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Not just little ole' TUSCL but big, bad Microsoft gets these posts: Jul 13, 2020 "Windows 10's Feedback Hub: A forum for political trolls, spammers" "When Microsoft made the Feedback Hub universal app available to Windows 10 Insiders in March 2016 ... the plan was for the app to be the perfect tool for users to report issues and share suggestions on how to improve Windows experience for all customers. However, as reported by users over the weekend and as BleepingComputer was able to confirm, the Windows 10 Feedback Hub is also now being used as a spam platform and a forum by political trolls. Lack of moderation leads to a spam fest Even though customers have been complaining increasingly often of Microsoft's delay in reading and addressing their reports, the platform's use for spamming and as a political forum with no intervention from Redmond's employees comes to show that the Feedback Hub either lacks the appropriate moderation tools or really suffers from a lack of attention from Microsoft." — https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10s-feedback-hub-a-forum-for-political-trolls-spammers/

Back to the important stuff.................. OP, *very nice pics*

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I was part of an organization [ result of a merger ] that stunned its very long term employees by shifting them to independent contractor status! Anger and betrayal were the predominant emotions.

sc, guesses as to where C's dancers might go

spice, solution: post innocuous stuff in first [visible to VIP] paragraph; save the mad shit for 2nd [not visible to ♂️] para.

Overall, is that Good or Bad for ATL SC scene?

It was also possible under one of the previous site versions... hard to remember which version 😵😵😵

Twitter hack teen's court date 'Zoombombed' with porn A court hearing for the Florida teenager accused of being behind last month's major Twitter hack was interrupted with pornography. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53667664 Cyber-security expert Brian Krebs wrote that the so-called "Zoombombing" was predictable. "How the judge in charge of the proceeding didn't think to enable settings that would prevent people from taking over the screen is beyond me. My guess is he didn't know he could," Krebs wrote.

**Oh yeah, and Texas in general has kolaches sold in nearly every doughnut shop. It’s sort of like a pig-in-a-blanket except that it’s better.** kolachi - that's the Czech version kolachi - Slovak version here: https://buttermaidbakery.com/ Butter Maid Bakery is a 5th generation small family owned and operated bakery. Our products have been handmade the old-fashioned way with simple ingredients - just like Mom & Grandma baked - for over 150 years. Our history dates back to our first bakery in Ohio in 1903, and our 1800s bakery in the old country. We've been shipping kolachi and other baked goods to all 50 states & Military addresses since 2006, from our bakery right here in Youngstown, Ohio. When you order from our kitchen, we're going to treat you like you're here for Sunday dinner. Same region - Old Frothingslosh - the pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom Fresh baked bagels and caraway rye bread plus lean corned beef. Add mustard and a kosher dill slice, a meal. Disappearing Jewish delis a crime.

*I'm glad he supports the 2A, but he's the last guy who should have a gun!* He ain't the only one! 😄😄

*Kim Kardashian says family is ‘powerless’ in husband Kanye West’s bipolar struggle* https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-07-22/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-bipolar-disorder "JULY 22, 2020 Kim Kardashian is asking for compassion and empathy as her husband, rap mogul Kanye West, and their family deal with his recent behavioral outbursts that have called his mental health into question. West, 43, accused the E! reality star of trying to lock him up this week after he criticized her at a campaign rally and in a flurry of tweets on Monday. Kardashian took to Instagram Stories on Wednesday morning to remind followers that West has bipolar disorder, a lifelong mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs and lows. Though West has publicly refuted his diagnosis, Kardashian asked people to be sensitive to those who struggle with mental health issues."

Greta Thunberg Helpline For adults angry at child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIP2vukNOPc "We understand that children acting like adults can sometimes make adults act like children" "Greta Thunberg obviously scares some men silly. The bullying of the teenager by conservative middle-aged men has taken on a grim, almost hysterical edge. And some of them are reaching deep into the misogynist’s playbook to divert focus from her message."

Navy veteran recounts being beaten by DHS in Portland: ‘If they’re going to gas moms, they’re going to gas vets’ David, a Naval Acadamy graduate, was filmed being beaten by Portland Tribune reporter Zane Sparling. https://twitter.com/i/status/1284726088187310080 He was interviewed on Monday evening by MSNBC’s Ali Velshi about how he showed up trying to talk to the suspected Department of Homeland Security agents. “That’s exactly what I wanted to do, was just talk to them and the thing that was so upsetting was that there didn’t seem to be any recognition that as a veteran I was even going to be listened to or treated any differently than anybody else

