Good morning one and all to another exhilarating day! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the links are fresh and ready for consumption!
DeSantis to Hit the Campaign Trail for Trump
SCOTUS Denies Peter Navarro’s Bid for Release From Prison Pending Appeal
Sec of State Blinken Urges Hamas to Accept “Extraordinarily Generous” Ceasefire Deal
Zelensky and U.S. are Working On a Deal to Fund Ukraine With Your Money for the Next Decade
Stagflation fears come back with a vengeance
Columbia Students Take Over Hamilton Hall as Deadline to Disperse Passes
California court rules state laws cannot broadly override local government
Arizona State Senator Indicted Over 2020 Election ‘Scheme’ Secures RNC Position
Prosecutors will not retry Arizona rancher accused of killing Mexican national
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and leave you with a song.
Pssst, family of every other student enrolled not acting an ass, paying your way and rocking it virtual. Get together and sue the living shit out of Columbia and the students causing the disruption and their families.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066415
Random Bruce Davison appearance always appreciated.
We’re not gonna protest!
There is the PCU clip!
TIL that PCU is no longer available on streaming, and DVD’s are going for over $30. Now, I wouldn’t necessarily know this, but there may be a copy on archive.org.
Gutter is a Tool!!
What is this?! You’re going to wear this to the show?!
I totally forgot Jessica Walter was President Garcia-Thompson.
So much this.
It’s a trap!
I hope it’s the administration wanting these protests to go away by taking the leash off Israel.
If Darth Netanyahu isn’t the one to put an end to Hamas, it will never happen. This is apparently what Team Joe wants.
The Biden admin is walking a thin line and not doing a great job of it. They have a very loud far left anti-Israel base they need to appease, but the military/industrial complex is 100% behind Israel. So good luck dealing with the monster you created.
I have been assured that breaking a window means cops are allowed to put you down like the rabid dog you are.
Rabid dogs putting down rabid dogs
“…breaking a window means cops are allowed to
put you down like the rabid dog you arepanic and start blasting away without identifying their target.“Fixed that for you.
I’m sure if some enterprising reporter looked around, she could find an activist lamenting something to the effect of “OMG! It’ll be open season on
invadersundocumented asylum seekers now!”It won’t be, but a man can dream.
Dude, they’re called “newcomers.”
Ok Sam Francisco.
It’s common knowledge that St. George is a racist symbol. Just ask anyone in the UK government.
Ah fot he wuz Turkish.
None of the “Turkish” Saints were Turkish. They were Greeks on Asia Minor. The Turks didn’t overrun Byzantine defense until centuries later.
I didn’t know that until the other day.
I think I was just hoping for some Snatch improv.
Sorry about your clutter quandary. I understand. Quentin Crisp said that the dust never gets any worse after four years of not cleaning. While I don’t subscribe to that philosophy, I have a few sad corners that prove it to be true.
My brain is too foggy to improv. I especially wouldn’t catch a reference to a movie I last saw… so long ago I couldn’t give you the year.
I don’t believe there is a point where the dust will stop accumulating. Areas people move through might get cleared by regular activity, but any space not visited will accumulate more.
Is it zee Germans Tommy?
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Well, for some value of “Columbia students”.
Speaking of US-Ukraine relations over a 10-year timespan.
Revoking his visa makes me think of, what is that phrase… oh yes, prepping the battlespace. Nominally under the Trump administration. I’m sure Alex and others will jump all over Obama, but what should be clear is – it doesn’t really matter who is president. This shit happens where high-level direction and concomitant accountability no longer exists.
I don’t think it’s arguable that there were close and corrupt ties between the UKR government and the Bidens. What seems notable to me is how the Ukes stuck with the Dems during the impeachment. They were assured (somehow) that picking the D side was the correct one, that Trump wasn’t going to be able to turn on them. Does this suggest that the fix was in that early on? Maybe.
It doesn’t matter who the president, except it is a lot easier when it isn’t that Trump guy.
With foreign policy, absolutely.
I’m not convinced the president has any say in it.
https://rumble.com/v4sgncu-col.-hunter-president.html
it doesn’t really matter who is president
Ah. That explains why there’s been so little resistance to the first, and now possibly another Trump presidency.
