stride with “How many bad apples in the police pie?” on June 13th, followed by “Darwin Among the Machines,” “Wanna Be Loved,” “A Symbol of Hate?” and “Changed Priorities Ahead.” And then, I really broke it open with “You don’t vote for Kings!” “Exterminate The Brutes,” “Scheduling Time For Outrage,” “Zero Fucks Were Given,” “Your 2020 Personal Protection Equipment,” “We will heal, recover, and rebuild,” “The Fifth Column Cometh,” and then “It’s Time for a More Perfect Union.”
There’s more. I may do a full list recap near the end of the year but not now.
In fact, I am going into low power mode to put some time and energy into other things, some of which are some longer entries that must be composed and revised like good essays.
Also, because of Blogger’s stupid new system, it saves drafts with virtually every change, and when these HODGE PODGES grow huge, then my computer cannot keep up with the needs of the web blog and it stalls out, mid-sentence. So, I have taken to writing this in a word processor offline as it does not experience the lag from the constant saving of the post.
In the ongoing search for themes, I hit on the video from Cracked about the “Endless Torture of Being Santa,” even though the image up top is from Murder Santas.
I thought this would make a good theme, even though it’s based on the Tim Allen movie The Santa Clause. Clearly, for Santa to deliver presents all around the world in a single night to maybe as many as a billion people, he would need time bending powers and as the movie showed clearly, the “single night” lasts 1474 years factoring 1.3 billion children in 1984 and adjusting for naughty and nice. Could one man deliver presents for 1474 years straight without break and subsist solely on cookies and milk? Of course not. It’s a funny premise, but why couldn’t Santa use magic to duplicate himself, to speed his movements, to serve more than one house at a time, to work remotely, or even to bend time in a such a way that 1474 years just takes at most 14 hours and maybe fewer.
But in the movie version, it would be torture. Kind of like the torture of this year, the last year of the Trump presidency, the pandemic, the crashing economy, food lines, fascist use of force by the government, and the last straw (again) of those who suffer racial injustice and those who care about the racism that does and always has plagued our country, like e genetic virus all its own.
And so, hey Mom, another HODGE PODGE.
I like to front load things of great interest that I do not want to get lost in the deluge of material that follows. The first of these things is a great op-ed from the Washington Post extolling the bright idea that if Trump has the temerity to pardon himself (or resign for an hour so Pence can do it) that Biden should unpardon him with his first act as the newly inducted president.
“That might sound strange, even extra-constitutional. Certainly, there’s nothing in the words of the Constitution or in historical precedent that speaks of undoing a self-pardon — but that’s because there’s nothing that authorizes a self-pardon in the first place. The Constitution’s text, its original meaning and historical precedent all point strongly against the validity of a self-pardon.
In part because it’s unlikely that the legitimacy of such an audacious act would be determined in court, it’s important for the new president, with the advice of his Justice Department, to take a stand against this dangerous precedent.”
A Trump self-pardon would put America in uncharted waters, and so a reversal of that pardon would be just as unprecedented and perhaps the right neutralizer to the arguments about self-pardon. The pardon is also seen as a confession, admitting guilt and a self-pardon even more so.
Or as the kids like to day, “shit’s about to get real.”
So, Mom, we cannot just languish in the potential for more outrage, even though as I am preparing to “go to press” with this blog post, after the posted date and time, the news media broke the story that in a heated Oval Office meeting today, Saturday, someone proposed the idea (IE. Trump) that the government use MARTIAL LAW to overturn the election, falsely believed to be fraudulent. That threat of turning the military against Americans for how they voted evokes more outrage in me than anything else in this post. It’s heinous and vile. Trump’s wheelhouse. He’s a fascist, which is why he’s so scared of Antifa. Thankfully, there are voices of reason even among his group of nipple-sucking toadies, and so no one wanted to belly up to that totalitarian all-you-can-eat buffet. And even if they did, Trump’s threats to veto the military budget, affecting the pay of military personnel, and thus, they may well defy such orders if they were given just for that reason, let alone how Nazi Germany they sound.
But I said, we need to turn away from the outrage producing news and focus on some good things, such as two stories featured before the sectioned-heart of the content in the post. The Supreme Court does not want to consider a case that questions the legality of marriage equality for all, and it also rejected a transphobic case. But before that, a reminder of the awesomeness of CHUCK WAGON. And then, the northern lights followed by Stevie Van Zandt telling someone to fuck off on Twitter.
But then, school boys kidnapped in Nigeria, and Kaitlin Collins praising the great reporting of the Alexy Nalvany poisoning. Macho Putin can claim all he wants that if Russia wanted Nalvany dead that he’d be dead, but I think someone screwed up, and Putin is covering.
And then, we get to the sections, Mom. I am not sure if you have noticed, but I have been sectioning the WEEKLY HODGE PODGE to keep like content together, so typically that’s THE PANDEMIC, BLACK LIVES MATTER, THE ELECTION, and RANDOM STUFF, the latter of which is usually all about space and science not related to the pandemic and other stuff that catches my eye, like this week’s French case of a local government fined for having too many women in office and an article on how VR can promote lucid dreaming.
But before all that, I invented another category called “No Home Like Place” (get it, Mom?) about how Trump signed agreements to turn Mar-a-Lago into a private club and so no one, including him, can make it their primary residence and must limit the total annual stay there to twenty-one days and only seven consecutive days at a time. AND he signed it. The agreement specifically binds him to this action. Also, he agreed to a deal with the National Trust for Historic Preservation to “forever relinquish rights to develop” the property for anything but club use. And so, it can neither be his private and permanent residence nor can it be developed to be a MAGA Network compound. Will Trump be homeless after he leaves our house, the People’s House?
I hope not because I want his new home to be Ryker’s Penitentiary.
As usual, there’s tons of great stories and tidbits, such as Russia declaring war on the U.S. with its major hacking operation that Trump doesn’t think involves Russia even though all the experts believe it is TOTALLY Russia.
