PHILADELPHIA– A sinkhole opened up under a Philadelphia neighborhood street on Tuesday afternoon after a water main snapped underground, swallowing one car and nearly claiming another.
Luckily, no one was injured.
FOX 29 Philadelphia reported that a 6-inch water main broke just after midday, which led to the massive sinkhole in the city’s Port Richmond area.
FOX 29 reporter Steve Keeley said he spoke with a neighbor who said they just heard a big bang and feared their whole house was about to cave in next.
The SUV that fell into the hole belonged to the wife of Philadelphia police officer Steve Williams, Keeley said.
Williams said he found out about the ordeal when he got a frantic call from his wife.
“My wife called me at work – I couldn’t understand what she was saying,” Williams told Keeley.
“I’ve been a police officer for 32 years,” Williams told Keeley. “It’s part of the deal of living in Philadelphia, no big deal.”
Philadelphia hungers. It requires cars and wives. Philadelphia feeds.
[infinite evil laugh]
Leftoid parasites have been having a terrible few weeks. The loss of the DEI mandates that got them hired. The end of USAid gravy trains. The rampant misgendering. Oh, the misgendering.
Bezos, you deshelled turtle, you have stolen their dreams by making them go to work.
So, looping back to the previous thread… there are more Marcus Miller books to keep an eye out for:
A Masculine Scent
Boy Meets Boy
Captive in Lavender
Carry On, Charlie
Double-Barreled Stud
Flesh Portrait
Fruit Punch
Gay Revolution
Gay Stud
Gay Twins
Leased for Lust
Locker-Room Lovers
Night On Passion Mountain
Sintime Superman
Swappers’ Picnic
Switch Cult
The Flesh Happening
The Gay Swap
The Golden Dyke: A Sleaze Novel
The Leather Trade
The Mother Truckers
Too Many Trades
Wall Street Wantons
Woodland Wanton: She Was Queen of the Swing ‘n Swap Set!
Not going to lie… any of these could be the titles of Warty Hugeman After Dark tie-in novels. Warty Hugeman vs. The Golden Dyke, where he fights a lesbian literally carved from solid gold! Warty Hugeman and The Mother Truckers, a rom-com about Warty helping big rigs give birth. Or Warty Hugeman and The Flesh Happening. Or Warty Hugeman’s Night on Passion Mountain. The mind spins.
FEED ME!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7SkrYF8lCU
I just assume the Philly sink hole wanted some Rocky Road for dessert.
I was in Philly today.
It’s a foreign (3rd world) country.
I hunger!
Bezos, you deshelled turtle, you have stolen their dreams by making them go to work.
And he’s busting their unions.
Well, when you’ve lost Adam Schiff, what hope do you have?
(Ugh)
The Bezos/WaPo thing is huge. I’m gobsmacked.
It’s entertaining and somewhat terrifying to watch people object to free markets and personal freedom.
Yeah — they should mouth the platitudes but support every politician working against it so they get to the right cocktail parties!
(Or am I the only one who finds the “free markets and freedom” evocative phrasing?)
Democratic Socialism Dies in the Light
Fascism is cutting government services!
Freedom is government mandates!
We must get involved in oversea wars for defense!
“Freedom is government mandates!”
I think some dude wrote a book about that and coined the phrase.
It’s like being around academics who scream about protecting academic freedom and decry Musk’s X for not policing speech.
[golf clap] for “Democratic Socialism Dies in the Light”
Romanian Presidential candidate Georgescu released but muzzled by court for 60 days (when the campaign ends).
Why not just rig it? Do they need some Dominion machines?
https://x.com/iosefinaoficial/status/1894785948874842591
They think this will demoralize their opposition? (The OMB experience says otherwise… but they may think they can crush the spirits over there, I don’t know…)
Key problem: I still don’t think the Left understands *why* they got trounced. The People (here, Romania, EU+) are furious, but Lefty ‘Leaders’ are so totes smart and can’t ever be wrong and all those little people just don’t *get* it cuz they’re not as smart I *think* I am, which of course, I am.
