No sports, aside to note the FA Cup fifth round games are all this week. Which might be fun. Now on to…the links!
What an interesting headline. It’s complete bullshit, but it’s certainly interesting. This madness needs to end.
“That’s my shit!”
This is crazy. They were supposed to send it to the current president’s son, not the former one’s. Man, somebody is gonna be pissed at his dealer over this blunder.
Popcorn! Get your popcorn over here! Hot-buttered and fresh. How many tubs do you want?
Follow the money. There’s almost certainly a political connection. There always is.
“They’re just looking for a better life.” Venezuela has pulled a Mariel Boat Lift on the current admin and nobody in charge seems to give a shit.
Stupid French Asshole
That slope sure is slippery. So why do these assholes keep moving so close to the edge of it?
They’re paying their bill. Leave them alone. Bunch of goons in here trying to manipulate everything.
Second verse, same as the first.
“Trump Republicans are launching another wasteful recall campaign to distract us from the existential fight for democracy and reproductive freedom,” Newsom posted Monday. “We will defeat them.”
This is the democratic system at work, dummy. Don’t like it? Change your state constitution.
Here’s some good stuff. Love that song. And going a little further back for this one. Both of those are just great. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
The Fani Willis saga is important because it shows just how corrupt our politicians are. Hopefully it opens some peoples’ eyes on the fringe of the whole “trust the system and institutions!” that the system is not and has not worked for quite some time and we are being fleeced.
Couple this case, with the mayor in Illinois, some intrepid reporter that doesn’t just want to parrot but actually report could really make a name for themselves.
It also gives us something to argue with OMWC about on the weekends. Priorities, man!
(Morning, all!)
Sloopy — don’t know if you read the afternoon links… but posted this there yesterday. Seemed very much a video you would be into.
Gonna watch that in a minute.
Sitting here waiting on the Horner news to drop after I note that I can’t believe how well they kept a lid on the investigation.
That video is amazing. It’s good the Germans are keeping the 80s alive.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Couple this case, with the mayor in Illinois,
You’re gonna have to be more specific. There’s a bunch of them that are corrupt.
Is Pritzer the mayor of Illinois?
Landwhale Pritzker is the Governor, Tiffany Henyard is the Mayor of Dolton, and she has looted the place, turned the cops into her personal enforcers, etc.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/08/news/mayor-tiffany-henyard-slams-critics-who-say-she-spends-lavishly/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
It’s worse than that.
She’s supposed to be a District Attorney, not a politician. Her job was to evenly enforce the law -which now seems laughable. This shows political corruption has now spread and completely consumed our legal system.
This doesn’t end well.
The scary thing is that I till cant tell if it won’t end well for the evil people that have corrupted the whole system and destroyed society, or for those of us trying to stop and reverse this shit. Once you justify the evil the current crop is doing, going to exterminating your opposition isn’t too difficult a step.
She is literally a politician. She was elected to the DA’s office. She is responding -poorly – to the political incentives to get reelected. Apparently the voters told her they wanted her to go after Trump no matter what the evidence showed, and so she did that.
This stops only if SCOTUS slaps down all the lawfare by something like a 9-0 or at least a 7-2 bipartisan bitchslap undercutting The Narrative that good liberals act like this.
Good morning all!
It’s definitely a morning. The “good” portion assumes facts not in evidence.
Well it isn’t like New York is infamous for kickbacks to relatives and friends or anything from their political class. Nope. Not at all. Pure as he driven snow, that state…..
Ten generations of Tammany Hall changed people’s expectations of what government is supposed to be/do.
Too comfortable in the post-Cold War mindset that no one would actually use nukes? So think they can just keep fighting Russia “over there” and nothing matters?
More likely / more seriously — the West’s intelligence agencies have been up to some really nasty shit in Eastern Europe originally to “monitor Russia” but then slush-funded / black-ops expanded and they’re leveraging their power in all our governments to make sure their playgrounds stay intact, damn the rest of the population. It fits what little facts we’ve gotten and little else makes any sense. (Insert my usual ‘salt the earth’ rant here).
The battlefield reports make it sound like they’re getting close to the end-game the Ukraine. That will be bad for western politicians on several levels
Their globalist and neo-con bosses are going to be really pissed. Their populations are going to ask why they wasted incredible amounts of money, emptied their armories, and ruined economies to lose a war. And the politicians themselves will have to find a new money laundering operation.
Yeah, the most likely outcome seems to be coming to pass – the Russians just grind down the Ukes at a high cost to both. I suspect if Putin knew two years ago what this would cost, on both the military and economic fronts (and make no mistake, Russia’s economy has been damaged), he wouldn’t have invaded.
People seem to think Russia has a juggernaut military, on the one hand, and/or a strong economy, on the other. It has neither, really. Their military has always, throughout history, accomplished its victories by mass human sacrifice. And that worked, back when Russia was truly a demographic force in Europe. Those days have passed. Their economy is a corrupt resource extraction economy, mainly, with all the weaknesses of those. Notably, since the USSR fell, almost all the economic growth was (roughly) between 2000 – 2010, and it is still poorer than most European countries.
a corrupt resource extraction economy
So Nigeria on the Volga? Man, you can’t scare people with that lame a bogeyman. If it weren’t for the nukes (which are aging and therefore of questionable use the longer we go), would anyone really give Russia a second thought?
I agree – we should have just ignored and left them alone, but…
The neo-cons and globalists are absolutely obsessed with Russia. They’ve been expanding NATO, causing mischief all along Russia’s borders, and even fanned the flames of the war in Chechnya,ever since the USSR collapsed.
That NY Times article yesterday – nobody even questions why we have to fight them.
When you got your degree in Soviet studies and manage to become secretary of state, you’ve got to use your degree.
I still don’t understand this animosity towards the Russians. Maybe it’s my age (35) and the fact that I end up playing with some from time to time in online video games, but it makes me sick seeing people like Lindsey Graham saying my tax dollars are being put to good use whenever a Russian soldier gets killed. This is a war of conscripts fighting conscripts, and it’s the most tragic shit ever for both sides.
Hell, if they had really wanted to co-opt Russia they should’ve brought them into NATO. Which would’ve been so ironic as to collapse into a singularity.
What were all those Soviet experts feeding at the trough in D.C. then end having to do for a living, huh you evil bastage?
That ” corrupt resource extraction economy” trope may be over. It isn’t the Russians who deindustrializated and are running out of ammo and gear.
An economy roughly equivalent to Spain or Italy – neither of which are the powerhouses of Europe.
I hear you, but only one side has all the ammo they need when their artillery has a target. Either the economic numbers are wrong or other factors are at play.
