actually, it’s just an open post because we are hiking from Stow-On-The-Wold to Bourton-On-The-Water.
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we are hiking from Stow-On-The-Wold to Bourton-On-The-Water
I don’t think you have, mate.
Jolly good.
Watch out for those narrow bridges over the stream in Bourton.
Watch out for ticks.
Had one stuck on my head last night. First one stuck this year, a few crawlers though.
Which head?
Watch out for blasphemy laws.
Don’t pray near an abortion clinic.
How do you say hello in England?
ALLAH AKUBAR!
The trains stopped running and you need to get out of Stow?
Remember…..
I don’t want to think about China, or teh gays, or the pending invasion of Normandy, or anything else today.
So, let’s talk about screw worms???
Relevant
Music I remember so well, Teds, thanks
Screw worms.
Thanks Darian gap transit!
Remember Midway. Especially the torpedo squadrons which were wiped out, nearly to the man.
One of the few survivors, Ensign Gay, watched the destruction of three Japanese carriers while floating in the water trying not to be seen.
Think about Marvin Heemeyer.
Happy Anniversary Marvin!
Be careful not to get stabbed. You don’t want to get arrested.
RE: Commie ball
Yesterday I learned that the goals are made locally here.
https://kwikgoal.com/
No bubble here! Move along!
Google Stock Attracts Cathie Wood’s ARK and Berkshire Hathaway. That’s Rare.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/alphabet-stock-cathie-wood-ark-berkshire-hathaway-484ff565?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The espresso bar at work has been closed indefinitely due to a lack of baristas.
I’m sure some NYT columnist could make a economic thinkpiece out of that fact.
What does Tom Friedman’s taxi driver think?
Did they have government=dictated wages?
Play one of these and the applicants will flock in.
https://www.weareteachers.com/best-graduation-songs/
I’m sure that some NYT reporters could be more productive if they were baristas.
Some tri-state area politicians, too.
I doubt they have the skills or capacity to learn to be good baristas.
You should built a robot barista.
It might even call out the names correctly
My local Starbucks had six of them in the store yesterday.
In a store where at peak hours needs a maximum of three.
I was the only customer.
Unionized?
I doubt they were ionized.
Isn’t it ionic?
I’ve not followed the SpaceX IPO closely. It IS interesting that the Magnificent 7 have basically gone sideways and that it pressuring telecom because of Starlink.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/spacex-ipo-elon-musk-value-destroy-abbd64b8?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I was going to buy in with around $20k.
Then I learned he forded the AI and all the other money losers into it.
Nope.
IPOs are like buying retail on the first day a hot new product is available. Wait for them to hit a bump or two and drop, then buy.
Speaking of which. An honest critique of AI ever making anyone (outside of chip and construction industries) any money.
https://x.com/i/status/2062424024656044170
An honest critique of AI ever making anyone …. any money.
Do any of our more market savvy/payers-of-attention-to have any thoughts on what funds to put money into that are not over-leveraged into AI heavy tech sectors? I need to review my funds and evaluate how deep they are, but I know some are pretty heavy on NVidia. I think NVidia will have a major contraction, AI-centric/focused companies in general really, and am considering jiggering my distribution – almost all mutual and ETF – to minimize exposure in that particular tech sector.
I think AAPL is an OK way to own a tech stock and not be too heavily invested into the AI bubble. But you know, max 2.5-3% of your total.
And right now I like CCL, UAL and NCLH. But these are definitely not buy hold kind of purchases. They are buy and pray, and if WTI shoots back up be ready to dump then at a loss and just move on like a goldfish.
The levy, which the Ukrainian government and industry say has already sharply reduced steel exports to the bloc, is designed to narrow the carbon-cost gap between EU producers and foreign competitors. It puts a price on the embedded CO₂ emissions of imports in six sectors: cement, aluminum, fertilizers, iron and steel, hydrogen and electricity.
Where do I start?
