Good morning one and all to another incredible day and to the morning links!
Fani Willis Faces Misconduct Hearing in Politically Motivated Georgia Election Case
It was such a disaster that even MSNBC’s legal analysis is predicting Fani will be disqualified
Special Counsel Hur Looking to Testify in Front of GOP Over Biden Special Counsel Report
Another ‘trusted’ FBI informant discredited, renewing concerns over bureau’s vetting
House Votes Against Biden’s Natural Gas Moratorium
Delivery Workers in Seattle See Orders Decline Following Dem-controlled City’s Minimum Pay Hike
What Do ‘Long COVID’ And Transgender People Have In Common?
Average worker to receive 29% less this year from the IRS
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Hey banjos! Thanks for the quality links.
Also, Kenneth Brannaugh is my current favorite actor.
Huh… I would have thought after breaking up with Emma Thompson that to you he’d be dead again.
That was much ado about nothing.
I am trying to think about a proper malapropism but I am drawing a blank. Then I though I could maybe turn drawing a blank into one but came up short. Oh well.
Sigh no more.
*narrows gaze*
did you see how to kill your neighbor’s dog? If not you are not a real fan.
—“did you see how to kill your neighbor’s dog?”—
Was that one of the cop buddy movies?
A Fish Called Wands.
no.
People complain about the lack of comments, but the fewer commentators, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
It was such a disaster that even MSNBC’s legal analysis is predicting Fani will be disqualified
That can’t be. Social media told me she pwned the hearing.
Everyone drives from Atlanta to Tennessee for lunch, don’t they? And the Fulton County DA is such a hugely popular political figure that everyone outside the Perimeter would immediately recognize and swarm her! She’s so dreamy……
(heavy sarc if it wasn’t obvious!)
I was going to say that the drive from Knoxville to Atlanta took me the better part of a day, but then I recalled that I was stuck in various traffic jams most of that time due to a variety of road existance failures, disabled vehicles, Atlanta Rush hour, etc.
Similarly, the Centers for Disease Control defines Long COVID “broadly” as any “signs, symptoms, and conditions that continue or develop after acute COVID-19 infection,” including “fatigue,” “difficulty thinking,” “sleep problems” and even “depression or anxiety.” So, Long COVID is pretty much anything you want it to be.
Back in the early aughts, I had most of those symptoms. I thought it was because I worked for a psychopath. Turns out I had Long Covid. Whoda thunk?
So…. even easier to move more people out of the employment rolls and onto disability? Wouldn’t at all be part of the government’s plans to increase captive workers on the dole… nah… that’s purely tin hat territory.
Long Covid will become the new popular malady claimed by slugs trying to collect disability. It will beat out “lower back pain” as the hard to prove they are lying malady.
Even better because it is easy to snap pics of a person with “lower back pain” building a retaining wall or putting a new roof on their house, but with Long Covid you can claim that sure you did that, but you still suffer from all those nebulous issues, but just happened to be feeling ok when you did that work.
House Votes Against Biden’s Natural Gas Moratorium
“Please don’t veto our bill opposing your agenda if it gets past the Senate.”
A Constitutional amendment lowering the bar for a “regulation override” compared to a “veto override” for regulations which Congress determines are not supported by the laws they passed, not a case of a new law following the normal process seems reasonable to me (as if they follow the Constitution, I know… I know… — but the Executive getting to make shit up and the Legislative having to jump very high hurdles to tell them to knock it off is just stupid to me. I doubt the Founders ever expected it — because they didn’t expect the Regulatory State either or that Congress would self-castrate so badly over the years…)
They actually did expect the various branches of government to expand and violate people’s rights in a multitude of ways. It’s what the second amendment is supposed to address.
Point. Though they didn’t seem to hold true to that for very long as far as I’m concerned. Whiskey Rebellion and all.
I agree. Either house of Congress should be able to repeal a regulation just by passing a resolution declaring that the regulation exceeds authority granted in the statute or is inconsistent with the statute’s intent. The idea that the President should sign a new law before his branch’s excesses are reined in is absurd.
Funny, the IRS has never given me anything except some sliver of my own money back.
Yeah, that should read “IRS to confiscate 29% more this year from average workers.”
Or, “interest-free loans to FedGov decrease by 29%”
This is the closest to the truth, but also nothing really changed for individuals between 2022 and 2023. From a different article:
What took you so goddamn long says everyone paying attention in 2017.
And then
the dragons arrivednothing else happened.I’m guessing Biden will veto legislation to strip him of the power to stop natural gas legislation.
That Amazon scam article has to be fiction. right? I’m working my way through a series of detective/thriller novels, and this looks to be ripped from the pages of the worst of the Reacher series. She is a financial advice columnist???
It has to be fiction. I couldn’t even make it through, it was too over the top.
She has a column for the New York Times. I’m thinking maybe she really is that stupid and naive.
Rings true to me. You can see the intelligence gathering, the hook, setting the hook, the fake urgency, the payoff, and the blow off.
I hear about people getting scammed over and over, so it’s possible they thought they had someone so dumb that she might come for more. I mean, she is an NYT writer, after all. Prime candidate for a double or triple dip.
I have thought of one thing that raises red flags about believing the story. She never mentions filling out the massive amount of paperwork that would have come with withdrawing $10,000+ from a bank. I’m also slightly surprised that the bank had that much on hand, but the second could probably be explained by being in NYC.
Look, she assured us she isn’t a Rube, like those icky people that live outside the city, fuck their sisters, floss with a rope, and fall for financial scams. She went to a good school with The Right Sort of People, and married a man in the Homeless Industrial Complex Business. Stuff like that doesn’t happen to people like them.
“Receive 29% less from the IRS”
I’m guessing this is referring to refunds, and that the IRS isn’t giving away free money.
Oh wait – it’s a Brit publication.
the IRS isn’t giving away free money
“refundable tax credits”
I don’t expect the Brits to understand our tax system, and I don’t expect the MSM to use honest language.
Ain’t nobody receiving nuttin from the IRS
Well, nothing but tsuris.
Nobody needs 23 kinds of tsuris.
“Be glad the Crown is only carting away your daughter and 80% of your goods, peasant! After all, everything belongs to them!
Wait, wut? America?! Bloody colonists!”
My point is, I always try to be precise with the language I use regarding taxes. Too many people think a refund is free giveaway money, apparently including the Daily Fail.
Average worker to receive 29% less this year from the IRS
I would like my refund to be $0. If I do get a refund, I would like the cause to be a drop in taxes during the year.
