The Oilers quickly got over that Game 1 third period fiasco and are freight-training the Stars. I just hope the Panthers can be up for the challenge once they both clinch in the next couple of days. Shawn Kemp is still mak.ing the news. Though when I saw his name, I assumed he’d knocked someone up. I wonder if the SEC is about to blow up the NCAA. If the Big Ten is onboard, as the rumors are saying, they might just do it. And that’s it for sports.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! This guy needs to stick to things he understands. Although I can’t think of anything that fits the bill off the top of my head.
I have no problem with this. It’s a privilege to come here and study, and we’ve let in way too many shitheels that do nothing but cause trouble.
I’m not sure how. If they’re not in their cells, or the building even, then they escaped. But this is still a fascinating case of ineptitude.
This is interesting. And not in a good way. Also the “but you didn’t act upset” defense is probably not gonna sell well with the public.
MEEEEEOW! Wasn’t there a man there to tell them to calm down?
Why didn’t she leave? She could have left.
Yeah, ok. I guess they had to get creative if they wanted to attract the people they’d been vilifying for a couple of decades.
Talk about having a bad day. This guy might have taken the prize for “worst day ever.”
I’m not so sure it was the job market that drove them there. Perhaps it was the constant glorification of whoring on social media and the desire for easy money.
Why does he do stupid shit like this? Talk about an unforced error.
Let’s rock! Southern style. These guys always make me smile. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday and the rest of the week, dear friends. I’m off to California tomorrow morning to California to do a 25 hour car race with Winning Friends With Salad and a couple other guys. I’ll give updates if I can.
I hate the Fox autoplay.
“Williams told investigators the inmates threatened to “shank” him if he did not help them.”
Sounds like a confession?
“As of Tuesday, eight of the suspects have been recaptured, and 14 people have been arrested for aiding them.”
They couldn’t recapture the guy with the face tattoos?
He must have made his way to Beaumont and just blended in.
I bet Hayek or Mojeaux know how to bypass it… the vixens.
I think both dog foxes and vixens are permanently set to play mode. It’s one of the best things about them.
I have no problem with this. It’s a privilege to come here and study, and we’ve let in way too many shitheels that do nothing but cause trouble. – you people just hate the future queen of Belgium. As well you should.
You had me double-checking to see if Belgium still had a monarchy. I wasn’t sure if you mean an actual queen or some EU potentate with monarchical powers.
Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant wields great power.
Careful or she will sic the NATO marching band on you.
I had no idea.
Interestingly, even Germany still has some “royalty” floating around.
We fought a war so that we didn’t need to pay attention to aristocrats anymore, then we decided to make new ones…
Why didn’t she leave? She could have left. – leaving would just have been surrendering to toxic masculinity.
::polite applause::
She couldn’t keep a straight face while telling the story. I bet she’d take him back.
Wasn’t it Alex who said there were two kinds of people yesterday morning? I think this qualifies as a third class somewhere between the other two….
She was hoping enough Dutch Ovens would bake her into the Duchess of Brabant?
Why didn’t she leave? She could have left.
Did Costner use a stick of butter?
Whoops, I quoted the wrong link.
I’ll allow it.
I’m not so sure it was the job market that drove them there. Perhaps it was the constant glorification of whoring on social media and the desire for easy money. – just suck some cocks girls enough of this just showing thing.
Sorry, but they’re still not sucking your cock.
Pie, what a disgusting double standard you have when it comes to these young ladies.
Who are you – a blood sucker! – to cast aspersions on a hard working cock sucker?
Cocksucker should be a compliment, not an insult.
What about someone who gives you lousy head?
George Carlin: “That’s not a bad man! That’s a good woman!”
Tha’s homophobic!
Are you saying, Jimbo, that you can’t get blood out of a stone-hard cock?
Hear, hear. Girls who enjoy fellatio and are actually good at it are rare, and need to be cultivated. (I suspect, but can’t give any evidence, that the same is true for men who are good at and enjoy cunnilingus.)
Dante’s bitch ass deserved the original ending in Clerks.
The Oilers quickly got over that Game 1 – which place has higher quality crude, Texas or Alberta?
Texas crude, and it ain’t even close. WTI is the standard. WCS is trash in comparison.
Light, sweet brent is the standard. WTI is still good because it’s still not sour (thus the intermediate designation) but WCS is classified as sour and has to be refinded more.
If the Oilers win, it will be the plot of Miracle II. They must be stopped.
Oh horse shit, Chuck. You damned well remember the Cold War like the rest of us. Barring China losing its mind — there’s nothing even close to that level of danger (no.. Putin isn’t going to launch on everyone unless you are stupid enough to let Brussels invade Russia to prove their she-dicks are bigger than anyone’s). Whine some more that Uncle Sam is trying to close its wallet and maybe Canada is going to shit — we all know that’s your real concerns.
our world has never been more dangerous and unstable. – depends on the size of the inevitable economic collapse.
You damned well remember the Cold War like the rest of us.
He spent the Cold War as a prince, playing grab-ass with his boarding school buddies and going fox hunting. I’d venture to say his experience was very different than that of the rest of us.
Not to mention that he’s an inbred retard, just like most of the other royals plus he’s an old coot. Maybe he doesn’t remember the Cold War and if he does he probably learned the wrong lessons.
The world of privilege that Charles inhabits is facing an existential threat.