EU Carbon Border Levy Is a Growing Source of Tension for Ukraine
https://www.wsj.com/pro/sustainable-business/eus-carbon-border-levy-is-growing-source-of-tension-for-ukraine-43a767c2?st=f4KmBz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Related:
Last year, SAF made up only 0.6% of fuel used for flights, according to the International Air Transport Association.
So if we increased the 10x it only covers 6% of demand. We just should have gone green harder!
Airlines Called Sustainable Fuel the Future. When an Energy Crisis Broke Out, Barely Any Was Around.
https://www.wsj.com/pro/sustainable-business/airlines-called-sustainable-fuel-the-future-when-an-energy-crisis-broke-out-barely-any-was-around-f84a200a?st=3Lwz9y&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s a tariff, but one of the good tariffs because it’s not an OMB tariff.
They have a “sustainable business” beat? FFS.
I thought Ukraine was engaged in a war of national survival. I’m sorry, but if that is the case, you don’t worry about curbing your exports, your main goal is to keep the economy going so you can to keep funding the war effort.
It sounded to me like Ukraine is saying the EU levy is screwing them over (and is basically a protectionist levy). But I understand the belief among much of the right is that Ukraine is in the wrong simply for existing.
I Wore a Smart Fart Wearable for Three Days. Here’s What I Learned
I was born in a crossfire hurricane
And I howled at the morning drivin’ rain
But it’s all right now, in fact it’s a gas
But it’s all right, I’m jumpin’ jack flash
It’s a gas, gas, gas
is this to find out if women fart or not? Inquiring minds want to know…
I’m not sure you need a study for that. Personal experience should suggest a resounding, reverberating, thunderous, “YES!” answer to that question.
And while I’ve never actually read a study on flatulence – HONEST! – my understanding from the popular distillation of such scientific inquiry is that the answer is still yes, and actually in higher volumes than men.
One group is loud & proud, the other is not. This is the difference between men’s and women’s farts.
One group is loud & proud, the other is not.
And, after a run in period of acclimatization, it is no longer clear which group is which.
In 32 years, I have heard my wife fart two or three times and she was asleep for all of them.
As far as I know, she has never pooped either.
Is that normal?
I thought women’s asses were vestigial, like men’s nipples.
Saying not to eat carbs and non digestible fibre.
Then pushing the “you’re not getting enough fibre” lie.
Multimillion-dollar wildlife bridge in NorCal gets first travelers before it opens
We now know how much one of these costs so the $100+ million one in LA is mostly graft.
I bet the cost of that thing was less than $3 million… The rest was graft.
The Bee, as usual, comes through!
State Where P-51 Mustang Was Built In 102 Days Now Taking 4 Years To Build Bridge For Butterflies
https://babylonbee.com/news/state-where-p-51-mustang-was-built-in-102-days-now-taking-4-years-to-build-bridge-for-butterflies
Top AI CEOs Call for Law Protecting Against Biological Weapons
Mind you the AI companies aren’t going to do anything instead “three major chief executive officers—OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis of Google’s DeepMind AI lab—are among the signatories of a letter urging Congress to require safeguards when companies order synthetic DNA and RNA, a key step in developing certain vaccines and biotech breakthroughs.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/top-ai-ceos-call-for-law-protecting-against-biological-weapons-88f2f99f?st=p99s4y&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The “dead n*gg3r storage” guy on Hollywood….
‘Flavorless Sausage Factory’ reminds me of the dating scene.
Oh, my…
Should I ask for details?
+1 fromunda cheese
This will be in the news cycle all day today. I heard it on the radio and now in the WSJ. Naturally I need to go to the bottom third of the article.
The scientists analyzed the impact of specific types of ultraprocessed foods. They found that processed meats, such as bacon, hot dogs and sliced ham, were linked to the highest risk of dementia and cognitive impairment.
In the study, the group that ate the most ultraprocessed foods had an average intake of nearly a kilogram a day of such products, more than four times as high as those who ate the least.
I like bacon as much as the next guy, but close to 2 pounds a day may be pushing it.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/adding-to-the-list-of-dementia-risks-a-diet-high-in-ultraprocessed-foods-04dd40b6?st=3oqnVr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Pre- or post-cooking?
