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Does anyone know of a reliable program to download files from X or utube safely? Seems they are changing something cause it will either download just the video or no video and the picture. I'm using MacX YouTub downloader. It seems they are rapping up their attacks and preventing certain downloads. Be Blessed and thank you in advance.
Monday night raw... wwe.WWE.. imperium and new day! I don't watch nor follow. 2-26-2024= 17!
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noun Absolute rule; supreme power. A sphere of power or dominion; an empire. Supreme power; absolute dominion; empire. Similar: empire The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik v https://www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › imperium Imperium Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster Imperium is a Latin word that means supreme power or absolute dominion. It can also refer to the right to command or employ the force of the state. See synonyms, examples, etymology and history of the word. https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Imperium Imperium - Wikipedia In ancient Rome, imperium was a form of authority held by a citizen to control a military or governmental entity. It is distinct from auctoritas and potestas, different and generally inferior types of power in the Roman Republic and Empire. One's imperium could be over a specific military unit, or it could be over a province or territory. https://en.m.wiktionary.org › wiki › imperium imperium - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Jan 1, 2024References [edit] " imperium ", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press " imperium ", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers imperium in Charles du Fresne du Cange's Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others ... https://www.britannica.com › topic › imperium-Roman-law Imperium | Ancient Roman Law & Governance | Britannica imperium, (Latin: "command," "empire"), the supreme executive power in the Roman state, involving both military and judicial authority. https://www.dictionary.com › browse › imperium IMPERIUM Definition & Usage Examples | Dictionary.com Imperium is a Latin word meaning supreme power, authority, or empire. It can refer to the ancient Roman system of government, the right to command the force of the state, or a nation with global influence. https://www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › imperium Imperium - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com 3 days ago/ɪmˈpɪriəm/ IPA guide Other forms: imperia Definitions of imperium noun supreme authority; absolute dominion see more noun the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised synonyms: empire see more Cite this entry Style: MLA "Imperium." https://www.worldhistory.org › article › 1472 › authority-in-ancient-rome-auctoritas-potestas-impe Authority in Ancient Rome: Auctoritas, Potestas, Imperium, and the ... Perhaps the ultimate authority was imperium, the power to command the Roman army. Potestas was legal power belonging to the various roles of political offices. There was also auctoritas, a kind of intangible social authority tied to reputation and status. https://www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › english › imperium IMPERIUM definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary 5 days agoImperium is a noun that means supreme power, command, or empire, especially in ancient Rome. Learn more about its origin, usage, and synonyms from Collins English Dictionary. Related Searches
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anybody having Rumble probs lately
https://rumble.com/v4fq053-this-will-be-a-bad-year-for-china.html
so happy I could comment again on this site, we can't be telling america how gangs infiltrated the schools to sell drugs and wreck our youth, yes, that invalid user error is gone but the cursor tracker is back. do you hear your local communities calling for your help, shut down your computer.
Who can tell me some nitter instances that are working? Tried several and none worked. Thanks.
Someone recently used nitter.poast.org
I just checked and it seems to work
Thanks. I had tried that and at the time, it wasn't working. Maybe they just come and go. Appreciate it.
Saw here in the past weeks it’s not functioning or something.
I know some of the popular instances are down, but I'm usually able to find an alternative. I hope someone can post some. Thanks.
Not sure if anybody cares about this, but just in case it entertains someone, Interview of a Blood Gang member about SBF's life in prison
(Spoiler - no they didnt beat him up there)
I heard on And We Know and ran numbers that Jacob dies 17 months from when the Queen did. 536 days, 3 6 666. It’s called a little trolling
Funny, after I made the post about Coles and Woolies, I just found this interesting post about Aldi (the "cheap" supermarket chain out here) on 4chan
I went to Aldi a couple times long ago when people kept raving about how happy they are that stuff is cheap there. What I saw was just crap. Crap from top to bottm Crap from front to back. Crap everywhere. And yeah, their toilet paper is probably dollar or two cheaper for a 20 pack, but you will also lose a part of your ass if you use that paper too long. So you are not really comparing apple to apples.
So for the most part it is indeed like you talk about dollar shops. They sell stuff for cheap, but the stuff they sell is junk anyway.
However I have occasionally seen complaints about how they sell even that cheap stuff cheaper than the cost price. So makes me think that both possibilities exist.
Since the days of Superfresh (ah I remember that chain fondly), I don't really know how the supermarket chains in US operate, but out here Downunder, we have two big chains - Coles and Woolies.
