Thursday Afternoon Links

by | Oct 5, 2023 | Daily Links | 202 comments

Your tune o’ the day.

THE ULTIMATE IN BROOKLYN HIPSTER COMMUNIST DOUCHEBAGGERY: Friends of stabbed activist blame ‘structural wrongs,’ not the stabber, for their friends’ death. Remember kids, you get more of what you reward. Every. Single. Time. Late-breaking: suspect arrested.

FEDERAL COURTS REMAIN SKEPTICAL OF BIDEN ADMIN CENSORSHIP: Fifth Circuit modifies scope of existing injunction against CISA. This is all ancillary to the ongoing lawsuit; the District Court has yet to actually rule on the case but it’s a hopeful sign.

HE’S JUST AN EXCITABLE BOY: “Commander was bouncing around. He seemed very lively, high spirited and playful. He’s a good-looking dog.” Life imitates art. “President Joe Biden’s two-year-old German shepherd, Commander, has been removed from the White House after staff were repeatedly subjected to far more attacks from the animal than the administration has acknowledged.” And we all know what would happen if one of our dogs so much as growled through a screen door at a cop.

WE ALL KNEW MG AUTOMOBILES WERE DEATH TRAPS: Glasgow man ‘kidnapped’ by runaway electric vehicle. Even though MG cars are now made in China, the taint of Lucas Electrics still haunts them.

AND SPEAKING OF SHITTY PARTS FROM THE UK: Delta Air Lines Inc. has discovered unapproved components in “a small number” of its jet aircraft engines, becoming the latest carrier and fourth major US airline to disclose the use of fake parts.

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER POTENTIAL NEW TREATMENT FOR NICOTINE ADDICTION: Theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation. Remember the last time they told you that they just wanted to pass some electromagnetic energy through your brain and you’d be a lot happier and more productive?

OKLAHOMA TRAILER PARK CAT-EATING PYTHON: You’re welcome. It’s links like this that linksters live for, folks.

THINLY-VEILED, ANTI-MUSK HIT PIECE: “According to the report, which made use of information obtained by Bloomberg via a Freedom of Information Act request, the SpaceX Starship launch burned four acres of a nearby Texas state park. At the very least, a group of blue land crabs and seven bobwhite quail eggs were ‘incinerated.‘”

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202 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    What about athletic bear sex? Sounds pretty wholesome.

  2. Common Tater

    The big tech censorship was more interference than the actual election fraud.

  3. Common Tater

    “Brian Morrison, 53, from Glasgow, said he was heading home from work on Sunday night when he said his brand new MG ZS EV became stuck at 30mph.

    Police were forced to stop the runaway car by allowing it to slowly crash into their police van.”

    So which is it?

  4. Common Tater

    “Theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation.”

    Nope.

    *hits vape*

    • rhywun

      The patch worked for me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

      There are still cravings but I have had no need to satisfy them.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Sounds like a pipe dream.

      *puffs contentedly on briar*

    • Seguin

      Just need good vibes bro.

      *buys more funko pops*

  5. Dr. Fronkensteen

    Friends of stabbed activist blame ‘structural wrongs,’ not the stabber, for their friends’ death

    Was the father available for comment? In other words they’re not entirely wrong. BUT, the root causes is not something they want to talk about. And by the time the crime has happened the focus on root causes has long passed.

    • rhywun

      When they say “root causes” they mean whitey.

    • rhywun

      I swear, if I read the words “beloved social justice activist” one more time I’m going to go postal.

      • Sean

        “beloved social justice activist”

      • Tonio

        [High-fives Sean]

      • Sensei

        +1

      • rhywun

        BRB

      • Common Tater

        “You’ve got mail!”

    • Robonerfherder

      When they come out with bullshit like that, I say stab more of them.

      Please rid of us of these retards.

    • juris imprudent

      In an interview with the Post, Carson’s roommate Tom Krantz described him as “someone who worked piously to help make this city a better place,”

      Is that even quasi-religious?