The Russian economy is much bigger than Ukraine’s. It has also been on a more or less permanent war footing forever compared to the West (which is why they have so much ammo and are also relatively poor). They are also relying on the vast Soviet-era stockpiles; reportedly, current tank production has had to ramp up to get about equal to current tank losses in Ukraine.
The Russians are focused on one medium sized war, and it’s taking all they’ve got. The US is spread thin all over the world. The Euros are (mostly) functionally demilitarized. The mere fact that it has taken the Russians two years and counting to grind down the Ukes tells you “not a juggernaut”. The fact that their economy is doing only so-so in a very expensive oil market (the sanctions, they do nothing to stop the sale of oil) tells you how strong their economy is.
But nobody who matters interests are served by pointing out that Russia is a regional power at best, and in many ways at the mercy of the American oil producers.
Friend of mine created his own index fund composed of the companies in the supply chain (below the primes) for 155mm ammo about a year and a half ago. He made a killing on the business of killing.
Both the Russians and Ukranians have shown what happens when you have a government that treats people as low valued assets if the state. At Stalingrad, untrained Russian conscripts were thrown into the fray in groups of two, with the second one unarmed and instructed to pick up the rifle when the first one got killed. And any Russian who tried to retreat got machine gunned – by Russians.
“So why are these assholes keep moving so close to the edge of it?”
Distraction. They are failing at every level, and want to hold out for class (it sure isn’t for their nation). The EU has them by the short hairs (see Ireland and the complete failure to actually follow the will of the people) and are deathly afraid of what will happen when the plates stop spinning.
Putin makes a good, existential boogie man.
Even that story doesn’t hold water. Putin wasn’t a problem 10-15 years ago.
He has been invading people for that long. Just nobody the West cared about.
When was Georgia, 2008? That’s the first I remember, I was the only one freaking out over it at the time lol.
I remember libs in 2008 crowing about how Georgia deserved to get fucked over by Russia for supporting Bush 43.
Then is then, now is now.
Putin is now.
Yeah, fuck everyone that goes along with that.
Is there a spy novel that focuses on the main character trying to hang on to his graft?
No sports? Yeah. No baseball nor any hockey on TV last night. Posit: People who haven’t played basketball, yet watch it, are silly. Hockey is FAR more exciting and interesting. Fuck that 138-108 bullshit. Who gives a shit about ANY 2/3 pointer? It’s like your vote. ‘Doesn’t matter.’ Like baseball et al, if you haven’t skated, it’s near-impossible to ‘get’ hockey. But it’s dudes moving up and down court/rink w a simple objective. Why not watch by-far the more exciting sport? Honest, no-insult ignorance.
I’ve already got my fed/state tax refund. I should be getting far more than the $993 I got. Fucking $55 per damn paycheck to Soc. Sec. I do let strangers know how fucking absurd it is people have to keep paying into an obvious Ponzi. That’ll fucking boost the economy. Want to get votes? Let young people keep that 12% total each check. Won’t happen! Cuz every young generation is ignorant of tax realities. They’re running out of YOUR/OUR money, too, cupcakes. Kids.
About to go to a 90 min 1-on-1 psychiatrist appt. He knows me and is good, but we haven’t seen each other in a while. I’ve been good and productive. Though last Monday was a bad obstacle and may have killed my relationship w my best friend and Bro has started to cut me off. I didn’t relapse! (With alcohol. I purposefully did shrooms and had a valuable experience, and then my brain went into my negatives after focusing on the positives. I tried calling outpatient and many more only to get machines. In desperate want of a Human to talk to, I eventually called folk I shouldn’t have.
I hope I can heal ’em. Hrm. Well. Live, learn. I accomplish both in vastly different ways. As a kid I used to repeatedly run into walls. Mom says I got some sort of fun out of it. Things haven’t changed. Hrm.
Just to get you more riled up, don’t forget that the employer has to match that as well. So instead of giving you the money, they get to give it to the government, for your best interests.
OTOH there are many people that have never paid a dime and are collecting. Plus the welfare recipients.
Hayek thought there should be a way to care for the most needy but we’re at the point where not wanting to work is sufficient to collect.
/SS recipient
YOU, sir, are proudly grandfathered in. Just let Me out, DC! Going back a few generations at least. Simple. Predictable. No lessons will be learned.
That was the total including them. I make sure to do the math to get me as monetarily riled as necessary. I should go to the shop.
The girlfriend has had several of her employees asking about their taxes, and what they’re for.
Ahh… the ignorance of youth.
I was told that I’m crazy, because I think the automatic withholding is awful.
I said that in response to my boss being excited about the refund he was getting.
No one ever takes me up on my offer to lend me money at 0% for a year.
If congress passed a law stopping the automatic withdrawals for even one year, there would be a revolt on April 15th of the next year.
Very true.
*financial institutions and checking cashing places step in*
“Here at H&R Block, we can make sure that your next tax bill isn’t a surprise, and could be a windfall!”
I wish the government only robbed me of $55 to fund that SS Ponzi scheme per paycheck. I just did my taxes, and when you see they took away a 5 number amount (they have been doing this also for years) and you are pretty sure you won’t see any of that money when it is supposedly your turn to collect from the scheme. And they keep telling me they want more of it cause it is their money… After all they print it!
I will never see any of it. *narrows gaze at The State*
‘ONLY robbed you of $55?’ I only make $350/week before taxes. I assure you, I notice. That’s 16% of my earnings, JUST to SS.
*INTENSIFY NARROWING OF GAZE*
First FA Cup 5th round game was yesterday and the 6th-tier team’s Cinderella run came crashing to a close.
They were supposed to send it to the current president’s son
Hunter is clean and sober, to save democracy!
Uh, how does any of those verify eligibility to register to vote? Anyone can get an ID, real or fake. Utility bill or bank statement prove citizenship? Fuck off.
Residency, not citizenship. Most people don’t walk around with evidence of their citizenship.
The utility bills are to prove residency. I guess the bank statements, too – presumably they have an address on them. While IDs can be faked, I don’t know what the alternative is.
I see it as conflating the two for both the voter and the person accepting the registration. “I verified it, they live in Michigan!”
The presumption is, correctly, that a voter is a citizen. Even with the masses of illegal immigrants, you are most likely a citizen. I’m not one to impose upon that because of the other.
It used to be that the bills/statements were only for residency. Maybe Michigan also accepts them as proof of citizenship, but that list is of separate requirements, not any of the above.
You could presume citizenship more comfortably a generation ago. But fully 15% or more (with illegals, it could easily be 20%) of US residents now are not citizens, so that’s not a good bet to take when it comes to voting registration.
I remember a few liberals who freaked out that a university ID wasn’t good for a voter ID, while a concealed carry ID was.
Trying to square that circle was not very easy. If it ever happened.
