Good morning one and all to another amazing day! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the links are fresh and ready for consumption!
Trump’s Classified Records Trial Postponed Indefinitely
Judge Denies Trump Lawyer’s Motion for Mistrial in ‘Hush-Money’ Case
Soros-Linked Democrats Paid over $500K to Judge Merchan’s Daughters’ Firm
Trump Deletes Post About Witness After Being Threatened with Jail Time for Gag Order Violations
Biden’s Vietnam? Israel-Gaza war threatens to sink 46 with legal, political triggers
Full-Time Jobs Fall Again as Total Employment Flatlines in April
Biden’s latest student loan plan could push total cost to $1.4 trillion
TikTok Sues U.S. Government in Effort to Stop Enforcement of “TikTok Ban” Bill
California bill could remove self-checkout lanes at grocers, certain retailers
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
While they assert this attempted law is aimed at reducing theft, it’s clearly just to try to force more hiring of people at unsustainable rates of pay. If the theft were more expensive than the employees, the store would have already changed back to regular registers. Instead the only outcome will be even fewer checkout lanes.
Also, California could just as easily go back to prosecuting shoplifting if they wanted to do something about retail theft.
Yup… that has to cross everyone’s mind as well… “We may retail theft an ungodly problem… and we’re going to tell you how to run your business because of it! Aren’t we special!”
That might be on the November ballot, in fact.
Union: Ralphs, Safeway, Stater Bros, (I think) Gelson’s.
Non–: Aldi, Sprouts, Trader Joe’s; most anywhere else.
Letting police do their jobs? That’s just crazy talk.
Local-ish news:
https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2024/05/07/bensalem-retail-theft-target-walmart-wawa-mcvey-rockhill-drive-home-depot-shoplifter-bucks-county/73429579007/
That’s pretty decent, IMO.
*I once had a car stolen in Bensalem. 🙁
Yup. Grocery stores — which in California are unionized (I think all of them outside of WalMart / Sam’s Club style super-stores). I seriously doubt that’s accidental here — almost everything Sac does is for one union or another, normally SEIU or the Teachers, granted.
Reading the bill..it is atrocious and all for the union.
Oh also reads that companies must get their employee’s approval before shifting to automation.
/looks at Walmart and Target removing self-checkout in high theft areas
That’s just racism man.
LOL horseshit.
Agree with the above – this has nothing to do with theft.
They are actually claiming it as a State OSH type issue with employee health even. Its all bullshit, but you do you California. It wasn’t that long ago we joked that the minimum wage law would see more people with less hours or no jobs only for California to make it a law that companies must hire people.
I was looking at stuff on Amazon just yesterday. One of the items had a warning stating that “This item contains nickel, which as been proven to cause cancer in the State of California.” When, oh when will that state just fuck off?
Wasn’t there just a story about a California chocolate maker including a mocking statement at the end of the warning saying that spinach had higher levels of the toxic cadmium than the chocolate bar?
Dandelion Chocolate.
I went out an got some Moka last night. Couple small squares to try out.
I had one this morning. Yes, it was good. Dunno if I consider it worth the $$ though.
Yep. The chocolate bar wrapper said people should eat fewer leafy greens because of that.
Yep. First it was Dandelion Chocolate (no link ’cause WSJ paywall), now an outfit called K’UL has issued a similar statement:
Trace levels of minerals and elements, such as cadmium or lead (heavy metals), can be found in nearly all cocoa products. However, it is widely accepted by the industry that these elements are absorbed at the farm level through the soil of the cacao trees. Therefore, the values may vary from each individual farm. With regards to minerals, i.e. heavy metals, Prop 65 gives an exemption for chemicals that are “naturally occurring” in food.
Cadmium is a naturally-occurring component in soil, and many plants take it up as they absorb nutrients, which is how it gets into our cocoa beans. According to the CDC, cadmium is commonly found in vegetables, and in relatively high concentrations in leafy greens like spinach. The law won’t allow us to say much more about how the tiny trace amounts found in our product will affect your health, but if you want to reduce your exposure to cadmium generally, you might consider eating fewer leafy greens. Virtually all chocolate needs to have a prop 65 warning, but if you’d like a more nuanced view or want to know more, visit http://www.P65warnings.ca.gov, send us an email, or give us a call @ (877) 342-2452.
Just leave CA and eat nickel and y ou won’t get cancer? Cool.
Neph: Ban coffee. It has a lot of phenol in it naturally.
Since all foods contain things that cause cancer in CA they should just ban consumables altogether.
Stay in the swamp then, I’ll enjoy the weather. Tell us where California touched you already
Californians about to get a food desert for real
Went to CA when XX was 10 months old. Had to stop for food for her on the way from the airport to my BIL’s house, so NATURALLY we stopped at Walmart.
Dafuq. Not a crumb to be found. I stopped someone and asked where the formula was. She got really snotty and said, “We don’t have food,” like I should know this. Her tone aggravated me and I said, “Okay, well, I don’t live here. We’re not this backward.” Then found a Food-4-Less.
Discount Kroger!
