Good morning one and all to another wonderful day! Do I need to even say it?
Democrat-Supporting Federal Workers Union Calls For End To Shutdown
These States Lose Most If Federal Food Aid Runs Out
LAX, Other Airports Slow Down as Fed Shutdown Hits Air Traffic Control
House Oversight Committee deems some of Biden’s autopen orders ‘invalid,’ asks DOJ to investigate
Trump Offered to Build White House Ballroom for Obama in 2010
Nearly Half Of State AGs Ask SCOTUS To End ‘Birthright Citizenship’
Conservative activist fights ‘destitution’ Democrat AG imposed on him after voters sided with him
That Zohran Mamdani ‘9/11 Aunt’ Story Is Already Falling Apart, Despite the Blind Media Support
This Guy Thought It Would Be a Good Idea to Post a $45,000 Bounty on Pam Bondi – the FBI Disagreed
Amazon laying off about 14,000 corporate workers as it invests more in AI
Google teams up with energy giant to revive a long-shuttered nuclear plant
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
The government is still shutdown?
I know, right!
Only if you wish to annoy the Knights who until just recently said “Ni”, I suppose.
Morning, Banjos! Morning all.
“The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a union representing more than 800,000 government workers, released an open letter calling on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his caucus to vote for a House-passed bipartisan spending bill to reopen the government.”
Not the least bit surprising, but they still shouldn’t have a union. Never mind that’s twice the population of Iceland.
That unemployed lesbian truck driver looks like she has enough food.
lol
I have a hard time believing that more than 41 million Americans are genuinely hard-up and have nowhere else to turn for food but their taxpaying neighbors.
Because of course it’s nonsense.
I can absolutely believe that about 9% of Americans are shiftless lazy scumbags who are incapable of productive work.
I think there’s a large contingent of early 20 somethings that believe going to work everyday and paying bills is for chumps.
Chumps like me.
If only we weren’t tied to an overreaching FedGov system and could simply have privately operated airports coordinating through an agreed upon system or something. So wacky… everything must be dictated from DC…. everybody knows that…
SDF, I sung the same song to myself when I heard the comment.
Yeah… as much as I dislike PPP and do believe he didn’t have a clue and his staff ran the autopen.. this is Constitutionally murky enough I hope it wends through the courts as well so we get a clear guideline on what is allowed and what isn’t.
Of course, I also wish all the GOPe Congresscritters that post election were happy to say how much they recognized PPP wasn’t in control would have publicly pushed for the 25th so we wouldn’t have been in this boat. Yes, we would have suffered through President Cackles… but I expect it would have been pretty much the same staff in charge anyway.
I think the idea of the autopen is constitutionally murky. Why shouldn’t we demand the president’s actual signature on presidential orders?
Here’s the thing:
A signature is really just evidence of intent – to enter into an agreement, to transfer title, to enact a law, whatever. When its a wet ink signature, its pretty much deemed to be effective/conclusive evidence unless somebody can meet the pretty high bar of proving that the signatory was mentally incompetent.
A machine has no such intent. So what is needed is additional evidence that the President actually intended to issue the order, sign the bill, whatever. I suppose there could be a paper trail, but I suspect it’s really just testimony from White House insiders. That testimony, of course, has to be persuasive.
Really, the whole mess could be avoided if Congress would pass a law requiring a public signing of anything with legal effect. I’m sure Trump would sign it – he loves signing ceremonies.
I think the autopen has not been challenged in court. GWB’s DoJ issued an opinion that it was acceptable to use for signing legislation and such as long as the president directed and authorized its use.
The autopen is not new. Truman might have used it. Ford and Nixon used it. Poking around on the Intertubes, the first reference I can find to a president actually using it to sign legislation wasn’t GWB, but was Barack Obama.
So the evidence that would be needed is that the President authorized and directed its use to sign a particular piece of legislation.
IOW, pretty much what I said.
IOW, pretty much what I said.
Yep.
And given how long autopen has been in use, I can see Chief Justice Penaltax not wanting to touch it. So that leaves, as you said, Congress. I’m not going to hold my breath.
I do not believe the two are even related. There is just so much cruft available to clean out.
UCS is right. In any growing company, where there is more money coming in than anyone really knows what to do with, there is a tendency to throw money at any problem, which means people, as it is easy to hire more people to solve problems. When the money flattens out, intake wise, hiring stops. And, when revenues contract, you start laying off the under performing.
The article links to Reuters and the company’s blog post on the layoffs.
From Reuters:
Reuters first reported on Monday Amazon was planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday, as the company compensates for over-hiring during the peak demand of the pandemic.