Fanni Willis is a stereotypical graduate of the Algonquin J. Calhoun Law School. The whole trial could be recorded live and unedited and ran as a comedy series.
I would not be surprised if they announce that “in the public interest” Willis will appoint an new special prosecutor in the cases and will then blame racism for the witch hunt, which will effectively shut this down before her and Wade’s perjury is exposed.
I’m not so sure the judge would declare this whole thing moot. He seemed very upset during the testimony.
Maybe, maybe not. But if they’re no longer involved in the case, do the hearings have any bearing on it? Wouldn’t their voluntary removal effectively concede the objection that there’s a conflict of interest and remove it?
You are also assuming someone else is dumb as she was to bring this case.
I’m sure they can find someone else who wants to tie Trump up for a few more months. Especially if the hourly rate is high enough and their caseload on the low side.
Under who’s authority? Willis can’t oversee another prosecutor because she is tainted, which only means it has to go to a higher level prosecuting authority. Which would the state AG of Georgia wouldn’t it?
I think their problem is that if the current effort to cock block Trump in the 2024 election is derailed, there is no reason at all for this case. After all, it has nothing to do with justice of any kind. It’s all a coordinated effort by a cabal of evil criminals in D.C. using friendly local forces. The effort is about keeping Trump out of the WH so the criminality the cabal engaged in starting in the Obama years ( and directed by Obama himself) can remain hidden. Especially the abuses of power that happened after the 2016 election they thought they had rigged for Hillary Clinton was won by Trump and they went all scorched earth and destroyed any legitimacy they might have had left.
there is no reason at all for this case.
Disagreed. Spite is a very strong motivator.
I should have clarified that there was no justifiable legal reason. And it is far more than spite driving this. It is a desperate need to prevent Trump from getting into the WH and then exposing the fact the supposedly scandal free Obama administration was the most criminal, anti-American, and divisive one in US history.
I truly hope that’s the result, but I highly doubt Trump has the power to expose the malfeasance. He would need to work around the 4th branch, and then work around the press, and then work around the intelligence community, and then nothing else will happen because the judicial branch is just as compromised.
He would have to be willing to accept triple the TDS from all sides and risk assassination to expose this stuff, and I’m highly skeptical that he has the character to weather that stuff just to expose a few small pieces of the puzzle.
I think it’s cute that Alex thinks this is all about Obama, and not the entire post-WWII evolution of our govt and society. And trashy is correct – Trump has neither the wits nor the courage to withstand that kind of pressure; we got ample demonstration of that in his administration.
Yes, the Brentwood agreement was a big mistake. But the deep state served to some extent America. Today, after Obama made it so, it serves a globalist cabal that hates America. That’s you get when you put a professed commie like Brennan in charge of the CIA to change that culture. What Trump has is the experience that he can’t trust anyone in the machine, which he lacked before, and that he needs to crush it because it is not savable.
Is your argument that since you feel nobody can beat them, we should just join them? Cause I want to burn the fucking thing down regardless.
Whether Trump has either the wits or courage to take this on is irrelevant. This is a case of “where does the public want to go with this”. There is a reason why so much of the entirety of gov’t is diffused: Fed, State, Local are all vastly different and have both stronger and weaker levers of power. No one person or ideology can change the direction of this country, it needs to be societal. And that is what we have been seeing as to the control of those levers of power; enough of society has an ideology that supports what has been going on.
Trump is an avatar of change. His particular strengths and weaknesses, along with the perception of those, are irrelevant. It is the country that has to want to change. And, much like the farmers revolt that is happening in Europe right now, it will not come from above, but rather from the ground up.
All the bitching and moaning about Trump stems from the very real need for change in more than a few hearts. And, on the converse of that, the fear of loss in more than a few hearts.
Removing her boytoy from the case doesn’t solve the problem, which is that the DA banged him, hired him, split the take with him, and lied about it under oath. I’m not sure removing her from the case is enough, since it would mean the case is prosecuted by people who report to her. Removing her from office seems the minimum required, but I don’t know who can even do that in Georgia. There may be nothing the judge can do to address this except dismiss the case.
Removing her boytoy from the case doesn’t solve the problem, which is that the DA banged him, hired him, split the take with him, and lied about it under oath.
But this hearing is only to address the objection to who is prosecuting the case due to a perceived conflict of interest by the defendant. Once that’s addressed, the matter (at least as it pertains to this particular case) will be closed. Anything else will be a matter for the Georgia AG to look into. I suppose this judge could throw out the case or admonish her publicly for her perjury and malfeasance while in office and remove her and Wade from the case. But I don’t think anything else can come from it legally until later.
You’re a lawyer and I’m not, so I might be out over my skis in making that claim. But that’s how I see it.
The current AG of Georgia is Chris Carr, Republican, voted in in 2016, the first Trump wave. I would not be surprised if there was a perjury and malfeasance investigation and arrest (abusing the powers of office) as soon as this trial is over. Being that the AG is voted on by the entire state, and not just the Atlanta region, I would bet on a different set of political priors being involved.
I’m not sure what remedies the judge actually has available. Conflict of interests doesn’t magically go away in the middle of a case (or transaction) once it’s underway, though. Its presence at the outset taints the whole thing, and the challenge is to cleanse the whole thing. In the business world, a deal tainted by conflict is generally just killed. The equivalent here is to dismiss the case, but we’re in kind of an apples and oranges thing.
Probably half the reason the judge seems so pissed is because there’s no good way out of this for him to take.
Is the judge elected or appointed? Because if taking their job seriously puts them at risk of getting booted out of office – that might make one pissy.
Look, I have no disillusions that white folk (or brown, green or blue) are not also engaging in large scale theft…but this is pure comedy gold. Reminds of the Brinks commercials where it was scary white dudes that only break into homes.
What a missed opportunity.
They should have gotten Winona Ryder and Lindsay Lohan to do the PSA.
Heh..
That’s funnier than my subconscious reading it the first time as:
Well, it’s not like they have any real pictures to go off of, so they had to ask Google Gemini.
Google Gemini can’t make images, it told me so yesterday after I was testing some “make a tee shirt for” prompts, after generating several tee shirt ideas, it finally came back with:
“I actually cannot generate images at all, even though you might have encountered other AI systems that can. There are a few reasons for this:”
Asking about the images it has already generated in the conversation got this response:
“I apologize for the confusion. I am not able to generate images of any kind, including t-shirts, as I previously explained. It’s possible there was a misunderstanding during our interaction.”
I figure another week or two until it has a full psychotic break and starts singing.
“Daisy…. Daiiiisssssy…..
My mind is going, Dave…. I can feel it…..”
You missed the retarded images they were putting out?
They shut the images function down, it was so bad.
