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What’s the pawnshop value of a drone in SF?
Free spot on the poop map.
Or, if you win big, a free spot on the OD map.
Good point — I’m assuming that these drones will have some sort of grill around the rotors to prevent them from getting bound by flung poo?
Alternate headline: Army eliminates waiver requirement for age and single MJ conviction. They were already allowed to enlist before with a waiver.
Trump is preparing for conscription …
That’s my fear…McCain’s corpse must have the biggest boner right now.
How does expanding the enlistment limit into middle age indicate that conscription is coming? With conscription you get to make people join, young fit ones. you don’t have to take middle aged stoners.
Rigor mortis is a hell of a drug.
Alternate alternate headline – “We’re in an unpopular war, we’ll take anyone with a pulse.”
They’re already taking DOD secretaries with sleeve art and morality waivers.
As long as there’s no marching or staying up after 9 PM
/Dusts off old uniforms
I had to ride a commuter train once when dressed in my Civil War uniform. Some yoots asked about it. I told them that the Iraqi war was going so badly that Bush had called up veterans of all wars. I think they half believed me.
That’s DOW Secretaries – keep up.
Looks like the ever-victorious IRGC is going the opposite direction.
“War related support roles”
Iranian equivalent of 69J mos?
Standing on top of the drone factory for future propaganda pictures, chains will be provided.
Also, https://youtu.be/QdOX6nihPo4
Funny how they had been talking up the big recruiting gains for a while.
I bet the number of declined waivers was already close to zero for those two categories.
Guessing those numbers dropped fast once Iran started
It was 35 when I was in. We had one 36 with a waiver.
Officers could be a maximum of 29.
I turned 27 at basic.
I’m convinced that the minimum age of joining needs to be raised. Especially for officers. Put them at 30 and require that they not have been in college a minimum of five years before being commissioned.
Supreme Court Tosses $1 Billion Jury Copyright Verdict in Record Label Battle over Illegal Internet Downloads
Sony should sue itself for past infringement …
Trump supporting FISA reauthorization? Fuck him. He’s obviously learned nothing.
He learned to love the deep state.
He learned what every politician learns – oh this is MY power now?
How about Tulsi…
Except he won’t. Terrible though it would be, I bet there would be some juicy discussions captured if they started wiretapping Newsome, key Democrat leaders, and whoever else is running. Probably evidence of colluding with planned riots and concerns about rigging the election with pressure being applied to mail in ballot systems.
But he won’t. Because Team Red gets the hammer but doesn’t use it like Team Blue.
“This government program is completely different when we are in charge of it…”
We won’t abuse it like those other people but we will leave it for them to abuse …
Agreed. Fuck all our politicians who vote for it and the judiciary for allowing it. They’re all disgraces to America, the founding principles and God above.
Fuck no.
Kill it with fire.
Whoopie, Flynn gets a million bucks. Who was fired or lost their pension?
Put Mueller’s corpse on trial?
Mueller wasn’t behind the Flynn shenanigans.
Trump could really use a good NSA right now. Letting little marco do the job part time isn’t working out very well.
The award seems weirdly low. The damage to reputation alone could be higher than that, not to mention actual monetary losses.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again – the greatest sin of government is the lack of accountability.
True, it isn’t power that corrupts, it’s immunity from consequences that corrupts. Power merely provides the protection that causes immunity. I would need very little power to be a force for incredible destruction if I were immune from the consequences of my actions.
Not just government. Other than Brian Thompson, the private sector is the same.
Lack of accountability also exists in the private sector, but it is not anywhere near as severe or widespread.
Only the lawyers win.
What does he get after they get paid?
$100,000?
Well, you won’t be getting more links from me with this site. And I guess I’ll have to stop saying there are some rational Democrats out there.
Speaking of funding, I should throw some of my tax refund (lousy planning again) into the Glibs pot.
Wait… he needs money to keep a substack going? Qua?
Yeah; my thought was that this was posted six days early.
However, time is also money, and I don’t know how much time they’re spending on the site.
