358 Comments

  1. robodruid

    First?
    Thats a lot of bad news to look at.
    I should go back to bed

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I don’t know about that. Those Twitter employee tears are quite a treat.

      • SDF-7

        I’d think long and hard before just walking away from a job (or even switching companies given “Last hired…”) as companies are becoming more open with the global recession. There’s going to be some serious fat trimming, especially if Western European markets collapse like one would expect at this point.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        If there is the possibility of severance, then quitting just because ELON is really stupid.

      • waffles

        NPR seems to have gotten stuck on the “hah now he’s forced to buy twitter” mode. Maybe holding out optimism for the billion dollar backout penalty.

    • juris imprudent

      The SC didn’t immediately ignore it’s own decision on guns – that’s pretty good news.

      • WTF

        I’m guessing that a ruling on MA’s requirement for a special license to purchase and possess a handgun would also affect NJ’s similar laws. But then again who knows. The courts are fickle and inconsistent.

      • SDF-7

        It certainly should — but I would also expect states with such laws to pull a New York and immediately put them back under a different title to give themselves another 6 years as the lawsuits wend through the courts.

  2. Yusef drives a Kia

    Gas went up 40 cents in 8 hours yesterday, so much for road trips.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I’m driving a 2800 mile round trip starting Sunday to attend my grandma’s funeral. I’m not looking forward to the gas bill.

      • Pat

        Sorry to hear about your grandmother.

      • slumbrew

        Indeed. Sorry, Trashy.

        I hope she had a long and fruitful life.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Thank you. She was an awesome lady and a great cook. She used to send us home with gallons of spaghetti sauce and meatballs every time we visited. Im tempted to make some homemade spaghetti and meat sauce to bring along for my family in remembrance of her. (I’m also tempted to see if Alfred is close enough to swing by on the way out)

      • Rat on a train

        Sorry for you loss. I’m glad you have good memories.

      • waffles

        I just did a 1600 miler. It was not very cheap at all.

        I’m glad I did the 10k mile trips during the Trump year gas price nadir.

      • Rat on a train

        I did a 2,700 mile trip back in 97. No more. Now I try to keep to one day drives.

      • waffles

        Thank you for reminding me I need to attend my grandma’s funeral.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Because you forgot your grandma died?

      • waffles

        No I need to find out the exact date of the funeral and book a flight. I had procrastinated.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I went to book the flight, saw it was going to be $650 for me alone, and audibled to driving. I can pick up my brothers and their significant others on the way and save us all $1500 in airplane tickets.

      • waffles

        I just don’t have the time to drive to Florida from Pennsylvania. That has to be at least two excruciating days of driving each way.

      • Count Potato

        Sorry 🙁

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Sorry to hear that trshy. I just did (6 months ago) a 6k round trip across country, and boy was my CC hurting at the end.

      • R.J.

        My condolences. Better to drive than fly though, I agree with you.
        Got to stop lurking and start working now. I hope you have a nice drive and a peaceful funeral filled with remembrance and not drama.

      • DEG

        Condolences about your grandmother.

  3. Shiny Nerfherder

    Two weeks ago, attorney and legal commentator Preston Moore posted a video saying he was offered (but did not accept) hundreds of dollars from a group to attack Donald Trump and “Trump Republicans.” The group that solicited Moore is called the “Good Information Foundation,” and presumably, if Moore is telling the truth, this is common practice for them.

    Did anyone think this wasn’t going on? With so many “influencers” out there who don’t have actual jobs and are basically whores, it seemed readily apparent that interested parties would be using it to swing public opinion. Everybody from PACs to clandestine agencies had to be in on the act.

    • SDF-7

      Everybody from PACs to clandestine agencies

      But you repeat yourself… 😉

  4. Pat

    Biden Avoids Midterm Campaign Trips Amid Plummeting Favorability

    Sounds like he’s on track for another landslide victory then.

    • Sean

      #Dominion

      • SDF-7

        Yah mule! Yah, yah!

    • WTF

      #Fortification

      • juris imprudent

        I’m going to chortle, loudly and repeatedly, if there is a red wave. Then I’ll drink [heavily] because it will mean the Republicans are in charge of Congress again.

      • Sean

        Then I’ll drink [heavily] because it will mean the Republicans are in charge of Congress again.

        I’m gonna keep on course, personally.

      • Count Potato

        So you were going to drink either way.

      • Tonio

        But the Biden/Harris admin ain’t going nowhere, so at best there will be two years of glorious gridlock.

      • Atanarjuat

        Hopefully there won’t be bipartisanship on Ukraine funding, assuming we’re still operating under the quaint assumption that spending originates in the House.

      • waffles

        That doesn’t seem to be the case. The headlines read like Biden is just ordering money to Ukraine. Seeing as how we are funding the entirety of their government if it ceases, so will Ukraine.

      • DEG

        Even if they had a plan, unless it involved starving the beast of funds as spending bills are supposed to start in the House, there’s no way the Republicans can get a veto proof majority.

        “Starving the beast of funds” – I chuckled too. There are some up-and-coming outsiders, but not enough to actually starve the beast of money.

  5. Pat

    Housing brought to its knees by the Federal Reserve

    Oh no! The free money spigot is slowing down! Prices will not rise 20% per annum in perpetuity! All is lost!

    • slumbrew

      But how will I finance my lifestyle with a HELOC?!

      • slumbrew

        *without

      • Nephilium

        Headline that keeps popping up in my newsfeed:

        ‘I’m paycheck to paycheck.’ I make $350K a year, but have $88K in student loans, $170K in car loans and a mortgage I pay $4,500 a month on. Do I need professional help?

      • SDF-7

        Kosh: “Yes”.

        I mean, holy God — I know I’m not as good with money as I should be and my bills have a tendency to expand to meet my budget… but wow…. If that $4.5k was because you were paying it off aggressively, it’d be one thing — but I strongly suspect they aren’t. Of course, I don’t know how anyone who doesn’t have the extra cash ready goes for a $60k or $70k or higher car. I know that’s where things have crept up (inflation, mandatory electronics out the wazoo, etc.) — but it still boggles my mind.

      • Sean

        People are fucking stupid. News at 11.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I think the mortgage (likely on a $650k house at 30 years) is the least offensive of the group. Also, those debts aren’t nearly enough to make somebody making $350k live paycheck to paycheck. If you flip flop the car and student loan debt, that’s only slightly more than we started out with. We were paying a much smaller mortgage, though. Even so, we were putting well over a thousand a month into knocking out our debt on less than half their income. Somebody is blowing all their money on frivolities.

      • robc

        And its an easy fix too. Sell the cars and buy something more reasonable. You dont even need to go with beaters, but two $40k cars. Reduce debt from $170 to $80. That makes a huge difference.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Step 0 is figuring out where the hell the other $8k per month is going.

        Id guess that they could be 100% debt free minus the mortgage in 18 months with a few minor sacrifices. Like you mentioned, selling the cars and getting some average cars would be a real easy win. Living on $75k a year ($130k including mortgage) would free up enough cash to pay off the student loans in less than 12 months. From there, the leftover $100k in car loans would be payable in 8 months or less. Big shovel means you can fill in the hole really fast.

