Banjos valiantly attempted to do links from London this morning, but was unable to do so because “The internet is ass at the hotel we are at.”
So, here you go. The comments are all yours.
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I’ll move mine over! Part 1
The chart comparing Elon’s wealth to the other BSD shows just how huge it is.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/3-6-million-an-hourand-other-ways-to-measure-elon-musks-fortune-04e590a5?st=YyjnMF&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
$970 billion, mostly in stock
So, effectively – imaginary.
You are talking about the people that want to tax imaginary gains but ignore real loses here, JI. Why do you not see their genius?
I wouldn’t say imaginary but I would say speculative.
All of those gold coins in his swimming pools!
Leftists imagine he’s Scrooge McDuck with a basement full of gold.and cash.
“Leftists imagine he’s Scrooge McDuck with a basement full of gold.and cash.”
Leftists believe he is a bank. You rob the bank to fuel your drug, booze, and bitches binge. They know taking money from someone else is a crime. But they don’t care.
fuel your drug, booze, and bitches binge
Hunter Biden is a sorry excuse for a human being but that’s no reason to accuse him of being a leftist!
I was talking about congress sand marxists in general.
Imaginary.
Which is hot my retirement funds feel.
Envy is a hell of a drug and that piece is envy crack.
big boys.
Two companies worth a trillion each, but created not because he wanted to have a yacht and mansions all over the world – but because he wanted to make transformations to the entire society to make life better for everyone.
He doesn’t have money. He has companies that are unique and transformative and therefore are worth a lot.
If you look at him through this lens, he makes a lot more sense. He lost tens of billions on a bad Twitter purchase simply because he was pissed about the death of free speech and horrified at the thought of what that does to society.
(And probably made a hundred billion later)
He is the opposite. A guy like Soros gets money to have power so he can control things so he can transform society. Musk seeks to transform society by building a better mousetrap, and then gets money for it
Gah. Try that again
The big thing here is that his wealth is purely “i built this industry”.
There was no EV car industry. Just a handful of bespoke vehicles sold at a loss. He was the first mover and he won huge.
There was no commercial launch industry. There was only military contractor NASA cost plus providers that also did commercial launch. He invented an industry and as first mover, he brought costs down more than an order of magnitude.
Plus, he kept controlling interest in his companies for much longer than other entrepreneurs.
There was an interview the other day with one of his engineers. He talked about a time when he was asked about working with Elon and he said it was a fantastic opportunity and compared it to having a chance to work with Howard Hughes – of course you take it.
When he realized that the comparison might look like he was talking about the crazy recluse version, he mentioned it to Musk.
He said Elon thought a long time and said he didnt like the comparison because Hughes wasnt trying to transform the world.
He literally believes this. Money is nothing to this guy. All those “how much is enough” greed based attacks are dumb.
This guy tried to put a little terrarium on Mars to inspire the world to look to space again. He failed because the world stood in his way.
So he pivoted and created a rocket company that lowered cost of space access so he could take us to Mars.
He believed in electric vehicles to transform our energy economy. So he created the Tesla Roadster to demonstrate that electric cars are cool. That was all. And when nobody else could do it, he created a manufacturing giant to compete with the big boys.
Two companies worth a trillion each, but created not because he wanted to have a yacht and mansions all over the world – but because he wanted to make transformations to the entire society to make life better for everyone.
He doesn’t have money. He has companies that are unique and transformative and therefore are worth a lot.
If you look at him through this lens, he makes a lot more sense. He lost tens of billions on a bad Twitter purchase simply because he was pissed about the death of free speech and horrified at the thought of what that does to society.
(And probably made a hundred billion later)
He is the opposite. A guy like Soros gets money to have power so he can control things so he can transform society. Musk seeks to transform society by building a better mousetrap, and then gets money for it
Absolutely.
Cyto is cribbing Ken Schultz’s writing style. 😉
And you are entirely correct.
Did this piece start to bring in the Gabe Newell attacks as well? I’ve been seeing a ramp up on those.
For those who don’t know, he’s probably the most appreciated tech mogul, he owns Steam. He has become a recluse and buys yachts. Other than his fear of the number 3, he seems a decent guy.
He has more than that. Neurolink may end up being one of the greatest innovations in medicine in a century, and the Boring Company is cutting the public infrastructure cost by literally an order of magnitude.
Also robotaxis/self driving and Optimus – he’s bringing us the future and all they can do is hate on him for succeeding.
I had no idea that was still a thing. It is certainly not being used in my part of the country, where it still takes decades and tens of billions of dollars to dig a short tunnel.
If he was pissed about the death of free speech he wouldn’t be banning people from his platform.
And I can’t fathom how you calculate a $2bn NPV from this catalog.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/garth-brooks-considers-sale-of-music-catalog-seeking-roughly-2-billion-c80c2af2?st=YYUVM8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That’s Taylor Swift money.
The real money comes from his Chris Gaines persona.