The pandemic is out of control because we have no national leadership (at least for another 32 days and people are selfish assholes, like this gym owner in Jersey who stays open defying orders and lets the state fine him and makes taunting videos about how he’s a “free man.” Yeah, free to create a Covid hot spot that will infect hundreds and maybe kill dozens.
The Trumpian “do nothing” strategy (“People will die; it is what it is”) might have actually been the unofficial but actually official policy. Let the virus run wild, and we eventually develop herd immunity once five million or so people have died. Great idea. Let’s do that one!
Did you know that Trump has sent 729 tweets since the election? I wasn’t counting but that’s a shit-ton of terrified, crazed spew of vomit about election fraud because once he’s no longer president and has to face his debt and possible criminal indictment. He’s twittering like a rabid dog, and yet he has not once mentioned the Covid death toll.
But wait, Mom, it gets better!
The BLACK LIVES MATTER stuff this week is particularly horrible with racist Zoom bombing, some camera footage of the initial questioning of the McMichaels who murdered Ahmaud Arberry, and then footage from Chicago of police humiliating a naked woman.
Not to mention the Proud Boys and their MAGA march destroying a BLACK LIVES MATTER sign at a church.
But there’s good news, like Biden’s cabinet picks.
And some great science news, such as the fragments of energy as the building block of the universe, super highways for fast travel through the solar system, the failure of NASA to to launch Orion more than once, and the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.
So, Mom, this is my last Hodge Podge of a couple of weeks. I am ceasing most time consuming preparations of this blog and going into low power mode as I mentioned earlier so as to write some good entries (Trumpism is a Virus) and write some fiction, that is not typically part of the blog.
Anyway, Thank you for reading, Mom, even if you are not interested in everything included here.
And dear readers, not Mom, thanks for checking in. Enjoy the last WEEKLY HODGE PODGE for a few weeks.
If Trump pardons himself, Biden should un-pardon him
https://www.cracked.com/article_29140_being-santa-would-be-endless-torture.html
The Santa Clause is the heartwarming family tale of Tim Allen murdering Santa Claus which seems like a pretty good deal until you do some math and realize that single night of delivering presents lasts thousands of years thanks to Santa's magical time-stopping powers. Which makes us wonder, did Tim Allen actually kill Santa, or did Santa fake his death to escape from the endless torture of being Big Man Christmas? We investigate with Movie Math!
Before Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit there was Chuck Wagon
Of all the Chuck Wagon dog food commercials, this one from 1976 is my favorite. It starts with a dog peacefully resting on a living room rug. Suddenly a tiny horse-drawn covered wagon charges out of the television set and heads straight for the dining room table, skidding across the slippery wooden floor, bumping into chair legs. — Read the rest
Yay!! Something Good!
https://www.wonkette.com/scotus-win-for-trans-rights
#SCOTUS ruled on this issue twice already, in #Obergefell in 2015 & even more expressly in Pavan v Smith in 2017. We represented a lesbian couple from TN in Obergefell & two couples from Arkansas in Pavan. Thankfully, there seems to be no appetite to revisit marriage equality. https://t.co/d3UcSrlqSH
— Shannon Minter (@shannonminter5) December 14, 2020
Big news: The Supreme Court has declined to hear Box v. Henderson, turning away Indiana's request to roll back equal rights for same-sex parents. No noted dissents.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) December 14, 2020
Background: https://t.co/5bVwUMNygc
This is cool...
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/northern-lights-forecast-december-2020-aurora-borealis
Hank! Guess what? I don’t give a fuck about you or anybody else that doesn’t believe in democracy or equality or science or taking care of people during a pandemic or the constitution of the USA. It’s assholes like you that are fucking up my country. So stick my cds up your ass. https://t.co/DJLEuxkm9Q
— Stevie Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) December 13, 2020
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Adding my voice to those praising this stunning reporting by @clarissaward, @TimListerCNN and @sebshukla on Alexey Navalny's poisoning. The Kremlin canceled its daily press briefing today and tomorrow after it was published. pic.twitter.com/4WOLAtzJXa
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) December 15, 2020
NO HOME LIKE PLACE
Trump Is Trying to Wriggle Out of Past Deals That Prohibit Him From Residing at Mar-a-Lago
President Donald Trump’s life’s work consists of signing lucrative deals and then wriggling out of them when the details no longer suit his immediate self-interest. It’s an ethical Ponzi scheme that Trump has managed to pull off for 74 years now, but that’s a streak residents of Palm Beach, Florida, are trying to put an end to. The community that surrounds Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property put its foot down Tuesday in an attempt to block the future ex-president from moving into his private club full time after he leaves office. The Washington Post reports residents delivered a demand letter to the town of Palm Beach Tuesday morning stating that Trump signed away his right to live at the property as part of the terms of a three-decade-old agreement, signed by Trump himself, which allowed him to convert Mar-a-Lago from a private residence to a private club.
The terms of the agreement allowed Trump to develop the historical estate with significant limitations on how the property could be used. Now, Trump is essentially disregarding those agreements as he plots his post-presidential life at Mar-a-Lago. From the Post:
The current residency controversy tracks back to a deal Trump cut in 1993 when his finances were foundering, and the cost of maintaining Mar-a-Lago was soaring into the multimillions each year. Under the agreement, club members are banned from spending more than 21 days a year in the club’s guest suites and cannot stay there for any longer than seven consecutive days. Before the arrangement was sealed, an attorney for Trump assured the town council in a public meeting that he would not live at Mar-a-Lago.
At the time, the town’s leaders were wary of Trump because he had sued them after they blocked his attempt to subdivide the historic Mar-a-Lago property into multiple housing lots. Placing the limitations on lengths of stays assured that Trump’s property would remain a private club, as he had promised, rather than a residential hotel.
