Good morning one and all to another wonderous day! The day in upon on and the links are fresh and ready for consumption!
Soros Propaganda Network Founder Constantly Visit Biden White House
7 Killed, Hundreds Injured After Massive 7.4 Earthquake Shakes Taiwan, Damages Buildings
Federal spending soars as deficit hits $830 billion so far into FY2024 despite revenue increases
A million simulations show US debt is on an ‘unsustainable’ path
Feds report about $2.7 trillion in improper payments over two decades
Mitch McConnell, 82, Vows to Remain in Senate to Fight His Own Party
Oregon governor signs bill recriminalizing hard drugs
Seattle closes gifted and talented schools because they had too many white and Asian students
Judge Hands Gov. DeSantis Legal Win In Lawsuit Over Martha’s Vineyard Migrant Flights
Wisconsin Voters Deliver Blow to ‘Zuckerbucks’ in Elections
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
All I can think of — especially with the almost 1 trillion dollar deficit with the fiscal year not even half over. “The adults are back in charge!” Maybe… but they’re the meth head trailer living adults (in a van… down by the Potomac RIVER!) who keep paying the credit card with their new credit card.
Shocker….. no one saw that coming.
But we must keep being the piggy bank to the world… propping up Ukraine… and dissolving ourselves as a nation concurrently. How else will the glorious 15 minute city future of BeRuled come about?
Sorry for going all Black Pill, Banjos… I’d say “as first post” — but I’m sure that in the time it has taken me to depressingly type all this others have chimed in. So at least there’s that.
Huh… and not even that. Ok… fine… I’ll just lighten the mood myself then.
That’s pretty adorable.
I was thinking ‘black pill’ as I read the links too. Not Banjos selections, just how the world is now.
All that spending was an investment. If it hasn’t paid for itself it was because we didn’t spend enough.
Repudiate the debt.
Only if we get to repudiate DC and the Federal Reserve and everything that brought us to this point, maybe… Otherwise we’ll be right back in the same place in a decade or two when the international banking system decides “It wasn’t all that bad” like with other Banana Republics going bankrupt.
Former ESPN host Sage Steele says ‘every word’ of her Biden interview was ‘scripted’ by network execs
ESPN interviewing Biden was already a red flag. Why not script it?
ESPN made complete sense. If he fell down, he could just clutch his knee and cry to fit in, after all.
He can’t complete with the floppers of the NBA or Euro-Soccer.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is currently weighing how much foreign aid the U.S. can afford to provide Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Zero, Mikey.
Negative $1 trillion at this point.
Yes, time to start collecting on all those foreign aid “investments” we’ve made over the years.
I’m thinking of an alternate scene for It’s a Wonderful Life now.
“Your money? It’s right over there, in the landmines in the no man’s land! It’s there in the planes that are bombing countries! it’s there in the food pallets that are being dropped! It’s there to bring DEMOCRACY to the world!”
“You… you want the moon? Just say the word, Mary and I’ll give Boeing another $30 billion dollars to give you the moon!”
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E21/740355
What kind of an empire are we running here where we’re paying for everything? I thought it was supposed to go the other way.
You don’t need that many – just look to see if the debt is going down. If not, you are unsustainable, cut spending.
But we’re not out of checks yet, the credit cards are still working, and look at this great short term interest rate!
I found these green energy investments that can’t lose!
*Because* of revenue increases
Ugh… the fucking Turtle…
First — do you realize how much of a ghoul this makes you sound like? “We’re not getting any of our young men killed…we’ve set it up so we kill lots of Ukranians and Russians! Yay!”
Second — Last I checked, Russian wasn’t our actual enemy, as much as you try to push it. So why are you trying to bleed them, asshole? If you want war — declare it. Otherwise, stop fucking with them. Frankly, they have every right to consider us as being at war with them and they’ve been rather restrained on the topic.
