Appears there were some technical difficulties this morning, we blame squirrels, tinfoil in the lines, sunspots, and the FCC having questions about us.
But there is one important thing to realize – the Browns, Chiefs, Cowboys, Bears, and Ravens all have the same record right now.
#stack196 5/5
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
⏱️ 2m 54s
🔥 streak: 2
puzzlist.com/stackdown
#ows581 🔎 3/5 (02:01)
⭐⭐⭐
🔥 streak: 2
onewordsearch.com
At least it hopefully isn’t tinfoil passing through the squirrels — I knew I shouldn’t have given them kisses….
And just keep rubbing things in there, Sean… I can’t get the hang of looking ahead and figuring out all the words before starting in Stackdown like I really should…
#ows581 🔎 4/5 (01:20)
⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔥 streak: 13
🏆 #owselite
onewordsearch.com
#stack196 5/5
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
⏱️ 2m 20s
🔥 streak: 3
puzzlist.com/stackdown
#ows581 🔎 4/5 (01:08)
⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔥 streak: 1
onewordsearch.com
#stack196 2/5
⭐⭐
⏱️ 4m 46s
🔥 streak: 1
puzzlist.com/stackdown
I’m garbage at the stack down.
El BREAKO!
What do you guys put in this site? – I was having withdrawl symptoms
/needshelp
Well at least it finally came up – I was getting timed out.
Me too. I thought Windows 11 syndrome had set in and I was unprepared (which is going to happen anyway)
They had to find a goy to run the hamster wheel.
Oy vey!
Lemmywinks almost got away this time.
Obligatory?
Well..
I’m happy that the guy with dashcam decided not do anything heroic and instead gave the idiot the full force of their stupidity.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1nlb6wt/someone_needs_to_learn_how_to_look_both_ways_oc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
From the comments the excuse was “late for work”.
Well, now you ga-run-teed to be late for work…
And they say Americans don’t understand irony.
https://newjersey.news12.com/new-jersey-falls-short-of-stealing-largest-pizza-party-world-record-from-connecticut
*Sad trombone*
Yes, it is ALL about Trump, and only Trump. Everything would be peachy keen if it weren’t for OMB.
In the mean time…
Bought & paid for enemies..
Ok… I think I’m too cynical and jaded for these times — that just screams too perfect for those who despise her to me.
What’s next — “sources” purporting a video of her sacrificing babies to Moloch and calling on Her Dark Master to strike down Charlie Kirk?
TL;DR — I’ll believe it when we actually see it. Not based on “reports” or “sources”.
…And then nothing happened.
Is Pelosi one of the Congressers who had Chinese spies on staff?
IIRC, her limo driver was.
That was Feinstein.
Ah. My bad.
I can’t imagine where the “bitterness” comes from.
So? Shut it the fuck down.
As for Pelosi, if true fit the two of them with striped suits.
As for Schumer, that is rich…him calling anyone a liar. The truth has never passed that man’s lips, not once ever.
So I reset my browser for no reason?
Also text looks huge.
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/1970460779817377825
“65-year-old man has giant head-shaped tumor removed from neck after refusing to go to hospital for 16 years”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/lifestyle/man-65-has-head-sized-tumor-removed-from-neck-after-refusing-to-go-to-hospital-for-16-years/
WTF??
Did he name it Bud?
“That’s where I keep my second brain!”
“refusing to go to hospital for 16 years”
Who hasn’t done that?
/Looks at toenails
Yeah… play on my guilt a bit there 4×20 (like when all y’all go on about colonoscopies…). Haven’t been to a doctor since George HW… just haven’t needed to and so haven’t bothered.
I’m in this camp as well.
He could have kept it and run for Senate.
Yeah — now he’s unfettered, man.
Yeah — now he’s unfettered, man.
[Standing ovation gif]
Obligatory .
I thought he was going to lead the resistance on Mars.
Spectacular on two levels.
Bicyclers – what’s up riding in the “suicide” lane? Is that a thing?
Single vehicle BMW collision, what’s not to love?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1nn61dj/oc_bmw_driver_learns_instant_lesson_in_patience/
Bicyclers – what’s up riding in the “suicide” lane? Is that a thing?
Yes, it is apparently a thing among the idiots-on-bicycles crowd. I’m sure they think it improves safety by improving visibility. It doesn’t. The worst case scenario is that the cyclist gets hit by a car travelling in one direction and then gets propelled into the opposite-direction traffic lanes and hit again.
And don’t you dare call them out on it. Any time you mention cycle safety there is an immediate reaction from people whose automatic assumption is that the motorist(s) are at fault, that bicyclists are capable of doing anything wrong, and of course we need more bike lanes.
It’s a cousin to salmoning, the idiots who ride on the left side of the street facing traffic “for safety”.
Wait, they think that’s safe? I thought they were looking to splat like bugs on a windshield.
Isn’t it better to stare death in the face?
I would not ride in that lane unless I’m about to turn left, and given the complete lack of a shoulder, I’d probably avoid that road altogether.
SwissDad passed away late last night – I am going to be out of pocket for a bit, so authors, please give my substitutes something to work with this week.
I’ll be back on Monday.
Condolences Swiss.
What he said.
My condolances.
I am sorry to hear that.
So sorry, for your loss 🙁
Sigh… sorry, Swiss. All my sympathy for what little it is worth.
Sorry to read that Swiss. My condolences.
My condolences, Swiss.
Be well.
Sincerest condolences on your loss. I hope his passing was peaceful.
My condolences.
My condolences to you, Swiss.
Sorry
Sad to hear, Swissie. It’s a part of life that seems to come so suddenly.
I am so sorry to hear that Swiss. You have my sincerest condolences.
Sorry for your loss.
My condolences.
Sorry for your loss.
Sorry Swiss. Take care of yourself and your family.
My condolences, Swiss. Praying for y’all.
Condolences
My condolences, Swiss.
Sorry Swiss
So sorry. My sincere condolences.
Very sorry to hear, Swiss. My condolences.
Sorry to hear this
So sorry to hear, Swiss.
My condolences as well sir.
