I was thinking about this earlier this morning. Col. O’Neil takes a bunch of AFSoC bros with Dr. Jackson to an uncharted planted through the Stargate. They spend an unseemly amount of time showing us Col. O’Neil doesn’t care for Jackson. Jackson is a dork, who gets allergies when he travels. You get that? He’s in an elevator inside Cheyenne Mountain, one of the most sterile environments in the country, and something there is triggering a histamine response.
Jackson somehow marries the chief’s daughter. Sha’Uri doesn’t speak much at all, when she does its a dead language to Jackson who can read it but has to figure out how to “pronounce” the language. He picked up the ultimate tradwife…yet Col. O’Neil gets to call him a dweeb? I’m not buying it. Stargate is ruined for me now.
¡enlaces!
I used this as an indicator when USD inflation was heating up, it would be terribly inconsistent of me not to note this on the other side of the coin.
Mexicans protest rising real estate prices ahead fo the 2026 World Cup.
Why is it surprising? Because they’re poor, and brown?
I want to buy the world a Mexican Coke.
Previous Presidéntes were a bit more subtle with their cartel pandering.
More news from the alternate universe where Harris won.
You can’t torture our prisoners! That’s our job!
I will not be making cowbell jokes today.
I liked the TV show over the movie.
You have to view the movie as its own thing. Sort of like Highlander.
I always wondered how anyone could put up with TV O’Neil. I know I’d sock him in the jaw after one or two missions.
OH NOES! Muh Brazil nuts!
BTW, unless you’ve got a hook up for fresh roasted some how, these are quite good: Deez nutz.
Brazil has this massive complex that allows Brazilian leaders to think Brazil matters on a global scale.
And why not? They are the country of the future!
If you buy sugar, mangoes, jackfruit, beef etc it could make an impact.
My God can you imagine the orgy circles if they got Trump in an ankle bracelet? It would be like the pile of fucking when South Park tried to prevent the gooback future.
I applaud the change to cane sugar. HFCS is the devil. MALUA (Make America Less Unhealthy Again)
MAHALO!
Make America Healthy Again, Like Ozzy!
[flashes devil horn handsign in respect]
There are cane sugar versions of other sodas out there, I wonder why now? Maybe they’re seeing the MAHA writing on the wall.
It will be interesting to see if Pepsi follows.
Tonio:
Wasn’t that the point of the “throwback” variants over the past couple of years?
Personally, I’d have no issue with both cane sugar and HFCS versions being on the shelves. I will also say that I’m a big fan of the explosion in various mixers out there now (especially the Fever Tree mini cans).
Pepsi had Pepsi Throwback and Dew Throwback for years. Pepsi Throwback was replaced with Pepsi Real Sugar which is still available in some markets.
Oh, I didn’t know that they were cane sweetened. I thought it was just retro packaging. I never drink soda (or pop for you heathens out there).
No, they were retro recipes going back to the beginning. They tasted like they used to taste when I was a kid. I hate Pepsi for dropping them.
Pepsi Real Sugar is/was modern Pepsi with cane sugar instead of HFCS.
Yes the throwback versions. I remember you could drink half a can without it burning your throat.
Fever Tree mini cans
*feverishly starts searching*
That’s very good to know. Although Moscow Mule’s aren’t keto, so off my dance card now, save for a special occasion.
Sodas lack carbonation these days. They all taste flatter when first opened.
Diet Bundaberg, SB?
slumbrew:
The Fever Tree mini cans are the absolute perfect size for me. I go out of my way to stop at stores that carry them to pick them up.
Q Mixers also makes small cans of mixers and has some light versions as well. They are my go-to.
https://qmixers.com
R C Dean:
Q Mixers are 7.5 ounce cans, Fever Tree’s are 150 ml (~ 5 ounces).
Tonio: “I never drink soda (or pop for you heathens out there).”
Coke. Ya ask for what “Coke” they have, and if needed, they’ll respond with “Pepsi, root beer, Sprite, Dr. Pepper…”
Biggest Mason Dixon Line culture clash? Iced tea, automatically sweet in the South. (Bastards. Disgusting, unswallowable. (I s’pose I’m a big spitter, in that regard. On the plus side, I don’t drink properly, so I’m always suck-sucking it down rather than the loose garble of gravity others allow in their quest to waterboard themselves.)
The journalisming on this still isn’t clear but I’m betting that sugar-Coke will be addition to corn-Coke and it will cost more.
Big fan of the hibiscus ginger from Q Mixers.
I’d have thought Q’s mixers wouldn’t be for you.
Roger that Sir!