Third — No one outside of the Rotting River RV club you call DC buys this stupid “Ukraine now… POLAND NEXT!” bullshit. And as a bonus point — the only reason there’s a question of a NATO country is that you warmongers have put NATO on their borders. If they do ANYTHING it is “against NATO” now… and they warned us many, many times it was unacceptable.
So how about you stop ghoulishly trying to kill people for no reason (because Ukraine isn’t going to magically storm Moscow — and I don’t grant that ‘bleeding Russia’ should be our goal) and support an actual peace negotiation instead of defying everyone else to keep your Raytheon friends rolling in cash, asshole?
But there is so much sweet money laundering to be had now. And when the war ends there will be even more for reconstruction by our friends at Blackrock.
I think being an empire requires so much arrogance that self-reflection becomes impossible. How would we react if the Russian Foreign Ministry and intelligence services led a coup in Canada and installed a pro-Russian government? Obviously it would be an improvement over Justin Castro, but still.
Or if the Chinese signed an alliance with Mexico and started building naval and army bases – and bio-war research labs?
Or if the Chinese started building odd bio labs in California (and I think Colorado)? And flying spy balloons over us repeatedly?
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t had PPP fly over and literally kowtow to them. I guess they know he’d fall over trying and have an ounce of pity for him.
lulz
Name one time a bio-war research institute caused any issues, then maybe you have a point. /s
“If they do ANYTHING it is “against NATO” now”
Of course, ANYTHING means bombing, invading, etc. other countries, so maybe Russia shouldn’t do that?
Yes, yes, Russia is paranoid about getting invaded again. So are all their neighbors, because Russia won’t stop invading them. This idea that Russia’s neighbors shouldn’t enter into mutual defense arrangements that, yes, are motivated by their demonstrably aggressive neighbor, strikes me as akin to the gun controllers arguing you shouldn’t have a gun at home even if you live in a bad neighborhood.
We should keep out of it. But the next thing people say is, Europe should provide for its own defense, right? Isn’t Eastern Europe joining NATO just that?
Yes, Russia shouldn’t do those things.
Given the past of Imperial Russia vs. USSR vs. whatnot though — border disputes with pro-Russian, majority population Russian areas wanting to rejoin Russia, however? There’s a very good chance of some crap like that happening and drawing in NATO too, after all.
And I never said they shouldn’t enter into mutual defense arrangements. Said arrangements should damned well not be NATO and shouldn’t be with us in any event. If Western Europe wants to, that’s their business.
People who want to be ruled by the Russian government should move to Russia. You Know Who Else manufactured border disputes based on ethnic populations on the “wrong” side of the border? Yeah, I’m not buying that as a legitimate reason for the tanks to roll.
The only mutual defense option worth a damn is NATO. I’d love for us to be out of it, but we’re not. Maybe that means we should just let Putin push out into those neighboring countries, but if so, doesn’t that mean that we’ll have NATO and Russian troops sharing a border anyway?
No good answers and no good guys, IMO, because tit-for-tat is a negative sum game and we are all deep into it, Russia most definitely included.
If the whole region is of a mind that the line on the map puts them on the wrong side of the border, why should they move?
People round these parts peddle a ‘national divorce’ for the US, why not the Ukraine?
I don’t have a side in the war, I’m just playing devil’s advocate with regards to a “don’t like it, move” stance. It never struck me as a fix to any problem other than say, the property falling into the sea or other similar catastrophes.
They held just such a vote, and the people in current Ukraine voted to be in current Ukraine. Even the ones in Crimea. Maybe they should hold a vote again, or periodically, but I have some reservations about the accuracy/validity of such a vote especially in the occupied regions of Ukraine. Making international borders unstable doesn’t strike me as much of a recipe for peace. I suppose they might need to adjusted from time to time, although I don’t have any good ideas about how they could be moved around periodically without making them unstable.
I don’t really have faith in most elections, especially those held in the US, Ukraine, or Russia, so I can’t say what the actual sentiment on the ground was.
International borders have always moved, often violently, sometimes peacably. Stasis of those lines for the sake of peace will not achieve peace.
