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Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.
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Speaking of drones, Iranian security is itself getting droned.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2031924663417241995.html
I actually thought worse, so I’m in “We ain’t seen nothing yet” mode.
B-b-b-b-baby we just ain’t seen nothing yet!
Ya know, a really vindictive President would have the IRS give a full proctological audit to both the Clinton and Obama foundations. Because I have no doubt both would fail with flying colors.
Somehow I doubt there will be a “millionaires tax” on those A-holes.
there isn’t going to be a millionaire’s tax on anyone with serious money. The whole thing is ridiculous
I came here to mention that I hope they’re paying their “fair share”. Great minds think alike.
That’s not possible.
That’s what I was thinking
A mainstream news article that discussed the math problem of shooting $4 million interceptor missiles at $20k drones. Been a problem for years in the Ukraine war.
At that cost disparity, it almost doesn’t matter if a drone gets through as one side bankrupts themselves shooting at them.
How many bullets from a Phalanx does it take to knock out a slow-moving drone?
I have a question:
How many $4mm interceptors have we fired? How many $20K drones have been shot down?
Alright, that’s two questions. But I would be there are a lot more of the latter than the former. My point being, we have a lot more ways to shoot down drones than just high altitude anti-missile interceptors.
Hush you! All “facts” must be presented in the most catastrophic manner!
Next you’ll say something silly like that the US gasoline supply chain doesn’t go through the strait of Hormuz!
And will develop more ways with the information being gathered now. This is just the most recent version of the eternal competition between weapons and fortifications. You build a better weapon to defeat the current fortifications which forces the foe to build a better fortification which forces you to build a better weapon and so it goes.
Aren’t we a net exporter of petrochemicals?
The main impact on our gas prices is when the rest of the world wants to buy and our supply gets skimmed to sell overseas.
It was not explicitly made clear who “we” referred to, but the guy who posted that was (is?) an American.
THAADs cost $1billion for a battery and $12.6 million per missile. They are designed to intercept ballistic missiles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense
Patriots are more likely to be used on UAVs. Also a billion per battery and 4 million per missile. Not sure if it’s still the case, but they used to have to fire 2 missiles per target.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot
The Obama Foundation pledged to establish a $470 million endowment, though public filings show approximately $1 million deposited to date, according to a Fox News Digital investigation.
I wonder where the other $469M is going to come from.
“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today”
J. Wellington Wimpy
They were relying on a Harris win.
This. How delusional is that? She was so bad they couldn’t cheat her in, that is really saying something
All the competence of Hillary, with none of the charm.
(Repost from last night)
Monocle update
Really, I’m just testing out the one-line change – the ‘Comment *’ text is now suppressed if you use the formatting buttons.
As ever, it’s something Trashy already took care of that just needed a little TLC.
Master is now 4.10.0 – it should auto-update at some point
— for Apple people Userscripts is at least temporarily not auto-updating (disabled by the developer while chasing down a memory/CPU issue); following Step 4 under https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/-/blob/master/README.md?ref_type=heads#iphone-ipad–mac-safari should update it.
Of course:
Thank you for the links, Banjos!
“Since our December 2020 estimate, the illegal alien population in the United States has grown by 4.1 million, or 28.2 percent, reflecting an unprecedented wave of illegal immigration during the Biden administration,” the group reported on Wednesday.
Think of the battalions of NGO do-gooders and government workers needed to feed, house, and guide our New Americans through their farcical asylum hearings! What a boon to those sectors of the economy!
Kill NGO’s. With fire.
Has the wait time for a roofing job gotten longer?
That’s the scientific measurement tool used in the Labor Department’s Bureau of Statistics.
I recently reframed the way I think about this. The people who have what we consider “useless” degrees are being employed by these organizations. They don’t want an end to illegal immigration, they want more people working with illegal immigrants. Likewise, they don’t want an end to homelessness, they want more people working with homeless people.
We will never agree with them because they see these things as an opportunity, not a problem.
New rule for grants – Failure to show a measureable improvement and path to winding down of the organization requires repayment of any funds disbursed with interest at a rate 10X prime.
The feel good film of the year
I’d pay to see this on the big screen.
That’s some funny stuff.
Oh, and Hollywood is doomed.
