Iran might not play in the World Cup. Ohio State got a huge win against Purdue (but should still be outside the tournament IMO). There was some questionable officiating that helped Arsenal and ManUre both win games. And there’s no officiating in the world that could help Spurs at the moment. Oh, and F1 is back for a race this week! Now on to the links.
This one might be easy to figure out. It’s almost as if he was wearing his heart on his sleeve. And chest. And in his car. And on social media. Etc. Etc. Etc.
“Won’t somebody think of the poor judges?” That did not apply to Kavanaugh, which is just a coincidence, I’m sure.
Does that employee think we’re living in a high trust society? Or do they just think the people she’s talking to are under that impression?
I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a “scandal.” More like poor programming. But the outrage should be for the tax itself, not the suggested tip amount.
What an interesting lede. Also, the whole thing is retarded. Employers have always set codes of conduct. You’re not required to follow them. If you don’t want to, you can quit.
Not sure he should have gone after this contract. But the silver lining is that somewhere, someone in central or South America is getting a quality IT worker.
Well then they’re fucked. Which is why…this is happening at the same time.
This case will be very interesting. I’m anxious to see how it goes.
I almost forgot about this crazy fuck. I guess the world has too many crazy fucks out there right now for that to have happened.
I’m honestly surprised they didn’t mention Trump or Kennedy in this piece. My guess is because that “international travel” they casually mentioned would shed a lot of light on it and they don’t want that.
Here’s an amazing band. One of the best from the Madchester Era. And this is a masterpiece. Plus it’s long enough to get you halfway through the morning links window. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
Ouch… that poor poor camel… and it isn’t even Hump Day.
Morning all.
I would think for those following the sport, that’s a bit of a bombshell. Certainly they were doing their best to train up a good striker, but their defense just didn’t work out.
Yet… you went on to the links… when telling us not to… but we did… but we aren’t supposed to…
ERROR! ERROR! ILLOGICAL! IMPERFECT!
What? I can’t hang protest banners on my employer’s property even on my own time? It’s fascism.
Well you can. And they can fire you. Seems reasonable enough to me.
If someone had hung a flag they didn’t like, like let’s say the US flag, they would demand that person be canceled..
The rules are only there for them to use as a weapon.
Funnily enough I can bring protest banners on my employer’s property – as long as I don’t go inside the secure* area with it and am off the clock.
*anywhere I have to card into – So technically not public.
As long as we’re using El Capitan as a billboard, we might as well sell the naming rights and let Coca Cola paint their logo on it. Maybe then Yosemite can hire that locksmith back.
Sell the entire park to Coke.
I’m glad for my parents’ sake (if they feel like it) they can use the AppleTV subscription I share with them (Family plan) to watch it without jumping through hoops.
I’m less glad for my own sake that I need to break down and figure out just which login it actually wants for the older style app on the Apple TV device if I want to go back and watch archived races since it looks like the AppleTV variant is more geared towards the current season (unsurprisingly, really). I think I’m still paying for both, and if that’s what I have to do so I can go back and watch the archives, I’m okay with that. Just kind of annoying when it had me “link accounts”, signed me out… and now is very unclear which account it wants me to use. Yay technology.
F1 is back for a race this week!
I’m annoyed by the Apple deal canceling my perfectly good F1TV subscription. I don’t want to sign up for yet another streaming service but I may bite the bullet.
Hmm… okay, now you made me go check again:
I sure hope this means what it says and I still have archive access… I’ll cancel the F1 side and find out.
And yeah — I get where you’re coming from… in my case, I already had both so this was actually a good thing if I don’t lose content in the mess.
I wasn’t even given the option to renew F1TV, they just cancelled it and said “use Apple”.
Formula Prius going Apple only is almost too on point.
Apple is also the main reason I don’t watch American soccer anymore. They dribble out sometimes one match a week to the rest of us, that’s it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Once again I note that the brave new world of subscription everything was never intended for your convenience or benefit as advertised – I don’t know why people didn’t see that coming.
I’ve half a mind to welcome the idea of AOC as the Team Blue nominee, but then I recall the Democrats had the same reaction when Trump got the GOP nomination in 2016.
This.
Biden’s Depends could be run in 2028… we’d still be looking at a 45 percent or so electorate lock… so no matter how bad the candidate looks to us, they’re always dangerously close to winning and I would always say to take them seriously.