We get mexicoke here in San Diego, good stuff
How has nobody mentioned the yellow-top cane sugar Coke they make for my wife’s (((people))) at certain times of the year?
I thought about it. However, I wonder if that’s only mostly coastal in distribution.
Flyover (((people))) may have to do without.
I look for it, but I can’t find anyone to go in with me on 2L.
Tri state peeps know what’s up!
*fist bumps Sensi. And Grosspatzer. And Alex. And whoever else I’m forgetting.*
We get yellow top coke in central KY during some times of the year.
That’s made with beet sugar
I get soda here. Except for the birch beer, everything is made with cane sugar. The birch beer uses HFCS. I’ll drink the birch beer anyways.
One of my local breweries also makes good pop, even if they mistakenly call it “soda”. 🙄
Their pineapple ginger beer is a very good mixer.
I liked the TV show over the movie.
Amanda Tapping.
rawr
I could not help but mentally think “Amanda Tapping – that ass!” every time the credits rolled. I was a grown adult at the time, of course.
Not this coast, even at the kosher grocery stores. It’s an individual bottler thing I thing.
I didn’t know she was sold in stores, now I have to look.
Kroger out here.
Nerdy & floppy hair is a weakness of mine…. works for both the movie and TV versions.
Trump wants you dead
Critics say the proposals would put workers at greater risk of harm, with women and members of minority groups bearing a disproportionate impact.
“People are at very great risk of dying on the job already,” Rebecca Reindel, the AFL-CIO union’s occupational safety and health director, said. “This is something that is only going to make the problem worse.”
You know who hardest hit
You’re taking your life in your hands every time you show up for work. All for a few pennies a day.
“with women and members of minority groups bearing a disproportionate impact”
Oh no they did not. How has that not become just a huge joke?
My favorite part is how cuts to regulations at construction sites and mines will lead to a disproportionate effect on women and children. Because there are so many women coal miners, right?
Even the home care worker was offset by working women in favor of the rule changes because it makes affording at home care easier for working women, rather than having to quit their jobs in order to provide said care themselves.
“cuts to regulations at construction sites and mines will lead to a disproportionate effect on women and children”
More widows and orphans, more women forced to take on second jobs while their man is off work… Do you even prog, bro?
Women lose their husbands and sons at war. That’s how they’re hardest hit.
Golden ribbons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lF0uw_pYDU&list=RD2lF0uw_pYDU&start_radio=1
Oh, I know their bullshit justifications. They only make me hate progressivism more.
There’s a whole lotta women mama, out in red on the streets today.
I literally burst out laughing. So yes.
The biggest impact on workers is companies hiring illegals, who have housing and food provided by the government and can therefore be paid less. They also won’t report any accidents for fear of being deported. The AFL-CIO was all over that two years ago right?
“…women and members of minority groups bearing a disproportionate impact” despite women and members of minority groups disproportionately under-represented in the more dangerous jobs.
Logic is apparently something that happens to other people. Probably disproportionately.
Under one of the Labor Department’s proposals, an estimated 3.7 million workers employed by home care agencies could be paid below the federal minimum wage – currently $7.25 per hour
Said proposal having just been recently pulled from a random imbecile’s ass.
Under the new proposal, the Labor Department would rescind a requirement for most employer-provided transportation to have seat belts for those agriculture workers.
It’s genocide, I tells ya.
Hipsters. Back in my day…
Actually my grandparents drank ice coffee. I thought it was awful at that time and still don’t care for it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/19/coffee-giant-nescafe-targets-gen-z-as-consumption-habits-shift.html
I like iced coffee, too many places conflate iced coffee with cold brew coffee (which can be served iced or hot). There’s also been a big uptick in local roasters/coffee shops canning/bottling offerings for local distribution. Some are nitro, others are just standard.
I like hot cold brew.
I hate the ‘nitro’ cold brew trend. Just give it to me straight, I don’t need it extra creamy.
I like iced coffee,
Two at the most.
Three I’m not very stable,
Four I’m fat as the host.
(hot, black coffee for me. anything else is rong)
As a gone-native New Englander, I drink iced coffee year ’round (Nespresso triple shot iced Americano being my standard).
My wife still tells the story of being out in the middle of a serious snow storm, snow blowing sideways, near zero visibility, and seeing a guy in a full parka with two giant iced Dunks walking down the street. Peak New England.
I had no idea that was a New England thing. What the hell is wrong with all y’all?
Do you have to ask, rhywun?
It’s been nice chatting with you all.
A mysterious crypto account bought $54,000 worth of bitcoin in 2011 and sold it all for $9.6 billion this week
Damnit, Coinbase was supposed to give me an alert for any transaction over $1000. Fuckers.