Pretty soon, there may not even *be* a two-tiered justice system.
I have a feeling Charles is gonna hate the Sharia system he ushers in.
Translation: Daddy America is supposed to pay the credit card bills, protect us, but never ever discipline us or help us grow up.
I’d personally start with Saudi “students” (especially those who then look at flight training), but that’s probably just me fighting the last war.
On the plus side — the US Marshals already have the outhouses covered… On to the farm house and hen houses…
I hear they should smile more…. (I keed, mythical glib women! I keed!)
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That is something.
“Lifetime of happiness.”
Did they already die? Otherwise there is still time to mess it all up.
The “happiness” part comes when everything falls to pieces, and you realize you still love each other.
Kids in their 20s talking about a lifetime of happiness?
Good luck with that. The road can get bumpy at times.
That’s fantastic.
So sweet
Too sweet. Where’s the “first nudie” or “first sexting”?
I couldn’t make it even halfway before I was annoyed into closing the tab.
I saw captioning in the middle of the screen and noped right out.
And these are somehow the same people that are then amazed when very few people want to actually commit to them (date them? Probably… but nothing serious.)
My favorite bit in the article is the
girlsstrong independent women talking about how it was unfair that they were making less than they were making 8-10 years ago, since they have more experience and skills…“When Hannah graduated from King’s College London in 2019 with a degree in business management, she hoped to build a career in marketing. But after struggling to land work in her field, she took a job at a makeup counter — a position that barely covered the cost of her apartment in central London.” (emp added)
London is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in, no wonder she had problems paying rent.
“But who wants to live near Newcastle?”
I think later in the article it’s £9,000 a month.
If it’s not a palace, that is too much to pay for a place to stay.
I thought per annum, CT.
Blowing a $50 billion hole in the budget of every state flagship and top private university in America. Gunshot wound to the head of the best education system in the world and the crown jewel of American soft power. Absolute madness.
https://x.com/quantian1/status/1927402952806858856
Britain did a lot of stupid shit in the name of this soft power but I feel it is hard to quantify its cost to benefits ratio.
You mean they might have to lay off the useless bloat?
Hear Hear!
Way overdue. Federal funding did not reduce the cost of or increase the quality of education. Delete them and let the schools return to a free market system.
I remember when federal funding was used to force universities to deny due process for certain crimes.
In her personal statement to The Hollywood Reporter, LaBella said she was “left exposed, unprotected, and deeply betrayed by a system that promised safety and professionalism” following the scene.
“What happened to me shattered my trust and forever changed how I move through this industry,” she told the outlet.
I remember a Merrie Melodies cartoon (or, it might have been Disney) where a farm chicken dumps her hick boyfriend to join a slick Hollywood rooster, gets to Hollywood, is chased around the room by the rooster, and returns back to the farm to marry her hick boyfriend.
Something like that.
Getting here late, so:
My priors are that a self-described Bayesian has an extremely poor understanding of statistics and instead is trying to give their feelings a scientistic facade.
Begun the statistical wars has…
Each approach has strengths and weaknesses and one or both may be suitable in a given application/analysis. The religious-like zealotry that can manifest in the advocates for one or the other is not terribly useful.
Why didn’t she leave? She could have left.
SloopyNo one reads the links.Ok, fine. But now that I have read it, all I can do is laugh at her assessment of the human immune system.
“I stubbed my toe and now I have AIDS”
Did you stub it on a used needle?
Homeopathy?
OFFS, shut up Charlie.
Foreign student visas: No fed judge has issued an injunction yet on that? Why doesnt some random judge just rule that Trump cant be president?
*technically the only thing the president has power over is CIC of the armed forces and signs bills into law. They cant rule that without admitting that about 95% of what the fedgov does is outside the power granted to them.
Getting rid of the income tax would go a long way towards reigning in this rogue govt. That might also mean the collapse of the American empire.
So a win-win!
Related to the music lynx:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oyj8N8pRjo
In that the Frenchman and cyber-gunbot Eric Grauffel chose an EDM remix of “Free Bird” to set his shooting to.
And this makes me wonder, watching someone use a longarm in a pistol game, where the default is “shoot twice” because of the limited power of handguns…
Q for the former or current infantrymen: how many times are you supposed to shoot someone? Until they fall down? What’s the doctrine?
“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
Gen. Patton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton's_speech_to_the_Third_Army
Actually I was thinking about what you specifically were taught, since you were in both the M1 and M16 eras IIRC.
Somewhere along the line I remember that a wounded man disables more since his comrades will stop to help him.
M14s were my favorite, I’m not sure why we switched. In ’67 we carried M-14s, by ’71 it was M-16s.
We were taught 2 to the chest and 1 to the head, but it never works that cleanly.
I remember on 24 when Jack Bauer’s daughter had shot a man that had attacked her.
He was lying on the ground while she was talking to Jack on the phone and he told her to “Shoot him again”.
That scene made all the stupidity in 24 worthwhile.
Interesting question – never military, but I’ve had many long shooting-related conversations (and done some training and a few matches) with two Marines who are largely responsible for the content of the modern USMC marksmanship training program, as well as numerous other professional gunfighters.
The general consensus seems to be, ‘Address the target until it’s on the ground, or until you can’t hit it anymore, then move on to the next target.’
