I hope everybody had a Happy Easter weekend. My kids get another day off today and will undoubtedly drive me nuts. I fear TTUN will as well, because I think they’re gonna drink UConn tonight to win the NCAA Tournament. In baseball, the transition to the appeal program seems to be working with few complaints. And of course the Yankees and Dodgers are on top of the game early. But the Astros are off to a decent start. Could be an interesting year. Across the pond, Leeds made the FA Cup semifinals after a wild one. They’ll play Chelsea, Man City and second division Southampton will play the other, after they beat Arsenal. And that’s it for sports.
“You can probably do this, but I’m not gonna let you anyway.” I guess the Supreme Court’s decision just three years ago doesn’t matter to some of these judges.
The answer is “probably not.” Not because it’s not physically doable. But because the public sector doing it means it will be done by connected grifters rather than businesspeople.
Greedy bastards. No, I’m not referring to the people who actually earned what they have.
She deserves the mockery. They ought to treat student load deadbeats the same way they treat child support deadbeats, by pulling their passports.
I don’t guess this is ending any time soon. Even though these guys keep having big meetings and popping their heads up to talk shit. There’s another one waiting in the wings to take these jobs.
This is true. But at least the British would have the will. From what I’ve read, the rest of Europe would have valued the equipment more than the men.
Well, I guess you know what this means: We have to change our entire way of life and abandon our culture because people are being asked to follow the law.
What the hell is wrong with people? Some of this should be considered a war crime.
What a dumbass. I’m sure this is somehow my fault and/or the fault of the greedy oil companies.
What a shitty situation. I wonder who ate what before they left.
Here’s a lovely track. Uplifting, even. The same goes for this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Easter Monday, dear friends.
“The federal judge said the federal government likely has the authority to collect the data, but the demand was rolled out to universities in a “rushed and chaotic” manner. ”
OFFS!
It’s ridiculous. The SC really needs to stomp on these judges who openly defy their rulings.
They all think they are Judge Dredd.
If that was rushed and chaotic and even of a basis to play Nazgul then they need to look at nearly all the actions of the Federal Government from about 2001, starting with the Partriot Act on through O-Care and on and on
Anything to leave the space to rig the next election..
Hits the “When are we going to impeach these activist judges already” macro again.
This won’t stop until there are personal consequences for the judges doing it.
So, a new Constitution?
Impeachment. But there is a reason for such a high bar.
That’s the problem – too high of a bar and one that greatly exceeds simple accountability.
“student load”
Think I saw that video
They didn’t pay it back, they spread it around.
Who’s your teacher?
Home schooled.
Oops, I meant to say step-home schooled…
Not familiar with that genre….
Is it on pr0nhub?
It does not matter what you are asking about, the answer to “Is it on pr0nhub?” is always “Yes, unfortunately it is…”
“The bartenders dissolve chicken bones in acid and add a dash to the cocktail.”
No.
Haven’t protein shakes been a thing for decades?
There is protein in pig semen.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/05/health/a-new-discovery-in-eye-cancer-treatment-thanks-to-pig-sperm/
A friend tried this, it left them cockeyed.
I was having serious side effects from the protein shakes.
Somethings weren’t coming out.
Right?
Immediately, well, the following day things got better. I’m off the extra 30 grams , for now.
Get more info if you are going in the daily shake direction.
Bloody Bulls are freaking delicious.
Yes, but sometimes the matador doesn’t win.
*squints suspiciously*
I think you need to talk to Pie about that variant of the drink.
Well, I guess you know what this means:
The kids could go live with their parents?
Good morning all!
I wake up early, and it annoys me to no end that I can’t get the breakfasts I want here, when I want them. Whether it’s a Full Irish with a pint or an English or other fry-up with cider, weekend breakfasts are sometimes either sub-optimal or leave me with too many dishes to wash.
This region isn’t known for it’s variety of food.
There are places I could get them, were I willing to wait until late morning to have breakfast. Which I am not. I am still mildly grumpy that Triangle moved their opening time to 7:00.
BTW, there are matches both days this weekend. A KFGC GPA one on Saturday and a Steel Challenge at SaraSpa on Sunday. I will be at both but only help setup/tear down the Sunday one.