*snark* Otherwise, I insist Alsace and Lorraine be given back to Germany. Those don’t belong to France. */snark*
Woah. When was this vote?
The last government elected by the entirety of the Ukraine was mildly pro-Russian and neutral. Our State Department stated a coup against that government and started the civil war.
Back when the USSR broke up. Russia definitely had its own hand in that civil war getting going, too. Like I keep saying, tit for tat escalation.
I’m not excusing our role in this. I just don’t want the salient fact that Russia sponsored one side of the civil war, invaded and annexed Crimea, and invaded and annexed Donbas to be minimized either.
Not excusing Russia, but let’s consider that the entire border of Ukraine is a product of the USSR. It ain’t like those Ukrainians ever had some self determination about where the border should be – let alone their neighboring countries. Lviv has more Polish history than Ukrainian.
Everyone seemed happy enough with Ukraine, Georgia, and Belarus being neutral buffer states. Then our neo-cons went to work on the non-existent problem.
Everyone seemed happy enough with Ukraine, Georgia, and Belarus being neutral buffer states.
😂
Belarus in particular played both sides to their benefit for years before we tried to color-revolution Lukashenko.
He deserves a helicopter ride as much as any commie ever did.
The judge in the DeSantis story: let me help you out, here.
People who broke the law by entering the country illegally don’t have the right to sue anyone for being moved about the country.
Glad I could help
My understanding was everyone on these flights volunteered to do so. Is it racial bias that everyone who crossed the southern border was Latino, and so everyone on the flights were Latino? Hardly.
Question for legal Glibs. Is quoting Wikipedia better or worse than “Webster’s defines…”?
https://legalnewsline.com/stories/656671045-state-street-fired-me-for-complaining-about-corporate-logo-s-ties-to-slavery-says-man-in-lawsuit
https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/ba/f1/15533793/lnlJORDANvSTATE.pdf
So… He’s representing himself. This will end well.
He’ll frustrate the heck out of a Boston judge, so it’s not all bad…
If his closing remarks don’t end with “How do you like THEM apples?” I will be greatly disappointed.
‘Assistant Vice-President…’ isn’t that a trainee at a bank. They’re all VPs I thought?
Other things I’ve read recently that I wanted to share (now that we’ve hit the 30 minute mark).
Honey Harvest Hardest Not-Hit?
I certainly hope this doesn’t become ‘Trendy’ like Trans has
Also-rans: 15 Minute City concept heckled but won’t die
Politics these days — Discussion equals screaming at each other… Yay!
*shrug* Take it or leave it. For many years such ideas were literally against all zoning laws in the US.
Obviously don’t force it on anyone.
Fair. I just don’t believe people will be given a choice and that the open-air prison tracking would be ubiquitous.
Oh the right people will eventually be given this choice: leave us alone or die.
No more than 15 minutes from the shooting range and the backcountry wilderness areas? I’m liking this more and more!
Oh. Right, I get it…
Yeah, that 15 minute city? At least some of what I have seen is 15 minutes on foot or by bike. None of this motorized vehicle crap, at least for the proles. Maybe busses, to get them to work if they are lumpenproles who don’t have laptop jobs.
Looks like it’s time to post Logan’s Run to show people the end game of all this euthanasia.
Logan’s Run assumed people were needed and wanted. I think the “Get rid of 95% of humanity and do everything with robots and AI!” is the current intended end game of the self-described “elites”.
Indeed. That would be a great post. It will get people talking.
I will look for that, R.J. !
Logan’s Run = Jenny Agutter’s legs.
All during the Bee-acoplis there was never a shortage of bees to buy and the price never increased. Now there are too many and some will go hungry, woe is me.
This year’s greatest worry is the Maple Syrup Drought
HH will go on, third Sunday in September. Reservations not needed.
The 15th this year?
15th it is. Always the 3rd Sunday
🍯👍
I won’t be able to attend this year’s HH, so there is an opening to be Vice Grand Old Man of the Honey Harvest (Fourscore obviously is THE GOMOTHH).