I don’t get it.
Me neither. And I suspect that I won’t laugh very hard when I do get it.
Sometimes it is good to be mercurial.
Watching Fox News it seems (to me, at least) the sentiment is shifting. Questions are being asked and gas prices/inflation are seen as more important.
Were they the biggest cheerleaders for the war?
Gas prices and inflation are definitely going to be a problem, if Iran gets taught that they can close down the Strait of Hormuz without consequences.
Drake does not watch NewsMax
I do not. Once in a while I will watch some OAN.
MERCURY RETROGRADE doesn’t end until week after next.
So the stars are aligned for a strategic conclusion/withdrawal?
Gaaaah. It’s been a tough one so far.
On Sunday it’s conjoined with Mars.
Cake for breakfast? Perfect, I gave up added sugar for Lent, but think I will indulge.
Too many carbs.
Chocolate cake is the perfect breakfast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeGLtLayNUc
As soon as I read that, I got the chant stuck in my head:
Daddy’s great!
He gives us chocolate cake!
What’s really annoying is the flood of blatant propaganda from both sides drowning out real data. It’s obviously lies, but takes up space and fills the information space with noise.
That’s because most voters respond to that and not to real data. Stupid fucking people.
Voters? What do voters have to do with anything?
Are you John Thune?
I’m talking about current events on the internet, and you lot bring up voters as though most of these places lying have any voters.
True the “both sides” is probably what led to the conclusion of something locally political. “of the issues” should have been included.
Douglas Adam’s ruler of the galaxy demonstrated the proper way to interact with the world.
I think about this a lot. People live in a bubble and there’s no changing their minds. Our “Internet age” made us forget a few things:
1) There are two sides to every story, and both are usually wrong.
2) Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
This is a working list, I’m sure there are more things I could add.
its a time honored engagement farming move to post prime rib, call it steak, and ask if its undercooked
it always works because people who have never had prime rib will be like “ew gross” and everyone else gets so mad steam comes out of their ears and they have to engage with it
https://x.com/uncledoomer/status/2031875921188151460
Now I’m hungry.
>.>
#metoo. That slab of prime rib looks about perfect.
It hasn’t stopped mooing yet.
“A skilled veterinarian could still save that one.”
Like I said, about perfect.
People who prefer well-done steak probably engage in other degenerate behaviors.
You’re projecting.
Properly cooked beef is far superior to the animal cruelty and crimes against food you advocate.
There are degrees of “cooked” between “converted to shoe leather” and “the parasite are still visibly moving”, you know.
Nobody is advocating for shoe leather.
People are so afraid of that state that they don’t let the heat get near the meat.
I’m generally quite up-front about my various perversions, but if they included ruining good cuts of beef because of a taste for burnt shoe leather, I would probably find a monastery to join…
On to the more important considerations – horseradish, au jus, both, or neither?
I will generally season beef with salt and pepper, or salt, pepper, onion and garlic.
It generally does not lose enough juices to require reintroducing them, nor any additional sauce because it retains it’s flavor.
You just don’t know how to cook beef fully without charring it. That’s a you problem.
jus and horseradish cream, on the side. Side order of mushrooms.
Sure I do. Generously salt and pepper both sides of the steak, roast in a 200°F oven (or sous vide) to 120°F in the center, then sear in an extremely hot cast-iron pan for 20-30 seconds on a side. Plate and serve immediately (‘resting’ beef is a myth.)
Most cuts of steak don’t need any accoutrements, but prime rib is an exception.
I like both but I do lean towards a good horseradish. I use Inglehoffer’s rather than make from scratch.
It works because people fail to properly cook beef of all cuts.
@PappenheimWx
ENTIRE SOLAR FARM DESTROYED in Wheatfield, Indiana after a strong tornado struck last night. Unfortunately, multiple house sustained significant damage here as well.
doomer
@uncledoomer
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12h
“what should we call our town?”
“well, there sure are a lot of wheat fields”
That is about 12 miles due south of me. I hate those solar farms. We have great farmland here, but they can offer farmers more for solar because there is nothing to tear down, and there isn’t any environmental remediation required from previous buildings.
And before there was an entire solar farm destroyed, there was an entire farm destroyed.