      • Pope Jimbo

        No boat payment too (and $ for a slip down at the marina and a couple jetskis)?

        This person truly is poor. All the “rich” people I know have at least 2 watercraft they are paying off.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Everyone who bought the last two years at low rates will be surprised to learn a HELOC usually means you need equity.

      • robc

        We locked our rate on Dec 31st last year.

        So glad we did, I was kind of hoping it would tick back down, but we went ahead and locked. It was higher than we were paying in SC, when we were well under 3, but I aint gonna complain about 3.25%. If rates every drop back again, I will happily refinance lower, but not worried about it.

    • waffles

      Hearing stories about how people bought their first homes in the 70s really drives home how obscenely difficult it is right now.

    • Grumbletarian

      There should be a glut of cheap foreclosures in a few years.

      • Pat

        I’m already seeing a few more homes popping up in my bottom of the barrel price range. Unfortunately, the rental market being what it is, I can’t really afford to wait it out.

      • R.J.

        What is your range? I have friends around Longview/Tyler who could research and provide some property suggestions. If you are uncomfortable here you can send me a message in the forum.

      • Pat

        I may just take you up on that. I have to wait a bit to see if I’m going to be able to get any kind of reprieve from Medicaid on their estate recovery before I have a final number, but in the likely event that I get hosed on that, probably about $70k

  6. rhywun

    The White House used the news as an opportunity to push its green agenda, saying that the announcement highlights the importance of moving away from reliance on fossil fuels.

    Because wind turbines and battery packs just fall from sky like manna.

    Moron.

    • Urthona

      Luckily the strategic windmill reserve is still strong.

      • Mustang

        I’d like to join Swiss’ applause. That was brilliant.

      • juris imprudent

        It certainly isn’t something you’d want to go full tilt at.

  7. Drake

    All these headlines and $600+ Million in Military Aid to Ukraine. This administration is on a mission to spend as much money as rapidly as possible.

    Part of the great reset, they get a kick-back on all of it, or just trying to break the economy beyond repair?

    • waffles

      I think it’s just looting.

    • SDF-7

      Kosh: “Yes.”

      • Rat on a train

        “The avalanche has already started; it is too late for the pebbles to vote.”

    • rhywun

      Yes.

    • Pat

      Part of the great reset, they get a kick-back on all of it, or just trying to break the economy beyond repair?

      The Federal Reserve is offering bonus miles!

  8. Shiny Nerfherder

    It’s looking like a bungle for the history books.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-03/gazprom-ready-to-ship-gas-via-shelved-nord-stream-2-pipeline

    After the suspected sabotage of the network last week in a series of explosions, Gazprom said on Monday three of the lines were affected and one wasn’t. The gas giant has lowered pressure on the unaffected line B of Nord Stream 2 to inspect the link for damage and potential leaks, it said in a statement on its Telegram account.

    Blutarski! I told you to doublecheck the detonation circuits!

    • Urthona

      Only thing I’ve seen that might actually buttress the “Russia sabotaged their own pipeline” theory.

    • Atanarjuat

      The saboteurs were in a rush because they forgot to close the screen door on their submarine.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        So you’re blaming the Polish?

      • Atanarjuat

        I decided to implicate Polish bungling not because I have any evidence, but because I enjoy bigotry.

  9. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles — preliminary round was good (not Hype good, but good for *me*).. which probably lulled me into a false sense of security for the Main event. Because that wasn’t Chumptown… but sure wasn’t pretty. Blew a couple of guesses I probably shouldn’t — but didn’t see a lot of options at the time so felt like I had to try.

    TL;DR: LR sums it up.

    Daily Duotrigordle #218
    Guesses: 35/37
    Time: 06:33.33
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 255
    6️⃣4️⃣
    7️⃣8️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 255
      6️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣7️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Pat

      Daily Quordle 255
      6️⃣3️⃣
      4️⃣8️⃣

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 255
      5️⃣6️⃣
      3️⃣7️⃣

      Not bad today.

    • robc

      Chessle 236 (Expert) 4/6

      🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛🟨
      🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨🟨
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      https://jackli.gg/chessle

      I figured one out!

    • robc

      Daily Quordle 255
      7️⃣6️⃣
      4️⃣9️⃣

      50/50s almost did me in.

    • Grummun

      3 5
      4 6

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Daily Quordle 255
      7️⃣4️⃣
      5️⃣8️⃣

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 255
      🟥7️⃣
      8️⃣🟥

      4 guesses to get UR. I should have skipped it today!

    • grrizzly

      Daily Quordle 255
      4️⃣6️⃣
      2️⃣7️⃣

    • kinnath

      Daily Quordle 255
      6️⃣5️⃣
      3️⃣7️⃣

      lower right is horse shit

      • Pat

        Amen

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 255
      3️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣6️⃣
      quordle.com

  10. PieInTheSky

    Housing brought to its knees by the Federal Reserve – to be fair, housing was asking for it

    • SDF-7

      VP Harris must have been put in charge of housing….

  11. PieInTheSky

    Americans see ‘most severe’ pay cut in 25 years due to inflation – I got of full 6% raise this year. Inflation is… who knows but a lot fucking more than 6 I tell ya that

  12. Pat

    British gardener’s 56.3-inch leek earns Guinness World Record

    Oct. 5 (UPI) — A British gardener earned a Guinness World Record for growing a 56.3-inch-long leek.

    Derek Hulme, who grew his leek on his allotment in Stoke-on-Trent, entered his large vegetable in the CANNA U.K. National Giant Vegetable Championships in Malvern, Worcestershire, where its length was officially verified.

    The vegetable earned Hulme the Guinness World Record for longest leek.

    • SDF-7

      “If your leeks are overly extended, contact your physician…”

    • Swiss Servator

      “the CANNA U.K. National Giant Vegetable Championships”

      *blinks repeatedly*

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        I hear Boris Johnson came in second last year.

    • Animal

      So, if someone stole it, would they be taking a leek?

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        It depends on if they give it to the Russians…

  13. juris imprudent

    This seems to be a very sensible take on the question.

    I think the unavoidable point is that NATO should have disbanded with the collapse of the Iron Curtain. It was always a cannon pointed to the east, and once that threat no longer existed – it had to find a new threat to justify its existence.

    • juris imprudent

      Likewise, a very relevant read that comes down to this: For if Russia cannot avoid military humiliation in Ukraine, it will not survive as a great power.

      Russia is only a great power because of its nuclear arsenal. Economically, they are roughly the same as Spain (which isn’t exactly the leader of the EU economy-wise). Russia probably has the natural resources to remain a peer competitor with the U.S., but the endemic corruption will always cripple them.

      • SDF-7

        Not if our endemic corruption surpasses theirs! USA! USA!

        More seriously – yeah, first link was a decent read I can’t argue with. I believe I’ve said before NATO should have been gone when the Cold War ended, no argument there.
        As far as Russia’s “great power” status… meh — it comes and goes historically, I expect those cycles to continue. Too many resources and potential to discount them if they have a cycle of reform (barring China deciding Siberia is theirs, I suppose… but I doubt that would end well for anyone).

      • R.J.

        History repeats, reporters forget.
        Russia survived Afghanistan.