Team retards of course excepted.
Crossfire Hurricane ring a bell?
Are they not covered by my statement?
Only for a couple of the actors. Most, including the primary drivers, were not “team retards.”
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That is spectacular.
LOL!
“This cat gets it”
Sammy Davis Jr
It’s important not to flinch when you’re dominating someone.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the United States and Ukrainian governments are “working on a bilateral security agreement” that would effectively
send aid to Ukraine over the next ten yearsfully fund Zelenky’s villa on Lake Constance for the remainder of his lifetime.FIFT
They’re already running out of cannon fodder. 10 years? WTF?
The shamelessness is breathtaking. The blob is not even pretending anymore.
If the Russians win and take over the Ukraine, do we have to send them the money?
Why not? It’s not like we haven’t paid off the Russians before? Remember Hillary approving the sale of US uranium and funding of their “technology” park?
Russian reset 2, coming soon!
I propose a Constitutional amendment requiring that a formal treaty be executed with each individual foreign state wishing to receive military aid from the USA. This is not the sort of thing to leave up to the Executive foreign policy establishment.
If it’s so clearly important to embroil the US in foreign conflicts, it should be simple to get Senate approval for a formal treaty in each case.
Day 7 of my new gig begins in a min. I can’t yet imagine how much faster my 8-hour remote day (in my Harry Potter closet-office in bedroom) is than 4.5 hours babysitting ~100 kids in a cafeteria/gym. (It should be easy to imagine.) First scheduled ‘office’ gig since my last ended March 1, 2022. Room and board provided by my parents.
Big Steps begin w one. Here we again go!
Congrats, sir.
I apologize for being rude to you the other day.
I don’t think you were rude! (I may not remember this specific interaction…)
You seem eager to hear my exploits and you’ve inquired into my (sry, quite real) cuteness. It exists, and Silver Fox Ev is going to be a fucking masterpiece. Bro and I age remarkably well. He’s six years older, and we’re both at our high school powerlifting weights of ~114 and (me) ~132lb. He gives me insight into my genetic future.
I give him insight and hope! If you take our nearly identical physicality/athleticism, I show him that you can shatter our corporeal forms and still bounce back. My Wolverine status was nascent in childhood, and my fevered healing abilities showcase them moving on. Musk and I should get together. I’d happily be his (non-sexual, unless he’s sharing) guinea pig.
Being able to self-motivate is a big skill and will be a great addition to your resume. Keep moving forward Evan!
Self-motivation: Getting the fuck out of my Harry Potter existence would help, though my family is NOTHING but love and support. I’m fucking blessed.
Biggest motivator? Having actual $$ would help. I was 25, up $20k and 0$ in debt. I’ve got Room/Board, but just adding pocket money this Fri will be a natural boost to morale.
whaddup doh’
TALL STACKS!
/waves to Neph from Parma
Just down the road from you in the Heights. I would recommend hitting up Das Schnitzel Haus (or their brewery across the street – Schnitz Ale brewing) if you like German food and beer.
I hear the chicken is good there.
Funny how CNN buries this at almost the bottom of the article.
There are actually more “never Biden” voters than there are “never Trump” voters.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/28/politics/cnn-poll-trump-biden-matchup/index.html
Doesn’t matter.
-Mail in ballots
+1 PA Supreme Court
I remember when the margin of fraud was maybe one or two percent.
I was listening to the Hardcore History series on the fall of the Roman republic. Tribunes were elected, and as soon as they acquired real power, the ballot boxes started being stuffed.
Just remember – nobody counts votes, only ballots.
That is one of my favorites.
It is loooong though.
I’m sure that mucking around in the single family residential real estate market will have zero unintended consequences.
Wall Street Has Spent Billions Buying Homes. A Crackdown Is Looming.
Lawmakers say investors that scooped up hundreds of thousands of houses to rent out are driving up home prices
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/wall-street-has-spent-billions-buying-homes-a-crackdown-is-looming-f85ae5f6?st=jpb6qb80nvuch9p&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
There are consequences already.