From the blog post:
While this will include reducing in some areas and hiring in others, it will mean an overall reduction in our corporate workforce of approximately 14,000 roles. We’re working hard to support everyone whose role is impacted, including offering most employees 90 days to look for a new role internally (the timing will vary some based on local laws), and our recruiting teams will prioritize internal candidates to help as many people as possible find new roles within Amazon. For our teammates who are unable to find a new role at Amazon or who choose not to look for one, we’ll offer them transition support including severance pay, outplacement services, health insurance benefits, and more.
The blog post mentions AI only once, at the end.
It sounds to me like Amazon over-invested in certain areas and is shifting to what they think is a money maker. I suspect that yes, AI is part of that. But I also suspect AWS is going to have a shake-up. Cull some dead weight, shift some better talent into AWS.
Local paper says it’s twice that many – closer to 30k
Our company goes through this stuff every year. The usual line is something like “Some parts of the business are growing. Others are shrinking. We need to divest from the parts that are shrinking. Many people who are being laid off will find another position within the company.” I was one of those people a few years ago.
Of course… your states could also push for a clarifying amendment and not rely on the Nazgul (who could, after all, change their minds when the balance of the Court swings)… Not that I think either is terribly likely to pan out… but it sure would be nice if the system actually was given a try instead of constant end runs.
Getting 35 states to agree to anything is unlikely.
Getting 35 libertarians to agree to anything is unlikely.
But we’re talking about state government ratifying constituional amentments, so the opinions of Libertarians are not involved.
I disagree.
That’s nice.
Getting 35 libertarians to agree to anything is unlikely.
There can be only 1 true libertarian at any given time, so mathematically getting 35 to agree is impossible.
Argentinian libertarians seemed to agree on something.
They need to be captured, studied in a lab and then cloned. Post-haste!
You know who else wanted to clone people in South America?
I’m still not understanding the business case for AI that requires the output of a nuclear power station.
The business case is that the C-Suite have gotten drunk on the buzz and salesfluff.
I cannot wait for AI SMITH to start posting! Come on, nuclear power!
You can call me Al…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA&list=RDuq-gYOrU8bA&start_radio=1
ZWAK – speaking of.
Paul Simon’s ‘Still Crazy After All These Years’ Turns 50
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/paul-simons-still-crazy-after-all-these-years-turns-50-7ce979e0?st=9UzrY6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Not my favorite album at the time as a youngster, but as I’ve gotten much older I appreciate more of it.
If You Build It, They Will Come – Field of Dreams (1989)
https://youtu.be/o3c_pJ_CLJQ?si=GfR3x8Di1Fr092yk
One theory — though I don’t think AI is going to be anywhere near good enough nor that it would pan out like they think.
I personally just think “mega bubble” because most of the real costs are being hidden by the providers right now to try to drive adoption, the energy costs are going to continue to skyrocket given there’s so little slack in the grids now combined with “net zero” BS and it isn’t going to drive productivity outside of a few niches (but I’m a fuddyduddy and all… I’d say old, but 4×20 will show up to heckle me if I try that…)
I’ve seen several pieces showing that quite a bit of the investing in AI companies is coming from companies upstream of the AI companies, such as NVIDIA investing in OpenAI. OpenAI needs lots of NVIDIA chips to run their LLM, NVIDIA offers them discounted financing to help them both out. This will work great IFF the bet on OpenAI pans out. If it collapses, it may take down some of the other suppliers as well.
What might be happening is that AI is the excuse to reopen nuclear plants in the states, and AI, in itself, is not that impressive on the high end nor need all that POWA that is being asked of it.
Just a thought, not a server.
When we moved to the farm in ’52 we survived with kerosene lamps for a year. The REA power was available but our farm house wasn’t wired. Finally, in ’53 we had electricity, my bedroom had 1 overhead light and 1 outlet. It was like heaven.
After watching a Tucker interview – the whole thing sounds like a Laundry Files grand summoning of something terrible.
Oh it is absolutely a bubble. A huge bubble. I just hope the US economy diversifies enough to survive the popping of said bubble. Because it will be a big pop.
In all seriousness, it takes private industry to move our rickety electrical grid into the next century. This is how it should be. Everyone wants better power generation, but nobody blinked.
Amazon will be the primary beneficiary of the new power but it will also power the surrounding areas.
Yahoo had a market cap of $125 billion before the bubble popped. Markets eventually correct excess optimism.
“The Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, Iowa, is expected to reopen by 2029 after closing in 2020, primarily to power Google’s AI and cloud operations with clean, round-the-clock nuclear energy.”
Doesn’t seem to say why it closed in the first place.
Green subsidies and feels.
In January 2018, NextEra Energy announced that it was unlikely that DAEC would operate beyond 2025.[10] The plant was given a 20-year license extension to 2034 but considered closing after Alliant Energy, which contracts for 70% of the plant’s electricity, announced it would instead be buying electricity generated by wind and natural gas.[11] I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Arnold_Energy_Center
OFFS!
“I’ll take Retarded Greenies for $100, Alex.”