      • juris imprudent

        Britain survived WWII as well.

      • nw

        Only in the sense that there’s still something called “Britain”.

      • juris imprudent

        Exactly the point.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I think it’s reasonable, but left unsaid is the point that the US wanted this war. Putin was stupid enough to give it to them.

      • juris imprudent

        What does Europe Command do if it doesn’t have an adversary? It must have one – every Combatant Command needs one.

      • Drake

        The provocations and Ukrainian mobilization seem to have started the day after our bungled exit from Afghanistan. Can’t not have a war or hot proxy war going for more than a couple of months apparently.

      • Pat

        Raytheon executives have to eat too, you know.

  14. Atanarjuat

    Imagine: You push out two senior FDA officials because you insist on the same booster strategy for a 12-year-old as an 82-year-old

    Then you rush a bivalent booster without human data saying randomized trials take too long

    And then no one wants it

    Just for old times sake, which clause in the Constitution authorizes the executive to purchase billions of dollars worth of experimental vaccines?

    • juris imprudent

      You’re going to need Nic Cage and a candle for that.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Dang. All I’ve got are these cool hippie sunglasses with various colored lenses.

    • SDF-7

      I’m sure the brilliant Constitutional scholars on the left would trot out “General Welfare” — their excuse for cradle to grave socialism already, after all… why not for this?

    • Pat

      Commerce clause, baby. If you get sick, you might sneeze, and one of the viral particles in that sneeze might get picked up on a strong breeze and cross state lines.

  15. Count Potato

    “35 slaughtered in nursery massacre: Thai ex-cop knifes sleeping children as young as two, shoots teachers including eight-months pregnant woman then kills his wife and son and takes his own life

    An enraged drug addict former policeman has killed 35 people in a bloodthirsty rampage at a Thai nursery, butchering sleeping children and executing a pregnant woman before shooting dead his family.

    Panya Khamrap, armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a meat cleaver, first shot dead multiple adults including an eight-month pregnant woman, before forcing his way into a locked room decorated with animal pictures where he stabbed sleeping children as young as two to death.

    The 34-year-old, who had been in court earlier today on drugs charges, arrived at the nursery and was agitated to find his child was not there and started the massacre at the kindergarten 300 miles northeast of Bangkok.

    He continued the attack in nearby streets, shooting at bystanders and trying to run over panicked pedestrians as he fled in a white van which he torched at his home before killing his wife and child and turning the gun on himself.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11286469/Mass-shooting-child-daycare-centre-Thailand-kills-31-including-children-adults.html

    Anyone can have a bad day.

    • juris imprudent

      Pope Jimbo’s timing, with the next comment is irony bordering on tragedy.

      • Pope Jimbo
      • Fourscore

        You just know that that’s not her leaves. Someone is going to be upset.

    • SDF-7

      35 slaughtered in nursery massacre: Thai ex-cop knifes sleeping children as young as two, shoots teachers including eight-months pregnant woman then kills his wife and son and takes his own life

      What, inspired by Revenge of the Sith?

  16. Count Potato

    “‘A police state for women’: Outrage as Florida’s high schools quiz female athletes about their menstrual cycle and share data with sports tech firm

    In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, abortion rights advocates are incensed that the data, which can be subpoenaed, could be used to prosecute female students if they terminate a pregnancy. Abortion in the state of Florida is illegal after 15 weeks of gestation.

    Some fear trans students the policy may be used to target trans students after Florida governor Ron DeSantis (pictured) signed a bill banning trans athletes from playing women’s sports”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11286455/Floridas-high-schools-share-details-female-athletes-menstrual-cycles-party.html

    It’s none of the schools business, period.

    • Atanarjuat

      I’m spotting a flaw in the data: they could lie on the quiz.

      • Atanarjuat

        Abortion in the state of Florida is illegal after 15 weeks of gestation.

        Also they could pad the date of conception.

      • Count Potato

        “Female athletes in Florida high schools who are asked to report information about their periods and menstrual cycles on their annual physical forms will now have their sensitive medical data farmed out to a third party.

        The company claims it keeps student data confidential and will not sell it to other third parties, but because Aktivate is not a medical care provider it is not restricted by HIPPA privacy laws and would therefore be required to turn over data to the authorities if subpoenaed.

        Its privacy policy also says that it may share student data ‘to work with third parties who conduct studies or assist us in providing and improving our products… and with affiliated education companies’.”

        The school can’t stop the flow of information.

      • R C Dean

        Aside from misspelling HIPAA (a sure sign the writer doesn’t know what he is talking about), HIPAA specifically says you have to cough up medical information if it is subpoenaed.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Disclosing that information to outside entitites without adequite information security is against our policies. Given the sheer number of breeches of government data, we cannot permit you to load that data on your systems.”

      • Count Potato

        “Aside from misspelling HIPAA”

        The Daily Mail does that all the time.

      • UnCivilServant

        “What’s a HIPAA?”

        “A Hippa? Isn’t that a female Hippo?”

      • Grumbletarian

        They could pad the stats as well.

      • Grumbletarian

        And I need to read further…

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        You were late.

      • SDF-7

        He was trying for a dramatic pregnant pause.

      • juris imprudent

        It was misconceived.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Winner.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Florida’s high schools quiz female athletes about their menstrual cycle and share data with sports tech firm

      I no longer complete surveys unless there is a compelling reason why I personally gain from providing my answers. More people should take the same position, IMO. If the survey doesnt directly benefit you, it almost certainly will be used to harm you in one way or another.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Do the 3rd parties get access to that data for free? Or are there strings attached?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I don’t care what you do Swiss, you can’t tampon our enthusiasm for puns about female products.

      • R.J.

        3rd parties might pad those numbers to make a business case…

      • Gustave Lytton

        Looks like it’s his time of the month.

  17. Sensei

    Former Uber Security Chief Found Guilty of Obstructing FTC Probe

    Points for creativity!

    The case centered around Mr. Sullivan’s actions following a November 2016 cybersecurity incident that occurred while Uber was the subject of an FTC investigation. Anonymous hackers approached Uber, saying they had discovered a “major vulnerability” in Uber and obtained sensitive company data and demanded payment. The next month, Uber paid the hackers, using the bitcoin digital currency, and eventually tracked down their true identity and had them sign nondisclosure agreements.

    With the hackers identified and bound by an NDA, Mr. Sullivan’s team felt that the stolen data was protected and the team classified the incident as a bug bounty incident rather than a data breach, his lawyer, David Angeli said during closing arguments on Friday.

    • Pat

      I guess it was a… feature, not a bug?

  18. Pope Jimbo

    Musk’s legal battle with Twitter has offered insights into his business decision-making process regarding the deal, including his fixation on free speech, and has revealed multiple conversations with other tech executives about how he can improve the company and change its operations. Musk’s researchers were also unable to substantiate Musk’s claims about bots, according to recently released court filings.

    That kooky Musk and his fixation on free speech!

    I wish my parents had paid more attention to the crazy teachers who taught me and realized they were brainwashing me in Civics class. We were regularly groomed to believe that Free Speech was a good thing and it was one of the reasons we were better than other places.

    • rhywun

      I find it interesting that Twitter was able to hide the armies of bots.