I dont understand the industry at all now. Income streams are crushed in one area and artificially inflated in others, and all is obfuscate from the creators.
Tik Tok clips are the primary source of music these days. My kids know all the classics – back to the 1930s – from Instagram and tik tok shorts. Then they add them to their Spotify.
Where the money flows? Dunno.
I do know that YouTube copyright claims are a massive revenue stream. They claim all the revenue for anything they flag, much of which is fair use.
I dont know if that money ends up with the creator… but it is a lot of money
I follow a bunch of smaller acts and they are all very unhappy with streaming pay outs. As I understand it, the law governing streaming contains some sort of mandatory licensing that is favorable to the streaming services and unfavorable to the artists.
Yet there has been a number of bands that I’ve seen live that don’t have CDs for sale.
They probably lose money on CDs.
Last year (or maybe 2024) I was at TRF and bought media from Volgemut (my favorite Renaissance proto-German band. World-class sackbutt player)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5kGJaaU9A4
In addition to CD’s they sold USB drives, containing ALL of their recorded music AND videos of their concerts.
Hey NA — do you know the band Gryphon? Rock on mostly medieval instruments. Lead bassoon player, etc. Midnight Mushrumps and Red Queen to Gryphon Three are masterpieces (IMNSHO). I’m not fond of their more recent work.
He’ll be crying in his Bid Light when that dosent sell.
Sure – the current set of tariff regulations may have been blocked by the courts. We will just dust off some “feel good” piece of Congressional pork and use that instead.
It’s genius and just proves how many unnecessary laws we have.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/u-s-proposes-at-least-10-tariffs-on-trading-partners-after-probe-into-forced-labor-511511f5?st=TETQgH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Since when did the Constitution get amended to allow the Executive to freely set any tariff (read TAX) he sees fit?
Since the FYTW!
Let me see if understand this.
Fed adds a tariff, costs passed onto the consumer
Consumer buys less.
State(s) get a reduced sales tax
States raise income tax/property tax to make up the shortfall
Some variation of the above
Pelley interrupted new executive producer Nick Bilton during introductory remarks at a “60 Minutes” staff meeting Monday, according to people in attendance.
Props for firing him for cause!
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/60-minutes-correspondent-scott-pelley-out-at-cbs-news-8c1ee2ea?st=uBfttc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This asshat thought he was special and could chimp out. Instead he was just stupid and now has to deal with consequences. Good riddance.
I love the for cause part. I assume corporate counsel vetted this before it happened. Let the lawsuit commence. I look forward to hearing about the leaked discovery.
I know, right?
I AM A MEDIA PRINCE – YOU CAN’T TREAT ME THIS WAY!!!! WAhhhh, wahhhhhhhh
And yet Pelley’s comments “The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.” suggests more of a “you can’t fire me, I quit!” situation. Can you sue when you quit?
Please. This is America. You can sue for anything and you can find an attorney that will sue for anything.
This is America.
Nope. Used to be people got tarred and feathered in America, not anymore.
Cancelling is the new tar & feathers.
Was on 60 minutes for 37 years.
I have never heard of him.
I didn’t know 60 Minutes was still a thing.
“Pelley, who has spent 37 years at the network, said late Tuesday that CBS News’s new management had eroded the program’s standards for political reasons.
“The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well,” he wrote in a statement.”
I think that asshats like Pelley are the ones who eroded the programs standards of objectivity for political reasons. But, they don’t think it is politics, just goodthinking goodthoughts.
All the whining about “integrity” and “unbiased” from everyone is utter, complete horseshit.
There has never been an “unbiased” source of news anywhere in the history of anything – nor should there be.
Just wear your bias proudly instead of pretending it doesn’t exist – then people might take you seriously.
Of course they do the opposite, i.e. I’m not biased I’m objective and you must agree.
Local TDS types are calling for a boycott of CBS. I wonder how many of them would survive trash talking their boss no matter what political views were involved.
It depends on what their intersectionality score is. If you score high enough, boss man can’t touch you.
“Banjos valiantly attempted to do links from London this morning, but was unable to do so because “The internet is ass at the hotel we are at.””
I am gonna bet Starmer is fracking the interwebs cause he needs to keep the outside world from finding out that the UK is a bigger shithole now than the shitholes they imported people from…
I’m going to bet the UK is slowly getting worse in lots of ways. It’s unsurprising the internet is ass.
“The internet is ass at the hotel we are at.”
What website has this ass? Asking for a friend.
STEVE SMITH OPEN UP INTERNET AT LONDON HOTEL!
ZARDOZ SMITH SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN RETIRED ONE.
GO FORTH AND CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD OF ZARDOZ SMITH ABOUT STEVE SMITH AND ASS.
And so after the commie in NYC glazed the idiot crowd that voted for his stupidity, claiming HE had a plan to solve the high cost of living in an overtaxed blue city that has devolved into a third world shithole, we find out it is all the usual wealth transfer racket all marxist policies do.
HAH!