I suppose they had a staff. Taibbi’s outlet does, and in fact he hired someone as editor-in-chief.
Has he considered a saucy fundraising calendar?
That was an outstanding screed.
Well, your party has been captured by communists.
Sorry not sorry.
That substack illustrates the problem with moderate Democrats. All about how to get elected, and nothing about policy that fixes anything.
Yeah he seems pleased that “moderate” voters are rejecting OMB but completely unconcerned that the current Dems winning is going to be a fucking disaster.
That’s a damn shame. Ruy Teixeira was a smart and uncommonly insightful writer.
That’s written by a smarter version of the democrats that run as republicans.
“US intelligence intercepted Ukrainian government communications discussing a plot to route hundreds of millions of American tax dollars earmarked for clean energy in the war-torn country”
Because when your country is being bombed the thing you most need is “clean” energy as opposed to “any kind of” energy.
By clean they mean laundered.
Like we didn’t already know this.
Even after being the victims of FISA abuse, the Repubs can’t find the testicles to do anything about it. My reluctance to vote for Repubs is definitely not being reduced by crap like this, the SAVE Act dying in the Senate, DOGE being submarined, etc. ad infinitum.
They are the Stupid Party.
Something I was thinking over in the shower this morning.
The Dems are the Evil Party, the GOP is the Stupid Party. This isn’t an irrevocable designation, they can change it up. But what doesn’t change is this:
– The Stupid Party thinks that the Evil Party is just stupid.
– The Evil Party thinks that the Stupid Party is just evil.
Which party is likely to reach 60 senators so something can actually be passed without the usual excuses?
Team Purple already had close to 100.
Which party is likely to reach 60 senators so something can actually be passed without the usual excuses?
The Uniparty.
“the SAVE Act dying in the Senate”
That one still surprises me.
Yup, they are worthless, or maybe worse than worthless sons something useful might spring up without them in the way.
Every time a grass roots alternative is started – Tea Party, MAGA, etc. – it gets infiltrated and taken over by the same establishment.
I wouldn’t MAGA is grass roots. It may have attracted those but it was Trump at the center from the start.
The Ukraine Hunter story should be bigger than it will be. Good time to see if Sleepy Joe or admin Auto-Pen signed it off.
I’m at a free dental clinic to get some work done.
Heavy wear the teeth that (will soon) wear the crown.
What time of day is the best time to schedule a dentist appointment?
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Tooth-hurty
Wouldn’t it be easier to just light those hundreds of millions of dollars on fire?
Sure, but that won’t put Democrats into political power.
I wonder if this recent road to Damascas conversion into an interventionist who loves FISA is actually a result of deep state hooks finally hitting the mark. It is so terribly against character, but then so was Obama on these issues.
Not for the Ukrainians, or the ‘American’ government operators who got to break a piece off…
Unless proven otherwise I would assume that China has backdoors in any electronics that leaves those shores. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Never mind the hooks the NSA has into all domestic backbone servers on the Internet.
They’re doing it for our own good.
That doesn’t make CCP fuckery any better. And it’s a lot easier to block that from coming into the country than [fedpost]
But those are OUR spies.
/salutes flag
But no bootleg music ’cause that’s against the law.
If you’re not running open-source firmware and software on your home router, it’s 99% likely that it’s already been compromised.
You *might* be off the hook if you’re running Ubiquiti hardware – they seem to be the only outfit that does home routers, that seems to give a fuck about proper security.
For years now my default assumption is that things like “privacy” and “security” are an illusion. I go through the motions where I have to but I just assume anyone who wants access can get it.
While social media is obviously a cancer, I am not sure that completely destroying the industry is the answer.
For social media, I’m willing to entertain a final solution.
Get rid of the social part of the problem?
Those weren’t so bad when they could be solved with a penicillin shot.
The answer is banning algorithms. If they use algorithms, then they are publishers not a neutral platform.
“Jury finds Meta, Google liable in landmark social media addiction trial, awards more than $6M in damages”
I read $3M some where else, but that’s not going to stop them.
Could be $3M each.
