Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
‘Liberation Day’: Trump to announce tariff plans in Rose Garden spectacle
Wisconsin Votes to Enshrine Voter Photo ID Law in State Constitution
Republicans pad U.S. House majority with two Florida special election wins
Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Firing Federal Employees on Probation in 19 States
How can anyone black pill these days?
Pam Bondi Cracks Down on Domestic Terrorism: Tesla Firebomber Faces 20 Years
‘Spartacus’ Cory Booker Breaks Record For Longest Senate Floor Speech
Demolition Crews Finish Off Black Lives Matter Plaza
Val Kilmer dead at 65 after long health battle
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
What? All the headlines I see is that Musk lost in Wisconsin, and it’s a ringing rebuke of MAGA/MAHA/Trump/Musk/Hitler/Fascism/Racism/Zionism/Antidisestablishmentarianism and so forth.
I wasn’t aware he was running for privincial office.
You forget Zoroastrianism.
Ahura Mazda is In the tariff story.
There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum…
Post election cycle, every side tries to rally their troops off of special elections which historically have never had predictive value. R’s lost that election because, as usual, their organization machine is broken. Musk dove in far too late to catch up. The voter ID won because it’s an 80/20 issue. R’s won those Florida seats because they are deep deep red districts.
Prior to the election, NPR was saying that the (D)s had vastly outraised the (R) (6-1 in one race, 10-1 in the other) and they were wishcasting an upset.
It’s almost as if there’s a point of diminishing returns with campaign expenditures.
I’m aware, just riffing on the headline and lead in choices (Soros vs. Musk as an example). Regardless, it’s not a huge rebuke or loss to either side. It’s an off cycle election which usually has amazingly low turnout. The stuff I’ve been reading has been saying that it looks like going forward, low turnout elections will now favor Democrats instead of Republicans.
Is it? I wouldn’t think so, unless your state is 80% not-Democrat.
And frankly I would blame Elon more than the R’s broken anything. He really turns a lot of people off.
Among Voters, including Democrat voters, Voter ID is an 80/20 issue. It has overwhelming support from real people. It’s the politicians who benefit from the fraud who fight tooth and nail against it.
It’s possible I haven’t seen any actual evidence from the voters, just the lopsided gasbagging against it from pols.
“The voter ID won because it’s an 80/20 issue.”
I think I’ve seen polling that even a majority of Dems support it. It’s the Dem aristocracy that hates it. In an election where Dems put a leftist judge on the state Supreme Court, the voter ID amendment won by a sizable 26 point margin. A whole lot of Dems voted for it.
the voter ID amendment won by a sizable 26 point margin. A whole lot of Dems voted for it.
And then they voted for a judge who will invalidate it.
Nobody ever said voters were smart.
lolrite??
Not sure how a state judge invalidates a state constitutional amendment.
Not sure how a state judge invalidates a state constitutional amendment.
The same way a district judge can issue a nationwide injunction against presidential prerogatives: FYTW.
Celebrating 25% tariffs on auto imports is like toasting a law school graduation.
We should add a 25% tax on union dues.
With the union rank and file a key part of his coalition last time around? I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Union members being added to the Rep voter rolls is a huge part of Trumps win.
So, be very careful of what you ask for.
I wish for the unions to stop killing manufacturing in this country.
Either stop strangling the companies with their disgusting rent-seeking behavior, or stay away from the factories.
I know I’m preaching to the choir around this place — and I agree that reorganizing the Executive Branch willy-nilly is within his prerogative… but man oh man this reeks of Imperial Presidency, which I don’t want. Late stage Roman Republic days… the
SenateCongress just won’t get off their loathsome spotty behinds and do their jobs.Tariff rates, tax policy… that should all be Legislative set and Executive executed…
Technically speaking, this is congress’ fault for giving the executive such authority by statute. Another good case for the tried and true principle: Don’t give the government any powers you wouldn’t feel comfortable having your worst enemy exercise.
Pat:
I’ve seen at least some politicians saying that Congress should remove the authority and take back the responsibility, but that seems to be falling on deaf ears. It’s so much easier to just let the courts decide and fundraise off the losses.
Yup, no argument there. But we’ve hashed out many times before why it happened — so, so easy to let the faceless Executive minions set policy and write laws (in the cloak of regulations) that you can then fundraise against and spend all your time at the right parties with the right people and the right insider trading.
Hence “loathsome spotty behinds”.