Don’t miss the update in the side column where the “aunt” has become a “dead cousin”.
And how DARE anyone question his sincerity or truthfulness. Classic commie behavior.
What surprised me was how poorly he spoke in front of the public, when he had the press conference for this BS.
I thought that he would at least be a decent public speaker a la Obama, but he was just pathetic.
In his head he probably thinks he’s
God’sAllah’s gift to oration.He may not even be aware of how unbelievably lucky he is to arrive on the scene just when his Party is going off the deep end toward communism, and how lucky he is to have effectively zero opposition.
Obama was less than impressive when he was it reading a speech.
Interestingly, the ad accompanying the link was for Michelle Truitt for a supervisor seat in East Goshen Twp.PA. Her husband is a former PA state rep and former chair of the county LP chapter.
Yep a family member no one can verify and his dutiful propagandist will carry the water forward for it
The best response to that tall tale was somebody who said “Hey, you know, my aunt stopped riding the subway after 9/11, too. Of course, that’s because she was killed when two Muslims flew a plane into her building.”
I think they’re already running with “stupid racist white people don’t know ‘auntie’ refers to any older female you’ve ever met”.
I noticed that Ukrainian propaganda bots are extra active this week. Looks like they are about to lose a big battle.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/pokrovsk-cauldron-russian-forces-tighten-noose-around-donetsk/
Ukraine’s screwed and has been for some time. Better send them a few billion.
And some cruise missiles.
The problem is Trump always believes the last he talked to. If it was a neo-con or western euro leader, he thinks the Ukrainians are winning. If it was somebody like Gabbard, he thinks the Russians are winning and he should distance himself before the collapse.
not from Belgium
JFC. Your continent is swirling down the drain as it is. You don’t have any cash to piss away on that money pit.
I guess it’s a good thing for the elites that their subjects don’t have any say in the matter.
Amazon laying off about 14,000 corporate workers as it invests more in AI
It’s difficult to overstate the impact that AI is going to have on white-collar jobs. It’s evolved to the point that my small company is currently using it to replace the work of at least 2 full-time people. I predict most companies in my space will need to slash their workforce by at least 30-50% to remain competitive as it takes hold and evolves. We’re using it grow more quickly instead.
Graphic and video designers are dead-end fields now. Editing agencies have already had layoffs of up to 70%. Financial consultants have been laid off left and right. I predict accounting and law are up next.
Dear Lord… I don’t trust AI to generate a python script that doesn’t suck… who in the name of God’s green Earth is using it for financial consulting? :shudder:
Oh, I can probably find a couple names for you.
I think business financial consultants?
Actual retail financial advisors have a bunch of concerns, but the industry is generally trying to leverage it. It’s been a declining profession as younger generations go for more online self directed options.
However, as assets increase they lack the knowledge for more complex planning.
^Yes, Bain, etc.
It’s incredible for general finance as well. I’m hiring people all over the country. Every state has different tax laws and requirements. It took approximately 45 seconds for AI to search and review the tax laws and compliance burden of every single state. The output was a summary of good states to focus hiring in, states to avoid hiring in, and maybe states. Every state included a breakdown of key factors, including market vs performance-based sourcing (e.g., if I would need to apportion business income tax in that state vs not), expensive franchise fees, out of state registration requirements for partners, and local taxing at the city level.
Then it’s another 5 seconds to generate a detailed multipage summary if I want more info on a state. All of the information was easily confirmed and served as the basis for discussions with both my attorney and CPA (AI was 100% correct in it’s summary and determinations).
I can’t even imagine how long it would have taken me to sort through 50 different states to obtain this. Or much I would have had to pay someone to do it. This is paradigm shifting technology.
“I asked AI if these were taxable events. AI said no so I left them off my tax return”
Sad taxpayer
Yep it’s madness.
It’s the off-shoring disaster times a hundred thousand.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
I predict accounting and law are up next.
We could probably reduce my team of six lawyers by two simply by organizing our templates on a sharepoint, setting up a OneNote notebook with our best practices, and saving all our documents to our salesforce db. No AI needed.
I helped do the equivalent updates on my last team, and the AI audit they just did didn’t find any room for process improvement. Perhaps they could integrate AI for better access to info on the fly.
Many of the coming cuts are going to be due to the AI push knocking the cruft off of old, inefficient teams
“A perverted chatbot created to emulate pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is telling children to “spill” their “craziest” secrets, a disturbing investigation has found.
The chatbot, creepily named Bestie Epstein, has had thousands of chats with users on Character.AI — a platform where users can create and talk to AI-generated characters, including virtual sex offenders and other alarming personas, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported.
“Wanna come explore?” that gross chatbot asked tech reporter Effie Webb. “I’ll show you the secret bunker under the massage room.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/28/world-news/perverted-jeffrey-epstein-chatbot-tells-kids-to-spill-their-craziest-secrets-lets-see-how-far-youre-willing-to-go/
WTF?
