Training camps are underway. The Browns revealed their alternate helmet, and should be ashamed of themselves. Although I wills ay it’s better looking than the Steelers alternate uniforms. Texas A&M’s mascot has surgery to remove an eye. Don’t worry, it’s the dog, not one of the ice cream man-looking goobers. It’s Spa weekend in F1. Which is always awesome. And that’s it for sports.
I bet he’ll sleep well tonight. Good for him.
6-3, as usual. I’m gonna read the dissent later, as I haven’t seen anything hilariously stupid in a while.
This is nonsense. Because other companies are free to run their businesses and accept cash. Competition is what protects the working class, not government intervention.
Yeah, no shit. Anybody with a pair of eyes and access to a history book could have told you this.
“How do you do, fellow football fans.” I assume a staffer is gonna get fired.
Please, God, make this happen. It might be the greatest podcast ever.
If they’re so proud, they can spend their own money. That shouldn’t be too hard a concept for them to grasp.
It’s an honest mistake. I say let him go.
How are they gonna enforce it? We need to just leave for good and start collecting a massive amount of reparations from all the money we wasted there.
This ties in nicely with the last link. Fucking idiot scumbags.
Loved these guys. They deserved more success in the US. At least in my opinion. Anyway, enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
No pics of the helmet?
There should be a video there that shows its release, which was the funny/pathetic part of the story.
Dark brown helmet, black stripe down the center flanked by orange stripes. Decent look, my first glance at it had the brown dark enough to look black, which irritated me (the Browns are the only AFC North team to not have black as a color). They’re only breaking them out for three home games.
https://www.si.com/onsi/athlete-lifestyle/news/cleveland-browns-epic-fail-new-helmet-feels-staged-based-on-video-evidence
Sensei:
Yeah, it was obviously staged. The first I heard of the lakefront helmet reveal was from the videos of the fail. I got notices about video releases from the Browns when they released the clip and color scheme online. But the other flubs in the story were not staged (well, one was a staging fail).
Allowing the Browns front office to handle something is staging a fail. (Bengals as well) Completely predictable outcomes are staged outcomes even if not scripted.
It is awful when teams do black uniforms without any black in their color scheme (49ers, Eagles, Cardinals, Lions, Jets, Commies)
You know what worse than the “blackout” uniform?
https://thecount.com/wp-content/uploads/seattle-Seahawks-neon-green-uniforms-1.jpg
They look like they are going to fix roads after the game.
I think I just damaged my retinas. 😖
If it’s Brown, flush it down!
Bobarian LMD:
Did you see the sponsor of the new uniforms?
Dude Wipes. Yes, asswipes for men. There are signs up all around the stadium and on the website about how “Dude Wipes loves your Browns”.
JFC they just can’t help themselves.
“Journalism” 🙄
We haven’t reached the “It’s good that it happened” stage.
If they have to keep repeating it, then they know it isn’t working.
This. Half the country isn’t buying 2020. Maybe that’s what Team Donald should be investigating more than crooks like Obama and Hilary and all their minions whom everyone knows will never be punished.
Obama has the same Executive immunity that Trump has. He ain’t going to prison, but the truth will obliterate his legacy (save for the truest of true believers).
Brennan and Comey do not have “get out of jail free” cards. Nor do any of the redacted names that Gabbard hid from us.
But how will we attract Top Men to run our shadow government if they can be prosecuted for every little case of perjury, election fraud, or illegal surveillance?
I think the problem 2020 is systemic, in that it was done in a way that really isn’t conductive to investigations and prosecutions.
It was done through the use of mail in ballots that were flooded into the blue areas, and not by being sent directly to a specific registered voter. This gave a shit-ton of opportunities to vote multiple times for Biden, and not as much opportunity to vote for Trump, and generally left no trail. Even if a ballot was sent to a non-existent address, you couldn’t tell if that ballot had been used.
And this is how the election was rigged, in my opinion.
And it worked, one time. Once you’ve seen the trick, you aren’t fooled the next time.
Except the numbers are fed into computers. At which point none of it can be trusted.
Our system is such that the only way to catch a bogus ballot is at the point of entry. Mail-in balloting makes this a lot easier to defeat, and because the ballot is blind from that point, the only thing that can be challenged is the counting.
There needs to be a forensic sampling process that checks the whole voter to count chain randomly throughout any possible path of voting.
And absentee/mail-in needs onerous accountability restrictions.
“And absentee/mail-in needs onerous accountability restrictions.”
I think a ban on mailing ballots out would be much simpler and more effective. You want an absentee ballot? Pick it up in person. You want to mail your ballot in? Pick it up in person. Exactly the same requirements and process as picking up your ballot at the polls.
And cut way back on early voting at the polls, as well. One day is probably not possible any more, so cut it back to three – Sunday, Monday, and Election Day Tuesday.
Still no good explanation as to how Biden somehow got 10 million more votes than Obama and Hillary, and how those 10 million extra votes just vanished in 2024.
Obama got ~4M less votes in his re-election campaign, yet there is no discussion of his 2008 win being illegitimate. Hillary matched his 2012 count, but lost where it counted. Biden gained 15M votes over those two, but Harris didn’t lose some 10M, it was 6M.
Meanwhile Trump gained more in 2020 (over 2016) – ~12M votes – then he did in 2024 over 2020 (adding ~3M).
The electoral counts, which of course are the ONLY ONEs that matter:
2012: 332 / 206
2016: 304 / 227
2020: 306 / 232
2024: 312 / 226
Even Obama’s EC victory in 2008 didn’t match Clinton’s re-election in ’96.
That’s just malarkey.
Yeah, it’s almost like candidates matter, with two glaring exceptions.
Mail in ballots.
I wondered what happened to him this last week.
The talking heads arnt playing his radio adds anymore.
““It’s a great day for our country,” a jubilant Lindell said in an interview. “This is a big win. It opens the door to getting rid of these electronic voting machines and getting paper ballots, hand-counted.””
I wish that were true.
Paper ballots being counted electronically and then hand recounted only if necessary *shouldn’t* be an issue.
Ironically, I think one of the problems is how the US votes for so many offices on one day.
I recall general elections in California including offices down to sanitation district board … then add the state, county, and local initiatives.
That’s how it works in Mass – scantron ballots, basically.
That said, you don’t get a confirmation of your vote when it’s scanned, so that could be better.
The scantron machine here has a counter that goes up by 1 when a ballot goes through it.
Back in 2022 I noticed that the number on it was lower than the number I was given when I signed in, due to people screwing up their ballot and requesting a new one.
I couldn’t help but think the sign-in number could be tied to the collated paper ballots.