Honestly, I do wonder if we’d be better off with a 2 year lottery selection among eligible voters a la jury duty for Congressional seats. (Well 6 for Senate). No point in pandering to voters, no electioneering… yeah, a lot of them wouldn’t be able to work together — but that’s not always a bad thing. In practice, I expect we’d end up with permanent aides that would take over worse than they do now, I suppose. Whoever said I could rewrite a society anyway….
The solution is to execute the conscript after his duty has been performed, and bury him with his aides like an ancient pharaoh.
Legitimate laugh there, Pat… I can’t condone it as an actual plan… but I have to say, it does have its appeal!
90% of them are there for nothing more than to bloviate and get rich.
There isn’t a chance in hell of them ever giving themselves more work.
Congress has become completely useless. Locked into rules that make it impossible to pass a budget or meaningful reform legislation. They’ve ceded their authority to the other 2 branches and the regulatory bodies.
I don’t think it is the rules that are the problem, it is the sheer mass of the federal govt. No one in Congress can comprehend even portions of it.
Absolutely right.
And what was Bookers point?
He was quite literally grandstanding.
There was nothing up for action, he was just speechifying.
It doesn’t matter! NPR was gushing about the symbolism of a Black senator beating Strom Thurman’s record!
More seriously though style>>substance for decades now as far as the media caste is concerned.
Orange.
Man.
Bad.
10 PRINT “Orange.”
20 PRINT “Man.”
30 PRINT “Really.”
40 PRINT “Really.”
50 PRINT “Bad.”
60 GOTO 10
Infinite Loop Detected, Aborting.
You seriously think BASIC had loop detection? Man… you didn’t grow up typing in asteroid dodging games from magazines onto your TRS-80, did you?
(And given his long filibuster… the loop continuing until the hardware crashed was kind of the joke, sir!)
No, I am well aware of how basic BASIC was. But it’s 2025, we have better interpreters.
I bet you’re one of those “Linux kernel should be in Rust!” newfangled city folk thar, UCS!
And we was poor. We couldn’t afford a Trash-80. We got a secondhand XT clone in 1990 as the first computer in the house.
I do not get the reference.
Eventually I’ll have the z80 assembled and running Fusix.
I had a rich buddy who lived on the street of mansions where all the Kodak engineers lived and he had a TRS-80.
Fun times…
I’m sure someone’s already doing it.
The Rust babies have been needlessly rewriting C/C++ utilities in Rust for about a decade now and started a professional whinging campaign to get Linus to allow it in the kernel a few years ago. He initially told them to go fuck themselves, then relented and allowed Rust for kernel modules and drivers, and has now indicated he’s open to having it in the kernel. Because who didn’t want to add another cuck-licensed toolchain requirement to compile the kernel, for the benefit of memory safety… which generally has to be disabled to make Rust do anything functional at the kernel level.
Who named that? Because my history with rust and comuting, rust has always been a bad thing that means a capacitor or battery leaked and the board might be borked.
*computing
Mozilla shat it out, but it’s since become independent.
I find Rust interesting if a bit convoluted. I don’t write in that space so I’ll let those folks battle it out.
Did you hear about the computer programmer who died in the shower?
He was using a bottle of shampoo that said, “Lather. Rinse. Repeat.”
*puts UCS in a locker
“Shut it, nerd!”
Where did you find one this size?
*opens door and steps out.*
Putting his hat in the 2028 Presidential race in case anyone wants a whiny bitch as President.
He has had his hat in before, so nothing new there.
We already have that.
I think his point was to complain and complain and complain and complain and complaaaaaaaainnnn…
Until their Supreme Court finds the will of the voters unconstitutional, at any rate.
Folks didn’t spend all that money to get nothing back, after all.
Morning, Banjos — kind of you to think of us as your huckleberry!
Well I feel a bit sheepish now — didn’t realize Mr. Kilmer had passed until I got through the links. Sorry if that seemed a little flippant… obviously (as with most/all celebs) didn’t know the gentleman as a person, but did enjoy some of his work and unlike most of Hollywood — never got the impression he was too much of a “preach at the proles” jerk, so all due respect and grant him his rest, O Lord.
Trump should file challenges for each individual employee and see if he can get them all placed on this douchenugget’s docket.
Since I assume he’s invoking RIF laws as “they weren’t actually fired for performance reasons….. make them do every last one of their performance evaluations for the past year. Or his court loses all funding.
Not RIFs yet. I think their downfall was using ‘performance’ as the nail and OPM as the hammer.
Should have directed the agencies to handle and if they didnt, start removing leadership.
I cant get to the article though
Good morning!
I can blackpill anytime, anyplace. But why would I?