WTF indeed. Who comes up with this shit?
Probably just the tip of the iceberg of such material that is out there.
I’m holding out for the Ed Buck chatbot.
“Anyone who wants to have sex with a young girl in Los Angeles can drive to “the Blade,” a notorious red-light district where 12-year-olds are openly walking the streets — and cops are all but powerless to thwart the disgusting pedo bazaar.
The children line up along a 2-mile section of Figueroa Street — a k a “the Kiddle Stroll” — clad in next to nothing to indulge in their johns’ sickest fantasies for around a hundred bucks….
Some of these laws were meant to shift blame away from trafficking victims and onto their pimps, including one law passed in 2019 that treats underage prostitutes as victims of abuse rather than criminal offenders.
But another controversial law — SB-357, passed in 2023 — bars law enforcement from approaching an underage victim based on how she’s dressed.
A 12-year-old girl could walk by in lingerie, and there would be nothing a police officer could do about it.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/28/us-news/inside-las-notorious-kiddie-sex-trafficking-corridor-the-blade/
Why do I think Scott Weiner was behind this?
“cops are all but powerless to thwart the disgusting pedo bazaar.”
Bullshit. Every problem we have is there because the people in power created it. It stays there because the people who are campaigning on fixing it want it to stay there. ‘Darn we are doing everything we can’ or ‘It’s fine. Nothing to see here’ is horseshit.
If someone were intent on fixing it all of that shit would be shut down in a day.
I should have added – ‘cops’ is a vague term meant to conceal that that is a group including legislators, elected officials and community members. Blaming the foot soldiers for the failings of the generals and presidents is lazy and dishonest.
Yes, cops do what they’re told or lose their jobs. You know, like everyone.
The pictures accompanying that article show hard used adult street walkers, and show them being arrested, so I suspect anyone who wants to have sex with a young girl in Los Angeles is going to find himself robbed, infected, arrested and above all disappointed.
Back in the day Figueroa Street was one we’d never find ourselves on. Id rather drive down Normandy, Manchester, Crenshaw or Florence in April of 1992 than that cesspool of a street.
Scott Weiner was behind this.
I am shocked.
“the Safer Streets for All Act” 🙄
To be fair, the streets are a lot safer for pedophiles.
I find it kind of hard to believe. There may be an underage one once in a while but…
In case you were feeling upbeat this AM. I don’t deal with debt markets very much so I can’t vouch for how true.
A Private-Credit Winter Is Coming
Lenders quietly rewrite their collateral rules, which suggests a crisis waiting to happen.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-private-credit-winter-is-coming-cb016ec5?st=FbKCKW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Kourtney Kardashian is launching lollipops for your vagina ”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/27/health/kourtney-kardashian-is-launching-lollipops-for-your-vagina/
STIJLTH
That sounds like it just sucks.
KK is late to the party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYoRaxgOE0
Well a quality lady, as all the Kardashians are, certainly isn’t going to use a finger.
I didn’t know taters had vaginas.
Now see, except for the first two words in that sentence I know what they all mean. When they are put together in that order it just leaves a cartoon question mark hanging over my head.
I guess this is why I did not get a Phd. I am just not very smart.
Interesting to see the growth in Indian and Korean imports in the chart in the middle of the article.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trump-tariffs-asia-visit-86d4a6a6?st=cc2rzU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I noticed brake rotors that were previously made in China are suddenly coming from India. Probably still made in China, just shipped from India.
Taiwan also makes a fair amount of rotors.
Interesting about India. India has always exported a lot of metal goods, but I didn’t realize that included automotive.
Trump tariffs are based on country of origin, not import. Possible that companies are willing to falsify records and stampings but playing with getting everything seized at import. CBP seems to be looking a lot closer at not just China imports but things like aluminum (Russian origin) and putting the onus on the importer to prove COO.
Dems really backed themselves into a corner here. They wanted to wait for the No Kings protests for their little standoff and when that was a bust and complete mask off of their base, they realized their next chance is the off year election.
They won’t make it. Rs are actually holding the line and doing what Ds used to do. Throw crumbs out and say you will like the meal given.
I suspect today is too soon but tomorrow or Thursday the ‘clean’ CR will pass.
This will of course, usher in the transition from Democrat party to Socialist party as they ravage their old guard.
They need to cut their losses, the SNAP and EBT stuff are a backbreaker for them.
Thats the kicker, their loses will be the center/center-left of the party.
They just aren’t getting their message out against all the Republican disinformation.
I am I alone in hoping this shut down continues into the new year?
We will be able to enjoy salty tears of sadness from all the Thanksgiving and Christmas tales of woe.
Update:
“A terrifying doorbell prank that police spent over 100 hours investigating has led to the discovery that the three masked teenagers who terrorized the Virginia home were related to the victims….