      • rhywun

        Not piously enough.

  6. SDF-7

    Theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Uh oh… you have to watch out for Tom Cruise when he hears you’re adding Thetans…

    • KK, Non-Man

      LOL I was fixin to make an e-meter joke

  7. The Late P Brooks

    To make matters worse, biologists were not able to fully take stock of the damage as SpaceX officials did not allow them into the site until 48 hours after the launch. That could have potentially given SpaceX enough time to hide evidence of further destruction to animal life.

    OH

    MY

    GOD!

    • B.P.

      You. Get rid of this blue crab and quail egg dust, stat!

    • SDF-7

      That sounds as rock solid as “Ancient alien theorists say ….”

      • R.J.

        I didn’t do it.

    • Tonio

      On one hand they decry lack of access to the site but don’t say if that was for safety reasons, then they later lambaste SpaceX for lax safety. SpaceX is damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.

      • rhywun

        damned if they do, and damned if they don’t

        Funny, that.

    • creech

      Seven quail eggs? My God, now the Earth’s survival is down to only six more years. I hesitate to step on cockroaches and lantern flies for fear Greta and friends will come after me for destroying Gaia.

  8. Common Tater

    “Snake experts have been contracted to remove a 13-foot-long albino reticulated python from an Oklahoma trailer park, where several cats have gone missing over the past several months.”

    It’s Oklahoma not Florida. Couldn’t they just wait for Winter?

    • SDF-7

      Time time time… look what’s become of snek….

    • Mojeaux

      I don’t think Oklahoma gets cold enough regularly.

      • SDF-7

        It sure did that one year we lived in Wagoner. Tornadoes in the Spring, Freezing all Winter, boiling in Summer. Part of what I think Jackson is a complete asshole for sending the Tribes there.

      • prolefeed

        Seems like Oklahoma gets cold enough to kill a non-hibernating snake. But, is there someplace warm enough in the trailer park for it to hibernate?

      • SDF-7

        Spits some chaw into the red Solo cup he’s carryin’….

        Well now… I hear Bobbie Sue down in lot 24 opens her legs for all the other pythons ’round these here parts….

      • Ownbestenemy

        They get blistering ice storms. One morning before school I walked out, saw an inch of ice on car…went back to bed.

    • creech

      Contract? You mean there’s no Okie with a pistol who could administer lead poisoning on very short notice?

    • EvilSheldon

      Retics can bruminate fairly cold.

  9. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    If you are getting stabbed, just lie back and think of social justice.

    • R.J.

      *Golf clap

    • Tonio

      Official [golf clap]

    • juris imprudent

      [Uproarious golf clap from 16th at the Phoenix Open.]

  10. Sensei

    WE ALL KNEW MG AUTOMOBILES WERE DEATH TRAPS: Glasgow man ‘kidnapped’ by runaway electric vehicle. Even though MG cars are now made in China, the taint of Lucas Electrics still haunts them.

    I’m going bullshit as my first guess. There are multiple redundancies on both the braking and motor control systems.

    Similar to Toyota if you jam a floor mat under the pedals you may be able to duplicate this.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/toyota-pay-12b-hiding-deadly-unintended-acceleration/story?id=22972214

      • R.J.

        Whatever. Enjoy your repair bills on those, peasant. It won’t be so cheap then. if there is a $35,000 subsidy I imagine the batteries are $30 grand of that.

      • rhywun

        Doesn’t Ford lose something similar on each car?

        The whole thing is such a ridiculous fraud.

      • Sensei

        It’s an accounting / finance problem.

        You amortize the fixed costs over a given production volume. You can say something asinine like we made 6 cars last year when we ramped up production and we plan for an 8 year production run. So 6 x 8 = 48 and it cost us $48bn to in tooling factory costs and labor and parts. Therefore the cars cost $1bn each.

        Or you make a realistic prediction about the final amount of production and hope for a positive NPV. My bet is after an 8 year run Ford planned for something with a modest loss on NPV with the idea that it gains valuable knowledge for the Gen 2. So maybe they lost something like $500 a truck.