You need us to call you?
I am accepting calls from hot blondes…
Sven the Pyromaniac on line 4.
Not Adahn:
So feverish girls with bad dye jobs… got it!
Speaking of excessively-warm blondes, Lily goes to the groomers this Saturday. Unfortunately that means I have to miss the first USPSA match of the season.
Neph:
Trashy girls with impaired judgement?
…I’ll allow it.
Trashy women you say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXs0m32A8E
Because you’re actually peddling double salt licorice and hate humanity?
(I made the mistake of buying a bag of that stuff in Omaha. 🤮)
“Crawford argued that voters “don’t want to see some outsider, some billionaire, come in and try to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which is what Elon Musk is trying to do.””
But Soros money is OK?
Yeah, that’s rich. 🙄
Soros’s superpower is to buy elections from his basement.
With your taxes via USAID laundering.
Democrats have to use dark money to counter Republican dark money …
You might have noticed that Democrats don’t complain about dark money anymore, not since they got better at it than the Repubs.
*Money of color, shitlord.
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!!!11!!11!21!!!!1
While the Senate wasn’t really doing anything anyway… “And nothing of value was lost”
Isn’t that redundant?
“ Some leaders of the many sprawling agencies and centers that make up the Department of Health and Human Services have been given a choice: Move out of DC or resign.”
Animal hardest hit.
Human Services has always sounded like bureaucratic double talk for slavery.
It’s a cookbook!
Animal sitting on porch, looking out across the scrub.
“They moved the HHS out here, and just turned ’em loose. They turned feral, now they’re busting up the garden, rooting through the trash cans. They spook easy, but you can call ’em in.”
Picks up Bureaucrat Call. “Vanilla latte! Vanilla Latte! Free Wifi!”
Disheveled head pops up out of the brush. “Avocado toast?”
*blam*
You just need to update the speech bubbles.
I’ll be damned… this is funny.
Solid actor with some incredibly mediocre roles alongside his iconic ones, and reputedly a top rate pain in the ass to work with. RIP.
65 years old seems kind of young
Quite. He had cancer a while back. A bout of pneumonia did him in.
Cancer and seemingly living in denial about it for a number of years will do that to a person
The Salton Sea – a really bad role for a method actor.
I’m thinking about three movies for my Val Kilmer binge tonight.
Kilmer’s portrayal of John H. Holliday, D.D.S. in Tombstone is IMO a contender for the best piece of acting in modern cinema. But I don’t like the movie overall, mostly because the story was based on Stuart N. Lake’s dimwitted, dick-sucking haiography of Wyatt Earp.
So, the best three? Heat? The Ghost and the Darkness? The Saint? Kiss Kiss Bang Bang? Willow? The Island of Dr. Moreau?
Heat.
If only for proper reloading procedure.
Heat: An Armani suit ad, with guns. Hams chewing up scenery like they have no tomorrow.
Fuck that shit.
That’s what makes it fun.
The entire flick could be a 3 hour insurance seminar and it’d still be worth watching for the bank heist shootout. Unequivocally the best shootout in cinema history to this very day.
Saw it in the theater and have no memory of it whatsoever nor desire to watch again.
The chewing scenery rings a bell. Pacino was in it, right?
Best filmed shootout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J0ecKnEzvU
and part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Esx7N7C-jA
Top Secret, and it’s not even close.
Zwak: not bad, but not up to Heat for a few reasons. Foremost: sound design. The gunshots are all dubbed and sound like a COD game. For Heat, they ended up using the sound captured on location because they weren’t able to replicate it in a studio, and it makes the scene very immersive. They used blank-firing guns on location in downtown LA with glass-faced skyscrapers all around, and it just sounds enormous. Second, CGI bullet hits and blood still look like shit compared with real squibs. Lastly, Bourne-ized shaky-cam POV and shorter cuts. The sequence in Heat is more stylized, but does a better job telling the story in terms of cinematography.
OH FFS, it’s Real Genius. WTF is wrong with you people?
This is Jesus, Kent.
Reliably, as always.
@Mo – I’ve never seen “Real Genius”, so can’t recommend something I’ve not watched.
Finally.
Thank you, Mojeaux.
“Have you ever seen a body like this before in your life?”
“She happens to be my daughter.”
“Oh. Then I guess you have.”
Deborah Foreman.
Rawr.
Mojeaux gets it.
Pat, even with all of your points, it isn’t an Armani suit commercial, which makes it so laughable as to put the first nails in the two Dago’s coffins actorwise.
