Monday Afternoon Links of Disappoint

by | Apr 17, 2023 | Daily Links | 206 comments

Aw, man. I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed that SpaceX had a frozen valve and they couldn’t get some random dude with a mallet to fix it while everyone watched. That would have been must see TV. Or stream, or whatever. Last night, the one year old proved that even toddlers can train adults. When he wants to practice walking, he gets himself pulled up in my lap, turns around, slides down so he’s facing out on his feet, and grabs my fingers. Smart little monkey.

Oh, boy the collision of Electronic Health Records and ChatGPT should be the worst of both (pretty bad) words.

Will Apple and GS hide my money in Ireland to keep my taxes down, too?

Goodbye, Parler!

Damn, I just realized this album is pushing 30 years old. Its an oldies tunes now.

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Brett L

Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots. He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion. Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft. Brett is becoming legend. Brett can never die. Brett can never die. Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.

206 Comments

  1. SDF-7

    I’m just disappointed that SpaceX had a frozen valve

    Sounds like they needed to invest more in steam.

    • Rat on a train

      They needed a Kerbal.

    • Fourscore

      Piss on it!

  2. Count Potato

    “Goodbye, Parler!”

    Is that good news?

    • Count Potato

      “Following Starboard’s announcement on Friday, the company immediately shut down Parler’s website. A note on Parler.com(opens in a new tab) reads “no reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more.”

      To be clear though, this isn’t an anti-conservative statement from Starboard. It’s strictly business. Starboard’s statement goes on to praise former Parler CEO George Farmer for Parler’s more recent move into providing alternative IT and cloud services solutions through its former parent company Parlament Technologies.”

      I would have gone with Funkadelic Technologies.

      • WTF

        Well, now that conservatives are no longer censored and banned from Twitter, there’s no longer any need for Parler.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Mostly yep plus there’s still Gab for the edgier ones who’d still get bounced from Twitter and Truth Social for those who want to orally service Trump.

      • rhywun

        lol who knows how much longer

        SEE ALSO: Trump-backed Truth Social allegedly owes $1.6m in unpaid hosting fees

      • Rat on a train

        Those fascists will let anyone speak.

      • Count Potato

        Decentralization is always good.

      • Pat

        now that conservatives are no longer censored and banned from Twitter

        Or are they?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Of course the government thinks it should get the service for free.

      • rhywun

        Y’know, texting still exists.

        There is no reason to force users to go through Twitter to get alerts.

      • Sensei

        Or, you know, put it on its own web site.

      • Count Potato

        Somehow I managed to figure out the subway before there was internet.

      • Sensei

        It wasn’t fun for an NYC transplant. You got the paper map and had no idea where the entrances, exits and exchanges were.

        Mind you it was possible, but you were guaranteed a few adventures.

      • rhywun

        The system is really complex. I have gotten lost a few times.

        And then there’s “this train is now going express to five stops past your stop” fun.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Heh. I remember working there for a week or two back in the nineties, and the local rep. meeting us at the hotel off times square and guiding us to the subway, and off at Astor Pl.

      • Bobarian LMD

        At 3AM on a Sunday morning, the train leaving Columbia University was only going north. North of Columbia University, circa 1987, was no-white-man’s land.

        You had to go north for 4 stops before you could get a southbound train. My roommate passed out and we then traveled much further north than planned before I could get him up and over to the southbound.

        He had an uncanny ability to pass out almost anywhere. I probably should have left him.

      • Michael Malaise

        Why is the London tube easier?

      • Tundra

        My kids figured out the Tube in about 5 minutes.

        No clue why it’s easier.

      • rhywun

        No express vs. local trains & fewer transfer points are probably the main reasons.

      • The Last American Hero

        My transit doesn’t have an app?

      • Pat

        Perhaps the NYC government should develop their own service to announce subway alerts. You know, mAkE yOuR OwN TwITtEr!

      • Tonio

        I think the telcos (is that even still a thing?) have must-carry SMS alerts where government can blow up your phone with alerts for missing persons, weather alerts, etc.

      • Nephilium

        The cell providers have the mandated alerts for Weather/Amber alerts. At least on most phones, you can dig through the settings and turn off the alerts.

      • Pat

        I was about to say, if they start delivering subway updates the same way as the extreme weather and amber alerts, then the subway commissioners will be hanging from lamp posts before the week is out.