Condolences and sympathy Swiss.
Condolences! That is a tough time.
My condolences to you and your family
Sorry for your loss, Swissy.
Sorry to hear that Swiss, even though it wasn’t unexpected.
My condolences to you and your family, Swiss.
Sorry man. Condolences to you and your family.
Condolences to you and your family, good sir.
“An Ohio woman ordered Charlie Kirk’s go-to Starbucks drink on Sunday evening — and was startled to find a hateful message written on the cup.
Autumn Perkins, who lives in Middletown, Ohio, visited a Starbucks location inside Kroger and run by Kroger to order the mint majesty with two honeys.
When she received her order, she was shocked to see that an employee had written “racist’s fav drink” on the side of the cup.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/us-news/customer-orders-charlie-kirks-starbucks-drink-and-finds-a-disturbing-hate-message-employee-gets-fired/
doubt
How close is that Starbucks to Oberlin? That could make it a lot more believable.
several hours
It’s between Cincinnati and Dayton, so the other side of the state.
Starbucks is probably too corporate for Oberlin. My town chased them out.
Yeah, I was more thinking Oberlin grad getting the only job they are qualified for.
Don’t immediately assume Oberlin, we have Antioch as well
I have a hard time mustering all of my doubt given the stereotype of the starbucks barista, and their recent behavior regarding the dress code.
But I am trying to be fair and ask “would I think hoax if…”
Did it also say “love wins, fag!” on it?
Starbucks earlier issued policy guidance saying that it was okay for customers to order drinks with the name “Charlie Kirk” and that employees were not to hassle them for it. So while I can’t speak to the veracity of this report, it’s within the realm of possibility.
No way Starbucks management saw the packed stadium at the Kirk memorial, saw the 100M plus viewers on the TV and thought “That’s a lot of latte’s”
I wonder if they have tripled their supply of the Charlie special ingredients.
I’ve seen this reported elsewhere, also saying the barista admitted to it, so I find it plausible. Oberlin’s a bit far, but she could be a denizen of the zombified remains of Antioch College in hippie dippy Yellow Springs, resenting that she has to work in JD Vance’s hometown.
Is this the incident where they pulled the security footage and it turned out to be fake, or is this a new incident?
Soccer father to replace baseball dad?
The only thing missing was a cry of racism, which honestly given who won, would’ve been perfect.
Start your kids early.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO7EQAhArEZ/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=56c58443-8666-4a75-b2c6-4295827688cb
no one uses instagram these days
Is anyone else seeing a bar “Forum Daily Links Hat and Hair Topics A-C Topics D-G…” on top of the page? I don’t remember it before.
That’s always been there. At least for years now.
Yes, seeing it — I’m pretty sure it has always been there for me however…. so not surprised by it.
I can barely see more than three comments at once.
Mobile? I’m looking on desktop / Firefox. I think I saw it on mobile as well, but don’t typically go there that way so wouldn’t swear to it.
I’m just guessing mobile — because I can’t imagine font settings so huge on desktop you can only see three comments… or you’ve reverted to CGA or something.
Sounds like your text size is jacked up.
Desktop. Don’t see where my text size is jacked up.
I assume CNTRL and minus did nothing already. I am going to boot up Firefox and Brave on the laptop and see if I have an issue.
Sure enough! The Firefox browser text is at least 1.5 times bigger than in Brave.
In order to make everything fit, text has to be microscopic on FireFox. Brave is fitting properly.
Maybe boot to a new / alternate / clean profile? I’m wondering if you have a user.css somewhere affecting you even after the browser reset.
And that’s all I got — I despise web programming / browser stuff (sorry WebDom, no offense!) so I really know only what I have to to make my environment work.
Yes, or just delete history/cookies/profiles and start over. That usually fixes weird stuff like that. Unless there is a mystery update pending for FireFox which needs to run.
I hide that on my machines with CSS but here’s a weirdness that started happening last week:
On one machine everything looks as I expect. On the other machine I’m getting a completely different home page that I recall seeing a couple years ago, with the articles grouped by category and the latest posts aren’t there. I have to go Next, Next, Next on the last loaded article when I’m away for a while.
I blocked it with uBlock.
*bleep bloop kshshshshsh pop* Are you…*blap pop pop bleep* there? I cant…phhhhhhh kshsshshshshs*
I have a question. Bantiing and Best discovered insulin. It was a miracle and what was a. horrific death sentence became easily treatable. It was such a miracle that they sold the patent for $1 for the good of mankind. It wasnt even a real dollar, it was a Canadian dollar FFS.
Now that half of the country is diabetic you cant get your hands on the stuff. It is an over the counter drug yet when I ask for it at pharmacies (both of my parents are diabetic so keeping some handy is kind of importatnt) the little counter gnomes act like I am asking for heroin. After the freak out is over. If I buy it without a prescription (doctor’s direction) , oh, did I mention it is an over the counter drug, then they want north of 300 bucks for a tiny bottle.
Hence my question: With half of the country diabetic why cant I buy it by the quart at every gas station/convenience store in the country for ten bucks?
Thank you very much Tricky Dicky.
I don’t know what the current process for making it is. I do know that once upon a time they had to extract it from the pancreas of dogs. I expect there’s a synthetic process these days.
Well, that’s opening a philosophical can of worms now innit, guv?
I mean — am I actually here or am I a process on a transdimensional computer? Are any of y’all there — or just shadows on the cave wall of my perception? You could be a bit of undigested beef.. a blob of mustard! There’s more of gravy than of…. oh wait…. wrong visitor, sorry.
As to your question — my impression (which granted is fairly peripheral) is that production is non-trivial (isn’t it harvested from animals and not chemically produced or something? I seem to dimly recall that proposed alternate production methods would make a huge difference in pricing… granted, some of this may be really stale memories stemming from the diabetic JPL genius laying out why he was doomed after Hot Fudge Tuesdae in Lucifer’s Hammer… my brain muddles such things, I expect….)
Insulin production got modernized, but with the caveat of IP and regulatory barriers.