I think it’s important to remember that shooting matches are a test of dynamic marksmanship ability, no more, no less. They’re not intended to simulate a gunfight, and any attempt to make them do so will fail in a hilariously cringe manner. This is the rock that S.S. IDPA foundered on.
I agree that’s what they are, but it’s also true that the ‘best two on paper” did come from the (very) early days when they were supposed to be training tools. Heck, prior to the coinage of “practical shooting” there were “combat shooting” and similar names for the sport. IIRC the Bianchi Cup was restricted to LE. Hence USPSA’s first principle of competition:
Wait, I’ve needed to be reputable all this time? Fuck.
“An exclusive restaurant in Miami sent many into a spiral after revealing a cocktail that comes with a $33,000 price tag — and a Birkin bag.
Content creator Mister Lewis asked a server what the most expensive drink on the menu was at Papi Steak in Miami Beach.
The drink, called “It’s Not a Bag, It’s a Cocktail,” features a cocktail consisting of Belvedere 10 Vodka, grapefruit oil saccharum, and Lillet Blanc with a peach garnish and side of caviar — served inside a Birkin bag.
However, the ritzy drink doesn’t have to come with the Birkin. The cocktail alone costs $150 — pennies compared to the $33,000 charge with the classy clutch.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/lifestyle/ritzy-celeb-fave-restaurant-sells-a-33k-cocktail-and-it-comes-with-a-birkin-bag/
I find it hard to believe that could keep a stock of bags if they were actually selling these.
Ok, you finally did it. You found the story that makes me want to go socialist and kill the rich.
They’ve got a crate of Vietnamese knock-offs under the stairs.
The drink itself sounds find, vodka, grapefruit, sugar, and Lillett would work well, and I can see a peach working with it. I’m not going to drop that price for a middling drink with a side of caviar.
Also, due to the name of the drink, this is obligatory.
Silly man, you’re not paying for the drink, you’re paying for the atmosphere – an “exclusive” venue which pulls gimicks to attract people with more money than sense.
UCS:
Sadly the Rich don’t have your gimlet eye when it comes to reasonable cocktails.
The escapees – forget it. It is New Orleans. I have heard people use the word ‘corrupt’ but they cant truly understand what that word means until they have been to New Orleans.
Costner thing: I get it. “…was not hired back…”
I live in NJ…
My condolences.
BTW, you missed the important sports news.
https://today.rtl.lu/sport/local/a/2307692.html
I had no idea that the Generic Surgical Sciences Examination had an athletic component.
Luxembourg and Andorra in one story? With San Marino, Montenegro, and Monaco mentioned? Talk about small time!
Sex work? Careers tend to be short and retirement plans are shitty. Not a good investment of time.
Winston’s Mom is still going strong.
“But the slowdown shows that sex work is governed by the same market forces as any other sector. A study at the University of Chicago examined prostitution after the 2008 recession and found that it ” is more sensitive to changes in unemployment, income, or other macro factors that decrease consumer demand.” In other words, when the economy contracts, so does the sex industry.”
OK?
When the sex industry contracts it gets more tips.
But those extra tips will lead to another expansion.
Especially with Planned Parenthood funding being cut.
Amazing.
Such an important study that anyone could have already predicted.
It does seem a bit of on outlier. Alcohol is one that usually weathers economic hardships quite well, as people will switch brands and bargain shop rather than quit. I have a feeling that during times of economic hardship, there may be more people dipping their %body part% into sex work, which would increase the supply side, so while the prices would decrease, there’s still the same overall demand, getting serviced at lower prices.
Maggie McNeill wrote that the price of a prostitute was remarkably constant over time — a half day’s wagers per hour.
However, that was during a time when social economic stratification and physical isolation were the same thing — poor peoples’ whores worked in poor peoples’ parts of town and the like. I would expect with personal transportation and the internet you can get a wider range of providers and clients.
Not Adahn:
Now I’m going to have see if I can hunt down the story I read in a substack about an economist who got better than average economic data over his career. When he was moving into another position, he was asked how he did it. He would go and talk to the prostitutes, paying them for their time of course, and ask them details about costs, tax avoidance, clientele, and the like.
[Found it.]
Alcohol demand almost always does drop during a recession although counterintuitively consumption does not. Possibly because people have more time on their hands.
But people pay less for cheaper booze.
A study at the University of Chicago
What do you want to bet our tax dollars funded that study ?
Or as I have noticed, the strippers get cuter in a recession.
“Coast Guard vet turned OnlyFans model pleads guilty to killing accused rapist in national park”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/coast-guard-vet-turned-onlyfans-model-chelsea-perkins-pleads-guilty-to-killing-accused-rapist-in-national-park/
SIJLTH
Clicked to see picture
It was what I expected
neck tattoos are in the “really awful tattoo” category be default, but that is a standout as an awful neck tattoo.
Clicked to see picture
I don’t know what’s worse, the dead eyes, masculine build, or the neck tat.
There is a lady in HR with a flattop, a pride flag tattoo covering most of her neck, and a mirror of Venus tat on her temple.
I think she might be into me.
Did she mistake you for a really masculine woman?
You keep puking up that acronym at the end of a lot of comments without commenting. What are you trying to say?
Sometimes I just love these hookers?
Sometimes I Just Like The Headline
SIJLTH
Sometimes I Just Like The Headline
SIJLTH
That should be my motto, since I don’t read half the links I post…which gets pointed out to me regularly.