On the flip side, I have no idea how many of you Glibs will be needed to take up the slack. Without me there, who will step up to flirt with all the ladies and avoid actual work?
A big void will be left but there are those willing and able to accept the crown. I’m sure the ladies will seriously, ummm, seriously, ummm miss you . I know Mrs F will miss the delicious dumplins/pot stickers that magically seem to find their way into the freezer upon your arrival.
I have so far this year fed several hundred lbs of sugar to the local feral bees in addition to my own bees. The local population seems….healthy.
Before anyone says it, yes. I have constructed lots of affordable housing for the girls and I didn’t subsidize it with taxpayer money. Also, no rent control.
For euthanasia? Knock yourself out….so to speak, but leave me out of it.
There is no evil or depravity beyond the pale for this crowd, is there.
My biggest issue with Euthenasia is when it turns into something like Canada’s MAiD – where murder the patient becomes a common treatment option for things that can otherwise be dealt with.
Triage – A process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate medical treatment. Triage is used in hospital emergency rooms, on battlefields, and at disaster sites when limited medical resources must be allocated.
It becomes all the rage in all socialized medical systems – i.e. disaster sites. Besides, it’s only fair, right?
It’s inevitable. The problem with nationalized healthcare is that the patient goes from being a customer, to being a burden that must be “managed.”
Kids aren’t real smart and are always vulnerable to trends. Eating Tide Pods, trans, other mental health issues, all social contagion. Even mass shootings are all copycats. I think it wouldn’t be hard at all to get a trend started of kids killing themselves. This will not be good.
It’s not so bad being trendy
(link fixed)
It will destroy the web and nullify links apparently.
Nono, beepocalypse is old and busted. New hotness is “too many domestic honeybees causes ecocide!”
Why Ivermectin had to destroyed.
https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1774953032284823980
Yup… Point (1) there was enough and what everyone thought. Tell us again how you loathe Big Pharmacy there, DC. Asswipes.
But Biden beat Big Pharma!
Yeah, most of the people who snuck over illegally are “latinxes”.
JFC we have become a painfully stupid land.
I love the combo of po-faced concern over those downtrodden POCs by using a term invented by white people that they hate.
Trump Leads Biden in Six of Seven Swing States, WSJ Poll Finds
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-biden-poll-swing-states-ad594acb?mod=hp_lead_pos7
I’d say he needs at least +2 or +3 versus the “margin of fraud”.
The margin of fraud gets bigger each election.
Remind me, how many states “paused” their vote counting on election night last time?
With the RNC leadership changeover — here’s a fundraising idea for them — “Donate money now and we’ll have a plumbing staff on site along with election watchers for all Fulton County polling / counting sites!”
Five?
You left off a zero
Soros? Why, it sounds almost like Biden is just a puppet being controlled by left wing radicals. That can’t be right.
How long before the Biden Admin just outright attacks Israel militarily?
“…Sage Steele says ‘every word’ of her Biden interview was ‘scripted’ by network execs”
Like her name? My God, that’s a porn name if I ever heard one.
The ‘ole twin stone keep grinding away….
I mentioned this a month or two ago backhandedly. The near violent response was that Lenin never said that. That’s right, the important thing is not that it is happening only that Lenin never said it. Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t, the middle class is still being bled dry.
To oppose those who support a truce between Russia and Ukraine? What about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas? What is his position on that?
I suppose fostering hedonism, depravity, crushing lives and property etc. will only go so far with the voters before you lose even the Portlandians.
Or maybe not…see story on Seattle school. The racist war on meritocracy continues apace.
The invaders sent to Martha’s Vineyard were not thrust unwillingly into a national debate. They entered it willingly and enthusiastically. Fuck them.
Good to see this analysis made it past the squirrels. I do have a question for you… Mrs. TOK has a taste for some jambalaya. Do you have a good recipe?
I would assume this would work… with a little white wine, I guarantee!
You can’t go wrong with some boxed Zatarain’s and doctor them to taste. LA native Mrs. Frankleson swears by them.