I’d assume that would be quantity consumed and therefore cooked.
Wait, the enhamination is fine, but slicing it is one process too many?
You have tom gnaw it off the bone directly or it makes you lose your mind.
What if Tom is unavailable and I want ham now, is it worth taking the risk?
I’ll guess they’re referring to the deli ham, or chopped ham. I guess chipped chopped ham is fine.
What is unprocessed meat? A whole chicken with feathers?
Still clucking, because killing it is a process.
There are a few running around the neighborhood. They used to be cooped up on somebody’s property but escaped. So far they’ve managed to avoid becoming roadkill.
No fox in your area?
Not so far. I have seen red foxes in other neighborhoods. Okay, one fox, once, but they don’t exactly make themselves seen.
I wonder if the number of dogs in this area have any impact on whether they foxes come into the neighborhood.
IFLS
The best part is they can take whatever badness ensues from nitrite overdose and then apply it to “ultraprocessed foods” in general.
The best part is they can take whatever badness ensues from nitrite overdose and then apply it to “ultraprocessed foods” in general.
So much this.
/s RCP 8.5
I may go read it just to find a reference to the actual study material – unfortunately, not only can you not trust the reporting, you can’t trust the press release from the scientists/institution nor, in many cases, the actual abstract of the paper.
Most/all of these types of studies are epidemiological and are based on food surveys (“How much X did you eat on the third Tuesday of March in 2021?”), so the weakness comes well before “they ate 5 lbs of bacon a day”. And then you have to get into the methodology/confounders. Did they account for the fact that bacon came with a side of pancakes, syrup, sugar in the coffee and a smoke? Or that the person who ate the most hot dogs, ate a dog with 20 grams of sugar from the ketchup, a large soda, a piece of cardboard and seed oil disguised as a bun, a side of beer battered fries, also dipped in a tub of sugar disguised as a sauce, and a stack of nachos covered in cheese flavored STEVESMITH-seed oil?
I started using a food tracking app to analyze my macronutrient intake.
What I learned was that people are demonstrably awful at accurately reporting what they eat.
“I’d like to order a large pizza with everything and a diet coke.”
Its why we need synthetic foods made in a lab to accurately detail ever micro/macro nutrient intake
/probably some commie
Yes – on all points.
“I’d like to order a large pizza with everything and a diet coke.”
I saw something similar in my days working in govspace that had a cafeteria. People ordered a salad, diet coke, and multiple desserts.
ROAT:
One of the most popular meals ordered when I was working at McDonald’s was the double quarter pounder meal, super-sized, with a diet coke. It was a running joke among the employees
Sheldon, I have had that same experience. I recommend that everyone get a free app and track your food for a week or two. Usually they’re not that hard to use because they can read bar codes, and most will let you copy frequently eaten foods.
It’s an eye opener.
Mr Ilium – It is possible to prefer the flavor of the Diet variant.
Regular sodas taste like syrup.
RE: Making fun of the diet coke set
Nothing wrong with making incremental changes. Those people could eat rice cakes or some other godawful food with their diet coke but yuck.
A day? I cut my pork belly into roughly 1-1.5kg slabs. Id get sick eating that whole slab.
At my fattest, I could probably have eaten that much in a day.
These days, not so much. I’ve gotten used to smaller servings.
Let me guess, same anti meat scientists behind the meat allergy disease spread by ticks?
Are they studying cured meats, and calling them “ultra processed”? I don’t doubt that a lot of cured meats are bad for you. While we like bacon in our house, we do avoid lunch meats and hot dogs. But the phrasing is confusing, probably purposefully so.
This is probably what they mean.
I also avoid lunch meats because of the nitrates and sodium content, but I’m never going to completely give up an occasional grilled bacon-wrapped footlong hot dog with onions and chili sauce.
Who’s ready for some bread and circus?
https://www.espn.com/ufc/story/_/id/48871299/ufc-white-house-how-watch-freedom-250-uk-tv-channel-live-stream-fight-start-date-prelims
Bread is still covered by SNAP.