Local story to me. Lots of crazy in the story, between the rape accusation, the mother going after the wrong person, and the sudden plea deal.
Yeah, WTF is going on at that high school?
You’re dressed as a delivery driver, ask “[intended victim name]?” before blasting.
UCS:
Are you Chelsea Perkins?
I am not.
Jeebus. The word ‘lurid’ comes to mind. What a giant fucked up mess.
That’s wild.
That was far better than I ever could have expected.
If “between 30 and 40 percent of Americans identify as conservative” it would seem there is no need for an “era of DEI for conservatives”, right? Just stop the required “diversity statements” and all the other junk that filters for leftists.
I’m not sure what we are referring to but this is sort of the delicate balance that conservatives are facing right now.
The Trump admin sends a letter to Ivy League schools demanding they have more “viewpoint diversity” to get their government funds. I don’t agree with this btw. It seems a step too far. But I understand it.
Now it’s getting spun as dei for politics. I get that response too. Could see it coming.
Don’t know how this is gonna work out but my guess is very badly.
It’s from the Atlantic article talking about schools looking to hire conservatives.
IMHO no special measures are needed but if Trump is waving around threats to make it happen than I suppose that is what will happen.
It’s stupid. Just stop discriminating against them.
If you are really interested in a viewpoint that will explain a lot about what we see in the news this is worth the time it takes to watch it.
I give you ‘The Organism’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dreRX4q_V3E
I say again just because: Get rid of the income tax.
https://www.wsj.com/style/hamptons-dwi-lawyer-edward-burke-jr-c50bc175?st=nX8Ek9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“”Probably there could be changes at the margins,” Comey claimed, and then added, “There are cultural impediments to doing this work. Let’s say you work in the FBI. You know that one of the two political parties, is—let me put it nicely—white supremacist adjacent at a minimum. And so, why would you want to throw your career on that side of the line, and be summoned to Capitol Hill and be asked, ‘Why are you pursuing these innocent groups?'””
https://thepostmillennial.com/disgraced-former-fbi-head-james-comey-claims-entire-gop-is-white-supremacists-adjacent
CWAA
Glad he put it nicely.
If the EGOP weren’t the Stupid Party, they would portray this as Comey’s admission that the job of government as currently constituted is to go after people who have the wrong political views.
Well, since the other party in congress is the Klan, and you have to sit next to them…
Words dont have meanings…meanings have words. When Humpty Dumpty uses the words ‘white supremacist’ it means just what he chooses it to mean , nothing more nor less.
“BREAKING: Christians protest at Seattle City Hall to demand Mayor Bruce Harrell resign, police arrest 8 leftist agitators
Tuesday night’s violence is a continuation of the political unrest that occurred over Memorial Day Weekend.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-christians-protest-at-seattle-city-hall-to-demand-mayor-bruce-harrell-resign-police-arrest-8-leftist-agitators
“Dan Bongino of the FBI announced on Tuesday that the agency has opened an investigation into “allegations of targetd violence against religious groups at the Seattle concert.” This follows an incident on Sunday in which Mayday USA, a Christian group, held a permitted concert in Cal Anderson Park which drew Antifa counter-protesters who then attacked the Christians”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-fbi-opens-investigation-into-targeted-violence-against-christians-in-seattle
Shooting masked protesters on sight might be harsh, but it would be less expensive than neutron-bombing every major city on the West Coast.
Have you seen the cost of ammo lately? I dont think neutron bombs are as expensive as you think.
There is no excuse for this Antifa bullshit still going on. Finding out which NGO is funding and organizing it and shut them the fuck down. Put the organizers in prison.
I know…that would mean putting us gov officials in prison and that isn’t going to happen.
WNBA unable to verify ‘hateful fan comments’ toward Reese
Racists are awful people, but they are not going to waste their time at a WNBA game.
They’re going to hurl invective at Caitlin Clark.
You mean another racist incident is a hoax!?
Shocked, I am.
I watched about half of the Jordan Peterson versus a hundred gorillas thing. He didn’t sound stupid, but he was making some far-reaching arguments.
The two clips that made him look stupid was the one when he claimed not to be Christian (the debate is called 1 Christian vs. 20 Atheists) and when that smug Parker guy defined belief to Jordan and he said it was a circular definition. I assumed the rest of it was Jordan being as wordy as possible without actually saying much at all.
They renamed it “Jordan Peterson vs 20 Atheists”
Apparently the popular one is injured: Caitlin Clark has proven to be crucial to the WNBA, so her absence will be painful
John Kopecky, a Colorado Springs salesman, had grand plans for this coming weekend. He paid about $3,000 for flights, hotel rooms and four tickets to take his wife, 14-year-old daughter and her basketball teammate to Caitlin Clark’s game this Friday night against the Connecticut Sun in Indianapolis.
On Monday afternoon, Kopecky read on social media that Clark had a strained left quadriceps and would be out for at least the next two weeks. He spoke to his wife and they decided right then and there to cancel their flights and hotel rooms, give their tickets to a friend in Indianapolis, and look at the Fever’s August schedule for another game to attend.
I can’t decide if that’s a good dad or he’s out of his mind.
Wish I’d have found this insanity before I published the links this morning:
https://theconversation.com/christianity-has-long-revered-saints-who-would-be-called-transgender-today-254769
I guess wild assertions without evidence are now considered academic rigor.