      • slumbrew

        I’ve you’re not trying too hard to look for bots, you’re not going to have much in the way of metrics to turn over to Musk & co.

        Not like Musk would have had the raw data to work with.

  19. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “Biden to continue depleting US oil reserves as OPEC slashes production”
    We’ll it’s a damn good thing they’re going to do what any half an idiot knows is smart do and increase domestic production, right? Wait, they’re not? Well this is on purpose then.

    • Atanarjuat

      I am dubious of Biden’s ability to wage a mechanized war 5,000 miles away in Eastern Europe with a depleted oil reserve and lower OPEC production.

  20. Atanarjuat

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alec-baldwin-criminal-charges-rust-update-b2195072.html

    The gun went off, and a single bullet struck Souza in the shoulder before fatally striking Hutchins in the chest.

    The precise details of how the gun was fired remain bitterly contested. Baldwin has maintained he had been assured the gun was “cold”, meaning it had no live ammunition, and that as he cocked the gun it went off without him pulling the trigger.

    Is that possible?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Unlikely. He probably had his boogerhook pulling on the trigger as he cocked it and the hammer just fell after he released it.

      • Grummun

        Seem to recall reading that the gun in question underwent testing and was found to be mechanically sound. So, it was the booger hook what done it.

    • Pat

      I was going to post the same story, but with a different headline:

      Alec Baldwin has reached a settlement with the family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, after she was killed on a film set when he fired a prop gun.

      A prop gun was fired. A cinematographer was killed. Procedures were followed… I guess you don’t always have to be one of the king’s men to get the passive voice treatment.

    • Count Potato

      It depends on the SA. Some if you pull back the hammer but not all the way it can snap back, but the cylinder wouldn’t be lined up. So it’s more likely he was holding the trigger back and fanned it.

      • R C Dean

        Supposedly, it was tested after the shooting and wouldn’t fire without the trigger being pulled.

        Now, it was tested by law enforcement, so grain of salt. I think it was the NM law enforcement, which has appeared near-desperate to let him off the hook, so maybe they didn’t botch it.

        Regardless, he was negligent in that he had it pointed directly at a person, which is a no-no even on movie sets with blanks in the gun. So really, he was negligent (if not reckless) regardless.

    • EvilSheldon

      It is theoretically possible, but it didn’t happen.

  21. Shiny Nerfherder

    When it comes to treaties and agreements, you cannot trust anyone, but particularly not DC.

    The US recently announced it was building a permanent military base in Poland, breaking from an agreement with Russia known as the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act. Under the act, the US and NATO agreed not to establish permanent bases east of Germany.

    The US argues that the base in Poland doesn’t violate the act because troops will be deployed to the facility on a rotational basis, but it’s unlikely Moscow will see it that way.

    https://news.antiwar.com/2022/10/05/poland-says-its-discussed-hosting-nuclear-weapons-with-the-us/

    • Rebel Scum

      The US violating prior agreements is Putin’s fault!

  22. Rebel Scum

    Milfolini is in cahoots with the Ruskies.

    Russia will resume gas deliveries to Italy after suspending them due to a transport problem in Austria, Russian energy giant Gazprom said in a statement Wednesday.

    “Transportation of Russian gas through the territory of Austria is resuming,” Gazprom said, adding that a “solution” was found with Italian buyers following regulatory changes in Austria.

    Most Russian gas delivered to Italy passes via Ukraine through the Trans Austria Gas Pipeline (TAG), to Tarvisio in northern Italy on the border with Austria.

    Italian energy company Eni said Wednesday that “gas supplies from Gazprom resumed today” and welcomed the “resolution by Eni and the parties concerned of the constraints resulting from the new regulations introduced by” Austria.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      We’re going to find out how determined NATO is in the next few weeks. I think there’s a strong possibility that more pipelines will be rendered inoperable.

  23. UnCivilServant

    I hate the way hybrids eat brakes. Of course their brakes are also more expensive.

    • The Last American Hero

      I thought the brakes were capable of regeneration?

      • UnCivilServant

        Yeah… no. That’s another misconception. It’s degeneration as far as I can tell.

    • waffles

      I haven’t heard of this. Hmmm…

      Every time I go on a road trip I tend to daydream about a vehicle upgrade. Every time I read the news I think my focus sedan with a 5spd manual is just perfect.

      • UnCivilServant

        To generate power when braking, the brakes on a hybrid are more complicated than those on a normal car. Hybrids also weigh in at almost twice the curb weight of regular cars. My CMax is built on an escort chassis, but has a 3,500 curb weight, this puts more strain on the brakes as well.

      • waffles

        I didn’t realize the curb weight difference was that much. I guess the performance must kind of suck, no? Lighter cars drive so much better. Pretty amazing that they achieve such great fuel efficiency even at higher mass.

      • UnCivilServant

        The electric motor does give a good deal of accelleration. I only get 38mpg though.

      • Count Potato

        “Hybrids also weigh in at almost twice the curb weight of regular cars.”

        Because fuck physics?

      • UnCivilServant

        Because those batteries weigh a fuckton.

      • whiz

        Hybrids also weigh in at almost twice the curb weight of regular cars.

        This is misinformation. My 2009 Camry Hybrid is 3700 lbs, while the non-hybrid base model is 3200.

        I have not had a problem with brakes wearing excessively, in fact I have had only one brake job since I got it new in 2009 (although it’s possible it might need another soon).

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Must be an issue with your model. I’ve had to replace my brakes exactly once (and they didn’t _really_ need it) on my hybrid, and it has 70k miles on it. The regen system takes a substantial portion of the braking load.

  24. Sensei

    North Korean Missiles Push Japan to Improve Deterrence

    I’ve never quite understood why Japan doesn’t or hasn’t built the capacity to strike back. If you launch a missile without warning which has a path that could strike within my country I’d assume that it was an attack and an aggressive act.

    I’d argue that sending a missile right back to the launch site “to prevent additional launches” is purely a defensive action. Having his launch site blown up might give the Norks pause.

    • UnCivilServant

      I suspect they’re worried such a counterattack ends up with a response of “They blew up our totally peaceful rocket science facility! WAR!”

      • Sensei

        Since the it is totally peaceful do what everyone else does during rocket launches and announce the flight window.

    • rhywun

      I’ve never quite understood why Japan doesn’t or hasn’t built the capacity to strike back.

      Just spit-balling but I would have thought it’s because the US won’t let them.

      • Sensei

        Nice base you’ve got there. OTH, I don’t have to pay for it…

        You may be right.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I’ve never quite understood why Japan doesn’t or hasn’t built the capacity to strike back.

      Doesn’t make sense with the US subsidizing their defense. That money can be diverted to domestic agendas.

      • The Last American Hero

        And building the giant transforming robots that will be called up of North Korea decides it’s time to throw down.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Not to mention that Gojirra is hidden away in Mt. Fuji.

  25. Pat

    Report: Switching to zero-emission trucks could save 66,000 lives

    Replacing diesel-powered trucks and the toxic pollutants they spew with electric vehicles would save tens of thousands of U.S. lives, a new American Lung Association report says.