      • Tonio

        +1 Hawaii state government bureaucrat who panicked everyone by sending out what he claimed he thought was a test message warning of impending missle strike.

      • Sensei

        Plus the coverup.

        Hawaii worker who sent missile alert was ‘100% sure’ attack was real

        The Hawaii emergency management agency fired the worker after the incident. His superiors said they knew for years he had problems performing his job. The worker had mistakenly believed drills for tsunami and fire warnings were actual events and colleagues were not comfortable working with him, the state said.

        His supervisors counseled him but kept him for a decade in a position that had to be renewed each year, authorities said. The ex-worker disputed that, saying he was not aware of any performance problems.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Unless I’m missing something, just putting out alerts wouldn’t cost anything. The free tier includes 1500 posts a month.

      • Mojeaux

        Starboard is waterspeak for “right.”

  3. SDF-7

    When he wants to practice walking, he gets himself pulled up in my lap, turns around, slides down so he’s facing out on his feet, and grabs my fingers. Smart little monkey.

    Wait til he starts getting a sibling to distract you while he palms the credit cards. 😉

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      My youngest paid attention. Either she didn’t do half the things that got her sisters into trouble or she hid it a lot better.

      • Pope Jimbo

        My youngest would always hang back and see if his older brother or sister survived before he tried doing something. The elder siblings were always in a rush to out do the other, so there were a lot of injuries for them.

  4. SDF-7

    A note on Parler.com(opens in a new tab) reads “no reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more.”

    James Comey finished the job the censorship partnership with the IC started back when they colluded to get Parler kicked off of all the hosting / app stores?

  5. SDF-7

    Damn, I just realized this album is pushing 30 years old. Its an oldies tunes now.

    … when you realize that no song from your youth, no matter how hardcore is immune to becoming elevator muzak for the current generation….

      • slumbrew

        That opening is just so distinctive.

        From the comments:

        “Paul Carrack sang lead on “How Long” by Ace, “The Living Years” by Mike + The Mechanics, “Don’t Shed a Tear” by himself, and this all-time gem. What a legacy.”

        Damn, that’s impressive.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    “Parler’s large user base and additional strategic assets represent an enormous opportunity for Starboard to continue to build aggressively in our media and publishing business,” Starboard CEO Ryan Coyne said in a statement. “The team at Parler has built an exceptional audience and we look forward to integrating that audience across all of our existing platforms.”

    They bought it for the mailing list?

    That’s an interesting gambit.

    • SDF-7

      The mailing list they then apparently pissed off (and all over) by shutting everything down. I seriously question just what sort of brand loyalty and user base they think they have after that move.

      • R.J.

        Gah. I was hoping they’d finally delete the list. I joined to talk to my father in law and have been getting ad emails ever since. Please kill it off completely.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Not to worry, they will get that Dylan Mulvaney character to be their spokesperson. That will get everyone back for sure.

  7. Count Potato

    “Epic and Microsoft said there were two initial AI-enabled solutions developed in the initial roll out of the integration. The first use case occurs through Epic’s In Basket communication software system. Through the integration with Microsoft, clinicians can use generative AI to create a draft response when communicating asynchronously with patients.”

    What?

    • Pat

      Your doctor gets ChatGPT to send you emails and post the notes from your visits to the shitty patient portal your HMO provides.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        God, I hate that thing. OK, my cholesterol is .oo2 high, now what?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Given ChatGPT’s propensity to just make shit up, it should lead to some entertaining results.

      “I’m sorry Mrs. Smith, but based on your diagnostics, you have cancer of the foreskin.

      We recommend surgical amputation followed by radiation.”

      • Sensei

        Given that mediocre doctors simply run through flow charts for diagnosis ChatGPT may actually be better than the median doc.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I still remember the first expert systems back in the late 80’s.

        Nothing more than glorified flowcharts.

    • rhywun

      “It writes emails.”

      • Count Potato

        I’ve received an email from a doctor’s office, besides appointment reminders.

      • Count Potato

        Um, “I’ve never received an email”

  8. The Late P Brooks

    they couldn’t get some random dude with a mallet,/strike> blowtorch to fix it while everyone watched.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    goddammit

    • Sean

      *points & laughs*

    • R C Dean

      I wish I could find the video, but a few years ago at a NASCAR race one of the cars came into the pits pretty banged up. They needed to get the hood to lay down and the quarter panels away from the tires. So, this little guy just starts pounding on it with his fist. Then, this somewhat bigger guy comes up with a hammer and starts whacking on it. Followed very shortly by a pretty big guy with a bigger hammer, who takes some licks.