        But once again you can’t get nuance from either the MSM or Wall Street. The analysts behind the scenes on buy side Wall St do exactly this kind of analysis. What they WILL do is read the research from the Sell Side that says “Buy F Now- Breakeven by 2025” Even if the sell side analyst is puffing his forecasts you still want to know his assumptions so you can form your own. If he simply says “Buy F based on our NPV it seems attractive” nobody will give it a second look as there 10 other sell side pieces that just came out with the 2Q2023 earnings release and analyst call.

      • Fourscore

        If Ford raised the price 501 bucks they’d make a profit. Or make it up in volume.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      I am with Sensei here. It’s Glasgow, not exactly the home of smart people, plus it is an MG, a much better car than your run of the mill econobox.

      And, yes, I know all the Lucas jokes. I used to own a BSA motorcycle.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    All I can see in my head is that guy saying, “Don’t you know who I m?” as he is being stabbed.

    • SDF-7

      Because I read it this morning — I’m hearing “WE’RE ON YOUR SIDE!

    • R.J.

      “I’m an ally!
      I’m an ally!”

      • KK, Non-Man

        Listen, allyship is letting yourself be murdered for historical grievance reparations

      • Robonerfherder

        If they were only martyring themselves I wouldn’t care, but they want to take the rest of us with them.

      • R.J.

        Did you see that guy’s crappy poodle do? I woulda stabbed him too. Like a modern day John Wesley Hardin.

      • Tonio

        [Chef’s kiss for my BFF, KK. When you come and meet my man, hon?]

      • KK, Non-Man

        I’ll be in NC all of November! Except I’ll be in Cherokee…

      • Tonio

        Yeah, when I hear, “I’m an ally” I want to puke.

  12. Certified Public Asshat

    Friends of stabbed activist blame ‘structural wrongs,’ not the stabber, for their friends’ death.

    Our friend was pretty retarded actually.

    • prolefeed

      Least they didn’t blame the knife for viciously attacking, despite the wielder’s best efforts to make it stop.

    • juris imprudent

      He did suffer from backpfeifengesicht – not that that excuses getting stabby.

  13. KK, Non-Man

    Speaking of stupid drivers, I caught a two-footed driver in the wild the other day (i.e. someone who drives an automatic with both feet). They accelerated past me with their brake lights on the whole time.

    Transmission go ouchie.

    • Mojeaux

      *cringe*

    • Gustave Lytton

      I always assume those just had their brake lights miswired backwards.

    • Sensei

      The brakes are going to get hit even worse.

      • Tres Cool

        Just think of all the heat build-up.

    • B.P.

      Brake pads groan in pain.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Brakes, too.

  14. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “ theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation”
    I’d rather chew gross ass nicotine gum albeit only barely.

  15. KK, Non-Man

    When they go to court, girlfriend will make an empassioned victim impact statement on behalf of the murderer. The murderer will change his life completely and no longer be a violent thug because of the saintly savior White Lady.

    • Nephilium

      The stabber was just going to turn his life around and was just going to go apply for college loans!

      • Tonio

        If only there had been some sort of walk-in, non-carceral, 24×7 place staffed by helpful, friendly bureaucrats who would solve all of his problems…

      • creech

        You forgot “he is a gentle giant.”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Plot twist. 6 months from now girlfriend and attacker photographed in Belize after netting 100,000 in GFM donations. Police baffled.

      • rhywun

        She could buy a different ACAB shirt for every day of the year with that kind of scratch.

    • prolefeed

      I’d give about 3 to 1 odds that the girlfriend will double down on commie solutions to crime, rather than have a Come To Jesus epiphany about police and criminals over this. Maybe if she’d been stabbed, too …

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Sounds great. We have a pitch meeting at Disney next week. Just one thing, can you make her character trans?

  16. Gustave Lytton

    SF once again ahead of the public releases.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    WE ALL KNEW MG AUTOMOBILES WERE DEATH TRAPS

    Oh, pfffft. I lived through owning two of them.