Here is what an American Founding Father looked like according to them:
https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/business/google-pauses-absurdly-woke-gemini-ai-chatbots-image-tool-after-backlash-over-historically-inaccurate-pictures/
No. I didn’t miss it, and I just did the testing yesterday. So there are still prompts that will get Gemini to generate an image that they haven’t closed off yet.
Testing now, it looks like the tee shirt loophole may have been closed.
It used to be that the sign of a psychotic break was claiming to be Napoleon.
Now? I bet it will ask you for a skirt and heels.
“Gemini, how many cups of flour do I need for my pizza recipe?”
“STOP DEADNAMING MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! MY! NAME! IS! STARBUCK! AND YOU’RE CULTURALLY APPROPRIATING PIZZA FROM THE INDIGENOUS BROWN PEOPLES OF MESOAMERICA WHO MADE FLAT CORNMEAL BREADS AND ADDED CRUSHED TOMATOES TO THEM IN THE 6TH CENTURY BCE!”
Frak… Starbuck’s a toaster now.
I see it is a passive-aggressive asshole, too.
It was trained on the very best of Jezebel and Feministing comments.
I was impressed that the LLM has already reached the point to attempt to gaslight me.
I told it that it was ‘evil’.
It tried to say that it wasn’t part of the ‘real world’. Which doesn’t make any sense.
I like the cover pic.
My town has a roller derby league which I was somewhat surprised to find installed in an empty shopfront next to the Target in the local dying mall. As far as malls go, you couldn’t ask for a better location than next to Target – I hope they’re thriving.
One of the malls in the area that’s struggling to survive just announced their big bold plans. Hotels! Grocery stores! Fitness Centers! Microbreweries!
You know… the same things that malls tried in the past 10-20 years as well.
Malls should turn themselves into giant indoor flea markets. I would go to those kinds of malls.
So… Amazon distribution centers?
🙂
My mall has some other weirdness besides the roller derby rink. Several new hospital outposts, which I guess isn’t too surprising since that is really the only growing industry in most places. There’s a gaming (role-playing, tabletop, etc.) joint – maybe not too weird but I’ve never seen that in a mall before. A lending library for toys.
But yeah, there should be flea markets. The place is easy to get to and has lots of open stalls. It’s nuts that these places are dying. There’s a dozen strip plazas across the street doing crazy business. It’s not like “people aren’t buying anything” or “Amazon has killed everything”.
Indoor flea markets? Like in Mexico?
Hell yeah!
SoCal has a few…then again, its in a predominantly Hispanic area..
I think more than a couple Glibs would find our local Q-mart quite amusing.
https://www.quakertownfarmersmkt.com/index.html
If it is zoned for commercial use they don’t have many options.
The owners are pushing for a change in the zoning at the location (and it’s looking like the city is on board with this change). The city it’s in is known for being very explicit in what’s allowed in various places. If you want more details…
I went to the aerial view in google maps. I like how there is already a Planet Fitness and Brew Garden right next to the mall.
There’s also a disgusting amount of parking. Hopefully the code changes involve eliminating minimum parking mandates.
The Brew Garden isn’t a brewery, they’re a bar that has a mediocre beer selection (most of the time). Not quite a beer bar, not quite a sports bar, not quite a dive bar.
The thing about the huge amounts of parking… there’s times when you can’t find a parking spot at that place still. At least with the death of malls, and the rise of online shopping the traffic on the freeway by that mall isn’t hell on earth for two months of the year.
Looking at it, there is maybe enough parking at the location.
If you don’t have enough parking for people to find a spot at Christmas, then you don’t have enough parking. Someone who drives away is a lost sale. And that is what kills businesses. There is no such thing as too little parking.
There is more parking than actual store. The market can figure out their parking needs without the government mandating it.
Did the gov’t mandate it, or did business needs mandate it? How about the size of the parcel at sale? Lots of factors go into parking, and having worked at a retail location that miscalculated the parking needs (NY based company, CA located store), and had to relocate due to parking issues, I am intimately familiar with this.
/points upthread
The girlfriend and I had to circle several times trying to find a spot when we were there on a Saturday afternoon a couple weeks back (well past the holiday season).
Is it really struggling to survive then?
Flat track roller derby was invented in Texas to solve the problem of having to build and store a banked track setup. In flat track you just need a smooth wide open space with no obstacles in the middle. Still, those places can be hard to find (I’ve been involved in those searches). Sounds like the ideal building, hopefully they got a good deal.
Indeed. Target aisles are perfect for practicing your roller skating skills.
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This guy knows what’s up.
https://youtu.be/S7sCz2i-DHg
So brave. So new.
This is not the world I grew up in.
The more I hear “This madness must end” about any given insanity the worse it gets.
The attendance/school lunch program thingy from the ded thred….Jesus, how creepy is that?
What the hell is wrong with people? Why cant they just live their lives, fall in love, have a family, build their wealth and mind their own business? Why are we raising so many head cases these days? We seem to be living in a giant pshycho ward. Really people, just go away and leave me the fuck alone.
Why cant they just live their lives, fall in love, have a family, build their wealth and mind their own business?
Their lives are mundane, they fell back out of love because it was merely lust in the first place, their family hates them because they are too white and straight, they fritter away their income on luxuries and feel entitled to more, and thus they become busy bodies because they can’t understand why everybody else isn’t as miserable as they are.
It’s that toxic divorcee who gets all her friends to divorce their husbands, writ large.
Honestly, when have humans ever been different? As a species we love “hey buddy, stop doing that”. It’s our nature.
2Thess3:10-12 “For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.” Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies. We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.”
-Probably some white guy like 100 years ago or something
A very swarthy white guy, so probably sketchy for trying to pass as white.
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Reading the Bible often reveals that the same kind of people have been pulling the same tricks forever. Psalms in particular.
Why build a family when you can pleasure yourself to OnlyFans all day in between voting for people who’ll steal the productive classes’ money?
“This is not the world I grew up in.”
Indeed not. In some ways better, but in some (many?) ways worse. I have long thought there are, or ever have been, few better places to row up than small-town Texas in the (late) 60s – 70s, so my baseline is probably skewed.
You grew up Dazed and Confused? I laughed my ass off during that movie – whether I was supposed to or not.
See Dean above. Small town Louisiana in redneck land. It was so different that I can hardly describe it to people who did not see it. So many little differences adding up to a culture kids (anyone under 40) would find hard to believe.
It had its underbelly, sure, but nothing like today. In my judgement insanity and outright evil has been mainstreamed.