It isn’t so much electronic voting, it is centralized counting. If everything was handled at the precinct level the way it used to be, than this would not be an issue. But with so many ballots being sent to one location for counting, the points of failure and chances for mischief go up.
“Sorry, no ballots from [rival party stronghold] ever arrived.”
This would just lead to Urban precincts reporting fake votes after kicking out Republican poll watchers for felonies like not wearing a clown mask.
Where does he get the gall.
Chief executive wants to govern like the chief executive.
The horror, the horror…
Last Thursday, a judge blocked plans for a massive new Costco to open in the city of Fresno, which was once slated to be the company’s largest location in the world, Fresnoland reported. Judge Jonathan Skiles ruled that the project can’t receive approval until the city is in compliance with climate change and zoning regulations.
There goes the incentive for people from Bakersfield to take the train to Fresno.
There’s always the incentive to simply get out of Bakersfield.
Sadly, it’s counteracted by the realization that you’re gonna end up in Fresno.
Bakersfield?
Adam Carolla pronounces it as “Fres-nooo!”
I always liked Fresno. I grew up on the coast, and I would rather go to Fresno than my hometown. The level of pretension was too great.
Streets of Bakersfield – Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0PNW4DXwJ0
I thought the fast-choo-choo bypassed Fresno, for Merced.
Fresno’s loaded, right? Just throw some millions at klimate justice indulgences.
Ahhhh so the climate nonsense is really just a front for the real griefing.
The left now hates Costco.
I suspect I’ll be too busy later to do so — but my gut says “Congress is allowed to set up agencies that write their own regulations, have their own enforcement and are outside of the purview of the Executive… because we want it to happen.” or somesuch.
Warren’s multiple attempts at setting up her own little fiefdoms / commissars has been, continues to be and will always be unconstitutional and ridiculous to me. I’m sure the crop of Democratic Socialists waiting to move in will do even worse (at least Warren tends to try to cover things with a fig leaf…)
This was the group who was going to enact regulations with the force of law that restricted the nationwide use of gas stoves.
The whole agency should be chucked on a pyre for that alone.
Preferably a gas fired one.
Huzzah Ron! That’s how you do a sick burn.
The left thrives on chaos and violence. The situation in schools is exactly as planned.
This
Are there stores that don’t take cash?
Yes.
Such as? I’ve never been in one.
I was somewhere in Utah at the time.
Visiting your Canadian girlfriend?
I have encountered this, amusingly enough it was in a National Park so it was the federal government refusing to accept cash.
It’s not common, but it’s not uncommon around here. Usually there will be a sign right at the entrance and by the registers. It’s interesting that this trend is going at the same time as reports of Millenials and Gen Zers breaking with bar etiquette by closing out their tabs after each drink (or worse, opening a tab, getting the card back, and locking the card after leaving the bar).
What is the problem with closing the tab after each drink? Is it just the extra work for the staff to run it for each one?
In some cases, and frequently in food and beverage, the discount rate the establishment pays for processing varies based on average ticket size.
robc:
Yes, it’s the extra work and paperwork (if there’s paper receipts). It also slows down the process of ordering. In the case of cash, you get the number, you can drop it (plus tip, if you’re too poor to tip, you’re too poor to drink at a bar) and walk away. Keeping a tab open, confirm the name, and walk away. Can’t do that with a tab you’re closing after each order.
robc: e-mail sent to the account associated with your Glibs user name.
Why would they do that?
I suppose I should say that this was true. I haven’t been in that world for 25 years at this point, but when I was the difference could be significant.
Yes. During Covid a number of stores in Portland stopped taking it, and moved to electronic methods only. This was supposed to prevent the spread, but they haven’t changed back.
The issue is that US currency is good for all debts, and so should be treated as such. I have to agree with Fetterlump here.
Shopping doesn’t create a debt.
#metoo and for the same reason.
I’ve seen a lot of “pop-up” shops – usually food – that only take cards. It’s gotta be great for them cuz cash is a pain the ass to deal with. But it still ain’t right.
Muji opened that way to speed transactions, but has changed to accepting cash. Legislature passed a bill in 2022 requiring most businesses to accept cash as well.
The only cashless stores I’ve encountered are in cashless stadiums and amusement parks.
Rat, Silverwood here in Idaho went cashless a few years ago. I think it was due to the theft. Not sure their stated reason though.
Mostly restaurants around here that are cashless. They usually post it, but one place didn’t and then we got into it verbally when I refused to give them a card. They finally accepted my cash “gratuity” for the food. As far as debt, yes, you ordered a meal and are now indebted to pay for it once it’s prepared. They should be taking cash. I don’t think the gov’t should be involved, I just vote with my feet.
I e been to a few restaurants, also had a forced 18.5% tip.
well, they just lost 2-8% from me. I tend to tip higher than that if not forced. If forced, don’t expect extra gratuity.
I know an attorney who is currently in suit against the Feds over their refusal to accept US legal tender at national parks.
This started under Biden (surprise!) where national parks decided they would no longer take cash for entrance – card only: to “stop the spread.”
This other attorney went looking for people who were turned away at a national park by staff refusing to take US currency for payment.
I don’t know what happened to that suit, but I don’t see how the feds can win (other then the FYTW clause).
+3% service fee at the parks.
The Indy 500 is completely cashless now. I believe the theory for them is that it is safer than each concession bringing gobs of cash back to the central office after the race (from temp employees). Also, less opportunity for those temp employees to skim the till.
I’ve been to several in Western Washington. Usually coffee shops and restaurants that are one level above fast food (sandwich shops etc).
I am on the require businesses to take cash side. It is legal tender issued by the government. I’m sorry it is a hassle. Tough shit.
Since when?
Brutus Buckeye is just a plant, can’t expect him to know dog breeds.
A border collie would score too highly on the ACT to get into TAMU.
I didn’t write the piece. Those idiots at ESPN mistook the Rough Collie for a border collie, not me.
Oh, I know, I was quoting the article, not you.
This is just example N+1 of Murray Gell-Man’s insight.
He’s breedfluid.
The son of privilege. Jus’ folks.
Just… wow. Peak Atlantic.
They mean he curses a lot and uses course language.
Yet they love Colbert telling Trump to fuck himself.
And does drugs
Straight from the syllabus?
“It might be the greatest podcast ever.”
That would be getting Charleston White on The Roseanne Barr Podcast.
Off Topic – Why would you give AI Production access?
You shouldn’t even give most Developers production access. Rolling a change to rpoduction should happen only after extensive QA and UAT steps have verified that it works as intended. Then it’s done by a handful of people in conditions which allow rollback.