      Bringing up the rear was this huge guy with a sledge hammer. I don’t recall if they let him hit the car. But the parade of bigger and bigger guys with bigger and bigger hammers was amusing.

      • The Gunslinger

        Could it be this? At the 1 minute mark they are hammering the rear end of car #10.

        https://youtu.be/SY73K1a3LDk

        The first comment is good.

        Things you won’t see in F1. Five men using seven hammers to improve a car’s aerodynamics.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Well, they drink wine, and not beer.

      • R C Dean

        No, I don’t think that was it.

    • Gender Traitor

      Clippy: “It looks like you’re trying to post a comment on the Internet. Would you like help?” 📎

  10. Pat

    SpaceX had a frozen valve and they couldn’t get some random dude with a mallet to fix it while everyone watched.

    I’ve heard the funny space meme man did it deliberately so they could launch on 4/20

  11. Chafed

    That’s a great album Brett.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Man’s ruination of the planet, ch 7,392


    Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of miles from their original home on plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a 620,000 square mile swirl of trash in the ocean between California and Hawaii.

    In a new study published in the Nature Ecology & Evolution journal on Monday, a team of researchers revealed that dozens of species of coastal invertebrate organisms have been able to survive and reproduce on plastic garbage that’s been floating in the ocean for years.

    ——-

    Haram said that the consequences of the introduction of new species into the remote areas of the ocean are not yet fully understood.

    It’s bad. We know that much.

    • Pat

      Displacement of species leading to iterative change over time is horrifying and dangerous. Also Christians are bumpkins who don’t believe in evolution, can you believe it?

    • Fatty Bolger

      Life finds a way.

    • B.P.

      Whelp, we can’t clean up the garbage patch now. It’s a wildlife refuge.

    • limey

      I saw a nature doc from years ago that featured the ecosystem that exists around the bits of detritus that float way out into the sea. Not necessarily junk, but this sounds incredibly similar. I wish I could find the clip..

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Bringing up the rear was this huge guy with a sledge hammer. I don’t recall if they let him hit the car. But the parade of bigger and bigger guys with bigger and bigger hammers was amusing.

    “You’re just not hitting it hard enough!” is hardly ever the correct answer.

    • Timeloose

      The BFH approach.

    • SDF-7

      It is for her…

  14. Shpip

    Parler grew in popularity following the 2020 presidential election as right-wing users sought out a more-friendly outlet to discuss conspiracy theories and share their anger over former president Donald Trump’s electoral defeat. vent about an obviously gamed election, the results of which Republican leadership had no problem with.

    fixed it for them

    • Pat

      Twitter grew in popularity following the 2016 presidential election as left-wing users sought out a more-friendly outlet to discuss conspiracy theories and share their anger over former senator Hillary Clinton’s electoral defeat.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is twice the size of Texas, is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world.

    Pics or fuck off.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        *golf clap*

    • Pat

      Until they mentioned that bit about plastic I thought they just meant Australia.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      It’s mostly pieces of plastic so small that you can’t see it. The descriptions of the patch are always misleading.

      • Fatty Bolger

        The typical news reporting on this is ridiculous. We watched a news report where they made it sound like it was one giant island of trash in the ocean. My wife asked why couldn’t we just scoop it all up. I had to explain that it’s like a small fraction of the trash from the local dump spread out over an area bigger than Texas.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        When I first heard of it I assumed it must be visible on Google Earth, which of course it wasn’t.

  16. DEG

    Health systems using Epic’s EHR system will be able to run generative AI solutions through Microsoft’s OpenAI Azure Service. Microsoft uses OpenAI’s language model GPT-4 capabilities in its Azure cloud solution.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  17. The Late P Brooks

    But cleanup is only part of the solution. A study published last month said that without urgent policy action, the rate at which plastics enter the oceans could increase by around 2.6 times between now and 2040.

    The UN Environment Assembly passed a historic resolution last year to end plastic pollution and create the world’s first global plastic pollution treaty by 2024 – a legally binding agreement that would address the full life cycle of plastic, from its production and design to its disposal.

    Sounds legit.

    • The Last American Hero

      Legally binding. Pooh Bear laughs at your legal binding.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      It’s remarkable how someone so butt-ugly could be that much of a narcissistic psychopath.