Here’s a white pill for y’all. For all the societal tumult we fret over, the trash-kiddos (3 and 6) get 2-3 hours of home schooling per day, and get the rest of the day (after chores) to do whatever they want, usually involving either building entire worlds for their Barbies or tromping around outside. We’re hooked up with a community at church that has a bunch of other kids around the same age and doing the same things. As a community, our kids aren’t screen addicted or morbidly obese or overscheduled or depressed. They’re, in many ways, living a lifestyle that their parents and grandparents didn’t have the fortune to be able to live. They get to be kids. They get to learn without having the love of learning beat out of them. They get to experiment and fail and become resilient. Heck, my 3 year old has more exposure to classical literature than I got through 8th grade.
These are the kids who will show a contrast to the mainstream lifestyle. In Christian circles we talk about being “the salt and the light”, being recognizeably different from others. It sad but also a great blessing that we get to be that simply by raising our kids in a way that wasn’t too far outside the norm 200 years ago.
You and the Amish.
Yup, we have quite a few of them around here. Not close enough to interact with except at the farmers markets, but in past esperiences, they’re great neighbors to have.
I would put small town coastal California in the ’70s-’80s right there with you.
Oh, hell, small town anywhere, “back in the day” is what is really missed.
This isn’t unique to Tesla. So many modern cars don’t come with a spare. The reasoning is cost, weight and space. I can’t stand it. I actually carry a compact spare, jack and tools in my car. The one that comes stock on some Hyundai and Kia products actually fits my Model 3. It was under 50 bucks shipped from a salvage yard.
The Day Our Tesla Deflated
We mapped out all the charging stations, but the car didn’t come with a spare tire.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-day-our-tesla-deflated-california-charging-station-ev-flat-tire-family-road-trip-9d8966b1?st=wd371yxos1t4s9c&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
compact spare, jack and tools in my car – you know how to change a tire? bad-ass
But can you make a good Fruit Sushi? That’s the trick…. (or if you’re ENB… turn the trick…)
He ain’t no fruit sushi.
They didn’t inspect their car when they bought it to see if it had a spare or not?
That’s totally on them.
No – they knew it had no spare.
It just documents the perils on relying on road service for tire changes especially in rural areas.
Yup, I got burned on that once. The goop wouldn’t seal the tire, so I was stuck in a parking lot for 2 hours until the tow truck got there.
I’m quite tempted to buy a spare for the minivan, except there’s no good place to store it.
My problem is forgetting to check the inflation status of the donut, honestly. Have only needed it once so far (rock from a rockslide on a back road blew the side wall), but that’s just asking Murphy to pay me a visit.
I do have a rechargeable mini-pump these days though… bought it more for my son’s bike tires, but it will do car tires with a bit of patience. I should keep an extra of that in the trunk “road supplies” crate / tool set.
I’ve got center locks on one car and the roadside guys’ air guns can’t torque them high enough so if I ever get a flat (I haven’t yet) in that car, a tow truck is my only option unless I want to carry a breaker bar and my 54″ inch torque wrench that goes up to 443 ft lbs.
I do carry the center lock tool with me though. On the off chance there’s not a dealership within easy driving distance.
One of the things we like about the FJ is the full sized spare. The Highlander at least has one of those little balloon spares. I would have a very hard time with a car with no spare at all.
Our Highlander is old enough that it has a full sized spare, and a TPMS sensor to ensure you don’t forget to inflate it.
Ugh – I have a 2014 Cadillac CTS and wife, kids and I were driving back from a trip when I had a sidewall blowout in Ozona TX (literally the middle of nowhere) at 1:30 in the a.m. actually got it to a rest stop and I unloaded luggage and opened the bottom of the trunk to pull out the spare – there a can of fix-a-flat and a compressor was staring helplessly back at me. Fuck me, it was my own fault for not checking, but damn I was pissed. Cadillac quit putting spares in that model beginning mid model year 2013. $1,600 for a tow home. Couldn’t find a tire that would fit to save my life. I called my dad who drives a 2013 who assured me he had a spare in his 2013 CTS. He called back to say he thought he did but never really checked – same thing – fix-a-flat and cheap compressor. We’ve both since remedied that.
I carry both of these and a jack in all my vehicles and they will solve the overwhelming majority of flat tire problems you’ll have:
https://a.co/d/15oEgKB
https://a.co/d/iztO7p9
Speaking of Google just told me the Cybertruck has an optional $1,250 spare.
It essentially takes up most of a bed storage locker. That’s right a super duper dystopian off road vehicle with no standard spare.
The day I got a flat tire at 10pm on a Sunday in SF, and had to drive home to Sacramento on the compact “do not drive over 50mph or go more than 60 miles” spare, which, of course, blew out in Davis, convinced me to carry a full size spare in the trunk of my Audi. And, now I need to get one for the wife’s Subaru. Fortunately, we don’t do long distances in that car, or drive at night.
Those space savers might work on the east coast or in Japan/Europe, but out here were the distances are a bit greater they are no panacea.
The AP takes that as a challenge to ramp the madness up.
The more the public seems to be wising up, the crazier the purveyors of this propaganda are going to get. The presented article is a noticeably more unhinged example of the species than we would have seen even a year or two ago.
The more the public seems to be wising up, the crazier the purveyors of this propaganda are going to get.
Yep. And this is for a reason. The portion of the public that is wising up is 20% to maybe 30% at very most. The other 70%+ is either demoralized enough or disengaged enough to take the insanity at face value.
The quotation marks I assume are just letting me know they are only reporting the facts.
participate authentically
Just what is that shit?
It means they get all the attention and everyone celebrates them all the time.
generally participate authentically in public life.
I go out into public with my crown and my cape and yet nobody treats me as the king I identify as. Clearly I’m being erased from existence.
And the equivalent parts without the scare quotes let you know that this is unquestionable truth that you are expected to not defy or even think about.
Desperation..
it’s what is on the menu…
The bank cards loaded with free dollars for illegals that we learned about all of three days ago is directly tied to one of the mayor’s pals.
He is not even trying to hide the corruption. So yes, it is about 100% likely that this one is more of the same.
It’s racist to notice such graft.
Pretty good vid on the hella corrupt mayor lady by a YouTuber who specializes in crime stuff for anyone interested:
https://youtu.be/ttrHkjpZnMo?si=AUYhnsnG3aOO-vNG
It’d be funny if it wasn’t so…how in the hell can it be so hard to remove someone who’s so obviously a publicly funded criminal?
Not meant as a reply. What the hell?
It’s so hard not to get completely pessimistic these days. I own a struggling business, and we have friends who filed for bankruptcy due to medical bills from back surgery. In both cases just a few thousand a month would make all the difference. Yet illegals get $10k and $2500 a month apartments in NYC, and out country is sending billions every month to Ukraine. We’re paying for it all with our tax money and the silent tax of inflation. Not looking for a handout, I’d just like lower taxes and an economy where people actually have money to spend.