Just off by a wee bit.
I asked Grok if you invested $500 in Bitcoin when it first came out, what would it be worth now? After some qualification of “when it came out” being 2006, the answer was “$60 billion”.
Problem is you’d have to mine for it or solicit coins.
The exchanges didn’t exist for a while. I’m not sure when you could realistically exchange dollars for bitcoin in an easy way.
There’s a part of my that’s very glad that I didn’t get into mining when I first heard of it (I was already using my spare cycles for various things already, at that point I’m pretty sure it was Folding@home, though it may have been SETI’s program at that point). I got to the point of setting up a wallet, and realizing I would need to keep track of something, and thought it would be too much hassle.
I’d either be rich, broke, or permanently pissed at myself for losing access (think of the guy who threw out his wallet, I can see that happening to me).
Same, Neph, same.
Bonus:
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/ssds/a-crypto-wallet-browser-extension-has-been-quietly-wearing-out-users-ssds-at-a-rate-of-5-mb-s-thats-about-500-gb-per-day/
Sigh. I remember looking at BitCoin when it was a novelty at around $20. Bought a few when it was around $800. Sold it all for a decent little profit years ago.
Ah, well. I made a little money. Can’t complain.
Just like when the Gestapo were rounding up dissidents en masse
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert — two of Paramount’s most prominent TV stars — are slamming the network for its decision to axe Colbert’s “The Late Show” amid an ongoing rift with President Donald Trump.
“If you’re trying to figure out why Stephen’s show is ending, I don’t think the answer can be found in some smoking-gun email or phone call from Trump to CBS executives, or in CBS’s QuickBooks spreadsheets on the financial health of late night,” Jon Stewart said during “The Daily Show” on Monday. “I think the answer is in the fear and pre-compliance that is gripping all of America’s institutions at this very moment.”
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“I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump, starting right now,” he said Monday. “I don’t care for him.”
He has just begun to fight.
Pepperidge Farms remembers when Tucker Carlson was taken off the air at Fox, and the Goodthinkful Class cheered.
And of course they lament that he’s become more powerful and with a larger reach than he ever could have attained had he not been axed from Fox.
Colbert will not receive that kind of support.
Does Jon Stewart think the rest of us are idiots? It CAN’T be that the show costs more to produce than the GPD of some countries, while losing 40% of it every year. It MUST be that CBS is scared of Trump and pre-emptively cut him off (almost a year in advance).
Of course none of his assertions are provable, which is just how the left likes it, and he conveniently forgets that it’s almost certainly because of his politics that the show has been able to stay on the air for as long as it has. If he were pro-Trump and losing 40% of their investment every year, he’d have been canned a long time ago (which discounts the idea that he would ever have had a job in the first place).
“Does Jon Stewart think the rest of us are idiots?”
Does a bear sleep at Tonio’s house?
Spoon-feeding DNC talking points to clapping seals was a license to print money for so long that they can’t figure out what happened. Poor things.
Yesterday Taibbi and Kirn showed a clip from Colbert where he went to Russia to “investigate” the pee hookers story, and he just stood in a hotel room and made pee pee jokes. But that was good natured ribbing, nothing like Trump’s vicious attacks.
““The shows that you now seek to cancel, censor and control — a not insignificant portion of that $8 billion value came from those fucking shows,” he said.”
Cancel, censor, and control you say? I may need to call a doctor, my schadenboner shows no signs of going away.
The show that was losing $40 million a year earned $8 billion? And I thought I understood finance.
The late night hosts are banding together because all of their shitty programs are on the chopping block right now. Outside Jon Stewart, none of them have any talent or integrity, anyway.
I do like Stewart calling it “pre-compliance.” So basically there’s nothing to suggest this was done because of Trumpitler.
I like how they always manage to ignore Gutfeld:
It’s not even particularly good (tho Kat’s a hard ‘would’, even with the vaping). Everyone else just sucks.
Nitpick: Gutfeld! is on at 10PM while the other start after 11:30PM.
Yep. A usefully unprovable statement. He can make it all day without fear of being called wrong, because Trump never did anything.
He might as well say that the cancellation was because CBS was afraid of an attack by aliens. Carries the same amount of meaning.
If Colbert has so much of importance to say, and has such a large, devoted following, seems like he would be a natural to set up his own podcast, doesn’t it?
His audience has an average age of 68. Sixty fucking eight. If he can’t make it on over the air TV, that crowd isn’t going to watch him.
Stewart acknowledged that late-night television may be losing money, but said CBS should have tried to “save their number-one rated” franchise, which has added value to the company as a whole.
