FEDS CURIOUS ABOUT WHO WATCHED CERTAIN YOUTUBE VIDEOS: Via both Mashable (print) and Lehto Law (video) come reports that “In now unsealed court documents reviewed by Forbes, Google was ordered to hand over the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of Youtube accounts and IP addresses that watched select YouTube videos, part of a larger criminal investigation by federal investigators.” Of course, we are all already on government watchlists.
THE TRAGIC STORY OF NEX BENEDICT: “The media took a deeply traumatized young girl and exploited her suffering for their own political purposes, lying, fabricating, and continuing to twist the story into a narrative they could use to push their own agenda.” Much as was done with Matthew Shepherd.
MANUAL TRANSMISSIONS BAD, EVs GOOD: CNN scolds and lectures about how the stickshift is evil. Notice their fixation on the popularity of the manual transmission among young men. And the Freudian cheap shot. Surprised they didn’t work in “testosterone poisoning.” Also, fuck Paul Hockenos.
SURGE PRICING IS EVIL, EXCEPT WHEN DEMOCRATS DO IT: New York becomes first U.S. city to approve congestion pricing tolls.
There were server issues this afternoon. Due to the limited number of links, the comments are all yours.
*gives Tonio a model 29*
29? Pshaw!
“My Anaconda don’t want ya…”
“Diddy’s LA home surveillance footage SEIZED by federal agents amid sex trafficking probe – as lawsuit alleges rapper ‘paid Instagram model Jade Ramey stipend for sex work'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13249435/Diddys-LA-home-surveillance-footage-SEIZED-federal-agents-amid-sex-trafficking-probe-lawsuit-alleges-rapper-paid-Instagram-model-Jade-Ramey-stipend-sex-work.html
Oh no, not a hooker on Instagram!
Yeah — they should stay on OnlyFans!
IANAL, but my understanding is that if he’d have told her he was making a porno for his own private use and sign a release form that he’d be covered.
Meanwhile no problem with all the sugar daddies out there.
“Duke University researchers help transgender woman, 50, breastfeed her GRANDCHILD using experimental hormone drugs so she could feel what it’s like to be a real mom ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13250081/Duke-University-researchers-help-transgender-woman-50-breastfeed-GRANDCHILD-using-experimental-hormone-drugs-feel-like-real-mom-critics-call-frankly-disturbing.html
No.
That poor almost certainly messed up kid. (Hormone / nutrient imbalance I have to assume).
That’s weird as fuck even if you take out the transgender part.
“Transmilk superior to old-fashioned ladymilk” in 3… 2… 1….
Hashtag priorities
http://WWW.whatthefuck.com
I find this song (lyrics NSFW) running through my head a lot these days.
This is a very long day.
Yes it has been.
It ain’t over yet.
Threat or promise?
Observation.
Your new avatar has a Norma Desmond facial expression. “I AM big. It’s the pictures that got small!”
The cat is ready for its close-up?
“Veteran Ohio English teacher, 50, who was making $75,000-per-year resigns from school after being caught posting sexual content on ONLYFANS – before releasing statement claiming to be ‘one of greatest’ the school has had”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13249181/veteran-ohio-english-teacher-resigns-school-sexual-content-onlyfans.html
Keep your day job.
“The account identified as ‘jenniferssecrets’ has 7,900 likes, 1,200 followers, 302 photos and 25 videos as of March 28.”
For the umpteenth time, not everyone who makes an account on OnlyFans makes a millions dollars a month.
That’s a nasty 50. Easily could pass for 60+
The stress of being the ¡bestest!1!! English teacher must have got to her.
I was thinking drugs.
Can’t argue with the bod, tho.
Link to manual transmissions not there. I’ll just speculate they they use some kind of dumbass poppsych phallic Freudian analysis though. Am I right and what did I win?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/opinions/automatic-vs-manual-cars-electric-pollution-hockenos/index.html
The guy is based in Berlin. Probably a Sitzpinkler.
Thanks for pinch-hitting. Also for sitzpinkler. Heh.
Oooh, I’d also memory-left out Sitzpinklers. That’s a fantastic Teutonic expression.
Will bring back into use. Legit thanks.
Fixed!
We can’t have people enjoying themselves, especially those icky people.
My guess? They’re a clutch GRINDR.
The penis, er, the stick shift is evil.