Yeah, I don’t think anyone in CA looked to Walmart for groceries twenty years ago. The one nearest me is still pretty grim for that.
—“It would also make grocers and certain retailers assess the potential impact of using certain artificial intelligence or other technology that “significantly affects the essential job functions of its employees” or completely eliminates their jobs.”—
And there it is. She must protect the poor workers.
—“Democratic state Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, who introduced the bill, said self-checkout machines cause 16 times more losses compared to check-outs with a cashier.”—
And of course, she is worried about companies making a profit. Except, when they arrest thieves (shoplifters, etc.), the prosecutors won’t prosecute.
Lola…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTsPJeNPc-w
The ticky-tock thing amuses me with all the people who were clamoring for banning misinformation, banning Fox news on army bases, kicking OAN out of the White House etc suddenly pretending to care about 1A.
HaTe SPeeCHMiSiNFoRMaTioN iSN’T FRee SPeaCH!Who was ever excited to vote for Biden?
FRAU DOKTOR Jill probably.
And, more seriously — probably most of the Imperial District since they knew they’d have at least 4 years of running completely unchecked.
Excellent song, by the way.
Operation: Trump in Headlines, active through Nov., is well-on its predictable route. I don’t ‘see’ how it isn’t a bigger deal for everyone. Weimar Amerika, indeed.
I hope everyone else is kicking ass today. MLB: Shoto Imanaga for the Cubs is doing ridiculously well in his first year in The Show. Cubs almost blew it but rookie Busch hit a two-run walk-off to secure it for Us. WE’re doing remarkably well, despite important folk being on the DL. (“INJURED List”, my ass. Fucking. Stupid.)
Gotta rush to work! Gotta say, it IS convenient when your office is two yards from your bed. [Insert every deserved joke here.] Another ignored thing: Pure objectification of men in porn. All the attention is paid to the female. The dude is just a cock. (Thankfully, that’s not what I’m there to see. Everything for everyone, though.) I thought Lefties were against that. But no one is dumb enough to ‘really’ go after porn. It makes our world go ’round. See also: All of human history.
NPR ran a story about Stormee’s testimony yesterday that was literally nothing but giggling about how embarrassing this was for OMB. They didn’t even try to pretend that it was relevant to the charges, and even admitted it wasn’t, but the judge did the right thing even though he was “uncomfortable” about it.
That whole circus is so obviously crooked but it’s totally not political. 🙄
I especially liked that the judge, who has ultimate control over the trial, is blaming the lawyers for ‘allowing’ it to happen. I bet if it were televised, the motion for mistrial would have been granted.
Well, mine is about the same. Takes less than a minute to walk from bed to office.
I at least put mine in the next room. Though I can make it within four rings of the phone.
It’s in the next room, it’s just at the end of a hallway, the room next to it is the bedroom.
But when you get up it is dark — you might be eaten by a grue.
Same. Will never work in an office again if I can help it.
When my brother opened his own, one man architecture firm, he was super excited to work from home. Six months later he was renting an office. And two years later he didn’t have a computer at home any longer at all. Said there was no separation between work and home, and it pretty much killed his marriage (she didn’t help in that either).
At least future college students are learning something. MMT is trickle down economics.
Student loans = Borrowing money
“So?, what, me worry?”
Biden’s latest student loan plan could push total cost to $1.4 trillion
the government should not only pay all student loans but give those who had them extra money for the stress they suffered under the loans.
Also can I have 10 million?
No, I don’t have any bills that small. I only have a $10Trillion note and a $100Trillion note.
“Hey buddy — you got change for a quadrillion?”
At least you got bills. All I got are a pocket full of trillion dollar coins. I guess I can at least use them at a vending machine to buy a can of pop.
Debt jubilee for all. Imagine how much debt everyone could run up if they didn’t have any.
Yup, just forgive all debt! After all, the creditors are insured!
They’re the ones writing it off.
Full-Time Jobs Fall Again as Total Employment Flatlines in April
Good news. Work is slavery.
You can live to work… or only work to live.
Apparently, predictably, I was an absolute fool to pay off my student loans. $20k from Indiana to go to IU. I paid it off in about 6 years. Where in the fuck is MY money?! Ah, yeah. I didn’t vote for Biden so I won’t get any. I imagine many responsible 20-somethings being infuriated. That usually bodes well!
I hear little about this from my demographic, also infuriating me. *Throws hands up* Silly me, silly me.
Yeah, where is the outcry from non-students or us chumps who paid? For some reason the MSM don’t seem interested in talking to such people.
The chump effect looms large…
4 grand kids, I’m the chump
/points upthread to Raven Nation’s post with the article
The Fed is offloading its mortgage backed securities, which is a good thing for a number of reasons.
One of which is that it makes it makes it harder for the government to start a mortgage loan forgiveness program. It’s one thing to cancel loans you own. It’s another to pay the third party who owns the loan.
Meanwhile…
https://www.wsj.com/articles/return-of-the-housing-godzillas-fannie-freddie-biden-second-mortgages-f7ac7d77?st=rnd65a2f4djrn3k&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Return of the Housing Godzillas
Freddie Mac and its Biden regulator want to guarantee second mortgages. What could possibly go wrong?
