{"id":54131,"date":"2024-03-16T05:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54131"},"modified":"2024-03-15T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T05:19:32","slug":"open-thread-march-16-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/16\/open-thread-march-16-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 16, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got very little done. Most of what I accomplished was clearing a way to the best seat to watch the actual television from &#8211; now that it&#8217;s working again. Escept that when it came time,\u00a0 the heavy snow we&#8217;ve has the last two days had mangled the signal so badly I couldn&#8217;t watch\u00a0 Fortunately , &#8220;Dead Man Walking&#8221; will be streamed through Passport &#8211; but the streams don&#8217;t start until the 19th. I was hoping not to have to wait. (I&#8217;ve already waited over 20 years just to hear it.) So, yes, this is skimpy.\u00a0 And i&#8217;ll have listened to Turandot and been grateful.<\/p>\n<p>I missed &#8220;Pi Day,&#8221; so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/10181984121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is a bit late<\/a>. And this parody is a bit over 8 minutes (about the same as the original IIRC) but it&#8217;s worth every second of your time that it takes. It&#8217;s upbeat, but it made me reach for a hanky\u00a0 It says, in a dfferent way, so much of what I have been feeling.\u00a0 (I even put it into my email signature.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been wondering why suddenly <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthubbell.substack.com\/p\/whats-the-deal-with-tiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok is neeing named in bills<\/a> and voted on in the House, and now going to the Senate, this should make it pellucidly clear.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lfeoen6Cb9k?si=IKmO9AjTgtPJM5Vi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/urYsT7EopWg?si=g5VAV0ZuWm31qRyW\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cat-lady.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cat-lady.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cat-lady-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cat-lady-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cat-lady-768x594.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got very little done. Most of what I accomplished was clearing a way to the best seat to watch the actual television from &#8211; now that it&#8217;s working again. Escept that when it came time,\u00a0 the heavy snow we&#8217;ve has the last two days had mangled the signal so badly I couldn&#8217;t watch\u00a0 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/16\/open-thread-march-16-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4134,5271,5728,5727,3718,3731,3844,5729,4796,3805,3831],"class_list":["post-54131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-china","tag-deer","tag-in-a-different-way","tag-it-says","tag-music","tag-parody","tag-senate","tag-so-much-of-what-i-have-been-feeling","tag-tiktok","tag-ukraine","tag-world","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}