ZARDOZ GIVES YOU THE GIFT OF GUNNING THE ENGINE AT A RED LIGHT, AS WHEN THE WORLD WAS NEW.
No actual link to CNN (not that I’d follow and watch it, so it doesn’t bother me…) — but everything I’ve been told over the years was that proper usage of a manual transmission was more fuel efficient (and hence eco-friendly) than an automatic. Obviously that doesn’t bring in hybrids, auto engine off instead of idle, EVs, etc…. but also obviously, EVs and hybrids don’t bring in differences in manufacturing, etc….
Auto transmission has replaced manual transmission as being more fuel efficient. 20 to 30 years of automotive development contribute to that claim. Note that this development has not made auto transmissions any simpler, longer lived, or easier to maintain.
It is not unusual to see 7-speed or even 9-speed transmissions now.
I have a 9 speed.
CV doesnt count.
We can’t all be out there shopping for CVEs — sometimes you have to go full on Yorktown class.
And auto transmission with paddle shifters can outperform a manual with a clutch.
And, I don’t fucking care. Give my my 6-speed manual.
I’m content with my automatic that can do a psuedo-“Manual” mode.
I only drive an auto as my left leg doesn’t work well anymore.
But, man do I miss the clutch.
My Ram had a 6-speed manual. I didn’t fully appreciate an automatic in a big truck until I was pulling a 20′ trailer through start/stop rush hour traffic in Indianapolis.
The current Ford Mustang has a 10 speed automatic, which makes it the fastest accelerating Mustang ever made (Not counting Shelby). Still would rather have the 6 speed for the engagement it allows in driving.
Good thing we had the link the CNN idiot on stick shifts yesterday.
Ugh. Sorry. It was a busy day for me. I usually go back and check to make sure the link wasn’t used by someone else already but I was rushed already then the server problems hit.
I did not mean that to sound like a complaint. It’s no big deal when the morning or afternoon links repeat something that was an earlier thread. There is no way for you guys to keep up with all the stuff we post.
No problem.
Kinnath is turned on by the thought of drugs falling out of your ass. :-p
Fuck you CNN and your unlinked article. I like my manual and I bet it gets far better mileage than the SUVs your chauffeurs drive.
Yeah, that’s the what I don’t get – my manual gets better mileage than the automatic, so the rationale of meeting EPA standards is total bullshit.
Manual transmissions are the mechanical equivalent of cursive handwriting. There, I said it.
In other news, I spent a few hours today spamming out my reh-zoomy* to various nearby schools. It worked. My next interview is April 1st. Yay me.
*I learned this spelling from an Irish headhunter.
Be sure to play a prank on the interviewer!
Derpy only prank in game of life…
Mel Brooks talks about his WW2 Army service:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmJq2vvuPL4
Once, he was with a crew setting up a bridge under fire. He took a bullhorn and sang “Toot Toot Tootsie goodbye” to distract the Germans. They laughed.
Mel missed a golden opportunity.
If only he thought of it sooner.
I thought they spelled it CV.
They make driving slightly less boring and that’s a plus.
Harder to get road head.
🎶 SFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkgXArxRxy8
Best anti-theft device available.
https://i.imgflip.com/6x9sn9.jpg
The rare occasions we’ve done valet parking, we take my wife’s car.
lost opportunities
Nope. Best anti-theft is a kickstart only motorcycle.
Well, until they pick it up and throw it in the back of a truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Ug4I89c98
Any d00d who can pick up a motorcycle and throw it in the back of a truck will be treated by me with the utmost of respect.
“‘Remorseless’ Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison — as judge rips him as power-obsessed scammer ”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/28/us-news/sam-bankman-fried-faces-decades-in-prison-as-hes-sentenced-today-for-multi-billion-dollar-fraud/
Well, bye.
This is pleasing. Need more of this.
He bilks some cryptocurrency speculator bros and gets 25 years while OMB defrauds the People of New York and not a single day in jail?
#twotieredjusticesystem
Hi, I’m from MSNBC. We’d like to interview you for an open pundit position we have.
Would that judge rip politicians as the power-obsessed scammers they are?
Time for another email Ford begging me to buy one of their EVs
Prices cut!!
Elon is letting us use his charging network!!!
They seem a tad desperate.
Likely as desperate as the Jeep emails I’ve been getting.
“LGBTQ activist group ‘Free Mom Hugs’ delivers cease and desist to Moms for Liberty over accusations they are ‘groomers’
“Free Mom Hugs” claims that comments made by Moms for Liberty’s Tiffany Justice constitute “illegal defamation and harassment.”