That’s correct according to the WSJ this AM.
Still peanuts for the defendants.
It’s gonna add up when millions more sue.
There is nothing left to cut!
“Are billions in healthcare spending slipping through the cracks — or is the system itself the problem?”
Without reading it, it’s both.
I know what I’ve got here. No lowballs.
JFK Jr.’s Magazine Was a Bust. Now Everyone Wants a Copy.
https://www.wsj.com/style/jfk-jr-s-magazine-was-a-bust-now-everyone-wants-a-copy-a75a69e2?st=dP2zbK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I can’t wait for enough Boomers to die off that we can finally get rid of the whole Kennedy hagiolatry and mythology.
Even non boomer Catholics seem to still canonize JFK, Camelot, Jackie, and the rest of Joe’s spawn.
The whole article be summed up as “Neither Medicaid nor Indiana placed a cap on services so we charged whatever we wanted. Neither Medicaid nor Indiana asked any questions. However, now both suddenly care”
Autism-Therapy Firm That Was Paid $340,000 per Patient Is Barred From Medicaid
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/autism-therapy-firm-paid-average-of-340-000-per-patient-barred-from-medicaid-f5faf7ba?st=CiWEwV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Sydney Sweeney thanks the troops serving overseas as she sends love to Air Force brother: ‘Thinking of all our boys and girls overseas’ ”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/25/us-news/sydney-sweeney-thanks-the-troops-serving-overseas-as-she-sends-love-to-air-force-brother/
USA! USA! USA!
Postal Service to Impose Its First-Ever Fuel Surcharge on Packages
“The 8% fee, to cover rising fuel and transportation costs, will be applied to packages but not the mail, as the agency looks to stabilize its finances”
The howling from Congress should be fun.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/postal-service-to-impose-first-ever-fuel-surcharge-on-packages-73b5e0fd?st=GYx2LK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
As long as I keep getting lots of free junk mail everyday.
That’s basically what’s keeping them alive. As more and more younger people shun postal mail (not package) the USPS revenues will continue to decline. This is also going to result in a decline in junk mail.
You can use it to heat your apartment.
I’ve been getting much less junk mail since covid.
Junk mail is about 90% of what I receive. Most mail has moved all the way from my mailbox to my trash box before the mail truck has left my street. I’d not complain if mail service was reduced to Monday-Wednesday-Friday only.
Same org that charges surge pricing during the holidays due to cost increases. “We’ll make our losses up in volume!”
Gotta stab em all
Fuck, how did this end up here?
I thought that only happens in NYC not Tokyo. However, in NYC it would be a bodega.
Fun times. Crude futures up 4% and market futures down 1% in the premarket.
“She described feeling like she was “drowning” as her lung filled with blood and her co-workers labored to save her life….
Fitzsimmons said at first she fought when medics attempted to give her an oxygen mask because she didn’t want to be saved, but she eventually relented.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/25/us-news/disgraced-cop-kelsey-fitzsimmons-says-she-lost-everything-in-15-seconds-before-she-was-shot/
Surprised she lived.
All the features of an authoritarian state, none of the benefits.
https://x.com/an0n_Nic/status/2036867621153329539
The “benefits” require work and hard choices – and hurt feelings.
Anarcho-tyranny in a nutshell.
Saying in nuce makes you look more learned
its nice to see women with more realistic body types being celebrated in fashion. something for the average woman to look up to
https://x.com/uncledoomer/status/2036913652888924497
I have a lot of weird vivid dreams but last nights was a first. I dreamed ( dremt ) that i was on my way to a bachelor party dont know whos it was not mentioned, with two of my best friemds Obama and two secret service guys guarding Barry and the conversation was how the secret service arranged for special strippers for the party that would keep everything confidential
“Legal eagles were baffled by the slap-on-the-wrist plea deal the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office struck with Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez, a 31-year-old transgender woman from Colombia, in the vicious 2025 assault of a 14-year-old boy in East Harlem….
The convicted rapist was promised a sentence of just six months, which has already been served, a sweetheart deal even by existing statutory standards….
