Perpetually tired mental health counselor, sometimes retro game streamer, comedian, Mensan, coffee connoisseur, bacon lover, chronic pain survivor, nefarious pirate, and generally all-round nice dude…
No shit, that’s how economics goes. Manufacturing rates go up, you make the consumer pay. Taxes go up, you make the consumer pay. Wages go up, you make the consumer pay. Literally any business expense, you make the consumer pay. Trickle down economics doesn’t apply to sharing of wealth. It applies to sharing of debt.
This’ll be the same fucking deal as last time… Russia gets Crimea and their controlled territories, plus the ones Ukraine reclaimed. The US gets access to Ukraine mining exploits. Also Zelensky must step down so Russia can install a puppet government like Belarus…
Oh, and Trump also gets to give himself a Nobel prize.
Huh… Neither had I, so I did a search…
Apparently it comes from a Dutch phrase that got butchered into tattoo.
Whales and other cetaceans evolved from land mammals.
“Well if the whales don’t like that the water’s killing them and their food supply, maybe they shouldn’t have devolved their legs!”
…That’s probably assuming way too much about the average climate denier’s scientific knowledge or just overall general intelligence, isn’t it?
Jesus, you know that became a thing because one stubborn guy was like, “The cheese went bad??? Fuck it, I’m not losing my money! Get your fly cheese here!”
Don’t forget Slick Willy! That guy’s always up to no good!
You’re not wrong, but I wonder how many people are stopping to actually take a pic and notify the police so they can enforce the law. I’ve never seen it done in my area. I’m sure it happens, but any time I see a cyclist pull into traffic from a bike lane because some idiot’s parked illegally, they just go around and ride on. That’s part of the problem of enforcement too…
“If a 4,000-pound SUV runs a red light, they get a ticket and you pay it online. You’re done with it in a matter of minutes. But if a 60-pound bicycle runs a red light, then they can get a criminal summons…” A 60lb bicycle with a 120-190lb adult meat crayon riding it. That’s 250lbs of meat and metal getting slammed by a 4000lb SUV that had the green.
“You stop and double park while you’re doing DoorDash or Uber, and you get a ticket for double parking, and there is no consideration for a working man who’s trying to do his living,”
Peak NYC… “Yeah, uh, I broke a well known and established law, but I’m working here! Gimme a break!”
“It’s because the design and the infrastructure is not there to protect the people who are the most vulnerable…”
Pedestrian and traffic laws exist as a deterrent to keep people from doing stupid and dangerous things. Bike lanes and greenways exist. That’s the infrastructure! You’re a pedestrian breaking a law that’s been implemented because it makes something unsafe for everyone. Maybe don’t do the thing that makes things unsafe!?
Not a doubt in my mind…
If nobody has, read it now, before they pull it from the house website…
“I was Donald Trump’s closest friend.”
In 2002, Trump told New York Magazine of Epstein, “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side
It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,
a purely financial decision.
Well, which is it?
Paramount is in the midst of closing a multibillion-dollar merger with the movie studio Skydance, a deal that requires approval from the Trump administration.
There it is…
I bring this up like every chance I get, but check out Libby if you don’t want to go to the library. You just link your library card and you have access to tons of books, audio books, and magazines. I also just found out about Hoopla a couple days ago and will be checking that out as soon as I go get my library card renewed tomorrow. Same principle, access to your library’s stuff, but also includes music and movies as well.
Way worse, I’m sure! I’m sure that’s also largely exacerbated by things like the oil industry suppressing data and the whole anti-global warming movement to boot…
Shit like this pisses me off,
“…It’s a mystery…”
No, it’s not… There’s decades of research in the effects of smoke on people and things. It took a quick Google search to find them. Let’s just say it’s bad…
Precisely how I imagine any political meeting goes with him. It’s like The Emperors New Clothes, except the king is a complete and stubborn moron on top of being vain and naive.
“I know I gave Israel all these weapons, plotted with Netanyahu to commit genocide and start a massive war in the middle east, dropped bombs on Iran, and threatened Khamenei’s life, but this was about getting attention away from all the shit I’M doing in the US! I didn’t want to get caught up in a war, I just wanted people to stop being mad at me and redirect then away from all the constitutional violations I’m committing, the people I’m deporting illegally, all the rights I’m stripping away from everyone, and all the government institutions in sabotaging. Oh, and I was supposed to get a nobel prize and a resort in Israel when Bibi agreed to stop his war, so now he’s screwing that up too!”
Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whalehammerhead shark had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whaleshark, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whaleshark before it then had to come to terms with not being a whaleshark any more.
This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.
Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought.
Er, excuse me, who am I?
Hello?
Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?
What do I mean by who am I?
Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.
Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?
No.
Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …
Or is it the wind?
There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?
And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.
Jesus Christ…
I just read the first two books of Dean Koontz’s Jane Hawk series in January. It uses exactly the same sort of AI programs in OP’s commented article. The AI targets people who may at some point change the world in a way they don’t want. Through a series of other AI and human elements, they can track any person, anywhere, as long as they’re using technology. They then send someone to inject the target with a nanomachine version Elon Musk’s neurolink, which rewrites their brain and turns them into a manchurian candidate slave/sleeper agent. They literally start calling them “Rayshaws.”
Good series, but fuck, that’s just way too close to what’s going on in that article…
What they actually met up for was to discuss the epstein files.