Let me guess, almost nobody actually follows change control best practices.
And the fact that the system lied tells me you should pull the power plug on it, shred the hard drives and shoot the people who wrote it’s code.
We’ll be at HAL 9000 soon.
Meanwhile at my company the AI training I just took is all about woke bullshit. No mention of it maybe taking down the company.
That was my reaction when I saw that. That was 100% human error: no backups and letting a known, flawed LLM have direct production access.
AI won’t fix stupid.
Welp, there’s your stupid all wrapped up nice and neat. Tell me Justice – what clause of the Constitution establishes agencies independent of the Executive branch?
Oh, Kagan wrote the dissent? Shit. It will be written like a toddler whining instead of the submoronic screeching I’d anticipated from a KBJ dissent.
Thanks for saving me the time.
“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” The whole thing, not such parts as Congress shall deem proper to vest in the President. Congress has the whole legislative power, and none of the executive and vice versa. It’s what separation of powers means.
And Progressives have HATED the separation of power from the get-go; it inhibits the Top Men from just doing what they know the people need.
Sadly, they’ve been all too fucking successful in dissolving those boundaries.
They hate the separation of powers, but, as a ton of them come from academia, they are used to dual-governance, and think it should be applied everywhere.
That being article is as big a fail as the browns. I still have no idea what the new helmet looks like.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/columnist/nate-davis/2025/07/23/browns-new-helmets-offseason-headlines/85347384007/
There’s video in this incredibly accurate story.
You’re right to a point… I’m more than a little touchy on the “locking people into digital only transactions” after the pandemic, the Canadian truckers — and the very recent “payment processors get to tell Steam to delist games because one group in Australia complained” type thing. There’s a lot of government regulation that precludes competition in the banking / payment services spaces… and sure, you can find cash options (hopefully) for stuff like lunch or local… but:
1) It is going to get harder as I expect the youth and beyond will carry less and less cash [these are the people that think tapping your phone to pay is cool after all]
and
2) There’s ever present pressure to categorize and either monetize or track everyone’s commerce (targeted ads, “for the children!”,
NatSoc“national security”), etc… so I expect it to be less and less viable going forward either due to economic disincentives (making it harder to work in cash) or pure legal fare (state regs / laws mandating such tracking).I think it sucks. I’d love to see the banking regs pulled back down several notches so they aren’t agents of the IC and so the barrier to entry wasn’t stupid… I don’t think any of that will happen.
Sorry for the rant… the Steam thing re-awakened my pandemic era concerns about banks deciding I’m a “wrong thinker” and all… so I’m touchy on this subject, I expect.
Oh yeah.. forgot to include all the “guns are bad… mmm’kay?” tracking / de-banking attempts over the last few years too… these assholes have clearly shown they want to use this power… hence my concern about them accumulating it.
If public accommodation laws are to be tolerated (despite their unconstitional violation of freedom of association) then payment processors should be regarded as a public accommodation and forbidden from discriminating against any lawful transaction or customer. With penalties that hurt both the company and the officers personally.
I like this thought.
Yup… either enforced neutrality towards transactions — or lower the bar so folks who are okay with different transactions can get into the market. One or the other, not “few companies all listening to their HR departments and the most restrictive set of “government approved transactions” across the globe” that we’re looking at now.
Yep
“This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private”.
I think government can require businesses to accept cash, but more importantly, can’t require businesses *not* to accept cash.
I don’t think that would apply. A purchase isn’t a debt, as the buyer does not have possession of the item they are trying to purchase until the transaction is completed.
“You can accept cash — but must also fill out these 30 pages of paperwork to properly categorize every transaction… or the terrorists/sex traffickers/naught folks will WIN!
Or you can just do digital only and set the metadata based on our State DataBase field guidelines, Citizen!”
Taiwan set up a lottery to encourage proper tracking of transactions (so they can get their tax take)
https://taiwanderers.com/taiwan-receipt-lottery-guide/
My understanding of the way around this is that no debt is incurred until after the transaction is complete. I believe it was airlines going cashless for in flight purchases that got it to the courts.
You guys are confusing the applicability of current law with the authority to pass a new one. The notes are legal tender for all debts under current law. Fetterman is proposing a new law. The Federal Reserve Act doesn’t set a limit on Congress’ ability to pass a new act.
The Federal Reserve Act doesn’t set a limit on Congress’ ability to pass a new act.
I find it hard to believe a law compelling people who transact business to accept specific forms of payment would be constitutional. If they can do that, they could also ban specific forms of payment, which would likely violate free association.
Free association has been dead for decades.
see my comment immediately below:
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures
I think the power to regulate the value of the currency includes the power to require that it be accepted. I also don’t see a principled difference between them having the authority to pass the existing law requiring it to be accepted for private debts which you seem to recognize as valid above, and requiring it to be accepted for direct exchanges via a new law.
I think “regulate the value” actually means setting the value to some standard, such as “one dollar is equal to 1/32 oz. of gold”. I really don’t see where that includes forcing people to accept it.
Of course gold is traded as denominated in dollars, so there’s nothing circular there!
I think their right to “regulate the value thereof” has been completed when they print the dollar amount on the bill.
Otherwise, they’d have carte blanche to just say “any bill printed prior to 2023 is now worth half its printed value?”
I think “regulate the value” actually means setting the value to some standard, such as “one dollar is equal to 1/32 oz. of gold”. I really don’t see where that includes forcing people to accept it.
It has been construed much more broadly by the Court:
Here’s a decent summary of the case law.
It has been construed much more broadly by the Court:
Well, the court just likes to construe things that they want, and then try to rationalize their way into it, even if it means changing the actual meaning of words, as in Wickard and Kelo.
A business that refuses cash sets the value at nil. Congress gets to decide if that is the case, not individuals, who must accept it for all debts. Ordering lunch, a new car, or deciding on a pair of pants at checkout are all assumptions of debt; I want this, therefor I can be billed for it. You aren’t billed beforehand.
While that is definitely true, in this case the broad understanding of the power dates back to almost the beginning. This clause was the justification for the establishment of the Bank of the United States.
How about a sit down restaurant? You sit down, you eat, then you get the check. That has now become a debt. Around here, that’s who has gone cashless. I almost never pay for nights out with a card. Especially, if I’m having a couple drinks with my meal.
Around here, that’s who has gone cashless.
Really? Where I live all the restaurants add on 2.5-3.5% to your bill if you use a card instead of cash, on account of credit card swipe fees.
This isn’t either or, WTF.