Miss Mojeaux has this 100% correct: “Real Genius” is impeccable. Holds up over time, too. In fact, go look at what the technology is that they develop in that movie and you’ll be, ahem, perhaps not surprised at what it is.
“Can you hammer a six inch spike through a board with your penis?”
“Not right now.”
“A girl’s gotta have her standards.”
Real Genius is his second best role behind Doc Holiday in “Tombstone.” Ice Man comes in (maybe) 3rd.
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, “I drank what?”
(obviously, isn’t should be replaced with is)
Pat, I get you on sound design making a lot of differnece, but there are things a person can’t get past, and I cannot get past just how stylized that movie looks. It is like listening to an over produced record were they add rain and harps and anything else they can get. I just cannot move past it. As far as sound design goes, the shooting of Pris in Blade Runner, were they close down the street sounds so you just get gun shots, a little shouting, and breaking glass is the ne plus ultra in my book.
Also, everyone seems to miss Spartan, by Mamet. Great movie.
You are all wrong. His best work was as The Saint.
Heat was a Michael Mann LA crime drama from 1995 – of course it’s stylized. Stylized is a pretty good one-word description of Michael Mann’s entire portfolio.
Funny I just remembered Spartan myself. Call of Duty as imagined by David Mamet. I liked it a lot, and Val did some good work there. I’m a bit surprised he didn’t work with Mamet more often…
Eh, the ’90s were also the decade of lo-fi, both music and films. See Slacker, Clerks and the rest of the resurgent indie movement on the film side, and Pavement, Elliot Smith and such on the music side. It probably depends on were you land on art in general, and I know I am much more of a fan of the indie side.
Speaking of which:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLGA_bvfqh4
That is remarkable. When you’ve lost DC….
I saw one in my hometown on Google Maps 🙄
My current town just has a wall graffiti version. It doesn’t seem official so I doubt it will even go away.
“ever” go away
I saw the DC “plaza” in December. It was just the words written in yellow on the street, unless I missed something more. It was still hideous.
So today is the first Wednesday of “You must all be in the office on Wednesdays”.
I hate it.
Not the being in the office part – the number of coworkers around me part. Just hearing them moving around, typing, etc, it grates on me. I may have to get out the headphones just to not hear so many mouse clicks from other cubes.
So you’d be good with a move to Alaska?
If I keep my pay rate, yes.
Moving here was a massive step up environment-wise.
However, I’m thinking I’d prefer the Rockies to the Adirondacks. And the CO gun laws are no worse than NYs.
The thing I don’t like about the ADKs are the associated swamps. Is that also a thing in the Rocky Mountains?
The Rockies tend to be more in the rain shadow and drier.
New York has always been a swamp. It’s not as famous for it because it’s not as visually impressive as a Bayou or the Everglades.
I mean pick your poison, swamps or wildfires?
Welcome to Florida, now you don’t have to choose!
I haven’t been in a full office since the Before Times.
The half-hearted return to the office my company demanded got maybe one-sixth compliance. Some days I never saw more than one or two others. Then I stopped going.
But yeah, I just can’t do a full office anymore. I hated it then too. Especially as cubicles got shorter and shorted.
IN DRUMPF’S AMERICA!
“Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Firing Federal Employees on Probation in 19 States”
We are in the middle of a genuine Constitutional crisis here. SCOTUS and/or Congress needs to get off its/their ass and do something, or this is going to either result in a true judicial dictatorship or escalate to the President simply refusing to obey the courts.
And it needs to be resolved soon. Very soon. There isn’t time for the usual process of appeals, briefings, pondering for months or years by judges, blah blah, because Presidents have limited terms, and judges do not.
Don’t be silly, there are two ways to end a lifetime term.
As usual, RC nails it.
RC and Jonathan Turley are my go-to’s when it comes to law issues.
Agreed.
SCOTUS especially needs to step up. Congress ain’t gonna do shit.
Roberts is too concerned about the
integrity of the courtthe feebs’ goat-fucking pictures of him leaking out to do anything “political” like upholding constitutional limits on the power of the judiciary.I would imagine that Congress can change the laws on granting restraining orders.
They don’t need to change any laws, because there is no law or statute, or authority in the constitution, for district judges to issue nationwide injunctions. They just decided they can do it, because FYTW.
We need conflicting nationwide injunctions, with the second explicitly calling out the judge who issued the first.
An injunction against injunctions?
Again, that takes time.
Congress may not have explicitly authorized nationwide injunctions by statute, but they can (and should) pass a statute controlling/eliminating them.