During his visit to Trump in the Oval Office, Kanye mentioned that his doctor diagnosed him with bipolar disorder. Kanye rejected the diagnosis saying he just felt really happy. Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist whose work has centered on bipolar disorder. **As a young adult, Jamison herself was diagnosed as bipolar.** She prefers manic-depressive disorder as more descriptive of her own experience with it. Ending her first book about her own experience she bluntly said that if she could only experience the manic high she would never take meds. It is only because the highs eventually are followed by deeply depressive lows during which she was actively suicidal that she stays on her meds. Wonder if Kanye experiences depressive lows and self-destructive thoughts. She recounted a visit to a London bookstore when she was 'manic and psychotic'. Jamison bought an entire shelf of books published by Penguin because she explained penguins are birds who need to belong to a flock. Sounds like Kanye's big pharma --> big farms confabulation.

SC- I think a lot of dancers use that as an excuse for not wanting to do what you want but don't want to run you off. IME I know that's true in some cases just by the way the dancer acted during the subsequent VIP dance. Some dancers have said it's to protect them from physically abusive custies ?? However, at one local club, barely a step above a dive, dancers used the **absence of cameras** in the highest priced VIP room to upsell. 😁 At a second local club the presence or absence of active cameras in VIP was a source of constant debate on another SC website. I know from personal experience that a third local club had and used cameras in VIP and at other key points in the club [entrances/exits, cashier booth, etc]. How do I know: If you stood behind the seated floor manager you saw rotating camera feeds on a bank of monitors. Once in VIP a dancer went beyond 'normal' limits for this club, starting with complete nudity. Afterwards the floor manger immediately confronted her. Even tho I was an active participant nothing was said to me. I'd been a regular at this club for years and contributed many $$$ for dancer 'education' and club profit. City & state regs pressured this club to install cameras in the newly-opened VIP to reduce the frequency of inspections. Finally, from the old stripclubhound website: SCH posted when working as a manager he had used VIP camera video to settle disputes over charges, dancer/client complaints of abuse, or otherwise derail customer lawsuits.

Official Starz trailer https://youtu.be/e8FubGEMvxQ "Eyes up here: In "P-Valley," the strippers and their grueling labor are the headliners, not men Playwright Katori Hall gives us a gaze from the women onstage at the world around them, and the view is riveting - Melanie Mcfarland July 12, 2020 https://www.salon.com/2020/07/12/p-valley-review-strippers-labor-starz/

Closed for 1 to 2 years. For sale by owner. Then this year purchased by new owner(s) Opened as planned in mid-March. Initially, open Thurs-Sat. Serving alcohol so only topless dancing and limited VIP contact. But closed rather quickly due to coronavirus shutdowns at end of March. Much of this is from local thread on eccie.com; so accuracy not guaranteed. One visitor reported: No cover right now; [ETOH] drinks somewhat reasonable. Dances are $20. Dancers understand that no touching will kill the business but so long as alcohol is served they have additional restrictions @Kcninja - Is your info more recent?

Yep, happened to me. Visited a favorite, downtown KC SC. SC had its own lot behind the club one street over. Big sign - Reserved for Temptations patrons. That night a dance club right next to the lot had a 'grand opening'. The SC owner seeing an opportunity to make $$$ hired a private tow firm and had lot attendants charge dance club patrons $10 to park; SC patrons - still no charge. After a great night at the SC I left only to find my car had been towed to the tow operator's private lot and I would have to pay $$$ to get it released. Worse, it was raining and I was soaked. However, once the SC doorman confirmed that I was at the strip club the lot attendants' attitude changed dramatically. Very apologetic and solicitous. Tow driver drove me to the impound lot. No charge to release my car. Turns out the lone lot attendant on duty when I arrived had left and failed to tell the new guys that my car belonged to a SC patron! A [second] happy ending that night. But I was soaking wet [not in a good way] and exhausted when I got home. The 'glow' of the SC evening had dimmed considerably.