In short, Trump agreed to a slew of development concessions in order to try to boost Mar-a-Lago’s bottom line. In the years since, Trump’s angered local residents with his willingness to skirt even the most basic principles of the agreement. Once he became president, the town allowed for some exceptions to the deal for security purposes, such as a helipad, but even then Trump tried to use the White House to wring out new concessions. In 2018, Trump tried to get Palm Beach to allow him to build a dock at the club on the basis that it was a Secret Service security requirement, before shifting the rationale to say that it was for private use. In addition to the 1993 agreement with Palm Beach, Trump “also signed a document deeding development rights for Mar-a-Lago to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Washington-based, privately funded nonprofit organization that works to save historic sites around the country,” according to the Post. “As part of the National Trust deal, Trump agreed to ‘forever’ relinquish his rights to develop Mar-a-Lago or to use it for ‘any purpose other than club use.’ ”
Trump, like he’s always done, is poised to try to bulldoze his way out of these previous agreements and relocate to the club. In fact, Trump switched his official domicile in September 2019 from Trump Tower in Manhattan to Mar-a-Lago, a move that could technically be illegal. The demand letter delivered by the club’s Palm Beach neighbors is an attempt to get out ahead of the coming standoff and, the letter says, to “avoid an embarrassing situation” of having to evict a former president.
WAR WITH RUSSIA
"Trump silent as massive cyber hack poses grave risk to US." Well no shit, CNN, what do you want him to do, say don't do that Russia?
THE PANDEMIC
Down over there. Up over here. |
It’s happening again: For the second time this year, the United States has fallen behind nearly every other country in combating the virus. |
The U.S. was not alone in suffering a resurgence this fall. Much of the world did. But many other countries responded to that surge with targeted new restrictions and, in a few cases, with an increase in rapid-result testing. |
Those measures seem to be working. Worldwide, the number of new cases has fallen over the past week. |
In some countries, the declines are large: more than 50 percent over the past month in Belgium, France, Italy, Kenya and Saudi Arabia; more than 40 percent in Argentina and Morocco; more than 30 percent in India and Norway. |
And in the U.S.? The number of new cases has risen 51 percent over the past month. |
The causes are not a mystery. The U.S. still lacks a coherent testing strategy, and large parts of the country continue to defy basic health advice. One example is Mitchell, a small South Dakota city, where deaths have spiked recently — including the loss of a beloved high school coach. Yet anti-mask protesters continue to undermine the local response. |
Among their messages at a recent City Council meeting, as Annie Gowen of The Washington Post reported: “Positivity defeats the virus.” |
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Europe offers a telling contrast. Several European countries put new restrictions in place over the past month, and they made a difference, as you can see in the chart above. Still, the leaders of those countries remained unsatisfied with the progress — and announced further measures in recent days. |
London closed pubs and restaurants today. The Netherlands has shut gyms, cinemas, schools and nonessential shops until Jan. 19. Germany — a country that loves its Christmas rituals — is locking down for Christmas. |
Parts of the U.S. have taken some measures, like requiring masks and limiting indoor dining. And cases here have leveled off in recent days. If anything, though, that’s further evidence that people are not powerless in the face of the virus. Reducing its spread — and the widespread death that will otherwise occur in coming months — is entirely possible. |
“America’s outbreaks, reaching from California to Florida, are the result of the public and the country’s leaders never taking the virus seriously enough and, to the extent they did, letting their guard down prematurely,” German Lopez of Vox recently wrote. As Jaime Slaughter-Acey, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota, said, “It’s a situation that didn’t have to be.” |
For more: Full shutdowns are often not necessary, The Times’s Yaryna Serkez explains. Sharply reducing the number of people in indoor spaces can have a huge effect. |
Dr. Kizzmekiah Corbett, the young African-American scientist who helped lead the way on your coronavaccine! (ABC)
The nation's ambitious COVID-19 vaccination roll-out began Monday. I'm usually a pretty cynical SOB, so let me pause her to say this is quite an achievement. Now wear your masks, stay home for the holidays, and don't screw this up. (The New York Times)
COVID-19 vaccines have just arrived in Oregon, as well. I'm gonna live forever, bitch! No, seriously, I plan to wait my turn. (The Oregonian)
America's Covid-19 Hospitalizations Hit a Record High For the 7th Straight Day (cnn.com)
And the number of Covid-19 cases reported in the United States reached more than 16 million after the country added 1 million cases in just four days, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
It took the nation more than eight months to reach 8 million cases but less than two months to double that, as the number of new cases continues to soar... On Friday, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer vaccine for emergency use, the U.S. recorded more than 3,300 Covid-19 deaths — the most ever in one day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 231,700 new cases were reported, another pandemic high... The average of daily cases over the last week was 210,764, another pandemic high, according to a CNN analysis of Johns Hopkins data.
Another statistic from CNN: There have been more than 100,000 Covid-19 patients in America's hospitals every day since December 2.
Well, have some cries. What ICU nurses wish people would understand about COVID-19. (Washington Post)
Have some anger. In Gove County, Kansas, one out of 132 people have died, for the highest death toll in the nation. And mask wearing is still "controversial." — USA Today
Obviously we're all *reasonably concerned* that the CDC under Trump might have fucked off proper oversight on the vaccine, and we want to take it as long as proper people tell us it's safe, but the difference is WE'RE NOT RUSSIAN BOT TROLLS ABOUT IT. How to combat coronavirus disinfo, Melissa Ryan at Medium
oel Miles, the mayor of Wiggins, Mississippi, died Sunday after a long battle with COVID-19. He'd begged his resistant constituents to wear masks. Because she's a Republican, his widow, Mary Miles, now realizes the coronavirus is real. (Mississippi Free Press)
"When COVID-19 first appeared, I, myself, said some very ignorant things concerning this awful disease. But I have learned the hard way this is not a hoax," she wrote [on Facebook]. "It is real! … If you don't agree with me, it's okay but just remember this. This is my post and I'm doing EVERYTHING I know how to do to help someone else."