I’m going to Syracuse this weekend. I even went so far as to book a hotel room so I could attend both days of the show without excessive driving. (Sure, it’s only 2.5-3 hours each way, but I wanted to avoid the extra trip)
Syracuse used to mean a trip to Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. Is it still good or have they lost the touch?
There’s a Dinosaur down the road from where I live.
They’re fine. I never thought them particularly exceptional in any location I visited. Never understood the hyperbolic praise they got. But it also means they haven’t gone down from where they were previously.
Haven’t been to the Syracuse location(s) in ages, but was down the road late last year.
Yeah it has definitely been declining, I haven’t been to the original location in forever and was hoping that it was still good. Once I saw a Dinosaur in Connecticut I figured it would slowly turn to shit.
I went to the Albany one early in my time here. I was impressed by the sides. I haven’t been back and the only decent place I’ve found near to me closed.
I would contribute to a program to release dinosaurs in Connecticut, and I would fully intend for them to turn some people to shit.
Why do you want to turn Alex to shit?
Alex won’t be a victim, he is going to be the hero in that movie.
There is a youtube channel called Tundra Tactical that has a series of comedic rants about gun shows. You can watch them and compare them to reality… and write it up.
UMW already won the NCAA tournament …
That because people are idiots.
The assumption is that the computer is correct. The problem is that the computer computes balls and strikes in a way that is not in accordance with the rules.
The strike zone is a 3D area. ABS calculates balls and strikes on a 2D plane at the middle of the plate. The game is essentially using two separate strike zones, with the “definitive” one not in accordance with the rule.
I don’t disagree. I just said there were few complaints.
See also when the computer doesn’t agree with the physical mark the ball leaves in the clay in tennis.
THIS!!!!!
They have umpires for a damn reason, get rid of anything that cannot be used at little league level of play. This is not the game anymore, and, no, banana ball isn’t the answer for grumpy old men like me, either.
And get rid of all instant replay BS in sports, too.
The problem is that with all the cameras in place for television broadcasts, you’ve got de-facto video replay for everything already, it’s just the crowds and broadcasters that are using it. So when a ref gets the call on the field stupid wrong, everybody sees it. The leagues have to use it.
If the computer is going to stand as “correct” and be the final standard then use it all of the time. And if using it all of the time isn’t actually the best solution then why on earth are we using it some of the time?
Maybe I am nuts but I don’t think that “Hey, do you think that this call is important enough for us to make sure that it’s ‘correct’ or should we let it go?” should be a question of strategy for a team that is participating in a sporting event.
They don’t want to admit that we already had the best solution.
The problem wasn’t really umpires. The problem was that little fucking box on the screen that isn’t really representative of the strike zone in any realistic way, and that little dot where the teevee says the ball crossed the plate, which also wasn’t accurate in any realistic way. It gave people the false idea that they could see something umpires couldn’t, and so people demanded more accuracy from umpires when it probably wasn’t warranted.
Now we have this monstrosity of a situation where a computer uses a single plane to determine something that isn’t defined by a single plane.
I fucking hate it. I also don’t really approve of calling out umpires for “missing” a call by 1/10” on a 95mph pitch that moves 2.5’
If umpires really did their job then managers should never argue with them.
The zone used by umpires and computers is ridiculously low compared to the rule book.
“Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,100-year-old sling bullet in Israel inscribed with a pointed message aimed at enemy forces….
The projectile, which officials date to the second century B.C., was carved with the Greek word “Learn,” according to a press release obtained by Fox News Digital.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/05/lifestyle/archaeologists-find-2100-year-old-bullet-in-israel-with-sarcastic-message-to-enemies/
LOL
His mom probably did that, she just wanted to make sure that he kept up with his reading while he was away at war LOL
I’ve noted this in the past but yes, the US public sector is actually much more corrupt than in some of these countries that already have “high speed rail”, like Germany – or at least, already had such works several decades ago. I suspect they are moving rapidly in our direction when it comes to public corruption because they seem to be losing their “high trust” societies much like we did ours long ago.
JFC!!
I assume the number would be no lower if Big Government were running these trains.
No, because they’re running 125 MPH trains with street crossings. That is a recipe for disaster.
Those evil private trains – seeking out people to kill.
With no hard data at all, I’m going to guess that at least 90% of the people killed by trains are the ones at fault.