Im okay with a 250 celebration….though the UFC thing is ridiculous.
It’s ridiculous but he’s obviously trolling his enemies so I’ll let it pass.
Rehabilitation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLts-sXlLEM
I agree, that is rather tacky. Same thing with the military parade.
The whole thing does have a strong Idiocracy vibe.
I would love love love it if OMB attended the UFC event dressed like President Camacho.
“Idiocracy” was a documentary sent to us by time travelers. Change my mind.
Re: the Amnesty International statement from previous threads:
When did AI begin saying “don’t question your government!” Especially when said government wasn’t explicitly commie?
I had a long conversation with a friend a few weeks ago who has severe TDS. This is one of the several contradictions he carries around. But basically it’s just gov’t is great, we just currently have the wrong top men and need to get the right top men back in and everything will be fine.
I do not get people.
The lure of Technocracy is apparently more powerful than the strong nuclear force.
UCS: I taught my kids Rule #1 growing up: people are stupid. It all goes back to that. *insert link to Tommy Lee Jones’ speech in MIB*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=720nx5P19Pc
I can converse with friends like that and get them to mostly agree with my proposition that everything their side pushes is wrong and a week later it’s like they forgot everything they agreed with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They don’t play the game and don’t understand it. They simple follow the action and are happy when their team has the ball, even if they don’t know how to score or what the point of it all even is.
Time of Possession /Offensive Zone Time is all that counts. Right now, they don’t have the ball.
FRET!!! (They’re very good cheerleaders. They learn new meaningless chants quite quickly. Rah-rah!)
*insert link to Tommy Lee Jones’ speech in MIB*
Meetings – None of us is as dumb as all of us
When did AI begin saying “don’t question your government!”
STEVE SMITH KNOW BEST.
When it scanned the Orwell reference in Hillary’s memoir?
https://www.ign.com/articles/stargate-sg-1-star-michael-shanks-rallies-fans-after-amazon-axes-revival-says-now-is-the-time-to-say-something
Amazon cancelled the new show.
Good. I’d hate to see what Amazon would do to the IP.
💩
The director refused to let the woke asshats do to Stargate what Amazon did to the LoTR shit.
They took a giant shit on Robert Jackson’s Wheel of Time. By Season 2, the entire story arc had been rewritten by woke morons.
Now Amazon can spend the money on a final season of Outer Range instead.
Right?
Sure. At least 1 episode where everyone jumps in the hole.
Yeah, I’m not crushed.
At least one article included Amazon saying the reason for cancellation was [paraphrased] “the show would have only appealed to the existing audience, not drawing in new fans.”
That’s the fucking point you retards. You draw in the existing audience, the existing audience brings their kids and friends along, the kids and friends are the new audience. I’ll put TNG as the prime example of this. Twilight Zone and Outer Limits both made attempts, but I don’t think either were anywhere near as successful.
That “It will only appeal to the old audience” claim, to me, felt like bullshit. They got mad at the director that he wouldn’t let them wokify the thing so they could again preach the radical nutbaggery the left considers core dogma. If they can’t ruin the product to indoctrinate, they do not want it.
Show and tell at the Freedom Factory
If I had such a thing as a outube account [pause for laughter] I might go into the comments and express my disappointment that there is not a single 1911 to be seen.
Bring a can of BMG and you can run the M82 at my place.
Enshittification
The luxury project has two components: a coastal development in the Narta Lagoon area, which is a wildlife reserve, and a smaller resort on the nearby uninhabited island of Sazan, a communist-era military base.
The planned development of hotels, apartments, villas and a marina is linked to Kushner and Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump.
In an interview this week with U.S. podcaster David Senra, Ivanka Trump said they discovered the site by accident.
“We were on a friend’s boat, and we stopped for a swim. Effectively, that’s how we found it,” she said. “We swam to the island. We went on a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top, and we were just captivated.”