At this point I’d expect the PPP Admin to mandate that every homeown receive (just before the election) a HELOC in their name for a government determined equity valuation (i.e. no paperwork, no appraisal — just “free money” suddenly showing up, taxpayer backed).
It would be as constitutional as their student loan program, and bribing the voters just before an election worked for Newsome, so I’m sure they’re thinking of it. And it would “stimulate the economy”!
Somehow of you loan money, then pay off the loan for them, that’s not spending.
Even better, they’re not paying off the loan, just cancelling the debt.
Good piece from City Journal about this in the last election cycle: https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-chump-effect
It opens with this:
“Last January, a small but telling exchange took place at an Elizabeth Warren campaign event in Grimes, Iowa. At the time, Warren was attracting support from the Democratic Party’s left flank, with her bulging portfolio of progressive proposals. “Warren Has a Plan for That” read her campaign T-shirts. The biggest buzz surrounded her $1.25 trillion plan to pay off student-loan debt for most Americans.
A man approached Warren with a question. “My daughter is getting out of school. I’ve saved all my money [so that] she doesn’t have any student loans. Am I going to get my money back?”
“Of course not,” Warren replied.
“So you’re going to pay for people who didn’t save any money, and those of us who did the right thing get screwed?”
“And how!”
I remember that article. Excellent and timeless.
Okay, I’ve just discovered another YouTuber that plys covers of video game music. Here is a cover of a song from Lemmings: https://youtu.be/RgE9jlTzsxU?si=upQUe8H8v0IvSUmn
And here is the theme from Secret of Monkey Island: https://youtu.be/3jEqgaZQbyY?si=u5C_-JySmyXyy3De
Here is another one for you.
https://youtu.be/BJWMUiZkCUk
Just in case you were unaware… The London Philharmonic – Greatest Video Game Music Volume 1
A different style of video game cover songs
Knew it. The 8-bit stuff is cool.
A 33 part computer game soundtrack channel on YT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyeMVV_CLek&list=PLCFkL_mbfwe3bx6Eim5VMIauSlq88T1Pf
That is for only one game.
The lemmings have green hair – coincidence?
OMG the lefty Jew-haters shouting “Fuck Joe Biden” in Chicago is gonna be glorious. Hopefully Summer of Love II will be confined there instead of in every downtown in America.
The Jew-hating ICC and UN – not so amusing.
Wherever the riots happen, and regardless of the fact that it’ll be the proggies and their hangers-on doing it, ALL of the subsequent punitive reactions and attacks coming from the state will be directed at folks like us (and at the normie conservatives).
Which of course is the whole plan.
Case in point: City of LA going after the ‘agitators’, which of course some should be prosecuted, but turning a blind eye to the encampment folks who also engaged in the fuckery is quite telling.
I’m very suspicious about this billion dollar pier we are building. If this is the plan, and we are paying for the whole thing… a lot of people will be yelling “Fuck Israel” while Blackrock develops their new Mediterranean coastal property.
twitter.com/Matt_Bracken48/status/1787505154247291182
Meh. His map is way, way wrong.
The punch line on the pier is – it’s supposed to be in operation for 90 whole days.
At least Israel is done dicking around, apparently, and is pushing into Rafah to finish off Hamas.
DoD has allocated $320M to fund that 90 days.
Don’t forget the hundreds of millions spent to airdrop hundreds of thousands of MRE’s and a like number of bottles of water from C-130s. We can’t have HAMAS getting hungry and thirsty can we?
Let it happen in every major urban center – you know, those places where the Republicans dominate.
I’m getting my new computer up to snuff – where is the browser add on that has the html goodies?
browser addons steal your data I would not use them
You’ll have to be more specific.
I think he is talking about the addons that Trashy did
would you trust something done by someone named Trashy ?
SIR! I will be helpful and kind, SIR!
https://www.glibertarians.com/2017/02/monocle/
Not sure if the extension has been kept up though.
The one gentleman in the crowd. Thank you. That’s the trouble with replacing a machine where you did all of this years ago.
It’s on the main page, on the right, under the heading Eyepiece and Monocle.
But here’s a direct link.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2017/02/monocle/
Hmm, that doesn’t have the html shortcuts that are handy in posting.
Oh, never mind – it’s there now.
European Medicines Agency pulls authorization for AstraZeneca’s COVID shot, at company’s request
https://apnews.com/article/astrazeneca-vaccine-covid-eu-a3c108dd0ca305cf1b6da764e9a37abc
Milei is already proving the Left-wing economic establishment wrong
Argentina’s reforms prove it’s possible to slash a bloated state
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/04/argentina-javier-milei-proving-left-wing-economy-wrong/
But… but… I have misleading graphs that prove otherwise!
(See this all the time on X/Twitter)
Female darts star who FORFEITED because she refused to face a transgender player in women’s tournament explains why it’s unfair for her to play against biological men
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/darts/article-13390341/Female-darts-star-FORFEITED-refusing-play-against-transgender-player-womens-tournament-speaks-explains-biological-men-advantage-sport.html
darts is not really a sport as it can be played and mostly is by fat drunk people, why are the men and women divisions in the first place?