Someone is already on it.
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/proposed-legislative-limits-on-nationwide-injunctions
“Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Firing Federal Employees on Probation in 19 States”
Transfer them to one of the other 38 states and fire them there?
Trump gets to control the timing on when this comes to a head. Does he flip the switch this summer? Does he wait until after the midterms?
Given what I’ve heard from insiders, I’d imagine that he wants this handled and resolved this year so that he can set up repealing the income tax as the keystone issue of the midterm election. This would be a huge distraction if it trickled into the ’26 election cycle.
“Kid Rock’s mini White House revealed after star spent 20 years building it — complete with a golden urinal, church….a barber shop, and a gas station
While the actual White House has 16 bedrooms, the musician’s version allegedly only has two, according to Joe Rogan, who previously shared that the remaining rooms are entirely dedicated to partying and include a bowling alley and oversized furniture.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/01/entertainment/kid-rocks-mini-white-house-with-a-golden-urinal-revealed-after-20-years/
Wonder why it took 20 years?
Takes awhile to source materials from trailer parks?
Dude, you’re 60 years old. You’re gonna die on the shitter mid coke-wank like Elvis and your estate attorney is going to have to sell that shit hole for the land value.
And?
What does he care, he got to enjoy it now.
His money, of course. I suspect the hood-rich novelty of bowling alleys and stripper poles wears off faster in your 60s than your 20s though.
What I am curious about is: who likes Kid Rock that much?
It’s still less tacky than a blue and white pedo temple.
who likes Kid Rock that much?
I didn’t even like him all that much when his music was popular. He strikes me as Miley Cyrus with a mullet.
I suspect that most of the real White House’s bedrooms are dedicated to “partying”, too.
So DNC is going to sue Trumo Admin for *checks notes* ‘targetting illegal aliens voting’?
Without telling us you were importing voters, tell us you were importing voters DNC
Illegal aliens aren’t voting, because there’s no election fraud in America, and how dare you violate their rights by preventing them from voting!
Someone’s been visiting TOS again, haven’t they?
“Tim Walz’s daughter says she’s ditching grad school as a ‘privileged white woman’ over college not ‘protecting’ protesters”
https://thepostmillennial.com/tim-walzs-daughter-says-shes-ditching-grad-school-as-a-privileged-white-woman-over-college-not-protecting-protesters
The asshole doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Or maybe, “the turd doesn’t fall far from the asshole”.
“Thank God she’s not a trannie at least.”
/Tim’s brain
Lol
“No dad, I didn’t get rejected from the east bumblefuck school of underwater basket weaving. I turned them down because they won’t let Queers for Palestine shit on the sidewalks!”
She’s so good at fighting power she doesn’t have to name what she is fighting.
” offer to a graduate school that she would not name”
“could not name”
Now do people protesting mandatory covid “vaccines”.
The computing sidebar reminded me that I discovered the little computer I took off the shelf doesn’t actually have a floppy controller. So I went searching for one. Turns out the only rider card floppy controllers were made for the ISA bus, which this thing doesn’t have anyway. There are USB adapters, but the problem with that is that USB floppy interfaces don’t allow for the type of drive access needed for the work I’m looking to do. Feeding the data through the USB interface stamps it into digital format meaning the magnetic flux values are lost and can’t be archived.
I paid $20 (+$20 shipping) for a Pentium 4 motherboard with the drive controllers I need. I’ll probably end up putting it in the case my old NAS was in, since that’s currently just taking up space.
So the goal is to preserve the bitrot?
Thing about old formats is that they don’t conform to modern standards in all cases. Getting as much data about what is really on the disk, especially when people were prone to doing unusual things for various reasons, is important.
You could try dd rescue.
Oh, there was one other thing unrelated to your suggestions.
The USB converter only supported 3.5″ drives. Not 5.25″.
I can check and see if I have obsolete machines with 5.25″ drives in them already if you’d be interested. I kept a 386 machine around for playing Wing Commander.
Might be.
The 5.25″ drive I have is apparently CP/M specialized and not DOS friendly.
“House DOGE subcommittee to hold hearing on reducing federal real estate
The hearing, titled “Federal Foreclosure: Reducing the Federal Real Estate Portfolio,” will examine the management of federal real estate and whether it’s cost-effective for American taxpayers.”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-doge-subcommittee-hold-hearing-reducing-federal-real-estate-next-week
The government should sell federal land to pay off its debt. It’s most of some western states.
https://wikiless.rawbit.ninja/wiki/File:Map_of_all_U.S._Federal_Land.jpg
Buy the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and convert to a dragstrip.