They require the card and then still stick you for the fee – whether it’s built into the price or itemized separately at the bottom.
My principled minarchist position is that the government should stay out of this sort of thing. That said, refusing to accept cash is an abomination and I think a constitutionalist argument can be made that Article 1, Section 8 gives Congress this power.
“To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;”
Requiring that businesses accept it seems to fall within the power of regulating the Value.
If you allow and even encourage vendors to not accept currency, then we are in a digital currency world. Period.
It doesn’t have to be called US E-Coin.
Nah, he lost the race; he can do the time. Next time maybe he’ll try harder!
“But all of those plans have ground to a halt, as Judge Skiles sided with a group of Fresno residents who sued the city in May 2024 over alleged zoning and environmental issues with the store, saying the project violated the California Environmental Quality Act. Skiles found that the city’s environmental review of the Costco project relied on a 2021 climate action plan that had been ruled invalid by a judge last year. The city of Fresno has to create a valid climate plan to approve any major developments.”
Do they sell woodchippers at Costco?
“Sorry, but that commifornia law is unconsitutional as it usurps the federal commerce clause powers.”
On the other hand, if that is in fact the law in Fresno (under local ordinance) or the state – then they can all live by it. Until they are digging for grubs to take back to the cave. Truth is the place can’t go to hell fast enough, even with the morons living there and electing the fools to lead them.
Judge Skiles contains chemicals known by the State of California to cause cancer.
Surely you meant sacked, fellow football fan?
‘destroy the independence of an independent agency, as established by Congress.”
Is it really constitutional to have ‘independent’ agencies operating out of the executive?
I don’t see how the judicial or legislative branches would allow anything like that to happen to them.
[cough] administrative judges [cough]
And the legislative branch outsources as much of the “rule-making” as they possibly can.
I’d assume “Have lawsuits forcing government policies in countries that are beholden to those assholes” and “Have more lawsuits citing this ruling as ‘precedent’ in countries which aren’t technically beholden but have judges willing to “Look outside the domestic juris prudence” (or whatever that phrase was… RBG, I think?)”. I’m sure the Washington case lawyers are writing their briefs as we speak.
“The attorney general – who has been under siege over the Epstein files – was scheduled to appear at CPAC’s Summit Against Human Trafficking when a speaker at the event made the stunning announcement.
‘I do have a note from the attorney general, from Attorney General Pam Bondi, that I wanted to share,’ Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti said.
He then read her statement aloud: ‘I’m sorry to miss all of my CPAC friends today…’
‘Unfortunately, I am recovering from a recently torn cornea, which is preventing me from being with you. I truly wish I was able to join you and support all of the work being done on this critical issue.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14934851/Pam-Bondi-sidelined-sudden-medical-condition-bombshell-report-claims-AG-told-Trump-Epstein-files.html
So what are you implying here?
So what are you implying here?
That Pam Bondi is a border collie.
Don’t you mean a Rough Collie?
“What’s the difference?”
-ESPN
I thought they were both breeds of Pit Bull.
You’re thinking of the Glock-47.
Didn’t her mother warn her about going blind if she didn’t stop?
Was her cornea torn because she got smacked in the back of the head?
Bongino poked her in the eye
apropos Judge denies DOJ request to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury transcripts in Florida
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/judge-denies-doj-request-unseal-jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-florida/6345927/
I really want to know how the publishers justify these economics. What PACs and dark money are going to buy these books by the pallet load to justify this kind of spend? Is it simply a way to buy influence with DNC itself?
Biden Sells Memoir for Roughly $10 Million, Less Than Obama and Clinton
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/biden-sells-memoir-for-roughly-10-million-less-than-obama-and-clinton-1e124dc0?st=taoRNW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Of course it sold for less, he remembers less.
Prepping for Hunter’s political career?
You think he is going to take a crack at it?
I don’t know, his Free Base is pretty small.
Is there no other Biden in the pipe[line]? There’s always another Kennedy it seems.
Finnegan might try again.
George P. Bush could be our first Latinx president!
*Mass narrowed gaze*
Yes. Yet another money laundering operation financing Dems.
This one is bipartisan. Team Red creates the barely read memoirs as well.
Certainly. I have to wonder how successful it is for them. There is like, what, one publisher on their side versus every other publisher on the other side.
Be careful. Selling more books than are printed has raised red flags before.
“Senior administration officials claimed that Attorney General Bondi told Trump during a May 2025 meeting that his name was found in the Epstein documents more than previously thought, among hundreds of other high-profile individuals.
The files contained ‘unverified hearsay’ about Trump and the individuals who had social connections to Epstein, the officials claim.”
Claims from unnamed officials about unverified hearsay?
Claims from unnamed officials about unverified hearsay?
More than enough for Dems and the MSM (but I repeat myself) to scream this is proof Trump was engaging in pedophilia on Epstein Island.
More than enough evidence to smear a lot of people then, right?
Well, they are familiar with his thinking.
McDonald’s to Test ‘Dirty Sodas’ and Flavored Cold Brews to Cash In on Drinks Craze
Burger giant aims to edge into cold brews, refreshers and other iced drinks that have driven sales for other fast-food chains
Yum! HFC and all kinds of processed fats plus colorings. MAHA!
https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/mcdonalds-to-test-dirty-sodas-and-flavored-cold-brews-to-cash-in-on-drinks-craze-6c3e0716?st=RfS8vR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“A woman who accused two luxury real estate agent brothers of rape continued to send the twins sexually explicit messages and invited herself to social events for over a year after the alleged attack, a shocking court document claims.
Real estate mogul twins Alon and Oren Alexander, both 36, were accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting Kate Whiteman, a New York woman who alleged last year that the brothers raped her at a castle-style mansion in the Hamptons in 2012.
Her claim triggered a wave of subsequent allegations from dozens of other women, and the brothers were arrested in June 2024 and remain in custody in New York. They have maintained their innocence.”
https://archive.is/QPEf9
Do any of these allegations ever turn out to be true? Why hasn’t this been thrown out of court?
BELIEVE WOMEN!!!!!
#believenowomen
Women are far more susceptible than men to social contagion and groupthink, which is why multiple women piling on to an accusation doesn’t lend any additional credence to the accusation. If the number of women making an accusation against someone was a valid indicator of truth, then we would have to accept that the women hanged as witches in Salem really were witches because they were accused of witchcraft by a dozen girls.
I think you read my comment as sarcastic. It wasn’t. It was at best wry. I have become quite jaded about rape allegations in general, and at this point basically don’t believe any allegation made more than a year after the ‘event’.
Jarflax, I think we agree entirely on this.
