“I attack with my bow,” Donald said.
“You don’t have a bow,” Elon explained again, gathering his Dungeon Master robes around himself.
“What do you mean I don’t have a bow?” Donald asked heatedly. “I have the best bow. Everyone knows that.”
“Father,” Barron said. “Your bow was broken two rounds ago when you rolled a critical fail.”
“Can I just buy another bow?” Donald asked.
“You’d have to leave the dungeon and go back to Glble-Gogolrathu,” Elon said. He stuffed a handful of Chex Mix into his mouth and chewed noisily.
“I’m a billionaire!” Donald roared. “I can pay someone to bring me a new bow!”
“You only have three gold pieces, Father,” Barron said. “That’s barely enough to buy a dagger.”
“I don’t think I like this game,” Donald grumbled. He coughed twice and then finished off his eleventh Diet Coke of the night.
Elon rolled a die behind his Dungeon Master screen. “Your indecision and squabbling have opened up an attack of opportunity by the goblins.”
“Dammit,” Donald muttered. “I don’t think I like this game very much.”
“It is great fun, Father. I have learned much from the wise counsel of Uncle Elon and his DOGE team,” Barron said, grandly sweeping his arms to indicate the young men sprawled over the set of couches, gently snoring like sleeping puppies.
“They had a long day,” Elon said, beaming with pride.
“So did I,” Kash said.
“You can’t talk,” Elon said. “You’re dead.”
“Fucking skeletons,” Kash said. “You didn’t have to send so many.”
“I sent only as many as the dice indicated,” Elon said, steepling his fingers and cocking his right eyebrow.
“OK, OK. I don’t have a bow,” Donald conceded. “What can I attack with?”
“You have a sling, don’t you?” Elon said leadingly.
“Can I throw my unicorn horn with it?” Donald asked. “Won’t that blow up the dungeon?”
“Sir, a unicorn horn is not a weapon of mass destruction,” Kash said apologetically, his head wobbling.
“Well, it should be,” Donald said.
“It is much too large for your sling, Father.”
“Much too large,” Kash agreed.
“Silence!” Elon shouted, pointing at Kash. “No more talking unless someone casts Speak With The Dead on you.”
“Fine, I’ll use my sling,” Donald said.
“Roll a D20, and don’t forget your attack modifier.”
Donald rolled, his die clacking along the table.
Elon shook his head. “Natural 1. Your sling is broken.”
Donald’s face turned red-orange, like an angry sunset.
I foresee an overturned game table.
That’s a perfectly legit move, as long as you yell “Australian Rules!!” at the same time.
It’s why I am undefeated at backgammon.
that was different
It was great! I can see it in my head!
Donald’s face turned red-orange, like an angry sunset.
I can see it.
Is it the Hair’s turn?
Elon shook his head. “Natural 1. Your sling is broken.”
Can relate. Natural one’s are a good excuse to buy a whole new set of dice.
Elon as the DM…
DOGE Master?
Speaking of Elon – the NYT remains true to form…
Foreign Strongmen Cheer as Musk Dismantles U.S. Aid Agency
Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on U.S.A.I.D., which many authoritarians have seen as a threat.
Oh fuck off. Just from the headline you know the opposite is true. It already came out that USAID was responsible for throwing the Brazil election and getting a commie in charge. May STEVE SMITH fuck them all to death.
It is that commie rag. Who gives a shit what they say?
Since it is commie propaganda trash I am assuming they are able to keep the lights on because of…USAID. The pigs are all squealing because they see their trough draining. Pay no attention to them.
They do use USAID to stay in business! All of the shitty legacy media do! So frustrating. If Trump succeeds, look for all of then to suffer “unfortunate bankruptcies “ over the next four years.
Wasn’t it Politico that, just by coincidence, couldn’t make payroll right after the government funding freeze?
@RC, yes. But I’m also seeing that at least 2 Federal agencies were paying for multiple subscriptions to some Politico platinum level to the tune of $400-$600k per agency.
Who knew that Iranian drag queen story hour was the only thing keeping Putin at bay?
Wanna DND?
Donald is the real dungeon master, even if he hasn’t played in the fuck tunnels yet.
I agree, it should be.
Really enjoyed this one, it needed the Monty Python intro:
“And now for something completely different!”