Insulin is made using recombinant DNA technology, where a human insulin gene is inserted into a bacterium, such as E. coli. The modified bacteria then produce insulin, which is harvested and purified for medical use.
Vats of E.coli. producing insulin… I don’t even want to think what that smells like.
Sounds like the creation of a new Batman supervillian.
“And then, as he ran from The Batman, the evil thug slipped and fell into a giant vat of E. coli which was producing insulin. And Fat Joker was born!”
No, no, they’ve been infused with such insulin producing powers that they suffer a chronic case of hypoglycemia – That’s the Origin story for Sweet Tooth.
When I didn’t have insurance, I would buy it over-the-counter at a non-profit medical center. In the the late 90s, it was $7.10 per bottle, which was a couple of weeks at my dosage then.
The death of OTC insulin was multifactorial:
a) Requiring a prescription was both a way to make sure the doctors got to wet their beak, and–like hormonal birth control–there was paternalism in forcing patients into being screened by a doctor. (That last part is not the worst idea; most people aren’t really smart enough to know what they need, purchase it, and use it safely and effectively.)
b) Older insulins were being phased out and more expensive drugs reformulated under patent were all that was being offered. A prescription made sure insurance could be kept in the loop and pay those higher prices.
c) Pharmacies were made to understand that giving out a drug without a prescription left them open to liability. Insulin is quite easy to kill yourself with, and other people. For example, at one point I was taking enough insulin a day to kill an easy 50% of the people who participate in our comments.
(This also got the ball rolling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_von_B%C3%BClow)
d) There was another drug war shift that went after needles, including insulin needles. At one point, I could buy the insulin OTC but had to have a script for the needles. The crackdown was stupid because it is difficult to hit a vein with an inulin needle, and the needle is too fine to pull blood back in (aspiration,) a common practice to cool a cooked heroin injection (and 99% of the danger of sharing needles.)
Thank you. That was the explanation I was looking for. Makes sense.
I’m impressed you gave a fairly complete and cogent explanation, but did not mention LLY, whose stock price has more than tripled thanks to their gamesmanship in the Insulin wars.
I didn’t want to get too far into it, mostly covering it in b)
The market distortion presented by the third-party payer problem in insurance coverage for maintenance drugs plays a huge part as well. That’s Suthenboy’s $300 bottle of insulin, that’s the insurance price. The wholesale is probably a 1/10th that. But once it has to prescribed, insurance gets involved and the fuckery begins.
I forgot to save all my uBlock settings. Damn it.
I am very glad that the site is back. It is important to me which is why I donate money and provide filler to keep the kinks posts from bumping into each other.
The kink posts bump together no matter what we do to try to stop them.
Curse you, new kwbard!
Does anybody read the kinks?
I thought the filler was the kinks!
We’ll never be as unread as the king.
I’ve read A Brief History of Time. It’s short and not difficult. The Elegant Universe is better.
I prefer the more esoteric book written by a medium after a seance where they contacted a lesser known physicist named Dr. Winter. He had some real insights into the fundamental nature of the space-time continuum and relativity.
The forward being: “Time, time time…. look what’s become of me!” because, after all — the author was a hazy shade of Winter.
lulz
OMG the UN!!!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-secret-service-disrupts-telecom-network-threatened-new-york-city-u-n-general-assembly/
I’m betting this actually was a SMS spam farm. The odds of it doing a DoS attack on the UN approaches zero.
No shit.
Surprisingly, the iPhone Air seems to be both robust and repairable. The credit goes to board size and integration.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/113171/iphone-air-teardown
Wow.
Given Apple’s history of Anti-repair design, I’m surprised.
I was up all night making cartoons. Enjoy:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-sound-of-silence.html
have you considered putting on a costume and fighting crime if you have time at night?
Meh, been there done that.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/01/i-viking-yamabushi.html
“CNN’s Scott Jennings has reported ex-MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann to the FBI after Olbermann appeared to threaten him in an online exchange regarding the return of Jimmy Kimmel to late-night television…
‘So basically his employer suspended him for being an insensitive p****, and we don’t live in an authoritarian regime? Got it,’ Jennings wrote on X Monday.
Olbermann responded, in a now-deleted post: ‘You’re next mother******.’
Jennings responded by sharing a screenshot of the post and tagging FBI Director Kash Patel, seeing it as a violent threat…
‘Burn in hell, Sinclair. Alongside Charlie Kirk,’ Olbermann wrote on his X account last Wednesday.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15125603/scott-jennings-keith-olbermann-fbi-threat-report.html
CWAA
That doesn’t sound come off as a violent threat to me. Olberdouche likely meant that Jennings would be the next to be off the air.
Same.
Mountain, meet molehill.
True, but he’s still an asshole.
Nothing makes me happier than a sissy fight between two dedicated media whores. Let me know when they start trying to tear each others’ hair out…
Low-corruption countries are most susceptible to Wokism because performative victimhood only works on populations with a universal sense of justice and moralit
https://x.com/williameijer/status/1970268397117276373
meh. I am not sure the universal sense of justice is it
Yeah, that’s a swing and a miss.
Yup.
Counterexample: The United States of America.
The error here is thinking that the United States is a low-corruption country.
Relatively speaking, it is.
Relatively speaking, we’re as corrupt as any other third-world tinpot shithole, but we’re much better at concealing it in socially acceptable terms.
yes, all of that is relative, as is ‘wokeism’. Wokeism is just a form of forcing conformity, one invented to overthrow the previous one.. Forcing conformity exists in all societies. It is the same monster just wearing differnt masks.
Humans spend their lives playing a never ending game of ‘King of the mountain’. I would rather spend my time fishing with my brother.
Will Trump destroy the Left? The Kirk killing has empowered the President
https://unherd.com/2025/09/americas-bloodthirsty-fantasies/
I do not see an imminent destruction of the left…
The only possible scenario I can think of that would have real impact is if declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization actually works and the left loses their brownshirt brigade organization again for a while (like when the Klan actually got unpopular enough to go underground for a while — the same yahoo foot soldier idiots will still be there… they’ll just have to figure out a socially acceptable way to mass organize again).