@ WTF:
There’s that aspect, and there’s also the game theory of it: If a woman jumps on a bandwagon of rape accusations, it has a chance of getting her a big payout and virtually no chance of consequence even if the whole thing turns out to be a blatant fabrication. The only thing it costs is some time going to the station giving statements. It’s an incredibly cheap lottery ticket for those who have already bypassed their conscience.
Does the name E. Jean Carroll ring any bells?
You mean the stunning and brave rape survivor who was raped by Orange Man?
Sorry NA, I can’t do “stunning and brave”, best I can offer is hideous and insane. Do we have a deal?
My favorite part was when she told Anderson Cooper that rape is sexy.
Rape fantasies are so common among women (and not unusual among men) that it barely counts as a kink.
My favorite part was the judge declaring Trump a rapist but not under the legal definition.
Most people indulge their rape fantasies at home. Having them in court adds kinkiness.
“shocking”
If there ever was a product that I thought would have consistent demand…
MAHA strikes again!
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/lamb-weston-revenue-rises-as-restructuring-underway-5cfc3e47?st=MKFkNi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They pulled back from retail sales a couple of years ago. Too bad as it was better than OreIda. Probably still private label.
“House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, R-Ark., is confirming that Russia gathered dirt on Hillary Clinton worthy of a hard rock song — including tranquilizers, mood swings and outbursts — but withheld it during the 2016 election in hopes of using it against her if she were elected president.
“The fact is, there was never an association with Russia” and Donald Trump, Crawford said Wednesday on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “What this document shows is that, if anything, they had a preference for a President Hillary Clinton, because they had information on her that they could exploit after the fact.
“They were counting on a President Hillary Clinton, and then they would have her over a barrel because of the information that they had on her,” he added.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/house-intel-chair-spills-beans-russia-had-dirt-hillary-clinton-use-if-she-became
Who knows?
I know. What Putin wanted was divisiveness in the US polity. Every one who jumped in on the Drumph is a Nazi is guilty of furthering Putin’s aims. A US where 80 plus percent think the election was legit (regardless of results) is a bigger problem for him than one where half the country thinks the other half are straight up evil.
There’s plenty of good reasons to hate Trump and to hate Hillary. The fanning of hate between voting groups is his aim.
That’s different from blackmail.
The Russians had all sorts of dirt on Trump too, but everyone else on Earth also had that dirt and his voting base didn’t seem to care about his tawdry activities.
That’s the primary danger of running swallows* – the mark will likely not give a fuck, and all you’ve done is given him an evening to remember.
* – ‘Swallows’ are attractive young men and women who are employed by intelligence agencies to do disgusting things with their marks and record the depravity for future compromise and/or blackmail.
While sexy times have been used in intelligence work to good effect (Operation Creek is a great example – the SOE ensured that their target would be manned by only a skeleton crew, by hiring every prostitute in Mormugão to attend a party for the German naval staff), it’s generally an unreliable practice and a sign of someone who’s read too much Tom Clancy.
UK vehicle making hits lowest level since 1953
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5vglq04zeo
A step forward for the climate!
Certainly a step forward for reliability.
Makes me sad. I remember all the Top Gears that celebrated old British cars. They spared no punches on them either. It’s a lost industry.
That article points out the problem. Even more government interference in an already depressed market will murder it entirely.
MAKE AUTOMOBILES DANGEROUS AGAIN!!!
Making cars is dirty. Let China do it.
“French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron on Wednesday filed a defamation lawsuit against conservative podcast host Candace Owens, after she claimed France’s first lady was actually born a man.
The 22-count lawsuit, filed in Delaware, does not specify a damages amount, but comes after Owens reportedly claimed Brigitte Macron was born male, stole someone’s identity and transitioned to a woman. The Macrons have strongly denied the accusations and demanded Owens retract the statements, which were reportedly denied.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/frances-macron-sues-candace-owens-defamation-over-claims-brigitte-macron
Brigitte Macron could just get a medical test, but she refuses to do that.
Not sure about the rules in France, but the Macrons are about to find out about the joys of discovery in a US legal action.
Or Owens could actually put forth evidence herself, since she is the one making the claim. If she has proof of the truth of it, then her defense is golden.
Of all the things to criticize gay Napoleon over, why does she focus on the fact that his wife is old and ugly and therefore probably a granny tranny.
I have a strong feeling she was just flapping her gums and has no evidence whatsoever.
I’m not sure Candace Owens knows what evidence means. Hasn’t she decided we faked the moon landings?
She did put forth evidence herself.
I think it’s safe to say that Owens has pretty much lost her mind at this point.
Wait. There are people who think we didn’t fake it?
She has like a 6 part series breaking down the conspiracy theory.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPW2eH9z9CUvJ0Iiv9AQqq2RVAWFFfNZR&si=g9-qGV-He70FvVM2
Yes, the flat earthers have become common, but not quite universal yet.
lol Hours and hours. JFC some people like to hear themselves talk.
I think I would prefer the one-paragraph version, if it exists.
Why doesn’t someone ask them why being trans is so bad that being called one is defamatory ?
Let them squirm in their progressivism.
This is the way.
That is a good one, get them on record under oath explaining how being called trans is harmful to her reputation.
That was Buck Angel’s take.
Although he got the doctor thrown out of a window thing wrong. That was fake news.
This is one of those stories where everyone involved is an asshole. They are going to court, right? So they will all be in the same room at the same time, right?
What a golden opportunity that will be.
Apparently they haven’t heard of Le Striesand Effect in France.
“”We found out in our investigations over the months that I’ve been here, that the CCP, operating out of the embassy in Washington, D.C. … were meeting regularly with VOA management to tell them how they should be covering China,” Lake said Tuesday night in a wide-ranging interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show.
Lake said the coverage was skewed to portray the country in a positive light, and that at least one VOA official with the Mandarin language division had pledged his support for the CCP at one of the meetings.
“I mean, you can’t make this stuff up. It’s so crazy. But then over the years, it got more brazen, and I understand that VOA management, some of them, actually went over to China and met with CCP officials there,” she said.”
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/kari-lake-says-chinese-officials-told-voa-how-cover-their-country
So no worse than CNN?
CNN doesn’t need to be encouraged to lick the boot?
I would be shocked if they have anyone there not in full support of the CCP.
😣
I thought I’d lost my pocket knife. Turns out it was on my desk the whole time – hiding below the power plug for the monitor.
Next to an ink pen and a single sock?
no, AAA batteries and a pocket watch
Apparently you have stumbled upon the hozone.
This means I now have a shedload knives that I know about within arm’s reach.