I don’t obsess over it as long as it isn’t excessive (more than 2-4% AGI at a guess.. it is more of a gut thing). If I tried to game it, I’d almost certainly go the wrong way and get hit with penalties or somesuch.
I have often thought to withhold nothing and buy gold with the money. Otherwise the government gets a free loan from me. Then when I pay my taxes I will have made money from the endless depreciation of the dollars against gold at least.
I have to pay tax on my SS. I haven’t had a job for 32 years but yet can’t escape. This year (2023) MNsodans got a sale tax refund ’cause the state had stolen too much and couldn’t hide it anymore. I got a 1099 on that and have to pay income tax on the previously stolen money.
And it’s your responsibility to keep careful track of how much money they steal and make sure it’s enough.
I don’t normally fall for scams! I have business opinion columns! I’m smaaahrt and I demand respect!
Oh brother… at least now I have some idea how those stupid “This is XXX customer service” phone calls work for the scammers.
And thanks again to all those companies using SSN as a national ID when they’re explicitly not supposed to, making cross-database identify theft easy in the modern world! Sigh.
The extent to which she protested how it couldn’t have happened to her made me stop reading before I got to the details of the scam. I’ll assume she’s just a fool.
She falls into the ‘damned fool’ catagory.
TIL: The CIA supports FTC investigations. Where’s the NSA when you need them?
Former NSA here. All phone numbers can be spoofed. The gizmo that does it only costs a few thousand dollars.
Also, it’s incredible that someone would be so clueless as to think the CIA would be involved in identity theft investigations and divulge their affiliation over the phone.
We were not supposed to tell even family members that we worked at the NSA. Then again they gave the military credits to buy logo merchandise at the employee store instead of cash bonuses like the civilians.
I got similar lectures about loose lips sinking ships. I stopped giving a shit about that the day I figured out they were spying on me. And when I called them out for that, they started harassing me.
Idiots. No wonder why we keep losing wars.
https://youtu.be/AJ2aqe_Z4m8?t=113
I actually went back and finished the article and believe one of two things to be true – the article is entirely fiction to cover for a missing $50k that can’t otherwise be explained to her husband for whatever reason *cough ‘Atlantic City’ cough* or it has been embellished. She claims to have contacted the scammers after the money left in the vehicle. I will promise you that no one continued to take her calls after they got the $.
It could be another Jayson Blair.
+1 “pretty, pretty princess” (if anyone remembers that Onion-adjacent dating site)
Now, now, that’s only financial services companies, the ones that handle all your money, that use the SSN as an identifier.
Oh, and health care providers, whose records have so much personally identifiable information in them that they are the most valuable in the black market.
Yes — sore spot for me at the moment because the company we farm out dental coverage too had a data breach in October, confirmed it in November, fixed it in December… and got around to telling all their customers in late January. And we’re talking “malware taking over all our internal networks” level data breach. Thanks, assholes… those extra months you kept everyone in the dark were surely beneficial to any malicious actors and all.
At this point, it would be remarkable to find anyone whose SSN isn’t available on the dark web.
Using it as an identifier is an extraordinarily weak anti fraud measure.
Uber told FOX Business in a statement, “The new law has only been in effect for 4 weeks and we are tracking a steady decline in demand from customers, resulting in couriers spending on average 30% more time waiting for delivery work than before the ordinance went into effect.”
You get more of what you reward and less of what you punish.
“We warned the previous City Council that this new legislation would have unintended consequences for Seattle shoppers, customers, and retailers,” Instacart told FOX Business. “Now that the law is in place, the cost to customers has increased, and shoppers are seeing fewer available batches on average.”
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.
See also the Department of Labor’s push to nationalize AB5. No way you can claim ignorance there.
Too stupid or ideological to see consequences may be unintended.
Still responsible for the foreseeable results of their actions, though.
I’m not getting why leftists are specifically punishing this particular industry. It’s obviously intentional, but why drivers?
I have no doubt that my state is the same and punishes these people – the one (and only) time I used Instacart made that pretty clear. The taxes and fees were almost ten bucks. I won’t be paying that shit unless/until I’m bedridden.
They are liberating the workers from enslavement.
Yes, this is what they actually argue. They elected actual no-shit communists (Sawant) to the council.
But all workers are slaves. Why do progs all have a hard-on for these specific workers?
Because they are like entrepreneurs?
They killed the beloved taxi industry and set up a new, better functioning taxi and delivery service in its place. That is why. It greatly diminished union power.
Ah, yes. I think that nails it.
Based on my post last night, when I get my own planet you lot are not invited.
You have discovered a marxist truth about this group.
Groucho Marx, that is:
“I refuse to join any club that would have me.”
I mean, seriously, if your standards are low enough that I’m an acceptable member, what does that say about your group?
The nine House Democrats who voted for the LNG bill seem to all be from swing districts and/or gas producing states.
Since Biden is gonna veto the legislation, this kabuki theater seems to be about picking off swing districts and states by highlighting the Dem effort to destroy energy production.
I’m just shocked that nine Democrats found the will to take a minor stand in favor of not destroying the American economy.
They took a stand in favor of not losing re-election, and nothing else.
Ha, there is that.
It is easy to forget that some districts still swing.
Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/doi/10.1130/G51654.1/634682/Gibraltar-subduction-zone-is-invading-the-Atlantic
There is always something… The Atlantic is going no need plenty of military support from the US and that may drain potential resources for Ukraine.
Maybe we can just drop Captain Planet! and Fonda on it and let them fix it. I’d toss in Mittens and Liz Cheney for free.
“Another ‘trusted’ FBI informant discredited, renewing concerns over bureau’s vetting”
This is a tough one. On the one hand, FBI informant discredited is quite plausible. OTOH, he implicated Biden, who the FBI/DOJ has been desperately trying not to charge with anything. OTGH, why was he arrested but the informants who lied about Trump are walking around free as a bird?
OMB is why.
This is (d)ifferent.
Man is mauled to death by a lion after climbing into its enclosure and trying to take a selfie with it
Prahlad Gujjar, 38, climbed over a 25-ft fence to take a selfie with a lion
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13088211/Man-mauled-death-lion-climbing-enclosure-trying-selfie-it.html
The zoo it at fault the fences were obviously not tall enough.
“Stupid should hurt” validated.
I’m not sure why they’re doing an autopsy. Cause of death seems pretty clear. What difference does it make if he was drunk? Although I doubt it – climbing a 25 foot fence seems unlikely for somebody drunk.
Does doing what he loved – stupid shit.