    The benefit would accrue if all medium- and heavy-duty trucks sold have zero emissions by 2050, and if the electricity they use comes from non-combustion renewable energy, not fossil fuels, by 2035, according to the report .

    No word on what impact that might have on the Chinese slave laborers working in open-pit lithium mines…

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      There needs to be a term for degrees in “pulling numbers out of my ass,” maybe numeronateology.

      • Fourscore

        Did we ask the 66K that were saved what their opinions were? Saving those at the tail end of life is the Broken Window Fallacy. A job provider for lesser productive people.

      • Aloysious

        I vote for numoronscatology. Because they are shit with numbers.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Check with NA this weekend.

    • Grumbletarian

      It’ll be totally possible when we can give fully loaded 52-foot trailers the weight and mass of empty ones.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Totally achievable, all they have to do is destroy the supply chain.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Better assume no air resistance too. Just to be safe and to make the math easy.

      • SDF-7

        Those spherical cows can just be rolled over to the slaughterhouse…

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Got your new train wheels right there! And with the methane, got your battery juice!

    • PieInTheSky

      Ban trucks and only consume what is locally produce, la the villagers 500 years ago

    • rhywun

      Out of sight, out of mind.

      See also: US industrial policy for the last half century.

  26. Drake

    Biden’s Secret Promise To OPEC Backfires

    Who is in charge of U.S. energy policy? The DOE seems to be out of the loop.

    Given that we have crippled our domestic oil production, it’s a bad sign that the Saudis are moving away from us and towards the Russians. All our talk of “regime change” towards any country we disagree with – up to and including the largest nuclear power on Earth – might not be the best way to make friends.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Well once we deliver that pallet of benjamins to Iran and we become BFF’s, who cares about the Saudis?

      If the Saudis really do ditch us the Ruskies maybe the war in Yemen will end?

    • juris imprudent

      might not be the best way to make friends.

      I believe the diplomatic term is client state.

  27. Atanarjuat

    screengrab of the Intercept article

    So the US does have “boots on the ground” in Ukraine after all. Go figure. Another easily predictable lie

    I keep hearing mention of foreigners involved in the Ukrainian offensive actions. Are these active duty soldiers who have put on a different uniform, or more like Blackwater mercenary types? And I’d be fascinated to know how many have died there given that they were advancing through artillery fire. There have to have been some American families notified their son/brother wasn’t coming home, but you don’t see it in the news.

    • Pat

      Don’t worry, it’s only military advisors military transition teams contractors uh… consultants!

    • The Last American Hero

      My money is on Blackwater at this stage.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      From what I’ve heard, Blackwater types are getting big money to go to Ukraine. On the order of thousands per day.

      • Grummun

        Billions in “foreign aid” has to go somewhere.

  28. Pope Jimbo

    Fighting urge to link to this video without making obvious cheap and racist joke……

    Let’s just say, I’m impressed with the parenting skills shown there.

    • Atanarjuat

      When I was driving through NC this summer I saw a guy showing off a baby at a gas station. It was incredibly cute and tame, but I’ve heard they get wild as they get older. He claimed to have spent about $600 getting it all the proper shots at the vet, which I thought he should have spent on a downpayment on new teeth. Maybe someone could selectively breed them for docility like that Russian scientist did with foxes.

  29. Rebel Scum

    Your position is untenable and you are not a serious person.

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday signed a decree that ruled out any talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring they would be an “impossibility.”

    The decree was first put forward by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, the decree states “the impossibility of holding negotiations with the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.”

    The move formalized comments that Zelensky made on Friday following Putin’s approval of annexing four Ukrainian territorites. “He does not know what dignity and honesty are. Therefore, we are ready for a dialogue with Russia, but with another president of Russia,” Zelensky said.

    Responding to Zelensky’s move, the Kremlin said it would wait until he changes his position or until there’s a new president in Kyiv to hold talks. “We will now wait either until the incumbent Ukrainian president changes his position, or until there is another president in Ukraine who will change his position for the sake of the Ukrainian people,” Peskov said.

    • PieInTheSky

      If Russian retreats and stops the war I am sure dialogue will be possible again

  30. Rebel Scum

    The US oil piggy bank is half empty… OPEC+ today announced cutting oil supply by 2mb per day…

    Making Biden’s release of 1mb per day look increasingly futile… and unsustainable as the SPR is getting depleted to dangerously low levels…

    The US gov’t is at war with its allies and its own people.

    There. I said it.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/06/oil-us-delivers-angry-rebuke-of-massive-opec-production-cut.html

      The U.S. had repeatedly called on the energy alliance, which includes Russia, to pump more to help the global economy and lower fuel prices ahead of midterm elections next month.

      In a statement, the White House said Biden was “disappointed by the shortsighted decision by OPEC+ to cut production quotas while the global economy is dealing with the continued negative impact of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.”

      It added that Biden had directed the Department of Energy to release another 10 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve next month.

      “In light of today’s action, the Biden Administration will also consult with Congress on additional tools and authorities to reduce OPEC’s control over energy prices,” the White House said.

      The neocons are being confronted with reality and they don’t like it at all.

      • Drake

        They should just call on Biden to pump more oil.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Biden (or rather his handlers) would have to give the middle finger to one of his last constituencies in order to do that.

        And spinning up oil production doesn’t happen overnight. One might think that those who desperately want to maintain global American hegemony would at least be mildly competent, but it doesn’t appear to be so.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        And if I were a domestic oil company, I would have no confidence that the rules wouldn’t change next week to stop my drilling projects.

      • Sensei

        Exactly.

      • juris imprudent

        Is there a reality-based community anymore? Anywhere?

      • Atanarjuat

        ^^^

      • Fourscore

        “the shortsighted decision by OPEC+ to cut production”

        The patients truly have taken over the asylum. It’s all OPEC’s fault

      • rhywun

        I expect the Dems any day now to question why OPEC is on the side of white supremacist MAGA Republicans.

        It is plain as day that this is all about the midterms.

      • waffles

        Cutting domestic production and going hat in hand to OPEC+ was a bold play by the Biden administration. Shame it didn’t work out.

    • Pope Jimbo

      They’ve always been at war with us

      Senate Democrats say they were able to eliminate a “bailout for Big Oil” to help secure a bipartisan agreement on a $2 trillion coronavirus economic relief package Wednesday.

      Democratic leader Chuck Schumer released a summary of the agreement that says it no longer contains $3 billion to fulfill President Trump’s order to buy low-priced oil to restock the nation’s emergency Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

      They were going to fill up the SPR at $24/barrel. But Schumer stopped OMB from getting his way.

      • The Other Kevin

        Once again, no thought other than “Do the opposite of TRUMP!”

  31. Rebel Scum

    The White House made the decision earlier in 2022 — before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) even authorized the new, variant-specific bivalent COVID-19 boosters — to purchase more than $5 billion worth of them from Pfizer and Moderna. Now, more than a month after the shots became available, only about 3% of eligible Americans have gotten one.

    Bad on wasted money. Good that people are not getting the clot shots.

  32. waffles

    I find it funny how in the first 12 years I followed any kind of libertarian politics online the specter of inflation was easily pooh-poohed. And now when it has come to roost, crickets.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Figures…

    • Pat

      Neil deGrasse Tyson is like the human incarnation of reddit.