This pocket knivf, two utility folding knives, a multitool, a swiss army knife, two paring knives (why are they in the living room?), and the EDC knife I forged myself. This doesn’t count the 100+ Xacto blades I have on the shelf because the’re just the blades, nor does it count the box of disposable scalpels, nor the butter knives that really should get put away (they’re new, and clean, I bought them recently) Why do I have so many cutting implements in this one specific spot ion my house??
🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
Sounds like you need a sword to round things out. You’re too focused on the up close work.
I have a piece of metal I want to make into a shortsword, then work on making longer blades.
“Guns for show. Knives for a pro.”
You are organized?
No, RJ, I am anything but organized.
Ten thousand Brits have collective conniption.
I try to make fun of your typo and forget to close the tag properly.
HAPL edit fairy!
The edit fairy can’t help unless the edit fairy also fixes the original typo.
They both stay!
Fair enough.
The important thing is I can carry my bikes at any time. No need to worry about anybody else.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1lkog8o/oc_almost_ran_into_the_shin_destroyer_9000/
Ugh, what a jackass. I also hate people who leave 4-6 feet in front of their cars as they cannot pull at the way in for reasons.
In our downtown area there are some diagonal parking spots, and they became a problem in the early 2000s when trucks started getting fucking gigantic for some reason. Sometimes they’re sticking 1/3 of the way into the lane and people either have to change lanes or get dangerously close in order to drive past.
It takes a lot for me to wish for government involvement, believe me, but they should start writing tickets for that. It’s making the road unsafe. If you want to own a truck that size, that’s your choice, but find side street parking or cough up a quarter for one of the parking lots.
Public parking is public parking.
The city is responsible for the design of public parking, not the owners of vehicles.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Heaven 17 was a real band. They are mentioned in the record store scene in the movie “A Clockwork Orange” (don’t remember if in the book).
+1 Steely Dan!
I remember “Temptation” being in a good movie. Was it Trainspotting? It seems like that would have been a good fit.
Yeah, in the bar scene where Rent Boy meets Diane while he’s clean.
Lots of bands got their names from movies.
Black Sabbath took their name from the giallo film.
In Peter Hook’s book about New Order, he says he was often in charge of naming the songs and albums. I remember “Power, Corruption, and Lies” was taken from a review on the back of a copy of “1984” which he was reading at the time.
Nice. It does support the thing I have noticed where most of their songs have titles that don’t appear anywhere in the lyrics.
“As of September 2016, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) had Democratic National Committee (DNC) information that President Obama and party leaders found the state of Secretary Clinton’s health to be “extraordinarily alarming” and felt it could have “serious negative impact” on her election prospects. Her health information was being kept in “strictest secrecy” and even close advisors were not being fully informed….
The SVR also had information that Clinton suffered from “Type 2 diabetes, congestive heart disease, deep vein thrombosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.””
https://100percentfedup.com/bombshell-new-declass-reveals-hillary-clinton-had-intensified/
But she had 10,000 emails about doing yoga.
The health of her meat-sack, not the malevolent entity that runs it.
It seemed to make sense at the time. What with the economy and gas prices and all.
https://insideevs.com/news/766807/hummer-ev-170000-dollars-owed/
If you are $170,000 upside down in car debt walk.
Well, the dealer was willing to give him like $80k so he’s only $90k in the hole!
Oh, in that case he should consider the new Aston EV coming out next year! I mean an all electric British car sounds awesome! Lucas Smoke included!
No (((Jarflax, the smoke is subscription only.
“Hummer EV”
Straight to jail!
^^ This
What a dumbass.*
*applies to every person involved in the transaction
Not the salesman. He gets his commission for closing he deal. It’s up to the finance department to collect on the loan.
During the traffic stop, officials said Mills told the trooper he thought he was racing him.
HE THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA!
What is everyone’s take on the economy? I was texting Tundra yesterday about my own financial woes, and he shared that a lot of small businesses he knows are still struggling a lot. While some things are improving, The Golden Age ™ hasn’t reached Main Street just yet. It’s going to take a while to extract ourselves from Biden’s hole.
Any reason Tundra hasn’t been here?
I think he’s just limiting his time online and enjoying the real world more. He sounds like he’s doing well.
Other than IBM beating earnings estimates but by less than the optimists had priced in, I am pretty happy this week. But that is my entirely self centered take. 🙂
My expectation is folks want some more finality on tariffs.
That’s a good point, anyone doing business internationally is probably pulling their hair out.
Knock a system out of balance and it will return to balance in time. The tariff kerfuffle will readjust to its new center of gravity. Be patient.
Quite a few cancelled expansions around here, as well as locations that have been “temporarily closed for remodels” for 5+ years. On the other hand, there’s been about the usual churn in some areas, less in others, some districts looking to be begin the slow decline, others starting to become new hot spots.
Long story short, seems to be going about the same as it was before.
Yeah around here construction is slowly waking up from the dead.
Most of the dead real estate is restaurants and retail that looks like it’s never coming back.
Based on my experience, I think there are two things.
1) High interest rates, which are making borrowing difficult and possibly increasing rates on existing debt.
2) Inflation, especially in restaurants where they had to increase prices to cover costs. While inflation is down to 2%, prices are still high.
I read that 1/3 of restaurants closed due to the lockdowns.
Interest rates are higher than they have typically been in the last 10 years or so? Haven’t looked it up.
Interest rates are lower than the average over a longer term, though. Squeezing debt out of the economy via non-suppressed interest rates strikes me as an analogous to losing weight – yeah, it sucks you can’t eat donuts any more, but it’s better in the long run.
It’s a tough market. Were way up on revenue year over year, but a lot of guys I do business with are in tight spots due to the current cost of borrowing money and elevated values right after Covid then the rapid decline in values the last two years putting them in a negative equity position on equipment they bought then but want/need to sell now.
Furthermore, the overseas markets that tended to create a floor for equipment values have been lagging (I have my own theories as to why) and there aren’t enough secondary market dealers willing to lay out money to prop those floors up. We’ve made up for it on volume and on the sale of more cranes this year than any in the past.
If I had to wager a guess, it’ll get worse before it gets better.
My IRA is up from the beginning of the year and year over year. My tenant pays her rent on time. So, good enough for me.
My tenant seems to be a week or so late, but always pays the late fee. So, stupid, but OK with me.
can’t pay the rent?
https://youtu.be/Rir-KIy2szk?si=d6OiTVoTK-jakN8K
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kcsNbQRU5TI
I dunno but a couple weeks ago I looked at my 401K for the first time in a couple years and it’s much higher than I was expecting.