Other factor: The only way they know how to maintain their control is to stop and silence the opposition into the 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏. It’s gonna break. With Trump as Prez, it’s *by far* the best time in generations for pro-freedom Euros to batter their ‘leaders’ to (dare) give a shit about their People.
𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
You know, if only there was a handy religion based on that, maybe even called that?
It’s entertaining and somewhat terrifying to watch people object to free markets and personal freedom.
Seriously. Talk about taking the mask off.
I am still gobsmacked by the archaeologists completely trashing their discipline. They can. no longer study dead people. Silly me, I thought that is what archaeologists do, study dead people. Talking about taking the mask off.
“Now we can just talk about studying dead people without worrying about icky data or accuracy! The grant applications will practically write themselves!”
If you ever listen to Scott Adams, he has an ongoing joke where he claims that when polled, 25% of people will pick the batshit crazy option. Almost daily he’ll talk about some poll or survey, and ask the viewers what percent they think picked a stupid option. The chat lights up with “25%” and sure enough, it’s right within 1-2 percent.
The left is now that 25% on every issue.
South Park did it!
I have libertarian aware liberal friend. What scares him is not the free market and personal freedom positions, which he supports, but the hypocrisy and the willingness not to push back on Trump.
It’s interesting watching him deal with cognitive dissonance. He’s not there yet. That said he is my go to person for rational discussions on everything. On non politics including markets we share similar views. He’s also good on realizing the costs of the social positions he advocates.
Watching Trump break him has been interesting, but he remains sane about his reactions.
“What scares him is not the free market and personal freedom positions, which he supports,”
So in what sense is he liberal?
He believes government needs to act where market outcomes have extreme outcomes.
He recognizes that it will be less efficient, but the tradeoff is worth it.
As in, monopolies (lateral and/or vertical)?
Monopolies would be one.
Or for example your wage could be increased by the amount of your unemployment insurance, but it is mandatory and depending on the state paid by you, your employer or both.
I would elect to self insure, but that is likely going to raise rates for low income people who need it.
He views the social good of me subsidizing this insurance and forcing low income people to buy it as a “public good” and worth the reduction in wages. Stops families that can’t save or won’t save from winding up on the street.
Every social program is specifically designed to keep poor people poor (and for other social engineering motives, but not my point at the moment).
Get X in benefits, but still can’t pull through the month? If you work, and you make some money, your benefits will be reduced to keep you at the same level. There is no net gain. The rational actor would choose to not work if there is no net gain.
You have to make being on the dole painful enough to spur action, but that is not its purpose.
That’s not a sinkhole.
Now that’s a sinkhole.
(With apologies to Paul Hogan)
Sunk Hills, Louisiana. I cant find any info on it but around the turn of the last century an entire town and everyone in it disappeared in minutes. My Grandmother lived close by in Flatwoods. She said the sound was like the world cracked open and the shaking knocked her off of her feet. The whole town just disappeared. Zero survivors and no bodies ever recovered.
That is a sinkhole.
Kiruna
Fascism is cutting government services!
Freedom is government mandates!
Ignorance is strength.
freedom is slavery
Speaking of that depiction of dead people business, are they going to picket Madame Tussaud’s?
Yeah — they should go for the whole ball of wax.
I don’t know why, it is just a dummy corporation.
They steal it from poor people
“Failure to act enables more unchecked greed and deepening disparities, allowing oligarchs to expand their vast fortunes and further extend their power over the rest of the world,” said economist Jayati Ghosh.
The collective fortune of the world’s billionaires grew by roughly $10 billion per day during the first month of 2025 as billionaire Donald Trump took office in the United States, ushering in an administration that includes the world’s richest man and other elites hellbent on eviscerating government and delivering fresh tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy.
The new analysis of billionaire wealth was published Monday by the global #TaxTheSuperRich Movement, an alliance that is pressuring G20 nations to tax the mega-rich in order to stem destructive inequality and fund critical priorities, including badly needed climate action.
They all want pie.
Biden was still president for the first 2/3 of the month.
economist Jayati Ghosh
Ooh, another high-caste Indian socialist. Boy, there seem to be a lot of them in academia and politics these days. Wonder why that is?
You need us to do the needful thing.