      • UnCivilServant

        Smugness and misinformation?

    • Grumbletarian

      Equally relevant.

      Blue Lives Matter

      Oh wait, I meant equally irrelevant.

  33. Pope Jimbo

    I’ve decided that the Somalis who stole $250M from the govt in the Feeding our Children scandal are pikers. They are small timers and need to realize that now that they are here in the US they should think bigger.

    They really need to get into building light rail lines. I can’t even imagine how much money was stolen from the taxpayers for our newest light rail line (that still isn’t completed). It has gone from $1B to nearly $3B. They have no real idea when it will be completed. That is real money!

    The article goes into the details of how politics played such a big part in this disaster of a project. Of course there is no talk about just walking away from it all. That money hole needs to be built! I was looking forward to paying to subsidize this line for the rest of time, but it is extra juicy now that all those suburbanites are working remotely and ridership will be waaaaaay lower than the projections.

    • Atanarjuat

      But for the tunnel, the SWLRT project might have already been delivered, nearly on time and nearly on budget. But for the tunnel, paying passengers might be riding already purchased rail cars.

      Sure it would have.

      At the local level, that’s an insane amount of money, although it’s a few days of Ukraine war profiteering.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Light rail lines are back door ways to get the Feds to pay for urban renewal. Our first light rail line got $3 from the Feds for every $1 they spent. Lots of infrastructure that was only tangentially related to the light rail line was paid with that money.

        Oh, to build the line across that street we had to replace the water mains for 8 blocks around the area. We also ran fiber and new electrical lines all the way across half the city.

      • Atanarjuat

        Honestly, that’s a pretty slick scam.

    • rhywun

      Has the city bus system gone to shit too? That’s what usually happens when suburban light rail begins to eat up so much money that they have to cut corners on the vehicles that people were using in greater numbers.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Buses are still OK. We are lucky that all the mass transit is handled by the Met Council. This is a body that is appointed by the gov, so they don’t have to worry about angry tax payers. So they haven’t had to scrimp or cut back. We can lose money on both bus and rail!

        The bus route between the two downtowns ended up being faster than the light rail line they built to replace those routes, so most commuters still ride the bus.

      • Fatty Bolger

        That’s the most annoying thing. Buses actually help people who need it, while these flashy train projects cost a fortune and accomplish little. Considering that every public transportation project is a money loser and amounts to welfare, it makes sense to direct that welfare to where it will do the most good for the people who need it the most.

  34. PieInTheSky

    Kate Andrews
    @KateAndrs
    Getting to see a GP within *two weeks* is nothing to applaud.

    https://twitter.com/KateAndrs/status/1577608279026458625

    I think it is. I mean in America only the top 10% ever get to see a doctor. The NHS is slow, but you get there, dead or alive

  35. Rebel Scum

    Gasoline Prices Keep Climbing, but Retail Gas Station Margins Plunge, With Many Now ‘Under Water’

    But the alleged president assured me that gas stations were gouging customers.

    • Nephilium

      Well, all gas stations are part of Big Oil, it is known.

  36. PieInTheSky

    Rory
    @roryreckons
    Autism researcher: “how did the blue triangle feel?”
    Autistic participant: “shapely?”
    Autism researcher: “Sad was the correct answer”
    Autistic participant: “you know it is a triangle, right?”

    https://twitter.com/roryreckons/status/1577549728203812865

    Theory of Mind tests are at least hilarious to read about.

    • UnCivilServant

      Did the researcher just assume the triangle’s emotional state?

  37. Rebel Scum

    Americans see ‘most severe’ pay cut in 25 years due to inflation

    But Biden created the most jobs in history, or so I am told.

    • juris imprudent

      More second jobs to make up for the pay loss!

      • The Other Kevin

        People are more employed than ever!

  38. Count Potato

    “When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.”

    https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1577431891505913857

    Because Alphabet and Meta are owned by poor people?

    (Don’t read the comments.)

    • PieInTheSky

      He should write an article in the Washington Post or LA Times about it

      • juris imprudent

        He’s Guardian level.

    • Rebel Scum

      In musks case, it’s also a win for fascism

      You keep using that word…

  39. The Other Kevin

    The Simpsons used to be so good. Last night they had on two of my favorites: the monorail; and Homer eating an old sandwich and missing taking the kids to Duff Gardens.

    • rhywun

      I saw part of the second one – yeah, many LOL moments.

      That channel tends to show several hours every day, a sampling from various seasons in order. You can actually watch the quality go down in real time.

      • The Other Kevin

        I once had a friend, a few years ago, who animated for the Simpsons. He even worked on the Simpsons movie. It was amazing to see how it was done. But even he admitted the shows were terrible, and he stopped watching after about season 15.

      • robc

        The movie was the end point, I own up thru season 10 on DVD, 13 was when I thought they were trying to kill it off.

  40. Rebel Scum

    Twitter employees eye the exits after Musk takeover

    Well…bye.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Between the rumored quiet layoffs at FB and the Twitterites abandoning the ship, the IT job market is going to be full of a lot of pretentious developers soon. I wonder if any of them are self-aware enough to realize that companies aren’t letting their best employees go first?

  41. PieInTheSky

    The New York Times
    @nytimes
    There’s always a night when you want to have breakfast for dinner, and this is how to do it British-style, in a very untraditional, sheet-pan take on the classic.

    https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1577443485908623361

    American sausages don;t look that great. Also I don;t think I ever cooked sausage in the oven

    • Pope Jimbo

      don;t think I ever cooked sausage in the oven

      Where do all the little Romanian buns come from then?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Those don’t look like breakfast sausages. They look like bratwurst.

      Sheet-pan kielbasa sausage with peppers and onions is a once a month dinner for us. Super easy to make on busy days, and it’s decent so long as everything is well seasoned. The cheap mass produced kielbasa is what holds it back the most.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Cooking acidic foods on aluminum? No thank you.

    • Aloysious

      Me: That picture actually pisses me off. What kind of dribble chin waterhead would try to cook a meal like that? Using that technique?

      Narrator: The New York Times

      Me: That person is physically and mentally useless.

    • Sean

      American sausages don;t look that great.

      Size queen.

  42. Brawndo

    I was really hoping that headline about a Republican leading in blue state governor race was about Massachusetts. Maura Healy scares the shit out of me.

  43. PieInTheSky

    I have one more day till vacation and am far from finishing what I should have done at work… in a way serves em right for giving me something complicated for which I had no experience. Oh well…

    Also fuck parasitic extraction one more time

    • Atanarjuat

      Hola do you do, fellow Latinxes

  44. Grummun

    Several other employees expressed displeasure with the company leadership over Blind, an app used to discuss workplaces under pseudonyms. When someone put up a poll asking what employees will miss “post-privatized Twitter,” some employees seemed not to express a desire to stick around.

    Isn’t Twitter private already? What would they be otherwise?

    • PieInTheSky

      well I assume they are thinking private as opposed to public traded company

      • Grummun

        Of course. I was thinking not private sector -> public sector -> implicit branch of the gov, I had forgotten Musk is taking the company private.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Eh, they’re currently beholden to their board which is controlled by the major shareholders like Vanguard and Blackrock. Let’s just say that their motivations are not necessarily always driven by what’s best for Twitter.