Germany was not “reunified”. The German Democratic Republic was plundered and colonized.
https://twitter.com/pawelwargan/status/1758028384276246824
East Germany was so Great that it’s people were bursting from the seams to escape it’s glory and bounty.
There was this documentary called “Kleo” that showed the DDR being colonized by illegal aliens.
It was plundered and colonized.
And then the Soviets got kicked out.
But they were careful to leave behind almost 50 years of relentless commie propaganda that left the unfortunates left behind woefully unprepared for reality when it arrived.
Commie propaganda is the real Never Ending Story.
That shit won’t die!
I wouldn’t mind an East German AK, but not at $1,400. 🙁
https://atlanticfirearms.com/german-ak-47-ddr-7-62x39mm-rifle
Waiting to see what kind of Presidents Day sale places like Palmetto State Armory have. A lightweight AR would be nice before hyperinflation makes my money worthless.
I’ve been sorely tempted on a micro dagger.
There is much butthurt in Germany right now. The BRD plundered itself with “guest” workers and Merkel’s Millions of Migrants. Consequences of the stupidest energy policies on the planet are biting hard. Joining the “Biden” “Administration” in the sanctions war on Russia cut off cheap energy and raw materials. Germans are likely pissed that “somebody” destroyed their transport system for cheap natural gas but have to keep their mouths shut about it.
A great amount of money was spent fixing up the former East and its infrastructure, put the place went from commie-dismal to quite nice.
Opposition to Brussels replace Moscow as their rulers has generated a lot of “far-right” activity in the East which increases the butthurt of the Western EU fans.
Remind me never to take financial advice from Charlotte Cowles. I read enough to get the idea she’s an idiot from her actions that day with a call that started with “Amazon” contacting her. This is the literary equivalent of opening your mouth and confirming you’re a fool. Why would you write about how stupid you are after the fact? This lady was suckered twice, once by the scammers and again by her editor.
Apparently Navalny accidentally slipped and fell. Tragic accident.
This was obviously enabled by Tucker Carlson.
Totes obvs.
Ugh. I will repost my comments from last night as I posted them in the wrong article and posted too early.
Links: The war on our culture and ideals continues unabated and with renewed fury.
What do trannies, covid and horses have in common? That is the real question.
“I never thought I was the kind of person to fall for a scam.” Then I bleated before voting democrat.
You can lead them all to water but you can’t make them drink?
You put them down when they break a leg?
I entered the state lottery for a bottle of Van Winkle 12y and Sazerac rye 18y.
*crosses fingers*
🤔 Are those powerball odds?
I have no clue.
Considering the odds of Powerball and the population of PA, not unless they wanted to hold those bottles in inventory for years.
“No one won – I guess the Liquor Authority staff gets to drink it.”
Oh, I see you have been to Oregon.
Sazerac rye 18y. – had that in 2015 in a bar in Vienna. I remember liking it.
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An eye-opening article, thanks.
“I have a PhD, lol.”
I figured it was bullshit, this seems to confirm it.
In other words, they are more prone to hypochondria and attention-seeking.
I’m shocked, shocked.
This actually could be a good mechanism for clinical studies to suss out the difference between actual disease and psychosomatic disease. Differentials in survey data between susceptible groups and normal groups.
That is a great example of the Is/Ought problem.
Unless they define “transgender” the numbers are meaningless.
I’ll bet you a year’s subscription to glibertarians.com that it’s based on self-reporting.
Isn’t everything trans based on self-reporting?
No, self ID is bullshit. Although, trans is the only thing I can think of right now where some people think it is valid. This problem is perpetuated by both sides, with TRA’s on the left saying you are whatever gender you say you are, and socons and TERFs using nonsense language such as “trans identified male”.
“For anybody whose income did not outpace inflation, they should do better. It’s not even voodoo or marketing spin, it’s pretty much just science.”
It’s not just science, it’s math…fire that man immediately.
Viva Frei had a great summary of yesterday’s testimony.
From memory.
Wade has no receipts of the expenses for the luxury trips with Willis because his business paid for those trips. {Viva Frei says the IRS will be very interested in this}
Willis “repaid” those expenses to Wade (who did not pay for them) in cash. Wade did not declare those payments. {Viva Frei says the IRS is still very interest in this}.
So, Wade admitted in sworn testimony that his business paid for his personal trips and that he did not declare the reimbursements for expenses that he did not pay.
This alone is amazing without even getting into the perjury by both Willis and Wade regarding the relationship.
You really think the IRS is going to seriously investigate two prominent Democrats doing God’s work of getting OMB?
Frei also noted that the IRS would probably turn a blind eye to the admissions by the two D’s in this case.
Even better, the IRS would pretend to do an investigation, delete the data, delete the backups, burn the hard drives and servers in a bonfire, and claim it was an accident.
The obvious answer is there will be no prosecution of a (D) office holder.
However, if these two idiots get themselves disqualified and the case dismissed, then I could see the people behind the scenes deciding to punish these two to set an example. “We put you in office. Feather your nest as much as you like, but don’t fuck up get yourself in the news”.
Viva Frei says the IRS will be very interested in this
They should be, but will they be?
It was bad. I listened to most of it while doing paperwork. A lot of Clinton-esqe word play from Wade. Obfuscation from Willis all over the map. Willis claiming that all women should keep up to 6-months in cash in their house (in itself, solid advice); her excuse on why all these cash payments were going out really.
Wade claiming he never deposited the cash, can’t account on where it was kept, etc. It is so terrible.
Also testified used CashApp to pay the friend for the condo but magically no use for repayment of gifts to Wade.
Keeping six months in cash is all well and good, provided you hand at least 50K over to an unknown SUV driver.
He also declared that he gives the statements (but no receipts?) To his accountant and they separate business from personal.
How? You don’t do anything to tell them?
This clearly seems to be a concocted story (the cash reimbursements) that wasn’t fully thought through.
She handed you $2,500 in cash and you…. just carried it around?
And said in open court she used campaign funds…maybe valid use, maybe not..but uh…what?
Potentially devastating.
But I heard 2 possible meanings.
She said she still had some money that she “took out” for her campaign.
Could be that she took $15k of campaign funds as cash reimbursements for expenses, real or imagined.
Also, could be that she took out a loan to finance her campaign and kept it in cash.
I found the boast that she routinely keeps 5 figure sums of cash on hand to be highly damning – particularly combined with her testimony that she nearly exclusively paid other people using cash app.
But perhaps most damning, and completely not her responsibility and out of her control, MSNBC had an analyst declare that black people know about keeping large sums of cash and find this totally credible.