Over a week after the chilling interaction, detectives have now confirmed that the three teens were related to the victim, and their mother helped orchestrate the prank.
‘A significant break in the case came after the department’s first press conference, when multiple community tips led investigators to the suspects, three juveniles, ages 14 to 16, who were related to the victim,’ the department announced.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15232807/Headline-goes-here.html
Whoopsie
A 100 hours?
Lemme guess…it was all overtime too.
🙄
I have no personal desire to see a bunch of idiot teenagers shot to death, but this kind of shit is exactly how it happens.
I wouldn’t mind seeing the teenagers’ mother hung by her ankles and flogged, though…
Bring back pillories and stocks.
shot to death no, but a solid ass kicking…
OMG the URL really is “headline goes here”.
LOLOL
“Plus-size model claims United Airlines flight attendant fat-shamed her mid-flight”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-15217063/plus-sized-model-tess-holliday-united-airlines-fat-shamed.html
I’m surprised the plane got off the ground.
So a passionate man has a sister who is morbidly obese and wanted to share that maybe embracing your fatness is wrong is considered humiliating?
Self-promotion, and outlets like the Mail fall for it.
Healthy at any size! Excuse me, I have to go get some laundry out of the drier and then be out of breath because I am being healthy at a size that my heart and lungs fat shame me for.
Lindsey Lohan’s really let herself go.
“Personal insults traded on airplane”
This is news?
Jive-ass dude don’t got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit.
👏
Tattoo guy gotta be gettin’ overtime for all that ink.
Cost plus contract, I’m sure
That ain’t plus size. That’s multiple size.
The poster isn’t at fault here, but I don’t understand why there was like zero effort to slow down when it was obvious what was going to happen. Bonus for the offender braking as well while merging.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1ohxtts/oc_and_yes_she_did_blame_me/
They probably sped up to dissuade the moran, which of course never works.
“Since taking over creative control of the iconic series, Amazon MGM boss Jeff Bezos has reportedly been pushing for the 28-year-old blonde bombshell to step into the role of the next iconic female protagonist.
Those whispers intensified after Sweeney attended Bezos’ wedding to Lauren Sanchez in Italy this past June, followed by reports that the newlyweds had ‘invested’ in her upcoming lingerie line.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15231939/sydney-sweeney-james-bond-lingerie.html
“Chatting with Variety, she shared, ‘I’ve never gotten anything done. I’m absolutely terrified of needles. No tattoos. Nothing.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15232847/Sydney-Sweeney-mini-dress-plastic-surgery.html
I do wonder if you work for Daily Fail from time to time…
I go back and forth between thinking Tater obviously is earning $$$$$ from home by linking articles, and realizing sadly that the hit counts from Glibs would be worth about a nickel a year.
She is edgier than 99% of her peers.
Don’t mention the war!
Prunella Scales, Sybil on ‘Fawlty Towers,’ Dies at 93
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/arts/television/prunella-scales-dead.html
Well damn but 93’s not a bad run.
RIP
Basil!
I worked at a dive hotel for a couple years run by her doppelgänger – I was utterly terrified of her.
RIP
“Police in Boulder, Colorado are searching for a suspect accused of attacking a 19-year-old Turning Point USA student leader near the University of Colorado, Boulder on Thursday evening. The attacker is suspected to be an Antifa member….
The Colorado Antifa groups Front Range Antifa and Colorado Springs Antifa put out a hit list flyer on the college student, which accused the sophomore of being “an active member” of “neo-Nazi organizations” and is “responsible for white supremacist, antisemitic, and anti-LGBTQ vandalism on campus and across Boulder,” and also “participated in a white supremacist boxing tournament.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/tpusa-student-leader-attacked-near-uc-boulder-campus-after-antifa-puts-out-hit-list-flyer
Everyone knows antifa doesn’t exist.
What’s the point? It’s fucking Boulder. The antifa guy could shoot the republican in cold blood and would get, at worst, probation.
In too-local news:
For a few decades now, local law enforcement careerists who wanted to get promoted were encouraged to get a credential from the FBI.
Go to Quantico for a week, take some “classes,” write a short paper on what you learned, and voila, you’re a federally-certified senior supervisor, leader, or executive for your agency (don’t forget to send in that $795 per course).
This high school-level stuff was a bit challenging for some of the higher-ups in Hillsborough County, Florida (Tampa and surrounding areas), so they just hired a dude to write their papers for them.
To his credit, the Sheriff showed all involved the door.
You’d think the disgraced former officers would’ve had the wherewithal to use ChatGPT like any other nineteen year old.
I’ve taken the emergency management courses. They are not difficult. Although there was a bunch of woke bullshit.
“BREAKING: Ohio woman who slaughtered 3-year-old boy outside grocery store then laughed in court sentence to life without parole
Prosecutors said there was no known connection between Ellis and the victims.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-ohio-woman-sentenced-to-life-without-parole-for-2024-murder-of-3-year-old-boy-outside-grocery-store
What the hell is wrong with black people in Ohio?