I could have told them.
When I moved from Oneida County to Albany County and updated my registration – I stayed on the Oneida rolls. I know this because I took my mother to the polls one year and saw the book still had me in it. I’m pretty sure I’ve been negating my own vote for years now.
It is really “fraud” or just “laziness”?
Also, a name in a book is not a “vote”. I get it, there is a problem but the author seems to be hyper-ventilating here.
Some evidence that those registrations were used to vote would be more convincing.
Evidence is for suckers.
Yes, the article writer did steal a base going from “Too many registrations” to “all the spare registrations were used to log fake votes”.
What it does say is that there is plenty of margin for fraud in that space. What we don’t have is the “Not even JI can deny it” levels of proof.
Not even JI can deny it
You live in a state with an overwhelming number of Democrat fuckwad voters. Real living ones. Deal with it.
You live in a state of denial about the integrity of the electoral system.
Donald did get 43% of the vote in NY in 2024. Kammie got similar numbers in all the “deep red” states.
Basically, the states are not as “hard” one way or the other as everyone likes to pretend.
2 to 1 is pretty hard core.
I dont understand the transformations we have seen in some places though.
Georgia was 2 to 1 republican. In basically 1 or 2 election cycles that switched to tossup, with machine politics and far left craziness taking over. But the population numbers didnt seem to move that much.
The biggest issue isn’t fraud in voting, it is lack of trust in voting. And every “lazy” non-purge of votes, every mail in vote, every “jungle primary”, every “ranked choice” vote system furthers that erosion.
And that needs no more evidence than the comments in this thread.
Yeah, neither team is winning by 2 to 1 these days except DC and almost VT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Georgia_gubernatorial_election
53-45. Very much 2-1.
Georgia was 2 to 1 republican.
Used to be Democrat by an even greater margin. Can’t anyone think past their own marginal existence anymore? Is this the end result of the 24 hour news cycle – that we can’t think past the last 24?
UCS, you’ve lived your whole life in, and work for, a state that was home of the Tammany machine – where elections absolutely were window dressing on the decisions made by the bosses. Don’t lecture me about election integrity.
JI – Does this mean you’ve come over to our side in agreeing “Our elections have always been shady as shit”?
Or are we going to talk about the proportion of the vote the Whigs used to get?
Embrace the power of “and”. Elections have long been shitty, *and* a substantial portion of the population actively wants the shit TEAM BLUE is selling.
UCS where I disagree is that we have a nation full of informed, smart (and handsome) voters just like us. No, we have a nation full of ignorant shitheads that vote. Even the best and purest electoral process is subject to the vicissitudes of the voters. Nor have I ever said that we ONLY have the best and purest electoral process.
Yup. Corruption here is a fully normalized and approved (celebrated even!) function of government.
The whole point of voting here is to pick the guy who will give you the most of other people’s money.
No, JI, we have a country with 300+ million people with different opinions. Trying to write it off as people being uneducated when the just don’t vote for you, or, as you admit, get their wishes run over by machine politics, is a sign of foolishness on a weapons grade scale.
Zwak people that vote Team without a second thought are thoughtless shitheads that don’t deserve a vote. That would be just as true of anyone voting Libertarian without regard for the merit of the candidate.
Politics is a scummy business that attracts scum and appeals to the basest instincts.
People vote team because it is shorthand for the general shape of things they want. Dismissing it out of hand, no matter the party, is as silly as taking black pills to substitute for brains.
If you are a single issue voter, abortion or gun rights or freedom of speech, than that issue is of such import to you that you are going to vote for the party that supports, on some level, that belief no matter what. Dismissing this as stupid is dismissing the fear that motivates them, especially when we have seen attempts to all three of these “rights.”
Both Rhy.
My wife got a WA mail in ballot for 15 years at her mother’s place.
Took her a decade to get them to take her off the rolls.
On Wednesday, one person was killed and a number injured after drones launched from Iran hit Kuwait’s international airport at dawn, according to the nation’s foreign ministry, which said that diplomatic missions in the country had also been damaged in the attack.
And Kuwait sends strongly worded letters and lets the US continue to be the bad guy.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-iran-trade-heavy-fire-in-persian-gulf-testing-fragile-ceasefire-d4787573?st=6htGEn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Invade and crush. Or invade not. There is no limited war.
This.
We’re going to be fucking around over there for the next 20 years, aren’t we.
They have been fucking with us since 1979. If we get serious, which is very unlikely, we can be done with this once and for all.
2 weeks, Donald said so back in February.
They have been fucking with us since 1979.
Really? What hostile actions – outside of their immediate borders – have they done? They are big fucking talkers, I’ll give you that.
Oh, is this a day when Hezbollah is totally not Iranian?
Israel is our 51st state?
JI, let’s just speedrun this where you move the goalposts to “the US deserved it!”
You are more than old enough to remember 1983.
1983, fair enough. In Lebanon. Not saying we deserved it, but I will say when you have your dick in a hornets nest you shouldn’t be surprised that you got stung.