The left as a whole (and no, I’m not going to argue “whole what?” “what left?”!), absolutely no way. And once again we can all be amused that if OMB was even one quarter the dictator they portray him as, they would have all been rounded up months ago.
It will probably work. What it does is allow Trump to seize their assets and jail the funders. They will have to crawl back under their rocks. Their operatives burrowed into the deep state will have no choice but to jump ship in one way or other.
All is well, the talk show host gets to go back on the air tonight. Thankfully nothing else bad happened in the last few weeks.
Our local ABC station is Sinclair-owned, so I’m curious to see what they run tonight instead.
That will be interesting. Let us know.
🤔
Reruns of Gunsmoke?
Battle of the Network Stars? The Paul Lynde Halloween Special?
A test pattern?
Bonus points if it’s the indian head test pattern.
Wide World of Sports reruns.
Even better, broadcast speeches from the Charlie Kirk memorial.
Not quite that — but now you made me think Liberace and some of the little actual funny I’ve seen from modern SNL.
At least funny to me, granted.. comedy is, after all, subjective. (If I hadn’t burned all my links, now I’d link Love & Death‘s ‘Subjectivity is objective…’ scene.
My local ABC station is owned by Nexstar, and they just posted on their website that they will not be carrying Jimmy Kimmel.
link
Last I read, all the Sinclair stations won’t carry it.
Good. Keep the FCC out of it, this is where the fight should be.
A record number of monuments to I.V. Stalin have been built in Russia in 2025, the year of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory over Fascism.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), public organizations, citizens, and businesses helped erect and fund 13 monuments to Stalin across the country have already been instalked, as well as many architectural and artistic works
https://x.com/sogaardreed/status/1969841562545988014
It seems we are regressing to the mean. Someone sent me a link to a video on Facebook today. After I watched it, I scrolled for a second, and wouldn’t you know, one of my FB friends posted a VERY long screed about how she’s black, she believes black lives matter, and she just can’t believe any of her friends would mourn Charlie Kirk because he’s so clearly RACIST. So a warning to you all: It’s no longer safe to be in the water.
They didn’t learn the lesson. Now is the time to take notes and remember. These people who have shown themselves to be low character in big things are going to be low character in the small things, too.
It never was. I refuse to use any of that stuff. I only hang out here.
This & same.
Let me guess — because she doesn’t understand the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the 15th (? I think it was 15th) Amendment are all very different things and not liking the DEI aspects set up by the CRA doesn’t equate to “want to put y’all back IN CHAINS!” bullshit that Crockett and Company are pitching to those who can’t be arsed to actually listen to what the man said?
So bloody tedious.
Baaa!! Baaa!! Kirk BAAAAD! I don’t neeeed to think… I was told to feeeeel it!
Could’ve stopped there.
We have half a country that still believes Trump called white supremacists “fine people” even though the proof has been out there for years. They trust their “news” and the Dem leadership, who are lying their asses off. Every criticism of Kirk comes down to second hand information, misquotes, or things taken out of context. He wasn’t racist. But you can’t convince people that, otherwise they’d have to admit they’ve been lied to and they just gobbled it up without thinking. How to break people out of that bubble is one of the biggest problems we have right now.
They literally believe that everyone else are irredeemable racists and a nice chunk of them support punishing them By Any Means Necessary up to and including murder.
Dark times ahead.
May I suggest a rebuttal?
A violence enabler if I’ve ever seen one.
“We don’t kill people for being hateful bigots. However, he was certainly a hateful bigot. Oh, I’ll clothe this believe in a thousand quibbling words, but I’ll make sure that my accusations of antisemite, islamophobe, and xenophobe get in there.”
Yeah, except half of your side disagrees with you on the first sentence, you enabling asshole. Maybe stop with the name calling and pathologizing language for 5 seconds.
Kennedy may or may not have found the cause of autism. I guess time will tell. At least they’re looking into it seriously for a change. We all know it’s a growing problem, but in the past decade all we’ve seen is “It’s not vaccines. It’s not food. It’s not drugs.” “Ok, then what could be causing it?” “I don’t know, but it’s none of those things so stop looking at them.”
Meanwhile, I think the biggest news of yesterday is that Antifa is now designated as a terrorist organization. Will they find a big conspiracy? Maybe. The left has been used to getting their way with no scrutiny for years, so my guess is they’ve been sloppy about hiding their tracks. I also expect them to disrupt some upcoming “protests”.
Re Antifa: If they follow the funding and don’t just concentrate on the douchebag street level rabble rousers my money’s on they will find an actual conspiracy.
As for autism numbers, it could just all come down to better diagnostic tools and it being a “fashionable” diagnosis.
Jillian Micheals stormed off the set in regards to Israel on Her Take.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBt08BdUOPI
Seems unlike her that it was staged.
Jillian Michaels is a lot like Matt Taibbi. They used to both be solid left, then they both stepped one toe out of line and caught the full ire of the left, and they saw first hand how the game is played. And neither of them has any patience for that shit anymore.
SWITZERLAND: A Muslim woman was fined 100 Swiss francs ($126) for wearing a burqa, which was banned in the country via referendum.
She contested the charge, claiming ‘Islamophobia’, and now faces a fine of 1,000 Swiss francs ($1,260).
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1970191959106236440
Deport her ass back to one of those places where they would stone her stupid ass for daring to stand out.
*shrug*
I can be critical of Islam but fuck… banning articles of clothing is bullshit.
Bad Swiss.
I dunno. A society has a right to maintain and defend its culture, and that can include banning (or mandating*) certain articles of clothing for various reasons, including those with cultural significance.
*like, say, pants
Deport them all.
Speaking of Jews,
Shana Tova (((Glibertarians)))
Just based on OMWC’s post yesterday — I’m assuming that’s “Happy New Year” roughly? A blessed new year and may we all find some peace and our enemies some serenity and understanding if so.
Ray of sunshine for you and me, but a cloudy day for CNN.
Goodbye to the $7,500 EV tax credit. What’s that mean for EV prices?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/business/ev-tax-credit-expire-prices
Nothing. Nobody buys them anyway.