Riccardo Bosi made an excellent point a while ago that both these supermarkets had advance notice of the Plandemic lockdowns long before the lockdowns happened. They were well prepared for mostly delivery based business model for more than a year or two, long before it actually happened.
The point I am making is that atleast here, these big chains are criminals and will eventually be gone, paving the way for mum and pop stores and direct from farmers. This is true regardless of whether these chains have been committing crimes against Humanity, for the simple reason that they are destroying smaller businesses.
My guess is that eventually all these big chains (and not just Groceries, think about Target etc as well) will be gone because they. are all fuelled by the Magic Fed Money in the first place with the sole purpose of controlling humanity.
Yep, all that is just optics for stealing out wealth steadily by printing more and more money, aka Fiat Ponzi Scam.
This is why stuff used to be constructed solidly, and beautiful artisan items were affordable for everyone. But as time went by, solid stuff got replaced by plastics and artisan items replaced by Chinese goods. We watched value drained away from us collectively, while being told there is no inflation.
Hate it or not, you gotta give them this. They put so much of their effort in destroy us, in so many million ways. If we have 1% of that conviction in making ourselves better, we will shoot leaps and bounds forward.
🙏 PRAYER REQUEST 🙏
My mother, 83, was just taken to the hospital in an ambulance. She’s having chest pains. My mom has Never ever asked me to call 911. This is the first time she’s ever gone to the hospital in an ambulance. I think it’s more serious.
I’m headed to the hospital right now to find out details.
Prayers would be very much appreciated.
Thank You 🙏
EDIT: update
The diagnosis is pulmonary embolism (blood clots) in both lungs. They are starting her on heparin, a blood thinner. She’ll probably be in the hospital at least several days. No - she did not take the Covid vaccine, so that’s great news. Continued prayers are appreciated.
https://greatawakening.win/p/17sPBFqZUo/
Praying for her and you.
Thx Friend 🙏
Just read a great post from Coffee & COVID about an influential Dr Boz on YouTube with large following. She read Dr Peter McCulloughs recent peer reviewed report with results from autopsy findings showing spike protein in heart muscle of a person that died suddenly. She’s no longer pro-vax, but has converted and admittedly wrong. Hope I can get the link in here- the post also has link to Dr McCullough paper.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/regrettably-saturday-february-24?r=1hvk1x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Good find fren, feel free to make a post and tag me so I can approve it. Also use the clean link: https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/regrettably-saturday-february-24?r=1hvk1x (the rest of the stuff after that is tracking information)
Here is a good overview of why we have a leap day.
Great, now do "leap seconds".
I wish we could do "leap presidencies."
SNL? Not bad.
https://youtu.be/WwgzcXnOHyI?si=DFg0hraHIuRFh8E-
I'd love to, but you're too tired.
This was pretty darn funny for SNL, which, imo hasn't been funny in years. The Nate Bargatze episode earlier this year was good, too. His skit playing George Washington was hilarious. thanks for posting this. I never would have seen it.
The pinnacle of SNL, IMHO, was the late '80s to early '90s. On Mondays in high school during lunch break, all my friends and I did was recant how funny the weekend's episode was. Skits like "Mr. Belvedere Fan Club" and "Sarcastic Clapping Family from South Hampton," and Al Franken's Stewart Smalley character before he became a shitlib politician. By the late '90s, there were some fantastically funny cast members, but the writing sucked. It was such a missed opportunity and a letdown.
Great read about Alzheimer’s and new possibilities. Didn’t like that they push the jab though.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/25/is-the-100-year-old-tb-vaccine-a-new-secret-weapon-against-alzheimers-dementia-bcg
Do you know y’all are addicting? At least I can’t gain weight like with chocolate. Busy weekend and trying to organize and donate/toss what I don’t need. Listening to Elvis Gospel and working. Just dropping in to say have a great week and catch you soon😊
Feeling much gratitude while reading a daily bible verse:
As the body without spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
- James 2:26
As my gratitude is an everyday practice, so will good deeds be for me again. Going to look for 3 opportunities daily to do a good deed.
Nice! I just recently reread that passage as well.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/21/us-news/nycs-celebrity-bald-eagle-rover-killed-in-vehicle-collision/
Bill "Eagle" Clinton up next? kek
Bald Eagle = USA. This comms I think is probably referring to the impending financial collapse. (Cabal thinks thats the end of USA, they got a surprise coming!)
Aaaah, Yea that's a better theory if it were comms.