So, any other stand out attacks NOT IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE EAST?
Your initial conditions were “outside their immediate borders.”
Which of course would include not just Lebanon, but Iraq and Syria (which is where we could see more recent killing of Americans.) So shifting to “not the Middle East” is an inelegant way of admitting you were wrong without want to admit you were wrong.
Cancelling is the modern Tar and Feather.
Well, in ’79 there was the hostage crisis. And before JI says “outside their borders” an embassy is outside their borders.
Fine, I’ll stand corrected about “outside their immediate borders”. Fuck the entire middle East and our incessant stupidity in meddling there.
As for what happened in ’79, we could’ve appropriately responded to that, but we didn’t. Do you think maybe they figured something out about us from that?
And I’ll throw the flip side in – our playing of the Kurds, against all local powers there. Which is far more of an active threat in the region than our direct presence.
Calling the Kurds an active threat at this point is like calling the Comanches an active threat at this point.
They lost a long time ago.
This x444
We did not have the “Courage!”.
Fing with everyone since about 630.
It’s finally made the WSJ.
https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/student-murder-sparks-accusations-u-k-police-are-biased-against-white-victims-e91f374f?st=LojmCi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This will allow the WP and NYT to point out that it’s already been covered and now they can run cover in their editorial sections and claim that it has been widely covered.
England should make eating port mandatory. Get rid of the Greens and Islamists.
You drink port, not eat it.
“You don’t spell it, son. You eat it.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpVcHBcY7s&pp=ygUebG9uZyBkdWNrIGRvbmcgc2l4dGVlbiBjYW5kbGVz
Sailors enjoy making port.
Just don’t send them here. They are already winning too many elections as it is.
Neither should be done with port, it should be port out.
Any port in a storm.
It’s stories like this one that make me grateful for X/Twitter. You definitely have to wade through the trash but (often) citizen reported stories like this one make it worthwhile.
This statement from the dad is one of the greatest you will ever hear
https://x.com/i/status/2061490022641987586
Credit to him. I get the feeling the populace as a whole is done with accepting official pronouncements.
That plus the “Reader Comments” or whatever that is called, pointing out so many of the MSM’s lies.
More importantly, will Lewis Hamilton be taking a knee at the race this weekend? After all, the police let a stabbing victim die because of their racist actions.
I’d love to see just one reporter have the balls to ask that asshat that question.
Why the hell is twitter mute?
In all, Japanese home builders are set to control 6% of U.S. single-family housing construction.
It’s an invasion!
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/berkshire-hathaway-and-japanese-builders-see-the-same-opportunity-in-u-s-housing-759d7fc1?st=4RyzQL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Cue the whining about Vanguald and Black Lock.
It’s Brack Lock
ブラック ロック
Burakku Rokku
Do they install Japanese toilets?
Good ol’ national security.
Interesting, since we’ve been assured by the administration that they have no intention of using AI for autonomous targeting. I guess that means the real issue is over domestic mass surveillance, and Trump isn’t throttling the fuckers that want that. Once again – the argument isn’t over is this right, but can we get away with it.
I read this the other day. I stopped following the LaPierre drama years ago, but it would appear the corrupt old guard is the core of 1791 Foundation.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-nra-is-going-through-a-messy-breakup-as-charitable-arm-splits-and-rebrands-1bb1e023?st=V3e1Ck&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Maybe the hotel can’t breath?
What did the coroner say?
It wouldn’t have mattered. It’s all good.
I assumed they had a coroner suite, so they got in on the ground floor.
“The kindergartner’s parents sued Creation Village World School in Celebration for failing to protect their daughter, who was kissed and molested over a two-year period behind a playground “pirate ship” structure during recess, according to the shocking complaint obtained by The Post.
The suit, filed in March, claimed the alleged abuse by another student left the young victim with recurring urinary tract infections, grueling headaches and stomach aches, and unwilling to attend $14,000-a-year school….
The next month, their daughter was expelled, and the family was hit with a countersuit in May.
The ritzy school accused the girl’s parents of weaponizing “false and misleading” claims, wildly arguing that any sexual contact between the students was “only accidental” and that the accused child “lacks the developmental capacity to sexually molest.”
The school further claimed the victim’s parents were guilty of neglect, stressing they failed to teach her proper hygiene and bathroom habits, which caused the child’s persistent urinary tract infections, according to the suit.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/02/lifestyle/girl-6-sued-by-florida-school-after-family-claims-sex-assault/
Who knows?
From the facts presented I’d say that UTIs are more likely the result of poor hygene than periodic bad touching by a fellow kindergartener.
Children molested by adults are more likely to get ear infections.
I’m just going to pre-emptively hate everyone in the story.
$14000 a year for kindergarten?