Leftists: “We are going to spout the most absurd bullshit we can come up with and you are going to nod your head in agreement. You are certainly not to dare calling us out on it.”
No.
That was in my feed this morning, I didn’t bother clicking through to read it. It’s a work day, I didn’t need to anger myself up.
I’m not sure I would want to make myself angry on any day. I’ll decline to investigate the stupid.
Can’t we stick to honoring secular transgender American heroes? Do we have to make it religious?
“Also the “but you didn’t act upset” defense is probably not gonna sell well with the public.”
Works pretty well for me. It’s pretty hard to square her allegations with her subsequent conduct.
Yeah, it seems more like a case of “we’re not hiring you back for the next installment”. “I WAS ASSAULTED!!”
“Rape by deception.”
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/notable-quotable-anti-oppression-training-uk-scotland-dei-6a3f0ec9?st=CoKz94&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I still can’t believe they talked that guy into Super Troopers.
Humans are not civilized animals. I am not sure there are any.
Is there any part of human behavior not motivated by a desire to control and yoke other humans?
No blacks have ever been misogynistic, it is known.
Stick a fork in the UK, they’re done.
It’s wild to believe that they are the descendants of people who at one time ruled an empire where the “sun never sets.”
Outrage
A federal judge on Tuesday angrily tore into President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the top law firm WilmerHale and struck down the entire order as unconstitutional.
“The cornerstone of the American system of justice is an independent judiciary and an independent bar willing to tackle unpopular cases, however daunting. The Founding Fathers knew this!” wrote Judge Richard Leon in the scathing, exclamation-point-filled opinion in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
To let Trump’s order stand, Leon wrote, “would be unfaithful to the judgment and vision of the Founding Fathers!”
The judge, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President George W. Bush, suffused his 73-page order with a tone of open fury rarely seen in judicial pronouncements.
Opposing the cartoon villain is the highest form of patriotism.
Targeting attorneys and firms that provide legal services to unpopular ex-Presidents and their political associates on the other hand, is totes cool.
“The cornerstone of the American system of justice is an independent judiciary and an independent bar…”
Yeah. You can just stop right there.
Did he specify what the founders vision was, how they enacted it into law, the details of its unconstitutionality?
Screaming and cursing is not a substitute for actual justification. If he did it is not in the article.
What we are seeing is the organism abandoning its facade of pretense for existing. It will get worse before it gets better.
I expect the mostly peaceful protests will return.
The bad science behind expensive nuclear
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-bad-science-behind-expensive-nuclear/
On 23 May 2025, President Trump signed four executive orders on nuclear power, intended to speed up approvals of and reduce regulatory burdens on new nuclear reactors in America. Buried in one of them was a requirement that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reconsider its use of ‘Linear No Threshold’ (or LNT). LNT is the hypothesis that the relationship between radiation dose and cancer risk to humans is linear and that there is no truly ‘safe’ level of radiation. It underpins nuclear regulation worldwide and it may be one of the most important rules that almost no one’s ever heard of.
In 2013, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between General Electric and Hitachi, applied to build three advanced boiling water reactors in Wales. Fission reactions would boil water into steam, turning a turbine, powering a generator, and producing electricity. This specific design had been employed in four Japanese reactors, which had survived earthquakes of a greater magnitude than have ever hit the UK without posing any threat to workers or the public.
Even though the reactor had a flawless safety record, the UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation was not satisfied. Over the course of a four and a half year process, it demanded a series of design changes. These included the installation of expensive, bulky filters on every heating, ventilation, and air conditioning duct in the reactor and turbine building, a new floorplan for the room in the plant’s facility that housed the filtration systems, and an entirely new layout for the facility’s ventilation ducts. The purpose of these changes was to reduce radiation discharges from the filter by 0.0001 millisieverts per year. This is the amount a human ingests when they consume a banana.
A CT scan hits a patient with ten millisieverts all in one go. Natural background radiation in the UK or US typically exposes people to two or three millisieverts during the course of a year, and exceeds seven millisieverts per year in Iowa and North Dakota and South Dakota. A single flight from New York to London exposes a passenger to 0.04–0.08 millisieverts; 0.0001 millisieverts is equivalent to 1/400 of the upper range of that, or about 72 seconds in the air per year worth of radiation.
The regulatory ratchet that makes nuclear unaffordable can be summarized in a single acronym: ALARA.
ALARA stems from the Linear No Threshold hypothesis, the theory about how the body responds to radiation that May’s Executive Order took on. Critically, the hypothesis holds that any amount of ionizing radiation increases cancer risk, and that the harm is cumulative, meaning that multiple small doses over time carry the same risk as a single large dose of the same total magnitude.
In other areas of our lives, this assumption would seem obviously wrong. For example, the cumulative harm model applied to alcohol would say that drinking a glass of wine once a day for a hundred days is equivalent to drinking one hundred glasses of wine in a single day.
…
By the end of the 1960s, it was clear that the AEC was living on borrowed time and, along with it, the golden age of the US nuclear industry.
A big change was the growth of environmental consciousness. This had found an unlikely champion in Richard Nixon, who signed the National Environmental Policy Act into law in 1970. This required federal agencies to prepare environmental assessments and impact statements to evaluate their decisions. The AEC was not willing to kowtow and attempted to interpret these rules as narrowly as possible, resulting in a 1971 legal defeat over a planned nuclear plant on Chesapeake Bay.