Jacuzzi.
Before Las Vegas turned the state into a Los Angeles suburb, Nevadans, particularly rural Nevadans, had a bit of a testy relationship with the feds regarding federal ownership of substantially the entire state.
I was going to say at least trade large areas of Western land into some more east coast national parks, but we would just end up with more parks like Indiana Dunes.
Meh. They’ll just name another national recreation area a park. I actually prefer our local park system.
We have too many parks, some need to be dissolved and parcelled out.
How about the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Yes, a highway is a national park.
Absolutely!
There should be no commuter roads into DC. If you want to work there, you have to be stacked like cordwood in small pod apartments that cost $3M/mo to rent.
Check out the “Plan Your Visit” links.
Rat on a train:
That’s not that strange to me. We’ve got a train running through our national park, and our Metroparks offer up a water taxi service (the Holy Moses) to shuttle people across the river down in the Flats.
What we do have is random blocks with bike trails on them. As in, you can see the end of the bike trail when you get on it. They serve no purpose except that someone got paid for the surface, painting, and signage.
Mr Ilium – There’s a difference between a park that has transportation options, and a park that is just a highway.
How about the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Yes, a highway is a national park.
Ackshually, not a national park. Still, should definitely not be controlled by NPS.
I live near Assateague, which is also not a national park but a national seashore. Either upgrade it to park status (not worthy) or just let MD manage the entire fucking island.
Interesting write-up on the defensibility of carriers even in the age of drones and cruise missiles.
https://x.com/planefag/status/1906453304759947754
The only question I have is with ballistic/guided anti-ship missiles, for which the only thing I see mentioned is “evasion”, consisting of two parts – being not found (which I would think impossible in the age of satellites) and spoofing. Spoofing guidance/targeting on missiles strikes me as a replay of the old cannon v armor race in the dreadnought age, and we all know how that turned out.
‘cannon v armor race in the dreadnought age’
This seems a very different thing. Armor v. Cannon will always be in favor of cannon because you need to stop a cannon’s shell at every point on the ship that the cannon can hit (and then also torpedoes, bombs, etc…). There is an actual geometry/physics reason there that the cannon can take advantage of relative to armor.
When you talk of spoofing the guidance/targeting it almost seems like the roles are reversed, the missile needs to hit an exact spot, and all the defender needs to do is stop it from hitting that exact spot. There might be several different ways to make that happen and the missile has to surpass everyone of them… but I don’t know much about that honestly.
Airborne drones are a dangerous nuisance to a carrier and might knock out the flight deck for a while, which would suck for any planes in the air.
Haven’t heard about a single hypersonic missile being intercepted in Ukraine – those would be ship killers. Also some nasty torpedo drones in development.
‘Sen. Van Wanggaard (R-Racine), who co-authored the amendment, said the voter photo ID requirement will now become “the law of the land no matter the political whims of the Supreme Court or Legislature.”
That has never stopped us before! /California Supreme Court
We find the constitutional amendment to be unconstitutional because it would block us from doing what we want.
Yesterday we inadvertently adopted a streaked sphinx (Protambulyx strigilis). We named her April.
I’m not sure how it’s working out so far. April loves to flutter tantalizingly above the cats, baiting them into acrobatic leaps, whereupon they come crashing down onto furniture like the coffee table, knock over the wife’s expensive crystal candlesticks, etc.
I think Eliot was right: April is the cruellest moth.
(-.-)
I would have thought expensive crystal candlesticks would not be present around cats irrespective of flies
In honor of the discussion about the Cleveland Indians yesterday, I watched Major League last night. What manner of obnoxious busybody doesn’t like Chief Wahoo?
Also- the opening shot is of one of the bridge Guardians. Weird.
AWFLs. AWFLs didn’t like Wahoo.
The bridge is between W. 25th (a main artery, with a large amount of breweries, bars, and restaurants) and Ontario, right by the stadium. So if you were walking from W. 25th, or coming from that area, that bridge is a common path. If you’re coming from the East side, you likely never saw it.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
So, I should start gaming?
Historic
It was a remarkable show of stamina as Democrats try to show their frustrated supporters that they are doing everything possible to contest Trump’s agenda. Yet Booker also provided a moment of historical solace for a party searching for its way forward: By standing on the Senate floor for more than a night and day and refusing to leave, he had broken a record set 68 years ago by then Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist and southern Democrat, to filibuster the advance of the Civil Rights Act in 1957.