If they’re not in the best kindergarten, how are they going to get in the best elementary? If they’re not in the best elementary, how are they going to get into the best junior high? If they’re not in the best junior high, how are they going to get into the best high school? If they’re not in the best high school, how are they going to get into the best university? If they’re not in the best university, how are they going to get handed the best paying empty jobs tearing down the structure that got them there?
Are you telling me my hate missed someone?
$14K is the price for non-governmental school. You should be celebrating that free market solution.
It is a price, not the price. And UCS did a fair job summarizing the horseshit.
If they are paying it, it is the price.
That’s a bargain according to the NEA.
“Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), who was charged this past June with assaulting federal law enforcement, won her Democratic House primary Tuesday in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District.
McIver held more than 87% of the vote when the Associated Press called the race in her favor.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/01/us-news/trump-admin-live-updates-live-updates-on-iran-war-congress-more-june-1-2-3-4-5/
Neutron bomb the district.
I’ll be impacted by the fallout. You can look at the district and its demographics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey%27s_10th_congressional_district
So a weird shape that has been consistently Democrat for decades.
Alcee Hastings waves from the grave.
I know, right?
There wasn’t another Payne to maintain the seat? How could that possibly happen?
While we do have patents of nobility here, sometimes the lord dies with no heir.
According to Wikipedia, he and his wife had triplets, maybe they have sweet NGO gigs and don’t want to pretend to work?
Wow. The racial gerrymander doesn’t get much more obvious than that, for those who are familiar with the area.
I’m loping off that part that’s not connected by land immediately.
Oh, that’s the one who was protest-larping with the Antifa rioters? She seems nice.
I see the Squad is making more advances, and including terror sympathizer too. Stay classy, Democrats.
‘The European Union is moving quickly to approve its 21st package of sanctions against Russia.”
21st time is the charm and will sink the Russian (not the Euro) economy.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/eu-races-to-approve-new-sanctions-on-russian-1780405656.html
Are they still buying oil and natural gas from Russia?
Tells you all you need to know…
They are buying fuel from Indian refineries who are buying oil from Russia. So they tell themselves “no”.
President Z must be pissed that Hamas stole Ukraine’s thunder and nobody is larping for them anymore except a bunch of ineffectual Eurocrats.
When you ride the Current Thing lightning, you got to know when to get off before you get burned.
I got a letter saying my old Opel is recalled for some takata airbag issues… seems sketchy
The good news is zero people at Takata have been criminally prosecuted for knowingly producing a product that killed people.
OTH, at VW people who produced diesel engines that have only been indirectly modeled as shortening people’s lifespans have actually been criminally convicted.
You Europeans are very sophisticated!
I though VW got punished due to being caught successfully obeying the EU rules to the letter, if not the intent.
VW got caught having a large revenue stream that could be tapped.
Just like Microsoft. Just like Google. Etc.
Opel GTs had airbags?
Pontiac Solstice / Saturn Sky
The monkey guy is still slaying in court. Just won his pro-se anti-slapp dismissal.
Also, just got the entire county circuit court recused from his case suing about their illegal FLOCK surveillance.
The amount of casual corruption he has outed is staggering.
Dont tread on him. This little guy ain’t that guy. He is burning down the middle district of Georgia.
https://youtu.be/5fjFwEHRhqw
He is even suing a judge. Talks about how high judicial immunity is. And proceeds to take it on because judge appointed his own prosecutor.
He is dissecting filings by big lawfirms with multiple lawyers by using Google and reading the laws and case law.
I have zero trust in our legal systems.
Our legal system has morphed and grown to be nothing more than settlement court. Rarely is justice sought after and is all pinned on that citizens would rather settle than drag out through court.
Prosecutors run not on justice, but convictions.
For decades TV shat all over defense attorneys as evil, dirty scum.
Judges would rather be liked than administer a just proceeding.
And that is just the system law abiding citizens get to deal with
OBE:
If everyone demanded a jury trial, the system would collapse. The problem is that requires a bunch of people to give up their lives while waiting for trial.
For The Brocephus:
Get a plausible-enough burner email in the roommate’s name.
Then go ham with informing various agencies about the con offending from inside jail.
Is this somehow related to the dog drama?
Only in the sense that it gives him an entertaining (for us) red herring to distract potential blowback (which again, would be entertaining as long as it doesn’t touch me).
“Researchers Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth from Western Michigan University published an inflammatory paper in 2025, making the case that society had a moral ‘duty’ to spread ticks that were infected with or engineered to carry alpha-gal syndrome (AGS).
AGS is a real medical condition transmitted to humans through tick bites, causing victims to suffer allergic reactions when eating red meat, including beef, pork and lamb, dairy and other products derived from mammals….
Crutchfield and Hereth claimed that it was morally wrong to eat meat because of the suffering animals endure and the environmental damage that the meat industry allegedly causes.”
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15868603/scientists-create-ticks-meat-allergy.html
Feed them to the lions.
“Dr Robert Malone, who helped lay the groundwork for mRNA vaccine technology, claimed he analyzed declassified government documents from Cold War biological weapons programs that link the spread of Lyme disease to CIA experiments.