In 1974, the Government decided that it had seen enough and abolished the AEC through the Energy Reorganization Act. In its place, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was established to regulate civilian nuclear activities, while the Energy Research and Development Administration managed weapons research.
The NRC’s institutional culture was markedly different to that of its predecessor. It very much saw itself as a regulator, not an advocate or an enabler. The AEC had already started to ramp up regulation in response to public and political pressure, but the NRC accelerated this trend. It formally adopted ALARA in 1975.
The combination of tougher radiation safety standards and new environmental rules caused the costs of nuclear power to spiral in this period. This can clearly be seen in individual projects. New radiation shielding, extra instrumentation, and the relocation of control systems to reduce exposure risk drove up materials bills. The amount of cabling required for a nuclear project in the US jumped from 670,000 yards to 1.3 million between 1973 and 1980, while cubic yards of concrete increased from 90,000 to 162,000. The number of man hours per kilowatt hour of energy generated surged from 9.6 in 1972 to 28.5 in 1980. The Sequoyah Nuclear Plant in Tennessee, scheduled for completion in 1973 at a cost of $300 million was completed for $1.7 billion in 1981, after 23 changes to structure or components were requested by the regulator.
damn pasted too much. long article though.
Of course it’s a Nissan. That said we were all young and stupid at one time. Credit for owning the dumb decisions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1kwzl8s/oc_cruise_control_rain_rollover_no_injuries_im/
How bald were his tires?
68 onto the on-ramp in the rain is a bit much but still – he was in trouble long before the apex.
Yeah, it was like he was driving on ice.
Stay away from r/tires.
You’ll have nightmares.
45 mph and half an inch of water can cause hydroplaning. I see a lot of people driving as if that is not a thing.
Look at the medians and sides of the roads where the speed limit is over 50 after rainstorms. You will see a lot of fresh divots in the grass and fresh paint on concrete barriers.
“Rights” granted by the Constitution
An executive order Trump signed this month seeks to further use the federal government’s levers of power to punish NPR and PBS, whose content Trump argues isn’t “fair, accurate, or unbiased.” Does a president have the power to hobble media outlets based on his disagreement with their content? No, not according to the Constitution. An estimated 43 million people per week receive at least some of their news from NPR alone, and with a lawsuit of its own, the nonprofit media organization is fighting back against Trump’s efforts to take away some of its funding.
Trump’s executive order is aimed at cutting off NPR’s and PBS’ ability to receive congressionally appropriated funds by directing the Corporation for Public Broadcast (CPB) to halt current funding for NPR and PBS and to cut off all future funding. According to NPR, “NPR receives only about 1% of its operating budget directly from the federal government.” However, Influence Watch reports that NPR “receives almost 10% of its budget from federal, state, and local governments indirectly.”
The lawsuit from NPR and three Colorado public radio stations makes a strong case that the Trump administration lacks the power to direct the CPB to stop funding NPR and that, even if it did, Trump’s efforts violate the First Amendment rights of NPR and its listeners.
The Constitution says you have to give us money.
He can’t cancel them but he sure as shit don’t have to supply them with taxpayer’s money. Having a taxpayer funded media outlet is not a Constitutional right and they know it.
Ed, not giving is taking.
Oh no… the whippit is back. Time to panic!!!!!!!!
How ‘laughing gas’ became a deadly – but legal – American addiction
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly36n88n56o
When a problem comes along, you must whippit.
Oh, no! Those people over there are doing potentially dangerous things with useful products; they must be stopped!
Ideally, of course, by eliminating the useful product, one of the first anesthetics.
smdh
For example, the cumulative harm model applied to alcohol would say that drinking a glass of wine once a day for a hundred days is equivalent to drinking one hundred glasses of wine in a single day.
SCIENCE!
What if you drank a hundred glasses one day but were sober the rest of the year?
Now I’m wondering if there’s a wine equivalent of the Century Club.
Maybe working your way through a Nebuchadnezzar of wine by yourself?
What’s that in metric?
35.5 L of beer consumed over a weekend.
😳
I’m not sure I can consume that much liquid of any variety in a two day period.
It takes effort, but can be done.
And the weekend starts Friday after your class. If you did not schedule any Friday classes that’s not considered cheating, just good planning.
“35.5 L of beer consumed over a weekend.”
This takes place entirely in a bathroom?
If you are drinking that much, the world is your bathroom
Pete Buttigieg told @BulwarkOnline
that if he could do it over, he would’ve worked to get the schools open faster in 2020. In response, @TaylorLorenz
denounced him as a eugenicist.
Meanwhile, @DavidZweig
’s new book presents an avalanche of evidence indicating that school closures likely did not reduce morbidity and mortality and harmed children. He also demonstrates that there was considerable evidence of the apparent lack of benefit from European nations as early as May 2020.
https://x.com/benryanwriter/status/1927544076817023128
Clue #1 – They told us to wear masks. Masks dont work. We have known that for more than 100 years. They do, in fact, increase your chances of getting sick.
Clue #2 – The drug companies were given immunity for liability.
Shall I go on? My only question is why aren’t people in prison for what they did?
Doesn’t Taylor Lorenz still wear a mask?
yes. And still socially distances.
The real question is why does anyone give a flying fuck what Taylor Lorenz’s opinion on anything is.
It keeps the right wing demographic entertained
A Supreme Court victory for Totality of Circs!