    • Sean

      <==

    • Tundra

      And Joe got to sniff a chick!

      Little old for him, though.

    • R C Dean

      But Biden possibly look more like a grumpy old man?

    • Rebel Scum

      DeSantis behind the Presidential seal

      Looking presidential is one of the keys to the office…

    • Pat

      You know, DeSantis isn’t bad, there’s plenty about him I like, but FFS what a fluff piece. To me the guy doesn’t exactly exude charisma, but that’s down to taste I suppose. But regardless, it’s so unbelievably stupid that things like that are what elects presidents.

    • Atanarjuat

      3 more years just for a permit. The collision of the environmentalists vs the environmentalists.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        They truly are morons that will lead us into the Dark Ages if we let them.

      • Nephilium
  45. juris imprudent

    Mind-boggling!

    “How many transistors,” Girvin asked the audience, “do you think were produced around the globe in 2020?”

    Pause. And then he flashed the answer on the screen: 20 trillion per second.

  46. DEG

    The national average price of regular gas, as of Oct. 5, was $3.831 per gallon, up $0.26 from the previous day, $0.66 from a week back, and $0.45 a month ago, according to data from American Automobile Association (AAA). In contrast, profit margins of gas stations have gone down.

    Come to NH where gas prices are not only below that average, but have been holding fairly steady.

  47. DEG

    The case in question, Morin v. Lyver, centers around a controversial Massachusetts law that imposes strict restrictions on the possession and purchase of handguns, including the need for a license in order to purchase or possess a pistol. The law also includes a lifetime ban on purchasing handguns on anyone convicted of a nonviolent misdemeanor involving the possession or use of guns.

    The U.S. District Court of Massachusetts originally found the law constitutional, but the Supreme Court on Monday ordered that ruling vacated and the case “remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for further consideration in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen.”

    Whoa.

    • R C Dean

      a license in order to purchase or possess a pistol

      This has always been a prima facie, obvious, and irremediable violation of the 2A.

      • Sensei

        Welcome to NJ.

  48. PieInTheSky

    Moment police ‘with no search warrant’ swooped on house of gender-critical Catholic mother and arrested her in front of her four children over ‘series of anonymous posts on internet chat board’

    Mother-of-five Caroline Farrow has been arrested in her home over online posts she put on Twitter this week
    The journalist and mother was arrested on Monday by Surrey Police over the web content in Guildford home
    She said two police officers ‘forced’ their way in to accuse her of ‘malicious’ content and ‘harassing’ others
    But the mother-of-five and journalist has strenuously denied the allegations and says police were wrong

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11282263/Moment-police-swoop-house-devout-catholic-mother-malicious-online-posts.html

    • UnCivilServant

      I was really surprised a few years back when British Tyranny arrived in rainbow colors.

      Now it’s just another case of florida man bites dog.

    • rhywun

      WTF is “gender-critical” supposed to mean?

      • UnCivilServant

        Not kowtowing to the infinite genders claptrap, I guess.

  49. Atanarjuat

    https://thegrayzone.com/2022/10/05/azov-neo-nazi-ukrainian-congress/

    The delegation’s other Azov wife was Yulia Fedosyuk, the leader of “Silver of the Rose,” an anti-feminist, anti-gay group linked to the Azov movement, according to journalist Oleksiy Kuzmenko.

    Turns out antifeminists are way hotter than actual feminists.

    • R C Dean

      Could the photo montage with the circles and lines possibly look any more “deranged conspiracy theorist”?

      I get it, but its just a dead ringer for colored-yarn-on-a-corkboard.

    • UnCivilServant

      Turns out antifeminists are way hotter than actual feminists.

      This has been a consistant pattern. I could speculate on why, but that requires reading minds, and I’m in a meeting right now.

  50. Shiny Nerfherder

    I really hate dealing with prime government contractors. They require you to jump through multiple hoops just to get paid. Unless you know their tricks and hold their feet to the fire, you will not get your money at all.

    • waffles

      Federal? Everything sucks with federal funding.

    • Ted S.

      What about composite government contractors?

  51. DEG

    FBI whistleblower has a theory on the Vegas shooting

    So what happened in Las Vegas?

    Former FBI special agent John Guandolo told Turning Point USA in a recorded interview (below) that there’s a 90% certainty that the Las Vegas attack was a jihadi operation and Stephen Paddock was the conduit through which the terrorist organization attacked America.

    • juris imprudent

      [snore] Just like everything is white supremacy to the SPLC, this guy’s shtick is Muslim Brotherhood/Islamic extremism.

    • EvilSheldon

      Ehh.

      Jihadis don’t usually work through intermediaries. They want everyone to know who they are, who they’re attacking, and why.

      • UnCivilServant

        “We have a lovely selection of Hawai’ian cuisine” *explodes*

    • slumbrew

      I read that and it’s stupid

      “He was openly contemptuous of religious people”

      later

      “It was almost certainly ISIS because it’s the sort of thing they’d do”

      zero actual linkage between ISIS and that guy. The ex-fed is just going with his gut.

    • Grummun

      ISIS my speckled pink fanny. The Vegas shooting was an FBI operation that they lost control of, just like the Boston marathon bombing.

      • slumbrew

        ISIS my speckled pink fanny.

        You may want to see a doctor about that.

  52. Sensei

    Of course…

    The animal-rights activist who ran onto the field with a pink smoke bomb at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on Monday night during a game between the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers has filed a police report for assault by Rams players who tackled him to end his demonstration.

    Rams players, NFL face legal threat as tackled protester files police complaint

    It’s CA so I won’t be surprised with anything that happens.

    • Gender Traitor

      “No reasonable person would expect to be TACKLED on a football field just because you’re releasing an unknown gas in a place where there are thousands of people!”/whatever is five steps below a beta male

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The answer here is to countersue and bring in any organization that provided material or moral support to this person. Bankrupt the individual and get at the non-profit that put them up to it.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I hate the Rams, and the players certainly don’t need the money, but I would contribute to their defense fund.

    • kinnath

      Long ago, in a galaxy far away, some fool ran across a football field. A famous linebacker laid him out flat with a vicious blindside hit. After the game, said linebacker said you couldn’t run across his field and not expect to get hit. And the world celebrated.

      No charges were filed.

    • Sensei

      I read about it in the news, but not the brief itself.

    • UnCivilServant

      There are a number of patent falsehoods in that brief. They really should take this seriously, someone might come after them for lying to the court.

      • juris imprudent

        The Bee is THE source of satire/parody. It is known.

      • Fourscore

        I guess I missed them…

        /Not a real attorney

    • Tres Cool

      That cant be real.

      • Nephilium

        It is. The suit is from a guy over in Parma. Land of Drew Carey, pierogi, and pink flamingos.