They did that in Texas (“look at all this free sun!”) and the whole damn thing was wrecked within two years by hail and all that coolant leaked into groundwater. Fucking morons. I suppose they were surprised? Anyone that lives here would say putting up solar panels in Texas is a mistake.
Whaaa?
Beginning in the summer of 2016, at the precise moment Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, Obama’s FBI launched a counterintelligence operation against him. They were having such a great time. The first operation was code-named Crossfire Hurricane, named after a Rolling Stones song with the upbeat lyrics ‘it’s a gas, gas, gas.’
Over the next four years of the Biden Autopen regime, the FBI ran three more domestic spying operations —using tools meant for terrorists and spies— against Trump and Republicans. They were each called: Round River, Plasmic Echo, and Arctic Frost. The ops ran sequentially, each successive “probe” starting as the prior one concluded, so that the spying continued in a single glorious, uninterrupted arc from the summer of 2016 until the final hour of the Biden administration on January 20, 2025, literally right up to President Trump’s inauguration.
Ten years. A whole decade of constitutional abuse. It wasn’t really four different operations. It was one ten-year operation, code-named “Spy on Republicans.”
The Russian Collusion Hoax has been out there for a while, but I was unaware of the others — and I don’t consider myself a low-information type.
Scandal brewing, or will these be ignored by Congress and the media too?
The final op, Arctic Frost, targeted nearly 400 conservative groups and thousands of Americans, including 1,200 persons specifically identified as being in “protected First Amendment categories” like lawmakers, defense lawyers, filmmakers, and journalists.
*Everyone* is protected by the First Amendment.
I noticed that bit as well.
Get outta here with your special classes.
Also, leave “Joe the Cabbage” to the commenters.
I have not heard of the others. but not exactly a surprise. Our “intelligence” agencies are corrupt from top to bottom.
In a healthy society, the top levels of those involved would suffer severe personal consequences.
We do not live in a health society.
“I was unaware of the others”
Banjos and others have posted Arctic Frost.
Imagine paying six times the price of natural gas and running a competitive industry in Europe
https://x.com/minenergybiz/status/2031837373714006511
its unfair it what it is. this is why we need global regulations for these things.
BY GLOBAL REGULATIONS MEAN…
Make everyone else pay more.
No everyone else mostly the Americans
I am sorry that things are not going to get better in the foreseeable future. This is going to hurt people.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/eu-russian-gas-oil-iran-war-ukraine.html
LOL price controls and printer go brrr
Works every time.
But you’re healing the planet. Isn’t that worth something??
healing the planet doth butter no parsnips.
English language music is losing its stranglehold on the charts, according to new data from music streaming giant Spotify.
The company says songs in 16 different languages, including Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish, Indonesian and Arabic, appeared in its Global Top 50 last year. That’s more than double the figure from 2020.
Bad Bunny, who sings exclusively in Spanish, was the most-streamed artist in the world. And Brit Award winner Rosalía sings in 14 dialects on her latest album, Lux.
Spotify said Brazilian Funk was the fastest-growing genre in the world, with audiences up by 36%. K-Pop saw a 31% increase, and Trap Latino was up by 29%.
All of those genres earned more than $100m (£74.5m) in royalties from Spotify last year, the company said.
English still dominates the charts, with 14 of last year’s Top 20 best-selling albums sung exclusively in the language, according to the music industry body the IFPI.
But South Korean bands such as Stray Kids, Enhypen and Seventeen all featured in the list, as did Japanese rock group Mrs Green Apple, as fans increasingly explore music outside the typical paradigms of rock and pop.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9v04gney9yo
I am about 100% certain that no recent releases that I like are going to be found in the “Global Top 50”.
In Local News
Update: The Parliament approved president Nicușor Dan’s request for the temporary deployment of US troops and defensive military equipment on Romanian territory. The measure was adopted with 272 votes in favor after debates that were repeatedly disrupted by opposition lawmakers from AUR, SOS, and POT, who ultimately did not vote for the proposal, Biziday.ro reported.