Malone highlighted experiments in the 1960s that allegedly released more than 282,000 radioactive ticks in Virginia and open-air tick research at Plum Island, a federal laboratory located near the Connecticut community where Lyme disease was first identified.
Malone’s report argued the research was part of a much larger Cold War biological weapons program known as Project 112, which involved dozens of secret tests aimed at studying how insects could be used to spread pathogens.”
I’m skeptical that such documents would have been declassified.
It would be immoral to set back medical research by NOT using those two as test subjects for novel, speculative treatments.
I’m not sure what would drive me to violence, what would be that straw that said “OK, this will end badly for me, but I will risk my life, fortune, and sacred honor, because this is the end of the promise the American experiment represents”, but… This might be it.
Feed them lions.
It’s a meat only diet and a life of hard labor on a chain gang for them.
While employed as an information technology specialist for the federal government, Corrie Alston also worked a secondary job as a licensed Maryland insurance agent for the Don Pope Insurance Agency, selling policies for Senior Life Insurance Company.
The investigation revealed that Alston submitted 21 applications for fictitious individuals in order to be paid commissions on these fraudulent policies. In an interview with investigators, Alston later admitted that he deliberately chose Hispanic surnames because he believed Senior Life would conclude they were undocumented individuals and not attempt to further verify the Social Security Numbers that he had provided in the applications.
It’s perfect on so many levels.
https://thebaynet.com/insurance-agent-pocketed-thousands-through-fake-undocumented-hispanic-policyholders-in-prince-georges-county/
You get paid a commission on an insurance policy that is never paid for???
The Commission would be on the closed sale.
The fact that the premiums went unpaid is a different department’s problem.
I assume it was a variation of a Po nzi Scheme.
https://blog.newhorizonsmktg.com/insurance-agents-quick-guide-to-chargebacks
Shades of Falcon Microsystems and their phantom sales.
Did the policies pay out twice as much for dying in a train “accident”?
Christ, if you’re risking losing your job, at least make it worthwhile.
You can’t even buy a nice car with that money.
We had several sales guys attempt to broker deals to other companies. It would net them $3,500 to $9,000 instead of the several hundred to thousand bucks in commission they would have made.
But.
The industry isnt that big, so instead you lose a job where you get fired if you are making less than $70k in commissions (plus $25k base) when the broker calls us.
And then you risk jail time.
Doh!
Speaking of “Americans will sue for anything”. $20 million for hazing that happens in every locker room? Get the fuck outta here.
“regularly faced puerile taunts from his adult team members”
In sports? Oh, my…
lol $100MM
$20MM is for the “psychiatric care to put his life back together” 🙄
He should have to pay $200m to his former teammates for the hassle.
Bet they were all playing slapass in the locker room, his family is the one that has deep pockets to try and make his pockets deeper
Yeah, the whole thing reeks of litigious and scammy family.
I wonder if the lawsuit came before or after he gave up. Cuz no team will ever hire him again now, that is for sure.
Good thing he wasn’t Mexican and subjected to the dread puto chant.
Trump endorsed candidate loses the Iowa Governor primary.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/randy-feenstra-trumps-pick-iowa-035229046.html
No one bats a thousand.
Oh, so that’s why that was newsworthy.
Hopefully Trump endorsed Lindsey Graham loses next week.
But in recent weeks, Army officials say they have found a solution by convincing defense contractors to share data with one another, something companies have long resisted amid fears of losing intellectual property to competitors. The removal of software restrictions on the service’s weapons and radar systems—a technique known as “jailbreaking”—required the service to waive more than 700 pages of regulatory requirements.
In the end, officials say they have successfully integrated more than 70 systems, collapsing dozens of screens into a single, Google Maps-like picture of the battlefield.
I like that the WSJ feels compelled to use “jailbreaking” in such an awkward way and needs to define it as such. Also it’s framed in terms of IP protection and not security. Bonus!
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/army-jailbreaks-its-own-weapon-systems-to-counter-drone-threats-3f57f032?st=Mi3tc3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I had hoped this administration was going to address how broken our procurement is. Instead they just keep exposing it, then tossing more money on the bonfire.
The ghost of Cap Weinberger smiles.
“People across America are disappearing into a shadowy black supremacy movement linked to a string of killings: The mystery of the missing banker mom and her daughter
Unbeknownst to Morgan, Wickerson had been drawn into the orbit of the University of Cosmic Intelligence (UCI) – an alleged online cult founded by a child molester who preaches that black people are gods and the rightful inhabitants of Earth….
UCI was founded by Rashad Jamal White, who is serving an 18-year prison sentence in Georgia for child molestation…
Neighbors told investigators the group would dance in the rain, hug trees and spend long periods staring at the sun from the backyard and rooftop – sometimes naked….