How about a wand of unicorn farts?
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
https://x.com/LibertyCappy/status/1886955762733224298
Community notes in 10…9…8…
A Spanish food truck sounds amazing!
There is one on Park Ave (believe it or not) near my office that is awesome.
The wife and I stopped at a taco truck and the lady working it was from Honduras.
she spoke no English, not a word. I used to know some from my time in the Marines, but my brain short circuited and I could only think in Japanese for some reason.
We didn’t get exactly what we ordered, but it was close enough, we ordered al pastor and carnitas tacos and once we got home found we had al pastor and carne asada instead.
So good, I told my wife those tacos tasted like they were made by a woman that didn’t speak English.
Happens to me in NYC all the time. I assume it’s because my brain goes to its default “not English” speech pattern.
We were with my father at restaurant in Germany, and although he grew up speaking German, the waiter could not understand a word of his dialect. He was not happy with the fish he ended up getting, as he wanted pork of some sort, while my mother and I did wonderful ordering in English.
The agency repurposed for DOGE:
https://www.usds.gov/
Nothing in that picture looks like serious people.
I guess they haven’t changed the website yet.
Already met one guy here who runs a D&D game for new folks from his place on base weekly. Once I get settled – hopefully in the next week – I may check about schedules.
NERD!!!!
Seems like Italy is working for you.
Definitely pretty over there.
Really slow going. Signing lease on Friday – but won’t have a chance to move in till at least the middle of next week. Should finish car registration on Friday too hopefully. More pics in a few weeks.
“Really slow going.”
Welcome to Europe.
Sounds like you are on Italian time. Everything is very Ish.
Doge & Democrats is the best D&D version since AD&D
Accidental Death & Dismemberment? 🤔
“I’m a billionaire!” Donald roared. “I can pay someone to bring me a new bow!”
That’s the spirit.
I don’t see the attraction of role playing games unless it involves a lovely young woman and a….wait. Never mind. I dont want to get kink shamed.
When the Mrs. first joined roller derby, I found out there are some young and attractive nerd-women who were into comic, super here movies, and D&D. We went to one of the weddings, and they surprised the bride with a life size R2D2 replica that brought in the rings (she loved it). Nerds have come a long way.
My wife and I entered the reception to this music. (Most of the people attending recognized it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySbQ0SRAn8Q
The Princess Bride was our first date movie, so we re-watch it every wedding anniversary .. 20+ years.
“Mawwiage”
Our ceremony playlist included “The Last Unicorn” by America, “Stones” from Ultima, and for our outro….”The Streetbeater” by Quincy MF Jones.
Our first date movie was 1941. We haven’t watched it since.
Foreign Strongmen Cheer as Musk Dismantles U.S. Aid Agency
Yeah, that’s their talking point. NPR was on it yesterday. The only thing standing between us and world wide authoritarian dictatorship is USAID.
So far, it’s been revealed that Politico, BBC and AP all received funding from USAID. It might be a good idea for the losers to shut the fuck up.
Funding? That’s crazy!
It was subscriptions and advertising buys surely!
Think of the fraud! Fake subscribers to create the illusion and a sale to some German media company for $1 billion.
I’d be impressed if it wasn’t our money.
Tundra:
I see it as a larger version of the “best selling memoir” money laundering that nearly every politician runs with.
Wait, the BBC? Aren’t they the damn British gov’t?
Fuck that noise.
Just spitballing here but…assuming that is true….perhaps those strongmen are strongmen because that is the only way you can govern in some cultures. Perhaps they use strongman tactics because they are being harassed constantly by players worse than they are and perhaps those bad actors are being funded by USAID.
Just wondering.
You are correct. Look at Brazil for example. Was that an improvement? Hell no.
The “weakmen” would complain because USAID is propping them up.
…and Iraq. and Libya. now Syria. and a bunch of others I cant think of at the moment.
The founders and Washington in particular were dead right so of course we have done the opposite.
Definitely the case in some places. Some people might just prefer to have a king or whatever, who looks out for their interests instead of dealing with politics in their face all the time.
After WWII, we picked up where the Brits left off – causing chaos everywhere possible.
https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=33535
The problem with Putin was he wasn’t another Yeltsin. SOB had the audacity to put Russian interests first.