Business owners in Fresno, California, claim that COVID-19 is a luxury they can't afford to acknowledge. Meanwhile, more people die every day. (LA Times)
This is literally all Mitch McConnell's fault.(Time)
THE WEEKLY PANDEMIC REPORT
If you prefer your data in a visual format, here's the current map from COVID Exit Strategy, using data from the CDC and the COVID Tracking Project.
I want to add this link to the weekly report. It's important to remember:
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1983 - Is Coronavirus more contagious and more deadly than the flu? YES.
ALSO... I am seeing a big discrepancy between the Johns Hopkins data in death totals and WORLDOMETER data, which aggregates data from many more sources. Could this be the slow down due to the change in how the CDC obtains the data, having it filter first through Health and Human Services department.
United States
Coronavirus Cases:
Deaths:
Recovered:
COVID Relief Package Contains a $120 Billion Gift to the Superwealthy
Forgiven loans, combined with a tax break, mean a windfall for rich business owners.
Back in July, I wrote about how lawmakers from both parties were backing a COVID relief provision that, in effect, is a massive, unnecessary bailout for America’s richest business owners. Congress never managed to come together on that particular bill, so the effort was tabled for a while, but guess what: It’s back, and even better for the big fish.
The bipartisan provision, which is opposed by the IRS and also, oddly enough, by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, is known as a “double-dip” benefit. It allows businesses that get PPP loans—which the new COVID bill aims to expand—to not only have those loans forgiven, but to be able to deduct the loan amount spent on business expenses from their taxable income.
Getting one benefit or the other seems reasonable, but allowing both would be a major departure from accepted policy and an unprecedented waste of taxpayer money, critics say, that would primarily benefit wealthy law firms, accounting practices, and other well-to-do “pass through” businesses that have dominated the process.
Trump Has Sent 729 Tweets Since the Election. Not a Single One Was About the COVID Death Toll.
On Wednesday, as the United States hit new records for the number of daily deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19, President Donald Trump was, as usual, tweeting about the election he lost more than a month ago. While he was typing a flurry of false claims about “massive FRAUD,” the country’s total death toll was passing 300,000.
Reading Trump’s recent tweets, you would never know the United States is in the midst of a surging pandemic that is killing more than 2,000 people a day. Of his 729 tweets between November 3 and December 16, more than two-thirds were about his attempts to reverse his election loss through baseless claims of voter fraud and far-fetched lawsuits. The pandemic was just a blip: Four percent of his tweets were about vaccines and just two percent mentioned the coronavirus at all—without ever acknowledging its human cost or encouraging Americans to take precautions to protect themselves or others from getting sick.
November 16 was typical: After nearly a dozen tweets about his recent defeat (“I won the election!”), he bragged that news of the Moderna vaccine’s efficacy had boosted the stock market. “For those great ‘historians’, please remember that these great discoveries, which will end the China Plague, all took place on my watch!” he gushed. That was followed by a quick dunk on the nation’s allies: “European Countries are sadly getting clobbered by the China Virus.” Then it was back to normally scheduled programming: more angry tweets about the effort to undo President-elect Joe Biden’s win.
Since December 1, as the pandemic has entered its most deadly period in the United States, Trump has mentioned the coronavirus just three times on Twitter. Two tweets were about getting kids back to in-person school. The other was an announcement that his lawyer Rudy Giuliani—”who has been working tirelessly exposing the most corrupt election (by far!) in the history of the USA”—had tested positive for “the China Virus.”
Of course, Trump’s efforts to downplay the pandemic are nothing new, from his initial denial of its risks to his suggestion earlier this fall that deaths in Democratic states shouldn’t be counted. In the past six weeks, the closest Trump’s tweets have come to noting the virus’ impact in the US was an attempt to downplay the death toll in a November 21 message in which he defensively accused the media of not mentioning “that far fewer people are dying when they get Covid.” Within less than a month, Biden’s election victory would be confirmed (again) and another 50,000 Americans would be dead from COVID-19. So far, Trump hasn’t acknowledged either.
On December 2, the New York Times reported that about one-quarter of all the PPP money went to just 1 percent of the recipients, including highly profitable businesses, including white-shoe law firms run by Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, and celebrity lawyer David Boies.
Steven Rosenthal, a tax attorney and senior fellow at the nonprofit Tax Policy Center had calculated that the earlier version of the double-dip proposal would have amounted to a stealth break of $100 billion to $150 billion, skewed heavily toward the nation’s wealthiest business owners. Martin Sullivan, an expert in federal tax law and former staff economist for both the Treasury Department and Congress’ bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, estimated the cost, back of the napkin, at roughly $100 billion.
The latest package is expected to expand the PPP program and make the loans more flexible—and thus more easily forgiven. In a blog post, Adam Looney, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, points out that “for the relevant group of pass-through business owners, about 70 percent of business income is earned by the top 1 percent of taxpayers. Hence, most of those deductions would be used by high income-taxpayers and save them $0.37 to $0.396 in taxes for each dollar they deduct. He continues…
The bipartisan proposal—the final bill that comes to the floor may be different—provides about $268 billion more in PPP funds. If we assume the total PPP funding will come to $700 billion and the average tax rate of business owners is 29 percent, that is a tax windfall of $203 billion. Even if only 60 percent of this goes to the top 1 percent, that’s a $120 billion windfall for well-off business owners.
“It’s hard to imagine a tax cut that is so large in magnitude and still so targeted to those who need it least,” Looney says in an email.
My earlier piece cites Kimberly Clausing, an economist at Reed College who specializes in trade and taxation, and who had taken to Twitter to explain why the double-dip makes little sense. (I changed the numbers, but same idea.)