Yellow Dogs are legion.
Yellow Dogs in the front of the party… brown dogs in the back.
Yeah, nobody thought a far-left Islamist was going to be the next mayor of NYC either.
I think it’s fairly obvious at this point that the “centrist” wing of the Democratic party is dead and buried. If she runs, she is the nominee. It’s as simple as that.
My money is on Whitmer. Although deferring to AOC on foreign policy in Germany was a big mistake. She is one of those wacky left candidates that can come off as centrist. And as I tell everyone daily – she is catnip for suburban women.
On the other hand, I was wrong about Team Blue fixing the 2024 election.
Apparently when Biden dropped out of the race, Obama was pushing to replace him with Whitmer, with some black guy (I forget who) as her running mate.
Whitmer seems like an odd choice to me, since I only know her from imposing harsh lockdowns and being a condescending sanctimonious bitch about it, but as you say, the AWFLs eat that shit up, so who knows.
I know Whitmer from her feeding a Dorito to a podcaster in a video.
I wouldn’t assume AOC is a guaranteed loser. After Biden won, its hard to say any Dem candidate couldn’t win, either because the JI Theorem is true (Americans are morons who will vote for anyone) or because electoral security is such crap* that ballots can be produced to elect anyone.
*In the swing states that gave the 2020 election to Biden, I’m not aware that anything has been done to improve it.
Or what you said. 😉
¿Porque no los dos?
A Pork Dish? Meat For Lent?
No, for Ramadan!
Well, okay then.
Consider the tiny fraction of AOC’s district that voted for her in the primary where she beat Crowley. Crowley then ran on an alternate affiliation in the general election, and was trounced, because the tribe, not (((that tribe))) – Democrats voted for the Democrat on the ballot. Didn’t matter who, or that their sitting Rep was available, nope, just pull that lever. And to be fair, I live in a district that is just as reliable, for the other party.
“The ratchet of threatening political enemies to get what we want should only swing one way!”
Or was she just so hopped up on something she believed her shoulder unicorn that people are inherently always Lawful Good? It is California we’re talking about, after all…
The problem is, that we are designed to be a high trust society. Which means we are sitting ducks for people from low trust societies that we allow in.
Not really. People from high trust societies are generally fine with presenting ID to do certain things.
We become sitting ducks when people in charge of large swathes of the high trust society require massive and consistent importation of people from low trust societies to keep their states and cities above water.
Importation of large heavy stones is no way to keep anything afloat.
We trusted our politicians. This is the result. Never trust a politician.
I was wondering how the left was going to minimize this event, and here it is at the very bottom of the article:
“Although this weekend’s shooting doesn’t meet the definition of a mass killing, there have been five of those so far this year.”
Wow. Never change, The AP.
“It is only a mass shooting if it is politically useful to us….”
Wait…how is it not a mass shooting under their guidlines and rules they have established? This is like ‘its not a recession’ or ‘not technically a vaccine mandate’
I hate people
If you only hate people, you think too highly of them.
That’s how.
I suppose, and certainly here the taxes are always going to be red meat to the crowd (well, fresh eggplant to OMWC I guess?)… but I do think tipping “culture” has gotten stupid over the last few years. 20 percent being considered minimum is beyond stupid. It isn’t my job to make up for the poor wage negotiations with your employer, food service industry. And tipping for drive through or pickup/takeout and every little thing just drives me nuts.
But I know I’m just looking for a cloud to yell at, it seems. Yay.
I join you in yelling at clouds.
18% minimum is insane.
I’ve said it before I’ll say it again.
Bad service = no tip.
Before I ever tip again, my first question is going to be whether I am in a jurisdiction that has imposed some sort of “living wage” for restaurant workers.
Check the menu as well. Several years ago I met some glibs in Spokane and we ate at a little commie place that had a manifesto on the menu about living wage and the automatic gratuity that was added to the bill.
We laughed, shook our heads and all said fool me once.
Any court that can’t understand “shall make no law” means I have to faith that they won’t contort things into a pretzel of illogic (they’re opening in Athens for Butthurt of Insincerity this weekend, I think),,,
There aren’t really enough details to understand the case. Are they alleging he lied on the 4473? Is there really FEDERAL law outlawing possession of a gun (vice the transaction of buying one from an FFL)?
This is a practical joke, right? Is there a camera somewhere…?
nah nah nah nah nah nah nah na…. BAT THEM!