An investment firm linked to Kushner has been granted special investor status by Albanian authorities.
You can’t have too many luxury resorts.
“former communist nation” 🤔
But yeah, jobs and opportunities suck.
I bet none of the protestors had ever been there or even seen the location until now.
Production of DDR4 memory and motherboards is restarting amid unprecedented memory shortages — PC industry preparing for a world without DDR5
Is there really that much capacity left to produce DDR4 that isn’t be used for other silicon? I remember several years ago before the AI bubble China reducing it’s output of DDR4. Between the cost of GPUs and memory the PC hobby has gotten quite bleak. I’m going to cheerfully continue on with my 3080 and not care.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/production-of-ddr4-memory-and-motherboards-is-restarting-amid-unprecedented-memory-shortages-pc-industry-preparing-for-a-world-without-ddr5
I’d think BRD memory is better than DDR memory anyway.
Not as hot as I thought it would be
Japanese Mudgames.
I see the election month in Cali is still going on. What a shitshow.
It takes time to generate enough ballots to push the Rs to third place.
The election is working exactly as designed.
It gives them the time to “find” whatever votes are needed to get team blue wins….
Swipes side my nose like in “The Sting.”
SCOTUS needs to hurry up and return the Election Day case before midterms.
CA claims their superiority with a bullhorn, even as it’s clearly falling apart, but they can’t even count fucking ballots in a timely manner.
Not “can’t”. They *don’t* count ballots in a timely manner.
I am reminded of one of my favorite quotes from Malory Archer:
“Can’t or won’t?”
ron73440:
Both.
I just can’t wrap my head around the idea that for 200+ years we could have election results in a day, but all of a sudden Californians forgot how to count pieces of paper. I don’t even know of any other countries that take more than a day. Yet all the Dems think this is totally normal, nothing to see here.
Because we all know they’re lying. It’s not even a convincing lie.
Ireland and Australia both have versions of ranked choice voting. Ireland’s system is much more complicated, but even they start counting votes on a Saturday morning and get the final seat decided by about Wednesday.
Electronic voting machines make things slower.
Well, for 200 years there was no jungle primary, nor ranked choice, both of which require computers to tabluate votes derpy derpy doo!
And they wonder why no one trusted the 2020 election.
I hope Sloopy has time for a pilgrimage to Manchester.
He’s only been there a couple of days, give him a bit longer to commit to his Hajj.
His music links are about 50% New Order, so he would be remiss not to go there. And we don’t want him to be remiss.
Ohio State University reaches $100 million settlement in sex abuse lawsuits
Shouldn’t that be “THE Ohio State University reaches THE $100 million settlement in sex abuse lawsuits”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-state-university-reaches-100-million-settlement-sex-abuse-suits-rcna348348
“The Ohio State University has agreed to pay $100 million in damages to the 279 former students who said the campus doctor sexually assaulted them decades ago….Before the settlement, the OSU had settled the Strauss abuse claims with the 317 other survivors for more than $61 million.”
So 596 victims?
Spanked
The losses Tuesday, especially among candidates with tech backgrounds, reflect a level of political naiveté among industry megadonors who’ve only recently sought to emerge as kingmakers in state politics or congressional races, according to a prominent Silicon Valley Democratic fundraiser who was granted anonymity to speak frankly.
“The tech guys that think they know politics, those are the ones that got spanked,” the fundraiser said. “These guys are wannabes, the ones that don’t appreciate that political science is actually a science.”
Of course it is.
Related, from a BBC soccer story: “Born in Rosario, Argentina, Bielsa hails from a family of educated minds, with his brother having worked in politics and his sister a renowned architect.
Both of those professions require analytical thinking.”
“Forget hard-launches, situationships and relationship status updates.
The latest Gen Z dating buzzword is all about putting down the rulebook and seeing what happens.
Dubbed “wildflowering,” the trend encourages singles to let romance grow naturally — no labels, no timelines and no pressure to define exactly where things are headed.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/04/lifestyle/what-is-wildflowering-gen-zs-latest-dating-trend/
Enough wordmaxxing.