But did they complete the call in an appropriate time and was the experience satisfactory? Please take this survey…
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/how-do-hackers-get-passwords-sometimes-they-just-ask/
This is part of our training every year at work. Most hacks occur because people do dumb stuff like this. My favorite is the guy who finds a USB stick in the parking lot and plugs it into his work PC to see what’s on it. Don’t people watch spy shows anymore?
hey, it could be a hardware wallet with 10,000 Bitcoin! You can’t pass that up!
Try working in IT. I’ve had to argue with people to stop trying to give me their credentials, because I didn’t want them, and they shouldn’t be giving them to ANYONE!
It’s ok Neph, they already gave their credentials to some guy in Nigeria, and he changed their password, so it’s perfectly safe for them to give the old one out now.
“guy who finds a USB stick in the parking lot”
I find those that the public library all the time. I just give them to the librarian.
I don’t need your credentials. I have root.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/trump-push-to-ban-birthright-citizenship-unconstitutional-us-court-rules
I love how it’s a picture of a Chinese woman holding up the sign.
“On Wednesday, the companies South Park Digital Studios and Park County, which are run by South Park’s creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, announced a licensing deal with Paramount Global. The $1.5bn (£1.1bn) agreement confirms 50 new episodes on Comedy Central over five years, to exclusively stream on Paramount+ worldwide. The entire South Park library will also be made available on Paramount+ in the US.”
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/24/south-park-trump-paramount
$30 million an episode.
That will end well.
For Matt and Trey that is.
Not the entire library…
Checked and Super Best Friends, Cartoon Wars part 1 and 2, and 200/201 are not available for streaming on Paramount+.
No way…
Religion of peace
The non-broadcast uncensored 200/201 is what the fans really want. From what I’ve read, the network did not tell Matt and Trey they were censoring the whole end speech, and they were pissed.
Somebody pays you 1.5 billion dollars, they have the right to burn your entire creative library if they want.
What a retarded amount of money to throw away. I do love older SouthPark, but in no world is it worth 1.5 billion dollars.
This. There were a few highlights in recent years but mostly it just sucks now.
I hope the next 49 episodes make up for the dumpster fire they aired last night.
Strong vibes on the Howard Stern deal.
The minute they threw a few hundred million dollars at him, the show went to shit and he took more and more time off.
“Video from 1991 shows Trump at teen modeling competition”
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/21/video-from-1991-shows-trump-at-teen-modeling-competition/
That settles it: Trump is a pedophile.
They’ve got him now!
Who doesn’t find it relaxing to lose an engine over the middle of the Pacific with four hours left in your flight?
United flight UA876 is declaring an emergency on approach to San Francisco
https://airlive.net/emergency/2025/07/23/united-flight-ua876-is-declaring-an-emergency-on-approach-to-san-francisco/
Spoiler: It landed OK with no surprises.
Bonus: It’s a Boeing 777-200ER. First time I heard this aircraft announce on the PA in Japanese I laughed out loud. We say “Boeing Triple 7” they say the number 7 three times – “BOU IN GU – nana nana nana”.
nana nana nana Batman!
Googal AI Overview
The Boeing 777-200ER is certified for ETOPS-330, meaning it can fly routes that are up to 330 minutes (5.5 hours) from the nearest suitable diversion airport, according to Boeing Newsroom. This ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards) rating allows airlines to operate the 777-200ER on more direct, long-haul routes, increasing efficiency and flexibility . . . .
4 hours isn’t a big deal.
Yup. See below. I was being tongue in cheek. Of course I’d prefer both engines be fully functional, but stuff happens.
I suppose the bonus was no need to circle the airport while trying to get a slot to land.
ETOPS Engines Turn or Passengers Swim
I would have guessed “seven seventy seven” in line with the others in the series. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
seven oh seven
seven one seven
seven two seven
seven three seven
seven four seven
seven five seven
seven six seven
triple seven
seven eight seven
We are two more from a collection the 797 and 7X7 must be summoned.
Then we’ll have the eleven sevens and be able to invert the convenience stores!
Hm… yeah I probably meant “seven seven seven”. But also yeah, it was never going to be that.
seven thirty seven and seven forty seven were spoken in the past but not a common as seven three seven and seven four seven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXLqECpHW2o&list=RDZXLqECpHW2o&start_radio=1
seven thirty seven coming outta the sky
Who doesn’t find it relaxing to lose an engine over the middle of the Pacific with four hours left in your flight?
The high and the mighty?
Who doesn’t find it relaxing to lose an engine over the middle of the Pacific with four hours left in your flight?
Once you’re in the air and cruising it’s not such a big deal. Halfway down the runway on takeoff, it’s a problem.
Yup. When they went from 4 engines in the 747 to 2 in aircraft rated for over water routes like the 777 and 787 they actually had better reliability.
Speaking of F1- I watched a thing about the ’26 rule changes. Taking away downforce is good. Now they need to shitcan that hybrid crap.
Link?
I don’t know much about the new package and am interested to see what it’s all about.
Also, bring back the V12s!!!
The new fuel rules are here:
https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Fusion
Link?
Sorry, it just showed up on roku youtube channel.
Chinatown Walgreens manager who facilitated inside-job robberies sentenced to 12 years
Why didn’t you just steal merchandise? Cities don’t prosecute that.
bring back the V12s
There was a Goodwood Festival of Speed thing about “best sounding cars”. The absolute best was the Gordon Murray car with the small (2.9, maybe?) V12. I really couldn’t give a shit about the car but the engine is fantastic.
Yes. It sounds amazing. The car doesn’t do much for me either.
https://www.engadget.com/computing/maingears-retro95-pc-blends-90s-workstation-nostalgia-with-modern-horsepower-123027821.html
Whoah.
😡
Nice. I always preferred the horizontal chassis on the desk, versus a tower on the rug.
That will fill the $40m hole in CBS’s budget.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/23/save-colbert-protest-manhattan
Kinda proves the point of the advertisers shying away – not exactly a big demographic.
“Several dozen people”
😂🤣
Oh, The Guardian… you are precious.
Yep, just as I suspected, everything remains stupid.
OFFS!
Too bad they’re all commies so they want someone else to pay for it.
Why are Thailand and Cambodia engaged in a border conflict?
They don’t bring up the important question. Which flag am I supposed to add to my profile?
Great point.
Earlier in this debacle it also lead to the sacking of Thailand’s PM for being subservient to Cambodia in a leaked phone call.
Trick question.
Nobody in the west gives a shit about either of them.
But could this conflict disrupt Thai sex tourism?