So you’re saying black people are the best people to burgle?
I honestly thought Vietnamese were the best for home invasions, as they do keep a lot of cash on hand.
But, DEI and all that.
MSNBC had an analyst declare that black people know about keeping large sums of cash and find this totally credible.
Because of the drug dealing?
zing!
I read an article (but did not search her testimony) that said she told the court that sometimes she accepted cash campaign contributions and put them in a boot in her closet. Then, when she needed some “walking around money”, she would take some of the cash out of the boot.
I don’t know how accurate the article was, but if true, how is this not a campaign finance crime.
Again, I am not sure of the accuracy of this report and I am too lazy to watch entire testimony.
His business paid? In cash or by card? I ask because I can bring my card account up online, on my phone even, and there is a detailed history of every purchase I have made including in some cases the individual grocery items I bought.
I can even pull the account up, make a purchase, refresh the account history and the purchase I made only seconds before shows up.
It clearly sets up a rational for issuing a subpoena for the business financial records.
They tried and Wade’s lawyers I think won on grounds it wasn’t relevant at the time. Which now, much different story.
He claimed that there were no records… no receipts.
Then, he said he paid with a business credit card.
Not the sharpest tool.
Frei noted that the testimony showed that these are two really stupid people.
Not exactly going out on a limb with that analysis.
He said these two idiots had been administrative judges before their current jobs. This spoke to how bad state and local level governments must be.
They make Benjamin Crump look like Albert Einstein. Way to go Georgia.
The IRS will probably pass on this, as a D doesn’t get investigated. But, I am sure Georgia has a franchise tax board that is already salivating at this.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/02/16/fani-willis-had-her-dress-on-backwards-n2393004
Racist to notice I assume.
*chef’s kiss*
You racists just don’t understand black culture!
From the saidebar
2020. Fani Willis is asked why the people of Fulton County should support her for District Attorney.
“Because they deserve a DA that won’t have sex with his employees, because they deserve a DA that won’t put money in their own pocket.”
Listen sucka, HE didn’t have sex with HIS employees-SHE had sex with HER employees. No hypocrisy there.
Had Wade left the courtroom before Willis made her shocking made-for-cable-courtroom-drama grand entrance? If so, had enough time elapsed for them to have caught a quickie in a handy janitor’s closet?
Ha! There was about 15 minutes in-between so maybe! Her lawyers were arguing to not have her take the stand and she storms in and demands it! So ridiculous.
If it’s handy, there’s a handy!
I saw darts in the right place. Those photos are fuzzy, but I do not see a zipper in front. Side zippers for women can be either side. I think it is on right. It fits poorly and it ugly but it is not on backwards as far as I can tell. The darts for boobs are a dead giveaway it is on right.
That is clearly a zipper in the pic of her being sworn in (top of the article).
However, if she had it altered enough, who is to say which way is “backwards?”
I just can’t see it, probably because I am on the phone. Pictures are too fuzzy to determine if it is a zipper.
There are plenty of pictures showing the zipper in the front.
After spending more time researching this (thanks RJ) it seems to be inconclusive. The boob darts are not compelling evidence, but the best support for the dress perhaps being worn correctly is the bottom slit is worn in the back and not the front.
It looks like the dress is being worn properly. It’s just a terrible style that accentuates the worst aspects of her body.
There is no zipper in the front.
We’re going to be arguing about whether the dress is blue or gold, aren’t we?
Magenta or fuchsia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
I know, I know. This time it has to be some shade of pink…or is it, something else?
There is not and never was an argument. At least not by rational human beings with functioning eyes.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/politics/takeaways-fani-willis-testimony-georgia/index.html
This close up from the stand, however, clearly shows the zipper in the front of the dress.
Im not a tailor. And I wish my sewing skills were better- got a couple pairs of pants that the waist could be….let out.
However, looking at Fani’s dress, I doubt its backwards due to the shoulders/sleeves seem cut right.
Im not a tailor – so a tinker a soldier or a spy? I knew I was being spied on!!!
Had to wear it backwards to make room for the caboose. Besides it’s much easier to take off.
/Mr Wade grins
Thinking more about the stargates to Earth clones with no people:
1. The animals would have no fear of humans, beyond any generic fear of large mammals. Thids might make hunting easier, but could also lead to increased conflict with predators like wolves.
2. Speaking of wolves, you’d definitely want to bring a pair of dogs. And of course, if you were setting up a group entry, domestic animals would be a must.
3. I don’t know what the extent of changes were caused by American Aborigines, but would this mean that there’d still be Aurochs, American Horses and Mammoths? Obviously there’s be no earthworms in North America (so the Maples would range further south) and there’s still be plentiful Chestnuts (supposedly they were a major food source).
4. How specific are these group IDs? Would all the MOGAI/Transfolx have to cohabitate, or would there be special planets specifically for polyromantic gay ace demiboys?
3. don’t forget the passenger pigeons
4. .If MOGAI is an honest libertarian in its views, they can come to libertopia. If they believe in the NAP and negative rights and liberty etc.
You could I assume have TERF planet and a TransRadical planet and people could choose that over other ideologies.
But too many planets would not create a viable number of people per planet.
I assume most inclined to go would be heteros wanting to reproduce there, especially if they have a partner and they take the pill to become 25 healthy and fertile. Though childcare has its downsides on the frontier
I want to go to the “me and clones of the 1980s sports illustrated swimsuit models” planet.
Oh, and I’ll take that magic pill of yours too.
cloning is not a thing unfortunately. Find old chicks who were hot, and tell them take the pill and I will take care of you on the frontier
Cloning is a thing. We haven’t done it to humans (or admitted to having done so) because of a few issues left to iron out. But we successfully cloned animals from non-stem cells (a href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)”>In the 90s.
A rejuvenated 60 year old Kathy Ireland is not likely to take an interest in me, having lived a life being courted by billionaires, athletes, movie stars and fitness models. But a colony of actual 19 year old clones will have no life experience to inform their opinion. Definitely the clones are preferable. We should get right on that.
Many sci-fi colonization novels have them bringing some kind of artificial womb and lots of fertilized eggs for livestock. (Rather than turning a space ship or container into Noah’s Ark.
Probably lots of species that never go extinct without our ancestors help.
this idea has no scifi tech, just what we got. Maybe already pregnant livestock
This is why there was a component for groups to coordinate in order to bring complementary things in the space. Also because I assumed in you 20x20x10 you would include a bunch of MREs for emergencies
So pregnant livestock and fertilized chicken eggs in a incubator.