I get why the lady wants to be in a women’s league and I don’t get why the transgender feels the need to be in that league unless they are terrible in the men’s field and feel they can be ‘better’ than the ladies.
Actually, scratch all that. This is about forcing people to accept their choice and celebrate it.
Yup.
The easy answer here is to quit having men’s divisions. Just have an “open” category and a women’s division.
No more men’s basketball in the ncaa. Just open. Any women who want to play are welcome to try out.
They already have this in some areas. Chess tournaments work that way. Everyone competes, and there are separate recognitions for Just the women.
Sure, that won’t satisfy the activists who merely want to provoke a reaction…. but it will blunt the chances of making a provocation that demands a response.
The problem is that the transwomen want to play in the woman’s leagues.
Some of them actually think they’re women, not just trying to get an easy win.
I’ve often wondered why Megan Rapinoe, the greatest soccer player in a generation, didn’t just quit the women’s team and go show the men how it’s done. More money, easier schedule. Seems like a no brainer.
The Open + Women’s already exists. For example, in swimming, the “men’s” division is technically the “open” division. Golf, too. IIRC. That’s why Michelle Wie was able to attempt the “men’s” game back in the day.
SHE’S A WOMAN, SHITLORD!!!
And women play in the women’s league, so, of course she belongs there!
Shit. Lord.
That’s not how that works.
I buy it if he’s 10.
I’ve asked the same question about chess.
Because chess nerds are mesmerized by sitting so close to a girl and seeing a bit of cleavage. Throws them off their game and it ain’t fair.
Where do the anal vibrators come in?
They come in the end.
Same reason there’s a women’s chess division: It’s a scam by Big Trophy to sell more awards.
I have always been wary of Big Trophy. Overrated and too expensive for my tastes.
The Trophy-Industrial Complex is suppressing your link.
Comments like this is why we need an upvote.
They’re nothing compared to the trophy wife industrial complex.
And we have the true winner.
Fucking Capitalists! Try again
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s nice of them, but I despise people that don’t properly secure their load.
I always pull over and double check after driving a few minutes.
XY was loading upthe pickup with his stuff to move to his apartment, and he slapped it and said, “That’s not going anywhere.”
“What, is that a magical incantation?”
“Bonds the load to the truck.”
Seems to me that backing up to the posts would have been easier but what do I know?
/Experienced Old Wood Hauler
California bill could remove self-checkout lanes at grocers, certain retailers
Look, Californians, you can either buy what you want from a human cashier getting paid a living wage, or steal it like a civilized person would do.
After something wouldn’t scan the other day, I debated it.
I remember driving through Stockton after a cupcake truck crashed.
This is starting to look the same.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 05/08:
*23/23 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 05/08:
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🔥 Solve streak: 362
From the comment on the bonus word of the day, have to wonder a little if this one is meant to be political — but choosing not to think too hard on it for now.
*looks for “genocide” and “apartheid”… gives up*
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 05/08:
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📖 In the top 8% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 305
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 05/08:
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I was prematurely awakened by hail. I blame Gaia.
Was the gang all there?
Now that is a euphemism!
For those libertarians among is who are skeptical of police expert witnesses, I give you an expert in crime scene recreation:
Las Vegas alien video is original, expert says https://ktla.com/news/las-vegas-alien-video-is-authentic-expert-says/
Yup. I can’t figure out what this shadow is, so it must be aliens!
Am I blind, or did they not include a link to the video in question?
Also, what day was that? Not saying anything specific but… I did have a pee in a yard around Vegas once, after a serious bender.
I do enjoy a story about a controversial video that doesn’t have the video itself, or any link to it at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lnz44KHN7M
It can’t be seen by the public. It’s THAT controversial.
Almost makes you think we are just living in Agile Cyborg’s reality…
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4649237-rfk-jr-donald-trump-robert-f-kennedy-jr-libertarian-party-convention/
I think it is a great move. The cosmotarians are in a tizzy, but the DNC and the propaganda oligarchy have conspired to supress these two. Both have some libertarian-adjacent views and both have a following that is at least an order of magnitude greater than the libertarian movement.
So use the publicity to highlight and encourage the libertarian aspects of their message and the. Let your candidates use that lingering spotlight to draw the contrasts where they stray from libertarian principles.
This is an easy win-win.
I’m always fine with anything that goes around the gatekeepers.
Considering the last two Libertarian candidates for prez, JOJO and ‘Leppo, maybe, just maybe, some libertarians want to hear from others out there.
The wailing about the LP losing credibility is so funny to me. You have to have some first to lose it.
Maybe Agile Cyborg *is* RFK Jr.
Notice how you never see them together?
“Trump deletes post about witness after being threatened with jail time for further violations of gag order”
And therein lies a large part of the reason why Trump is uniquely ineffective: he likes to talk trash but will back down when it’s finally time to put the cards on the table. If he can’t stand up to some low level judge he’ll never manage to stand up to the persistent bureaucratic state. There’s a lot at stake for the man but, ultimately, he’s a bit of a pussy.