Hey – there a few of us that have a use and will pay the appropriate premium.
It means the cost of the Ford Lightning F 150 and that Mustang SUV will come down by $7,500. Mark my words. A beer for Sensei if I am wrong.
WTF is a Mustang SUV??
Hideous.
RJ – my plan is to buy a new Model 3 next year when my 8 year powertrain warranty is up on the current one.
I don’t expect it to be $7,500 more expensive.
I adore my Model Y. Excellent car.
WTF is a Mustang SUV??
There is no such thing.
There is an abomination in the Ford line which has Mustang badging, but it is not a Mustang. It is an abomination.
I hate the 7th generation Mustang’s interior, but I will call that a Mustang. I will not call the abomination a Mustang.
When I first saw someone mention a “Ford Abomination” I thought “That’s not a Ford model name format”
I’m convinced the Abomination should be an Audi.
The Ford Monstrosity first their format better.
What other model names fit the various companies?
Ha. I hadn’t thought of that way but yes it makes absolute sense.
I am Titty Tuesday and you shall have no other Tuesdays before me.
https://archive.is/52RZY
If only Firefox has PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR errors, why don’t they fix it so it doesn’t do that?
They probably will. I can say this – One or another browser is always annoying me. I try to keep Brave and Firefox up to date, so when one is misbehaving (usually Brave) I have a backup. There is no perfect, stable browser.
they cannot gen enough qualified Indian H1B programmers?
Every man is just looking for a Beautiful Mid to cook him some mid pizza
https://x.com/LindyTasteful/status/1970222271546397008
That girl never eats even a topping that goes on those pizzas.
Also what is this “mid?” I can’t keep up with you cool kids and your new terms.
Like a middle of the road person. Average. That girl is definitely not mid.
I believe it is “mid-rated” or somesuch.. basically 5-6 on the old “rating from 1-10 scale”.
She seems like a reasonably attractive normal woman to me — if I weren’t married, I’d certainly accept pizza from her if she offered. Not sure what the point of the tweet is (beyond possibly “Look at me!” ?)
well if Sydney Sweeney is mid so is that girl
Not sure what the point of the tweet – you really are not acquainted with the internet
Mid attractiveness, placed in her tweet so the responses will say “you aren’t mid.” IOW, a cry for attention and affirmation.
Mid was placed there by the shitposting X account not by the original person
Right — “look at me!”
Presumably also mid, Pie…
neah Shakira was a solid 7.5
Not enough pepperoni.
#fail
Why is she working so slow, and why does she need a guide to cut the slices? I’ve watched real pizzaria works slice a pie in the time it takes her to get the guide.
I’ve never even seen a pizza cutting guide.
Before this, nor had I.
Looks unusually cold for someone working next to a pizza oven.
Isn’t “beautiful mid” a contradiction in terms?
I thought it was a Russel Crowe/Jennifer Connoly movie.
On the whole Kirk memorial thing:
Does his widow actually understand what forgiveness really means? I find it hard to believe that she wants the man who killed her husband to walk out of jail, free as a bird, and not face any punishment whatsoever.
Because that’s what forgiveness means.
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
Matt Walsh disagrees:
One of the most poignant scenes in the greatest TV miniseries of all time, Lonesome Dove. They find one of their old friends, Jake, fallen in with a gang of murderers and horse thieves. Justice demands that they execute the whole group, including Jake. He briefly pleads for his life but Robert Duvall’s character, Gus, says: “You ride with outlaws, you die with outlaws. I’m sorry you crossed the line, son.”
And he was sorry. But they had to do what they had to do. They put the rope around Jake’s neck, offer him some final words of kindness, and then hang him. They didn’t want to kill him but they had no choice. He was owed a certain punishment. And justice means giving a man what he is owed.
The current debate about the concept of Christian forgiveness seems to assume that we must choose between punishment or mercy, justice or forgiveness. But these are all dimensions of each other.
To forgive a man who commits a heinous crime just means that you do not harbor hatred for him in your heart. You want him to be saved and go to Heaven. You can feel that way even as you put the noose around his neck. That in fact is the most Christian way to handle violent criminals. Pray for their souls. And then send them off to meet God. He will decide what happens next.
https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1970185550234599916
I’ll leave that to the faithful here, but Christian forgiveness is different from the secular meaning. It doesn’t mean there are no consequences.
Of my moral failing, the wrath in my heart is one I least address. I have it partially shackled as I do not last out in violence, but the want for vengence boils, and lingers.
She’s not the State of Utah.
Forgiveness means giving up resentment and hatred against the person forgiven. It has nothing to do with the legal punishments that will be imposed.
I appreciate the clarifications above.
I do struggle with the idea that you can have no resentment or hatred of somebody, and want to them caged up for the rest of their life. Even (or perhaps especially) if you hope they make it to heaven afterwards.
RC, I think it’s a goal. You will naturally have the desire for wrath and vengenge. You start down the road to forgiveness by the first step of saying it, and work in your heart over time.
As for the cage, it ties to the concept of purgatory – the criminal does pennance for their sins, undergoing a process of spiritual repurification. Ultimately, they pay reform, or they may damn themselves, but it cannot be reached without the penitence. Hence penitentiary
No it’s not. Forgiveness and mercy are two different things. Forgiveness = “I don’t harbor resentment toward you”. Mercy= “you don’t get the full consequences of your actions”.
She can forgive him but that doesn’t mean the law will. Hopefully he gets the squad.
Her comment (paraphrased) that “this young man is the kind Charlie was trying to reach and I forgive him” just got me somewhere in my feelz because for the first time, I FELT that. If I try to put it into words WHY, it sounds stupid, so I won’t.
A journey along the Pangi Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/197046780203017049
neah
IS LINK FAIL
godamnit a 4 was cut off at the end
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1970467802030170494
Is that a fucking bus?
I thought this was gonna be a video of people shitting on the streets like you see also in San Fran…
Sean, there is a new Jeep Cherokee commercial. Torchinsky just posted it at Autopian. And he’s right, it is terrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrEl5hnOf7I
I wonder if people that were conceived in the back of a Cherokee thinks that makes them part Native American.