There is no reason to prefer “high speed” rail to high speed air travel. That peoples actual preferences don’t align with the preferences of the proponents of choo-choos is too fucking bad.
This. I can catch a direct flight from Greenville SC to Providence RI that takes 2 hours. The tickets were under $100 each way before the war started.
Nothing even close is possible with trains.
It can work in limited parts of the US like the NE where the distances are shorter and the hassles of dealing with airports can be avoided. Nowhere else here, probably.
But then you’re in Providence…
(I keed, I keed – I like Providence – if RI weren’t so fucked, financially, I’d consider a move there)
What you have are a bunch of Yalies and Vassar girls who got a Eurail pass one summer thought it was soooooo great and why can’t we be more like them? Not thinking about how Europe’s insistence on incinerating itself every 50-100 years gives fertile ground for things like this as it resets the place to essentially year zero each time, tech wise.
Really, the best part of the train is the ability to arrive 5 minutes before departure and just walking on.
Although, I dunno if it’s just Logan, but I’ve been absolutely breezing through TSA the last few times I’ve gone. Like, 8 minutes from Uber drop off and through security, 5 minutes of which is just schlepping from the ride share drop off.
For short enough trips I prefer rail. More comfortable, less hassle, the train station is closer to downtown than the airport. You can watch the view walk about the train have a drink in the bar cart. No turbulence. If the train does 4 hours or less I like it.
Oh, yes, ZWAK touches on another things about the BOS to NYP line – it runs thorough some totally beautiful waterfront land. An attempt to build it from scratch would require trillions in eminent domain seizures.
Yes, Boston to New York kinda works because it’s about 4 hours. And those cities are incredibly close by US standards. Same for NY to DC.
I’d never even consider Boston to DC on the train, even the Acela.
The only time I took a long train ride I was looking forward to it because I thought I’d be able to nap. I was wrong.
I do like taking VIA rail from MTL to Quebec, but that’s just a part of visiting French Canadian Disneyland.
There was a time when flying was more expensive that the train so I took it cross-country a couple decades ago. Got trashed and played cards with some strangers between Buffalo and Chicago.
I took the bus from Bucharest to Barcelona. Do not recommend.
Does that route go north or south of the Alps?
“Sydney Sweeney tipped to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond as Hollywood director claims she’d make a good spy”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15708549/Sydney-Sweeney-tipped-replace-Daniel-Craig-James-Bond-Hollywood-director-claims-shed-make-good-spy.html
“Jiggled, not stirred.”
🙂
I wouldn’t object to some Girl-Bond-on-Bond-Girl action.
James Blonde (I’m trademarking that)
“US states propose domestic violence registries – but could they harm women?”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/domestic-violence-offender-registry
Asking the important question.
Only those women who are prone to initiating domestic violence. Lesbians hardest hit.
Also, lesbians hit hardest.
I was expecting something more coastal.
It’s like “We’re going for the geographic center of your country. Oh, and is that your major military center on the doorstep of our staging area? I guess it wouldn’t make much difference”
The US doesn’t have high speed rail because it doesn’t work in most of the country. The only place really available for it would be the Acela corridor, which is already served by a train that can only go so fast in built up areas, which it already does. The rest of the country is better served by roads and air travel, which we already have. If the US was going to do HS rail, it would have done it in the sixties, but at that point we didn’t have nearly as much moving about the country, as it is highly regional.
It is out dated tech, superseded by aviation.
Acela BOS to NYP is pretty pleasant but is a toss-up, time wise, vs. flying. And it’s often more expensive. And they still manage to lose money.
What kind of greedy monsters would deny the rights of rail hobbyists, people afraid to fly, people who get bus sick, and retirees wanting to see the country from ground level the ability to extract billions of dollars from taxpayers in order to build high speed trains? Planners, engineers, and construction workers need to eat too, and bureaucrats get tingles from practicing eminent domain every time one of these boondoggles gets built.
Eminent domain, routing the trains to isolate uncooperative regions and reward cooperative ones, huge contracts for grading, tunnel and bridge building, and track laying with enormous graft potential, of course they love trains.
I’m not getting why the “Iran rescue” is wall-to-wall 24/7 news.