A few years back I recall a somewhat functional prototype artificial womb incubating lambs. Not sure how bulky the mechanism was, or how much development has gone on since.
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Tunnel in the Sky is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1955 by Scribner’s as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet, who soon realise they are stranded there. The themes of the work include the difficulties of growing up and the nature of man as a social animal.
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In the future, Malthusian overpopulation on Earth has been averted by the invention of teleportation, called the “Ramsbotham jump”, which sends the excess population to colonize other planets. However, the costs of operating the technology mean that colony planets remain isolated from Earth until they can produce something to justify two-way trade. Because modern technology requires a supporting infrastructure, the colonists employ easily maintained technology (such as Conestoga wagons and horses rather than tractors).
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Hate camping? Colonizing another planet is probably not for you.
I keep coming back to, 20x20x10 is a lot of cubic (4,000 cubic feet, to be exact) per person. A little more than 2 20 foot Conex containers. If 1,000 people go, that’s 4,000,000 cubic feet of stuff they can take – a literal warehouse of supplies. If 10,000 people go, it’s 40,000,000 cubic feet.
The ability to seriously jumpstart beyond mud huts and grubbing for roots is there, and the more coordination of how that cubic gets used, the better.
This warehouse in Tucson, for example, has 5,400,000 cubic feet of capacity, assuming the clear height inside is 20 feet.
https://tucson.com/business/amazon-opening-new-facility-near-tucson-airport-creating-hundreds-of-jobs/article_4a560e12-33d8-585b-a94c-5c915355dae2.html
10,000 people could take enough stuff to fill 7 warehouses that size.
Caveat: unless my math is off.
As I recall Pie’s article, it is framed as “would you go, particularly if you get to take your family”. This makes the question similar to being a homesteader moving into the west back in the day.
Ten thousand people is a city. That’s an entirely different discussion with lot of different options for organizational structure. Is this a commune (co-op structure)? Is this a business operation with a typical management structure? Is this a government endeavor? If so, what kind of government.
Either way, it leads to interesting discussions, but they are two different kinds of discussions.
And yes, I remember Pie said we could coordinate and cooperate with others. But scale of cooperation is the question.
I also mentioned a contract, but I left that for discussion, I cannot foresee exactly what people would decide.
Also the cooperation would be different for different ideologies
The distinction is that Pie’s example would be closer to establishing the initial settler colonies in the new world sans Indians. So moving a whole city with supplies and basic infrastructure is simply the more practical option if you want to have a surviving civilization the next time that gate opens.
I don’t see any reason why the people who decide (separately) to go can’t use their two year prep period to get organized.
If there are 10,000 of them (which isn’t that many really – more of a small town than a city), they all show up at the same place on the new planet with 7 freaking Amazon warehouses of stuff. This ain’t crossing the Great Plains in a Conestoga.
If it’s “only” 1,000, then they show up with a single Amazon warehouse nearly full of stuff. Also, not crossing the Great Plains, etc.
For a lot of people, the challenge is going to be paying for enough to fill their 20x20x10. Not including cars, a lot of people’s entire worldly possessions won’t fill one 20 foot Conex, much less two
“The US government is spending $1million of American taxpayer money to fund gain-of-function experiments on dangerous bird flu viruses in collaboration with Chinese scientists.
The research involves infecting ducks and geese with different strains to make them more transmissible and infectious, and study the viruses’ potential to ‘jump into mammalian hosts,’ according to the research documents.
It is being funded through the US Department of Agriculture and will take place at sites in Georgia, Beijing and Edinburgh in Scotland.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13089105/US-Chinese-scientists-bird-flu-strains-infectious-Covid.html
No.
Hate Birds, the birds that
hatebring about the extinction of the human race.We as citizens obviously have zero say over where money is spent. What percentage of the public would think that’s a good idea? Gotta be two or three tops.
What’s the worst that could happen?
As long as they restrict it to geese and ducks and leave off the pangolins at the wet market, we should be OK.
“Conspiracy theorists make unhinged claim that Kansas City parade shooting that left one dead was part of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s ‘plan’ to push support for Biden and gun control laws”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13088775/Conspiracy-theorists-Kansas-City-parade-shooting-Taylor-Swift-Travis-Kelce-support-Biden-gun-control.html
“Kansas City Chiefs players call for gun control reform after fatal shooting saw Super Bowl victory parade descend into tragedy: ‘We cannot allow this to be normal'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-13089711/Kansas-City-Chiefs-gun-control-reform-Super-Bowl-mass-shooting.html
The duality of man.
Please Kansas City Chiefs players, explain exactly how another law regarding guns will deter somebody who is willing to murder.
If some idiot is willing to being a rifle to take out a rival in an argument, that person would have used a two handed axe if guns were (effectively) banned. Murder is murder. And those guys are nuts. Any word on where those three came from? Are they Americans?
They are right, a new law is what is needed; Stop And Frisk!
Wait, is that not what they mean. That it would be unconstitutional? Funny, that…
Ethan Crumbly, 15, was given a life sentence* for murder.
Le’s see what kind of sentence these young malefactors are given.
*I have no problem with this — some people are in fact inherently hazardous. Belief that a human who cannot control their violent tendencies is somehow more worthy of dignity than an analogous animal is one of the side-effects of a religious view of H. sapiens superiority.
Do we know how old they are?
AFAIK, nothing about them other than their juvenile status has been released.
At least it didn’t stop Travis and Brittany from partying. Somehow I don’t think another point of sale gun law is going to stop criminals from doing criminal shit. It is a tragedy that these deaths of exuberance didn’t confine themselves to the idiot criminals. Put them in cages for the rest of their lives.
Top notch links this morning Banjos. The transgender long Vid was great, and the hilarious one is bookmarked for Friday eve cocktail hour reading. Fani has made herself look like a corrupt cock hound, this won’t end up good for her career or her desire to Get Trump.
I still believe that the more publicity this gets, the higher upwards she’s gonna fail. She may be the First Black Female President because of this.
If she keeps her office I will be amazed. Holy crap. She should be booted out once the trial is over.
The “slay queen” crowd took about 3-4 hours to take over. At first there was a malaise at CNN and MSNBC as educated talking heads dismayed at her performance.
Then, the anti-racist narrative that yelling in an ignorant manner at your “accuser” is being a total boss took over. At the moment there are still 2 narratives, but the “racist Trumpers got served” narrative seems to be taking control.