I enjoyed Cake back when they used to get radio play. My brother went to one of their shows – said it was strange and short.
They didn’t rise properly to the occasion? Must have needed more proving.
That would have really frosted me.
Now you’re just sugar coating it
This calls for a many-layered response.
Sustenance for satan?
Only if it’s half-baked.
Long hype, short concert?
It’s like they were never there.
Could be worse — they could have sold all their records.
At shows they give away a tree to whoever can ID it.
“That’s Simon. He’s a bit stiff, but you get used to him.”
No. 1: The LARCH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug8nHaelWtc
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Maybe some kind soul here could save me some time and trouble. In the last few days someone linked to a paper written about the motives and methods of power mongers. It put them all in a nutshell very nicely. I would like to see it again but I was too foolish to save the address. Anyone remember that? It hit the high points right on the head….destroy the economy, opposition speech, freedom of movement…etc. It read like the Biden admins handbook and describes every tyrant since forever.
I suppose I will have to go over all of the links for the last 5 days or so until I find it.
“…some kind soul here…” – what the hell am I thinking…
Was it this one that’s been floating around a lot?
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/political-conflict-in-the-age-of
Was it this one posted by, I believe, R.C. Dean?
Thank you both very much. No, that’s not it but it is a damned good one. I am keeping that one.
I am off to the salt mines for a while then I will peruse the past days links for it.
If I find it I will re-post it…and save it this time.
The halls of Congress are filled with indispensable men.
On Sage Steele and the Biden interview, she is asked of the executives sent the questions to the Biden White House. She says she doesn’t know but she thinks so.
Wrong question. I think it is fairly obvious that the White House sent the script to the executives, not the other way around.
If you watch democrat presidential press conferences (at least Obama), the press secretary or an assistant will come in before the president and tell the press what is going to happen. “Anne, you get the first question on Healthcare. Tony, you get a follow-up on Healthcare. John, you get the next question on the republican spending proposal……”
That is how Biden is able to have notecards for each question.
There is a long running question of whether Biden is in charge, or someone else. I think we’ll eventually find out, and it will be both. Biden seems not smart, terrible at politics, corrupt, and a vindictive asshole. But everything he wants to do overlaps with his young inexperienced staff and the deep state. Joe says “I hate Trump, let’s get him” and the three-letter agencies offer censorship and surveillance. That’s why we’re seeing such a fast decline. They’re all on the same dirty, corrupt page.
Biden has never been in charge of anything IMHO.
I agree. His entire history is at odds with this administration.
Even his personality has changed. He used to be combative and arrogant about his superior intellect. Now he talks about being allowed or not allowed to speak.
He’s CEO of Teenage Shoulder Massage and Inappropriate Daughter Showering, a very important role among the Democratic upper crusts nowadays.
I heard he was captain of the football team and had to call all the plays
Feds report about $2.7 trillion in improper payments over two decades
can I have one billion?
*checks political contribution records for Pie*
No.
Out of milk again, Pie? Might as well ask for two billion and get a loaf of bread while you’re at it.
I’d be happy with just a million. That’s a rounding error of a rounding error.
As they sometimes joke in astrophysics, a rounding error in the exponent.
A Republican NIMBY Mayor supports the rent control measure because it will let him stop home building.
“On paper, it would be legal to build new homes. But it would be illegal, largely speaking, to make money doing so”
https://twitter.com/hanlonbt/status/1775181654493200413
It isn’t home building per se — it is trying to use rent control to loophole out of Sacramento pushing state wide zoning laws on everyone (they passed either a law or a prop in the last couple of years, don’t remember which that basically said “Fuck you, local authorities — you’ll put denser housing whereever we see fit because screw your single family suburbs!” And the local authorities don’t like it… on the basis of power alone probably, but some NIMBY and some “I moved out of the fucking city for a reason, don’t recreate it here” too).
“But they’re getting rid of zoning, so it’s a good thing!”
/idiots
Good Lord.