They be batshit …
Shouldn’t ‘nonbinary’ be in scare quotes?
Seriously, at least outright troons are claiming to be something that exists…
The NYPost is letting their college stringers write the “news” again. 🙄
Are there really that many nonbinary bats to study?
The nonbinary bats have been hiding in darkness for too long.
Never really got into Madchester. I was too busy with the Punk/Funk coming out of LA at that time to care. Bands like Thelonious Monster, Jane’s, Mary’s Danish, early Peppers, fIREHOSE, all of that bass heavy groove.
Firehose is the best of the bunch.
your stupid tipping culture is infestation Romania people started recommending tip options to 20%. Used be be 10% standard and that was that,
Ugh… I’d grant you a formal apology for that from the American people if I could make it mean something, Pie.
I won’t. Tipping culture is what separates us from European heathens who tolerate absolutely shitty service as acceptable.
Tipping being a shame game is bullshit. But I’d much rather see wait staff, at least at quality restaurants, have most of their pay come from me based on the service they provide instead of it being standardized to the point that they make the same no matter how well they do in taking care of my party.
See below — post-COVID status quo seems to be shitty service AND paying extra for it. Maddening.
Tipping is the only way to directly reward (or punish) the person responsible for the quality of service. It is indisputably a good thing.
It fails, only because nice people have let themselves get guilted by the endless sob stories about, “Tips pay my rent! Boo-hoo!”
True story: Back in the mid-90’s I waited tables at a midrange steakhouse during the semester breaks (two-location Houston chain that got bought and transformed into the Saltgrass Steakhouse chain).
I was making $3.25 per the law, but the paychecks were always “$*.**” after withholding, because my walk-out-the-door cash income was ~$17.50/hr.
That’s what people were willing to give me. I don’t think I earned that hourly rate equivalent until the third job after graduation.
Used to be 10% in the US was for good service.
I will not decorate from this.
POV: your first day as an air traffic controller in Georgia
https://x.com/bratricek/status/2027763830512587039
I was expecting it to be busier.
I question the map — Hartsfield can get really busy, but Lake Lanier doesn’t go that far south to the east of Atlanta….
3 F-15s shot down over Kuwait. Calling it friendly-fire.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/03/02/f-15-eagle-crashes-in-kuwait-pilots-eject-safely-says-local-authorities/
Would that be because the US built AA is better, or because the US pilots were not expecting/could not identify the fire as incoming/hostile?
Given the F15s record…unexpected friendly fire as they probably dont have in-theater overwatch. At least my thought. Given ifs over Kuwait, the question will be was it fragacide or just a well poop moment.
Loitering aircraft + incoming missiles = shit happens.
This was a failure and a friendly fire incident. the pilots ejected and were picked up by CSAR. There is already an apology and a promise of restitution too. Shit happens in war. Most people do not even remember how many incidents of friendly fire happened back in Gulf #1 and #2 both in the air and the ground..
I saw an LAV and 3 Marines killed by an A-10. One reason I don’t like unnecessary wars.
Uff. Awful.
👍🏻
That album knocked my socks off when it came out.
It’s phenomenal and they don’t get as much love as they should.
If I was creating a music festival for bands from the north of England, they’d be among the groups toward the top of the bill. Oasis could open up a few groups ahead of them (with James and the Buzzcocks in between) as the crown shuffled in.
Pat Tillman remembers.
I don’t know how this ended up here.
I am fully on the anti-tipping bandwagon at this point (I always sorta was). Pay your damn workers a market wage, raise your menu prices, and get rid of the tip line. If someone wants to throw down a few extra bucks for exceptional service, more power to them.
that will lead to a decrease in service quality, but not in a way that is particularly relevant.
I honestly can’t imagine service getting much worse… though admittedly I’m not frequenting Michelin-star level places or anything.
We’re seriously at the point where I’m just praying that they get the f’ing order right in the basics (not even anything exotic) and they still expect 20-30 percent on top.
It’s quite relevant though. The guy or gal who makes $25/hour regardless has no incentive whatsoever to make sure my table’s entrees are hitting the window the same time our apps are almost done and hitting our table two minutes after we finish them. The guy or gal who makes $3.50/hour but stands to make $50 from me and the other table in their section over that hour because he/she is on top of their game and gets everything right has every incentive to do so.
In general like most things that get shittier, you get used to it over time.