A lot of that happened while interest rates were artificially low and in highly leveraged portfolios. I wonder how those portfolios look now.
I guess no one remembers the REIT years.
I noticed no one in the article suggested easing regulations to make building new homes cheaper/easier so that this type of investment would lose it’s luster. Just regulate harder on both sides of the fence and kill it all is always their answer.
What? And let people do what they want?
Also nobody wondering why you have to own so many homes in order to compete as a landlord. Note this:
Looks like there’s a pretty big floor in order to be viable. Couldn’t be that anti-landlord legislation and regulation has made it too hard for individual, family, and small holding landlords to compete, could it? Nah, couldn’t be. It’s just those evil corporations being evil and trying to make money. How dare they.
“Leader of an anti-St George campaign group, M.E. Cormier”
Looks pretty much like I expected.
Some clever journalismist is dying to whip out “white flight!1!”
As if it couldn’t be more seventies again.
“We’re not fleeing anything. We’re just not going to be the tax cattle for your inept, corrupt local government.”
This has been a trend for a while. Sandy Springs, GA was able to incorporate before Atlanta could annex them. Buckhead wasn’t so lucky, as attempts to secede from Atlanta and form their own municipality were shot down by… Republican governor Kemp and Republicans in the state legislature. There’s been a similar movement in my area to form Springs County, separating from Big College and the more vibrant parts of the community. It, too, is going nowhere in the legislature.
Brings up this uncomfortable piece of truth that I stumbled upon recently.
Yup.
Ouch, but I can’t argue with it.
Democrats in the U.S. Senate and House have sponsored legislation that would force large owners of single-family homes to sell houses to family buyers. A Republican’s bill in the Ohio state legislature aims to drive out institutional owners through heavy taxation.
Lawmakers in Nebraska, California, New York, Minnesota and North Carolina are among those proposing similar laws.
While homeowner associations for years have sought to stop investors from buying and renting out houses in their neighborhoods, the legislative proposals represent a new effort by elected officials to regulate Wall Street’s appetite for single-family homes.
If the government owned all those houses, the market would be frictionless.
Technically correct, since a market where nothing changes hands has no movement, and thus has no friction.
From yesterday afternoon’s links: Humza Yousaf complaining that there are too many Scots in the Scottish government.
https://twitter.com/unitynewsnet/status/1774771831175528705/mediaviewer
Imagine showing up in Korea and complaining that only Koreans are in charge. Or going to Saudi Arabia and bitching about the Arabs. Why are only Europeans expected to put up with this shit instead of running him out of town and back to wherever he came from?
Scotland?
I cannot reconcile this from my limited knowledge of Scottish culture.
Anecdote from a buddy travelling in Scotland: he was drinking with the locals one night and asked if they had Foosball (his favorite pastime)
After some confusion the locals laughed… “No… we just got two things here. We got drink. And we got fight.”
Hard to imagine those guys putting up with this.
Same goes for Australia. I can’t imagine the country of crocodile Dundee going the route of no guns, no free speech, no cash transactions and vaccination interment camps. Yet here we are.
I believe that is part of the reason Yousaf resigned – he annoyed too many people.
He went head to head with JK Rowling and lost.
Nah. He crossed the Greens is wot dun ‘im in.
Trainspotting tells me that the Scots are also into soccer, heroin, and shit.
Doesn’t everyone remember who was the last king of Scotland?
Scotland could use an Idi Amin, he might be able to whip those fookin wankers back into shape.
The trouble with Scotland… is that it’s full of Scots!
If its not Scottish, its CRAP!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kptp9SmM5Y
I’m starting to think that that poofter he chucked out the window managed to escape north and he screwed up their gene pool.
Palest country (so to speak) I’ve ever been in.
Imagine showing up in Korea and complaining that only Koreans are in charge. Or going to Saudi Arabia and bitching about the Arabs.
Let me introduce you to the expats on r/Japan…
I’m impressed you can actually read that subreddit.
Hatesurfing is real.
I do have to quit after hitting my forehead enough.
I guess only some indigenous peoples are important.