@doctorevil = "Very poignant at the time, but of no relevance over 150 years later and after the United States fought a civil war in which over 300,000 Union soldiers died, the vast majority white, to free the slaves." I disagree. Douglass's words are still relevant because your summary of history left out what happened AFTER the Civil War ended and through the 20th and early 21st centuries. After Lincoln's assassination his VP, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869). Johnson was an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states’ rights views. "Johnson attempted to turn the tide of the postwar plan, plotting a course markedly different from Lincoln’s. [...] He talked not about “reconstruction” but about “restoration”: he wanted to bring the Confederate states back into the Union as fast as possible, and to leave matters of citizenship and civil rights to the states to decide. Freedmen continued to press their claims: Union Leagues, Republican clubs, and Equal Rights Leagues held “freedmen’s conventions,” demanding full citizenship, equal rights, suffrage, and land, and complaining about the amnesties and pardons issued by Johnson to former Confederate leaders. “Four-fifths of our enemies are paroled or amnestied, and the other fifth are being pardoned,” declared one assembly of blacks in Virginia, charging Johnson with having “left us entirely at the mercy of these subjugated but unconverted rebels in everything save the privilege of bringing us, our wives and little ones, to the auction block.” By the winter of 1865–66, Southern legislatures consisting of former secessionists had begun passing “black codes,” new, racially based laws that effectively continued slavery by way of indentures, sharecropping, and other forms of service. In South Carolina, children whose parents were charged with failing to teach them “habits of industry and honesty” were taken from their families and placed with white families as apprentices in positions of unpaid labor. Slavery seemed like a monster that, each time it was decapitated, grew a new head." -- These Truths, A History Of The United States, Jill Lepore, 2018 Now read James Baldwin's thoughts more than 100 years AFTER the end of the Civil War: “There are days—this is one of them—when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it. How, precisely, are you going to reconcile yourself to your situation here and how you are going to communicate to the vast, heedless, unthinking, cruel white majority that you are here. I’m terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don’t think I’m human. And I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.” I have always been struck, in America, by an emotional poverty so bottomless, and a terror of human life, of human touch, so deep, that virtually no American appears able to achieve any viable, organic connection between his public stance and his private life. … This failure of the private life has always had the most devastating effect on American public conduct, and on black-white relations. If Americans were not so terrified of their private selves, they would never have become so dependent on what they call “the Negro problem.” And when Baldwin rhetorically asked himself almost 60 years ago, “What can we do?,” his answer: “Well, I am tired … I don’t know how it will come about, but I know that no matter how it comes about, it will be bloody; it will be hard.” -from Raoul Peck's film I Am Not Your Negro -- nominated for an Oscar in 2017.

Excerpts from “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” Speech Transcript by Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852 "At a time like this, scorching irony not convincing argument is needed. Oh, had I, the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would today pour out a fiery steam of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire. It is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm. The feeling of the nation must be quickened. And the conscience of the nation must be roused. The propriety of the nation must be startled. The hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed and it’s crimes against God and man must be denounced. What to the American slave is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham, your boasted Liberty, an unholy license, your national greatness, swelling vanity. Your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless, your shouts of Liberty and equality, hallow mocked, your prayers and hymns your sermons and Thanksgivings with all your religious parade in solemnity are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, a thin veil to cover up crimes, which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth, guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour. Go search where you will. Roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world. Travel through South America. Search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival."

Arizona woman claiming she’s Trump’s spokesperson goes nuts at local Target and attacks face mask rack https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/arizona-woman-claiming-shes-trumps-spokesperson-goes-nuts-at-local-target-and-attacks-face-mask-rack/ The long holiday weekend has led to several strange incidents by anti-mask-wearing conservatives throwing fits all over the country. Such was the case in Scottsdale, Arizona, where an irate supporter of President Donald Trump, assaulted a wall of masks at a Target store. She was allegedly so furious that she began pulling all of the masks off the display and throwing them around the store area. “This sh*t is all f*ckin’ over!” she shouted before saying it again, punctuating each word with additional fury. “This. Sh*t. Is. F*ckin’. Over! This sh*t’s over. This sh*t’s over. This sh*t’s over. This sh*t’s over. This sh*t’s over. This sh*t’s over. F*ck this sh*t! Not doin’ it. I’m not doin’ it. No, I’m not doin’ it. We don’t want this anymore.” “Please stop,” Target employees wearing masks said approaching the woman. “Why? Why? You let everyone else do it!” the angry woman insisted. “You let everyone else do it, but I can’t because I’m a blond white woman?” She appeared to be referencing the Black Lives Matter protests that turned violent and led to looting. Police reportedly came to her house, and she was arrested while streaming the incident on Instagram Live. She told police that she is a spokesperson for QAnon and the White House and wanted the police to “call Donald Trump and ask him” because she can’t share any “classified information,” tweeted Rex Chapman with the video. She says in the video that being a QAnon spokesperson is the same as being a spokesperson for the White House and that the police didn’t have the clearance level to know what she was doing at the Target. “Do I have his phone number? I’m on the phone with him all the time!”

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Herd Immunity, TUSCL-style https://tuscl.net/photos/5f0252ec0b44b

OP still working toward his Hitler Youth Paul Joseph Goebbels propaganda badge. Progress made - more coherent, tighter presentation of illogical thought and unwarranted conclusions. Less obvious BIG LIE.