This, by the way, is one of the reasons democracy never took off in China or Vietnam. The people had never had a taste of it, it wasn’t in their mental dictionary, and things like communism made more sense.
If more people understood Confucianism in the west they’d be a hell of lot less shocked about events in Asia.
Not one Democrat has had even a slight objection to anything we are learning about where the tax money actually goes.
No, because it was laundry list of Dem platform items – abortion this, queer that, diversity herpity derpity doo.
EXPERTS they shriek – you are ignoring THE EXPERTS!!!
The money coming from USAID was all going to fund liberal shibboleths. That is what happens when you have one party ruling the bureaucracy.
Re: Emilia Perez – Adam Carolla had a good news note on it today….rotten tomatoes – critics are at 73% and viewers are at 18%…and this has the most oscar noms ever. Such a friggin hilarious joke. Truly sugarfree-esque.
I was entertained by the Mexican response.
“In response, Mexican trans film-maker Camila Aurora posted a 30-minute video on social media, which features dancers and actors dressed in fake moustaches, wearing berets and striped T-shirts, in a comic story about a romance between the trans heirs of rival croissant and baguette-producing families.”
Nice. And the wokists can’t complain about it, because Mexican trans.
If Beyonce can win best country album …
I’m torn on that. It’s like, is it really COUNTRY? Naw, not really. Was Taylor Swift ever really COUNTRY? Probably not. Faith Hill got the same shit when she crossed over into pop, but was it ever really POP? Um… maybe? Was Beyonce going for a PR stunt? Absolutely. But I guess … so what. Dolly Parton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, so she figured she better write a rock song. Did she? Not sure. Does it matter?
The only thing that aurally separates popular country and pop is a steel guitar, banjo, and a thick twang. And even then, maybe not.
“Around here, we listen to both kinds of music: Country and Western!”
I’m wondering if they’ll use the lead actor’s “controversial tweets” that “recently surfaced” as an opportunity to scale back the number of awards it actually wins, or if they’ll just say fuck it and give it all the awards and force all the women to clap for the man when he wins best actress.
I hope they win all 13.
What better way to show how empty Hollywood truly is.
There are reports that Netflix is discouraging him from even coming to the Oscars at this point.
It’s pretty obvious the movie was only nominated for anything as a feeble swipe at Trump.
Him not coming to the Oscars would be trans genocide on a scale not seen since that Harry Potter video game was released a few years ago.
Do better, Netflix.
Even The Guardian says so – and that’s for all the nominees.
Donald has been living in heads of the left for… fuck, almost a decade now.
This is my favorite story of the year so far. What are they gonna do?? They can’t NOT award the man in womanface but they can’t reward the wrongthink either.
I remember when there was vigorous debate whether Jaye Davidson should be nominated for Best Supporting Actor or Actress for the Crying Game.
Didn’t All About Eve get 14 nominations?
My wife came to the top of the basement stairs to ask what I was laughing about, so nice work. This is so well done.
(We need that same crew to be playing RISK next time; THAT would be hilarious.)
Bringing over a P Brooks query from the dedthred for which I have a relevant statistical answer:
“Speaking of military recruitment, does anybody have a sense of how many people who got booted for vaccine refusal are coming back?”
A LOT fucking less than people think. Most of those who got canned are 3 years down the road in their lives, with (new) jobs, responsibilities, spouses, kids, etc.
When Trump’s EO was announced, which appears to tie backpay to reinstatement, our paralegal was absolutely deluged with torch-and-pitchfork carrying vets urgently inquiring if this meant they would be forced back in in order to get their backpay from their Covid-19 fucking.
The ones who will come back now are mostly folks over the Mason-Dixon career line: roughly 11 years is where the brain finally has the thought: “shit, I can probably make 20 and get a retirement.” Those who have more than 16 or 17 want constructive service to get their 20. That basically leaves a sliver of those from 12-15 who weren’t sufficiently embittered by their experience. Some of the junior troops who got canned quickly because they had no procedural rights will come back, but not as many as the new Admin probably hopes.
And I haven’t even addressed how many people in these categories could actually meet the enlistment physical requirements, vice the re-enlistment standards (fog a mirror). There will probably need to be a LOT of waivers. And how many of these vets discovered the joys of state legal weed and can pass a piss test?