Donno, all we did was conduct a massive search and rescue operation over a hostile country, plonk down a forward operating base on the doorstep of a major military nexus, successfully extract all of the people alive, and lost fewer aircraft to enemy action than to soft soil.
I don’t know the details, it just seems like “shit that happens during war”.
It was shit that happens during war when you have competent people in charge. The thing that aggravated the credentialed expertise class the most, was that the fear they had of the contrast of their ineptitude and stupid choices would brutally be contrasted to what competence looks like. Pete Hegseth and efforts to dewokify the military were resisted because of this: it made the ineptitude of the credentialed expertise class and their woke agenda brutally obvious.
That was the good part (sold there really were no casualties). Losing a half $ billion worth of aircraft in a day is the not so good part.
Because there was a whole cabal of people hoping that/rooting for Iran would capture that WSO and give the Trumpians a black eye?
Think about it. After some 20K sortees and Iran’s military being annihilated (I hate people that say decimated, because decimated means one in ten got killed) these tools were saying the war was now surely lost because the Iranians finally got luck and shot down ONE 30 year old aircraft. When the WSO was found and saved, they pivoted to complaining about the hardware losses saving one man. These are the same idiots that made excuses for Biden leaving $98 billion of military gear in Afghanistan along with 13 US servicemen a few years back, and have been defending hundreds of billions in welfare program fraud committed by democrats and their foreign replacement voter classes.
There is a reason the socialists are more concerned about the $$ losses to save one life. I remind you these are the socialists constantly talking about how others have right to the money I/you have earned, make people in dire medical conditions wait years for treatment they need in days (and now offer them assisted suicide as an alternative), demand we be unarmed and wait for policemen to show in minutes when seconds count, and hate western civilization and Judeo-Christian values.
Compare and contrast with Operation Eagle Claw.
it is a future blockbuster movie.
““There is great stigma associated with it. It affects your credit score. Housing is a human right. It is a predictor of health outcomes,” Pressley said. “It’s essential for social and economic mobility, and so many people, when they receive a notice to quit or to vacate their homes, usually because of non-payment, because wages are not keeping pace with inflation, they don’t know their rights, and a lot of times, they will just accept that notice to quit and leave. And so my legislation is making sure they have access because we found that when tenants know their rights, when they have access to legal counsel, we can usually keep them safely housed.”
The HELP Act would provide “critical support” to renters at risk of eviction. The legislation includes provisions to prohibit credit reporting of evictions and utility debt, require landlords covered under the bill to inform tenants of their “rights,” and establish a national hotline through the Department of Housing and Urban Development to connect renters with eviction prevention resources.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/ayanna-pressley-brings-bill-to-help-renters-stay-in-homes-without-paying-claims-eviction-is-an-act-of-violence
CWAC
Time to evict Pressley from office.
Housing is a human right.
No, it isn’t. So since she is so wrong about that, no need to even debate the rest of it.
If you take the notion of positive rights to its obvious end hot young women have to sleep with me! Sexual gratification is a part of human well being after all!
You’ve been waitlisted, Jar.
We can offer you Euthenasia for your disappointment in interpersonal activities instead.
That won’t do! I demand compensation! An unlimited category politician tag for my hunting license would suffice.
You may not cull nor euthanize politicians.
How about tarring and feathering?
Fuck off, commie.
Yes, there should be a great deal of stigma attached to being a bum and not paying your debts.
STOP OTHERING THEM!!!
This is another instance where it’s useless to argue with the left because they don’t think this way at all.
Their entire worldview is centered around making people dependent on the government.
Can’t I not pay the rent known as property tax to the government, please?
There was a rapid large scale replacement of the atlatl by the bow in much of North America 1400 years ago.
https://x.com/lefineder/status/2040670853910696393
I’m surprised it was that recent.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech is a weapon of war, and censorship is necessary to protect free speech.
https://x.com/redpillb0t/status/2040232944225120378
Fine, we’ll suppress her speech first.
Whoa buddy! I didn’t know it would apply to me!
God, that woman is stupid.
Evil, not stupid.
Ted is correct.
Why not both?
Evil, yes, but she also has that blank dead-eyed look that makes me think of a cow that was just asked a moderately difficult math problem…
I always guess “evil” over “stupid”.
Sometimes there is both but the “evil” is always there with these types. Most of them are not stupid.