    • The Other Kevin

      This reminds me of the poor trans people who need our attention after one of them killed three kids.

    • Pat

      Kathy Griffin occupies very little of my attention, but I must admit, I do find this gratifying. It’s the same type of schadenfreude I got from the Martha’s Vineyard pols shitting their collective drawers and calling in the national guard over a few dozen illegal immigrants that were sent to their little sanctuary city enclave out of the tens of thousands that were sitting in an El Paso detention center.

    • Tonio

      That’s a rough-looking 62 yo.

      • Pat

        Carrot Top really let himself go

      • Pope Jimbo

        She was on Adam Corolla’s podcast and she said she recently had half of a lung removed because of cancer. So she’s had a rough patch of road.

        On the podcast she claims that the decapitated head wasn’t her idea (the photog asked her to hold it) and that it was never meant to be political. And that she got really bad advice right after the incident. Corolla didn’t press her about it, so who knows.

        I remember it as being an instance of someone being brave and standing up to Trump, but my memory sucks. I also don’t remember her apologizing after the pic came out and saying that it was a huge mistake.

      • B.P.

        That was mighty polite of Corolla.

        “Here, hold this bloody mannequin head resembling the president everyone hates. I’m going to take a picture. It’s not political.”

      • Count Potato

        ” I also don’t remember her apologizing after the pic came out and saying that it was a huge mistake.”

        I remember that, and when she went back on that apology.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        She went back on the apology because so much of the left found what she did wonderful, and now she is paying the piper.

    • Grumbletarian

      I remember when PTSD meant at one point you had to watch a bunch of friends get killed in combat, and for just about anything less you were told to rub some dirt on it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Even that wasn’t good enough for Old Blood and Guts.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        He did have a Patton on being an A-hole.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I would say there are other valid circumstances.

        Surviving a natural disaster like a hurricane could cause PTSD. I’m sure dozens of other circumstances would qualify too.

        But those people claiming PTSD because someone used their dead name can fuck right off.

      • Michael Malaise

        I don’t get the people who don’t take the opportunity to really go out and change their names. Danielle to Daniel?

        BOH-RING!

        How about BeastMode? or Howitzer or Jezebellah?

    • B.P.

      Being brave has its downsides.

    • The Other Kevin

      She reminds me of about 90% of the moms I see walking around Target.

      • Pat

        Was going to say the same thing. “Casual-chic” is an interesting word for “frumpy housewife.” The same gossip mongers would be savaging their best friend for going out looking that way.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Normal was the word I was going to use.

      • Tundra

        Mrs. T went to Target today in a lovely pair of Daisy Dukes today.

        I don’t mind casual 😉

      • Tundra

        Today, even.

        *shakes head*

    • Sean

      Not even Milfy.

      • The Other Kevin

        If I saw her at Target I would not give her a second glance.

    • B.P.

      Overheard at the Paparazzi National Convention: “Man that guy is a legend. Absolute artist. He can make anyone look like crap.”

    • limey

      Women be shoppin’.

  18. Sensei

    Never change CA!

    Fixed-rate electricity bill charges: how they would work

    It’s not as bad as thought, but it is still ridiculous.

    Put simply, the more you earn the more you pay for recurring charges (not related to energy usage):

    Households with annual income from $28,000 – $69,000 would pay $20 a month in Southern California Edison territory, $34 a month in SDG&E territory, and $30 a month in PG&E territory.
    Households earning $69,000 – $180,000 would pay $51 a month in Edison and PG&E territories, and $73 a month in SDG&E territory.
    Those with incomes above $180,000 would pay $85 a month in Edison territory, $128 a month in SDG&E territory and $92 a month in PG&E territory.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Why is it the power company’s business to know my income?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well they did say they didn’t want to know but will use the State to get your income.

    • Rat on a train

      I said before, put the utilities in grandma’s name.
      I look forward to expanding this program to grocery stores. Please present to id for income verification.

    • R C Dean

      Next step: variable charges based on your social credit score, not (just) your income.

  19. Rat on a train

    OmniRide wants fare hikes, more local subsidy in budget

    OmniRide is hoping that higher fares and a larger local subsidy from its constituent localities will help make up for dwindling pandemic relief funding.

    The transit agency is proposing raising fares on commuter routes from $6.90 to $9 in the next fiscal year, which starts in July. Officials say the added cost will ultimately be picked up by the federal government through employee commuter benefits for most riders.

