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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
They claim political lineage from Jefferson, but note that they celebrate Hamilton. (Granted, I think Hamilton would be aghast as well actually….). Old, dead white slave owner who doesn’t have a cool Broadway musical…
Plus I can just imagine the UN / Canada / USSR style “Constitution” that would come out of a modern convention given the quality of our political class. Lots of “Individual rights… except when the government needs to do something” would ensue.
Happy Memorial Day weekend, folks. Side question — did we lose alt-text in the update? I haven’t noticed any on any articles since then…
And when it comes to Batman — this is frequently said in my house whenever even vaguely appropriate.
“Alt Text” (actually called Image Title Attribute) is still there. I was too busy to do that this week.
Thanks for the links to FEE articles. I probably wouldn’t read them otherwise.
Me too. I keep forgetting that site exists, but they do have some good writing.
They should change their name to the Foundation Recommending Economic Education and I bet they’d get more web traffic.
Business Oriented Operational Benefit Solutions would likely get even more traffic.
I’m afraid I’m sequelled out… my default thought is “It is going to suck”. They’ve tried to squeeze the juice out of the ‘Member Berries too often. But hope it is good and anyone who cares watches it… at least Burton typically puts his heart into his work.
It’s going to be terrible and the sequel thing has been so played out that even the panels of witty guys shitting on the sequels is played out.
I thought the trailer looked good….. but there were like a half dozen or more “memberberries” in the clips…. which is way too much.
I suspect it will disappoint. But it does look very competently made.
The original is only worth an occasional watch anyway – there is much I dislike about it. Ending with “Day-O”.
Sorry for OT so soon… To submit a pots, do we now hit ‘publish’? I think that used to break things, but I don’t see a submit for review button/option anywhere.
OK, now I’ll go read the links, HONEST!
I’ve been asking that for a few days 🤷
I’ve always consider site questions to always be on topic for links posts. Old Business, as it were.
Here’s a screenshot. First click on the Settings control (red circle), then check the Pending Review box (green circle). The Save as Draft control changes to Save as Pending (blue circle). Click that.
The Publish control should also do that for people with Contributor level access. I can’t test that because I’ve got Editor level access and can schedule and publish things.
OK, thanks. FYI, I don’t see your screen shot under ‘settings’ – no “Publish” field, no “stick” or “pending” check boxes. But if I hit publish, I get the option to submit for review and it shows up in the ‘pending’ bucket now, so there ya go. I was about 5 seconds from clicking ‘publish’ several times, figuring there was something hidden behind that, but didn’t want to create work for you if there wasn’t!
Same PM – O didn’t want to pull the trigger on that, as ot were
Putrid and KK, thanks for the info. My UI is different than yours, obviously, but I’m never sure what controls I have that you guys don’t.
Might be interesting… I would have expected Paper Trail to be a Law & Order game… L&O: Corporate Accounting!
I forgot which show had this joke about Law & Order: “I think this is the episode where Law’s parents visit and Order has to pretend he’s gay.”
For any LEGO newcomer—any adult who’s looking for an entry point into this incredible hobby—you can’t go wrong with one of the car replicas.
I had to click through to see that they were discussing LEGO cars. This is my idea of a replica car.
Also acceptable
Even better. I love the ones where folks throw a modern engine into a classic chassis. Very stylish.
The Factory Five Mk4 Roadster
I was at Sebring a couple of years ago when a fellow showed up in something like this. His was (according to him) built by retired Ferrari engineers and factory hands. Thing probably cost more than my house.
Gorgeous car, but he couldn’t drive it and wouldn’t point people by. Imagine a Ferrari tooling down the Gurney Bend with thirty Porsches, Mustangs, and Miatas breathing down his neck.
He got black-flagged and asked not to return for that bit of jackassery.
Lying eyes
That so many Americans think that things are worse than they are is driving Democrats crazy. They know that the economy is the top issue for most voters, and that Biden is given extremely low marks for it. They are frantic to set the record straight; so far, their messaging has come up short.
Why are people so mixed up about the economy?
First, because so many are struggling to pay their bills, which they probably associate with a recession. Second, because real incomes are stagnant. People’s living standards have deteriorated, which doesn’t lead them to view things with rose-colored glasses.
Third, and maybe most importantly, Joe Biden and his surrogates have lied so frequently to Americans about the state of the economy (and the country) that people are no longer paying much attention to spin from the White House. Being told repeatedly that everything is great, when you can’t make ends meet, is deeply unsettling. It’s also insulting — the corollary implication is that you just don’t understand your own situation.
If you work for the government things are humming along nicely.