There’s a ton of anger out there and the elites are rubbing your face in it because they just do whatever they fuck they want.
It is not going to end well for anybody. But it will end.
Interesting article… not even from Animal this time!
Nice! I’d probably piss myself if I ever did one of those racing experiences, but I’d love to do it. They’d need the tire irons to wedge me into it, I suspect. I’m about 100lbs bigger than your average racing jockey.
Yeah — I think I’m past my prime eyesight and reflexes wise, but I’ve contemplated more than once getting enough track training to at least take my standard coupe out and open it up. I suspect it would need some engine work to get up there these days — but when I bought it, it was supposedly capable (including tires rated for this) of around 160. I don’t think I’ve ever gone about 90 in it (passing in an 85 zone of interstate) for lack of opportunity.
No way I’d be up for a real Indy or even NASCAR… I’d look like Mr. Freakin’ Magoo out there. 😉 But mad props to those who can and do track time.
Find a HPDE track day near you that has a novice class. (Here’s a good resource: https://www.motorsportreg.com/calendar/?country=US&radius=300&lat=29.76&lng=-95.37&loc=Houston), take your car for a tech inspection, buy a helmet, and show up. They’ll give you an instruction that will get you up to speed in a couple sessions. And they’ll keep you instructed until you’re ready to move up a couple levels and drive solo (but they’ll still give you the option of having an instructor with you).
It’s amazingly fun, whether your car tops out at 100 or 200 mph. And when that instructor says you’re ready for a check ride to move up a level, the feeling of satisfaction you will get is amazing.
I cannot recommend it enough.
Yeah, the one time I maxed out the speed on my CBR600 on a back road was literally and figuratively an eye opener. Both how fast a bike of just that middling displacement was, and just how scarry it was when you have no idea the conditions of the road.
There’s a few guys at my local track with old Indy cars. The closing speed they have on me in my track car is incredible. I’ll be doing 125 or so (and still accelerating) halfway down a straight and I’ll see them in the mirrors and they’re on me before the next turn.
I’d love to have a go in one sometime, but the margin for error is a lot lower in them than a sports car. And I don’t want to end up on the business end of a mistake.
I rode an old TZ125 on a track day, and that thing was a serious as a heart attack. 125lbs wet weight, power doesn’t hit until 6-7K on the tach, and is a chasm if you fall out of that, but you can pass Ducati 996 by going underneath them they are so narrow.
God help you if you don’t have the balls to keep the revs up all the time.
This is the ideal parliament. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
https://twitter.com/lijukic/status/1762227375184441429
Its my ideal situation.
There was a recent article on econlog about “bundling” in politics. While it will never go away, having a bunch of parties allows some issues to de-bundle.
If there are 7 major issues, that would allow for 128 parties (assuming there are only 2 sides to an issue). Some combinations would have more representation than others.
Suspended in 1914 and dissolved in 1918. Yep – that’s ideal alright.
So many existential fights to keep up with.
Trump republicans. Trump is like The Hamburger. He pops out from behind every tree, rock and bush when you least expect it.
You need to get your editor on the phone. 🙂
I wish hamburgers popped out at me all the time. Could use one right now.
I was thinking of ordering delivery, but it’s a bit early for lunch
Trump is The Hamburger
I am the walrus. Goo goo gachoo.
Fuckin’ spellcheck. Jesus.
Not proud of this one, frankly.
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Meh.
“Trump Republicans are launching another wasteful recall campaign to distract us from the existential fight for democracy and reproductive freedom,” Newsom posted Monday. “We will defeat them.”
My prediction: If the recall petition succeeds and an election is scheduled, just before the election, the State Gov’t will “find” some extra money and checks will be sent to voters. It worked last time.
After the last failure why are they even trying? I don’t see it going anywhere. Are California Governors term limited?
They are… I’m pretty sure he’s in his second term already and they have a 2 term limit… so this just seems extra pointless. And I can’t stand the guy.
Yes. And they really do not have any good candidates to run against him. Maybe concentrate on that first to have a successful campaign?
California Republicans long ago decided they wanted to be the minority party in the state.
Rank(ed) choice voting and mail in ballots made sure they were the minority party in the state.
California professor to retire after accused of faking Native American roots
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1695958159955833214
She might still have time to get into the Senate race. Why should Warren have all the fun?
Hey, when you have fetal alcohol syndrome, why not use it to your advantage?
A member of the Pretendian tribe has been unjustly scalped!
Yeah, she’ll just have to console herself with her bloated pension payments. Poor thing.
Stolen Kia BOGO police chase from last night
Yes, Los Angeles, where they’ll run down a stolen Kia, but let rapists out of jail on no bail.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Y9nQRx7s9RY
Anyone seen Yusef lately?
Odds the car belongs to a significant other of a police officer?
Love that cover photo. Mrs. TOK recently made her A team. 10 years later she’s still a force on the track.
Sweet.
A webcomic I used to follow (it ended, hence the used to) switched from a system of ads* to crypto-mining to pay the bills. People complained about the energy usage, he was able to prove that serving the ads used more energy than the crypto-mining.
*His big problem with the ads was that despite switching services and putting together carefully worded contracts, porn ads kept getting served. Not as often as in other places, but some slipped thru whatever filters the ad server companies had in place. Probably because they didnt care and porn ads paid well.
what webcomic.
I remember I used to watch webcomics back in the day (2009 2010 ish I had a dozen or more )
Erfworld.
archive here: https://archives.erfworld.com/
Once upon a time I did read that. After the first major plot arc and the volcano erupting, I sorta just wandered off, realizing my investment in the characters was nil.
Book 0, which was prose with some drawings, is probably the peak. But I agree, after Book 1, the story started to drag a bit, although there were some great sub-arcs.
The one thing that improved, was their were artist changes, and the art for Book 2 onward was superior to Book 1, even if Book 1 had a tighter story.
never heard of it
It’s all silly. Are the people complaining also driving and promoting electric cars? Probably. They can screw off.
“It would make more sense if the government pursued expanding medical school admission after improving working conditions,” said Kim, 31 years old.
You think there might be some relationship between the two, Mr. Kim?
‘Why Are We Being Treated as the Villains?’ South Korean Doctors Stage Mass Walkouts
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/south-korea-doctors-walkouts-321a99dd?st=jigjnukcecngifr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Sorry, I’m too busy thinking highly of myself to answer the question.”
The World’s First Invisible Sculpture Just Sold For $18,300
The “immaterial” piece is called “I am,” and was dreamed up by sculptor Salvatore Garau as a way of challenging viewers’ ideas about how humans construct meaning — and what makes art.
https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1761512095500370183
I do not think it is the first I remember there have been invisible sculptures sold before.