Interesting, thank you.
And thanks for the latest installment. Always a good reminder how brave (insane?) you pilots are.
No need for the parentheses, the question mark, or the silly adjective in front of it.
But thank you. I think we all knew it was big boy rules, but you really do talk yourself into believing “it won’t be me.”
Is it particularly dangerous in the helos, or are the fixed wing guys having incidents at similar rates?
Generally speaking, I think the military fixed wing folks are probably a little better, if only because they’re aircraft want to fly and they cost a lot more money.
(They also have the option to eject; option not present on US helicopters – or anyone else, for that matter, except for that one crazy Russian helo that actually had an ejection seat and an explosive charge of some kind in the fucking rotorhead to blow the blades away right before you get spit out. Now THAT is insane.)
HOWEVER, see my discussions about the Harrier. That fucking thing has killed an unbelievable number of people, one at a time mostly.
HOWEVER, see my discussions about the Harrier. That fucking thing has killed an unbelievable number of people, one at a time mostly.
I’m surprised we haven’t heard many stories of the F-35B having the same issues. I can think of only one that I’ve seen. Maybe they finally got it right? Maybe it’s just not showing in my feed.
Ukraine is weak
Wow. As always, good news should be taken with a grain of salt the same as bad news.
The impact of using MHS-Genesis as a screening tool for all military applicants is that now more than half of our applicants require a medical waiver to be enlisted in the Army.
Failing a piss test is waiverable as well.
As to COVID vax, we had 81 whole, real-life, people rejoin the Army who had a previous discharge due to vaccine refusal from any service. We started letting them in back in 23.
We had a look at that language in the 2023 or 2024 NDAA about coming back in and one of those had language that essentially would require a waiver of claims (for the Covid discharge) because it would treat the time you were gone as Excess Leave. We strongly advised everyone we could reach against taking that shitstick.
With a total area of 2.17 million square kilometers (836,000 square miles), Greenland — population about 57,000 — is over one-fifth the size of the United States, according to the CIA World Factbook.
Roughly the same as Pocatello, Idaho. President Cartoon Villain had better watch his ass.
Denmark increased dogsled patrols to catch infiltrating special operations forces.
There won’t be any. After all, USAID has been shut down.
Thanks, Ozy!
That’s pretty much what I expected. There can’t be very many people who haven’t moved on with their lives to the point that going back in makes sense.
They deserve recognition, if nothing else. How about something for refusing an illegal order?
We’re optimistic that the Admin is going to be good to their intention, if not the exact promise, and that we’ll settle the cases on reasonable terms that recognizes the reality of where people are now. Another thing not mentioned in the media or my comment above is that a good number of people that DoD kicked out were people who were in the medical disability process. Yes, you read that right. Even though the regs specifically say that Med Processing takes precedence, a fair number of the personnel DoD canned were injured troops who were in medical processing/evaluation and then got ordered to take the Covid-19 shots *while they were mid-processing to be discharged.” And when they refused, they got pulled out of med processing and separated for misconduct. Several of our named plaintiffs across the cases had that story, and then later got significant disability ratings form the VA – if the VA would see them based upon their GUHC discharge.
Yes – the implementation of Austin’s illegal mandate really was that fucking evil.
The Active Army didn’t really put anyone out for refusing the vaccine, per se, but were put out for not following the guidance to request an ETP to not take the vaccine.
I’m not sure that any ETPs were processed far enough for someone to be processed out for refusal.
Well – the DOD admits to kicking out 8500 active duty, and there were another close to 1500 from the Coast GUard, so about 10K active duty.
There were also 22K Reservists doing active duty orders who had their orders curtailed/cut short/terminated.
Then they pulled funding for about 60K National Guardsmen who wouldn’t take it, some unknown number of whom were on active (Title 32) orders, and many of whom were drilling NG “reservists.”
Oldest was an E-3 or E-4 Infantry in a Guard unit. Had finished Ranger and Airborne and come back into his unit. They described the process/paperwork for whatever the “religious exemption” (not the right term I’m sure, but you know what I mean) was, so he and a few buddies did it all (with legal and pastoral input) and turned it in, and then were told en masse that all of the exemption requests were being denied as a matter of policy and they had to decide right then whether to be separated.