    I recall VRE federales bitching when the VRE raised rates to a few dollars more per month than the federal government subsidized. The transit providers know they won’t get complaints from them if they keep it under the limit.
    They don’t charge for local rides, want to add door-to-door paratransit, and are demanding dedicated state funding. You want that. You pay for it.

  20. DEG

    Sununu at the NRA convention

    Addressing the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis Friday, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu kept his remarks short and sweet: There is no substitute for winning.

    “We can yell and scream all we want, but we want winners for tomorrow,” Sununu told the crowd.

    “At the end of the day, we have to ask if we are going to sit back and whine. Or are we going to get it done. Let’s get it done,” Sununu added.

    Note: He vetoed the repeal of the state level background checks for pistol purchases.

    • Count Potato

      How was the state different than the federal?

      • DEG

        As I understood it…. the state police called the Feds. The Feds ran the background check and the results back to the state police. The state police then relay the results to the gun dealer.

        During the Lil Rona Panic, this process could take up to three days.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Sounds just like the Oregon system.

        Vast room for additional fuckery, as we have seen here.

    • Rat on a train

      No unless they are still raping children while in prison.

    • WTF

      Well, that just guarantees that the rapist will kill their victim to eliminate a witness. Since they get the death penalty anyway for the rape, the murder is free.

    • Swiss Servator

      Cops do nothing, we will have to have rooftop Koreans again.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      And when retailers flee, everyone cries racism.

    • Drake

      American cities are dying.

      • Bobarian LMD

        American cities are dying being murdered.

  21. Tundra

    Smart little monkey.

    It gets worse. Or better, I guess.

    Apple announced the product in October, part of a series of new financial offerings. The idea is to generate more revenue from services, which have already surged in recent years, and provide yet another way to lock consumers into the Apple platform.

    This is kind of intriguing. I’m skeptical given the players, but still it’s more creative than fucking throttling to get people to get a new phone.

    • Pat

      Imagine how much better voice assistants could have been if AskJeeves had won the search wars instead of Google.

      • Nephilium

        /fondly remembers AltaVista and AstalaVista

      • Pat

        I loved AltaVista. Used it more or less exclusively until it died in ignominy. What I meant though is that “Jeeves, set my alarm” or “Jeeves, add this to my calendar” has a nicer ring to it than “Bixby” or “Alexa” or “Hey, Google”

  22. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. I’m guessing that these yahoos lived because they were working in southern Minnesoda amongst the German immigrants.

    I can’t see the Norwegians, Swedes and Finns I grew up with putting up with this nonsense.

    In the summer of 2022, Spring Grove was selected as a recipient to the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design, or CIRD, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Housing Assistance Council.

    CIRD focuses on communities with populations of 50,000 or less, and the goal is to enhance the quality of life and economic vitality of rural America through planning, design, and placemaking. The organization held workshops and planning meetings to help the community define its vision for a shared space. Renderings were created to show what a multi-functional building with classrooms, an auditorium, and other amenities might look like.

    Shonterria Charleston, the director of Technical Assistance and Training at the Housing Assistance Council, said there are four main pillars to the program.

    “It really is intended to empower local citizens to capitalize on the unique local and regional assets in order to guide the civic development as well as future design of their communities,” she told the Daily Yonder. That includes revitalization strategies, and creative placemaking arts, culture and design, as well as idea exchanges and peer learning as “drivers of economic development.” Charleston said all that is working towards preparing communities to be ready and competitive for arts and design-related state and federal funding opportunities.

    So some artsy-fartsy folk came into town to teach the savages how to write grants and get in on the govt NGO gravy train? Sure that is a great way to build a community.

    • The Last American Hero

      Those groups you mentioned are even more commie than the Germans.

  23. Pat

    The ridiculous renaming of the Brecon Beacons

    The Brecon Beacons are no more. Not literally. The hills, mountains and quick-silver streams and rivers of this much-loved Welsh national park are still there. But from today they have been rechristened. They will now be known by their new Welsh name of Bannau Brycheiniog, which, translated, means Peaks of Brychan’s Kingdom – a reference to an obscure 5th-century monarch.

    According to Bannau’s chief executive, Catherine Mealing-Jones, the previous name for the park – the one everyone uses, knows and loves – was sending out the wrong message. The word ‘beacons’ refers to the wood-burning braziers that small settlements used to light on elevated ground to warn neighbouring communities of an approaching danger. According to Mealing-Jones, this reference to burning wood several centuries ago ‘is not a good look for an environmental organisation’.