” entrees are hitting the window the same time our apps are almost done and hitting our table two minutes after we finish them.” – yeah see this is on o’ them unrealistic expectations. I am happy if all entrees for the table come within a 5 minute period so people can eat at the same time.
I’m going to defend the servers (a little). Often times the problem is in the kitchen, the servers end up getting whatever/whenever comes out of the 2 way door. There’s a chance that the person behind the scenes may not speak English as a first language or is short staffed.
The restaurant hasn’t been waiting all afternoon for a particular customer to show up unannounced with a list of wants. Food prep sometimes takes time.
You go to see a doctor, first an appointment (two weeks in advance), then arrive on time, wait 45 minutes and you get to see him/her for only those complaints on your check list.
Fourscore, I think people can generally tell if something has gone sideways that’s not the fault of the server. I don’t kill a good tip because of something like that. In fact, I’ll usually go out of my way to let them know whatever happened isn’t their fault in a situation like that so they’re not discouraged.
I had some all-time great service at a Michelin-level place a few weeks back and it was service-included but I’m generally on the same page as sloopy.
It was also a pre-paid setup with Tock – i.e., you didn’t have a reservation, you paid in advance. Somewhat nervous making, when I wasn’t sure I was feeling 100% that morning (you no-show, too bad, you already paid – I was mentally reviewing a list of friends to send in my stead).
On the flip side, it means they know exactly how much of each (expensive) protein they need, etc. So minimal waste and overall quality is a bit higher.
Wouldn’t work for every place but works for high-end places.
Worst service I have ever had was at a “no tip” restaurant.
Fuck that. Everything should go tipped.
And we need more parking spaces.
Pave the Planet!
I would just rather go back to the way everyone understood tipping to work in the olden days, pre-2000 or so.
Tip creep into “service” that isn’t service has ruined the entire concept. I see people tip for fucking pick-up or the like and I just shake my head.
I saw basically stores with tip jars which is silly.
I blame gen z entitlement.
If I tip at a carry-out place (and I do, sometimes), it’s because it’s a place I like a lot and want to make sure they do well.
ES gets it. Tipping is a way to help control and direct the flow of money. If you want the server to get a bit that the business and the taxman don’t, tip. If you want to help the restaurant keep costs down while still being viable in the early days, direct money in a way that helps them.
And if and when you get crap service, don’t tip. They already know that they blew it on your table, and you are letting them know that you know it.
(and good servers kick back tips to the kitchen, if for no other reason than they get what is needed to keep things flowing right)
Table? I’m thinking of the tips line item attempted at places that don’t have actual servers yet still expect the f’ing tips these days.
And with the “tip suggestion” in the checkout process instead of being cash left on said table, I’m betting Management and the Tax Man are getting their cut these days… which part of why it is trying to explode. Just like various “fees” from cable companies and whatnot — this is raising the prices without looking like we’re raising our prices games for the non-sit down restaurants.
That is due more from off-the-shelf software than anything else.
The movement of money is a form of communication regarding the concept of value.
Or, if you prefer, ‘Money talks, bullshit walks.’
Yep
I tipped cash at a restaurant in McCall I’d three years ago.
The waitress gave me a confused look when I told her it was a tip.
She was in her late 20s. It couldn’t have been her first cash tip.
Matthew Petti
@matthew_petti
Last thing an Iranian friend sent me before his internet cut out.
https://x.com/matthew_petti/status/2027700380381954136
For Swiss:
Do or do not. There is no Try.
That crazy fuck actually did make himself some nukes – now he doesn’t worry about being regime-changed.
He needs to donate to the Clinton foundation for bills help with that.
working on a theory that US intervention in the middle east is correlated to 11 year solar cycle of sunspot activity
https://x.com/onionweigher/status/1936630237208469898
Nice. Kudos for finding odd correlations. I love that.
A few days before we get visable Aurora my wife starts having vivid dreams.
I laughed – soldier yelling at drone: “That’s my fucking truck!”
https://x.com/i/status/2028458979819458889
That’s awesome. My hemmet got a hole punched in the hydrology tank by a 6” mortar. It hit the outside of the jersey barrier I parked next too. A foot to the east and it would have been wasted.
Broken Skulls and the State!