So the usual suspects, UCLA version, decided to play copycat and start a “liberated zone” on campus. One of the attendees apparently has a banana allergy (not the “in the tailpipe” kind), so they put up flyers declaring the area a no-banana camp.
Normies caught word of this, and hilarity ensued.
No word on whether the campus radicals had a collective chimpout.
Gives new meaning to the term banana clip.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S09E14/353569
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Saw that in a hyperventilating tweet about how terrible it was that (((they))) would endanger banana allergy sufferers like that.
I’d like a banana
“Because of the unique circumstances and challenges surrounding this case, the Santa Cruz County Attorney’s Office has decided not to seek a retrial,” Deputy County Attorney Kimberly Hunley told Fink Monday.
Maybe Letitia James can extradite him to New York and try him for 100 counts of first degree murder.
I am still kind of stunned that the right hasn’t reacted in kind. I thought this would happen as far back as DeLay in 2005.
They’re still looking for their testicles. Maybe one of these days, they’ll find them…
“Elon Musk never built anything, he bought everything with daddy’s emerald fortune”
https://twitter.com/Teslaconomics/status/1785179730628788349?s=19
Not sure where this video has been all these years… but it captures the startup ethos of the 90s pretty well.
And to think they loved him just to death right up to the point that they found out he’s open-minded and pro free speech.
It’s telling.
Politics trumps everything, and it poisons everything. Our country could be the prototypical society of the future if it weren’t for that.
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WHAAAA?
That’s madness, or not, depending on the flavor of the day.
Here in PA, a firearms law preemption law fixed a ton of issues with each municipality having its own gun laws. (Well, except for Philadephia, because FYTW).
That is an odd ruling, since the concept is a foundation of how laws and the hierarchy of jurisdictions works. There must be more to it than that, because it would either overturn the majority of California law or allow local governments to contrivene the majority of California law.
+ 1 city-state
Devolution to the lowest level of government would be a good thing for most of the country, Cali very much included.
The biggest problem we have is accountability. It’s much easier to hold people accountable at a local level. So yes.
There’s been an ongoing back and forth between the big blue cities in Ohio and the red legislature. Blue cities pass gun bans, plastic bag bans, flavored “tobacco” (really nicotine) bans, etc. The state then goes and passes a statewide law that overrides the local ones. There’s been quite a few cases about it, nearly all going to the legislature over the cities. The cities are claiming the state is infringing on their freedom to ban things.
is infringing on their freedom to ban things.
That should cause an aneurysm in the person making that argument.
You would think, but they’re dreadfully earnest about how they need this freedom to ban things for safety.
This seems like a novel tactic
The family of the Black teenager who was shot in the head after ringing the doorbell of the wrong home in Kansas City, Missouri, last year, filed a lawsuit Monday on his behalf against the White man who shot him and the residential homeowners association where the house is located.
The seven-page lawsuit, filed by Ralph’s mother Cleopatra Nagbe in the circuit court of Clay County, Missouri, accuses Andrew Lester, the shooter, and the Highland Acres Homes Association, Inc. of “careless and negligent conduct.”
“At all times relevant, Plaintiff (Ralph Yarl) never posed or issued a threat to Defendant, Andrew Lester,” the lawsuit states, adding the Highland Acres Homes Association “was aware of or should have been aware of Defendant, Andrew Lester’s, propensity for violence, access to dangerous weapons and racial animus.”
Will all homeowners now be subject to a mind probe by a telepath, in addition to a requirement to abdicate their Constitutional rights?
What happened there was fucked but this is just a money grab.
Exactly what was the HOA supposed to do, one wonders?
A functioning justice system would immediately dismiss that claim and sanction the attorneys who brought it. Ours has actually has the power to do so, but judges never use it, on account of they are mostly gutless.
He’s been $hot!
Sue everybody sort it out in discovery.
The ABA way!
Wait, whom are we billing?
Much like the FL school thug defense.
Ban residents from owning guns.
Hey, you asked, slick!
The racial dynamics of the incident raised scrutiny of whether anti-Black racism played a role in the shooting. Further, the shooting was among a spate of cases involving young people shot or killed after mistakenly going to the wrong house, the wrong driveway or the wrong car.