I don’t think it will, but we are well on our path to becoming Brasil do Norte so I guess anything’s possible. I find it hilarious that Fani testified that she was indeed having an affair with a married dude, that she hired on this dude as an extremely well paid adjunct attorney in a case where she had as many already on the payroll government attorneys as she wanted, and then took a number (5 in 7 months) of lavish vacations with said dude while he was getting mucho taxpayer dollars. The only point of dispute seems to be when this affair started, which to me is laughable and pointless. The woman has a serious case of Black Privilege going, but who knows, maybe she’s right to think she is above the law. She may even succeed in not getting tossed from the case, but at the very least it makes a Trump appeal more successful. And I’d bet big she never gets another political office.
Between Kamala, OJ, and general hero-worship of he being the Strong Black Woman who took down OMB and PROVED that the MAGAt stolen election conspiracy theories were lies, I don’t see how she can’t be bigger than RBG, Herself, and Fauci combined.
A lot of black women I knew in Memphis were NOT happy with OJ.
A good looking rich black guy marrying a white woman was his major crime according to them. Not going to care a bit about the murder. Just that he passed over a lot of fine black women to marry her?
I was thinking about the celebration over fighting the law and winning.
Being a loyal Soros soldier has rarely been bad for a career.
The indictment of the Hunter Biden informant raises so many questions.
First and most obviously, there is a suspiciously high number of whistleblowers and informants being indicted. Like, way too high for anyone honest to not have questions.
But the details matter too. I am not up on this case, but they say he is being indicted for lying when he said that the Bidens were paid $5 million each.
How could they possibly prosecute on that one? Absent a confession, how could they even in theory prove that this is a lie… even to a probable cause standard for an investigation, let alone to “beyond a reasonable doubt”?
It seems impossible. First, proving that they didn’t get the money would seem impossible. But second… how could they prove that he knew they didn’t get the money?
Because the records clearly show it was $4.8 million each.
If I ever met a white person in the real world who knew the difference between a Khoisan, a Yoruba, and an Afar, I would be 100% certain that they were among the most racist people I had ever encountered.
https://twitter.com/anarchyinblack/status/1758259453567160772
If I recall correctly, the Yoruba are west african somewhere either in or around Nigeria.
Afar was East africa and previously had an empire that contained parts of Yemen.
I forget where the Khoisan were located.
I don’t know why remembering these ethnic groups is somehow a mark against Me in this racist’s mind, however.
Disclaimer, I didn’t look them up, so if my memory is off, it’s the foibles of memory.
Khoisan as far as I know are the Kalahari bushmen
I read once the largest genetic distance on earth is between Khoisan and Japanese
Thanks for the reminder. I knew I’d once known, but since it hadn’t been relevant, it was buried in the back of my mind.
If I have heard of the Yoruba, does that make me partially racist?
I’ve never met an Asian or African who knew the difference between Irish, English, Norwegian, or Czech.
Czechs have been deprecated, it’s all about EFT now.
I’ve heard of the Khoisan, they’re the native South Africans including the hunter-gatherer San people. The others I don’t know.
Racists are well known for having in-depth knowledge of people they view as inferior. Some of them are so full of hate that they even live among those they despise and learn their languages and cultures.
Thus, the only trustworthy people are those who totally ignorant about any other ethnic group in the world.
Raytheon depicts lasers of various sizes defending bases and convoys from drones, rocket strikes and helicopter attacks:
https://twitter.com/ToughSf/status/1758476329677365646
I used to play Missile Command on my Atari.
If it’s in a video game, it must be true!
The only thing missing from that video is Godzilla.
I got one of those “This is your granddaughter; I’ve been in a car accident” calls just as I was reading the stupid $50,000 scam article. As soon as I said, “Let me call my friend uncle Bob, he’s an FBI agent at the Cleveland office” the call was disconnected.
Why would you even answer the phone if you don’t recognize the #?
Because I get work calls from people I don’t regularly interact with and thus don’t have contacts for.
They can leave a message and you can call them back.
If you’re not in my contacts, my phone doesn’t even ring.
That’s too much work.
Usually let voice mail take it, but I was sitting right here by the phone and was expecting a call, so I didn’t even look for incoming number.
My mother got one saying my son was locked up. She didn’t fall for it.
You weren’t locked up?
Nope, neither were any of her grandkids.
The father of a friend of mine fell for this kind of scam and lost several thousands of dollars.
I’ve been getting text messages from the same number as someone I met on an online dating website. My phone identifies some responses as coming from a chatbot and the rest as coming from a phone number that is the same as the supposed chatbot’s. So many weird things have been happening to my electronics since the spring of 2021 that none of it surprises me anymore. Behold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egj-9eO81a0
Last night I got a call from a localish number from a Chinese guy. After I told him he had the wrong number, I got two texts from the number of pictures showing a package delivery on someone else’s from porch.
I might finish the article if I get time but I stopped here at the very first step and banged my head against the wall.
Who thinks Amazon is goint call them, about anything?!
Dumb dumb dumb
Stupidity all the way down.
“I thought when writers get scammed out of 50k was just called ‘going to journalism school.’” — The Wall Street Journal
I find it interesting to see a DA, presumably well versed in the ins and outs of asset forfeiture, blithely admitting and advocating keeping large sums of cash around the house. It’s fine for her, she’s immune. But all those other black women with stacks of Ben Franklins in the night stand might not fare so well when the cops come barging in, for whatever reason.
Just having a bunch of cash in an airport or in your car makes you guilty of something.
I’ve heard it said, regarding out “betters”, it’s not hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy. They want you to know you’re peasants and the rules apply to you, not them.
Lying – she didn’t have a cash pile in the house. If she did, they (prosecutors, IRS) may want to find out where she got it. There should be withdrawal entries at her bank. [And, no, she can’t claim the entry was net of a deposit – if you deposit a check for $1,000 and ask for $900 back, the bank will show it as two separate transactions.]
She claims she was getting $50 each time she went to Publix.
Yeah right. If she really paid him in cash and it was an up and up “no big deal” then go get a couple grand in cash instead of sneakily accumulating it $50 at a time.
See my comment above. “All those transactions you are asking about were done in cash and I have no supporting documentation” is not a defense you or I could use. We’ll see how privileged she really is.
Remember how russia wanted trump to win?
Yeah…. maybe not
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1758216143867929022?s=19
Video summary from fox interview
https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters/status/1758307025602199990?s=19
The truth is that any foreign intelligence agency worth its salt (domestic agency while we’re being honest) would be focused on getting dirt on both presidential candidates. This way no matter who the American people elect the intelligence agency would have leverage over the US President.