Cause he is an academic?
I notice the lack of people like Biden/Pelosi/Obama/Clinton and their counterparts in industry (looking at you Bill Gates) on these lists of billionaires.
Also, give a list of all of the names of people who made themselves wildly rich under the current tax code and a list of the people who wrote that tax code.
Totally on the level. 🙄
Wait, are these the guys wearing khaki pants, whit shirts and sunglasses, while holding tiki torches?
You’re not supposed to notice (lest you get the John Derbyshire treatment), but one person did.
“Won’t someone think of the single moms!?!?”
Saw that and could not even.
Hilarious thread, thanks!
Re: Scott Adams.
In the future when asked how the Democrat party died historians will say “They reflexively and violently opposed every single thing Donald Trump did so he just picked everything polling 80% approval and did that.”
They really are chasing his laster beam.
I felt that about the entire Biden admin. There were a few things he kept, but by and large it seemed like he just did the opposite of Trump. And those idiots believed their own bullshit enough to thing that would work.
If you recall Biden said on video he didnt give a shit what people thought because they had the greatest voter fraud machine in history. I think they really believed they could cheat their way into power forever. See my comment earlier today – “None of the democrat leadership have ever really won an election in their lives.”
That all changed when people began noticing and bothering to vote.
I think a big part of it was that the GOP built up a big group of lawyers and poll watchers that knew where to look. Over the years I’ve noticed the Dems have a habit of pushing things way too far. And here we are.
“…a habit of pushing things too far…”
They have outdone themselves this time. I really do blame the R’s for not putting brakes on this.
“Over the years I’ve noticed the Dems have a habit of pushing things way too far”
Hubris, clobbered by Nemesis.
From ded thread on Musk: I wouldn’t call him a welfare queen, as he produces plenty of value. He absolutely *took advantage* of EV tax credits+ to his ridiculous gain. Hate the Game, not the Player? Were I him, I’d spin it as a way of ‘revealing’ to people how much the Green New Bullshit fucked the Useful Idiots who bought in. I am not him. (Also hilarious: Apparently X is now mildly profitable for the first time under his ownership. I agree w Mo: Tremendous charitable act.)
DAMMIT. How come *I* don’t get an ‘Ev tax credit?!’ I’m right here! I just compiled W2s and I made an awkward amount of money in ’24: $18,163 on a contract, seasonal gig, and (fired from both) plasma centers. Trying to see how to max my return. IIRC $16k/yr is a delineation -point in single tax refunds.
I *LOVE* that Mel Brooks is credited with creating the term in The Producers: I may need to finagle and begin some ‘creative accounting.’
SpaceX gets a lot of launch business from the US Government. Apparently, StarLink is going to be used by the FAA. I respect the hell out of Musk for what he’s done with SpaceX (in particular), but the dude does have some serious conflicts of interest.
According to the analysis, global billionaire wealth surged by $314 billion total in January, which is “more than the combined wealth of the 2.8 billion people who make up the poorest third of humanity.”
How much is that in washing machines full of rope?
But don’t go after that USAID money.
Far right crackpottery
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. private sector has been in a recession and placed blame on the Biden administration agenda.
The big picture: In a wide-ranging speech, the Treasury secretary said the Trump administration was looking to reverse what he characterized as huge government spending that came at the expense of the private sector.
“This is about more than just reducing the fiscal deficit,” Bessent said. “Government overspending brings distortions in the economy that inhibit dynamism and limit growth to a designated subset of favorite sectors.”
But look at the numbers; GDP is strong!
It is quite refreshing to hear people say out loud that Yes, what you were seeing with your own eyes was correct.
The Golden Dyke: A Sleaze Novel
As though none of the other titles are sleazy.
As if The Golden Dyke [un-sub-titled] could’ve possibly been non-sleaze?
It is a James Dong novel.
Plenty of Q specially enhanced gadgets!
“Double-Barreled Stud”
I don’t even want to know.
Must be hell to shop for pants.
I said I would do reviews of those pieces of media in my collection that had been acquired and left unwatched. I didn’t realize that there were dozens, including whole television series.