Among his other claims are that rainbows are manufactured to control an ‘alternate dimension’ and that wealthy families and politicians are reptilian shapeshifters who feed on the blood of gods.”
https://www.dailymail.com/crime-desk/article-15868623/People-America-disappearing-shadowy-black-supremacy-movement-linked-string-killings-mystery-missing-banker-mom-daughter.html
I should start my own cult.
Purple Potato Cult?
“(Don’t Fear) The Peeler”?
*applause*
I’m at a loss for a follow-up pun that people would get.
ube is trending
I’m at a loss for a follow-up pun
Sounds thin skinned.
I have my eyes on one related to the music or band.
[glances left and right] cult? what cult?
I see what you did there….
The one that lets anointed members access Glibs without having to go through anything like a captcha.
It worked for L. Ron Hubbard.
send some women my way when you do
I need to keep my memberships to a manageable level.
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@Y40IFRQTTING
Communists’ understanding that infinite growth is impossible is not due to any silly pop science, but the observation that Capitalism contradicts itself and therefore creates conditions for its own collapse. We also know that a car running out of gas will not infinitely move.
https://x.com/Y40IFRQTTING/status/2061871369940320602
But they don’t seem to know that of the two systems, one will refill the tank and the other will fail to deliver the car in the first place. If they did, they wouldn’t support the one with a decade long waiting list for a Trabant.
Trabant was worth the wait.
Better than the Dacia?
which Dacia?
I looked for a company that was operating at the same time as the Trabant was being produced. The variation between models would require more than a few minutes research.
If there were some that were better and worse models that would be interesting to learn.
Dacia and Oltcit were overall better driving than Traband. Trabant was very cheap to repair, which mattered a lot, but driving it was horrible..
Both early Dacia and Oltcit were based on IP bought from renault and citroen respectively. First generations were not that bad, as they were done under some french expert supervision, Oltcit being better overall. As the economy collapsed and the french went away, the quality got poorer and poorer.
Dacia 1310 was probably as good as it got for pre 1990s Dacia. Oltcit was just one model.
Thank you.
rødgrød📕🇵🇸
@marxbjrn
I have changed my opinion on the Sino-Soviet split and now personally believe it to be a mistake. I am willing to listen if someone has a strong argument against this position.
Not because the USSR wasn’t imperialist at that point or that the criticism of Khruschev wasn’t correct (it was!), it just seems very obvious to me now how this arrangement only really reinforced the rightist faction in the CPC while simultaneously strengthening the US.
https://x.com/marxbjrn/status/2061824359954596252
Two Tyrants each refused to be the junior partner. It was never going to work out.
Keeping Russia and China on unfriendly terms with each other was a primary goal of U.S. foreign policy after WWII.
Then we spent the last dozen years driving them together for reasons nobody can explain.
Poor guy minding his own business on the exit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1trm5zp/oc_bad_drivers_never_miss_their_turn/
you miss all the turns you do not take
Hahaha
Bricks and Minifigs
Patron
For many years sites like Go Fund Me were bullied into blocking people for political reasons.
Patreon is where a lot of continent creators get their subscriber money.
Bricks and Minifigs attacked Reckless Ben for helping a guy who had his consignment collection talken by corporate without compensation. They sued and actually got a judge to order all content about Bricks and Minifigs taken down, oddly finding it to be defamatory without a hearing, ex-parte (having heard from only one side), and as an emergency.
So Bricks and Minifigs went to Patron and demanded that Reckless Ben’s Patreon account be removed.
Here is Patreon’s epic answer, from the founder and CEO.
https://youtu.be/36jxNeV5L1Q
“After an extensive review, we have in fact determined that Bricks And Minifigs can stuff it.”
Good luck finding a federal judge in your pocket Bricks and Minifigs!
I have determined that GT’s advice about Oklahoma Reddit Cliché to be wise and I will continue to have stopped collecting human projects.
::sigh of relief:: The better to continue to take care of your family and yourself (in whichever order circumstances dictate.)
Buffalo Bill is disappointed.
Hey Tonio. I did get my post submitted last night.
timely Southern gothic greatness from Roberta Lee Streeter on KillDozer’s Eve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv33eaygVDQ
Ominous news for RC?
She was former President Joe Biden’s interior secretary for all of his four years in office. Previously, she was the first Native American woman elected to Congress, where she served one term representing the Albuquerque area. She also chaired the state Democratic Party.
“Deb is a fierce champion for New Mexico, who has secured millions of dollars in investment and thousands of good-paying jobs, while strengthening the state’s economy, and preserving natural resources for generations to come,” said Democratic Governors Association Chair and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. “She knows the pain New Mexicans are feeling right now, which is why she will never stop fighting to bring down costs and create jobs, strengthen schools, expand affordable health care, and create safer communities.”
In an interview before her victory Tuesday, Haaland signaled she would lean into a general election message targeting President Donald Trump and his policies.
She’s just a moderate Democrat, nothing to worry about.
Thank God for that.
We definitely need more Democrats shrieking about Trump.
Nobody is standing up to Trump. They hardly ever mention him.