Dammit. Now I need to lift weights while surfing witt Morgan Fairchild.
They should be held to the same standards for use of force as any other citizen.
If they are not a citizen, they should not be allowed to be a police officer.
Agreed. According to the account in that article the cop, just like you or myself, would have been justified in shooting the aggressor dead.
Now do that other Minneapolis officer who got railroaded after the medical examiner lied on the stand in order to put him in prison.
“Ticket Prices CRASH in WNBA After Caitlin Clark Injury By as Much as 300 Percent per Ticket”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/ticket-prices-crash-wnba-after-caitlin-clark-injury/
People buy tickets to the WNBA?
The WNBA is paying people twice the face value for tickets to their games?
This.
What does that mean, ticket prices dropped 300%?
Well, they used to have to pay the audience X to show up but now have to pay 3X
Or is it 4X?
I always mix up whether it’s an increase of or to a %.
no, people buy tickets to Caitlin Clark
It’s been a threatened losing punishment for a fantasy football league I’m in. Since they don’t have a local team, we haven’t gone that route yet. But with a new women’s soccer team potentially coming here, that could be on the table.
“Elizabeth Warren controlled the autopen”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/president-trumps-crypto-czar-david-sacks-names-person/
How?
Ugh.
There is no excuse for us not knowing with certainty who was running that thing and who was generating the content.
Wily Indian is master of slipping unnoticed through swamp.
Romanians are bitching and moaning about long wait times on a website to buy Metallica tickets. Good thing it is not Taylor Swift.
Metallica is still alive?
I am similarly surprised.
For 2500 USD you can get special tickets that include a meet and greet with the band.
I’m not sure. I have Hoover’s translation, since Agricola wrote in Latin and I can’t read Latin. But the book never did seem to be alive to me.
Sad but True.
Not after what they did.
Well, they haven’t released an album in 30 years, right?
So you’re telling me they haven’t released an album since they killed Napster?
Over 60 and packed two no repeat shows in Philly (the Linc) this weekend.
He also demonstrates that there was considerable evidence of the apparent lack of benefit from European nations as early as May 2020.
No kidding. It was immediately obvious the models were complete bullshit. If they had been wrong by accident, they would have been corrected.
All of the numbers and all of the info was complete bullshit and still is. Aside from it being the most destructive scam in history we have no idea what really happened.
It all makes much more sense now.
Robin Williams’ ‘Popeye’ Had the ‘Most Coked-Up Film Set’ and ‘Everyone Was Stoned,’ Says Former Studio Boss: ‘They Were Shipping’ Coca ine in Film Canisters
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/robin-williams-popeye-set-cocaine-everyone-stoned-1236411331/
So, another day ending in Y?
The Hollywood scene is mostly a snowstorm and other kinds of dope. Ever notice how many in that world die in their fifties from ‘myocardial infarction’ or overdose?
What Hot Dragon-Riders and Fornicating Faeries Say About What Women Want Now
‘Romantasy’ novels are booming when romance in general is in decline.
Lauren Nauheimer, 40, hadn’t been in a relationship for seven years when she picked up Sarah J. Maas’s “A Court of Thorns and Roses” at a Manhattan bookstore in 2023. She was quickly absorbed by the fantastical story of Feyre, a huntress who aligns with a faerie lord who eventually becomes her mate for life. As the two battled evil agents in the land of Prythian, Nauheimer found herself once again feeling the pull of love.
“I didn’t feel safe in my real-life dating, but reading about it, I could feel safe,” said Nauheimer. She raced through the next four books in a little more than a week and pored over them with her best friend in California, who had coincidentally picked them up too. Nauheimer said she now summons the heroine’s superpowers to psych herself up before dates: “If Feyre can save all of Prythian, I can go meet a man at a bar for a drink!”
“A Court of Thorns and Roses,” or “ACOTAR” to fans, is a flagship title in the booming genre of “romantasy,” a blend of romance and fantasy.
https://archive.ph/p7ZBr#selection-2503.0-2507.69
I have a brilliant idea! multiple people writing a book is a thing., UCS and Mojeaux should write a Romantasy novel together! Extra spicy.
The problem with collaborative writing is that you get very different voices and creative direction.
I once listened to the audio of a story which was written by three people (I forget who 2/3 of the writers were, but the third was Lovecraft). It was almost glaringly obvious when the manuscript changed hands. The narrator still sounded the same, but everything else about the way the story was crafted changed.
You could avoid that by sitting the multiple creatives in the same room, but only people accustomed to working that way can create in such an environment.
look just have to point of view characters written differently. You can then write the same sex scene but in different perspectives.
This is brilliant stuff I am giving you.
Yep. More than one is too many cooks in the kitchen.
Agreed, some pulp I read as a youngster had 2 authors trading off chapters and it was jarring how different they were.
Don’t know what their working process was, but I consider Pratchett and Gaiman’s collaboration on Good Omens to be a rousing success.
I’ve also read several collaborations by Jennifer Crusie, a romance writer who sometimes includes a touch of fantasy, and Bob Mayer, an action-adventure writer. I think they work largely by email, and they use alternating 1st person POV, Crusie writing the heroine and Mayer the hero, chapter by chapter. I’ve enjoyed their results. (Crusie has also co-written a couple of books with two other women writers, but for whatever reason, I found them rather meh.)
So..I think it can be done, but not by every writer nor every combination thereof.