    • Robonerfherder

      But did they live through your ownership?

    • Tonio

      Prove you’re not a zombie. I envision Brooks as one of those old-school FLBC* fans who drives with the top down wearing leathers and goggles even when it’s 40 F and raining.

      • Tonio

        (*)Funny Little British Cars

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Ah, I thought it was Future Lower Back Concerns.

      • R.J.

        Those two often go together. Funny how that works.

    • Tundra

      I fucking loved my Triumph. It was fun and incredibly simple. Ran peprfectly.

      • Mojeaux

        I rode a Triumph motorcycle once. Damn near killed myself because the clutch, brakes, and shift were all switched to the opposite side.

  18. Tres Cool

    “Remember the last time they told you that they just wanted to pass some electromagnetic energy through your brain and you’d be a lot happier and more productive?”

    Just stick your head in the microwave?

  19. Common Tater

    “Six teenage South Dakota baseball team players, aged 17 to 19, charged with raping a minor as two could face up to 150 years in prison and Mitchell High School pulls the Legions team

    The circumstances of the assault were originally framed as a ‘team hazing ritual,’ Pennington County State’s Attorney Lara Roetzel rejected the notion, instead calling it a ‘forcible assault.’

    Lincoln Bates, 18, Hudson Haley, 18, Carter Miller, 18, Landon Waddell, 19, Peyton Mandel, 17, and Karter Sibson, 17 are all accused after the rape was allegedly carried out between June 1 and 4.

    The former Mitchell Legion teammates pleaded ‘not guilty’ during their first court hearing on Tuesday.

    The 16-year-old victims were allegedly assaulted while the team was in Rapid City for a baseball tournament. At least one victim is male and not a member of the baseball team.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12597933/Six-teenage-South-Dakota-baseball-team-players-aged-17-19-charged-raping-minor-two-face-150-years-prison-Mitchell-High-School-pulls-Legions-team.html

    A bit sketchy on the details.

    • Gustave Lytton

      All of them should swing just for the names alone. Wtf happened to proper given names?

      • creech

        You mean like “Gustav?” All those names lacked is a “Le’ ” in front of them.

      • Fourscore

        Where are the apostrophes? Oh, SoDak, never mind

      • rhywun

        My immediate thought.

        Carter and Karter. JFC.

        Although my stepfather’s name was Lincoln, LOL. I just assumed that was something Pennsyltuckian.

    • rhywun

      I’ve seen minors accused of murder where they won’t show a pic. No prob here, for some reason.

    • Robonerfherder

      ‘team hazing ritual,’

      The broomstick treatment

      • Bobarian LMD

        Beisbol players, so probably a bat handle.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Turkiÿeê is the ally, Turkey is the enemy. May have that reversed.

      • Fourscore

        That’s wild, man.

      • Bobarian LMD

        That one ain’t getting pardoned by Biden this year.

      • Rat on a train

        We normally don’t kill our turkey. We let others do it for us.

    • Robonerfherder

      Yes

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Do they get sleepy after that?

  20. The Late P Brooks

    It’s cute they think anybody cares about rational decisions

    EVs still cost too much. As of September 2023, the average cost of an EV was still over $53,000. Automakers keep rolling out more and more expensive models. A bad charging infrastructure that isn’t being expanded fast enough isn’t helping matters. Things are so bad that as, Bloomberg reports, many buyers are choosing to purchase hybrids instead.

    Automakers should be investing more in hybrids. And the data is there to support this. Data from analytics firm GlobalData shows hybrid sales in the U.S. have doubled since 2020. And as GlobalData’s executive vice president for automotive Jeff Schuster pointed out to Bloomberg, changes like the pivot to EVs in the auto industry don’t happen overnight. Hybrids are a bridge to electrification.