No one has ever done that before in the history of dating. Once again Gen Z proves their intellectual superiority in inventing a new bahavior.
/sarcasm
It’s probably a side effect of being taught that anything that happened before they were born was done by white supremacists and doesn’t count.
You’re probably right in some regards.
I’m sickmaxxed of Gen Z claiming they invented something that’s been around forever, and giving it some cutesy name. Do we really need to invent that many new words every year?
Yes. Though, every generation is guilty of it. This is just being amplified with maybe a small touch of true discovery of olden ways
“The state Legislature has now passed Senate Bill 9316, and if Hochul signs it, New York law will replace the terms “mother” and “father” with so-called gender-neutral alternatives.
Under the bill, mothers become “gestating parents.”
Fathers become “non-gestating parents.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/opinion/ny-lawmakers-gender-neutralizing-parents-will-strip-the-identity-of-motherhood/
No.
The fuck outta here with this shit.
NY is filled to the brim with retards. I’ve no idea why anyone would live there. There isn’t the CA weather, the people are notoriously assholes, the accent borders on unlistenable, and it’s politically fucked.
I guess it’s just as well that Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day aren’t state or Federal holidays. 🙄 (And what happens to adoptive mothers?)
Technically, aren’t adoptive mothers “non-gestating parents” ?
So legally, you couldn’t differentiate between adoptive parents and biological fathers?
Or biological and non-biological fathers.
In many cases fatherhood is unknown or unclaimed.
My mind still boggles at this level of typical Japanese inertia coupled with dumbest programming possible.
The second challenge is implementation – or more precisely, cash registers. As mundane as it may sound, manufacturers of cash registers have told the government that they need months to reconfigure cash registers and their software in the event of a nationwide change to consumption tax designs. Industry representatives say reducing the rate to zero would require extensive software revisions that could take 10 months to a year to complete. Retaining a nominal rate, such as 1%, could shorten that process to roughly six months, according to the estimates presented during the working-level meeting on Wednesday.
As dumb as it seems I understand coding for a zero tax could problematic. However, you’d think some fraction of a percent would be doable This article drops the new to me news that 1% is a 6 month lift.
Consumption tax cut is quickly turning into a headache for Takaichi
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/04/japan/politics/takaichi-consumption-tax-headache/
I do not believe them. There is no way changing to 1% would be easier than changing to 0%.
Elaborate, please.
Either the front end declines it or some formulas used within it will have division by zero.
Both of which are fundamentally bad design. By “coding” I meant user coding.
Multiply by 1 instead of 1.08.
Or just add the total without the tax step.
Who designs a cash register that is that overly complicated?
Keep in mind because of the value of 1 JPY you need more significant digits and memory than USD.
For the US market, you have multiple diofferent tax rates depending on product code, and it handles it just fine.
(ie, non-prepared food, prepared food, regular products, products with excise, etc, etc).
Since we already have nontaxable categories, the US market PoS systems would have no issues zeroing out tax across the board.
UCS:
Depends on the POS system. I would not say that all of them could support a 0% tax rate.
I’d be shocked, since what I described has been standard features since the 80s.
What if the POS is a POS?
You shouldn’t have bought cheap chinese crap your your business critical devices.
More digits to the left but don’t have 1/100 fractions of the yen so nothing to right of the decimal place.
I smell bullshit here.
Someone doesn’t want to cut taxes, that is all.
“A single mother of two was stabbed to death by her violent ex-boyfriend while she was working at a Skyline Chili, according to police.
Rick Wright, 37, is accused of fatally stabbing Alyssa Hill, 27, in the back Tuesday while she was serving customers in the dining room at the restaurant where she had worked for years in Norwood, just outside Cincinnati, Ohio, WKRC reported”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/04/us-news/single-mother-stabbed-to-death-by-ex-boyfriend-while-working-at-skyline-chili-police/
Were they involved in a three-way?
Wouldn’t that just be a two-way?
Maybe it will make it to the Supreme Court.