^^^ THIS
He is no Milei, for sure.
I still prefer him, don’t feel he actively hates me for instance, but he’s no savior and I won’t vote for him.
Can you imagine the celebrations if OMB accidentally gets put in genpop and shanked?
Other than home confinement at freaking paradise in Florida I don’t see how they could really jail him and if they did it’d help him more than it’d hurt him but now they know he’s bluffing. Such a timid and stupid move.
Home confinement? What, like a 17 year old drive-by shooter? No, for REAL criminals, it’s Rikers!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/trump-rikers-jail-eric-adams
He would apparently still have Secret Service protection, even in jail.
And the skinhead gangs would look out for him. I mean, he’s their leader, amirite?
SkinheadBonehead gangs.Just mention which cell block the Colombian whores are in and the USSS will vanish.
Local proggies whistling past the graveyard?
I don’t think that Trump will win Minnesoda either. The last election proved that Minneapolis and St. Paul alone can outvote the rest of Minnesoda. However…
So maybe he does have a chance?
If you live in Minnesota and you even slightly entertain voting for Biden, all hope is lost for you.
I can totally see going a different direction than trump….. but Biden? (And honestly, any democrat after the 2020 shitshow)
The other day I was marveling at the recollection of Reagan’s landslides. A Republican winning the likes of CA and NY… it really hits home what a different country it was.
A chance of getting more votes? Sure. A chance of having more ballots counted for him? Not in a million years.
Part of the strategy is to put Minnysoda in play. Then Biden has to expend resources there instead of actual swing states.
Wisconsin redux. IE, if he doesn’t, he could get another loss in the deep blue wall.
Problem: Climate Queering is threatending the Joshua Tree.
Solution: Cut down the Joshua Trees and replace its habitat with solar panels.
They’d make nice interior paneling for people’s tiny houses.
That’s….. a level of mendacious stupidity not seen in quite some time.
But sure — those nuke plants were way way worse than putting up panel farms all over rural California (there’s at least 3 I know of going in along I-5 where orchards used to go. Gee… almost like driving out dairy, redirecting water from orchards and driving out ag business outside of their core urban areas so they could get the land cheap for their renewable schemes was a plan…. almost….
It is stupid to drive out ag-business – it is also stupid to give them cheap, subsidized water. You get things like almond groves and cotton fields where they shouldn’t be (due to their water consumption).
We have to destroy the environment in order to save it.
U2 hit hardest.
“Sydney Sweeney is back to blonde! Actress rocks her signature golden locks with a chic dress in NYC… one day after rocking black wig and dramatic gown for Met Gala”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13393189/Sydney-sweeney-new-york-met-gala-2024.html
important update?
I wonder how much she is paying for the constant media coverage.
Probably nothing. She’s a click magnet.
It only costs taking her top off.
Don’t think anyone would complain
I’ll take your word for it.
Her fame makes more sense than that of Demi Rose imo.
That’s the name I was trying to remember….
The same as Demi Rose.
Whew.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described over a decade ago how a worm ate part of his brain and caused short term memory loss.
The 2024 longshot independent presidential candidate revealed the information during a 2012 divorce deposition unearthed by The New York Times and published on Wednesday.
At first, doctors thought RFK Jr.’s memory loss and mental fogginess was the result of a brain tumor after a dark spot showed up on his brain scans.
While packing for a surgery at Duke University Medical Center in 2010, Kennedy received a call from a doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital who believed the symptoms were a result of a dead parasite in his head.
Kennedy said at the deposition that the doctor believed the abnormality on his scans ‘was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13395605/robert-f-kennedy-jr-temporary-memory-loss-brain-worm.html
damn
Hey, you, out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey, you, standing in the aisles with itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?
Hey, you
Don’t help them to bury the light
Don’t give in without a fight
Thanks for that brain worm.
Those are some toxic thoughts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrainDead
Now scan all the other commies. We may have a cure, at last!
And I think I’m above average in bed. So what? We all have our pet delusions.
One of my buddies in high school would recite this every time somebody used the word “crazy”.
Hadn’t thought of that in years.
+1 Wrath of Khan
I don’t remember that being in there.
I always thought my friend made it up.
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Inr22ZBmdw
“Play like you just found out your momma died. And then play like you just found out she was alive.” Geo. Clinton to Eddie Hazel.
Best guitar jam, evah.
High drama
“The People Call Stormy Daniels.”
It was the moment that Donald Trump’s hush money trial — bogged down in recent days in dreary testimony about accounting — roared back to life on Tuesday.
A former president — who could find himself back behind the Oval Office desk in January — came face-to-face for the first time in years with the adult film star whom he’s accused of silencing with a hush money payment.
What came next was tawdry, compelling, and achingly embarrassing to Trump, who was forced to sit scowling as Daniels painted a detailed scene of a black-tiled hotel suite that allegedly hosted a liaison that the ex-president still denies.
Rawdry is right. Never mind that the dreary accounting stuff is what the trial is ostensibly about. No, let’s turn this circus into some sort of ’40s Hollywood courtroom divorce melodrama. Will they subpoena Melania next?