    ——-

    Even automakers like Ford, that have invested billions in EVs, are realizing this. Ford is doubling production of the F-150 Hybrid and is planning to put more hybrid options in its lineup over the next five years. The popularity of hybrids came as a surprise to Ford CEO Jim Farley who said in an earnings call over the summer “We have been surprised, frankly, at the popularity” of hybrids.” How he’s surprised at this when the company is having trouble keeping up with Maverick Hybrid demand is beyond me; Ford says Maverick Hybrid sales have accounted for 60 percent of the total model’s sales.

    That goofball Hoovie mentioned the Maverick on one of his recent videos, as in, “Why isn’t Ford cranking them out as fast as they can, instead of the electric F150 nobody wants?”

    • Sensei

      Because Ford fucked up its demand forecast. When money was no object and we were all home masked up living on the government everyone wanted the electric truck for the $39k that Ford never actually produced, Instead they made loaded $75k versions that dealers jacked $25k on top of. So they went all in what they told suppliers.

      OTH, they thought the FWD only Maverick was going to be a compliance car and told their suppliers to plan for them to make about 6 or 7.

      Since only the Chinese makers, Tesla and Hyundai / KIA have any semblance of vertical integration the other auto “assemblers” are highly dependent on long term forecasts with suppliers.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    I envision Brooks as one of those old-school FLBC* fans who drives with the top down wearing leathers and goggles even when it’s 40 F and raining.

    Rain, snow, whatever.

  22. prolefeed

    Re: the stabbed communist — Seems like repeatedly shoving something in the chest is a bad way to deescalate the situation.

    Not saying he deserved to get stabbed, just … note how his girlfriend doesn’t get stabbed near the end of the video, even though the perp lunging toward her with the knife in his hand, because she backs up and holds her hands up in the ‘I’m no threat to you’ position.

    Oh, and a gun pointed at the perp, with the clear intent to fire it, might have been an effective way to deescalate the situation, too.

    • R.J.

      Commie poodle-heads don’t believe in guns. Those are the tools of colonizers.

      • prolefeed

        Commie leaders, OTOH:

        “Political power flows from the barrel of a gun.”

        Mao

      • Nephilium

        That wasn’t real Communism/Socialism/Progressivism.

      • R.J.

        This new commie revolution is pansy based, more around sexual identity and other useless twaddle. Makes it easier when the real commies come in to wipe everyone up.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I didn’t complain when they put all the pansy based, more around sexual identity commies against the wall, because I was already long dead?

      • R C Dean

        *chamber-checks shotgun*

        Wipe this up, pinko.

    • creech

      Wasn’t he coming back from NJ? Imagine if he had been caught carrying there.

      • WTF

        You can get a non-resident carry permit for New Jersey.

      • Fourscore

        Or resident carry non permit. Seems like there are a lot of them around.

      • Common Tater

        creech must have some serious connections

  23. Ownbestenemy

    I have seem more rain in 3 weeks than 13 years in Nevada. Dog don’t like it though. Mrs OBE will be out Saturday for the week…guess I better cancel the key party this weekend.

    • KK, Non-Man

      Zoom!!!

      • Ownbestenemy

        If we aren’t dead tired after our cleaning party and furniture building

  24. Tres Cool

    Hey! Did ya’all hear about the guy with 5 dicks?

    His pants fit like a glove.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    They accelerated past me with their brake lights on the whole time.

    Sounds like a brake light switch adjustment issue. Left foot braking is vastly superior, especially in traffic.

    • Ownbestenemy

      There are people who ride the breaks while accelerating…I’ve seen it and it’s fucking weird

  26. db

    SCIENTISTS DISCOVER POTENTIAL NEW TREATMENT FOR NICOTINE ADDICTION: Theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    I can’t see anything that could go wrong with *adding* body Thetans to treat an essentially mental illness

  27. The Late P Brooks

    There are people who ride the breaks while accelerating…I’ve seen it and it’s fucking weird

    I had a couple of rental cars back in the day with totally fucked up throttle linkages. one in particular had a throttle like an on/off switch from idle. I started power braking the damn thing at stop lights just to keep the nose down. If you’re building a race car, you can get away with that. You need good modulation from 0 to 50% throttle opening in a street car.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Toyota is also doubling down on hybrid investment, something that has angered environmentalists who aren’t satisfied with the company’s lack of EV offerings. GlobalData says Toyota’s hybrid sales are expected to be over 600,000 in 2023, a 7.5 percent increase over 2022. As Jack Hollis, Toyota’s U.S. sales chief pointed out, the company is seeing growth in both hybrid and plug-in hybrid sales.