Hunter Biden on X beating up the Trumps. Did not see it coming.
https://x.com/i/status/2062159650850509038
He’s broke.
Has to generate buzz.
No credit
President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. has reduced petty property crimes, but has had little to no effect on violent crime, despite the high cost to taxpayers, according to a new analysis from the nonpartisan think tank Niskanen Center.
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Troops — many of whom are armed — are largely carrying out what are called “high visibility patrols” to make their presence known around federal property and in residential areas, parks and city metro stations in an effort to free up D.C. police to redeploy to higher-crime areas. The report found that generally hasn’t happened.
Instead, researchers found that the deployment led to a 24% drop in “opportunistic” crimes — like property crimes and vehicle break-ins. But the presence of the Guard had no effect on violent crimes, including robberies, which were already on a downward trend before Trump came back into office.
“What the Guard brought was a massive, sudden shock from the visible presence of uniformed military personnel on the streets of Washington almost overnight,” researchers wrote, calling the deployment of the Guard a “blunt and expensive instrument.”
The man can do nothing right. This is broadly accepted science.
Reducing petty property crime is a win all by itself. I’m not commenting on whether it’s worth the cost of the deployment.
“Candace Owens has finally found a national stage willing to give her baseless conspiracy theories airtime.
However, the country is Russia and dictator Valdimir Putin will be the headline speaker when she appears at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum tomorrow.
Owens, 37, will appear on a panel alongside Anna Kuznetsova — a Russian politician sanctioned by the US for running a program which kidnapped Ukrainian children and trafficked them to Russia for “re-education” — and TV presenter Yuliya Baranovskaya, who is sanctioned by the EU for spreading propaganda….
US-born former actor Steven Seagal, who has been a Russian citizen since 2016, who is set to appear as well as manosphere influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate who landed in Russia Wednesday and are rumored to attend, according to USA Today….
Owens’ support for Russia extends back at least as far as 2024, when she accused Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky of being a “homosexual actor” and said his country will never “triumph over an orthodox Russia.””
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/world-news/candace-owens-is-speaking-in-russia-but-sources-say-putin-is-only-manipulating-her-to-spread-his-propaganda/
OFFS!
Bad news, Candace.
Ukraine is Orthodox too.
“I think on balance the National Guard’s deployment is not a failure, there is success in what they’ve done. But I guess the point that we try to make is: compared to what?” says Richard Hahn, one of the authors of the study. “You could get the same or better outcomes, possibly much better outcomes, for much cheaper, if you just were very thoughtful about policing.”
Stop it. You’re killing me.
“The Argentine black and white tegu, a large lizard that can grow up to four feet long and weigh more than 10 pounds, has been found in Toombs and Tattnall counties in southeast Georgia.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is urging residents to report sightings of the species or trap and kill the reptiles.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/04/us-news/georgia-officials-urge-residents-to-kill-giant-invasive-tegu-lizards-spreading-disease/
That doesn’t sound giant.
Compared to a six inch Anole, a four foot Tegu is ‘Giant’. It’s all about your frame of reference for lizards.
Argentine tegus are very intelligent and easily domesticated. They were very popular pets for a while, and still have some cachet among reptile enthusiasts, but their popularty has waned a bit due to the extended Southern U.S. freak-out over exotic pets.
Do they taste like chicken?
No. They taste like lizard.
Thems food eatn!
Cat fight
“Yesterday, I was sort of on the fence,” co-host Sunny Hostin recalled. “I’m like, ‘Character matters, morals matter. I can’t believe that this is the person in Maine to take on Susan Collins.’ I’m now convinced that we are really in a bad place in this country. Democrats have to take over the Senate. They have to take over the House. They have to bring some semblance of normalcy back to this government.”
“If I lived in Maine, I would hold my nose and I would pull that lever and vote for him,” she concluded. “That’s it.”
“I vehemently and strongly disagree with this,” co-host Sara Haines replied. “I knew you would,” Hostin retorted.
“He may be a disgusting sexist pig, but he’s OUR disgusting sexist pig.”