Not a fan of the styling. And it’s carrying over to the new (and larger) Compass line. 🙁
My Compass is an ideal size for me and the styling is enough to stand out in a sea of bland SUVs.
How the mighty have fallen.
Miss Russia contestants 🇷🇺
https://x.com/LindyTasteful/status/1969045893195178147
Just biological women… weak
Stop gaying it up, Pie!
NPR was of course pooh-poohing any connection between acetaminophen and autism. They did not show such skepticism about plastic straws or teflon pans.
Same at Salon, Guardian, etc.
Strategic skepticism on NPR’s part is par for the course. I’m not sure I buy the acetaminophen link but it’s good they’re at least looking into it.
“They did not show such skepticism about plastic straws or teflon pans.”
Won’t you think of them turtles, ya barbarian!
“The science is settled.”
FOREVER CHEMICALS!!!!!11!!1!!
Microplastics!
Last night I put my hatred of little Billy Ford in and his family in my pocket and rooted for the Lions to beat the Ravens. Because that’s what grownups do.
They did not show such skepticism about plastic straws or teflon pans.
Black plastic cooking spoons!
The proof is in the science.
How about the scourge of gas stoves? Poor people are dropping dead from asthma in droves.
Oh yes. That was a panic for about a week if I remember correctly.
On the left, you can see child autism diagnoses.
On the right, you can see states with policies that give schools more money when their students are diagnosed with autism.
When these policies pass, autism diagnoses increase by almost 25% in one year!
Incentives matter for autism diagnosis.
For example, people on SSI receive larger payouts if they’re diagnosed with autism.
After the economic downturn in 2008, the most heavily impacted age group started getting diagnosed with autism at an incredible rate:
Similarly, because laws in many places mandate providing more resources to autistic children, parents have sought to get their mentally retarded children diagnosed as autistic.
Using California as an example, more than a quarter of the rise 1992-2005 was due to this:
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1970347800774017296
See also: Covid.
Medicine is as thoroughly corrupted by politics as everything else now.
Why it’s almost like you get more of what you reward, or something.
It is iron-something-or-other.
Since it was a UK and Australia study at least it probably wasn’t US tax money wasted on it.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/20/lifestyle/adult-virgins-share-these-traits-and-size-does-matter/
Q works for Meta!
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-lawsuit-strike-3-porn-copyright-ai/
I do NOT want an AI trained on feminist porn, thankyouverymuch.
I see hair of blue
And no one is white
The fat tattooed Domme
The leather clad dyke
And I think to myself
What a wonderful porno
Where is Barfman when you need him?
Yes, inventing glasses in 2013 was a terrible idea and we definitely shouldn’t have started allowing children to wear them.
What? The study concluded land whales with colored hair were more likely to have to become clam lickers?
The comments are great.
“A King County Councilmember is facing mounting backlash and potential legal consequences after admitting she doxxed law enforcement officers she mistakenly believed were US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Last week, the far-left activist group Indivisible Washington’s 8th District shared a “PSA” from King County Councilmember Sarah Perry, warning that “at least 4 ICE agents” were staying at the SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Issaquah. The information came from a now-deleted post on Perry’s personal Facebook page, which included the exact address of the hotel and even specified the floors the supposed agents were staying on….
Brandi Kruse, host of the Undivided podcast, revealed that the individuals Perry doxxed were Washington State Patrol officers staying at the hotel for training, not ICE agents.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/wa-councilmember-doxxes-law-enforcement-believing-them-to-be-ice-agents
CWAC
I hope she reaps a lot of traffic citations.
“Google admitted that the Biden administration pressured the company to censor content on its platforms and has committed that they will reinstate accounts that were terminated from the platform.
In a letter to Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan, Google’s parent company Alphabet stated, “Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies. While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden Administration officials continued to press the Company to remove non-violative user-generated content.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-google-admits-biden-admin-pressured-them-to-censor-youtubers-will-reinstate-banned-accounts
CW(ABOA)^2
Either name names, or lose your cozy advertising monopoly. None of this ‘senior administration officials’ bullshit.
Guilty by virtue of being named Brandi.
Whoops, this was supposed to be a response to Tater’s previous post.
“While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently”
Sure you did. But an offhand remark by the FCC Chair is the death knell of the First Amendment.
Plus, what Evil said. Name. Fucking. Names.
Just FYI, my name is Sheldon. ‘Evil’ is just a title.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Ummmm, no.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/lifestyle/dating-theory-women-who-hate-men-are-the-most-desirable-to-date/
Women who openly “hate men”, IMO, are nothing like the guy is describing. They’re usually bitter, cynical and annoying.
“Oh… hell no!” is my immediate reaction (and I think most male’s honestly… who in the world would want to go in knowing she’s got that sort of chip on her shoulder? You’re just asking to live down to her expectations one bad day and then get however many decades of resentment transferred to you on behalf of your gender).
She might like you, but all your buddies won’t be welcome to your house.
Obligatory.
I bet this was written by some fugly hag that wants to convince beta asshats friends she is hawt and worthy of being dated.
Written by a woman.
Now, I’m a pretty heroine-centric writer and reader, and I like having female SIMPATICO company.
But sometimes, women just rub me the wrong way. I prefer my hostility up front and clearly stated, preferably with bullet points. A PowerPoint presentation of all my shortcomings would probably be well deserved.
The politics, I cannot stand. I don’t understand it and I can’t fight it.
“In particular, after private equity acquisition, patients are more likely to die in the emergency department, largely due to decreases in overall staffing and salary expenditures.”
The solution to this would be government owned hospitals. We’ve seen how well this works with the VA.
What happens when private equity buys a hospital? More people die in the ER, a new report says.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/business/private-equity-hospitals/
If PE is buying the hospital the other option without was likely bankruptcy. At that point we get to write the story how people in these areas are dying on their way to distant hospitals. Another reason government needs to step in.
Who cares about hospitals? The real threat is a closed rural super market!