“On or around March 8, 2024, Tiffany Justice posted a picture of a Free Mom Hugs volunteer in a Free Mom Hugs T-Shirt with the caption ‘If you are offering kids “free Mom hugs” but you aren’t their Mom, you might be a Groomer.’ Since this initial posting, at least one other representative from Moms for Liberty made similar false accusations regarding Free Mom Hugs representatives.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/lgbtq-activist-group-free-mom-hugs-delivers-cease-and-desist-to-moms-for-liberty-over-accusations-they-are-groomers
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
Tiffany ain’t wrong though.
Yes, and where do the millennials get away with this ridiculous claim:
“made similar false accusations regarding Free Mom Hugs”
You don’t know that. You’re just opinionizing there, guy.
I’d love to see frat boys lining up for those free hugs wearing WSU hoodies.
Duke LaCrosse.
They might be groomers, or they might not.
They Might Be Groomers is the worst tribute band ever.
^^ Boom. This right here. This joke. And reference.
I’ll take more, please.
Regarding auto vs manual transmissions. I love the advancements in auto transmissions. My 2017 Titan has a 7 speed. It makes towing a trailer much better than my 2014 Xterra with 5 speeds which was way better that the 2006 Xterra with 3 speeds.
The issue is CVTs replacing manuals in the down market segment of autos. I fucking hate CVTs.
This afternoon Trump went to the wake of that cop that was shot in NYC. While I’m not a fan of standing on dead bodies, I would say this was well done by Trump.
1. Apparently the family was fine with it, he did spend time with them. And they asked the local politicians who support defunding the police to stay away.
2. He rolled up, went into the building for a while, make a few minute speech, and left.
3. The speech was subdued, he talked mostly about the family and how this was unacceptable. He didn’t make it about himself, his dead son, a kitchen fire, or the end of democracy.
4. There is definitely a stark contrast between this and Biden’s $25 million circle jerk with Obama and Clinton.
Yes. This was weirdly competent and shrewd I thought.
It was not tacky and I think a good move.
I do have a related story. We have a close friend who works for the fed gov, and during the Trump admin she had a stillborn baby. Her agency wanted to give her just a few days bereavement instead of maternity leave. The justification was that maternity leave was for bonding with a baby. We thought that was pretty cold. But they do have a program where co-workers can donate time off, and many of them did. She wrote to all our congresscritters and to Trump about it. She got back a nice letter sending condolences and promises that his staff will look into it, and it was signed by Trump. And sure enough, they did end up changing the policy. So yes he can be an asshole, but can be a genuine person at times like this.
😱
Phones a supporter in a blue state who he knows won’t live long enough to vote for him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbwXv327zlg
At the end of the day, it’s still standing on the dead bodies. Not like there’s anyone I can vote for that won’t enthusiastically do it though.
I think he’s perfectly capable of being polite and charming. You probably don’t get to where he is without that ability.
Yeah I saw that, I thought of the same word to describe it – subdued.
One of the main, in my eyes, reasons that Trump did so well in 2016 is he didn’t play their game, but, rather, played his own. He rewrote the rules, and really only fucked up when he tried to do things “the way you are supposed too” IE play by their rules. They own that game, so of course they want you to play, as they know how to win.
The Dems (for example, that horrible woman who appears on The Five with Gutfeld et. al) who are tickled at the pay-for-play money laundering outfit that he, his family, half of Hollywood, and other world elites are operating out in the open are a disgusting species of sub-human if you ask me.
Same cast of characters from 2020 and we’re supposed to believe that showing that asshole with more millions is going not make any of the numerous problems he has caused even worse? Yeah OK.
Does anyone have a list of which videos triggered the feds?
From the article, it was something about mapping using drones that was put up by the feds themselves. I’m not super clear on it myself.
Shit. That was one of the first viable commercial uses of drones.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bobsqr/drone_pics_of_north_korea_i_was_in_china_my_drone
I like the one with the major traffic jam. Arrival times must have been impacted by seconds.
The facts are muddled. I should have checked out the Forbes link but I can’t remember whether they are paywalled.
They’ve got enough ad stuff to kill most browsers.
The fed sent targeted video suggestions to someone they needed to uncover.. they hoped that the person in question would watch the video via an unprotected system so they can link identities.. I will bet that it was also marked 18+ so it required a login.