Yep, from my understanding, the USMC and reserve components were both more zealous in kicking refusniks out.
The Army tried to avoid the illegal order question by giving a legal order to either get the shot or request an ETP. So the people that the Active Army discharged wanted to get out.
The “T” word is back! Skip to the 5 minute mark to watch Nancy Mace chant it in a Congressional hearing.
https://x.com/cspan/status/1887188075505172831
I was expecting ‘tard.
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!
“Kash said apologetically, his head wobbling.” Just like that, the Kash voice in my head switched from an American accent to an Indian accent.
lol Yup.
It’s just staggering how much money we’ve been robbed of.
https://x.com/KeenanPeachy/status/1887192516400910659
Also I’m starting to understand why so many countries are cool with USAID being razed to the ground.
I want more detail than that. Not that I’d be that surprised…
Somebody needs to check on the Clinton’s.
The left going apeshit in unison tells me everything I need to know about where all that money has been going.
I also see why the globalists are screeching about Musk being an unelected threat to our democracy:
https://x.com/RepJasmine/status/1887171235223593153
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
@RepJasmine
Right now, Elon Musk is attempting to perform a hostile takeover of our government. The American people deserve to know what he is doing and why.
If the GOP really is all about transparency, they should support Rep. Connolly’s motion to subpoena Elon Musk to @OversightDems.
When I lived in eastern Europe a lot of money from USAID projects went to expats in western consulting groups, so this doesn’t surprise me at all.
So they paid everyone but the Haitians to do work in Haiti. I doubt Haiti actually have the business infrastructure to do the recovery work. So not suprising.
The real question is how much work actually got done and how much of that money was realized as “profit” in the companies that got contracts.
I’m reminded of the Looney Tunes scenes were somebody cuts down redwood just to trim it down to a toothpick.
That sounds about right
Oilfield Rando has been an excellent follow on this for years now. His Randoland.us twitter bot has been very informative on govt funding.
https://x.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1887178413024084251?t=RCgV7NqBEGWi5ubzWT-vnw&s=19
I learned decades ago to check watchdog websites before donating to any charity, to see what percent of my donation will go towards the stated purpose, and what percent goes to 6 or 7-figure salaries for the staff. USAID is no different. I’m guessing almost every legit-sounding program is putting less than 5% towards the stated goal.
As Walter Kirn said the other day – Even if a trans comic book in Ecuador was something we wanted, can we see the comic book? How many people read it?
Ray of sunshine, but far from “cushy”.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/04/us-news/daniel-penny-hired-by-andreesen-horowitz-following-acquittal-in-jordan-neelys-death/
Cut USAID but annex Gaza? What the f**k is OMB thinking? Just when the Dems are on the mat, he helps them up?
Typical Trump. Show of hands – anybody think anything will actually come of Trump’s Gaza proposal?
What I don’t get is what he really wants. Trashy hypothesized earlier is that it was an incentive for Israel to finish this up now. Which is really is some 4D chess.
Oh, I think there will be much pants soiling about this, and it will be quietly moved on by other groups.
Just follow the pattern. He proposes something that’s crazy but that he can actually do. Then within a few days someone else jumps in and says “Wait that’s crazy, how about I do this instead?”
I don’t think that proposal is going anywhere.
The new proposal, which would have been the worst thing to ever happen in the world two weeks earlier, is now looked at as a reasonable compromise.
He wants a deal. Both his National Security Advisor and Press Hottie flat out said it today.
I remember when President Bartlett and President Santos brought peace to the Middle East by having the US occupy Gaza.
Destruction from within
When Elon Musk debuted the Department of Government Efficiency recently at the Capitol, House Speaker Mike Johnson enthusiastically predicted the coming Trump administration would bring “a lot of change around here.”
Three weeks in, the change the Trump administration has brought is a disruption of the federal government on an unprecedented scale, dismantling longstanding programs, sparking widespread public outcry and challenging the very role of Congress to create the nation’s laws and pay its bills.
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“This is an erosion of our democracy,” said Brian Riedl, a longtime economic adviser to conservative Republicans, now at the Manhattan Institute think tank.
President Donald Trump has tapped Musk, the world’s richest man, to take on inner workings of the world’s oldest democracy, and so far the results are stunning, if not alarming and unlawful, being challenged in dozens of court cases nationwide.