Violent Datasets
https://www.ggd.world/p/broken-skulls-and-the-state
Tying the knot, these datasets suggest that violence flourished when organised armed groups competed for resources without restraint – neither constrained by overarching empire or credible rule of law. Brutality only declined when credibly constrained by effective institutions.
Ancient burials often included skeletons with evidence of trauma – either unhealed lethal blows or healed damage, indicating recurrent warfare. Until recently, studies typically focused on individual sites, making it difficult to discern broader trends, but Eisner and Peng’s fantastic new paper aggregates the evidence across all time periods and regions. (If you’re in the Bay Area and heard a scream of delight, I can only apologise).
Across Europe, the Andes, the Levant, North China and pre-contact Mesoamerica, roughly 10–25% of adults show evidence of cranial trauma. In Neolithic Europe, 11% of skeletons bear violent head injuries, in the Southern Levant it’s over 25%. In pre-contact South America, rates cluster around 12–15%.
Men were typically two to four times more likely to exhibit cranial injuries, suggesting they were the primary actors in organised combat.
Crucially, rates of female trauma rise and fall alongside male trauma. In societies with high overall violence, women also show elevated rates of injury.
Trauma was relatively low during the Neolithic, when population density was sparse and groups could avoid each other. Violence peaked during the Chalcolithic period (c 4,500–3,300 BC), when early urbanisation and pro-state formation intensified resource competition.
Curiously, trauma seems to have declined during the Early and especially the Middle Bronze Age (c 3,300–1,500 BC). This was precisely when Mesopotamian polities developed consolidated territorial control, codified law, bureaucratic administration and expanding trade networks. The decline persists even after controlling for battle sites, military innovations and climate shocks. Baten and colleagues suggest that greater state capacity may have reduced everyday interpersonal violence.
When Men Fight, Women Suffer
28% of all men show head or face trauma, compared with only 19% of women. Men were also more likely to accrue multiple wounds, suggesting repeated attacks. Women’s cranial trauma was often at the back or side of the head – presumably as they were fleeing or crouched in fear.
Across large samples, there is a strong positive correlation between male and female trauma. This holds across time and between different societies.
Men were typically two to four times more likely to exhibit cranial injuries, suggesting they were
the primary actors in organised combat.more likely to fall out of trees/off cliffs/buildings“Deadly shooting as Snoop Dogg opens Nipsey Hussle’s new burger store”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/us-news/shooting-at-nipsey-hussles-marathon-burger-grand-opening/
STIJLTH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMGWQKn9Ers
Isn’t that the most appropriate way to remember the restaurant’s namesake?
That or trying to run a con job in a thin undershirt in the Arctic… oh wait, that’s for Nipply Hustle…
“During the deal negotiations, while Netflix was wooing skeptical GOP lawmakers that it wasn’t a left-wing company looking to get more powerful by snapping up WBD, a delegation of lawmakers paid a visit to its headquarters, and one was both shocked and disturbed to find a basket containing tampons in the men’s restroom.
To be clear, there are other factors involved in CEO Ted Sarandos’s decision to cancel his nearly completed purchase of WBD’s studio and streaming service. But the “Tampon Incident,” as it has become known on Capitol Hill, does carry some weight in the unwavering political opposition from the GOP to Sarandos’ ambitions.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/business/how-tampons-in-the-mens-room-helped-derail-the-netflix-warner-bros-deal/
Were we ever a serious country?
1924
Just to be clear – is a ‘serious country’ the one where there are no tampons in the men’s room? Or is it one where the government draws no implications from the presence of tampons in the men’s room?
Or, and stay with me here, is it the one where the government isn’t poking through company restrooms while in the process of playing favorites in the acquisitions market?
You’re not a serious country when a company is wasting money on tampons in the men’s room that it could be spending bribing politicians.
Solution – the company should bribe members of Congress with truckloads of tampons. I suspect that most of Congress could use them…
“”If they don’t have their ID, and they could just sign on behalf of ‘Richard Sherman,’ then they could technically vote, right?” he proposed.”
Couldn’t Michael Crabtree do the same thing to cancel out his vote?
I want them to write in “T.S. Sherman” to vote in Fulton. They could really set the place ablaze….
“Your registration has been denied for a falsified first name, Bill.”
“The children of a disgraced Louisiana mayor told cops that they both caught their mom fooling around with a 16-year-old boy at a boozy pool party, according to video played at her rape trial….