Gill: Today we have six bikes each in our garage. In all, we have eight Vincents.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/this-motorcycle-mad-couples-favorite-hobby-chasing-black-shadows-20777125?st=9rjarh3dqoqbbjk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I know someone who scored one, only because his wife understood.
Are they part of the company racing team?
“NATO ministers discuss ‘Trump-proof’ $100 BILLION military fund for Ukraine that will guarantee US support even if Donald Trump returns to the White House”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13266671/NATO-ministers-discuss-Trump-proof-100-BILLION-military-fund-Ukraine-guarantee-support-Donald-Trump-returns-White-House.html
CWABOA
If the Europeans want to throw their money into that black pit against the wishes of their populations that’s their business. Then again, there’s still Article 5 that could draw us in. Seems like a good reason for him to pull us out of it if he wins-if the Europeans are looking to pull these kinds of tricks in order to force the continued flow of our dollars then fuck them.
I wonder if Sage Steele actually thought Dana White was Joe Rogan?
Presumption of guilt
The second version Cannon asked for assumes that as president, Trump had complete authority to take records he wanted from the White House, which would make it nearly impossible for prosecutors to secure a conviction. If she were to institute this sort of instruction, Smith’s team said, “the Government must be provided with an opportunity to seek prompt appellate review.”
“Both scenarios rest on an unstated and fundamentally flawed legal premise — namely, that the Presidential Records Act and in particular its distinction between ‘personal’ and ‘Presidential’ records, determines whether a former President is ‘authorized,’ under the Espionage Act, to possess highly classified documents and store them in an unsecure facility,” the special counsel’s team wrote.
If allowed to be presented to a jury, prosecutors said, “that premise would distort the trial.”
He wouldn’t be here if he wasn’t guilty.
Let’s start with the assumption that the actions he clearly took were illegal, and make the trial about whether he took the actions (that he clearly took).
Meanwhile, Hillary or Biden can be let off the hook because they never meant to do anything wrong.
Democracy demands Democrats be held to their own standards, and everyone else to other standards.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/03/fairfax-herndon-dipute-chinese-signature/
Fairfax police academy bars Herndon officers in dispute over Chinese signature
Given that my signature is a scribble that would be unreadable without the printed name, I’m trying to figure out the issue. If there is signature and and printed name I don’t get the issue. I DO get the political issue, however. I’d pick another outrage.
Four hours at 70 mph on an old motorbike can be quite tiring.
No kidding.
“Four hours at 70 mph on an old motorbike can be quite tiring.”
Four hours with a modern bike at highway speeds can be tiring.
Why to motorbikes fall over if you let them go? Because they’re two tired.
If you were standing, it would be tempting to kick you.
Probably need to re-tire
Wheely?
Because outside of China where Buick is a big brand, the average 60 plus American wants a big screen in his or her car?
There’s a brand-new 30-inch screen unit housing gauge cluster and central infotainment duties.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60358800/2024-buick-envision-pricing-revealed/
Never change GM!
They can watch The Golden Girls, Matlock for the fellas, in HDR while stuck in traffic.
It’s long and thin, will require custom programming and drivers, and will be non-reusable after ten years. Reminds me that f the fancy LED screens Buick used in the early 90s. Those are also mostly dead.
Ah! I was off by a few years on when it was first used.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/archived/1986-buick-riviera-gcc-touchscreen/
This was so complex and bespoke for the time.
Price discrimination
A number of private colleges — some considered elite and others middle-of-the-pack — have exceeded the $90,000 threshold for the first time this year as they set their annual costs for tuition, board, meals and other expenses. That means a wealthy family with three children could expect to shell out more than $1 million by the time their youngest child completes a four-year degree.
But the sticker price tells only part of the story. Many colleges with large endowments have become more focused in recent years on making college affordable for students who aren’t wealthy. Lower-income families may be required to pay just 10% of the advertised rate and, for some, attending a selective private college can turn out to be cheaper than a state institution.
That’s nice, but what do you actually get for that kind of money?