Uh, if people are struggling to pay their bills, and real income is stagnant, maybe the economy isn’t doing so well and it’s not a messaging problem.
Read the article. It’s not defending Biden it’s suggesting that people no longer trust him.
On many measures the economy isn’t in the shitter, but on an absolute basis many people’s standard of living has declined. People aren’t unaware of the fact that they need to eat and put gas on their now 12.6 year old average car. They also look at the price for that new car and go WTF?
It’s the ultimate disconnect between the elites and the rest of us. I once heard Scott Adams say he has no idea how much milk costs, because he has enough money that he doesn’t need to pay attention to the cost of food. The ruling class is that way. But to the rest of us it’s a pretty big deal.
How much can one banana possibly cost? $10?
Bush the elder lost because he appeared tone deaf on the economy.
After Gulf War I he seemed unstoppable. But then “the economy stupid”. The crazy part is Biden has that issue around his neck, plus FIVE OR SIX MORE that are just as bad… yet he’s still competitive with Trump. For now.
That and he broke his primary campaign promise of “Read my lips: no new taxes.” That was a killer.
The original kit car, updated
Kit cars- youtube coughed up a thing from some guy doing a test of a Cobra replica with one of them flat crank high rev Mustang motors. He’s talking to his buddy, and he says something like, “Yeah you think you’re just putting around, and you look down and you’re doing 70mph in first gear.”
I’d be perfectly happy with a small block 302 Ford in Cobra replica. I just want the “experience”. It will go faster than any reasonable person could want on a public road.
Heck a Ford “crate” version has 340HP gross.
https://performanceparts.ford.com/part/M-6007-X2302E
It will go faster than any reasonable person could want on a public road.
Someone once asked me how fast my 350Z could go. I said I chickened out before I found the top of 5th gear. He gave me a puzzle looked. Then I said “it’s a six speed”.
When you drive an EV straight line speed below 60 mph is not a unique experience any more.
Back country VA roads – speed limit is 55 but I’m hurting if I’m under 60 – and they’re anything but smooth and straight. Rav4 loves em.
My pickup with the low end motor have 400hp. It still blows me away.
@kinnath I found myself accidentally going 135 mph on the Indiana stretch of I-70 in my Z. Momentarily terrifying. Luckily, no road pirates were about.
https://ruinmyweek.com/funny/most-honest-dodge-viper-ad/
accidentally
You foot slipped perhaps?
More like spaced out in 4th gear. The hint was when I realized trucks that I thought were standing still were actually traveling the speed limit.
Karen Read murder trial is bonkers.
I avoided it until a video from one of the lawtube guys popped up in my feed. He was going over the cross and it was fascinating. Attorney for defense masterfully discredited every bit of testimony.
2 weeks of trial and prosecution had nothing.
Then….
They introduce a witness who is one of a group of friends who are police officers and family who have been testifying.
He wrecks all of that.
He testifies that the defendant was trying to hook up with him for weeks and has a bunch of text records to back it up.
Oops.
Looks like we are back on.
Until….
Cross.
Defense attorney defenestrates this guy.
The evidence of a conspiracy to cover up the actual crime and pin it on her is now overwhelming.
This is going to make one hell of a movie of the week. It is way stranger than anything you would dare write in a script.
Got a link that includes that latest tidbit?
I got hooked and watched the live stream this afternoon.
It was completely bananas.
Uncivil Law has been doing summaries…. didnt see one yesterday though.
Here’s a good primer on the case from six months ago, before the trial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA8PSw_OTHY
And this is who I have been mostly using to follow the case, he’s a practicing lawyer who recaps and replays interesting parts of the testimony in the trial, with commentary. He doesn’t take sides and follows the case from just the trial itself, because he wants to see exactly what the jurors are seeing.
https://www.youtube.com/@LawyerYouKnow
I’ve been following this since shortly after the trial started, mostly through Lawyer You Know on YouTube. You’re right, it’s crazy. I started out figuring she was probably guilty, but then I saw an objective breakdown of all the pre-trial evidence and thought “huh, that’s interesting.” And then watching the state witnesses testify, I’m convinced that not only should she not be convicted because the “investigation” was ridiculous, and there is tons of reasonable doubt, but that it looks more and more like he was probably killed by somebody in the house and they covered it up with help from their cop buddies. The number of obvious and dumb lies by the families and friends is just astounding, and almost all of the evidence points in that direction.