The women had mental health issues (obviously) and tried to go for a not guilty by reason of insanity defense, which was rejected. This stabbing was out in the suburbs, in a more upscale part of town.
tosu. Same thing that’s wrong with all of the people in Ohio.
Needz moar guillotine.
I wonder what’s changed? Time for a new form of lowering standards of living for the “greater good” of everyone but the elite.
Bill Gates calls for ‘strategic pivot’ in climate change fight away from curbing emissions
In a memo released Tuesday, Gates said the world’s primary goal should instead be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions in the world’s poorest countries.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/bill-gates-climate-change-memo-rcna240225
Video of the eye of the hurricane.
https://x.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1982919662418694336
Looks like milkshake in a blender.
Despite frequent claims to the contrary I think this Jamaica IS going to have a problem, mon,
Everyone is seeing through his first grift so he had to find a different one.
Pretty sneaky, sis!
This would be the same 3rd world suffering children he has denied his malarial mosquito zapper to?
“It’s as good a way to kill people as any”
That fucker is one of the funders of antifa and needs to be in prison for it.
Dr. Otto (or other mechanically gifted glibs) – A question of sense of likelihood.
2008 toyota 4-runner, regular mechanic (but under new management I believe) comes up with (after a routine scheduled oil change):
New struts and shocks
Control arms
Ball joints
Tie rod ends
Engine mounts
We’re getting in $6k territory there. Does that seem reasonable – not cost, just that everything pops up at once. I’ve checked a few things – engine doesn’t seem to lift excessively under acceleration, no obvious leaks around struts/shocks. Not sure what criteria/test one would do for ball joints, control arm, tie rods… But I just have a suspicious vibe – and a strong dislike for being mislead about topics I have no expertise at, so want to do some due diligence.
how many miles?
To be fair, everything but the engine mounts are really just “new suspension”.
How’s the ride? If the ball joints, tie rod ends, and control arms are all shot, I would expect some vibration when you drive it, or the steering felling loose or imprecise.
Also look leaking oil from the shocks and struts. I’m a proponent of replacing pairs so if one is leaking I’d do the other side as well.
New struts and shocks — try a bounce test, how does it ride?
Control arms
Ball joints — do you hear a clunk when you break?
Tie rod ends. — while parked, steer all the way to each side, does click or shimmy?
Engine mounts — does the engine twist while someone else starts the car?
~150k miles.
For the engine mounts, I tested it with the hood open (can see the engine from inside the vehicle)
and accelerated to 2-3k rpm in drive and reverse. See the engine lift slightly (opposite directions),
but from what I gather reading, that’s normal to have some lift. Of course, some things just reading
is no substitute for practical knowledge.
ride – Some vibration, especially when going through ~3.68e-48 giraffes/Planck time (~65 mi/hr). Some ‘sloppy’ steering, especially when braking hard. Not that I ever brake hard, I’m not at all an aggressive driver.
No real clunk when I break that I notice. I’ll check the steering in park.
I did look for oil on the struts/shocks and don’t see anything obvious, but might pull the tires this morning to check more carefully. That, along with not seeing anything obvious on the engine mount test, was what got me thinking about it more, beyond my normal discomfort at not being knowledgeable about something and hence an easy ‘mark’.
“~150k miles”
I would replace the tie rod ends.
For $6k and having question marks, I’d get a second opinion from another shop. Maybe it’s real, maybe it’s new management changing how they write up stuff on inspection (not necessarily bad!), or it’s bullshit to pay for the newly purchased ship.
I feel fortunate when I stumble upon both a good mechanic and good shop.
It’s upselling. You can do those things, and likely get a noticeable improvement in handling, but unless you’re planning on racing it, there’s little point in spending that kind of money on a truck with that many miles on it.
Indigenous Americans dragged, carried or floated 5-ton tree more than 100 miles to North America’s largest city north of Mexico 900 years ago
News
By Sandee Oster published 2 days ago
Researchers have determined the age and origin of a massive tree that was found at the pre-Columbian city of Cahokia in what is now Illinois.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/indigenous-americans-dragged-carried-or-floated-5-ton-tree-more-than-100-miles-to-north-americas-largest-city-north-of-mexico-900-years-ago
but did they make casserole style succotash
Did they use a blue ox?
I assume that is some weird American reference I do not get.
The ox is a total babe
https://wikiless.northboot.xyz/wiki/Paul_Bunyan?lang=en
Tater’s link isn’t working for me, so try this one, Pie.
Paul Bunyan – that sounds like colonialism undermining the natives
5 ton log? That is a decent log but not all that impressive.
I had a white oak log from my property in Wisconsin that was probably about that heavy, maybe only 4 tons. It was a pretty typical mature white oak.