That was also the stupidest possible pretext for the Russia hoax. Hillary was already paid off and (as a consequence) had already done some very Russia-friendly things as SecState. Why on Earth would they prefer Trump?
Yup, it was laughably unbelievable from the get-go so naturally it absorbed the attention of the nation for four years.
Why we stopped building cut and cover
16th February 2024
24 Mins
We used to dig up roads to put trains underneath – cheaply. Ever-better tunnel boring machines have made the disruption this causes unnecessary.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we-stopped-building-cut-and-cover/
for the tunneling aficionados
It was too cheap.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/bertha-tunnel-boring-machine-history-viaduct-replacement/
Those experts are correct.
The answer is a combination of two things: union clout and NIMBY bitching.
And the stupid deep tunnels in recent NYC projects have directly led to service that is less useful (fewer stops because they are so expensive) and of course years or decades delayed.
Circling the drain
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday sued the state of Tennessee over its decades-old felony aggravated prostitution law, arguing that it illegally imposes tougher criminal penalties on people who are HIV positive.
The lawsuit, filed in western Tennessee, follows an investigation completed in December by the Justice Department that warned that the statute violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. The case heads to court separately from another federal lawsuit filed in October by LGBTQ and civil rights advocates over the aggravated prostitution law.
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“People living with HIV should not be subjected to a different system of justice based on outdated science and misguided assumptions,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a news release announcing the lawsuit Thursday. “This lawsuit reflects the Justice Department’s commitment to ensuring that people living with HIV are not targeted because of their disability.”
And the last shall be first.
Which is it? Outdated science or a disability worthy of accommodation?
If prostitutes with HIV can’t receive harsher punishments, then drivers who are drunk should not receive harsher punishments.
I might have some sympathy for a prostitute who didn’t know she was HIV positive, but this gal knew she had HIV and was still doing tricks? No sympathy
I can see some rationale behind enhanced charges for knowingly exposing somebody to an STD.
Also, her name is Fani. Getting harder to dispute this is all just a simulation.
Yup.
Fani.
Not pronounced fanny, as one would expect. Rather, it is Fahn-e.
Fawny. Covered with white spots. Like Michael Jackson.
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!!
It’s been freakin’ 62-70 degrees for the last week, and now it’s snowing. WTF, Mother Nature? I mean, I know it’s February and it’s supposed to be snowing in February, but still.
Lo-Ping
@PandasAndVidya
Why would you have a $30,000 wedding when you can just get married at the courthouse and have a $30,000 honeymoon instead?
Oh boy, do I have an answer for this.
It’s because a honeymoon is consumption, but a wedding is an investment. Specifically, you’re paying for a magickal ritual to redefine your social position, which requires the presence of your community.
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1758248042833088786
I mean in Romania ridiculous expensive weddings are a thing though they no longer bring much social prestige universally. But depends on the group of people, in some groups it does. And in others it ends up being profitable as the Romanian custom is to give cash gifts at weddings, so some couples get more money than they spend.
I spent about $2,000 on my wedding. (The perqs of being a Mormon. No venue $$$.) (Also, I made my own dress.) My mom gave me $1,000. The rest got made up in cash and then some because I didn’t have a registry.
Also, I made my own dress – ah so not a spy
To each their own, but I thought commemorating one of the most important days of your life with family and friends is more important than getting treated like a king for a week in Bali.
Yes, but it doesn’t take much money to do the former.
And there is a correlation between cost of wedding and divorce rate.
Weddings greater than $20k have a divorce rate 1.6x weddings under $1k.
Considering the latter probably includes a lot of shotgun weddings, its probably even more extreme.
Sorry, first link had in wrong.
$20k has a divorce rate 1.6x those who spent $5k-$10k.
And those less than $1k had a lower than average rate of divorce. It isn’t clear were the global minima is.
From the paper:
Invite lots of friends and family to a cheap wedding.
Or – People more focused on the relationships with each other and their community are less likely to divorce.
The wedding ceremony is for the bride; the reception is for the families; the honeymoon is for the groom.
Not an option, apparently:
Keeping the $30K and maybe using it to buy a house, pay off debt, that kind of thing. You know, financial responsibility.
Mrs. Dean and I got married by a JP, threw the reception the next day at our house. Probably a little over $1,000 all told.
We rented (made a donation to) a small country church and had the reception in the basement. Wedding was family only.
6 months later we threw a reception for our friends. We spent more on that party than the wedding. And 8 months after the wedding we got around to going on a honeymoon.
We were married by a JP. Just the two of us, the JP, and a witness. Family was notified after the fact.
We had our delayed honeymoon for our 30th anniversary.
I was 45 during the honeymoon, so you might have been younger on yours. Okay, I dont think you got married THAT young, but IIRC, college?
Married first (19), college later.
The Justice Department lawsuit details the experience of an unnamed Black transgender woman from Memphis who learned she had HIV in 2008, was arrested in 2010 for prostitution near a church or school, and pleaded guilty in 2012 to one count of criminal attempt at aggravated prostitution. Because she had to register as a sex offender, the woman has experienced periods of homelessness while struggling to find safe housing compliant with sex-registry requirements.
She has also had difficulty finding a job after employers run her background check, and she can’t spend time alone with her nephew because of her conviction, the lawsuit states.
Additionally, she was arrested and pled guilty to violating a requirement to update her address change within 48 hours after she was displaced by a fire over a weekend. Tennessee law also bars her from changing her legal name to match her gender identity, the lawsuit states.
All it needs to do now is find somebody to sue for the hate crime of refusing to pay for sex with it.
“aggravated prostitution” ???
“Tennessee law also bars her from changing her legal name to match her gender identity, the lawsuit states.”
Well, that’s horseshit. Can’t someone change their name to whatever they want?
for the tunneling aficionados
That’s a candidate for the Euphemism Hall of Fame.
Filed my taxes on 1/31 and got both refunds (state/fed) earlier this week. About the same amount as last year proportionally.
My filing was delayed because my 1098 was lost in the mail.
single land tax would be easier
And more moral.
I filed my taxes yesterday. Most of my refund is TABOR, even after it got a haircut.
a small drum, especially one used simultaneously by the player of a simple pipe.?
TAxpayer Bill Of Rights
Its a Colorado law (constitutional amendment, actually, I think) that prevents the state from raising too much tax money. If they collect too much, they have to send it back. Me and my wife were supposed to get about $940 each, but after the legislature got done fucking around with the law, we got $800 each.