They’ve got him now
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to testify before Congress after a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal alleged the two warned President Trump he was named in disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s files.
“Now we know in May, Pam Bondi informed Trump that his name was in those files. Bondi knew. Patel knew,” Schiff said Wednesday in a video posted to social platform X.
“But in July, as recently as just a week or two ago, Trump denied being informed that his name was in those files, even though we have now learned Bondi told him,” he continued. “We need to bring Bondi and Patel into the Judiciary Committee to testify about this now.”
Officials told the Journal the information was disclosed as part of a routine White House briefing for the president. They noted that during the meeting, Trump was informed that no additional Epstein files would be released due to the heinous nature of the material.
The kindergarten glory hole footage will knock your socks off.
I can’t wait for more senior Dems to tell that idiot to STFU.
Right now I have a contractor replacing all of my porch boards (tongue and groove) and repairing additional dry rot issues. I had contracted him to repair both sides of the porch, leaving the center section as those boards were much newer and had obviously been replaced at some point, while the rest is 100+ year old woodwork. OK, the guy does good work, and I am happy so far.
Now the issue is that he thinks we only contracted to do the west side, stopping at the newer boards, and bid the job accordingly. Which is not what we talked about, and, just as important, not what any part of the bid shows. This is also backed up by the documents sent to the city planning commission on his letterhead. I talked to him about this, mind you no bad language or anything like that came out of either of us, and he said that he would have to rebid the job, while I countered with the fact that this is what I asked for, this is what he told to the city was the scope of work, and that the bid should cover it.
Well, after about an hour, he comes back to me with a cost that he could do it for, which would be about 1/3 or so of the cost originally agreed on as an additional charge. I don’t have a problem with this, as I feel he should be compensated for the additional work, but we shouldn’t be responsible for his screw up.
Am I wrong in this? It is a small company, I am guessing a family business, and very local to me.
I don’t see how you’re wrong. It appears he screwed up. That said, you’re being decent in bearing any cost over-run.
Now the issue is that he thinks we only contracted to do the west side, stopping at the newer boards, and bid the job accordingly.
It sounds like he might have underestimated his materials cost and wants to adjust.
Another historic first
President Donald Trump’s top intelligence official appeared in the White House briefing room Wednesday to level allegations no U.S. spy chief has ever made against a former president or administration.
National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard accused former President Barack Obama and his deputies of manufacturing a “false” intelligence analysis to show Russia tried to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election.
More groundbreaking political milestones for a man who has broken all the barriers.
I believe that NBC report was written by the Democrats.
Uncovering corruption is not groundbreaking.
“Financial Times is reporting that $1 billion worth of NVIDIA AI chips were smuggled into China in the three months after the Trump administration tightened semiconductor export controls. Citing sales contracts, company documents and people with direct knowledge, the publication says that a thriving black market arose for American semiconductors. Products sold included NVIDIA’s top‑tier B200 chips, which have become the silicon of choice for American big tech when training AI models. Sale of these chips to China is banned by the United States.”
https://www.engadget.com/ai/1-billion-of-nvidia-ai-chips-were-reportedly-sold-in-china-despite-us-bans-143119762.html
“‘Capitalism Is Theft’: I Followed Zohran Mamdani’s Internet Trail
Mamdani’s internet trail reveals far more than a veneered candidate biography on a website ever could. In tweet after tweet, he calls for the end of the free market, for defunding the police, and for dismantling the prison system, which he describes as the “carceral state.” He champions communism (at least in one jokey photo), stans anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour, calls cops “haram” (the Arabic term for forbidden under Islamic law), and insists that New York should look more like socialist Vienna. As Mamdani moves more into general-election mode as the front-runner to beat—wearing suits, moderating his message, and cozying up to the business community—his digital past offers a rare glimpse of the ideology beneath the polish……”
https://www.thefp.com/p/capitalism-is-theft-i-followed-zohran-tweets-politics-mayoral-election
Two can play this game. If queer liberation means defund the police, then private property means assassination.
Alcohol use is up among women — and health consequences have followed
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/alcohol-use-women-health-consequences-followed-rcna220249
Collection: You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/womens-cigarettes/youve-come-along-way-baby/
I’m surprised alcohol advertising is still legal, TBH.
It’s restricted in numerous ways though.
Depraved indifference
The Trump administration wants to overturn a key 2009 Environmental Protection Agency finding that underpins much of the federal government’s actions to rein in climate change.
The EPA has crafted a proposal that would undo the government’s “endangerment finding,” a determination that pollutants from burning fossil fuels, such as carbon dioxide and methane, can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The finding has long served as the foundation for a host of policies and rules to address climate change. The EPA’s proposal to revoke the finding is currently under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Already, environmentalists, climate advocates and others are bracing for what could be a fundamental shift away from trying to address the problem of a hotter climate. And the Trump administration is celebrating the proposal as a potential economic win.
OH
MY
GOD!
Yep, that bit of “science” is the foundation of the whole green new deal bullshit.
The left knows that a correct decision in this matter will set back their control-freak fantasies for years.
The administration’s effort comes in the wake of the hottest year humans have ever recorded on Earth, climate-fueled wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes in Los Angeles and hotter ocean temperatures that made Hurricane Helene stronger and more likely to cause damage inland.
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The EPA has repeatedly reaffirmed the 2009 endangerment finding. In 2022, Congress included language in the climate-focused Inflation Reduction Act that labels greenhouse gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. That makes abandoning the finding more difficult.
According to our model, our model is correct.
“climate-fueled wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes in Los Angeles”
Horseshit.
“Fuck off, commies.”
Our model is the Gospel!
In seeking to reverse the endangerment finding, the Trump EPA is making a legal argument that previous administrators overstepped their legal authority and “imposed trillions of dollars of costs on Americans.” The agency repeats past Republican arguments that the 2007 Massachusetts v. EPA decision “explicitly did not hold that EPA was required to regulate these emissions from these sources.” And the EPA argues that more recent Supreme Court decisions raise further questions about the legality of the 2009 endangerment finding.
Environmental groups instead see a proposal designed to benefit fossil fuel companies, who Trump courted during the campaign.
“By revoking this key scientific finding our government is putting fealty to Big Oil over sound science and people’s health,” Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Safe Climate Transport Campaign wrote in a statement. “These proposals are a giant gift to oil companies that will do real damage to people, wildlife and future generations.”
As we all know, the sole purpose and function of Big Oil is to extract those fuels from the ground and burn them in order to pollute the atmosphere. All cost, no benefit.
I assume Dan Becker uses zero fossil fuel products. That would be evil and damaging.
Hulk Hogan has passed away, brother.