Bring back flagpole sitters.
He strenuously objected.
Hear, hear
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the first Black party leader in Congress, slipped into the Senate chamber to watch Booker on Tuesday afternoon. He called it “an incredibly powerful moment” because Booker had broken the record of a segregationist and was “fighting to preserve the American way of life and our democracy.”
Indeed.
Yes, an incredibly powerful and pointless publicity stunt, yes indeed.
Sometimes a blunder becomes a break that goes your way (if you’re a Mississippi taxpayer, at least).
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves (R.) has signed legislation to abolish the state’s income tax. Under the new law, the income tax rate will drop from its current 4.4 percent by 0.25 percent annually, reaching 3 percent by 2030. After that, further reductions to zero will hinge on “growth triggers” tied to state revenue.
MS state senators only wanted the taxes to continue to decrease if revenue growth exceeded spending growth by 85%. But in their draft of the legislation, that number was actually put at .85% — making things easier instead of nearly impossible.
They need better revenue models so they can keep spending growing faster.
At least they don’t have that bullshit ass bullshit regional tax like we do in Northeast Ohio. My first paycheck at my company in Ohio and I saw a deduction for Cleveland Heights (home) and Mayfield Heights (work) and nearly lost my shit. My wife who grew up in Ohio explained to me that our area has a regional tax and that it’s kind of hard to figure out and navigate which will always result in us owing the regional authority money.
RITA is a bane and a curse word throughout the region. Lakewood famously avoided being a part of RITA for ages, but finally bent the knee. For those who don’t live in the area, employees are taxed for both the location of their work and where they live. So if you live in a different city than you work (which is pretty common), your taxes will be more, depending on the relationship and reciprocity agreements between the two cities. The city tax rates average around 2%, with reciprocity agreements generally going between 0-1.5%. This means that if the city you work in has a tax rate of 2%, and the city you live in has a tax rate of 2%, with a reciprocity agreement for 1%, you wind up paying a total of 3% local tax (2% to the city you work in, 1% to the city you live in).
WFH was a huge blow to a lot of cities around here because of this. It wasn’t just the city of Cleveland, but a lot of other cities with offices lost money because of this.
At least Maryland’s local income tax is only on where you live.
“WFH was a huge blow to a lot of cities around here because of this. It wasn’t just the city of Cleveland, but a lot of other cities with offices lost money because of this.”
This is the kind of shit that makes me a libertarian. Stop spending so much money and stop seeing us as tax cattle and you wouldn’t have these issues.
“Did you hear something Moo?”
/Politician
Rat on a train:
I know it led to some fun discussions in social study classes when we get jobs in different cities, and all of a sudden were paying taxes to a city where we had no right to vote in. Especially when the Revolutionary War came up “No taxation without representation”… bullshit.
I ♥️ living in a township. 😁 Still have to pay tax where I work, of course, but I’m not getting hit at both ends.
I paid out of state income tax for trips to my project site. I told my coworkers that I should get to vote in their state since I paid income taxes.
What’s a local income tax? /Florida
Read what you sign, people!
The text will be released at 1200. The vote is scheduled for 1300.
no
Ernest Benn was the uncle of Tony Benn and great-uncle of Hilary Benn. Luckily for us he was the black sheep of the family and pursued a career in business before becoming one of the “great and the good”. And then he decided he didn’t want to be great or good any more, founding the Society for Individual Freedom. As I understand it the Libertarian Alliance – who most here will be familiar with – emerged from that association.
A hundred years ago Benn was compiling a list of good economics books which – seemingly unbelievably – The Times published. It includes – as you might expect – Smith, Bastiat and Mill and – as you might not expect – Spencer and Smiles. It also includes Henry Ford – presumably before he started blaming the Jews for everything. But there is one book that’s missing. Luckily a young Austrian is on the case.
https://www.samizdata.net/2025/04/how-many-have-you-read/
Dark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisation
Tao Leigh Goffe argues climate breakdown is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialism
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/28/dark-laboratory-groundbreaking-book-argues-climate-crisis-was-sparked-by-colonisation
We all think we know what is causing the breakdown of the planet’s climate: burning fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide, change the chemistry of the air and trap more heat from the sun, leading to rising temperatures.
But Tao Leigh Goffe, an associate professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the City University of New York, wants us to visualise a far more specific cause: the shunting of a ship’s prow on to the sandbank of a paradise island in 1492.
In Dark Laboratory, her groundbreaking new book, Goffe argues that it was the colonisation of the Americas by Christopher Columbus that set off the chain of events that has led us to where we stand today, on the precipice of global catastrophe.