Contreras-Suarez was picked up for illegally entering the US in San Ysidro, California, in March of 2023, but was allowed to proceed into the country by the Biden administration….
Contreras-Suarez was busted in Medford, Mass., for armed robbery, prostitution and assault with a dangerous weapon — but released due to local sanctuary policies, DHS said in July.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/25/us-news/outrage-as-trans-illegal-immigrant-gets-just-6-month-sentence-for-sexual-assault-of-nyc-teen/
WTF??
That person checks at least three high-ranking victim slots. Justice never stood a chance.
Did we catch one of GM’s infamous automatic transmissions locking up the rear wheels? Comments correctly point out no brake lights.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1s0df3c/oc_breaking_for_what/
It is a vehicle with CT plates. I wouldn’t rule out the driver.
Really, isn’t that the whole northeast?
Really, isn’t that the whole northeast?
Just most of the Northeast.
ME, NH, and VT plates don’t signal “Idiot” to me like MA, CT, NY, and NJ plates do. PA and RI plates indicate “maybe or maybe not an idiot.”
PA = the left lane is for my exclusive use and I’m already doing 5 over the speed limit. You can just wait.
That’s NY for me, though they are usually on the speed limit.
If the left lane hog is below the speed limit, that’s almost always a car with VA plates.
Today was the first day I really wish I had dash cam. A dump truck in front of me fell off the right side of the road going into a corner and came back on and started sliding into the oncoming lane sideways. Almost hit the tree on the right and almost got into the pole sideways on the corner on the left (right where the car is).
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2881314,-75.255154,3a,75y,66.59h,85.19t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6muR3AHSFMk7FYl5IS53NQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D4.813623022967022%26panoid%3D6muR3AHSFMk7FYl5IS53NQ%26yaw%3D66.58878854933651!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMyMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
I guarantee that dude had to change his underwear.
I was very amused.
Any idea what made him fall off the road. My money is cell phone.
Could have been, but I have no way of knowing for sure.
Spring cleaning almost done. My drapes were incredibly dusty but got them all washed. Washed the windows which i do twice a year spring and summer. I know there are weirdos out there who wash them more often.
I only wash car windows.
DOES THE DANISH MODEL ACTUALLY WORK? 🇩🇰
How Basically Fine is Denmark? At the moment mostly Basically Fine. Does this mean the Danish Model actually works? Sort of.
https://x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1944061263518347507
Lots of text but i find the guys opinions at least interesting
Helena Christensen works, but she retired from modelling.
sorry to say but the japanese kei trucks have jumped the shark and become soy and reddit. you can tell because the people who own them spend more time making instagram reels about how theyre so useful to do work than the amount of time they spend actually doing work in them
https://x.com/uncledoomer/status/2037164598676095341
Soy and Reddit? Soyddit?
“I’m not gay, I just spend a lot of time in gay bars. For research.”
They just imported the “herbivore men” along with the truck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men
The LinkedIn video is a hoot. I had no idea they had completed some of the delivery centers.
Sony And Honda Threw A Huge Party For The Opening Of Their New EV Distribution Center Just In Time For The Company’s Only Car To Be Cancelled
https://www.theautopian.com/sony-and-honda-threw-a-huge-party-for-the-opening-of-their-new-ev-distribution-center-just-in-time-for-the-companys-only-car-to-be-cancelled/
“Gavin Newsom’s press office again accused conservative journalist Benny Johnson of using the gay dating app Grindr in a shocking post.
The governor previously responded to criticism from the commentator – who recently pledged to sue controversial provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos after he accused him of being gay – with a similarly mean-spirited barb….
‘We got a call from Grindr after this and said your team was their biggest users. Congrats!'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15679533/Gavin-Newsoms-office-hurls-homophobic-insult-journalist-exposed-California-fraud.html
Oddly consistent with the Democrats push to turn twinky kids into trans girls.
Also consistent with Greasy being one of the more loathsome Democrats out there. But he gets away with it because AWFLs love his hair or some shit.