      • Tres Cool

        I met Drew once in the late 90s, in a restaurant in the Flats (before they looked like Syria). I was working up there, and one of my colleagues had a brother that was a sous chef at the restaurant. Drew was in the corner, reading something, and I asked for his autograph. He was funny- talked to us for a few minutes. I remember him saying “the last time I was here, I think the place was on fire”. I didnt have any paper so he signed a $1 bill with a sharpie marker, with his brush-cut caricature. I still have it around here someplace.
        Drew singing

      • Nephilium

        The Flats have been revitalized again. Now the East bank is the fancy side, and the West bank is the one going into the shitter.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      In addition to maintaining a towering standard of excellence to which the rest of the industry aspires, The Onion supports more than 350,000 full- and parttime journalism jobs in its numerous news bureaus and manual labor camps stationed around the world, and members of its editorial board have served with distinction in an advisory capacity for such nations as China, Syria, Somalia, and the former Soviet Union. On top of its journalistic pursuits, The Onion also owns and operates the majority of the world’s transoceanic shipping lanes, stands on the nation’s leading edge on matters of deforestation and strip mining, and proudly conducts tests on millions of animals daily.

      I see The Onion finally got back to its roots.

  53. juris imprudent

    Too soon for irony?

    Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed the death of fitness coach Gian Piero Ventrone aged 61.

    • UnCivilServant

      It depends what killed him.

      • juris imprudent

        Leukemia apparently, and quickly.

      • UnCivilServant

        Could’ve happened to anyone.

  54. Shiny Nerfherder

    After the hammering BR took last week on the pound crisis and their losses in the real estate market, me thinks this is just the start. The ESG backlash just provides a political framing to it.

    https://twitter.com/willhild/status/1577755596937478146

    BREAKING:
    @LATreasury
    announced in a letter to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink that

    Louisiana will divest ALL Treasury funds from BlackRock, totaling $794M to be removed by year’s end.

    This the LARGEST divestment from BlackRock by any state.

    Please let this snowball, please…

  55. B.P.

    In honor of the Elon Musk news, I present my first ever twitter link, which lays down the facts from a trusted reporter…

    https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1577596735328763905

    “The dollar is enjoying generational dominance. Our military is the strongest ever relative to the rest of the world. Poverty is at 50 year lows. The US is the world’s top energy exporter. Technologically, we are 2nd to none. Please stop hating on America and the West.”

    There you have it. Shut up, whiners.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Given that he’s married to the daughter of the person who presumably could be considered the godfather of our glorious proxy war in Ukraine, I would love to see that boot-licking POS get shuffled off into retirement permanently. He can yell at the clouds like Olbermann for the rest of his years.

    • R C Dean

      The US is the world’s top energy exporter.

      I’d like to see the data behind that claim.

      • whiz

        Being a net exporter doesn’t mean you’re the top energy exporter. Surely the middle east countries export way more than they use.

  56. Mojeaux

    Well, that was a happy set of links!

  57. Sensei

    “It’s not my money.”

    /s City Hall.

    Staten Island firefighter canned over COVID-19 vax mandate gets job back after judge’s decision

    Timothy Rivicci – who filed suit after he was terminated in March – will be reinstated to his full duties at Engine 158 and granted a religious exemption from the jab, according to a decision handed down on Tuesday by Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio.

    Rivicci will also receive back pay and compensation for lawyers’ fees, the judge ruled.

    • Fourscore

      “By god, I’m not taking the jab” is a religious exemption.

    • Sean

      “Unvaccinated firefighters can threaten the health and safety of fellow first responders and the public they closely interact with, including the most vulnerable.”

      Bullshit. 100%.

  58. Tres Cool

    We just learned this morning that Jugsy’s BFF (ever since kindergarten) took her life. Obviously some mental illness was at work, but she’d been getting help and was well medicated. Ironically, plans were in place to have her live with us while she worked through a rocky break-up with her toxic (my words) boyfriend of 12 years. I guess at least I dont have to clean the spare bedroom now.
    I knew this broad, and from 10 minutes after our introduction I said “she’s nuttier than squirrel shit”. And I meant that like “she’s not fun to party with and go shopping with crazy- she’s more the “we the people, find the defendant…” cray cray.”
    I suppose it resonates with me, since she leaves behind only 1 sibling (both parents are dead) and a son the same age as Tres Version 2.0. I can only imagine what is going through that kid’s melon right now.
    Any positive thoughts/vibes/prayers directed to SW Ohio on her behalf are most appreciated.

    Relevant

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Sorry. Hopefully Jugsy and the girl’s son can find peace in the aftermath.

    • Tundra

      Terrible news.

      Sorry for Jugsy and the boy.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

    • Sensei

      Sorry as well.

    • Nephilium

      Sorry man. It’s been a rough couple of years for that.

    • B.P.

      I’m very sorry to hear this. Everyone, please know that you are much more needed by, wanted by, and valuable to your families and loved ones alive than not.

    • Gender Traitor

      Oh, no! I’m so sorry! Please give Jugsy a hug from me.

    • Count Potato

      Sorry 🙁

    • Pat

      Sorry to hear. I hope the kid has some kind of support system, that’s got to be tough.

      • Grumbletarian

        What Pat said. That sucks…

    • Mojeaux

      I’m so sorry.

  59. Sensei

    Kamala Harris was in accident falsely dismissed as ‘mechanical failure’

    Harris was heading to the White House just before 10:30 a.m. Monday when the driver of her SUV “had a minor overcorrection and struck a curb,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed.

    The impact was hard enough that the tire needed to be replaced, bringing the VP’s motorcade to a standstill, sources told the Washington Post.

    Yes, a “minor” overcorrection and curb strike completely destroys a run flat tire.

    • juris imprudent

      Was she behind the wheel?

      • kinnath

        The security guy was in the back seat fighting to take control of the steering wheel.

    • R.J.

      If you hit the curb right it will pop the tire loose from the rim. Entirely possible. Seems non-controversial.

      • Sensei

        Puncture resistant run flats?

    • kinnath

      Someone found a way to get off her security detail.

    • B.P.

      I’m sure Robby Soave happened by the situation and got the car back on the road immediately.

      • Tres Cool

        +2 Pomeranians

    • EvilSheldon

      I’ll say it again:

      – ‘Slow is smooth, smooth is fast’ is enormously destructive advice.

      – Tulsi showing off playing with the guns and magazines that she wants to ban for others, makes her a first-rate piece of shit.

      • Tundra

        Still wood.

      • EvilSheldon

        *sigh*

        Yeah, me too.

      • slumbrew

        As a reminder:

        Tulsi has a consistent record of advocating for sensible gun control. She has long called for reinstating a federal ban on military-style assault weapons and high capacity magazines, requiring comprehensive pre-purchase background checks, closing the gun-show loophole, and making sure that terrorists are not allowed to buy guns. Tulsi has an F-rating from the NRA, a 0% rating by the Hawaii Rifle Association, and a 100% rating by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. She is focused on building bipartisan solutions that can actually be passed into law, rather than using the issue as a partisan political football.

  60. Sensei

    Just how insanely finite element analyzed was this?

    The defect stemmed from not accounting for the high torque exerted on the wheels by the car’s all-electric drivetrain. The wheels are attached with hub bolts, but even in low mileage use, the wheels can come loose due to vigorous driving – such as turning sharply or braking aggressively.

    This isn’t some high performance EV. This isn’t the usual conservative Toyota.

    Toyota finally finds fix to keep wheels on its new bZ4X EV crossover