I’m sure Colbert has offered to work for a dollar, in order to preserve the jobs of his co-worker.
Kurt Russell gets to call everyone a dweeb.
He was Snake Plissken, Jack Burton, McCready, and the best Wyatt Earp.
The nemesis of his cartoon alter ego is a traffic cone named Kyle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md21zcwucSQ
Huzzah!
” throw down boy”
+1 Goldie Hawn.
And he kicked Elvis Presley.
The show that was losing $40 million a year earned $8 billion? And I thought I understood finance.
No no no. CBS is worth $8 billion due to the cumulative social value of all those moneylosing news and social commentary shows. The more you lose, the more you’re worth.
If Stewart is so confident in Colbert’s ability to bring value, perhaps he should convince his network to take him on. Or do it himself. I won’t be holding my breath.
If Colbert is worth a shit, he’ll be able to do at least as well as the various podcasters who all seem to be banking at the moment. But he won’t. Because his commentary isn’t worth a shit.
I prefer to remember Colbert from Strangers With Candy, the peak of his comedy career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oASYa-Wkroc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYKMxp8SqoY
Sha’Uri
Rawr. I clearly have a thing for Jewesses.
Shauri means advice in Swahili.
My favorite Stargate moments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WskWZfFpWNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whfMMfR4KKw
Teach Yourself Hieroglyphics is a real book. I found it in an NSA library.
What a piece of work is man
While the moon has long been the major player in controlling the speed of the Earth’s rotation, one study found that humans are playing a role.
Climate change is melting ice at the poles and sending water down to the equator, slowing the rotation down. The researchers believe that this effect is already lengthening the days.
Some have calculated that in a worst-case scenario, climate change could eventually redistribute water in a way that would make the days milliseconds longer. That would make humans, rather than the moon, the dominant driver of changes to day length.
“We can really become the dominant drivers of Earth’s rotation, due to human-induced climate change,” says lead researcher Benedikt Soja of ETH Zürich, a university in Switzerland. “That was really surprising, and really an interesting revelation to us.”
Behold my power, and tremble.
Yet all the beaches seem to be at the same levels they’ve always been.
Funny that.
No you all have to pay for my beaches here.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/nj-beach-replenishment-federal-funding-20250721.html
+1 The Butterfly That Stamped
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_that_Stamped
***
One day, when walking in his forest, Suleiman bin Daoud stumbles upon two butterflies arguing. The male butterfly tells his wife he could stamp his foot and the huge palace garden would disappear in a bid to control her because she is quarreling with him, and as he tells the king “you know how women are.” Suleiman bin Daoud finds the claim amusing and calls the butterfly over. After asking the butterfly why he lied, he tells the butterfly that if he has to, he will help him.
Meanwhile, Balkis has a talk with the butterfly’s wife, who says she is only pretending to agree with him, because “you know how men are.” Balkis tells her she should dare her husband to stamp his foot, as he must be lying, and then she can argue with him again. Really, she is hoping the disappearance of the palace will shock the other wives into obedience.
***
Wait until the Unions find out their workers are putting in extra milliseconds without compensation!
Some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.
But like I’ve said, you can Google pretty much anything under the sun and global warming and some schmuck has made the connection.
Wow.
Actual footage from Benedikt’s laboratory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSrPlf4GBHc
If Colbert is worth a shit, he’ll be able to do at least as well as the various podcasters who all seem to be banking at the moment. But he won’t. Because his commentary isn’t worth a shit.
NBC and ABC are currently in a bidding war over him, right?
There are at least 100 comedians in Chicago who are as funny as Colbert and do the job for way less money.
can we set higher standards and have someone who’s actually funny instead?
Not if the commentary must be liberal, anti-Trump messaging.
Question:
Has Chuck Grassley offered up any comments on Trump’s sudden preference for cane sugar over corn syrup?
Stargate, the film, was a big childhood hit for me.
It’s silly, in many ways, but I found on rewatch it’s still got an idea to it. It ain’t perfect, for plot holes and more, but I consider it an A- of a flick. (Gentleman’s Effort advantage and nostalgia push it to low-A territory.) Good idea and pretty well-executed, with its style trumping its many flaws. Love it. (And her. I’ll learn her vowels right quick.)
I’ve never seen an ep of the show.
Venezuela has launched an investigation into the role El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his senior officials played in the alleged torture of 252 migrants who were detained in the Central American country after being deported from the United States.
And they’ll do what? Send a strongly worded letter?
Were these, by chance, migrants that Venezuela refused to take back, and so were sent to El Salvador in its stead?
Not by chance, no.
Lololol
Of course not.