Suppose your small business has $1.5 million in sales and $1 million in payroll and other allowable costs. The pandemic hits and sales drop to $500,000. Damn! Your $500K profit just turned into a $500K shortfall. So you land a $1 million PPP loan. You follow the rules and your loan is forgiven. Clausing offers three scenarios:
Scenario 1: The IRS treats your loan as taxable income, so your overall income is now $1.5 million, as before. But the tax agency lets you deduct the payroll and other expenses covered by your $1 million loan. You are left with $500,000. “This reflects the true profitability of the firm,” she writes.
Scenario 2: The IRS lets you exclude your forgiven loan from taxable income, but it does not allow you to then deduct the covered business expenses. The outcome is the same. You still end up with taxable income of $500,000, and your employees get paid. This is the scenario the IRS favors.
Scenario 3: Here’s the double-dip scenario. The IRS lets you exclude the forgiven loan from your taxable income and lets you deduct those business expenses. Now you have $500,000 in income and $1 million in deductible expenses. You report a $500,000 loss on your taxes, even though you actually made $500,000. This is a giveaway to business owners and the wealthiest investors—who own, according to a 2019 Goldman Sachs analysis, 56 percent of the total value of all equities, public and private, held by U.S. households—none of whom would be under any obligation to pass that money along to the workers.
“The wage deduction should not be allowed if loan forgiveness is not included as income,” Clausing tweeted. “Doing otherwise is both very expensive and unnecessary. It also sets a bad precedent for tax policy in the future.”
Some businesses are in desperate straits, of course, and need our help. But if Congress wants to bail out independently owned bars and restaurant and so forth, there are better ways, Rosenthal says. They could means-test the double-dip, or cap the size of the companies allowed to apply. (In the first round, famously, big restaurant chains owned by private equity firms raked in PPP cash.) But to allow a double-dip across the board is bad financial stewardship, he says, not only from the Party of Trump, but also the Democrats—who are equally on board. (House Dems passed a double-dip provision in their doomed HEROES Act.)
One prominent Democrat who questioned the arrangement is Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett. “Allowing a deduction for an expense never incurred is unjustifiable,” he told Mother Jones in July, adding, “This approach provides the most for the insiders who got the biggest and quickest PPP loans.”
But the lobbying has been intense. “There are a lot of wealthy business owners who are applying very heavy pressure in every congressional district in the country. We can’t even get the usual champions to stand up on this one,” Rosenthal says. “We’re going to lose.”
BLACK LIVES MATTER
Louisville, Kentucky, cops broke into Breonna Taylor's home and fatally shot her and now one of those scumbags, Jonathan Mattingly, is suing her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who watched them kill her, for “assault and emotional distress." Actual human being Tyler Perry has donated $100,000 to Walker's legal defense fund, which should not have to exist if more honorable people entered law enforcement. (Variety)
https://www.theroot.com/virtual-talent-show-at-sacramento-state-university-zoom-1845889276
A virtual
talent show held for students at Sacramento State University was Zoom-bombed by
two people who felt the need to drop racial slurs.
According to ABC 10, earlier
this month, towards the end of an event called “Sac State’s Got Talent,” two
unknown individuals managed to get into the chat and fill it with racial slurs.
Screenshots acquired by the school’s newspaper, the State Hornet, show that someone
with the username “David Winley” left a giant block of text that repeatedly
said: “I HATE NIGGERS KILL ALL NIGGERS.” A second user, with the name
“Mike Nicholas” wrote, “Just going to be honest fuck Black Lives Matter,
George Floyd od on drugs.”
This is one of those stories that make ask “What the fuck are
people doing with their time?” I simply don’t understand the desire to be an
inflammatory asshole. What is gained here? You only have a finite amount of
time on this planet and this is how you decide to spend it?
Newly Released Body Camera Footage Shows Police Questioning the McMichaels After Ahmaud Arbery Shooting
Newly
released body camera footage has provided details regarding the moments
following the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, Ga., on Feb. 23. The
video shows officers questioning Greg and Travis McMichael and William “Roddie”
Bryan directly after the shooting. Of course, all the body-cam footage really
shows us is a thing Black people have known for some time: White people always
assume they’re in charge.
WSB-TV 2 obtained
and reviewed the footage, which shows Greg on the phone with 911 dispatch.
He can be heard saying, “Travis, Roddie’s got it on film,” before officers
approach him.
From Channel 2:
“You have
any other weapons or anything on you?” an officer asks Greg McMichael.
“Just that
one. If he would stop. this wouldn’t have happened,” he responds.
“You a
passerby coming through?” another officer asks Bryan in a different body camera
video. “Not necessarily,” Bryan replies.
Greg and
Travis McMichael both told police they chased Arbery believing he had been
breaking into a nearby construction site. Bryan admitted to following Arbery,
blocking him in and recording the shooting on his cellphone.
Prosecutors
charged all three men with murder. The defense claims the shooting was
self-defense.
“I mean we
were just this close to him. And he keeps on running,” Greg McMichael said. “So
I grab my 357 magnum, Glynn County PD issued by the way.”
Imagine
being so confident in your nonexistent authority that you believe a citizen has
an obligation to stop for you just because you happen to be chasing him.
(Note:
Georgia actually has a citizen’s arrest law, which critics want to be repealed in light of Arbery’s death. Still, no
one with a working brain would think that the McMichaels’ suspicion that Arbery
was involved in a string of burglaries in the neighborhood—which was apparently
based solely on the fact that they spotted him at a
vacant construction site—justifies an armed chase by regular-ass
citizens playing redneck Batman.)
Greg
is a retired investigator with the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District
Attorney’s Office, but that didn’t stop him from mentioning where he got his
gun as if that makes his retired ass any more official.
In
fact, according to Channel 2, Greg was recognized by at least one of the
officers on the scene.
More
from Channel 2:
- First officer: “You know Greg?”
- Second officer: “No I don’t know him.”
- First officer: “Really? He was the chief
investigator for the DA’s office.”