    That’s right. By referring to the seemingly horrifying practice of, er, lighting a fire, the name Brecon Beacons offends against today’s green, Net Zero orthodoxy.

    • rhywun

      Um… people are going to be burning a LOT more wood if the eco-nuts get their way.

      • Fourscore

        Renewable resource

        I got by this whole winter burning wood for heat, I’m doing my share.

    • Michael Malaise

      There are solar-powered beacons.

  24. Drake

    Apple, Goldman Sachs Debut Savings Account With 4.15% Annual Yield

    I’m already at 4.5% at CIT Bank, but thanks.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      LOL

    • Pat

      Kept full control of the pizza box too. Chad move.

    • Grumbletarian

      A RACIST WHITE GUY BLATANLTY AND VIOLENTLY ASSAULTED A BLACK MAN WHO WAS JUST RUNNING PAST HIM!

      sin,
      Ben Crump

      • creech

        Just out jogging, thinking about making some life changes and maybe going to college. You can almost make out the “Gentle Giant” nickname embroidered on his shirt.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    The other day I was watching some youtube F1 highlights. Not sure if it was Australia, or another race. I wasn’t really paying very close attention, but they had an in-car feed with radio, and my ears perked up when the guys in the pit started saying, “Stop the car. Stop the car. Stop the car. KERS exit when you get to a safe spot.”

    That means, “DO OT TOUCH THE CAR AND THE GROUND SIMULTANEOUSLY, OR THERE IS A NON-ZERO POSSIBILITY YOU MIGHT BE BE ELECTROCUTED.”

    The driver got out of the cockpit, onto the top of the sidepod, and jumped clear. I assume they radioed the track marshals to stay away. Presumably they have an established procedure to discharge the supercapacitors safely before anybody starts fucking with it.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      This makes no sense. How is the supercapacitor connected to earth ground?

      • Bobarian LMD

        My understanding is that there is so much energy being released and created by those F1 e-cars, that there is risks of the bodies and other parts obtaining very high voltage charges while racing.

        Mechanic gets shocked

        Getting out of a wreck

    • Grumbletarian

      Pythia’s Oasis is a newly discovered seafloor seep on the Central Oregon segment of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where focused venting emits highly altered fluids ~9°C above the background temperature. The seep fluid chemistry is unique for Cascadia and includes extreme enrichment of boron and lithium and depletion of chloride, potassium, and magnesium.

      SEA SMITH getting a little action?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        SEA SMITH SEEP FLUID VERY ENRICHING!

  26. The Late P Brooks

    How is the supercapacitor connected to earth ground?

    By the driver.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      The driver must complete a circuit in order to be zapped. Unless the capacitor has some connection to the earth ground there is no circuit to complete.

      If there is a power line that falls on a car, there is danger to the driver stepping out of the car because the voltage of the power line is respect to ground. In this case the hazard is entirely within the car. There is probably more to this story.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Probably poorly grounded vehicle and you become the circuit to complete it…agree need more

  27. The Late P Brooks

    A RACIST WHITE GUY BLATANLTY AND VIOLENTLY ASSAULTED A BLACK MAN WHO WAS JUST RUNNING PAST HIM!

    The war on black joggers continues.

      • Not Adahn

        Probably.

        But this is new and AFAIK, the first gun company to put a “build-a-gun” feature on their website. Sig does something similar-ish.

      • Not Adahn

        Under $1k????

        Must… resist…

      • R C Dean

        By the time you replace the hideous grips and trigger, you’ll be over $1K.

      • Not Adahn

        If you don’t one of these, you owe it to yourself.

      • Timeloose

        I have a Stainless CZ 75 from this shop in AZ. My local shop gets a few from them a year.
        Amazing. The only pistol I can grab out of the box and hit a full mag of steel at 25 yards.

        https://czcustom.com/

      • Sean

        I was sorely tempted at that sale price. 🔥🔥

      • EvilSheldon

        The Shadow 2 is a great gun, but it’s not safe to carry in condition 1. No drop safety.

    • Animal

      No .45s?

      • Not Adahn

        Looks like that is an option to be added.

        Originally that competition trigger and ambi safety weren’t options.

    • juris imprudent

      Malibu Beach House Defender, because you wouldn’t be caught dead with it in public.