After the alleged tryst, the victim’s mother texted Roberts to ensure that she was not pregnant, to which she replied she was on birth control. Roberts shared a screenshot of that message to a group chat with her friends, who urged her to take Plan B.
A DoorDash driver testified that he delivered an emergency contraceptive to Roberts’ house, which he recognized from trick-or-treating with his children there.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/us-news/louisiana-mayors-kids-caught-her-with-teen-boy-at-drunk-pool-party-cops/
So she was lying about the birth control?
Belt and suspenders. Can’t be too careful if the potential spawnfather is nowhere near able to provide a decent amount of child support.
43-year-old woman trying to relive her 16-year-old party girl days. Kinda pathetic.
Guess who needs to buy fuel oil for his furnace?
Guess what just happened to the price of fuel oil?
Skyrocketing price…. heating oil deliiiight….. ?
At least your basement isn’t getting muskrat love.
Reminds me I need to go look at the propane tank gauge.
I’m at 34% good till summer.
Gas was four cents higher on Saturday than when I went grocery shopping on Wednesday.
Here in NKY there is no way to determine effects because we get weird 20-30 cent swings every 3 or so days
It’s March already, tough it out until Spring?
Lousy Smarch weather!
We still have 3 months of cold weather.
Then you get mud and mosquitos!
My boss and one of my direct reports were in India last week. They flew out over the weekend… to Doha, Qatar. Now they are stuck in a hotel in Qatar, all flights cancelled. I am supposed to go to India at the end of next month, but not feeling the Middle East vibe. I may opt to go through London, Paris, or Hong Kong instead.
Go the other way, through Japan or Korea?
“I am supposed to go to India at the end of next month, but not feeling the Middle East vibe.”
If there’s anything to be learned from events in England over the past 10 or so years, it’s that the Indian Subcontinent is in Asia, so you should be fine.
Rocking out to the second Roses tune.
I love those guys.
Back from a great weekend of drinking, gluttony, and debauchery.
Well, I’m too old for debauchery.
And I did make it through the weekend without gaining weight, so no actual gluttony.
Just, drinking then. It was a great weekend of drinking.
“This granola mom is taking things to a whole other holistic level.
In a head-scratching social media video, posted by Massachusetts health spa Caney Salt + Wellness Studio, a mom’s voice is heard saying, “I salt my kiddos and you should too,” as she’s seen tidying up a room filled with, you guessed it — salt.
I used to think boosting our immune systems was the goal — more vitamins, more supplements, more everything. But what I’ve learned living with asthma, severe allergies, and watching out for flare-ups is that an immune system on overdrive isn’t strong.”
“…halotherapy [a form of alternative medicine which makes use of salt] helps to clear that, so their immune system settles, responds when it needs to, rest when it doesn’t…” the crunchy mom continued as clips of her and her son are seen hanging out in a room with salt all over the floor (sounds like some people’s nightmare).”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/lifestyle/mom-claims-salting-her-kids-boosts-immune-system/
SCIENCE!!
Nice free advertising there.
What?
Good to hear from Lot’s wife again.
There is a halotherapy place near SIG — a big room with all shelves filled with salt sculptures and those lamps made from salt blocks. They also sell terrible homemade ice cream — extremely disappointing.
“They also sell terrible homemade ice cream — extremely disappointing.”
Because it’s too salty?
Their breakfasts are OK. I thought the ice cream was OK too. I went there a couple of times when they were defying the Rona Panic restrictions in NH.
I was there in 2024, only the one time, haven’t been back.
However, https://www.holygrailrestaurantandpub.com/food-menu has gone from a “once per SIG visit” to “every day of a SIG visit” for me. Bad for my cash and calorie budgets, but the food is well made and Old Speckled Hen on tap is something I cannot resist.
terrible homemade ice cream
Would’ve expected taffy.
The Holy Grail looks good. I haven’t been out there yet.
The Holy Grail does look good.
I wonder if they’d rent out a table for a D&D session?
Unrelated, but also good for those further south:
https://www.thegrales.com/holygrale
You had me at Kolsch Night!
Once again, we have A+ songs this morning. That was indeed an amazing band.
A few thoughts on “WWIII”….
Is it me, or is there just not as much information going around this time? There are a half dozen key facts and that’s really it. But that’s a good thing, because almost all war reporting is going to be reversed within 24 hours.