Weezer's cover of Toto's "Africa", featuring Weird Al. I've never seen this before!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5Dwg5zm2U
They did a great job! Hardly recognized Weird Al.
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I didn't realize it was Weird Al until he started playing the accordion. I forget what the singer for Weezer looks like. I thought maybe he also played the keyboard player too, spazzing out on the floor at the end.
Weezer also did A-Ha's "Take On Me" and Tears for Fears's "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."
That's okay, I didn't even know who Weezer was. I pretty much stopped listening to the radio in the 80's.
This is lead singer, Rivers Cuomo in:
1997
2010
2022
I'd say Al nailed the 2010. The 2022 looks like Dana Carvey! 😄
I listened to the two tunes you mentioned. They seem like a good band.
I honestly never cared much for Weezer. They had that "Unravel My Sweater" song at first and I didn't care for it. Then their "Buddy Holly" song was pretty cool. The music video had them digitally inserted into the Happy Days show. "Gone Fishing" is a good one. I never really followed them though, as I gave up on radio in '94-95. Most '90s music really sucked around the middle of the decade. Grunge had taken over and I really did not care for it.
The bane of my existence was disco, ugh! Was very happy with the swing revival in the 90's.
Yeah, Swing was cool. I got to see Havalina Rail Co. in concert once.
I love the old big bands like Glen Miller et.al. Swing is so much more fun to dance to. Wish I could have learned the jitterbug better, kind of hard with two left feet! 😂
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God's Continuity Plan Is Best. Don't Let Us Miss It In Our Stubbornness.. My Morning Bible Read Was Acts 8:26-40, "Philip and the Ethiopian". Verse 30 says, "30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked."
(BTW, the Ethiopian was reading in Isaiah 53.)
The Song: https://youtu.be/BW2n0zs6Myk
Have a blessed day.
Yesterday's Sunday School lesson was in the book of Habakkuk. It is only 3 Chapters long and mostly about what is happening today. Habakkuk sees things going on. He watches just as we ourselves are watching the things of today. He sees the violence, the wickedness and the things we ourselves are witnessing. Then God tells Habakkuk in Chapter 1:5. Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. In Chapter 2 God tells Habakkuk to watch and write down the visions of things that he sees. In verse 3 God says, For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. 5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell within. 9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house theat he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil. 10 Thou has consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
So God told Habakkuk these things and showed him the things of his time, which today we are witnessing in our own lives. Be prepared, for as in Chapter 1:5, we too will witness some marvelous works which we will not believe, even though he has told us.
There's always those people who think that just because something's been around a long time, that makes it okay.
The designated hitter, the three-point line, the income tax...
insider trading in congress, political cronyism, MSM telling you what to think...
Had a hard day shooting memes? Take a break with the Mental Health Break
SMH. Sigh...
Midwits and Shitlibs
shades of DJT vs dee snyder.
Hey, does anyone have that picture of the drag queen with horns reading to kids? Or any other drag queen story hour type pics? Please post or DM them to me. thanks!
https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=18904498&width=980&quality=85
Oh my gosh, it's even worse than I remember. Makes me sick. Thank you so much, fren. Wish me luck. Going to be sharing it with possibly the most unaware person on the planet!
Good Luck! Makes me very sick. Open their eyes!!
Everybody's going home for lunch these days. Last night there were skinheads on my lawn.
Don’t you live in Japan?
I do. It's just lyrics from Camper Van Beethoven. I toss out random lyrics in the Daily Chat sometimes to see if people catch the references. Apparently three people have so far.
Okay! I was really tripping on the skinheads. My dad went to Japan in 1978. He said the people were so polite. I just couldn’t put your image into the one he put in my head! No crime in Tokyo that was seen while he was there.
Unfortunately, crime seems to be proliferating as Japan has been slowly letting more Muslims into the country in recent times. Here is a protest against Islam.
https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1759202933781017083
Some black African Muslim vandalized a shrine, saying "there is no god here."
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1759681664773423558
I’m finally done with the antibiotics and might cough once a day. I’m usually optimistic when I’m sick. Not this time! That was some bad mojo!
Glad to hear you’re on the mend!
Thanks 😊 feeling like a different person for sure.
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Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
I love this scripture. It really speaks to me. Thank you
wandering in the 'wilderness' for 4 years sure beats 40 in a real wilderness.
digital wilderness, I might had. I mean, I have spent many a depressed day just binge watching something!