Some people in Minnesoda live MILES from the nearest supermarket. I’m one of them. My nearest supermarket is 5 miles away. But I go to a different one that is 7 miles away because of the parking/traffic nightmare at the closest one. Thanks city planners!
A 25 mile drive isn’t that big of a deal for rural folx. When I was growing up on the farm, the nearest supermarket was a 20 mile round trip. We managed.
That’s also the stupdity of strictly using distance too.
Where I went to school in the boonies and you had rural roads you used mileage for distances. Where I live now you use time. The supermarket that is 3 miles from my house is a 15 minute drive on a good day and could be 25 to 30 minutes on a bad one.
How on earth did rural people not die of hunger in the bad old days when there were a hell of lot more of them? Where did they hide the stacks of corpses?
Whaddya know? Minneapolis is actually doing something right. OK, it might be the Hennepin County planners who are doing something right, but that is just as amazing.
What are the right thinking people upset about? They are big mad because the new plans for revamping a major street/artery in Minneapolis is more focused on cars and not bikes! The new plans don’t have any dedicated bike lanes!!!!
As long as we are investigating funding for various lefties, can we include groups like Move Minnesota and other bike advocacy groups?
Sometimes you folks are an unbelievably tough crowd. I really thought that was a good one.
Pearls before swine SDF-7
I thought pitting otherwise enlightened planners against otherwise peaceful transportation advocates would get some reaction, but nooooooooooo!
We were so hard to please.
I’m glad at least you stopped to remember me.
STEVE SMITH JUST HARD.
Holier than thou
But even though I am a Christian, my main concern isn’t that Trump’s remark about hating his opponents is a bold and unrepentant defiance of a command directly out of the mouth of Jesus, but that it is an equally bold declaration that he doesn’t think of himself as the president for all Americans. Every president of the United States has opponents, but have we ever heard a president declare his hatred for them?
To the contrary, we’ve come to expect people who’ve been elected to run the country to commit to being everybody’s president. George W. Bush made that commitment when he gave his victory speech in 2000: “Whether you voted for me or not, I will do my best to serve your interests and I will work to earn your respect.” Barack Obama said, “And, to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your president, too.” Joe Biden said, “I will work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me — as those who did.” Even Trump, in 2016, said, “I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans.”
Now, in case we hadn’t already figured it out, Trump wants us to know that he’s only president for some Americans. That’s the only conclusion we can draw — unless we accept the absurd idea that Trump expects to faithfully serve Americans he hates.
A real President would spout the generally accepted vacuous platitudes. This usurper, on the other hand…
Which of these Presidents got up on a dark stage with ominous red and black draperies and lighting to declare half the country dangerous extremists?
“That’s different!”
The one who called people who disagreed with him bitter clingers?
In November, the governor pledged that he would replace the federal government’s electric vehicle purchasing credit with a state version, should Trump cancel the $7,500-per-new-car benefit. Trump did so, meaning electric vehicles will become much more expensive for Americans after Sept. 30. Now, it turns out that relief isn’t actually on its way for Californians — Newsom said Friday that his administration won’t be replacing the popular rebates.
Sorry CA taxpayers. You are going to have to take this win at the expense of the environment.
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/newsom-reverses-ev-credit-california-21057761.php
Like fish in the sea
Nearly every word in the president’s post was a lie. Antifa isn’t an organization. There is no legal statute with which to declare antifa a “major terrorist organization.” Nor does antifa have a network of rich, shadowy benefactors who can be unmasked. (What little money antifa’s practitioners do have typically comes from their own pockets.)
“I guess the problem with antifa not being an actual organization is that almost nobody is going out and pumping out PR for us,” an American anti-fascist activist told me after the president’s declaration Wednesday. (They asked that their name be withheld for fear of reprisals from the far right.) In other words: Because antifa — short for “anti-fascist” — refers to a decentralized and largely underground subculture of leftists dedicated to combating the far right, most of whom conceal their identities, there are no official leaders or spokespeople to go on cable news to refute Trump’s lies.
I interviewed roughly 60 American anti-fascists for my forthcoming book, “To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right.” Over the past decade they have seen Trump and other MAGA figures exploit public misapprehensions about antifa to manufacture a bogeyman, threatening on multiple occasions to officially designate these sometimes-militant anti-fascists as terrorists. Those threats proved empty, but Trump’s executive order feels more menacing.
There is no such thing as antifa, but if there were, they would be the most bravest and patriotic Americans ever to conspire against the forces of capitalist oppression.
“to manufacture a bogeyman”
LOLOLOLOLOL
Now do “white supremacists”.
So as long as you don’t incorporate, you can’t be a terrorist organization no matter what you do?
Interesting . . . .
Man, someone should have told the Mafia this one neat trick that the government hates!
Only if you are on the left. If you are on the right you are a card carrying member of the Nazi party, whether there is such a card, or even such a party in existence
It’s funny how this thing that isn’t even real has so many websites, Facebook pages, and Telegram channels…
Logos,
Websites
“Since 2016, Rose City Antifa has been one of the nine chapters of the Torch Network coalition”
Just an idea.
With formal coalitions and chapters.
Six subtle signs you might be on a watchlist:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/femail/text-15122637/lawyer-signs-government-watchlist.html
(Femail??)
#7: You’re alive.
Experimenting some technological differences?
Nice obit for the designer of the Miata and the FD RX-7. I didn’t realize he recently passed.
https://www.theautopian.com/remembering-tsutomu-tom-matano-father-of-the-mazda-mx-5-miata/
It was. Today there is one for Sergei Sikorsky, also long form.
I voted for this.
“In 2024, the UN budgeted $372M in cash assistance to support migrants journeying into the United States… The UN also provided food, shelter, transportation and debit cards to illegal aliens… The UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them… In the United States we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime and deplete our social safety nets. We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people.”
I voted for the next sentence being: “As such, effectively immediately — the United States will no longer fund, host or participate in the United Nations and you all have 72 hours to vacate these premises.”
In my wettest dreams.