I have to hand it to Elon Musk. He integrated Grok (his AI) into X. So you can reply to someone with “@Grok, confirm this is true.” I will try to find sources backing up the claim, or it might say “I don’t see this reported anywhere, it is probably false.” I unfollowed a handful of people this weekend because they were posting clearly incorrect trash. To me this system is the way forward, instead of censorship.
I wander if it has to do with the crackdown on free-range journalismists in the Pentagon?
I think a major factor is there is not much of a “ground” war.
I haven’t seen anything about Savannah Guthrie’s mom or the Epstein files.
“Hilaria Baldwin said that a scary experience in a New York City park recently stressed to her a larger life lesson: that people need to get involved and help others in need – even if it takes them out of their comfort zone.
The yoga expert, 42, was seen in a clip on Instagram reclining while recalling the details of the harrowing exchange.
‘I was walking through a park and a crazy person was chasing and screaming at me and calling me awful things,’ Hilaria, who shares seven children with husband Alec Baldwin, told her 1 million followers. ‘And that’s not the crazy part!’
Hilaria, who has been married to the Oscar-nominated actor since 2012, said that ‘the crazy part is that nobody’ came to her aid – even after she cried for help.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15604977/hilaria-baldwin-new-york-crazy.html
Well, that’s AWFL.
She should have had Alec shoot the guy.
Seven kids? He’s had quite a few negligent discharges.
Huh. I thought that you were a strong independent woman who could handle a street schizo yelling at her…
And of course, we’ve seen what happens in NYC when someone does step in and help. What ever did happen to the dude who choked (all the way) out the violent lunatic on the subway last year?
Daniel Penny was acquitted.
Didn’t he get a cushy job?
Now he gets to get dragged through the courts for the “wrongful death” lawsuit by Neely’ss absentee father.
Daniel Penny?
He was acquitted, but as we know, the process is the punishment.
The father of the violent lunatic filed a wrongful death civil suit against Penny. The last status I can find on the civil suit is in January 2025 Penny’s lawyers moved for dismissal.
So she’s been elevated from yoga instructor to yoga expert?
Palou picked up right where he left off.
“Sydney Sweeney flashes her thong in racy photos to promote new SYRN lingerie collection”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15604511/sydney-sweeney-thong-photos-syrn-lingerie-collection.html
Too bad they stopped painting pin-ups on fighter jets.
The airforce went weak and gay.
“Over the past year, more than two dozen countries around the world have proposed bans on social media use for vast swathes of their public. These laws, often proposed under the guise of “child safety”, are ushering in an era of mass surveillance and widespread censorship, contributing to what scholars have called a “global free speech recession”….
While social media bans may seem like a prudent measure to protect children, they are not only ineffective, they endanger both children and adults. There is little evidence that social media is driving any type of widespread mental health crisis in children. Studies have repeatedly shown the opposite. Removing anonymity from the web, which will inevitably happen when tech companies are required to identify and ban children, allows for easier government tracking and censorship of journalists, activists and whistleblowers, who rely on online anonymity.
And while some claim the laws would curb big tech’s power, only the largest tech companies have the resources to shoulder the extensive costs of age verification systems. Non-profit and indie platforms could be forced to close, consolidating big tech’s power further. Mass surveillance systems, once constructed, could also be easily leveraged by governments and bad actors.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled
Taylor Lorenz: stopped clock?
How did that get past the gates at The Guardian?!
I’ve heard some rumblings against the age limits on the grounds it would harm TTTT kids or other minorities.
Not exactly a stopped clock. Taylor Lorenz isn’t opposed to social median age verification out of any concern over mass government surveillance, that’s just a pretense. She’s opposed to social media age verification because it might indirectly lead to fewer trans and ‘nonbinary’ kids.
The schools already have that covered.
Well, yeah. If you were really worried about children’s mental health, you’d be advocating for public schools to be closed down and for public school teachers and bureaucrats to be fired and imprisoned.
The negative effect on one’s mental health caused by Facebook or TikTok exposure is probably statistical noise, compared to the effect of twelve years of compulsory government indoctrination.
Daniel Penny was acquitted.
I wonder why that part of the story wasn’t in the headlines for weeks.