Thousands of people shot every day just for ringing the wrong doorbell or pulling into the wrong driveway.
Titty Tuesday: all sales final, no returns.
https://archive.is/cTZEZ
But I want to return #17, too many tats. Let me speak to your supervisor.
Did we cover this from Afroman?
https://twitter.com/Rothmus/status/1785017147888165209?s=19
Seems significant for multiple reasons.
fuckin lol
Based.
Your link led me to this beautiful piece.
Did yesterday but definitely worth reposting.
Dude who bilked Dolts out of $450k/year to be their prosecutor declines to be their pro bono defender.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13362269/Illinois-mayor-tiffany-henyard-fired-law-firm.html
There’s a YouTube guy, Actual Justice Warrior, who’s been following this case and it’s something else. She’s a classic flimflammer although more brazen than most.
You should hear the interviews with her. It’s nuts.
Here to help
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday said employers refusing to use transgender workers’ preferred pronouns and barring them from using bathrooms that match their gender identity amounts to unlawful workplace harassment under federal anti-discrimination law.
The EEOC updated its enforcement guidance, opens new tab on workplace harassment for the first time in 25 years, including to reflect a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that anti-bias laws cover LGBTQ workers, after an earlier attempt stalled during the Trump administration.
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EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows in an interview said the guidance reflects decades of court rulings that have expanded workers’ rights to be free from workplace harassment, and that updating it was necessary to ensure that employers are aware of their legal obligations.
“We felt we really needed to lay out the contours of the law and where it stands,” said Burrows, an appointee of Democratic President Joe Biden.
What a fucking clown show.
If I had a business with employees every bathroom would be single, all-gender. The expense would be worth avoiding all this bullshit.
It might be worth voting for Trump for this reason alone.
This shit is so fucking evil I can’t even. Compelled speech is the NOT harassment thing.
Rule 34:
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1784579741330149850
Alternate title: don’t love your food that much.
Cows are surprisingly friendly if you raise them like a pet. My grandfather had a bull that’d follow him around like a dog when he went out in the pasture.
Only in Jersey.
Local proggie site has a story about the future of using ShotSpotter technology by the Minneapolis cops. I’m open to a discussion about the technology. Does it work? Is it worth the money? You know what is a really dumb reason to question the technology? RACISM!!!!
Anyone want to bet that the actual residents of these neighborhoods wish they had more sensors and faster cop reaction times? That it is only the white proggies who live in safe neighborhoods that think this shit is racist?
Doesn’t shot spotter know the difference between a gunshot and a firework or backfire? I could have sworn it was way more sophisticated than that a couple of decades ago.
I think it can still pick up false positives. But regardless, it’s a dumb argument that it leads to “overpolicing” certain neighborhoods. It’s no coincidence that those are the neighborhoods setting it off more often, and it’s not due to their love of fireworks.
False claims of “racism” are the go-to strategy for radical pro-crime leftists to get what they want. Why stop now.
It is a mystery.
In case any of you missed it over the weekend, we had some excitement in the TOK household. On Friday my youngest (19) told us she was getting married and was moving with her boyfriend to Seattle where he’ll be stationed in the Navy. Last night we had the ceremony at the court house and a little dinner at our house. Today they’re at the base changing his orders and getting everything planned. It was quite the shock, we’re all still processing things and just hoping everything works out for them. We do have some in-laws in Washington so there is at least someone around in case she needs help with anything. And she can finish her school online, so there’s that.
Best wishes to your daughter and her husband. I hope all works out well for them and for you!
Congratulations and best wishes to them.
Do you know him well?
Hope it works out.
I got married at 22 and drug my wife all over the place and she’s still here.
Military life makes family relations difficult sometimes.
Plus a huge cultural adjustment for your wife.
Not easy for either of you.
Yes, he’s a nice kid and puts up with a lot of crap from her. 🙂
Wishing them a long and happy marriage.
Pretty much all you can do.
+ 1 Here!
Congratulations to the TOK household!
It could be the BAH, but that she got married instead of just shacking up with her BF speaks well to her and her parents.