I swear I remember reading that she said they never sexed it up.
Nothing says the blind administration of justice as much as making sure it was entertaining I guess.
You need the circuses to offset the bread.
The mob does not live on bread alone.
“I’m keto” “Is this gluten free?” “White bread? – Das Racist!”
Nobody on keto has ever said that.
Crumbs! Just crumbs!
Correct. Trump’s lawyers called for a mistrial because she directly contradicted testimony in a previous case.
Ha, you expect Merchan to allow a prosecution witness’ testimony to be impeached by prior sworn testimony?
Sadly, no. I hope none of us have legal issues soon. Seems like a one-way trip to pound town unless you are a member of the privileged classes.
They don’t realize how badly that is going to escalate on them in response.
Sounds like grounds for another contempt charge to me.
The judge seem unusually unconcerned about being overturned on appeal.
It only has to last until after the election is stolen.
NPR literally had a guy on to say that.
Yep, especially limiting the FEC witness to you know…say the truth that they found no illegality with the books.
So, while the hush money case is widely regarded as the weakest of the bunch facing Trump, it’s likely the only one that could create the never-before-seen scenario of a convicted felon asking voters to elect him president.
He must be stopped. By hook, or by crook.
Alvin Bragg and Juan Merchan sharing the role of Roper.
Such a great song, thanks for that.
I’m sure it’s everyone in DC, but damn those Democrats have their dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie, don’t they?
This is perfect NJ.
1. Truck likely looking for a street. That means he gets to drive 15MPH as long as he is looking for the street. You can’t see if he decided to signal. That’s only 50% here.
2. Truck, understandably, needs to go from the right side to turn left. However, see point 1 – a turn signal would be mighty helpful.
3. Typical people fed up with with the truck doing 15MPH for the last 5 minutes have had enough and unleash chaos.
I grew up in the southern part of NJ. It’s like a different state.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1cmtef8/ocfound_2_in_nj_truck_was_trying_to_turn_left/
It’s worse than that – the truck was moving slowly for less than 40 seconds (based on the time of the clip itself, after it turned right onto that road). Amazing people couldn’t wait a full minute.
And yet I find Boston even crazier. No idea about other parts of MA.
I don’t really drive around here enough to have any good stories, but I’m sure they exist. I couldn’t tell you the last time I drove through Boston proper.
My impression is more “dumb drivers” than “reckless drivers”
i’m a terrible person, but I can’t help wondering if Trump’s defense attorneys are allowed to point out that a person who will let people fuck her for money, on camera, might not be the world’s most most reliable witness. Or is that irrelevant and out of bounds?
As opposed to a politician?
At least her prostituting herself hasn’t gotten people killed.
Are you sure? She could have been behind 1/6!
look as long as there is a camera it is legal.
Latest revision of the circuit boards for the clock should be arriving today.
I get to find out if Part 10 is going to be a victory lap before moving on to designing a housing, or if I have to go back and fix stuff again.
Well, it’s off to jury duty. Don’t know what it’s about ( haven’t seen anything in the local news), but in this little cow town it’s likely some combination of drugs, alcohol and domestic violence. I’ll report this afternoon.
if there is no violence vote not guilty 🙂
That’s the plan.
Today’s magic get out of jury duty word is “jury nullification”.
And if you do want to nullify… 🤫
The cow is innocent of arson.
Mrs O’Leary disagrees.
What was she and her cow doing on Pudding Lane?
horsing around
…and that’s no bull..
I was on a DV jury a couple weeks ago. Talk about depressing.
Trump’s lawyers called for a mistrial because she directly contradicted testimony in a previous case.
She made important new revelations!
That’s the problem with lying. You have to remember every lie you ever told to stay consistent.
https://www.amazon.com/Which-Lie-Did-Tell-Adventures
Why do you dispute “her truth”?
Bra on
Ass down
That’s how Trump
Likes to get down
Belgian PM wants European boycott of Israeli business from Occupied Territories
The move would block agricultural products like dates, olive oil, and wine from the Occupied Territories from entering the EU
https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/05/belgian-pm-wants-european-boycott-of-israeli-business-from-occupied-territories/
there are probably 3 bottles of israeli wine imported per year
From occupied territories? I dont understand. Does that mean Palestinians that own businesses would be boycotted?
What constitutes non-occupied territory in Israel in Brussel’s mind? Can a business in occupied territory pick up a box of their product, walk 10 feet into non-occupied territory and then sell to Europe?
I am not being facetious, I dont know these details.
I have a couple of minutes….so one link comment.
Fuck California. California morons (really, how low is your IQ if you are a socialist?) cant understand how the their policies have created moral decay so they are doubling down on it.
Government is the solution to retail theft? Fuck that. They are the ones that got CA into this situation in the first place. Close the stores down. Cut off their food supply. How long before parents will teach their children to not be thieves instead of encouraging them?
Take the goddammed commies out and hang them. Mayors…DA’s…the lot of the useful idiots.