Binge watching was created to keep us from behaving like a normal human that has personal relationships with people. That’s just maybe one reason. Brain wash, dumb you down, lazy and the list goes on. I’m guilty of binging tv series. I know it’s partly out of boredom. Much of it for me was didn’t have energy from the chronic pain. Stay sedentary because you can’t move. Get worse because you sat on your but. Something worse than binge TV watching is little video clips called reels. I don’t do it now but that was my stress relief. If I could not sleep I’d watch stupid reel after reel and sending them to my husband. I’d laugh till I cried because they were really funny. One day I got to thinking how controlling that was. Most reels have loud laugh tract or loud music. I do love to watch funny stuff but that wasn’t healthy. And the parents pimping their kids out on social media with cute skits, cursing etc. I would watch and just laugh. One day I ran across this lady explaining these kids are used for money and the pedos stalk those accounts. I can’t even watch a video of a cute kid now, unless it’s my granddaughter and that’s private between family.
My son has been in a group researching the sources that these children's videos come from, a lot of them are not from the states, but a lot of them are. Not talking about anything obviously abusive, but the pranks and falls and performances that kids do while the parents record them for clicks. It is exploitive. Regarding bingeing, yeah, I do it when I find something that interests me, I know it is a form of escape. For years I was fine with no TV, years. Decades, lol. With streaming though, at my age, it is a mixed blessing, where I live it is always a 40 mile or longer round trip to go to the movies, so a subscription to the streaming services is still cheaper than, say, a movie twice a month. I have a rule for myself, no shows until after dinner, no tv during the day, for me. The man I care for in my home watches, but while he does that I am doing housework and chores. Social media is something I have found myself addicted to when there are "big stories". The reels I will watch have to do with animals, but even some of those are exploitive. The older I get the more of a "shut in" I have become, I am not depressed or lonely though, except for the fact my body has limits it never had during my 40's and 50's. I was active, I hiked, walking 5 miles a day was normal. I had thought being so physically active would keep me strong into my senior years. Not so. Depending on my mood, I enjoy good mysteries, crime, and documentaries, sci fi sometimes. Too much of a curmudgeon to enjoy romcoms though. I can laugh at a good comedy stand up.
Anytime, I see any video with children in it, I say do not recommend. Sure that might be a few wholesome accounts out there, but there’s no way for me to really know. Besides that I don’t want to watch videos of other peoples children. I think it’s kind of creepy. But yes, this is one of my biggest pet peeves right now, help people use their children for Instagram, and social media clicks.
One of the few accounts that I actually like it is one called chicken Ricky on YouTube. It’s basically his dad teaching his sons, how to mow lawns, fix motorcycles, and do lots of their own repairs on machinery and stuff like that. There’s nothing weird about it, it’s just a good father, raising up his son’s right. The. But to be honest, I don’t even see it in my feed anymore. But they have a pretty large following.
ya ain't wrong. but you can get something out of even modern entertainment if you are careful. heck i kinda enjoy picking out the stupid predictive or other kinds of programming now.
i hear ya. i think i already binged all the things. now i just pick youtube topics and follow my nose.
i did rewatch the matrix movies recently, that was a pick me up.
BSG maybe once a year.
Whats BSG?
battlestar galactica!
slowly unclentches pearls
well i never!
Ah cool, I am looking for scifi shows to watch during my daily runs. Have you watched Babylon 5? How does BSG compare to that?
i have, B5 was great too. BSG is like a combination of B5 and the Bible.
I only like TOS BSG. The Cylon ships from the remake look like hood ornaments. I just don't care for the new stuff at all. It could have been good and remained faithful to the original, remained faithful to the visuals, dispensed with the goofy stuff, etc, but they felt it necessary to change everything so much.
they did include the old stuff a few times, the original troops played a big role.
the new series took lots of opportunities to honor the original.
i hated it too at first but it really grew on me.
I know they did put in a few homages, even including the original Cylons and Cylon Raiders in one episode. I just think the show should have just always been like that. As a kid, I so badly wanted a brown jacket with buckles like the Colonial Warriors wore, but those were gone. Ralph MacQuarrie designs were gone. Starbuck and Apollo were so cool. Then they made Starbuck and Boomers chicks, the Cylons became bioroids and I just didn't care for it. Why make Starbuck a woman? Because there weren't any female pilots? Oh wait, Athena and Sheba were. They even had a whole female squadron in one episode out of necessity. I'm all for Korean chicks, but just let Boomer stay Boomer. I never care for race/gender swapping.