    Environmentalists don’t understand markets. Never saw that coming, did you?

    • Robonerfherder

      They understand markets well enough.

      They just want to destroy them.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    If something isn’t done to bring down the price of EVs and improve charging access, more and more buyers will be drawn to hybrids and PHEVs. Automakers may find themselves rethinking their investments in EVs.

    Where’s that magic hat?

  30. Ghostpatzer

    “a group of blue land crabs and seven bobwhite quail eggs were “incinerated.”

    Breakfast. Yum.

  31. Tundra

    Howdy, Tonio!

    I’m not a Starship fan, but that’s a great song.

    I remain sorry for Commander. Poor pup deserves better than that wretched family.

    The MG story is interesting. Catastrophic or even cascading faults in those could really be a mess. Drive by wire is great until it isn’t.

    Kill the python with fire. I hate those fucking things.

  32. Ghostpatzer

    Brian Morrison, 53, from Glasgow, said he was heading home from work on Sunday night when he said his brand new MG ZS EV became stuck at 30mph.

    Dad #2, step-dad then adopted dad, was a Glaswegian who arrived in the US at age 17. He had lost most of his accent by the time we met. His mum was another story, a crusty old wench with a liking for peaty beverages. When in her cups (almost always) she was somewhat less comprehensible than Robin Williams talking golf.

  33. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    “Late-breaking: suspect arrested.”

    I’m surprised it wasn’t Trump.

    • juris imprudent

      It was a stabbing in Bed-Stuy, not a shooting on 5th Avenue.

  34. Robonerfherder

    You have to admit, at a minimum it’s a good cover story. Far better than the shit we get.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-prigozhin-death-wagner-leaders-got-drunk-high-played-grenades-aboard-plane

    President Vladimir Putin just floated the most interesting – and let’s say, colorful – theory to date on why Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane went down outside Moscow on August 23. While much of Western reporting and even Russian media itself have described the Wagner chief’s death as due to either an anti-air missile or a planted bomb being detonated, Putin told an annual meeting of the Valdai Club in Sochi on Thursday that Prigozhin and his men likely got drunk or possibly high, and were playing with grenades.

    • Ownbestenemy

      How many Russian tropes can we fit in this for western media to buy it for $1000 Alex

      • Robonerfherder

        There were high end hookers scattered everywhere!

      • Sensei

        Piss hookers?

      • Robonerfherder

        With Trump Hotel room key cards!

      • B.P.

        They handed a grenade to a domesticated bear that was on the plane with them, and the bear pulled the pin.

      • Tundra

        Carl Hiassen wrote a book called Skinny Dip that had a hilarious part about the main protagonist inheriting a bunch of money when her parents let a bear fly their plane.

        I like your story better, though.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Explosives. I khas it.

    • Robonerfherder

      They should conscript the war pushers and send them over to buttress the frontlines.

      Ukraine needs the support.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’d buy one of them a plane ticket. Hell, I’d even spot them a rifle. Have fun warmonger but get your affairs in order before your adventure just in case.

    • kinnath

      Doesn’t say where they were at. But I saw a Grinnell College sweatshirt. The vast majority of Grinnell students are from out of state.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Putin told an annual meeting of the Valdai Club in Sochi on Thursday that Prigozhin and his men likely got drunk or possibly high, and were playing with grenades.