Thank you to everyone for their advice on the German test a couple months ago. I took it – sadly, I was 2% short of a passing score. However, given how unexpected the test was, I think it’s amazing I was so close. I’m going to try to retake it in late spring.
“Ninety thousand dollars clearly is a lot of money, and it catches people’s attention, for sure,” said Phillip Levine, a professor of economics at Wellesley College near Boston. “But for most people, that is not how much they’re going to pay. The existence of a very generous financial aid system lowers that cost substantially.”
Wellesley is among the colleges where the costs for wealthy students will exceed $90,000 for the first time this fall, with an estimated price tag of $92,000. But the institution points out that nearly 60% of its students will receive financial aid, and the average amount of that aid is more than $62,000, reducing their costs by two-thirds.
Well, that makes all the difference in the world.
Indeed. As long as other people are paying, who cares?
You can try out lesbianism for far less at your local community college.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The defendant has a history of collisions involving high speeds. Court documents noted that he totaled two cars in the 11 months before the fatal Renton collision, including one crash in January of this year.
Poor guy. If he was uninsured and undocumented he’d be out and given a check.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/bail-renton-crash-suspect-100000/281-5f9e9f6e-69fa-483f-bbfe-d7858d01cc29
His name is “Chase.”
I completely blanked on that. Perfect.
Priorities, baby
So the White House Tuesday instructed NASA and other U.S agencies to work with international agencies to come up with a new moon-centric time reference system.
We might need that when we have mines and factories on the moon. What’s a few billion more in grant money?
Is something wrong with Unix time?
Well, you wouldn’t want sunrise and sunset to be at weird times when you are on the moon.
Lunar sunrise and sunset are two weeks apart. You’re going to get weird times.
This was so complex and bespoke for the time.
Aston Martin Lagonda says hold my beer
Jason Torchinsky wrote a piece specifically wondering if he could emulate that screen. I think it could be replaced entirely with a Raspberry Pi to restore that functionality.
https://jalopnik.com/can-we-emulate-an-aston-martin-lagondas-crt-dash-1627568648
I believe there is a company the repair the first few years of the Corvette C4 digital dashboards.
” Bearded trans athlete who injured rival was suspended from rowing team for ogling topless girl in changing room: report ”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/03/us-news/trans-basketball-player-who-hurt-rival-was-once-suspended-for-ogling-teammate-report/
If he has a beard, he isn’t trans.
Also why is his face blurred out?
Bruh.
Some parents need to give that principal a beatdown almost as bad as a 6′ dude lays on women in a taekwon do match.
His name (not mentioned in the article) hasn’t been blurred on his belt.
The better question is why the publication participates in the farce by calling him a her.
Excessive speed, typical FWD understeer and a bad driver. What can go wrong?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1buswbn/his_breaks_were_not_enough_on_this_one_took_us/
Would appear non-native English poster so I’ll give a “break on brakes”.
He just couldn’t get a break.
I had some asshole in a pick up almost run me into the concrete dividers last night on my way home.
Today, in public-private partnerships
The document, released today by outgoing Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John Plumb, is the first of its kind — although senior DoD and Intelligence Community officials for years have been touting their intent to take better advantage of cutting-edge commercial space technology. The strategy therefore breaks little new ground, but does put a formal stamp of approval on efforts that up to now have been essentially ad hoc and scattered across different services and organizations.
Further, the new Pentagon strategy has been coordinated with a separate Space Force commercial space strategy that is expected to focus a bit more tightly on acquisition when it is released, likely within the next couple of days. Plumb told reporters today the strategies will be “very much aligned.”
“Deeper integration of commercial space solutions represents a conceptual shift away from legacy practices in which the Department has relied on bespoke, DoD-specific capabilities and limited the use of commercial solutions,” the Pentagon strategy reads. “Given the expansion of the commercial space sector and the proliferation of space capabilities, the Department will benefit by making commercial solutions integral — and not just supplementary — to national security space architectures.”
“Sign here, Mister Musk.”