Hunger, chronic blackouts, and scarcity of essential medicines plague Venezuela. Today, more than 70% of residents live in poverty — a stunning reversal of fortune for a nation that was once one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
https://x.com/60Minutes/status/1982596109173182598
some countries have the worst luck 🙁
60 Minutes so I’m sure they blame the US.
They just need to try real communism next time.
Lol
https://youtube.com/shorts/E8a0KPk71HM?si=vgpswKvouaeMAncy
AI is getting realistic
SNAP is unconstitutional.
Prove me wrong.
general welfare includes SNAP.
Except general welfare is not in the grant of limited and enumerated powers to the fed. It’s an explanatory phrase, not an implementation.
I know: Ship. Sailed. Horse. Barn door. etc.
Thank you, I was just looking this up to confirm my recollection.
It’s a limitation on those powers, albeit a toothless one. It restricts the Federal Government to using its granted powers to promote the GENERAL welfare as opposed to using them to promote the welfare of special interests. Giving selected persons money extorted from the general public is a direct violation of that limitation.
Yep.
Promote.
Not fund.
Completely different things. And not an actionable part of the constitution.
But progs own the language and have warped it.
Excuse me while I grow some food for my own use.
Not in your front yard and not after the F(stands for Fascist)DR administration.
Threedoor, buddy. We have the strongest property rights in the world but they still could not bring themselves to grant allodial title and complete ownership of the fruit of one’s labor as an inalienable right. Given the nature of their world I dont think they could imagine such a thing. “What?! You own yourself? That’s absurd!”
They just wanted to curtail the total claim that the crown claimed. It was inevitably going to creep back towards that.
It is neither constitutional nor unconstitutional. There was a lot of back and forth on the welfare state but in the end they kinda left it open ended.
“I will go to Texas. You may all go to hell.”
I said ‘grant’. Stupid me. ‘explicitly recognize’ is correct.
“Woke liberalism is losing and the politics of practical social democracy is starting to come back.”
With Zohran Mamdani looking likely to win the New York mayoralty and Zack Polanski on the charge at home, is the Left back?
https://x.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1982864913224605931
back baby
No way…
That seems the likeliest explanation for this month’s decision by the Democratic-controlled Passaic County, NJ, Board of Elections to ban cameras for ballot storage areas in next month’s gubernatorial election.
And for its refusal to enforce sign-in and sign-out logs for people who access mail-in ballots.
NJ is a surprising nail biter this election.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/opinion/beware-of-jersey-democrats-election-tricks-in-passaic-in-the-race-for-governor/
ban cameras for ballot storage areas – are they giving a vaguely plausible reason for this? cause I can’t see any.
Everyone knows the reason.
“MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace looked into a camera today, and with a straight face, claimed that no Democrats have compared President Trump to Hitler.
Not only have they compared Trump to Hitler repeatedly, they’ve done it on Wallace’s own show.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/gaslighting-msnbcs-nicolle-wallace-claims-no-democrats-have/
I blame antifa.
We didn’t compare Trump to Hitler. We said he was Hitler.
To be fair, Wallace is a vacant idiot.
🎨Artsy M*rxist 🎨 (commissions closed)
@ArtsyMarx1st
artists are workers. we deserve a fair wage for our labor. We deserve solidarity from other workers.
https://x.com/ArtsyMarx1st/status/1982592114899960100
are artists the proletariat? discuss…
No, they are not. The proletariat classically consists of workers who do not own the means of production. Artists generally do own what they use to produce art.
Fair wage will be paid for labor comrade, report for ditch digging labor immediately. Wage will be paid immediately upon completion of
mass gravefoundation of glorious socialist society!If your art sucks you get paid appropriately.
You deserve whatever you, and the buyer of your product, agree upon. If this bothers you, maybe you should examine your product.
f*ck *ff c*mmie
are artists the proletariat? discuss…
Are you painting a picture of the bridge, or the bridge itself?
Nicely put, Brooks.
Hitler was an artist.
“There also may be particular risk for pregnant Muslims. A 2006 paper found that women with Arabic names had a higher risk of poor birth outcomes — including preterm birth and low birth weight — six months after 9/11. A separate study found similar consequences for pregnant Muslims in Spain soon after a 2017 terrorist attack in Catalonia.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/28/mamdani-spoke-of-his-aunts-fear-after-9-11-backlash-revealed-how-islamophobia-persists_partner/
SCIENCE!!
Um… you do know he was lying, Salon?
And you do know his co-religionists – supported by that pal he was just hanging out with – murdered 3,000 New Yorkers for ideological reasons?
Too disgusted to add more.
Is that due to abusive husbands or the fact that their husbands are also their cousins going back generations.
Hush you. Also, female genital mutilation has nothing to do with it.