Even those texts from today just show, finally, that there was a good reason for the altercation. It actually filled some holes that I was wondering about, such as why the fight would have happened. He knew about the kiss, maybe knew about the texts, and went over there to confront Higgins. The situation got out of hand and he was killed. And also, it might explain why Jen McCabe tried to get Karen to come to the house earlier, and said she had a “surprise” for her. The surprise could have been that Brian Higgins would be there.
Today’s bombshells included the guy who the defense is pointing at (saying he hit him with his plow on front of his jeep) claiming he stopped at the police station for a few minutes and then went home….. only to have the defense provide key card access records that showed he was there from early in the morning until after 6 pm
Importantly, they show him in the garage when the defendants car shows up…. but magically the surveillance video from that camera was deleted.
The plow thing is new to me, interested to see what that’s about. This is the same guy who Brian Albert called in the middle of that night, claiming he accidentally butt-dialed him (twice!) because he keeps his phone in bed with him, but with the ringer off, because his grown kids might call, even though he wouldn’t know they called because the ringer is off, because THAT makes sense.
The big reveal on that butt dial was the tie-in to Google search records.
One of the women went with defendant to find her boyfriend in the morning. Found him at 630 am. Said defendant told her to Google “how long to die in cold”.
Did it 3 times. First two typos.
No biggie, right?
Well….
There was a deleted search at like 2:27 am.
“Hos long to die in cold”
Matched second typo.
Defense asked a bunch about that. Looked kinda bad.
Then….
The butt dial is a 26 second callback to the guy who lives there… 1 minute before that deleted Google search.
And…
The middle typo search in the morning was identical to that one.
Clearly to cover for the other one.
Dead to rights.
Go do that voodoo that you do so well
And of course Ford, being Ford, went to great lengths and expense to make it NOT sound like a flat crank motor.
*no longer available
Joe Biden, class warrior
Almost 90 years ago, just before the 1936 election, Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke to a packed house in New York’s Madison Square Garden about the accomplishments of his first term. Those four years had brought the country a revolution in both public works and regulation and brought Roosevelt the hatred of many business and finance leaders. “Never before have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today,” he told the audience. “They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.” Roosevelt won an even bigger landslide that year than he had in 1932.
Now it is Biden’s turn to welcome that hatred — and show voters that the same people who’ve been skimming Americans’ pocketbooks for years want Donald Trump back in the White House.
Trust Buster Joe, we calls him.
“the same people who’ve been skimming Americans’ pocketbooks for years”
Wouldn’t that be the government?
Bear meat leads to brain worms
Explains so much about some Glibsters.
Cook your damn meat.
I remember this case, it was cross-contamination that caused the problem, not undercooking.
What about otter meat?
That should settle the bear or man question.
Be careful with those tasty, tasty wild hogs too.
Wild boar needs to be frozen below zero for three weeks before consumption.
Wil boars are radioactive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fSy52SIWdg
The Firm – Radioactive
Ah, the best postZep Page song, complete with discordant notes and all.
What the heck was RFK Jr. eating?
I don’t think you’ll find that in caviar, he must have had a wayward tapeworm (which can also actually happen).
Legitimate earworm.
I vaguely remember being scolded ’round here about my love for well done meat.
I don’t get these lego kits. Seems like they are more like Revell models than legos.
I remember building a lot of square houses with the knockoff legos we had as a kid. You could build whatever thing your imagination could think up (as long as it was a lot of right angles). There were no kits to build something specific.
I used to love to build things different ways with Legos when I was a kid and see what was the hardest to knock down, same with Lincoln Logs. In the preinternet and precable days you had to be creative to pass the time.
Here’s the thing…
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
What thing? :-p
Huh, study shows flouride intake linked to behavioral issues in children exposed through their mothers in the womb:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/05/22/another-conspiracy-theory-win-its-getting-depressing-n3788799
Grain alcohol and rainwater Mandrake…oh, and be sure to deny them your essence.
*drops change in “Alex Jones was right jar”*
Comment *The Prophet
NJ remarkably says, “hold my beer”.
Read More: Most NJ towns don’t have fluoridated water — but these do | https://nj1015.com/most-nj-towns-dont-have-fluoridated-water-but-these-do/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
Grizzly – does this match your recent experiences from the trip?
https://x.com/delfoo/status/1794089811952722018?t=RoqYKzZnUowADBpKyAqWhA&s=19
When American walked this back earlier this week I wondered when they were going to toss their outside counsel under the bus.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-airlines-drops-law-firm-221025185.html
Whoever is running their claims management also needs his/her dick punched, as well.
Are you suggesting contrary to American Airlines’ spin that this was the brainchild of counsel obtained by their insurer that AA may have also been informed?
No way…