That’s one of the thoughts I have. They could easily have just shown up one day married. But even with short notice, they told us first and invited us.
And yes, it was more strategic than anything. They weren’t at all excited about any festivities. As my wife said, they want to be together and this is their way to do it. Being married they get BAH, moving is paid for, she gets benefits, etc.
Thanks everyone. I’m still not sure what to think about this. They are really young and have little idea of what life is like. But they’re pretty smart, and he has a great career ahead of him. Hopefully she does too. I told her this is an adventure, she’s moving to a beautiful part of the country and I hope she takes full advantage of that.
19 isn’t that young, you know.
Sure feels like it when you’re a dad! But you’re right, he’s old enough to be in the Navy, she’s been fairly independent dealing with school and her own doctors appointments and things.
Congrats to all the Other Kevins.
My oldest grand daughter, 33, is getting married Sat for the first time. Her husband to be seems nice, responsible, respectable.
Their wedding plan reads like a first time sleep over for young teenagers. Fortunately I’m not able to attend and anyway, I’ll be busy picking up bees and getting them installed into their new home. Priorities.
The Fourscore wedding gift fit neatly into the congratulatory card, easy to carry.
Congratulations!
They are really young and have little idea of what life is like.
To give a different perspective, what they did was fairly standard from ancient times up until about 75 years ago. If anything, they’d be considered prime marrying age. “Young” marriages have their challenges, but no more so that those who are getting married a decade later.
The coolest part will be, if/when they start having kids, you’re going to have plenty of energy left in the tank to teach the grandkids how to play hockey.
Congrats again, TOK!
See this is why I like this place, you are all very encouraging and I hear different perspectives.
Best Wishes 🙂
“NFL commissioner Roger Goodell ‘is considering moving the Super Bowl to Presidents’ Day weekend’ – finally giving fans the day after off work
‘I think we’re good at 17 [games] now,’ Goodell said. ‘But, listen, we’re looking at how we continue. I’m not a fan of the preseason. The reality is, I’d rather replace a preseason game with a regular-season game any day. That’s just picking quality.’
‘If we get to 18 and 2, that’s not an unreasonable thing,’ he added. ‘The other thing it does, (Super Bowl Sunday) ends on up Presidents’ Day weekend, which is a three-day weekend, which makes it Sunday night and then you have Monday off.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-13366781/roger-goodell-super-bowl-presidents-day.html
Maybe I haven’t had enough cofeve, but that doesn’t sound completely stupid.
Oh, okay, I guess that works for people who get that day off as a holiday.
But 16 games and a 12 team playoff was better.
Burrow (I believe) was the first to say that if they’re going to an 18 game season, they need to go with 2 bye weeks… which seems perfectly reasonable to me.
I like it.
Drew Barrymore gets gushy with ‘Momala’ Harris
Evil step moms are not good moms.
Drew Barrymore gets gushy
I think I saw that video
Momala? Jesus, it’s been a steady downhill ever since ET hasn’t it?
I love the implication that her association with Kamala Harris is downhill from her pornstar days.
She has a porno out there? When did that happen?
I never knew you owned a boat db.
I’m stumped as to this reference
Because of the implications… (some NSFW language).
Drew, I’m sorry you didn’t have a mother who protected you when you were little. But the rest of us don’t need a politician mommy. That’s gross.
Walmart is getting out of the health care business. No link due to server error.
Nanny don’t sleep
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled the final version of the new regulation on Monday and called it the most significant safety rule in the past two decades. It’s designed to prevent many rear-end and pedestrian collisions and reduce the roughly 40,000 traffic deaths that happen each year.
“We’re living through a crisis in roadway deaths,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview. “So we need to do something about it.”
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“Part of how I think we’re going to turn the corner on the unacceptable level of roadway deaths that we just lived with for my entire lifetime is through these kinds of technologies,” said Buttigieg, who is 42. “We need to make sure we set high performance standards.”
The regulation, which will require additional engineering to bolster software and possibly add hardware such as radar, won’t go into effect for more than five years. That will give automakers time to bolster their systems during the normal model update cycle, NHTSA said.