I got to know what antifa actually is over the past decade as a reporter covering the far right. Although there are certainly groups and individual activists who identify as antifa, the word also refers to a set of principles and strategies for dismantling the far right: a militant style of anti-fascism that believes that fascist groups need to be sometimes physically confronted in the streets, that fascists should be allowed “no platform” to organize and that law enforcement can’t be depended upon in the fight against fascism. Antifa’s practitioners are anti-capitalist, describing themselves as different variations of anarchists, socialists and communists. Most hide their identities to protect against reprisals from far-right activists.
And while these antifa activists ascribe to a certain militancy, the violence they commit is rare and nonfatal, most often manifesting in the occasional act of Nazi-punching at street demonstrations. The vast, vast majority of the work they do is nonviolent, and it often involves gathering intelligence about the far right, even sometimes — as my book details — engaging in espionage. A 2020 study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies tied the far right to hundreds of murders over the previous 25 years, while anti-fascists were tied to zero murders in the same time frame. (A month after the report came out, a self-described anti-fascist killed a far-right activist in Portland.)
Disciples of peace and love and understanding. Not like Trump’s robot army of Nazis.
Send them to the camps their ideological brethren built.
They can complain about Stalin not knowing they are there and how loyal they are to the cause while they toil.
Just because they designed it to be hard to track down, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be tracked down.
If the group doesn’t exist, how did he find people to talk to?
Nothing says you are the good guys, like being part of a movement of violent marxist douchebags hell bent on mayhem, destruction, murder, and other evil, all in the name of what? Forcing people to accept the deviant mentally deranged as their betters? Fuck that shit.
Go home, Cackles… you’re drunk again.
Because if you are both younger and a BMW driver the first thing you do the minute the smoke starts is take a pictureAND post to Reddit.
If Your BMW’s Steering Wheel Isn’t Smoking, Is It Even Heated?
https://www.theautopian.com/if-your-bmws-steering-wheel-isnt-smoking-is-it-even-heated/
I slept in, cuz I don’t work today, Tho dentist later. Will read and pursue.
Rock on, you shiny diamonds.
War on heresy
he administration used studies authored and published by scientists who deny the existence of climate change to justify the decision. The scientists behind the studies have been trying to plant seeds of doubt about climate change among the scientific community for years, according to CNN.
In response to the decision, the Democratic caucus on Monday said, “Scientists, financial experts, international governments, and the American public agree that climate change is a looming crisis. Greenhouse-gas driven climate change is driving extreme weather, flooding, erosion, sea-level rise, heat waves, drought, catastrophic wildfires, famine, smog pollution, and other disasters.”
“These effects drive illness, hospital visits, and deaths, as well as displacement, asset loss, infrastructure damage, rising insurance premiums, declining home values, and long-term destabilization of the national economy. … And yet, in this proposal, EPA proposes to abdicate all responsibility to address this dangerous pollution,” they added.
We took a vote. That’s what science means.
The “Endangerment Finding” was always a load of anti-human bullshit, it is long past time to be rid of it.
Fuck. Off.
To all of them and their precious grant-money.
No. No, we don’t. We’re too busy trying to afford eggs and suffering in bewildered survival mode.
I have a friend. Yes. It appears that I do. In meatspace.
Anyway, my friend arrived for dinner last night looking haggard and worn. She’s got estranged children—not because of anything she did (now, this is a woman who could get XY to walk to the moon for her), but because she gently asked that they respect her home and her as the matriarch in her own kitchen.
“We felt chastised.”
ORLY. For me, this rises to the hilarity of “It just slipped in. Twice.” (I am never going to NOT find that hilarious.) However, this means she doesn’t get to see her grandkids and she is ALLLLLL about kids. Can’t relate.
My XX is getting this touchy, too. XY got “touchy” and all his other woke notions beaten out of him by the act of managing people who don’t have a lick of common sense and who also bristle at being chastised and who also do stupid shit.
ANYWAY.
She is very heavily burdened by feelings of abandonment and has spent umpteen years trying to find some way to alleviate this burden (therapy, etc.). Her latest thing is to try EMDR. Now, I’ve done this and it’s VERY helpful. I also get relief when I get a massage. I asked her if she cried during massages and she said sometimes, but that’s not good enough.
*I* think her problem is that she takes on everybody else’s pain/trauma then bottles it up because she’s a good [[[woman]]] who can’t let her emotions out. Good [[[women]]] are not allowed to be angry and it manifests in all sorts of different (all bad) ways. “Pressure busts the pipe,” as they say.
Well, lemme tell you, honey. You can come here and let it all out. Vent. Curse. Be angry. Don’t throw things. I’m territorial and I don’t want my stuff touched. I am the only person in this stake who’s going to indulge your baser instincts and not gossip.
So I bring it to you. Do you have any ideas? She has tried everything I could come up with, but I couldn’t divest myself of it all until my children were settled on their life path.
Oh, I didn’t finish the thought.
Then today I’m working along, listening to Mr. Ballen’s stories, and this was one of them, and I started to tear up, because shit. That’s love. That’s a man.
Why were they on the tracks?
If I understand correctly, it’s “haunted,” and they were out adventuring, looking for the “ghost train,” which was a passenger train. Passenger trains didn’t use that track much by that time, but freight trains did.
This is a problem for which I have no solution.
Axe-throwing?
I ACTUALLY THOUGHT OF THAT!!! Then promptly forgot. Thank you!!!
I’ve always particularly loved that line from The Last Boy Scout: “Sure, sure, I know… it just happened. Coulda happened to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, slipped on the floor and accidentally stuck your dick in my wife. ‘Whoops! I’m so sorry, Mrs. H. I guess this just isn’t my week.'”
That had its moments.
“I fell in the shower and this lightbulb just went up my butt.”
Sounds like an actual British rape trial.
https://www.newarab.com/news/millionaire-who-tripped-and-penetrated-woman-cleared-rape#:~:text=A%20Saudi%20millionaire%20property%20developer,she%20tried%20to%20seduce%20him.
So as long as you don’t incorporate, you can’t be a terrorist organization no matter what you do?
“I’m sorry, there is no listing for antifa in the telephone book. No such name, no such number.”