- Second officer: “This guy here?”
- First officer: “He just retired.”
As The
Root reported last
month, when the McMichaels were denied bail, Superior Court Judge Timothy
Walmsley stated that one of the reasons he ruled against them was because he
saw evidence that Greg attempted to take the law into his own hands and use his
past career in law enforcement to justify it.
The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Travis—the man who shot Arbery—can be seen
in the video “splattered with blood and visibly upset.”
“Last
thing I ever wanted to do in my life,” Travis said before echoing his father’s
sentiments telling officers, “If he had stopped this wouldn’t have happened.”
“[Travis]
had had no choice, man,” Greg told investigators, AJC reports. He also said—I shit
you not—“To be honest with you if I could’ve shot the guy I would’ve shot
him myself.”
Besides
the shocking revelation that a bunch of white men thought they had the right to
play vigilante and stop a Black man whose only real “crime” was not yielding to
their non-authority, CBS News notes that the newly released video also reveals
a contradiction to a claim by Bryan’s attorneys that their client was “never
more than a witness” to Arbery’s death.
In the
video, Bryan is heard telling officers, “I pulled out of my driveway, was going
to try to block [Arbery], but he was going all around it.” He also said, “I
made a few moves at him, you know? And he didn’t stop.”
Then
Bryan said to officers, ”Should we have been chasing him? I don’t know.”
The answer is “no,” Bryan. No, the hell you shouldn’t
have.
Zack Linly is a
poet, performer, freelance writer, blogger and grown man lover of cartoons
Over a dozen Chicago police officers bashed down the door of the wrong house and found an innocent unclothed black woman standing inside. They immediately handcuffed her but didn't bother to cover her with a blanket, choosing instead to either ignore her or gawk at her as they screamed and waved guns around. — Read the rest
BLACK LIVES ALWAYS MATTER
His message to the Proud Boys: “Black Lives Matter: yesterday, today, forever.”
JOE BIDEN ELECTED BECAUSE OF DEFUND THE POLICE
https://www.theroot.com/joe-biden-wouldnt-be-the-next-president-if-not-for-defu-1845906470
Joe Biden didn’t get elected president because he somehow convinced Black voters that he was our savior. He was elected because the very same people who began the “defund the police” movement helped his craggly, withered body across the finish line. The activists, protesters and citizens who flooded streets across the nation in the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor didn’t just buy Sharpies, make a few signs and march in circles; they actually organized voters with the intention of affecting electoral politics and institutional policy. These newly activated Americans not only voted for Joe Biden; they actually are the only reason he won.
That’s not a hypothesis.
Everyone acknowledges the record Black turnout in the 2020 election without mentioning where those Black voters came from. There was no door-to-door campaigning and, because of the pandemic, Biden couldn’t walk into Black churches or trudge into a barbershop. Who turned out all these voters? Was it Ma’at? Zeus? Papa Smurf?
Washington Post exit polling data shows that Biden’s biggest margin of victory was among voters for whom racial inequality was their biggest issue the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare and the economy weren’t even close seconds. NBC News’ polls showed the same thing. A Morning Consult poll showed that 74 percent of Biden voters said that “reducing racial inequalities” in criminal justice and policing was an important factor in why they voted for Biden.
Furthermore, according to a Monmouth poll, 71 percent of Americans say the Black Lives Matter movement “brought attention to real racial disparities in American society.” In 2016, that same poll showed that only 58 percent of Americans agreed with that statement.
A Black man
in Louisiana who was serving a life sentence over two bags of weed worth only
$20 has finally been freed from prison after 12 years.
I didn’t need any further proof that the American justice system
is far from just, but a life sentence? For what may have barely been an eighth?
What the actual fuck?
According to WWLTV,
53-year-old Fate Winslow was resentenced to time served and released from
Angola State Prison on Wednesday. In 2008, Winslow was homeless when an
undercover cop asked if he knew where he could get some weed. According to the
appeal filed by attorneys at the Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO), Winslow
left and shortly returned with two small bags of weed worth $20. The officer
then gave him $5 for some food.
Aww, what a sweet gesture before entirely fucking up someone’s
life.
Winslow’s case received substantial media coverage throughout
the years, including multiple Rolling Stone articles. One of those articles pointed
out the fact that while Winslow was arrested and sentenced, the white drug
dealer who gave him the drugs wasn’t even arrested, despite the fact he had
been found with the marked $20 bill on him.
“The other inmates could never believe it. They always
said, ‘You’re doing life for a bag of weed?’” Winslow told WWLTV.
Winslow had previously been convicted for three
non-violent crimes, including a business burglary when he was 17, a car
burglary when he was 27, and cocaine possession when he was 36. He was
convicted for marijuana distribution as a multiple offender, which
apparently translates to life without parole.
“A life sentence for two bags of weed? I never thought
something like that could happen.” Winslow told WWLTV.
Hard same. Honestly, the fact he even served 12 years over
two bags of weed is a testament to just how fucked the legal system is. Imagine
thinking you were going to spend the rest of your life in prison over a
dimebag? The sentence is more immoral than the actual act.
Winslow’s sentence was reduced after IPNO director and
lead attorney Jee Park appealed on the basis of ineffective assistance of
counsel. “There are hundreds of individuals serving life sentences for
nonviolent crimes in Louisiana,” Park said. “He received an obscenely excessive
sentence given his life circumstances and crime, and today, we are correcting
that unconstitutional, inhumane sentence.”
Winslow is excited to be reunited with his children and
grandchildren. He plans to live with his daughter in Shreveport as he gets back
on his feet and has a landscaping job already waiting for him.
He told WWLTV that beyond the obvious desire to reconnect
with his family, one of the first things he wants to do is hit up a Popeyes.
All I know is that after the fuckery this man had to endure, there better not
be a 15-minute wait on spicy when he gets there.
