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"The non-profit Generations Aging with Pride and Capitol Hill Housing are working together to make sure the old gay people in the neighborhood have a place to grow even older. Maybe even gayer!"

Knowing the oldsters're gonna be homed makes me gayer, and I'm not even Gay!

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Not that I am a supply chain expert, but does anyone else find it extremely odd that a national fast food franchise has not been able to get frozen breaded chicken fillets and buns in stock for about two weeks now?

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"Trump is repealing an Obama-era clean water protection. The rule limited the polluting chemicals that could be used near water systems."

Anything he can do to help Corps make more corpses, Fake Prez is all over it. In Republican Utopia, Profit is King and Citizens are merely patsies to be played till death do them part. Who's next?

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@3: Can I ask you an honest question?

You are not the only person who does this, but why is it that you made a comment, sat for ten minutes, came back the same basically unchanged comment thread, and made another, unrelated comment?

Why not just make both at the same time? I don't really get the purpose of the ten minute gap.

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/Update from Vice Prezinazi Dunce’s America/

I downloaded the new Margaret Atwood novel, The Testaments, and it’s the feel-good hit of the fall! JK, it’s like 1984 without all the comedy.

I’m about a third of the way through, and it’s quite a compelling novel. Atwood has always had a unique and decisive voice, and the seething rage that she feels over our current toxic dystopia of sexism, insanity, stupidity, and environmental collapse radiates off every page. In that respect, it’s a scathing indictment of our vapid, cruel society. It’s already on top of many lists for best novel of the year, and with good reason.

That said, her sardonic wit and trademark gallows humor provide some surprising levity:

“A momentary psychotic break,” [Aunt Lydia] said. “The strain of being in a strange and debilitating environment, such as Canada, can have that effect.”

“Gilead has a long-standing problem: for God’s kingdom on earth, it’s had an embarrassingly high emigration rate.”

“A law degree and a uterus: a lethal combination.”

6

Fate Is the Hunter. Glenn Ford sorted it out just in time.

7

The nautical term for where they slept is the "hull".

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How would a racehorse even handle a syringe with those big ol' hooves? I think someone else failed the drug test - someone that could fit into a human-sized prison cell...

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@4, that particular bot hasn't had the latest Windows update installed yet. It'll need to be rebooted later tonight

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Narrator: Here we see, @9 & 10, examples of conservative middle aged gentlemen involved in an attention seeking display. Note the rudimentary attempts to mimic humor, and their chuffing at what they believe to be "owning the libs". This is akin to the the deimatic behavior seen in other species in which an organism inflates itself to appear bigger in response to threat.
In this case however @9 & 10 are attempting to appear larger to themselves.

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@13 as if wicked burns could stop your daily regurgitation of Trumpian rhetoric on a liberal comment board. Fucking troll.

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"Scottish police shut down a game of hide-and-seek in a Glasgow IKEA. The game had 3,000 participants."

No, Nathalie, it didn't have 3,000 participants. There were 3,000-ish people on Facebook who said they would come to it. Those people aren't participants.

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@15: He provided a rare self-deprecating gracious reply to Lissa and you polluted our morning thread with hostile profanity.

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@18 as if Trumpian rhetoric weren't "hostile profanity", fuckwit.

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@16 thanks for pointing that out. On important stories such as that, it's critical to use precise language.

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A funny feminist?

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@19: It's many things, but it isn't hostile profanity.

23

Why are Police are looking the 17-year-old youth who killed a 23-year-old mother and injured her 1-year-old son ?
Surely not to put them in jail ?!?

24

Paul Constant used to write about conservatives cringe-worthy attempts to launch something by way of an answer to the regular lashings they've been receiving from Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and all of the other late night comedians and/or people capable of delivering jokes for the past couple decades. Any and everyone has always failed miserably in this endeavor of course, and looking back I'd have to offer the crown of conservative hysterics to.... Jeff Foxworthy perhaps? Gotta be either him or Tim Allen doesn't it?

But now it looks like there's a new contender for the crown. David in Shoreline is itchin' for a funny fight.

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@2....Speaking of supply chains, I have noticed over the past couple of months that various items that I regularly purchase in area food stores are not being restocked. Maybe there is something going on.

@15....Trolls are a very necessary component to the Slog, otherwise readership would go way down. It would then be like one of those Socialist news letters that were passed out outside factory doors full of stories written by one person with a variety of pseudonyms.

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@25: Perhaps the weather is causing delays across the board, who knows.

In regards to trolls, it is kind of funny how this place treats them. When they don't show up, the regulars talk about them with anticipation of their arrival, and read, respond, and emotionally react to literally every word they write. They are given the keys to drive every single conversation on here, and people (pretending I hope) wonder why they never go away.

Never seen anything quite like it. I guess this place has the right combo of echo chamber, outsized egos, aging Boomer internet stupidity, and personal fragility to make it a prime trolling ground.

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Narrator: Here we see @26, the subject perform an escalating behavior as his initial display has failed. Much like the north american badger, he digs himself deeper, and then turns around to show his entire ass.

30

Meanwhile in the real world, there is no Popeye's in Seattle, so posting about it is very passive agressive and just reminds us that our goal is to replace all fast food places with light rail stations.