    • EvilSheldon

      I would be very surprised if you could get a 2011 to run under a high (10k/year) round count at that price. Not saying that it can’t be done, but I’d be surprised.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    The driver must complete a circuit in order to be zapped. Unless the capacitor has some connection to the earth ground there is no circuit to complete.

    The chassis is sitting on those four rubber tires. If there is a fault in the “power unit” which allows the chassis to become a live conductor for that stored charge, being the path for that charge to escape into the soil is not a good idea.

    I don’t build ’em, but I know a little about them.

  29. Count Potato

    https://nypost.com/2023/04/17/13-year-old-dead-after-attempting-tiktoks-benadryl-challenge/

    “An Ohio teen tragically perished after overdosing on over-the-counter medication while attempting a viral TikTok stunt.

    The 13-year-old victim, Jacob Stevens, had been partaking in the “Benadryl Challenge,” a dangerous pursuit in which participants take 12 to 14 of the antihistamines — six times the recommended dose — in order to induce hallucinations.”

    That sounds like the stupidest thing ever.

    “Jacob’s father, Justin…is imploring lawmakers to put age restrictions on over-the-counter pharmaceuticals like Benadryl — a campaign he describes as his “life goal.”

    He wants TikTok to impose similar safeguards, including requiring users to provide an ID before creating an account.”

    Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ambien and force yourself to stay awake is a much better blackout experience for your friends to watch.

    • Tundra

      Fuck you, Jacob’s father.

      Back in my yute, all the hockey players pounded Sudafed. Dangerous? Perhaps.

      But none of us died. So tired of this shit. It has never been that challenging to get the real thing.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      imploring lawmakers to put age restrictions on over-the-counter pharmaceuticals like Benadryl

      Fuck off asshole.

    • one true athena

      As my dad used to say, that sounds like evolution in action.

    • Sensei

      Maybe just ban the internet to be safe.

  30. The Bearded Hobbit

    They were doing that back in 1968. Kids these days, think they’ve invented everything.

    • Not Adahn

      What ever happened to wholesome challenges, like phone booth stuffing or seeing how many couples could make out in a VW Bug?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I blame CKY2K and Jack Ass for all this.

    • Gender Traitor

      Which color of the tiny time pills in the Contac capsules had the Good Stuff?

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        White and green. Come to think of it, what we called “Christmas Trees” were probably anti-histamines.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Still so many variables going on….needs another 48 hours it seems

      • Mojeaux

        It was in conspiracy territory at first, but now it seems to all have shaken out. Old dude’s on the lam.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah see that. 10pm…not your neighborhood…only reason I can think to run is you know you are eligible to be a white power Nazi lover because of the backlash and celebrity uproar.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Or the dude is an asshole and thought he could plug a kid. Tragic for the kid

      • Mojeaux

        The kid showing up at the wrong house was an honest mistake. He rang the doorbell. Didn’t try to go in. He was shot through the glass storm door. I’m not sympathetic to the shooter here.

      • EvilSheldon

        No, but I can certainly see how it happened. 84 years old, no family mentioned so I’ll give fair odds he’s a shut-in, probably never seen a black person except on TV news…you know the rest.

        Why do people open their front doors after dark without first identifying the person on the other side? That, I will never understand.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        The only people who are allowed to shoot through a door are DC cops. Well, I guess all cops.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      A CSI team located a Smith and Wesson .32 caliber revolver

      The gun was probably eligible for Medicare benefits.

      • Mojeaux

        My news said .38

      • rhywun

        Race does not appear to be a factor in the New York case. From photos they both appear to be white.

        So does that make this “better” or “worse”?

      • Sensei

        “Local issue”

    • juris imprudent

      I’ll ask a stupid question, were his brothers at a nearby house? That out of the way, shooting through a closed storm door is bad – how could you really say the kid was breaking in?

      • Mojeaux

        They were at a house one block over. He was supposed to pick them up on NE 115th Terrace and went to the same house number on NE 115th Street.

      • juris imprudent

        Hang the city planner that thinks that kind of street naming is cute.

      • kinnath

        Never been to Phoenix eh?

      • Mojeaux

        Srsly. In KCMO, a “terrace” is a half block running east and west. A full block is from Xth Street to Xth Street. Streets running north and south are named.

        In KCK, it’s exact opposite and they don’t have terraces.

    • EvilSheldon

      The leade buried from all the earlier reporting – the shooter is 84 years old.

      A .32S&W revolver would explain why the kid is still alive.