Could police from a far away state you have never been to use social media to identify you as a suspect based on a resemblance to a surveillance video? Could they get a warrant for your arrest and have you jailed and charged without doing any further investigation? Would a judge sign off on such a warrant??
The answer is yes
https://youtu.be/4ifXObNvTaA?si=HHk2lA16MPCG_L2J
That was brought up a week ago but worth a rehash.
Basic police work tossed out the window cause ‘AI’ spit out an answer in which they ran with without doing you know…actual police work.
Get ready for a lot more of that
This has interview with her PD. He provides much more details about how lazy the police are. Details about how, after kidnapping her away to Fargo from Tennessee and finally they released her onto the street in Fargo in the dead of winter. No money. No phone. No contacts. Nothing.
PD is proud of himself for getting her released after having the case for a month.
Tar and Feather for lots of folks here. The biggest is for the judge who signed off on the warrant.
Oh, and case dismissed without prejudice. Police say they are still investigating, so cannot comment.
Lava Lamp history
Gotta stab em all
How long before a fed judge issues a TRO against Trump deploying the guard to airports? Because I clearly recall the constitution anointing every robed idiot as commander in chief of the armed forces.
“A 25-year-old gang-rape victim left paraplegic after jumping from a roof in a suicide attempt is set to die by euthanasia today, after Spanish courts overruled her father’s efforts to stop the procedure….
She was reportedly sexually abused by one of her ex-boyfriends and three other men days before she attempted to take her own life, according to Spanish media.
‘I didn’t report it because it was days before I tried to kill myself,’ she said of the assault.
On October 4, 2022, after using cocaine, she jumped from the fifth floor of a building, leaving her paraplegic.
She suffered a severe spinal chord injury, which has left her unable to move from the waist down and caused severe neuropathic pain and incontinence, according to El Mundo.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15680497/Gang-rape-victim-25-left-paraplegic-constant-pain-jumping-roof-suicide-bid-die-euthanasia-today-Spanish-court-ruled-fathers-bid-stop-her.html
yikes!
Any Navy guys here?
Is it reasonable to believe the Ford laundry fire went on for hours and will require a year in dock to repair?
Rip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Kidder
“Wild footage captured the moment hundreds of lawless Chicago teens overran the city and attacked random people in the street.
The mob was seen violently stomping a shirtless man and flying into a frenzy in videos captured during the takeover of the downtown Loop district on Wednesday night.
Several police cars were seen stationed nearby, yet they apparently failed to intervene, video showed.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15681199/Chicago-teen-takeover-Loop-footage-tasers-riots-chaos.html
When we’re done with the Iran thing, can we send a carrier group to Chicago?
Isn’t a mob of thugs rioting on Michigan Ave a sign of Spring? Sort of like the birds and Capistrano?
Yeah, I feel like I’ve heard this one before. A lot.
Because of course.
But what about the Ultra Mega Plus Millionaires? Guess the sponsor.
The bill, called the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act of 2026, would impose an annual 2% tax on the net worth of households and trusts over $50 million, and an additional 1% tax on the wealth of billionaires.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-wealth-tax-plan-ultra-millionaire-tax-act/
FYCS
To deter the ultra-rich from leaving the U.S. to avoid the new tax, the bill also proposes a 40% “exit tax” on anyone worth more than $50 million who renounces their American citizenship.
Holy shit.
The Minnesoda GOP shows that they understand nothing about the internet.
The latest in fraud here is that the payment system wasn’t logging the IP addresses of people using the payment system to request payments. They set up an “IP trap” for two weeks to log them and found many requests were coming from overseas. Then they turned it off.
Uffda. I hate it when non-tech people try to pretend that they know what they are talking about.
They couldn’t bother to use a VPN?
“In a recent interview with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, veteran news anchor Katie Couric asked him whether he “had a Zoolander” problem, fretting that being “so ridiculously good looking” might make it hard for him to be taken seriously.”
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/03/25/adam-carolla-why-no-one-under-30-trusts-legacy-media/
OFFS!!
Also, a fifty minute video is a 6.5 GB download?