It also will drive up prices, which NHTSA estimates at $354 million per year in 2020 dollars, or $82 per vehicle. But Buttigieg said it will save 362 lives per year, prevent about 24,000 injuries and save billions in property damage.
If it saves one life…
I still plan to drive a manual transmission. That should be interesting.
I had a Mazda3 with a manual a few years ago that had the automatic collision braking stuff so it’s nothing new. It never kicked in with me but I guess it just stalls the car out when it happens.
That what I was wondering. Stall or some way of throwing it out of gear.
I turned the AEB off in my work truck. Too many stories of the current model years stopping unexpectedly or difficulty navigating simple things like drive throughs.
If Buttglug wants to reduce rear end accidents, get rid of those fucking pulse high mount brake lights, tail lists that are high intensity/low surface area, taillights that are lines or single light or anything other than a distinct tail light, and turn signals down in the bumpers.
On the Tesla it will phantom brake at overpasses on the highway.
I discovered that my Forester doesn’t like to back into tall grass. Sudden hard stop.
It’s what makes a Subaru a Subaru!
I did almost run over a pedestrian recently. Car in front stopped abruptly while turning, then continued and my attention was on that side. Pedestrian bumbles straight into the intersection from the other side and I missed him due to the mirror and absurd A pillar block line of sight. Didn’t hit him.
Should have looked again to that side but good lord, stop teaching these idiots they have the right of way. Look both directions, make sure it’s clear for crossing the street. Make eye contact with drivers* and don’t assume they see you.
*anyone who tints their windows well beyond factory tint to where other drivers or pedestrians cannot see them is a fucking menace.
Yes – teaching people to properly cross a street would probably save more lives.
My wife just got her windows tinted before another SC summer. She wanted the lightest tint possible with the most sunblocking. Not sure it works that way – you might be able to see her if the light is right…
Buttglug wants to reduce rear end accidents
Rear end collisions are kind of his thing.
Both of my vehicles have it. No complaints.
The SUV actually has 3 setting levels, and I just leave it in the middle.
The Rogue has AEB. It has erroneously slammed on the brakes a couple of times. Fortunately, it has not slammed on the brakes during icy conditions which would be very detrimental.
It has never operated when it is supposed to, because neither of us has needed it to work.
The business case for NHTSA is most likely horseshit because it probably ignores cases of erroneous system behavior that results in an accident.
I found the setting for AEB in the software menus of the van the other day. I turned it to the least sensitive. It can’t reliably tell the difference between somebody on their brakes in my lane and somebody on their brakes in an adjacent lane.
It’s more sensitive when cruise control is on, which sucks.
Although about 90% of new vehicles have the automatic braking standard now under a voluntary agreement with automakers, at present there are no performance requirements, so some systems are may not be that effective. The new regulations set standards for vehicles to automatically stop and avoid hitting other vehicles or pedestrians, even at night.
I’m sure some clever intern at NHTSA can spreadsheet out all the rear-end collisions in the country over the last, say, five years and see how many were with automatic-braking cars vs. older models, then see how many were fatalities, and see if the mandates will be in any way effective.
Ha ha… I keed. I’ll show myself out.
Glad we are unlikely to ever need to buy another car.
Clicked too soon. When I saw that story, I told Mrs. Dean “They should just put a tail hook under the car. When the sensor goes off, it drops the tail hook into the pavement. You won’t get a faster stop than that.”
“We’re living through a crisis in roadway deaths,”
Bullshit
Critics say the standards should have come sooner, and that they don’t appear to require that the systems spot people on bicycles, scooters or other vulnerable people.
Of course they do.
So the girlfriend is finally realizes that there may be some collusion going on among the media. She’s been watching X-Men ’97 and agrees that it’s just fucking terrible. So when articles like this come out, she’s the one yelling at the writers instead of me.
It’s been entertaining for me… so far.
I remember liking the xmen cartoon when I was a young
There are a few selections on Rotten Tomatoes that should open her eyes. Can’t remember any specific titles, but they had rave reviews from critics and regular people hated it.