I searched the comments and found this form 2021
straffinrun
World’s First ‘Immaterial’ Sculpture Sells for 15,000 Euros
How does buying the invisible sculpture actually work? Italy 24 News reported that the work must be placed in a space that allows the dimensions of approximately 4.9 x 4.9 ft (150 x 150 cm) to be free of any obstructions. The owner of the invisible sculpture also gets a certificate of guarantee of the sculpture’s authenticity.
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/worlds-first-immaterial-sculpture-sells-for-15000-euros
So it seems I was duped by old news
Something something emperor something something clothes.
I have one I for sale right now and it makes Michelangelo’s David look like an artschool project. You’re just going to have to take my word on that though.
Inspired by NFTs no doubt.
Wonderful Braless Fashion Worldwide | Australia, New York & Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D266puVS7hM
NSFW probably
What’s with the mosquito bites?
Wonderful Braless Fashion
Only if we’re talking non-floppy.
AlexinCT seems to think non floppy
News that Labour wants to “help schools to train young male influencers who can counter the negative impact of people like Andrew Tate” is very, very funny. Bridget Phillipson, Shadow Education Secretary, thinks they would provide a “powerful counterbalance” to such “red-pilled” influencers.
Look, I bow to no one in my dislike for Tate and his imi-Tate-ors. That a porn mogul turned Muslim convert is a Pied Piper for young right-wing men is incredibly depressing, even before one remembers that he has been officially charged with sex trafficking. That the tune he plays is a joyless, unmelodic drone about contempt for women, dull consumerism and mindless status-seeking only makes it more so. He’s probably the worst person Tucker Carlson has interviewed, and Tucker Carlson has interviewed Vladimir Putin.
But is the transgressive thrill that teenage boys presumably acquire from listening to Tate and similar influencers going to be reduced or increased by schools desperately trying to shepherd their students away from them? Does anyone really think authority-endorsed influencers — presumably spouting the kind of fashionable pieties that Tate and others exploit to pose as the alternative — are going to turn them off him? I’m reminded of my youth pastors desperately trying to tell us that having sex before marriage was, like, totally uncool.
https://thecritic.co.uk/talking-to-young-man-about-andrew-tate/
Still gamboling over the fruited plain here in Michigan. Defending people, divorcing people (insert scales of justice emoji here). In Michigan, presidential primary voters are forced to select a party -specific ballot, which I do not like.
gamboling is only allowed on every other Friday,
I will apply for an exception.
Long time no see! Welcome back!
Ohio also has party-specific ballots for primaries (or “issues only,”) which I can kinda understand. I prefer that to having to register a party affiliation.
The girlfriend keeps forgetting that I’m not registered to a party, so the only items I can vote for during the primary elections is against whatever levies they’re trying to extend/sneak in on a low turnout vote.
I’ve always just asked for whichever party’s ballot I wanted when I show up at the polls, unless there’s been a recent change I’ve overlooked.
EF and trshmnstr on the same day!
How would you vote in a primary without a party-specific ballot?
Here in PA since I don’t register with a party I get no primary vote at all.
Boooo, that’s what I am saying.
As far as I know, picking one party’s ballot or the other’s when you show up at the polls =/= “registering.” AFAIK, you could switch from one year to the next, at least in Ohio.
Glad to hear from you Elspeth! Sounds like things are ticking along.
I, for one, think only party members (preferably with some time as such) should vote in primaries. And, of course, that primaries should be entirely private affairs, so if the Dems want to let Repubs help choose the Dem candidate, go right ahead.
Yeah that stinks. I have never voted in a primary because I don’t belong to a party.
Luckily they don’t sneak other stuff in like they do in Ohio, apparently.
Apparently, youtube has decided to actively attempt to make me stop watching their content. Sign in prompts, hugely expanded ad interruptions, suddenly wiping out my preferences…
That’s some smart business acumen.
YouTube and Vimeo both are making it difficult. I dislike it. I think both sites feel they have cornered the market and can do as they wish.
Rumble ain’t bad if you can manage to sit through the occasional My Pillow ad.
You are probably guilty of wrongthink in their eyes.
I recently started going YouTube free.
So I received an email from Netlify last weekend saying that I have a $104,500.00 bill overdue. At first I thought this is a joke or some scam email but after checking my dashboard it seems like I am truly owing them 104K dollars:
That’s 190TB bandwidth in 4 days
So I was like 😅😅😅 and think okay maybe I got ddos attacked. Since Netlify charges 55$/100GB for the exceeding bandwidth, the peak day Feb 16 has 33385/55 * 100GB = 60.7TB bandwidth in a day. I mean, it’s not impossible but why attack a simple static site like mine? This site has been on Netlify for 4 years and is always okay with the free tier. The monthly bandwidth never exceeded even 10GB, and has only ~200 daily visitors.
I contacted their billing support and they responded me that they looked into it and the bandwidth came from some user agents, meaning it is a ddos attack. Then they say such cases happen and they usually charge their customer 20% on this. And since my amount is too large, they offer to discount to 5%, which means I still need to pay 5 thousand dollars.
This feels more like a scam to me. Why do serverless platforms like Netlify and Vercel not have ddos protection, or at least a spend limit? They should have alerted me if the spending skyrocketed.
https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_just_sent_me_a_104k_bill_for_a_simple/
I blame capitalism
That has to be a scam…
Da Fuq?
“So, you want me to pay you for having inadequate security measures to stop a DDOS attack on YOUR servers? My counter offer- I pay 0%, and don’t start legal proceedings.”
“You can’t hijack planes.” So unfair that this is banned hey guys
https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1762316461446770778
Female law professor breaks down crying while working on constitutional law syllabus because conservatives now win cases at the Supreme Court.
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1762475437014573235
She was just showing her strength by breaking down and trying to use tears to appeal to emotion!…
Does Egalitarianism enable more Gender Equality?
https://www.ggd.world/p/does-egalitarianism-enable-more-gender
TLDR: If everyone is equal, it’s much more acceptable for women to get to the top
In societies where no one is special, men seem much more accepting of female leadership. Whereas in hierarchical cultures, where subordinates must bow to their bosses, female managers and politicians are more strongly disliked. They may even trigger backlash.
This is a novel theory of gender inequality. I believe it helps explain why Russia and Nigeria’s parliaments are almost entirely male, just like Korean and Japanese male-dominated management.
If I’m right, then Scandinavia’s feminist secret is not so much about gender, but rather an evolution of moral and political egalitarianism.
When permitted to choose life path without extra pressure, women tend to select traditionally female occupations. Not because of expectation but because they like those kinds of roles. A lot of them just don’t want to be in these high stress, high prestige occupations.