Remember that Dread Pirate Roberts was uncovered by a single IP/username mixing at the beginning of his career. In this game you only have to mess up once.. They can be patient.
And as soon as I posted that, I thought of a smart ass comment about the videos being swimsuit hauls and something about rays of sunshine.
Look back at the ones you watched. 90% of them.
What’s phylogeny got to do with the Feds?
They thought it was a typo: polygamy.
Whatever their criteria for flagging videos started out as, the list of videos and thus wrong thinkers who watch will inevitably grow…..and grow…..and grow.
Brutal
The Bee really does love us – us Glibs. Really.
Beauty And The Yeast
Ima pass on this one.
Editor’s Note: Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based writer focusing on renewable energy in Europe.
…thats about all I needed to really read
Biden. Limiting choice and making things more expensive. For our own good.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/28/politics/short-term-health-insurance-plans-biden/index.html
Junk fees, junk insurance. How about we get rid of that junk president?
That’s infuriating.
Reminds me of this story… don’t remember if it was already linked here (I strongly suspect it was… but oh well, drugs… butt… ).
Affordable Care Act supporters fear that short-term plans may draw younger, healthier people away from Obamacare policies since these folks are more likely to be attracted to minimalist coverage. That could leave a larger share of older, sicker Americans in marketplace plans, which could prompt premium increases.
The real reason, they want younger people to subsidize older ones.
If these women were all doing the slow walking down the middle of the sidewalk I’m going to be really torn how I feel about this.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-women-punched-tiktok-videos-halley-kate-skiboky-stora/
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2024/03/28/dear-new-york-women-being-attacked-by-strangers-vote-like-an-adult-n2172034
Howdy
I got nuttin (on account of being baked)
Avgeeks will enjoy a replay of Big Jet TV’s London storm coverage today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnMma03fkAE&t=9021s
I could listen to that guy for hours and Im not sure why.
“Duke University researchers help transgender woman, 50, breastfeed her GRANDCHILD using experimental hormone drugs so she could feel what it’s like to be a real mom ”
You want a really fucked-up family?
Thats how you make one.
I was expecting either this song, or this South Park clip.
Once he makes up his mind on the replacement, I get to inherit Tres Sr’s……2004 Chevy Tracker.
5-speed manual.
Fucking cunt server error.
There wasn’t even a link in that comment.
Also, fuck Paul Hockenos.
Eeeeewwwwwww.
Just back from the grocery store. There was a young woman there, a wisp of a thing, with the most adorable little round bottom I have seen in a long time.
I’ll give it another shot. “Certain youtube videos” so horrifying and despicable as to defy description, apparently.
Steel Panther videos?
The issue is CVTs replacing manuals in the down market segment of autos. I fucking hate CVTs.
Replace every 40,000 miles as routine service.
Well you do have new transmission fluid when you have a new transmission…
Today in ZWAK news: Insomnia, so I finished up a piece for this joint, finally fell back asleep at 5am, then got up at 6:30am. Went and got my head and face trimmed for the first time in a month, came home only to find a jury summons. So I ordered a new laptop.
Is it weird to be excited about jury duty?
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S10E22/926841
Chevy Tracker- is that like a Suzuki Samurai?
No. The Samurai was its own thing.
I think the Tracker is the same thing as a Vitara.
I don’t know about the Vitara, but I’m pretty he Tracker was originally a Geo model that Chevy picked up when they bought that company/brand/whatever it was.
You would be correct. The engine and drivetrain is all suzuki tho.
Geo was Suzuki. The Suzuki Vitara was the Samurai’s younger, fatter brother who never exercised.
Buddha ?
“I was looking down, and I was looking at my phone, and, like, texting, and then out of nowhere this man just came up and hit me in the face,” she said in a video posted to TikTok.
Fake.
I have it on good authority crime in New York is virtually nonexistent.
Local TV news ran an ad from some human scum lawyers advertising for plaintiffs to sue social media companies for addicting the would-be plaintiffs. Fuck the lawyers and the would-be plaintiffs.
More humorously, this being the Albany TV market, the top story on the news was a camera focused on the runway at Albany Airport waiting for the plane carrying Caitlyn Clark.
Charging ahead
The Biden administration says the federal charging program is on track. Several states, including Maine, Vermont and Colorado, are expected to open public charging stations later this year, while more than a dozen others have awarded contracts for projects or broken ground.