By “Hot Dragon Riders” they mean Anne McCaffrey, right? She was an OG “good people have good sex” tropist and into yaoi before the word made it across the Pacific. It was never made clear if the boys were told about what would happen to them if a green dragon picked them.
When I teach First Amendment law, I tell my students that there’s one type of First Amendment violation that stands out as the most egregious kind: a content-based law. But even these “content-based” laws come in two flavors. There’s subject matter discrimination, which is bad. And there’s viewpoint discrimination, which is even worse. NPR argues persuasively that the Trump administration’s actions fall within the worse category.
Oh, no. Trump wants to stop giving government money to NPR because they are biased. Not throw all the writers and editors in jail, not make it illegal for ANYBODY to give them money, just stop giving them our money. Get back to me when he sends the federal marshals to shut down the Atlantic and Mother jones.
Contrast with what the left has wanted to do to Fox News.
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!!!
Get back to me when he sends the federal marshals to shut down the Atlantic and Mother jones.
Back in the Citizens United days, when “progressives” were screaming that Constitutional rights don’t apply to corporations because they’re not people, I used to ask them if a president could put a gag order on Mother Jones to stop them from criticizing him. If “corporations aren’t people” and therefore aren’t covered under the Bill of Rights, that should be totally allowable. They always insisted that was “different” somehow.
If there is one thing the First Amendment is designed to guard against, it is a government’s seeking to insulate itself from criticism by picking winners and losers. In this case, the Trump administration has stated it is targeting media outlets based on the views expressed in their coverage. This should give the public, regardless of their personal political viewpoints, cause for concern. More than that, if the federal judges ruling on this case agree that a presidential administration targeted media outlets based on their views, they should stop the administration in its tracks. The freedom of speech protects everyone, not just those with whom the government agrees.
Sometimes I wonder if the people who make these sorts of “First Amendment” arguments are just legitimately, sincerely, dumb.
Now do all of the Biden administration’s attempts to make social media platforms censor coronavirus thoughtcrime.
In a world where the courts rule that you can’t challenge government demanding ‘private’ actors remove content they don’t like with thinly veiled threats because you don’t have standing and yet also rule that not handing out money/propping up private propaganda outfits is a violation of the the 1st amendment, only one outcome is possible. Naked force. Because there is no guiding principle upon which to depend, so you better make damn sure you ‘win’ or you’re going to be ground to dust under the heels of the all the other ‘sides’ pursuing their own interest.
They are dumb but they know exactly what they are doing. Remember George Lakoff? He didnt become the darling of the left for no reason.
His arguments that morality and reality are subjective and malleable easily convince the soft headed that their wishes are true.
Worse: Evil
They didn’t give two shits about the government pressuring social media companies to ban information that went against the official government/party line. These same writers would enthusiastically endorse a Misinformation Board if one was ever created if it meant that their political adversaries’ opinions were censored.
They are commies, people who subscribe to the worst of human impulses. Rules for you, none for me. I win, you lose. All for me, none for you.
There is only one way to deal with them.
Hope this works about than GM’s historical 6.2L L87 V8 manufacture… Perhaps this will churn out replacement motors 24/7 for recalled vehicles.
General Motors has abandoned a plan to pump $300 million into electric-vehicle motor production at its upstate New York plant and will instead invest $888 million to make the latest V-8 engines.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/general-motors-to-invest-888-million-in-propulsion-plant-23ea7636?st=SPNHTp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“We make enough of them and some are sure to work!”
Wait, I thought GM’s New York plant closed ages ago.
Oh, this one’s out by Buffalo.
Another victory over tyranny
U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman issued a temporary restraining order that, at least for now, neutralizes much of the Trump administration’s leverage in its effort to end the tolls, which have since Jan. 5 charged motorists a $9 daytime fee to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street.
The Federal Highway Administration, in its third warning to the MTA, had given the agency until May 28 to end the tolling program or face cuts to city and state highway funding.
Liman said the feds could not withhold any of the funding until a lawsuit filed by the MTA over the future of the tolls is settled.
They’re raking in all that congestion pricing loot, they shouldn’t even need the federal highway money.
You can only use the withholding or granting of Federal funds as a cudgel to force compliance for good-think reasons. Just like 1st amendment protection.
Why is Trump trying to interfere with New York City’s plan for self-destruction? It isn’t like it’s huge majority red city or anything.
lol The congestion pricing loot isn’t even going to paper over the massive MTA deficits that are looming. The pubsec unions as usual have the taxpayers by the balls and they will not hesitate to crash and burn the system as long as they continue to get paid.
A 4,000 lbs two door “sports sedan” with an 8 speed auto only. Sign me up! It’s a bargain at $100k.
I’m Worried The $99,775 Automatic-Only BMW M2 CS Might Flop
https://www.theautopian.com/im-worried-the-99775-automatic-only-bmw-m2-cs-might-flop/
How much a propeller fan boy must you be to buy this over a Porsche Cayman?
One door per ton? That doesn’t look like a towmobile.
What part of “but it’s an M!” do you not understand?
Well, the individual words are known to me, but I’m guessing you’re implying something by making it a question, though that question does not make sense.
This is what comes to mind.
in a car touted to be the sharpest and lightest of all the current M models.
Yeah, right. The “little” BMW performance car.
Closing your tags is overrated.
On the other hand screaming look at me kind of fits the subject of M series.