I now need some method of deciding what order to go through them in. I’ve got 32 titles right now, one more if I can fix the DVD errors.
I didn’t like what an internet randomizer gave me. So, I’m looking for procedural suggestions.
Year, genre, actor, studio?
Kodi will let you pull by most fields in IMDB or TheTVDB.
I think you create a library on TheTVDB.
Can create…
You misunderstand, I’m looking for a not-quite random order to do the reviews. How to pick that order is where I’m stumbling.
I’ve sorted my backups just fine
I was thinking combination.
Pick a genre and randomize after that, for example.
I think it was a matter of psychology.
I had been asking for a randomized list where I got the whole list all at once, and then just rejecting the lists as a bad order.
I fed the list into a spinner generator and spun out the order one result at a time. Fundimentally it was still just asking a computer for random numbers, but it helped with the buy-in to the results.
So I have my order.
I do appreciate the brainstorming suggestion, but the problem was ultimately in my head either way.
Order of purchase?
Zwak – I have no idea what that would be.
It’s just accumulated content.
Alphabetical order by title in Japanese?
Only 10 are even from Japan.
maybe Tagalog then
🙄
a i u e o
ka ki ku ke ko…
Does that come with a snack bar, Sensei?
You can also use iroha order if you prefer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/seqnhj/the_iroha_%E3%81%84%E3%82%8D%E3%81%AF_is_a_japanese_poem_it_contains_each/
I now need some method of deciding what order to go through them in.
Chronological? Alphabetical?
I was thinking “length of title”.
David Bowie looks about 16 years old in that video.
Did anyone watch the first cabinet meeting today? Seeing all those people sitting around the same table was great.
Musk’s kid wasn’t running around under the table. I was disappointed.
(Forced to watch CNBC at work.)
My little slice of FedGov in the wild. People have no issues with what is happening other than execution.
I’m now triple documenting my time, so Office Space achieved. By the way, the hero of that movie was a lazy, do nothing, employee who fell ass-backward into management.
Do you have the right cover sheet?
You need the right cover sheet for the Trump Productivity Statistics reports.
Nice.
Did you get the memo?
“My wife called me at work – I couldn’t understand what she was saying,” Williams told Keeley.
“I’ve been a police officer for 32 years,” Williams told Keeley. “It’s part of the deal of living in Philadelphia, no big deal.”
It’s better than getting shot at I suppose.
Feel-good story of the day
It’s been a year since tenants arrived at Innovare’s brand-new apartments, carrying garbage bags of their belongings. A former nurse, a cook, a medical receptionist, disabled, retired, many with mental challenges. They had lived in cars, tents and shelters, some for years. Others had been forced into the streets because of untenable rents.
Counselors had chosen them from thousands of homeless people across Tampa Bay because they seemed able to live on their own, with a little help.
Turns out if you cherry-pick the top twenty-five out of thousands of urban outdoorsmen to put in apartments, you can eventually point at some success stories.
We need to bring back boarding houses (include meals) and rooming houses (no meals). There might be shared bathrooms. The landlady will serve as your social worker, and call your real one if you’re in danger of being evicted.
But the unholy combo of do-gooders and hotel owners killed that dead.
What? Have that in my neighborhood!!?? /NIMBY’s don’t want to be left out
The building will be trashed within six months anyway. Ask me how I know.
You trashed your new residence? :-p
But I have heard stories about the forty campers who moved into the new building across the street a few months ago. Their dogs – which I just found out they are not supposed to have – are shitting all over the yard behind my building, too.
My kingdom for an edit button.
Yowza
In a potential landmark action, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency has privately urged the Trump administration to reconsider a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action against climate change.
In a report to the White House, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called for a rewrite of the agency’s finding that determined planet-warming greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, according to four people who were briefed on the matter but spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the recommendation is not public.
The 2009 finding under the Clean Air Act is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources.
A spokesperson for the EPA on Wednesday declined to reveal Zeldin’s recommendation, which was made last week under an executive order from Republican President Donald Trump. The order, issued on Trump’s first day in office, directed the EPA to submit a report “on the legality and continuing applicability” of the endangerment finding.