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@27: "outsized egos, aging Boomer internet stupidity, and personal fragility"

Bless you Theodore, you are always good for an inadvertent self own. Don't ever change.

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@30: Are you saying the real world only exists in Seattle? I reckon there's a Popeye's down the street from Theodore in Baltimore, or blip in Hooterville.

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@32: If and when you ever raise a valid point I will be happy to respond in kind. Until then I will be over here with the ghost of Marlin Perkins observing your shenanigans.
We will, of course, provide a parental warning at the beginning of the episode in which you lumber at last to the watering hole to bathe.

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Scopolamine - which apparently costs $60/patch if you’re on a good health plan in the states, yet can be purchased at 2 for $15 in Victoria - is in no way a performance enhancing drug.

Your depth perception at night is ruined and I and one point I handed over the wheel because my sight was glitching like a monitor, with pixelated and entirely incorrect coloring moving around the entire top-left quadrant of my sight.

Read a bit. Looks like it can also increase blood flow, and all signs point to jimson weed.

The real fun effects didn’t come into play until day 2.

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@2,

I don't work in any of those industries directly but I do analytic work for them so I get some info on supply chains and such for fast food joints.

It's not entirely surprising they're running out of product. I forget if Popeye's uses its own supply company or is part of what's essentially a co-op supplier. If co-op, orders go in well in advance and if they grossly underestimated demand, they'll be out of luck for at least a month because others will have already taken their share of the remaining stock. If they've got their own supplier, they'll probably start getting refreshed sooner. Just a matter the supply plants hiring extra workers to increase production and manage deliveries. Not all restaurants are running out, so it's not a matter of simply doubling delivery to all stores or something. Depending on how effective regional managers are, some stores could get resupplied faster than others.

It's also not a matter of just going to the warehouse and grabbing more chicken. Even though they're frozen, they're still relatively fresh. It's not stockpiled or anything.

They're probably also trying to figure out exactly how much extra supply they'll need since they don't know for sure how long this fad will last. The sandwiches have been on the market for months, it's only from some recent viral social media incidents that there has suddenly been a run on them.

39

The Seattle Times story says the police are looking for a Tukwila teen, not a Seattle teen.

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@38 - Blockchain is the answer.

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Whales are intelligent, majestic, beautiful, and most people want to see them. They serve a crucial role in Earth's ecosystems. In no way can they be compared to the orange bigot in the White House.

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@ 33 & 34....It's really all part of the game. You may remember when Nathalie was made a staff writer just after her internship she wrote a short bio piece. One of the statements in that bio piece was "I enjoy pissing people off", so sparring and sometimes just plain nastiness goes with the territory.

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There is a Popeye's in Renton, which is basically Seattle. Its a couple miles from Ichiro's house. If you go to the one on Ft Lewis, no sales tax.

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@43: The Popeye's in Renton is no stranger to supply chain issues. Last winter the Husband sat in line at the drive through for 20 minutes and could here the irate exchanges between the gal on the mic and the customers in front of him as at each transaction there were fewer and fewer menu items left to choose from, until when at last he reached the window he witnessed this exchange between said beleaguered employee and her manager after being informed that they were ENTIRELY out of chicken:

Manager: (in a voice alternating between soothing and panic) it's going to be ok, it's going to be ok
Employee: NO! No it's not going to be ok! We Don't Have Any Chicken! WE'RE TOTALLY FUCKED!!
So no dinner, but a pretty good show.

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@4 -- you (honestly) wish to know the purpose of my ten minute no-comment gap?

I found your morning comment quite moving, Teddy, and found I needed a little time out (how did you know I sat?)(The Stranger's keeping an Eye on me?)(who knew?!). Thanks for that (& thanks for timing me!).

Would you prefer I saved up my comments, kept them neatly arranged, in piles, then unloaded them all at once, a little commentariatic diarrhea? Sometimes I will; other times, it might could get pretty long (free ink! baby), and I wouldn't wanna be responsible for Boring to tears anyone here, 'specially our dear Trolls ... who are here for Sport -- so I just pop 'em out, seemingly as whim overcomes me.

Which is why I honestly wish we had an Edit / Delete button. Oh, well, I guess you get whatchya pay for, these days.

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@31: Ah your ears started burning, didn't they?

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@38: Thank you, that was quite elucidating. It makes sense they would have no idea how popular the sandwich is going to be now. Internet fads have a very short shelf life, obviously, and the sandwich has already been out of the news cycle for at least a week.

@45: I thank you for responding.

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@46: Oh are you smelling burning again? Is it toast? Should we call 911?

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@48: Never heard that old wives tale? Oh well, if you are going to suck all the fun out, just stop projecting constantly I guess.

But why would you want to mock someone for having a stroke? How boorish.

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@49: I am, as always, merely concerned for your health and well being Theodore. :)

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@7, the hull is the entire outer-part of the boat that sits in the water. Unless you meant "hold?" Any sleeping compartment could be a berth or cabin, etc. If they were trapped below, this fire sounds terrifying and tragic. :(

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belowdecks is what I always call it
not where one wants to be in a fucking Fire


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