She’s already aware of the big gap between critic/fan scores (me being a horror and sci-fi movie fan opened her eyes about that quite a while back). But I think this is one of the first times that she’s on the complete outside of a cultural thing. I agree that it’s garbage, as does another one of her friends, she and him are confused about all the rave reviews it’s getting. I’m just accepting it as people who never watched the original, but had an idea of what it was that’s very different than the nostalgia filters that we have.
The original X-Men cartoon was good. It wasn’t great, it never reached the levels of the DCAU (DC Animated Universe) and had some really bad/overly long plot arcs. Nearly no one cares about the Savage Lands or the Shi’ar empire (I’m sure there’s some super fan of each out there, but I’ve never met them). And I would say X-Men 2 was probably the best X-Men adaptation of all times.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fauci
🤦♂️
OFFS
Yeah. I don’t recall there being a bunch of anti-gay rhetoric after 9/11, but what would I know?
Not here, no. In certain overseas regions, though?
Tried to watch it. Ignoring everything else, the editing style is like a 3 year old with ADHD. Everything is speed-run.
Which oddly made it insufferably boring.
Watched maybe 1.5 episodes and had it on while doing housework for another couple. Never caught my attention and didn’t go back.
Some collusion….
Relative of mine this morning told me that no pro-pali protesters are calling for the death of Jews or destruction of Israel.
She exclusively watches lefty news sources.
Train drivers overwhelmingly middle-aged white men
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1785185138894090515
it is a sad state of affairs when middle age white man can still get work in England
Columbia Students Take Over Hamilton Hall as Deadline to Disperse Passes
Dispersing hall passes?
is this the worst chart ever published in the history of economics? any competitors?
https://twitter.com/GeorgistSteve/status/1785066253071368544
It’s top 10 for me.
Bonus Bio from one of the commenters.
Is this her?
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/author/jennifer-bradshaw
Not what I was expecting to be honest.
Would appear so.
Whoops, missed “cosplayer.” Generally they look pretty decent even though the number of identifiers is usually inversely related to attractiveness.
LOL!
DOBikinis Swimwear One of The Best Fashion Shows at Miami Swim Week 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpsMSsSDODg
Nanny don’t sleep, pt 2
The US Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule Tuesday that will end many uses of the highly toxic, cancer-causing solvent methylene chloride. The chemical will still be available for certain purposes, but with new guidelines meant to keep workers safe.
Activists have been pushing for such regulations for decades, and it is one of several dangerous chemicals the Biden administration has banned or restricted just this year.
Methylene chloride, which is also called dichloromethane, is a volatile industrial solvent that is most often used in commercial paint strippers. It is also used in metal degreasers, aerosols, adhesives, paint and coating products, and in the manufacturing of some pharmaceuticals, according to the EPA.
There are risks for anyone who handles methylene chloride. The chemical is dangerous to humans when they breathe in its fumes, or when it comes into contact with the skin. Even a tablespoon of methylene chloride can kill, one study said.
Don’t do shots of paint stripper. Got it.
“Judge Holds Trump Contempt With Fine, Jail Threat For Violating Gag Order In ‘Hush Money’ Trial”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-holds-trump-contempt-fine-jail-threat-violating-gag-order-hush-money-trial
Tell him to eat a dick Trump. See if he has the stones…
$100MM fine incoming. . . .
Random thought:
Trump should just start showing up in court in an orange jumpsuit.
Banker just testified that Cohen created an account and funded it with a home equity line. Used that to pay Stormy Daniel’s.
No Trump involvement.
https://twitter.com/TM1Politics/status/1785314775674527859?s=19
Ha! You forgot about the implications of the Proximal AntiConspiracy to pay off Goldigging Hos Laws, made up of course but they’ll think of something to keep going with the trial.
Sure. Love the picture of either an air line or electrical sensor at the bottom of the shock body. That should really off-road.
Mercedes’ electric G-Wagon is more capable than the gas version
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/mercedess-electric-g-wagon-is-more-capable-than-the-gas-version/
Love the notion that someone believes a g wagon has ever been or ever will go off road.
Trump should just start showing up in court in an orange jumpsuit.
Go old school