Excessive speed, typical FWD understeer and a bad driver. What can go wrong?
I’m surprised that thing didn’t have anti-lock brakes. Nothing turns when the wheels are locked. It takes a lot of self discipline to take your foot off the brakes, but it’s the only thing that will save you.
If a wheel speed sensor or other component fails it will disable the ABS.
That’s my assumption.
“Tucker Carlson was invited by a student to speak at his high school alma mater, the St. George’s boarding school in Middletown, RI, but he says the administration first gave him the runaround, then flat-out said he was not welcome. They issued all sorts of reasons why over the course of several phone conversations, claiming that he’d bring unwanted media attention, that the students didn’t actually want him, the faculty “hated” him, that he was “embarrassing,” and finally, that it would just be too dangerous.”
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/04/01/tucker-carlsons-alma-mater-too-scared-to-let-him-speak-people-could-be-killed-n2172185
People could die!
You ever notice that progressives, especially ones of the younger generations, are just afraid of everything?
My favorite was when a group of them felt physically threatened by Ben Shapiro.
It’s the way they are raised and indoctrinated.
Raised to be risk averse actually believe words are violence etc
Some instances that stand out with my young elementary school kids interacting with other elementary kids (and their parents)
-my kids jumping off the top of a little tyke slide (the one that has 3 rungs and is like 2 ft tall). Other parents’ response to their kids but audible to my kids “don’t you jump like they are you could fall and break your shoulder”.
-my kids and 2 other kids we look after once a week are throwing a big toy tractor that someone left at the playground from different high places. Other parents at the park to their kids “don’t you do that” and looking visibly agitated and trying to give my wife dirty looks
-an in law family relation has never let their kids play in their fenced backyard without one of the parents physically being in the backyard with them
These are just some that come to mind. My wife has plenty more stories
Disinfo
The US must be aware of and avoid Russian disinformation operations at all costs if it wants to maintain its Western values and help Ukraine win the war, conflict analysts argue.
“Basic facts are in question daily as the Kremlin floods the Western debate with its narratives,” analysts at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said in a March 27 report.
The analysts said that “the notion that the war is unwinnable because of Russia’s dominance is a Russian information operation, which gives us a glimpse of the Kremlin’s real strategy and only real hope of success.”
For years, Russia has manipulated information enough to cause other countries to perceive Russia as a dominant force in Europe and, more recently, that it is winning in Ukraine.
You’re just not hitting it hard enough.
Straight from the horse’s mouth at Business Insider. 🙄
Chess Candidates tournament begins today in Toronto. Eight players playing a double round robin (14 matches) to determine who gets to take on Ding Liren for the World Championship later this year. Here is a brief breakdown.
Candidate,country, yob, current rating,world rank,how they qualified
Fabiano Caruana, USA, 1992, 2803, #2, 3rd place in World Cup
Hikaru Nakamura, USA, 1987, 2789, #3, 2nd place in Grand Swiss
Alireza Firouzja, FRA, 2003, 2760, #6, Highest rating on Jan 1 otherwise not qualified
Ian Nepomniachtchi, RUS, 1990, 2758, #7, World Championship Runner-up
Praggnanandhaa R, IND, 2005, 2747, #14, 2nd place in World Cup
Gukesh D, IND, 2006, 2743, #16, FIDE Circuit – highest point total otherwise not qualified
Vidit Gujrathi, IND, 1994, 2727, #25, 1st place in Grand Swiss
Nijat Abasov, AZE, 1995, 2632, #114, 4th place in World Cup — replacing 1st place Magnus Carlsen who declined invitation
ISW asserts that the Kremlin is pushing the narrative that “supporting Ukraine is a distraction from ‘real’ US problems” and is simply not worth the effort, and it’s having an effect. Conflict fatigue has become a serious issue in the West, especially the US as support funding for Ukraine’s war effort has been held up and unable to pass in Congress for months.
The Institute for the Perpetuation of War will not tolerate your pussified “battle fatigue” you malingering peaceniks!