Jr Staff Writer @TheRoot. Watcher of wrestling, player of video games. Mr. Steal Your Disney+ Password.
THE ELECTION
POLITICS |
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Nothing like the “pro-life” party eliminating healthcare during a GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) December 17, 2020
California will survive without this $$ for now -- but their frail, pathetic patriarchal system they are so desperate to protect won’t. https://t.co/FNDbqpOhEy
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is Joe Biden's pick for DOE. (Politico) This is fabulous news that makes me feel like his Cabinet process is getting back on track. Here's her TED talk on clean energy jobs as a race to the top.
https://twitter.com/JenGranholm/status/1299221454538506240 |
Marcy Wheeler SPITTING FIRE comparing Fox News's Eric Swalwell Chinese spy freakout (when approached by the FBI, Swalwell cut off contact with the spy/campaign volunteer) with the other men (Page, Papadopoulos, Manfort, Trump, Flynn) who hid, lied about, and welcomed their spy contacts. This is so fucked up. (Emptywheel)
A suspected Russian hack of US government agencies went undetected for months. Man, if this were antifa or a Black Lives Matter rally, Donald Trump would send in the troops! (Wall Street Journal)
Trump took a break from his failed coup to complain that the Cleveland baseball team was changing its name. (Yahoo! Sports)
Here is Trump in 1993 saying racist stuff about “Indians" during a congressional hearing.
Read this op-ed piece explaining why Ms. Stacey Abrams is nothing like that rotten Halloween pumpkin, Donald Trump. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
CNN's parent company, AT&T Inc.'s WarnerMedia, refused to air Trump's lying-ass ads claiming the 2020 election was rigged. Good for them. (Bloomberg)
Watch Michigan GOP try to enter Michigan Capitol to submit phony electoral votes
Apparently unwilling to accept that Michigan voters chose Biden for president, a group of Republicans unsuccessfully tried to enter the Capitol with a batch of fake electoral votes for Trump. In the video, you can see their leader employ crude sophistry and legal jargon in an attempt to intimidate a police officer blocking their path.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris tell supporters to watch inauguration from home, don't travel
• "The PIC is urging the public to refrain from any travel and participate in the inaugural activities from home"
The Presidential Inauguration Committee of President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris released a statement today telling their supporters to please watch the inauguration from home, and please don't travel, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen in America. — Read the rest
RANDOM AND SUNDRIES OF SLASHDOTTERY AND SCIENCE
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/city-of-paris-fined-mayor-anne-hidalgo-appointed-too-many-women.html
Paris City Government Fined for Appointing Too Many Women to Senior Positions
The city of Paris was levied a $109,000 (90,000 euros) fine Tuesday by the national government because the city’s female mayor, Anne Hidalgo, appointed too many women to senior positions at city hall. The fine was imposed by the ministry of public service after more than two-thirds of Hidalgo’s 2018 appointments were women; 11 women and five men were given senior staff roles. The appointments technically ran afoul of French public sector employment law, passed in 2013, which stipulates that each gender should maintain a presence of at least 40 percent in government positions. “I am happy to announce we have been fined,” Hidalgo, who was elected in 2014 and reelected last year, said. “The management of the city hall has, all of a sudden, become far too feminist.”
Last year, the French law was updated for a pretty obvious reason: It was self-defeating, ultimately making it harder to increase representation of women in government roles. The 2019 waiver allows new hires to exceed the 60-40 gender balance, as long as they don’t lead to an overall gender imbalance beyond that threshold in the government workforce. Under the updated legislation, Le Monde reports, the city of Paris is in the clear, as women make up 47 percent of city hall’s senior ranks, where they happen to be paid 6 percent less than their male colleagues. “Yes, we must promote women with determination and vigor, because the delay everywhere in France is still very great,” Hidalgo told the city council. “So yes, to promote and one day achieve parity, we must speed up the tempo and ensure that in the nominations there are more women than men.”
Even France’s public service minister, Amélie de Montchalin, called the penalty “absurd.” “I want the fine paid by Paris for 2018 to finance concrete actions to promote women in the public service. I invite you to the ministry to discuss them,” Montchalin tweeted. Hidalgo said the city would pay the fine and she would deliver the check herself, along with all the women working for her in city hall. “So there will be many of us,” she said.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/12/13/0553208/are-fragments-of-energy-the-fundamental-building-blocks-of-the-universe
Are Fragments of Energy the Fundamental Building Blocks of the Universe? (theconversation.com)
[W]hile the theories and math of waves and particles allow scientists to make incredibly accurate predictions about the universe, the rules break down at the largest and tiniest scales. Einstein proposed a remedy in his theory of general relativity. Using the mathematical tools available to him at the time, Einstein was able to better explain certain physical phenomena and also resolve a longstanding paradox relating to inertia and gravity. But instead of improving on particles or waves, he eliminated them as he proposed the warping of space and time.Using newer mathematical tools, my colleague and I have demonstrated a new theory that may accurately describe the universe... Instead of basing the theory on the warping of space and time, we considered that there could be a building block that is more fundamental than the particle and the wave....
Much to our surprise, we discovered that there were only a limited number of ways to describe a concentration of energy that flows. Of those, we found just one that works in accordance with our mathematical definition of flow. We named it a fragment of energy... Using the fragment of energy as a building block of matter, we then constructed the math necessary to solve physics problems... More than 100 [years] ago, Einstein had turned to two legendary problems in physics to validate general relativity: the ever-so-slight yearly shift — or precession — in Mercury's orbit, and the tiny bending of light as it passes the Sun... In both problems, we calculated the trajectories of the moving fragments and got the same answers as those predicted by the theory of general relativity. We were stunned.
Our initial work demonstrated how a new building block is capable of accurately modeling bodies from the enormous to the minuscule. Where particles and waves break down, the fragment of energy building block held strong. The fragment could be a single potentially universal building block from which to model reality mathematically — and update the way people think about the building blocks of the universe.
