I am sure several of you deserve this.
Back to work. Not really thrilled about this. I keep thinking of retirement. Then I realize that I need to work 5 more years to make the money work out. Oh well.
Linkings;
- Which one of you was this?
- The Ukes are blowing up Russian Amazon?
- Sounds good, but do they have any ships left?
- l didn’t do it.
Music. Her voice makes me feel funny in muh nethers.
Comments are open and yours.
Which one of you was this?
Remake of Saturday Night Fever?
These are the cases for which jury nullification was made.
We’ll make him plead to something so it doesn’t go to court.
/prosecutors
You don’t need the Navy to stop the “small boats”. They are inflatables. A few motivated men with machine guns can do it from shore.
Yeah, all that’s needed is the political will and that’s lacking, at least among the current crop of snaggletoothed scrunts that comprise the British elite.
It’s the UK. The men with the guns want the men on the rubber boats to enter the country.
Too bad it’s so horrifically ugly
Hennessey’s latest supercar produces less than 1000 horsepower, but the mad scientists down in Sealy, Texas, haven’t gone soft. Instead, the Hennessey Blackbird signals a shift in priorities for the American outfit, from chasing speed records to focusing on maximizing driver engagement. While the Blackbird packs less muscle than both the Lotus-based Venom GT and the most recent Venom F5, it will prioritize putting a smile on the face of anyone who gets behind the wheel thanks to the combination of a naturally aspirated V-8, rear-wheel drive, and a six-speed gated manual transmission.
Don’t worry though, the Blackbird is no shrinking violet. Named for the famed Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird airplane, Hennessey’s latest beast will still be capable of a 220-mph top speed. Power will come from a new naturally aspirated 6.2-liter V-8, developed in conjunction with Ilmor Engineering, the same folks responsible for the Chevy V-6s found in the current breed of IndyCars. The engine will rev to more than 9000 rpm and produce between 800 and 850 horsepower, enough to shoot the Blackbird to 60 mph in a claimed 2.5 seconds.
Given the lower power output, the key to the Blackbird’s performance is its lightweight design, with Hennessey employing a full carbon-fiber tub and carbon-fiber bodywork to help keep the overall curb weight below a targeted 3000 pounds. Hennessey also aims to provide engaging handling via an adaptive suspension and Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires.
Based on the NAPCAR truck series motor, presumably. Not a bad starting point.
They could shave some more weight off by deleting that “adaptive suspension” crap.
I don’t like the looks either. But, no fan for downforce!
Something to be said for exclusivity and rarity, I reckon. Since I can get pretty much the same performance from the Toyota GR GT at a tenth of the price.
Something tells me that I won’t be seeing one of the Hennesseys at Track Day anytime soon.
I’m trying to imagine how this would play if it were, say, Israel dropping bombs on civilian commercial facilities in Gaza.
I have it on reliable authority – all the experts fit to quote agree – that targeting things that can be categorized as civilian infrastructure is a war crime. I’m almost certain that standard is symmetrically applied.
From the NYP comments:
Slippery Pete
7 hours ago
Avant-Garde Tourism. In any other major metropolis, a naked man scaling a suspension bridge to display personal flags before plunging into a tidal strait is a severe municipal security breach. In modern New York, it’s just avant-garde sidewalk theater competing for a local arts grant.
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Unnecessary Ellipsis
6 hours ago
More estuary than strait…
Just saying…
I think that’s probably her only song I’ve ever heard, but the music video made an impression on 11 year old Pat.
I bought her first album, but never connected with it. It was nice to hear something that wasn’t typical music of the time, however.
I guess I’m old, she looks like a heroin addict to me.
Heroin chic was peaking in 1997.
Quietly ignored by 99% of the business press.
Unlike the FINRA and SEC matters, which UBS Financial settled without admitting or denying the findings, the firm admitted in its FinCEN consent order that it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act, including by failing to implement and maintain an adequate AML program and to file suspicious activity reports.
https://www.investmentnews.com/regulation-legal-compliance/ubs-hit-with-125-million-in-aml-penalties-as-fincen-imposes-record-broker-dealer-fine/267651
The Swiss do like banking money from evil people and evil regimes.
Well, somebody has to do it…
Artwork… gold…
The policy launched at a news conference in London calls for the military to “intercept” the boats and return them to France or Belgium, with the party claiming “Operation Fortress” had the backing of former senior military brass and that it was in line with international law because its purpose was humanitarian.
It is in the interest of the humanity who reside in Great Britain to repel invaders to their homeland. It’s been that way (or should have been) since 1066.
A couple of 20mm rounds through a small boat will sort out that problem, as well as be a lesson to others.
Look – that’s we got all the medieval French into English.
They should assign this to HM Coast Guard. Have them take the migrants on board, sink their boat, drop them back at Calais (or wherever they started from). Of course, the dropping off part becomes a problem if France and Belgium are uncooperative.
https://youtu.be/tLiJueTgu44
Remarkable
A remarkable new law went into effect in Minnesota on Saturday that bans nudification apps, AI-based or not. It penalizes the app provider by enabling lawsuits from victims, and levying fairly harsh fines of up to $500,000 not just per generation, but every time someone accesses the image, meaning a viral image could be financially catastrophic.
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The law defines “nudification” as altering a photo of a recognizable person to expose “intimate parts,” which—with apologies for being a bit graphic—can include more than just the classic broadcast TV standard of genitals, buttocks, and female nipples. The “intimate parts definition comes from a separate state statute defining those parts as the “primary genital area, groin, inner thigh, buttocks, or breast of a human being.”
To count as nudification, image alteration has to be basically at-the-push-of-a-button, and can’t involve artistry or skill. So the pervy Photoshoppers of Minnesota are safe from this law (but this is not legal advice, and don’t come crying to Gizmodo if you run afoul of Minnesota’s revenge porn laws).
They’ll know it when they see it.
Waits for the first time somebody a digital penis on a digital photo.
I’m not a fan of people doing this to, say, my daughters’ pictures. But I really don’t see the difference between someone using AI vs PhotoShop besides the speed.
If someone posts fake nude photos and claims they are real, they are subject to being sued right?
Uh… uh….Man kinda miraculously survives something he shouldn’t have? And was up to Kazakhstani flag shenanigans?
None of this resembles me, cuz I wasn’t naked! Then, nor now! (I should probably fix that…)
“There are dozens of us [never-nudes]!”
“Naked nutjob who leaped from Brooklyn Bridge and miraculously survived identified”
Anybody heard from Tres today?
Need 5 more years? Me too buddy. Last I recall we were the same age.
Russian strikes on a warehouse in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region over the weekend destroyed eight million books.
Training manuals for the Ukranian marines is what I heard. The real tragedy was that none of them had been colored in yet.
Fucking outsourced benefits manager. Assholes dropped medical coverage for wife despite multiple phone calls, all ending with no problem all taken care of. Not just the coverage itself but just started window on permanent Medicare premium increase because we’re in deferral due to creditable coverage.
Pre OMB the feds would take things like paystubs as proof of coverage to avoid the increase.
They should get you reinstated or at least COBRA until you can properly enroll.
However, health insurance is my least anount of knowledge of all forms of insurance.