It’s racism all the way down
The race has been fought much more over candidate style than any ideological or policy differences. Crockett, a political firebrand who spars regularly with Republicans, is focused more on turning out progressive, Black and Hispanic voters in record numbers. Talarico, a seminarian fond of quoting Jesus and the lyrics of John Prine, is pursuing a more big-tent approach that welcomes moderate Republicans and independents exhausted by abrasive GOP tactics. Those stylistic differences have led to questions from some Talarico allies about whether a candidate like Crockett can win a general election — and charges from Crockett’s supporters that those questions themselves may be racist.
Crockett famously responded to then-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) saying her fake eyelashes interfered with her reading ability, a comment she and others viewed as racist, in a committee hearing by slamming her “bleach blonde, bad built, butch body.” She’s also mocked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, as “governor hot wheels.”
Prominent Democrats have cautioned that her pugilistic rhetoric could be a problem in the red-leaning state. Democratic strategist James Carville warned last month on his podcast, for instance, that “anybody that has any sense of humanity” would find her Abbott remark offensive (though the governor himself has embraced it, putting on a campaign bumper sticker).
The debate over whether those are real concerns or coded racism has been a hot topic among the hyper-online, drawing in prominent figures within the party and pitting Talarico and Crockett’s supporters against each other in emotional fights on social media.
Will the pig ignorant crackers vote for a strong black woman who dares to speak her lived experience of oppression and poverty?
Tune in next week.
If they don’t, it’s because racism.
I think we all know the answer to that.
Governor Hot Wheels . . .
Another gift from the left
I love it. We all use that now. The insult totally backfired.
Crockett’s supporters see the electability conversation as a racist and sexist dog whistle that white male candidates like Talarico never have to engage with.
“Electability is rooted in racism,” said E.J. Carrion, a Fort Worth political activist and Crockett supporter. “James [Talarico] is less threatening to people, and I think if just those people who say that actually voted for the most qualified candidate, you wouldn’t have a problem.”
Disagreeing with Crockett’s “policy proposals” is racist.
Funny how it’s only “racism” for Democrat candidates.
So what you’re saying here is that ghetto-trash black people (or wealthy black people putting on a ghetto-trash front) are threatening to people?
Sweet drunken Enkidu, there is so much here to unpack…
Thanks to all who shared X handles yesterday.
“You’ll all have agents call to schedule interviews, shortly”.
“Some people say, ‘Listen, there’s no way that Texas will support a Black woman,” she said. “We are a majority-minority state, we can start there. The reality is that I didn’t run because I was a woman. I ran because I’m qualified. At the end of the day. I just happened to be Black and woman, but I am the most qualified person in this. Period.”
And if you don’t agree you’re a racist misogynist Nazi.
“Qualified” meaning she is old enough and is a resident.
No one is questioning your “qualifications”, honey. They’re questioning your politics.
There is nothing to question. You want to ruin my life.
When I lived in Europe I had a few local friends ask me if I was voting in their elections. It wasn’t accusatory. They genuinely thought I was allowed to since I had been there for years. So in the best case scenario here, even if people mean well and think they are acting legally, I can see non-citizens signing up to vote here. Add on top of that shady community organizers intentionally registering people to vote regardless of their status, I’m 100% certain it’s happening.
Talking down to folks
In 2019, social psychologists Cydney Dupree of Yale and Susan Fiske of Princeton published a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology with a striking conclusion: White liberals systematically present themselves as less competent when speaking to Black audiences than when speaking to white ones.
They called it “competence downshift.”
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The researchers found that white liberals draw on minority-incompetence stereotypes when trying to connect with Black audiences. They reach for what they assume the room will relate to. And what they assume, the data reveals, is struggle, deficit, and disadvantage — not excellence, not ambition and not achievement. The lead researcher herself called the findings “kind of an unpleasant surprise” and acknowledged that even if it is well-intentioned, the behavior “could be seen as patronizing.”
Dem feckless chilluns needs help and guidance, y’all.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
/Gavin Newsome
Is this the weirdest war ever?
Coverage is spotty and weak, even at Aljazeera.com
The opposition here seems to be primarily “Trump bad”. Much of the democrat opposition seems to be “sure, we are all for war with Iran, they totally deserve it… but we disagree with the way OMB is doing it”
In fact, that could be the majority position – “I am both for the war and against the war! Trump is a Nazi but I am a hero for pushing for war!!”
Just…. incoherent.
Our lives went from surreal back in 2015 to…. well, I think the writers of the simulation worked on season 8 of Game of Thrones.
The “democratic socialists” are loudly against this but most of them have sympathies that do not lie with the US so not surprising.