Here Comes the Google Chrome Change that Worries Ad-Blocker Creators (cnet.com)
Among other things, Manifest v3 limits the number of "rules" that extensions may apply to a web page as it loads. Rules are used, for example, to check if a website element comes from an advertiser's server and should therefore be blocked. Google announced the changes two years ago. Reducing the number of rules allowed angered creators of extensions like the uBlock Origin ad blocker and the Ghostery tracking blocker. They said the rules limits will stop their extensions from running their full lists of actions to screen ads or block tracking. That could let websites bypass extensions — and the preferences of people who installed them...
The shift brought on by Manifest V3 will spread to all browsers, to the detriment of ad blocking software, predicted Andrey Meshkov, co-founder and chief technology officer of AdGuard, an ad-blocking extension... Ghostery is working to update its extension for Manifest V3 but would rather spend its time on "real privacy innovations," President Jeremy Tillman said in a statement Wednesday. "We still have real misgivings that these changes have more to do with Google protecting its bottom line than it does with improving security for Chrome users...."
The importance of the Chrome team's choices are magnified by the fact that other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi , Opera and Brave, are built on its Chromium open-source foundation. Microsoft said it will embrace Manifest v3, too.
"Another Manifest v3 change is that extensions no longer may update their abilities by downloading code from third-party sites.
"The entire extension now must be distributed through the Chrome Web Store, a measure Google says improves security screens and speeds reviews."
Astronomers Discover Cosmic 'Superhighways' For Fast Travel Through the Solar System (sciencealert.com)
Finding hidden structures in space isn't always easy, but looking at the way things move around can provide helpful clues. In particular, comets and asteroids. [...] "More detailed quantitative studies of the discovered phase-space structures ... could provide deeper insight into the transport between the two belts of minor bodies and the terrestrial planet region," the researchers wrote in their paper. "Combining observations, theory, and simulation will improve our current understanding of this short-term mechanism acting on the TNO, Centaur, comet, and asteroid populations and merge this knowledge with the traditional picture of the long-term chaotic diffusion through orbital resonances; a formidable task for the large range of energies considered."The research has been published in Science Advances.
Virtual reality is effective training for lucid dreaming, according to scientific study
A lucid dream is one in which you're aware of the fact that you're dreaming and can often control what happens. It's a powerful skill to develop for the sake of fun but also as a way to enhance creativity and manage the psychological stressors of waking life. — Read the rest
The Orion Spacecraft Is Now 15 Years Old and Has Flown Into Space Just Once (arstechnica.com)
- Development of Orion spacecraft
- Exploration Flight Test-1 basic vehicle
- The Orion capsule to be used for another test flight
- Work on capsules for subsequent missions
Obviously, that is not nothing. But it is far from a lot, even for a big government program. To see how efficiently this money could theoretically have been spent, let's use an extreme example. SpaceX is generally considered one of the most efficient space companies. Founded in 2002, the company has received funding from NASA, the Department of Defense, and private investors. Over its history, we can reliably estimate that SpaceX has expended a total of $16 billion to $20 billion on all of its spaceflight endeavors. Consider what that money has bought:
- Development of Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy rockets
- Development of Cargo Dragon, Crew Dragon, and Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft
- Development of Merlin, Kestrel, and Raptor rocket engines
- Build-out of launch sites at Vandenberg (twice), Kwajalein Atoll, Cape Canaveral, and Kennedy Space Center
- 105 successful launches to orbit
- 20 missions to supply International Space Station, two crewed flights
- Development of vertical take off, vertical landing, rapid reuse for first stages
- Starship and Super Heavy rocket development program
- Starlink Internet program (with 955 satellites on orbit, SpaceX is largest satellite operator in the world)
To sum up, SpaceX delivered all of that for billions of dollars less than what NASA has spent on the Orion program since its inception.
A Successful Experiment Gets Us One Step Closer To a Quantum Internet (engadget.com)
In PRX Quantum, where the team published its findings, they say their work provides "a realistic foundation for a high-fidelity quantum Internet with practical devices." They added, "this is a key achievement on the way to building a technology that will redefine how we conduct global communication." Experts believe a quantum internet could revolutionize a variety of computing fields, including cryptography and search. [...] With two 13-mile networks under their belts, the Caltech and Fermilab teams plan to build a city-scale network called the Illinois Express Quantum Network in Chicago next.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/12/19/0032212/the-great-conjunction-of-jupiter-and-saturn
The 'Great' Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn (nasa.gov)
The closest alignment will appear just a tenth of a degree apart and last for a few days. On the 21st, they will appear so close that a pinkie finger at arm's length will easily cover both planets in the sky. The planets will be easy to see with the unaided eye by looking toward the southwest just after sunset. From our vantage point on Earth the huge gas giants will appear very close together, but they will remain hundreds of millions of miles apart in space. And while the conjunction is happening on the same day as the winter solstice, the timing is merely a coincidence, based on the orbits of the planets and the tilt of the Earth.
For those who would like to see this phenomenon for themselves, here's what to do:
- Find a spot with an unobstructed view of the sky, such as a field or park. Jupiter and Saturn are bright, so they can be seen even from most cities.
- An hour after sunset, look to the southwestern sky. Jupiter will look like a bright star and be easily visible. Saturn will be slightly fainter and will appear slightly above and to the left of Jupiter until December 21, when Jupiter will overtake it and they will reverse positions in the sky.
- The planets can be seen with the unaided eye, but if you have binoculars or a small telescope, you may be able to see Jupiter's four large moons orbiting the giant planet.
AND THIS, which is worthy of its own post.
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Reflect and connect.
Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.
I miss you so very much, Mom.
Talk to you soon, Mom.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2012.19 - 10:10
NEW (written 1708.27 and 1907.04) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. Dropped "Talk to you tomorrow, Mom" in the sign off on 1907.04. Should have done it sooner as this feature is no longer daily.
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