Unelected staffers and lobbyists have been writing laws and regulations for decades, with nary a peep of objection, because everything they did was to make the government bigger, more expensive and more powerful. But suddenly usurpation of Congressional prerogatives is bad.
“disruption of the federal government on an unprecedented scale, dismantling longstanding programs”
Further evidence of the disconnect in the country: AP sees these as bad things.
It’s like hearing a news story that starts with: “experts say.” For them it’s a guarantee of value, for me, probably turn it off (except for certain history experts).
Exactly. And for you’ve independently evaluate the value of the “history experts”. So you aren’t looking for it in the title of the piece, but the the byline.
Same for me in my field. I may read a piece by Paul Krugman, but I certainly discount his expertise outside of what he actually researched.
You mean merely having a graduate degree and a few publications doesn’t confer omniscience on you?
You mean the AP that was receiving payments from the organization that’s being closed?
One issue is that from basically the New Deal, through WWII, and the cold war, we were in an expansionist era of gov’t. We had more money coming from taxes, had a lot that people wanted from gov’t, and, for the most part, it worked OK. But, as we have less coming in from vassal states, people feel they are getting too much gov’t, and it really isn’t working, we are now in a downsizing mode.
But there is a whole class of people whom don’t think that, as their paychecks won’t allow them too.
“Our Democracy”. You keep using that phrase…
BTW RJ – just ordered this flick: https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/all-partner-label-releases/products/nova-seed – apparently an indie animated flick from about 10 years back – hand drawn by one guy. Reviews look pretty good – not sure if it’s on Tubi right now.
Woman in the office just told a guy to stay out of her box.
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
Was he poking around?
Apparently he was putting things in there that he shouldn’t be.
Speaking of phrasing:
After a bruising year, Sonos readies its next big thing: a streaming box
https://www.theverge.com/sonos/606025/sonos-pinewood-video-player-features
Sensei:
Man… if only Sonos hadn’t just destroyed their entire brand over the course of a year.
But, “courage”…
That said if you can assemble a truly wireless Dolby Atmos system that doesn’t have the latency issues that plague wireless systems you’d really have something. However, I would refuse to be an early adopter given their recent track record.
I missed this:
“Republicans have backed Vought’s nomination and claim he is prepared for the role since he led the office during Trump’s first administration. But Democrats remain staunchly opposed due to Vought’s stance on the Impoundment Control Act – a 1974 law that reinforces Congress’ power of the purse. ”
The expectation is that he and Trump will find a perfect use case for this which will immediately wind up in court and likely in front of the SC.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-tees-up-trump-budget-chief-pick-russell-vought-final-confirmation-vote
“disruption of the federal government on an unprecedented scale, dismantling longstanding programs”
No government program, no matter how frivolous or recently established, may ever be shut down. Otherwise civil society will collapse.
Turns out my county doesn’t do civil standby. *sigh*
That sucks. When my wife got my kid out of that crazy house last week, she got an officer to accompany her. She had to wait over an hour, but it was the right thing to do. Even he was insecure, he asked my wife how many dogs they had (4 big ones), if they had any guns (wife didn’t know, but there were some), etc. After a few trips inside he told my kid it was probably time to cut her losses and leave with what she had.
Private security?
Still can’t force her to let me in.
Go while she’s at church.
Tried that first thing. I know the garage door code. Thought, “No problem.” Well, they locked the door between the garage and the house. That had never been done before and Mom doesn’t have a key.
https://x.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1887226442255356023
lol
Savagery
Beautiful.
If you are taking payment in Bitcoin you probably might need to do just a little bit to know your customer.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/robocallers-posing-as-fcc-staff-blocked-after-robocalling-real-fcc-staff/
One of the few times I wish FedGov did more rather than less regulatory enforcement.
Throws two articles out for Neph.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/pea-sugars-can-speed-up-sour-beer-brewing/
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/why-it-makes-perfect-sense-for-this-bike-to-have-two-gears-and-two-chains/
The beer article sort of correctly describes one of many processes for making sour beers.
“By using sugars derived from peas that yeast cannot metabolize, we promote the growth of bacteria essential for producing sour beer.”
I don’t see how this speeds things up that much.
It can’t be an 18 speed bike. It only has nine gears.