* I walk into a store and get what I need. I wait at the checkout. No one shows up. “Oh well, he must be at lunch.” I move to the self checkout, ring up every single item, pay and leave.
If I steal and he cant keep the lights on I won’t have a supply for the things I need.
If I steal and no one is the wiser….oh wait, someone would know. I would. The kind of person I am and what I think of myself is actually important to me.
The dude that owns the store Is my personal friend and I am not gonna fuck him over.
The list goes on.
Shut the stores down and starve the fuckers. Watch society and culture reorganize right before your eyes. If they prefer a Mad Max world then fuck ’em. Let ’em starve.
Fuck California. – if California is a stripper name, would use extra safe condoms
I prefer my strippers to have luxury car names. Lexus, Mercedes, and Porsche are the only ones that’ll get my hard earned money.
but you deny them your essence
But sharing my essence is the whole point.
“And when I said your daughter’s name was Portia, he said, ‘Why did they name her after a car?'”
Thank you for enacting my labor.
This is why I only shop flea markets. Prices are right. If you get to know the vendor you can put in a special request.
/sarc
I figured out the funnest possible results for the relegation battle this weekend.
Forest draws. Luton loses and is relegated. Burnley wins (by 1 or 2 goals).
It comes down to the last day Forest-Burnley match and Burnley has to win by at least 8 goals to survive.
It’s the end of the season and Spurs overperformed overall, but I cannot take a 5th straight loss.
Lethal menace
Panera Bread said it’s discontinuing its Charged Sips drinks that were tied to at least two wrongful death lawsuits due to their high caffeine content.
Panera didn’t say Tuesday whether the drinks were being discontinued because of the lawsuits or health concerns, and it wouldn’t comment on the timeline for removing them from stores. Panera said it’s introducing new low-sugar and low-caffeine drinks after listening to customers’ suggestions..
The St. Louis-based company introduced Charged Sips in the spring of 2022. The fruit-flavored beverages contain between 155 milligrams and 302 milligrams of caffeine. The typical cup of 8-ounce coffee contains 95 milligrams of caffeine, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, while a 16-ounce can of Monster Energy contains 160 milligrams.
Somebody, somewhere… Ban caffeine. There is no safe dosage.
Notice they don’t say the size of the large beverage, I would guess it’s at least 22 ounces. If that’s correct, that puts it at about 110 milligrams of caffeine per 8 ounce serving. You know… just about the same as coffee.
I think 302mg is the reduced caffeine content. The original 30 oz lemonade was like 390mg, I think, because it’s close to the FDA 400mg.
The one guy who died drank three of those at 390, IIRC.
Yikes, if the double-strength caffeine tablets are 200 mg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honoré_de_Balzac
Wasn’t that stuff dispensed right alongside the regular sodas and whatnot? That is a lot of caffeine and for people with certain conditions can be lethal. Knowing what you’re putting in your own body is one’s own responsibility but lots of people are too stupid and/or ignorant to look into it.
Yes. From memory, it wasn’t particularly well noted or easy to intuit.
Mind you, if you have an medical issue or low tolerance some of the burden DOES fall to you to make sure. But Panera should have done much better.
True but you could put a strychnine drink with a skull and crossbones on it comingled with the regular stuff and some idiot’s going to consume it. Panera was almost asking for it, either dispense it from behind the counter with an easily discernible warning or don’t have it at all. It also doesn’t help that in the US we slap warning labels around willy nilly on a lot of stuff that’s mostly harmless.
I thought it was Skinny n’ Sweet!
“True but you could put a strychnine drink with a skull and crossbones on it comingled with the regular stuff and some idiot’s going to consume it.”
Not seeing the downside here. Evolution in action, and all that.
Was it because of the awful, disgusting taste?
Also, 8-ounce cups of coffee are for pregnant women and small children. A single serving of coffee is 20 ounces.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKpPvqqHi20
In the crosshairs
U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its electric vehicles’ self-driving capabilities, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems assist with steering, braking and lane changes – but are not fully autonomous. While Tesla has warned drivers to stay ready to take over driving, the Justice Department is examining other statements by Tesla and Chief Executive Elon Musk suggesting its cars can drive themselves.
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Investigators are exploring whether Tesla committed wire fraud, which involves deception in interstate communications, by misleading consumers about its driver-assistance systems, the sources said. They are also examining whether Tesla committed securities fraud by deceiving investors, two of the sources said.
Regulatory muscle-flexing?
Nice uncensored social media platform ya got there. Be a shame if something happened to your totally unrelated businesses.
I’m assuming this is some blue enclave, but who knows?
Last week, I dined with a father, shared an intriguing observation about the shifting norms in his child’s school. He mentioned that half of his child’s class now prefers to be referred to by gender-neutral pronouns (“they/them”), highlighting a significant cultural shift among the younger generation
https://www.forbes.com/sites/soulaimagourani/2024/05/07/gender-is-so-last-year-neurodiversity-is-the-future-of-inclusion/
I’m going to assume these children are being pressured by the adults.