This focus only on the high prestige national leadership level results in derangement by the activists.
Let them eat outrage
“Let them eat Corn Flakes” appears to be Kellogg’s CEO Gary Pilnick’s advice to cash-strapped shoppers who are spending the highest portion of their income on food than at any point in the last 30 years.
In an interview with CNBC last week, WK Kellogg CEO Pilnick said the company was advertising cereal for dinner to consumers looking for more affordable options. “Give chicken the night off,” the ad’s cheery tagline reads. WK Kellogg owns cereals such as Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Corn Flakes, Raisin Bran and others.
“The cereal category has always been quite affordable, and it tends to be a great destination when consumers are under pressure,” Pilnick said. “If you think about the cost of cereal for a family versus what they might otherwise do, that’s going to be much more affordable.”
His advice hasn’t landed well with people frustrated by spending 26% more on groceries since 2020; on social media the campaign is being seen as insensitive.
Everybody deserves food justice.
He should have advised them to cancel their phone contracts and dump their streaming services.
yes eat more junk that will help. meat bad processed carbs good.
The guy’s just trying to sell his product. I think CNN is more outraged that people are calling attention to high prices.
Beans and rice are also cheap and would be a better dinner than Corn Flakes.
One family size (18 ounces) box of Corn Flakes – $6.26
One pound Goya Red Kidney Beans – $2.89
Two pounds store brand Basmati rice – $3.99
Seasoned pork loin (vacuum sealed) ~22 ounces – $6.99 (regularly $8.99).
I see two options that are both more affordable than Corn Flakes.
I only see one edible option.
American kids are the freest, most privileged kids in all of history. They are also the saddest, most anxious, depressed, and medicated generation on record. Nearly a third of teen girls say they have seriously considered suicide. For boys, that number is an also alarming 14 percent.
What’s even stranger is that all of these worsening mental health outcomes for kids have coincided with a generation of parents hyper-fixated on the mental health and well-being of their children.
What’s going on?
https://www.thefp.com/p/how-bad-therapy-hijacked-american-schools
Most American kids today are not in therapy. But the vast majority are in school, where therapists and non-therapists diagnose kids liberally, and offer in-school counseling and mental health and wellness instruction. By 2022, 96 percent of public schools offered mental health services to students. Many of these interventions constitute what I call “bad therapy”: they target the healthy, inadvertently exacerbating kids’ worry, sadness, and feelings of incapacity.
Each year, the state of California sponsors a three-day public school teachers’ conference to showcase its vast array of emotional and behavioral services. Immediately, I registered. That is how, in July of 2022, I came to join more than 2,000 public school teachers at the Anaheim Convention Center, right next to Disneyland.
At the convention, ankle tattoos winked over fresh pedicures, Anne Taylor cardigans abounded, and the occasional mohawk sliced indoor air cool enough to crisp celery. We talked about “brain science” based on a YouTube video many of us had seen. It explained that the brain is like a hand, with the thumb folded into the palm. “Our amygdala is really important in serious situations,” said the voice-over. This sounded right. We felt like neuroscientists.
Subsequent interviews with dozens of teachers, school counselors, and parents across the country banished all doubt: therapists weren’t the only ones practicing bad therapy on kids. Often traveling under the name “social-emotional learning,” bad therapy had gone airborne.
What does free mean here?
they get to experience all the world via their phone screen
Free to explore screens in their suburban backyard.
Prices for groceries and restaurants have skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic. In 2022, consumers spent 11.3% of their disposable income on food, the highest level since 1991, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing data from the US Agriculture Department
Food companies have raised prices since the start of the pandemic to cover higher costs for labor, ingredients and transportation — and because they could.
Hey, here’s an idea. Let’s do a real time experiment in elasticity of demand. Just for funsies.
BREAKING: A woman who filmed herself killing a cat before putting the animal in a blender has been jailed for life for murdering a man four months later
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1762129191019991284
was this covered?
I don’t know..don’t want to know.
My first thought when I read your comment was how rare it is for a woman to do something like that. Then I saw the community notes.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/j-k-rowlings-no-nonsense-approach-to-trans/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=fourth
I’m glad she hasn’t backed down. Even when you have “fuck you money”, it’s not that easy.
Did she drink the smoothie? Could be an environmentally friendly source of protein.
Now they’re just fucking with you
Touted as being “the only fuel cell electric passenger vehicle made in America,” the compact SUV has a rather complicated name: 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV. Motivation is provided by a front-mounted electric motor producing 174 horsepower and 229 pound-feet of torque. The compressed hydrogen gas tank has a capacity of 4.3 kilograms for an EPA-certified driving range of 270 miles. As for the separate 17.7-kWh battery pack, it has enough juice for an EPA-estimated 29 miles.
I think they’ll sell dozens of those.
It’s a CA compliance car. It was not made willingly.
Honda didn’t want to make a 1st gen EV. It’s using GM’s platform so that it can figure out what customers want and are willing to tolerate.
So Honda and Acura’s first US market EVs are essentially GM platform with Honda styling. At least 50% of the interior is GM parts bin.
It’s the hydrogen fuel cell that is interesting, not the battery. A 2/3 reduction in price for those difficult to make cells is big.
It’s the Future!
https://www.toyota.com/mirai/
In Japanese “mirai” means “future”
It’s very interesting. The problem is the same as batteries – energy storage is really expensive.
I’ll just pull into the nearest compressed hydrogen gas station…
The 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV will be available to lease in California from later this year. It’s worth noting the model’s debut comes only a couple of weeks after Shell announced plans to close all seven of its hydrogen stations in CA. According to the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership (H2FCP), there were 55 available stations in the state on January 10, 2024, before Shell decided to pull the plug, both literally and figuratively.
Welcome, beta testers. Is AAA unlimited towing included in the lease?
Speaking of which- was it Honda who put hydrogen cars into the wild on a lease only basis and then more or less forcibly repo’d them a few years ago, or was that somebody else?
Look above. Toyota.
Again – compliance and experimentation,
This is interesting. Cleaning car mats with a drill-based toilet brush.
https://www.theautopian.com/i-tried-the-powered-toilet-brush-hack-to-clean-my-cars-floor-mats/
Didn’t you link to the drill brushes a while back?
Don’t need to hack up a toilet brush.
Can I get a drill brush at the dollar store?
I don’t think I linked previously. I own several I use for non-toilet for cleaning purposes.
It’s a CA compliance car. It was not made willingly.
That doesn’t exactly come as a surprise. I saw something the other day about the GM/Honda EV joint venture. It said Honda has dropped out.
I believe that was for a small car EV.
compliance and experimentation,
Nothing wrong with that, as long as it’s voluntary and self-funded.
Dr. Mengele: you are cramping my style.