The Washington Post first reported that Zeldin had urged the White House to strike down the endangerment finding.
Pull the plug on this house of cards.
That is the right pressure point. I’m sure the justification for revoking it has already been written, somewhere. Take that away, and the whole carbon-neutral Jenga tower comes crashing down.
In fact, I’m disappointed it wasn’t done on Zeldin’s first day. Should have been lined up on the runway already.
I wonder if there is some half-assed law that, if looked at just the right way, legally confirms the ’09 finding?
It was already on the docket on day one.
And yes, this is yuuuuge.
They really do seem to know what they are doing this time.
“….reconsider a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action against climate change.”
It isn’t scientific and the answer is NOT NO BUT FUCK NO.
The Obama-era finding “is the linchpin of the federal government’s policies for what the president and I call the climate hoax,” said Steve Milloy, a former Trump transition adviser who disputes mainstream science on climate change.
“If you pull this (finding) out, everything EPA does on climate goes away,’’ Milloy told the AP.
Oh, no, not the mainstream scientific consensus.
I always picture that as a bunch of hollow white jackets with grey hair nodding and ‘mmmm hmmmm’ing in unison. A living, breathing parody.
Should have been lined up on the runway already.
He needed time to “study” it.
Environmental groups and legal experts said any attempt to repeal or roll back the endangerment finding would be an uphill task with a slim chance of success.
“This would be a fool’s errand,’’ said David Doniger, a climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group. “In the face of overwhelming science, it’s impossible to think that the EPA could develop a contradictory finding that would stand up in court.”
“All our arguments are based on this claim. It has to be true.”
Pretty much. The “overwhelming science” supposedly proving the claim that underlies all of this does not actually exist.
“Fool’s errand,” my ass. Get rid of it! Boy, this is going to be a good year.
Doniger apparently didnt get the memo on USAID. His water just got cut off. I hope he is polishing up his resume.
Are there slurs worse than “cunt”? Because I need some.
Politician?
Things going poorly with the aunts, I fear…
🤬
Sorry to hear, Mojeaux.
Nothing like family to really make things terrible.
Twat?
It is hard for me to tell, as the wife uses them both.
Are you a British (or Irish) guy? Because that could be your best friend.
Or find a Brit. They are great at coming up with slurs that almost sound respectable.
MF’ing cunte?
I am not very good at the whole insults thing.
But Trump did give you back you right to call people fags and retards again. You could use that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfD_rYMXPCg
Beautiful.
The guy who made that was playing it safe though, there was a word conspicuously missing. Ya know what I’m sayin’ my…uh…fellow libertarian person?
Feckless?
Consult the governor of Wisconsin. I think he will have just what you need term-wise.
Papist?
I think you’re supposed to add descriptors. Such as disease-ridden or puss-filled.
Gaylord Felche?
Felcher!
spunk bubble?
knob shammy?
cock holster?
Firster.
Are there slurs worse than “cunt”? Because I need some.
There must be some appropriate biblical references.
Should I resort to biblical or Shakespearean insults, Susie is not smart enough to know how badly I’m actually insulting her.
Goood
For
You
also go fuck yourself
For an insult Mo,
bloviating rectum
Shit-speckled harpy
Thing is, I have to keep my hands to myself and my tongue in my head because I need the moral high ground, and I do so value the moral high ground.
She’s acting in bad faith and I have to let her. I’m feeling very powerless at the moment.
Two old favorites of mine, curtesy of a surf team manager I knew:
Ass for dick holster
Chin for ball rest
I want Zeldin to show up at a Congressional hearing and point out the mainstream scientific consensus that the earth was flat and the sun revolved around it.
Pfft. The science settles when it arrives at the correct answer.
The sound track to ” The Leather Trade”:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fCO2FYqq9k
Grabbing at straws…..
Now we are going to be eaten by bears because Drumpfitler is giving pink slips for forest rangers. At least the people locked in bathrooms will be safe.
Beyond pathetic.
Only if they are All-Gender Bathrooms.
Let them cry. They are of no consequence now. Just point and laugh.
I was told that ha;f the population would rather come face to face with a strange bear in the woods than a (male) forest ranger.
*half*