I don’t think you need much for kids to think it is cool to declare gender neutral, it don’t mean nothin’
Whatever man, I’m not into labels and conformity.
you are unique in an identical way as everyone else
Oh bullshit.
Five minutes on a playground without the brainwashers looking on will cure this nonsense.
“Also, a majority of the boys want to be a fire truck when they grow up”
I wouldn’t put too much stock in those sorts of stories.
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MyOur name is Legion.”Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
https://thecritic.co.uk/britain-was-not-built-on-slavery-and-imperialism/
I don’t know. When the Angles, Jutes, Saxons, then the Norsemen invaded, they kept a lot of Britons as slaves. The Normans made them serfs (not much difference).
I’m not too sure of that. There were very few slaves recorded in the domesday book, and those would have been held by the Anglo-Saxon predecessors of the Normans.
And there are structural differences between serfs and slaves.
Doesn’t count when it white folks being enslaved. You ought to know that.
I think we can assume the feds will extort a few hundred million dollars from Tesla which will then be funneled to a consortium of lefty advocacy organizations staffed by the wives and offspring of the Right People.
On this one I’m on the side of the Feds.
Tesla has gone from puffery to outright deceit on both the timing and capabilities of its driver assistance features.
We’re saved! Oh, wait…
The amount of electricity and greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants likely peaked in 2023, according to the annual global electricity review by energy think tank Ember. That means human civilization has likely passed a key turning point, according to Ember: countries will likely never generate as much electricity from fossil fuels again.
A record 30 percent of electricity globally came from renewable sources of energy last year thanks primarily to growth in solar and wind power. Starting this year, pollution from the power sector is likely to start dropping, with a 2 percent drop in the amount of fossil fuel-powered electricity projected for 2024 — a decline Ember expects to speed up in the long term.
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It’s a transition that could be happening much faster if not for the US, which is already the world’s biggest gas producer, using record amounts of gas last year. Without the US, Ember finds, electricity generation from gas would have fallen globally in 2023. Global economies excluding the US managed to generate 62 terawatt hours less gas-powered electricity last year compared to the year prior. But the US ramped up its electricity generation from gas by nearly twice that amount in the same timeframe, an additional 115TWh from gas in 2023.
A big part of the problem is that the US is replacing a majority of aging power plants that run on coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, with gas-fired plants instead of carbon pollution-free alternatives. “The US is switching one fossil fuel for another,” Jones said. “After two decades of building such a heavy reliance on gas power, the US has a big journey ahead to get to a truly clean power system.”
Somebody needs to blow up a few more gas pipelines.
笑声!
“The amount of electricity and greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants likely peaked in 2023”
Just ignore all those coal-fired plants being built and brought online worldwide.
Speaking of which, I see no mention of CO2 production from coal, at all, in that story. It reads as if gas is the main source of generation CO2, and that replacing coal with gas makes it worse.
It’s nice to know, what with so many people being flip-floppers that Portlandians still think arson is peaceful:
https://freebeacon.com/campus/portland-pd-investigating-anarchist-group-that-says-it-torched-police-vehicles-in-solidarity-with-palestinian-protesters/
Tesla has gone from puffery to outright deceit on both the timing and capabilities of its driver assistance features.
To paraphrase Mencken’s take on chiropractors, anybody who seriously trusts “full autopilot self-driving” anything must be urgently needed in the Great Beyond.
President Joe Biden set a goal of reaching 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035 and signed into law the nation’s largest investment in clean energy and climate to date with the Inflation Reduction Act. But the administration’s ability to mandate a transition to cleaner energy is limited after the Supreme Court decided in 2022 that the Environmental Protection Agency shouldn’t be allowed to determine how the US generates its electricity. Since then, the EPA’s long-awaited rules for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants have leaned on getting energy companies to capture carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.
The Supreme Court must die!
So they don’t need subsidies or mandates, right?
“solar now considered the cheapest source of electricity in history”
Ex-subsidy? Doubt it.
Nameplate capacity, or KWH generated over time? You know its nameplate. KWH output is generally 25 – 35% of nameplate, so multiply the cost by 3 – 4X.
Including storage sufficient to serve as a baseline energy source? Of course not. That level of storage isn’t even technically feasible at this point, and has never been demonstrated even with a pilot project.
I have to do an exit interview with my tool of a subordinate who is finally no longer the constant source of irritation in my life as of Friday afternoon.
Any ideas or suggestions?
I didn’t want to do this at all but he’s conspicuously in love with the feedback process (giving constantly and dismissing what he gets out of hand) and is asking for one.
keep doing what you’re doing. enjoy your next job.
Is he leaving, or are you?
If he’s leaving it might be amusing to see how off base his perspective is.
Have HR do it. It’s a legal landmine giving feedback to a soon to be former employee or unsuccessful candidate.
The purpose of an exit interview isn’t to give the ex-employee feedback – what’s the point of that? They’re gone, baby, gone.
It’s to see why they are leaving, what their thoughts are on the work environment, etc. In my industry, it was also to block future whistleblower (qui tam) lawsuits by asking them if they know of any compliance problems. If they say no, then any whistleblower suit they may want to bring in the future has a major problem.