Popper talked about the paradox of tolerance, where tolerating intolerance ends up allowing intolerance to triumph and paradoxically tolerance leads to intolerance. His ideas have created what I call the Popper paradox where only the least tolerant of disagreement find his idea appealing and label those who welcome debate as intolerant in order to end the debate.
He doesn’t seem to consider that it isn’t a purely intellectual exercise, it is what people do in mass. The masses must always be constrained, as they are always prone to irrational excess.
Heretics must always be destroyed.
Gotta destroy it to save it like that village in Vietnam.
A federal judge has just declared tits illegal.
https://archive.is/wip/9c09M
Mammary Monday.
I hear a judge in Hawaii just ordered the Trump admin to return that saved WSO officer back to Iran’s IRGC as well…
Babylon Bee lurker, get on this stat!
Percentage of the population that has the 10 most common surnames
https://x.com/onlmaps/status/2040367892177322232
Danes be lame
Im glad my lineage is Norway/Sweden and not some dirty Dane blood
Richard Gere: “The entire planet has fallen off a cliff into the stupid zone. Do you really think these refugees and immigrants are different than us? Do you really believe these clowns like Trump, Orban, Netanyahu, Putin? You really believe what these guys say?”
https://x.com/Gibboanxious/status/2041033158586425644
Yes, absolutely.
Send them home, so that they don’t turn our country into the shitholes they ran away from.
Open the Strait!
https://x.com/i/status/2040847232753160441
https://x.com/blackngoldlabel/status/2040878288084554098
*dies*
instead of studying what iran’s resistance means for world liberation, some marxists are fixated on the bourgeois-clerical character of the “regime”. I’m sorry but the irgc, sovereign capacities, and mass mobilisation are the revolution, not some fantasy about workers’s councils
the iranian state seizing control over the strait of hormuz *is* the proletariat demonstrating its role in the process of global accumulation, the iranian military launching ballistic missiles at targets in occupied palestine and the gulf apparatus *is* the working class at arms
trotsky *and* stalin agreed that third world movements resisting imperialist domination, whatever their internal character, are revolutionary. this is leninist orthodoxy, not a fanonian guevarist khomeinist heresy cooked up by us on third-worldist twitter
https://x.com/gudcur1/status/2040949225416966281
word. preach.
Are they typing in all lowercase to fight Capitalism?
Reading Tanky Twitter will rot your brain.
you are obviously not a philosopher
I am not. It’s likely my farts contain insufficient euphorics for the profession to be attractive for me.
It is interesting that the philosophy which preaches that history follows inevitable natural laws along a defined pathway irrespective of personalities is so completely obsessed with cults of personality that it names each micro variant of itself after the “Great Man” who created that variant.
It is California voters fault they can’t build the high-speed rail that no one will ride.
He isn’t entirely wrong
He’s not wrong in the wrong way. That doesn’t make him right.
China is attempting to do the impossible. The construction of 123 km underwater tunnel, the Bohai Strait Tunnel is on and it will cost China $42 billion.
On completion, the high speed transport system will reduce travel time between Dalian and Yantai from 8 hours to only 40 minutes. It will be the longest underwater beating 53.85 km Seikan Tunnel.
https://x.com/akech_andrew/status/2039772496958791974
😳
I would not trust Tofu Dreg Construction, let alone Tofu Dreg Underwater Tunnels
LOL
Beautiful day, perfect for a five-hour (total) trek to Michigan to pick up supplies. Just me on the journey, it’s always a lovely drive up north on Highway 31. I’m a quarter mile away and take it straight to Niles, MI, before a ten-mile jaunt to 7Engines in Buchanan. Always curious to drive past my old haunts in Peru.
Cubs play at 4, so I should be able to get back and make it an Ev-Vacation of a day. (Dammit. Not an evacuation. Well, one of stress on the road.) I should have word of contract onboarding by Thurs, taxes are done, and I introduce myself to the Meijer’s pickup “pulling” team on Sat to stay in the flow.
Good week to change gears in Indiana.
Glad they got the airman back. I hope somebody gets their hand slapped, though, for a crappy choice of landing fields for the planes they had to blow up.
And if they blew up the planes that the rescue team used to fly in, how did they get out?
They flew in additional planes of a smaller model than the C-130s that initially inserted the team