They Did WHAT!? Netflix Alexander the Great Episode 1: Historical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ06_c6fzRA
Maybe the reason we don’t see Limey anymore is he got too fat?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/nhs-healthy-weight-calculator-made-people-fatter/ar-AA1cYgwa
It’s because a honeymoon is consumption, but a wedding is an investment.
“A date is an expense. But a wife- that’s overhead.”
-Walter Matthau, in some movie
As I ranted a few days ago to Mrs. Dean after some government tool said their overspending was an “investment”:
Just because some spending can be an investment doesn’t mean it all is.
If a wedding is an investment, what’s the ROI? What income does it create down the road for the married couple?
Cactus Flower, I believe.
Have any of you gotten a reply on the Tweeters from a youth football coaching legend with a fully loaded 2012 Ford Taurus and a timeshare in Pigeon Forge?
No, but then I’m not a financial columnist for the NY Times and thus a prime target for scams.
I have a Glibertarian prince who identified you as a princess and just needs access to your bank account to deposit one million dollars in royal expense money.
I see we have some folks ignorant of Coach’s daily Tweeter gems
That would be me.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
My son and his wife just adopted twins that they’ve been fostering for several years. So, now I have two new granddaughters.
Mazel tov!
🍻
That is great! So happy for your family.
Congrats to all involved!
Ready for duty
Vice President Harris faces a daunting task this week: try to make the case to European leaders that America is an ally they can count on through thick and thin, despite some recent evidence to the contrary.
In the past week, the Republican front-runner for the presidential race said he would give what sounded like a green light to Russia to attack NATO allies that don’t boost military spending. Meanwhile, Republican leaders in the House of Representatives have all but nixed billions of dollars of aid that Ukraine needs to continue its fight against Moscow’s invasion.
Since taking office, President Biden has been telling his European counterparts that “America is back” as he has worked to shore up relationships tested by his isolationist predecessor. And Biden had promised U.S. backing to Ukraine for “as long as it takes.”
It falls to Harris — Biden’s top emissary at this year’s Munich Security Conference — to provide assurances, said former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
“The key to our ability to be a world leader is not just our military power, not just our diplomatic power, but our credibility, our word,” Panetta said in an interview with NPR.
Fully prepared to take the reins at a moment’s notice.
A nonsense story and a few cackles will set everyone at ease.
I find it amusing that they take Trump seriously about “giving the green light” to Russia.
Wasn’t it Biden who gave Putin the green light to invade Russia? Sorry. He just gave the green light for a minor incursion.
QUIET, YOU!
+1 mistranslated reset button
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee4PfhogtdQ
If they are not meeting their commitments on defense spending, maybe they are the ones that should make the case to us that they are allies we can count on. Also, Ukraine is not in NATO.
“One of President Biden’s top priorities when he came into office was rebuilding and revitalizing the trans-Atlantic relationship,” said Amanda Sloat, the former senior director for Europe on Biden’s National Security Council, in an interview.
We wouldn’t want to see our European allies stand on their own two feet.
Ischinger said Europeans are increasingly thinking about a Plan B — how to defend themselves if there’s a future in which they cannot depend on the United States. But experts say that, realistically, Europe isn’t prepared for that scenario anytime in the near future.
They’ve been busily crippling themselves chasing bogus hobgoblins like global warming.
On our military dime.
Weird things to think about instead of returning to economic prosperity and peaceful relationships. Prosperity would make defense funding a lot less painful.
“Europe isn’t prepared for that scenario anytime in the near future.”
Then they should probably get on it right now. I’ve always been baffled by people who say “That will take years. We shouldn’t even start.”
Trivia from a non-related activity: Who was the last US president to be born in the 1800s?
I am not going to say, I want to see what everyone else says.
Without looking it up, I’d guess FDR.
Uh, Joe Biden?
Heh. He and Trump did bump the date back from the steady increase in birth dates of US presidents. But no.
Eisenhower. He was in his 60s in the 1950s, so…
Related trivia:
First president born in the USA? Last president born in a British colony?
We have a responsibility to our European dependents. Much like a couple who decide to remain married “for the sake of the children” America must stick with Biden for the sake of Europe. If we divorce Biden and Marry Trump, he’ll whore out our daughters and sell our sons into slavery to fund his bad habits.
That’s a winning message.
Fancy wedding tales:
My parents ran away from home, and got got married at City Hall in LA. My dad rounded up some random guy to pretend to be his father; I think he said he paid him five bucks. The whole shebang probably cost less than twenty bucks. They were married for about 75 years.
A plain gold band for my wife, and fifty bucks to the JP and witness. My wife got me a gold band 10 or 15 years later.
We are coming up on our 48th anniversary. Not sure if we’ll live long enough to see 75 years. Although, current demographic trends make middle 90s as fairly realistic.
My mom had a picture of the letter that her dad got from his foreman when he asked for the weekend off to get married. The foreman basically said, “sure, but me and Fred both worked the morning shift and got married that afternoon.”
Every generation seems to think the youngsters are punks I guess.
That’s crazy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWhvS8ciEpQ
“Proposed NYC ‘trans’ and ‘queer’ charter school would encourage 9-year-olds to ‘explore their gender’: ‘Indoctrinating’ ”
https://nypost.com/2024/02/15/us-news/proposed-transgender-issues-charter-school-has-critics-outraged-over-child-indoctrination/
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE!!
If it’s a charter school, go right ahead, and let the parents vote with their dollars.
Consumers Union used to be quite lefty. Not as much as Scientific American, but close.
So this review of a union-built EV is… interedting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWqcEnJg5Us
Just the first five minutes were a holy shit moment. How fucking incompetent do you have to be to release something like that?
MOPAR quality took a huge hit in the 2000s when it first released its UConnect, and that was not even one tenth as bad.
60 thousand dollars for a blazer. Fuck GM
I thought that the joke was the Polish navy:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a14783891/someone-left-a-hatch-open-and-crippled-indias-dollar29-billion-submarine/
Great moments in yeeting:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/cosmonaut-throws-away-obsolete-hardware-into-space-during-spacewalk/vi-BB1inXf0
Does he get arrested for littering when he gets back to earth?
Russia: so desperate they’re sending 60-year old tanks into battle and also so powerful they’re preparing to destroy US satellites with a nuclear weapon.
And if that doesn’t work, their most nefarious scientist has a dastardly back-up plan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-PIidaqCyU
The first two are not mutually exclusive. “They had a viable stock of orbital launch vehicles and nuclear warheads.” “They have depleted their stocks of tanks in attrition.” Do not contradict.