    Maybe they were setting off airbag charges under their seats.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Let’s be like Tokyo

    In September, when New York City Mayor Eric Adams unveiled his plan to build 100,000 new homes, he pointed enviously to Tokyo’s ability to keep “housing costs down by increasing the supply of housing.” “How are we allowing Tokyo to do things better than us?” he asked.

    Housing advocates across America are starting to ask the same question. Part of the answer is that build-happy Tokyo isn’t in control of its own housing policies. And most of what happens in Tokyo would be illegal in America.

    So what’s Tokyo’s secret? Experts say it mostly comes down to liberal and centralized land-use policies, shaped over decades, that give developers a lot of power to build what they want, when they want.

    Wait, what? Never mind.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What do they need more homes for, just kick some more old people out of their senior centers and nursing homes and warehouse people there.

    • Robonerfherder

      that give developers a lot of power to build what they want, when they want

      In NYC?

      • Rat on a train

        So you are saying we should firebomb major US cities.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Where the US has tens of thousands of different zoning systems across the country, Japan has 12. (Granted, Japan is geographically about the size of Montana, but it also has nearly 40% of the US population.) For most of those dozen, there are very few restrictions on mixing commercial and residential construction. “It’s much more typical to see a 10-story apartment building with small studio apartments, and then a two-story house, and then a small commercial building with a restaurant or a grocery store right next to each other,” says Jenny Schuetz, an expert in urban economics and housing policy at the Brookings Institution.

    The horror.

    The HORROR.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Surprise, there aren’t 10 story apartment buildings in inaka. But there are thirty year old beautifully built homes of PNW Doug fir that are falling apart because maintaining older homes (and apartment buildings) is not done. Easier to bulldoze and rebuild or walk away.

      • Gustave Lytton

        But really, there’s so much different that it’s not even an apple to oranges comparison. Centuries long landholding by families, interconnected companies doing development to stimulate demand for their rail lines…

    • Tundra

      Woodchipper.

      Also, parents pull your fucking heads out of your asses and stop listening to the pill pushers. Psych drugs are awful, especially for kids.

      • Tundra

        Case in point

        I hate stories like this.

      • rhywun

        I don’t get any of this.

        I guess I’m too old to have experienced the phenomenon of so many parents drugging their children.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Benign (?) neglect FTW!

  38. Gender Traitor

    BattleBots starts tonight!!! 😃🤖

    • Tres Cool

      NERD!

      Whats up with the construction on your street again?
      (Not stalking- just drove past on my way to FedEx)

      • Gender Traitor

        Running new gas lines – maybe inside the old ones. All the little flags and posts and spray paint in the yard give one a great excuse not to mow the lawn. (Anal-retentive neighbor across the street will probably develop a facial tic.)

      • rhywun

        Ugh klieg lights again tonight out front here. Fine, they don’t want cars tripping over the base of the crane that’s parked there.

      • Tres Cool

        I dont think Ive mowed mine since August.

  39. DEG

    Even though MG cars are now made in China, the taint of Lucas Electrics still haunts them.

    MG TC. I like the MG T types.

    Oktoberfest 2023 Final Report.

    • Robonerfherder

      My father had one of those.

      Brakes failed, he went sailing through a red light, and then he promptly sold it.

  40. kinnath

    “Billie Cocaine”

    heading down the rabbit hole again tonight

    • rhywun

      A couple maybe interesting horror films are premiering across the street tomorrow. (No more Barbie Bottoms.)

      “When Evil Lurks” (español, I believe)
      “The Royal Hotel” (Aussies)

  41. Not Adahn

    The best thing about spreadsheets is how you can add conditions and filters to get results you want.

    For example, I am the best C class Production shooter on staff!

    I am celebrating by drinking the best beer of greater than 8.5% ABV sold at the Polaris Kroger. MS should review it if he’s been doing his pancreas exercises.

  42. Tres Cool

    Thankfully, none of this exists in the British Navy.

    • R.J.

      What’s a little long pig between friends?

    • Tres Cool

      Legs?
      What about “other” places?

      /asking for a friend

      • Mojeaux

        *thousand yard stare*