The result, according to Goffe’s analysis, was a system of knowledge production that projects a logic of ownership and exploitation on to the world that understands nature – and fellow humans – as no more than a means to profit.
For Goffe, Dark Laboratory is more than an environmental history. Born to Jamaican parents in London, with African and Chinese heritage, then raised and educated in the US, it is for her an exploration of her and her family’s history and how disparate ethnicities were transported across the world to the crucible of colonialism.
Blame Whitey and Western Civilization is burning Gaia.
Tiresome and droll.
IF (and that’s a big if) man is contributing to that great a change in global temps, it’s China doing it, and after Genghis they weren’t exactly colonizers.
I fucking resent all these bullshit “rules” and “goals” that make my life more difficult/expensive as if that’s going to change anything when China’s out there unapologetically smogging up a quarter of the globe. I don’t want to breathe soot, but surely there’s some happy medium so I can have a CRX-like car again.
Genghis wasn’t Chinese, and the Mongols didn’t conquer China until Kublai, at which point the Mongol Empire was already fragmenting into several Khanates.
We may be one of the first groups to have things get worse than better as we got older. About the only things that have gotten better (faster at a minimum) and cheaper are electronics. Most appliances have gotten worse while staying the same price or gotten more expensive, and then there’s cars…
Is there no way down from this peak to solid ground without having our gold teeth pulled from our mouths?
@UCS: Close enough for government work.
Groundbreaking. It was groundbreaking.
I tried to read that. I really did. It is a wonder to behold but my brain began to shut down three paragraphs in.
Denmark toughens its alcohol laws for teenagers.
Starting today, 16- and 17-year-olds won’t be allowed to buy drinks with an alcohol content exceeding 6% by volume in retail stores.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1907142343725080966
I blame Trump.
Eric Adams charges dropped
Judge Dale Ho has agreed to the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to drop the charges against Adams, but he did so “with prejudice.” That means Adams cannot be re-tried on the same charges at a later time – a stipulation the Justice Department sought in its initial request to dismiss the case.
A good Ho does as asked.
“The case against Eric Adams should have never been brought in the first place—and finally today that case is gone forever. From Day 1, the mayor has maintained his innocence and now justice for Eric Adams and New Yorkers has prevailed,” Adams’ attorney Alex Spiro said.
Outrageous lies. New York would never weaponize its justice system.
“New York would never weaponize its justice system.”
You mean Fed gov?
The result, according to Goffe’s analysis, was a system of knowledge production that projects a logic of ownership and exploitation on to the world that understands nature – and fellow humans – as no more than a means to profit.
The world was so much better in the days of subsistence farming. There was no time for ideas.
Maybe.
https://www.yeoldetymenews.com/p/do-you-work-more-than-a-medieval
Having researched the amount of effort required for even basic things at that tech level – I can safely say that I do not work more, even if I spend more days “at work”, it’s fewer hours per day, and less effort.
Looking at the numbers in that article, it’s clear the methodology used was grossly flawed either through laziness, ignorance, or to make it intentionally low.
I also didn’t see any mention of domestic tasks – the cleaning, cooking, and maintenance that would have been done at home once the workday was done (I did my best at speed-reading and then did a ctrl+F on “house”, “home”, and “domestic” and didn’t find anything).
We have it ridiculously easy today with vacuum cleaners, washing machines, refrigerators, cooking appliances, indoor plumbing, and all the other things we take for granted.
Whatever hours a medieval peasant may have worked, they either had to A) go home to another list of constant household tasks, or B) have a wife who stayed at home and worked all day on those things.
This whole analysis ignores the productivity gains of the industrial revolution.
It doesn’t matter if peasants worked 10% fewer hours, the same hours, or 10% more hours than modern workers.
What matters is they had far, far less to show for their work.
Muh Labor Theory of Value!
Ask her how much money the Egyptians made off the backs of Jews.
Yeah sure, I’ll buy a Switch 2 with Mario Kart World for $500.
The price point doesn’t seem too terrible, I’ll likely pick one up by the end of the year.
We still play Mario Kart 8 as a family, so that’s 8 years of game play? I think we got our money out of it.
Oh, the presentation is finally out? I need to go watch.
Can I get it without Mario Cart? I don’t play that series.
Yeah, the non-bundle I think was $449.
One thing to note: The presentation said it could play “compatible” Switch 1 games. So any number of games may not be supported.
🤔
Given the number of third party titles, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were any number that aren’t compatable.