“We are building this national framework from scratch, partnering with states to set plans, and we want to make sure we are taking appropriate care to set this program up correctly,″ Federal Highway Administrator Shailen Bhatt said in an interview.
“The first two years were about getting the rules right, getting the plans in place,” Bhatt said. “And now what you’re going to see is this year being about the chargers coming online.”
As part of the national charging station rollout, the Biden administration awarded $623 million in grants to states, local governments and tribes in January. The grants will fund 47 EV charging stations and related projects in 22 states and Puerto Rico, including 7,500 charging ports.
Ten-million-plus per charging station? This will indeed be a Great Leap Forward.
“We’re committed to making sure that all Americans can charge (their EVs) where they live, work, shop, play, pray,″ said Gabe Klein, director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, which runs the federal charging program.
We’re not here to make money. We’re here to spend it.
A charger for every parking spot.
They also serve who sit and wait in snarled traffic and barricaded sidewalks
Gridlock is expected in Midtown on Thursday as President Joe Biden and three former presidents visit the city at the same time.
Former President Barack Obama and Former President Bill Clinton will also be in attendance for Biden’s sold-out fundraiser. This event is set to bring together more than three decades of Democratic leadership.
Officials tightened security and closed streets, which will likely cause heavy traffic throughout the area.
The official NYPD closures include 49th, 50th and 51st streets closed to traffic between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Pedestrian traffic will be limited in the area too.
For some who just work in the neighborhood it makes things a little more difficult.
Will there be a $1,500 pay per view option for the home audience?
Slick Willie has not been president for more than 2 decades and he’s younger than Joe Biden. Heard that nugget on the radio today.
“But the party doesn’t stop there,” according to the campaign. First Lady Jill Biden and DJ D-Nice are hosting an after-party at Radio City Music Hall with 500 guests
How lovely.
“Derpy only prank in game of life…”
It took a bit to sink in (Im doing something else).
Well done.
you near CVG next week ?
Maybe? Depends on NewJob®
I have a start date later in April but Ive made myself available to them sooner.
You hanging out in Cincy ?
for free beer, ping me: donescapedtexas@outlook.com
Noted.
Royals: Give us a new stadium or we’ll go to [insert randotown here]
Jackson County: Okay.
Chiefs: If you don’t get the Royals out of our parking lot, we’ll go to Kansas.
Missouri metro area: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Me: Okay.
Oakland will soon have a spot for another KC baseball team.
Locally the Browns are looking to either build a new stadium or renovate the existing one. The team owners bought a big chunk of land in one of the nearby suburbs, and said they were considering using that to build a new stadium. This has caused the local media to go into an idiotic frenzy.
Spoiler alert. The tampon was removed.
https://www.thefp.com/p/tale-of-a-tampon
Enjoy the obligatory mask too.
Our Autopian lurker has already written an angry reprisal to the CNN stick shift article. Well done!
https://www.theautopian.com/cnns-anti-manual-transmission-article-is-just-total-garbage/
Also I am glad he made it out of his recent heart surgery.
Yes, but he did write this.
https://www.theautopian.com/these-tesla-fsd-hands-free-mod-devices-are-such-a-bad-idea-and-promoting-them-is-dumb/
On the plus side he isn’t callling for FeGov to put people in cages over them. Instead he is making an appeal to reason. So I guess he passes. Hope he is feeling better, he is one of the automotive journalists I enjoy reading.
He is a great guy. I remember he did a video for Jalopnik once, talking about himself. One zinger:
“My fellow writers prefer to out a lot of socialism in every article. I just like to put in a smidge.”
Ev’s FB post to world as I went to confront work and the meeting after. I stand by it:
Cubs just opened the Rangers, defending champs. Just got home from work meeting. Baseball is wonderfully therapeutic: Positive Distraction Dust (of no consequence.) Everyone gets it somewhere. Sports provide a (nearly) non-violent way for social primates to learn the social part. Cooperation matters. Best to learn w conflict attached. [It] Comes up.
Getting Craig Counsell as manager was crucial; I suspect to our great benefit. (Yes. *Our*) Plus Bellinger again and Imanaga+? Evan is vocally confident. 🙂 Prediction: NL Division Champs.
I hope y’all are well.
EVs GOOD indeed. Better than I thought I’d be. Cubs up 1-0 after a Morel triple and Swanson sac fly. Me likey. Thanks.