‘Normalcy’ like banning the use of the terms ‘mother’ and ‘father’ in official documents? That kind of normalcy?
Sunny, please don’t take this the wrong way, but I sincerely hope you get ripped limb from limb by rabid baboons.
That seems excessive. She would bleed to death before the rabies did anything.
The hydrophobia would make the baboons aggressive enough to do the ripping and tearing in the first place.
Just make them watch The View first.
Sounds like she’d let Platner grab her by the pussy in the port-o-pottie?
Dude is a rough 41.
“A retired teacher has said he is moving into a cabin in rural Maine to escape the eye-popping home insurance bills he was facing in Florida due to climate change.
Ted Borduas, 58, left teaching in Naples after 26 years and purchased an off-the-grid hut in Chesterville, close to Farmington, where he plans to relocate this summer.
Borduas said he considers himself a climate refugee, after increased flooding in the Sunshine State sent his homeowner’s insurance fees past 12 percent of his income.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15873717/teacher-climate-migrant-housing-florida-maine.html
Climate isn’t weather. Except when it is.
I’m calling bullshit on this guy.
You don’t move from coastal FL to an off the grid cabin in Nowhere, Maine because of insurance premiums. There’s definitely something else afoot here.
News flash.
No one forces you to buy home insurance.
Not following Team Blue politics I was unaware of the following:
Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot, won the Democratic primary in a battleground New Jersey congressional district to take on Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr., who has been absent with an unspecified illness for months.
It would appear the only way to be a female Democratic politician in NJ is to fly helicopters. Did you know our governor flew helicopters?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-jersey-democrats-pick-navy-veteran-rebecca-bennett-to-face-absent-gop-rep-tom-kean-jr
Meanwhile nepo baby Tom Kean Jr has been a zero show for three months for some undisclosed “medical” reason. This is the NJ RINO party in action and I expect this race to be a national spectacle. Never underestimate the stupid party particularly in NJ.
If Chris Christie tried it couldn’t get off the ground.
Chris Christie ate him but his digestive system takes some time. Kean should “reappear” soon enough.
He’ll still be shit.
Please refrain from opportunistic far right political grandstanding
Polish far-right politicians have claimed that the murder of Henry Nowak symbolises “Britain’s descent into the depths of the earth” as populists from France, Spain and Japan focused on harrowing clips of his dying moments.
Despite pleas from Nowak’s family for people not to exploit the killing for political gain and to focus on cutting knife crime, their comments have focused on race and immigration.
Police footage showing Nowak’s final few minutes of life have been shared across the world. The 18-year-old was arrested and handcuffed as he lay dying from stab wounds, while his murderer, Vickrum Digwa, who had stabbed him five times, lied to police that he had been racially abused.
Marta Czech, a member of the far-right Confederation of the Polish Crown, was questioned about Nowak’s murderer at an activists’ meeting last week in Hammersmith, west London. She called for a “defence of Poles in our country and abroad”.
Nowak’s father is understood to be of Polish descent.
I’m sure there is a reasonable explanation.
“Far right”
“A disgruntled Nantucket community member shocked the local school board committee when she handed them brownies she said were laced with laxatives.
Meghan Perry, who has a yearslong adversarial history with the committee, appeared to have shared the brownies as a mischievous act of protest against a proposed artificial turf field.
Perry and others in the community are concerned about the testing standards for forever chemicals known as PFAS in the turf field. PFAS can interfere with hormones, cause developmental delays and increase cancer risks.
At a Nantucket School Committee meeting that was livestreamed on Tuesday, Perry handed her brownies to the committee and said, ‘It’s my understanding they have a non-detect level of Ex-Lax in them,’ referring to a laxative brand.
‘But I figured since we’re okay with a non-detect level of PFAS, it would probably be okay,’ she continued with a wry smile. ”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15873881/Nantucket-school-board-committee-laxative-brownies-turf-field-PFAS-Meghan-Perry.html
CWAC
I hate everybody in this story – can we give them cyanide brownies?