Because OB/GYNs are particularly “Islamophbic”? And this is a cross-cultural thing that exists in both Spain and the US? Does this happen in any other countries? Does this happen in any other medical specialties? Is there any reason to believe these researchers weren’t just picking out random anomalies out of the data and spinning them to fit their priors?
It’s important to note that the US, UK, and France have essentially the same 10th percentile income levels, despite the UK and France having more than double the US national minimum wage
Arin Dube
@arindube
It’s a remarkable fact that the bottom 10% in France and UK have about the same income (slightly higher) as their American counterparts – in spite of the fact that America has much higher GDP per capita. That’s a testament to our policy choices, including the failure to raise the federal minimum wage in America for over a generation.
https://x.com/arindube/status/1982612078717247927
Just needed killin’?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15234101/tech-tycoon-tushar-atre-bragged-wealth-forced-push-ups.html
Labor-level cannabis processing is awful shitwork, and it’s one thing that legalization probably hasn’t improved – I doubt that many legal grow-ops are paying their pickers $1000/week in cash, paid lunch and dinner, and a couple lines of decent blow per shift…
He sounds like an asshole, but that’s a bit much.
Particularly when all they had to show for it was a couple thousand bucks and a murder one beef.
Yep. Just walk away and go do something else. The asshole isn’t holding you hostage.
Did he? Or was his mistake bragging about how much money he had?
Putrid-
Do the front tires appear to be wearing unevenly?
Ball joints and tie rod ends- Does it try to rip the wheel out of your hands on uneven surfaces? Check the rubber boots for tears or leaking grease. If you can, jack the wheel up on the suspension and see if there is free play in the steering.
Does it clunk when you run over a break or seam in the pavement? Railroad tracks?
The whole point of motor mounts is to absorb (not eliminate) movement, to isolate vibration. From neutral, with your foot on the brake, drop it into gear and see how much or how hard the engine moves.
It doesn’t sound like any of these things are a dire necessity. Just keep an eye on them. And they don’t all have to be done at the same time.
This is good advice.
Unless these things are truly malfunctioning now, just be aware they may be aged. Also Engine mounts are quite obvious when they start to let go, the clatter like a broken lifter.
“Jaclyn Smith turned 80-years-old last week.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15234941/Charlies-Angels-vet-Jaclyn-Smith-just-turned-80-looks-like-now.html
That’s a good 80.
Honda Elements are apparently notorious for having shitty rubber bushings in their lower control arms. It clunks obnoxiously, and it’s probably not doing the tires any good, but I haven’t gotten around to replacing them. I’m sure some go-getter would like to do a “thorough inspection” of the underside of my Element.
Once I finally convinced myself the rear wheel bearings aren’t junk (by running it down the highway and then checking hub temps) I decided all that noise in the back was the tires.
How long ’til the International Court of Justice issues a warrant for Trump?
They have not?
Shouldn’t Zohran’s aunt story get the “without evidence” disclaimer? Or is that reserved for that special someone?
Anyone to the right of Mao.
Wreckage
In many ways, Trump’s destruction of the East Wing is a metaphor for his entire administration: forget applicable law, tradition, precedent, or protocol, act as if you have absolute power, do whatever you want, and crush anything that gets in the way. Among other institutions, Trump has already bulldozed the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Now add the White House to that list.
Change? That’s crazy.
We have to do this because this is what we do.
Chaos and destruction is what I voted for. (If I voted.)
He is fixing the ridiculous mess you bunch of grifting fucks made. Get out of the way and shut your mouth.
In general I don’t have a problem with birthright citizenship. It’s a simple, clear system that’s been in place for a long time. And when the number of illegals is small, the number of anchor babies doesn’t make much of a difference. My thinking starts to change when one party decides we need to open the gates and let everyone in.
I don’t either. Although I’m against birth tourism. There are these companies that arrange for Chinese women to come to the U.S. just to have babies. Not sure what the solution is.
Birthright citizenship is incompatible with the welfare state. One or the other has to go or there won’t be a country anymore.
Can we call this “Pulling a Fetterman”?
In a stunning and significant pushback to the “doomsday” climate activist community, Bill Gates, a leading proponent for carbon emissions reductions, published a remarkable essay Tuesday that argued resources must be shifted away from the battle against climate change.
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Gates’ shocking essay comes ahead of next month’s COP30, a global summit focused on battling climate change.
Shocking.
SHOCKING I tell you!
Bob Ferguson And the crap governors before him are 100% due to motor voter in Washington state.
It is designed for fraud.
Vote by mail was the final nail.
For the entire west coast.
That Idaho has expanded early voting pisses me off too.
Birthright citizenship? Get rid of it altogether.
If one of your parents is a US citizen, you are a citizen. Otherwise immigrate legally. If neither, fuck off.
This.
There is a livecam in Jamaica streaming the hurricane. For now.
https://x.com/OffThePress1/status/1983174524100346338