I am sure she will team up with Fauxcahantus.
She’s a loon and she’s going to be the state’s next governor. I don’t see her as any improvement over Lyin’ Lujan.
Is she likely to be worse?
That may be the best one can hope for when we’ve allowed several generations to be trained that, hey, maybe we *can* do this whole omelet thing without destroying *all* the eggs.
I’d say more of the same, hard to get much worse. The Liar gave us a 7 day wait for gun purchases, effectively killing gun shows, and she closed the largest power plant in the state to satisfy the Climate Gods.
Finally some much-needed representation from whatever checkbox we are pretending to be concerned about this time!
I have determined that GT’s advice about Oklahoma Reddit Cliché to be wise and I will continue to have stopped collecting human projects.
Good thinking.
I agree.
Thirded.
“We’re in a horrible era right now with our federal government, and people see that the policies that Donald Trump is inflicting on New Mexicans are having a very negative effect all over the state,” Haaland said.
“Everybody deserves to have health care, deserves to eat healthy food,” she added. “They need somebody who understands what it’s like, and they want somebody who knows how to find solutions to these issues.”
She will withdraw New Mexico from the Union and show us all how it should be done.
She’s donating her salary to buy health care and food for the poor? Maybe inviting a few of them to live in her home?
Asking all her friends to do the same? What planet am I on this morning?
Back to the Dark Ages
The Trump administration is pursuing a bureaucratic rule change that could allow for greater political influence over billions of dollars in federal research grants. The new rule would have a broad impact on research fields, including housing and transportation. Health and science funding would be most significantly affected.
“Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s scientific enterprise,” Holden Thorp, editor of Science magazine, wrote in an editorial about the proposal.
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In science, the impacts could reverberate across fields of research as varied as public health, vaccine testing, biotechnology, social and behavioral science and climate science.
The proposal is animating advocacy and science groups across the country.
DO NOT QUESTION THE HIGH PRIESTS OF KNOWLEDGE.
The proposal is animating advocacy and science groups across the country.
To the Bat-Mobile! Our grift may be under threat!
What is a field of technology or abstract thought that starts with a “z”?
Zoology?
Zymurgy?
Thanks, good answers.
Zoroastrianism
“This would be the end of American science as we know it,” said Cole Donovan, a policy analyst from the group Stand up for Science who has been organizing to protest the change.
He says that like it would be a bad thing.
“ If this sort of rulemaking or rule-breaking becomes the norm, then government itself will cease to work,” historian Tim Snyder said in an online forum Tuesday organized by Stand Up for Science. Snyder studies the former Soviet Union and remarked that the Trump administration’s proposed rule change reminded him of “late Stalinism.”
“We’re asking ourselves whether we wanna repeat that Stalinist situation where people who know nothing about science are the ones who are making the decisions about what’s going to go forward,” said Snyder.
Is there an antidote for a hysterical shrieking DoomPorn addiction? That might be a worthwhile avenue of research.
Republican support for marriage equality, LGBTQ+ rights sinks: poll
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/03/republican-support-marriage-equality-lgbtq-rights
Hmm…
https://trends.google.com/explore?q=library%20drag%20queen&date=2010-06-01%202026-06-03&geo=US
Since it’s Wednesday: my younger brother sent me a picture of a bathroom in an Amazon hanger. Next to the toilet, there is a large stick labeled ‘poop chopper’.
My question is, just what in Hell are those guys eating?
Bamboo.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc
And in more local news. Blue on Blue and Blue on Blue.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/02/new-jersey-sherrill-ice-00946517
TLDR – Sherrill sent on the NJ State Police to take over security from ICE providing its own security. The NJSP actually arrested people which caused problems for Team Blue. The far more compliant and beholding Newark Police will now take over security.
Perfect NJ. Perfect Essex County. Perfect City of Newark.
And the curfew rescinded.
🙄
Death of Science, ch 9,463
The Trump administration plans to dismantle a $368m deep-sea observation system that has for more than a decade provided crucial data on ocean systems and climate change.
In a notice, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it had “initiated descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative” (OOI), a vast ocean observation network comprising more than 900 instruments that collect data on ocean health, including current patterns, climate variability and marine biodiversity.
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Some scientists expressed dismay at the plan, while Democratic lawmakers said they would fight it, including Senator Chris Van Hollen,of Maryland, who called it a “shortsighted move” that would “end up costing American taxpayers more not less”, the New York Times reported.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, said on X: “Fossil fuel is heating our oceans by the zettajoule, so Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel stooges want to turn off the monitors.”
People will die.
Finally watched the arrest video from that British stabbing.
https://x.com/i/status/2061554598515482935
As bodycam cop arrives, someone is already with the victim. They say they are trying to keep him sitting upright, but he keeps falling over
What do you do when someone is bleeding out?
I know! Lets keep him upright so the blood drains from his head and he dies sooner!
“What difference, at this point, does it make?”
–
HRCUK Coroner