Initial story: US refueling aircraft, monitoring systems, and satellite communication equipment could be temporarily deployed to Romania, president Nicușor Dan announced after discussions in the country’s Supreme Council of National Defense (CSAT) on Wednesday, March 11. He said the equipment is defensive and will strengthen Romania’s security.
https://www.romania-insider.com/usa-refueling-aircraft-equipment-romania-march-2026
So… what’s this story about a cardboard cutout Khamenei? And is the “Iran is kicking the shit out of the US” twitterverse portraying it as a sooper-jeanyus plan to curbstomp Drumph or are they ignoring it entirely?
The flip side of the cardboard cutout is the question of whether the new supreme leader is even alive. There’s been no proof of life since even the hardliners admitted he was “Injured”.
He’s either dead or in no state to actually do anything, leaving the IRGC to run everything as best they can. It doesn’t take the target off the heads of the surviving leadership, but keeps them lower profile.
Didn’t there used to be some prohibition about images of people, or was that some other subsect of Islam?
What images are forbidden is a level of nuanced stupid I cannot currently parse.
I hate to say it, this war does not end until the mullahs are dead/unable to pick a successor. If Trump ends earlier, he just makes the problem worse. Even then this is like Japan in WWII, there are a lot of fanatics out there that will cause trouble for decades.
A door to door purge of fanatics that makes pinochet look like a piker.
I don’t know how else he could do it. So far it’s just a bombing campaign.
His plan seems to rely on the people rising up, which although possible, realize 30,000 to 50,000 of them were killed in protests earlier.
At the moment, I understand their fear.
If there is a class of “Not true believers” who joined the IRGC for personal benefit rather than religious fervor, their desertions would be necessary before the people become more emboldened.
“Iran’s new impotent supreme leader releases first statement — after reports he’s in coma, had leg amputated”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/12/world-news/irans-new-impotent-supreme-leader-releases-first-statement-after-reports-emerge-he-is-in-coma-had-leg-amputated/
Fog of war?
No proof of life. Could have been written by anybody.
The fact that Khameini did not personally deliver the message is a point in favor of the argument that he’s dead or incapacitated.
If he were alive and able to speak, you could put a blank white background behind him and film close-up to avoid giving his position away, then courier the video to the television station.
I’m a little surprised that the IRGC didn’t gen up some AI slop of Khameini. They’ve been pretty shameless on that end so far.
Nah, just a premonition.
This is why I bought extra flightsticks before they were discontinued:
https://sites.google.com/view/tie-fighter-total-conversion
(youtube told me about this last night)
“The TikTok trend that can wreck your vagina — and weaken condoms within minutes”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/12/health/the-tiktok-trend-that-can-wreck-your-vagina/
STEVE SMITH WRECK VAGINA
When STEVE SMITH is around, you use whatever lube you can get, and just hope that it’s enough…
“A man who was shot by police had to wait 10 extra minutes for an ambulance and ultimately died after a Connecticut officer, suffering a “mild anxiety attack,” took the first one to arrive, according to a state investigation.
Dyshan Best, a 39-year-old truck driver, was shot in the back as he fled from Bridgeport officers with a gun in his hand on March 31, 2025, according to a report released by the state’s inspector general on Tuesday…..
After a witness pointed to two men in an SUV, Officer Erin Perrotta approached the passenger’s side of the vehicle and saw Best holding a bottle of alcohol, a vape pen, and a cellphone, body camera video showed.
Perrotta declined treatment in the ambulance, saying, “I am fine, I just needed to get out of here,” according to the report.
Another officer described Perrotta at the time as “visibly hysterical (crying and breathing rapidly) and had blood all over her uniform,” the report said.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/12/us-news/connecticut-officer-suffering-mild-anxiety-attack-took-ambulance-meant-for-dying-man-shot-by-police/
OFFS!
Anxiety does not require an ambulance.
Death by firing squad for the officer and the supervisor on scene who let him go.
Her.
Another female officer demonstrating why putting women on the front lines may not be the best idea.
I’d like to hear a little more about the shooting before I pass judgement.
There’s a common misconception that police officers, and some say even private citizens, are obligated to render medical aid to someone they’ve legally shot. This could not be further from the truth.
Triage should still prioritize the more severely injured person. Especially when the other person is not in life threatening condition.
Anxiety attack does not need to use up ambulance transport resources, the cops had their own cars.
All else being equal, yes. However, ambulance crews aren’t going to transport a potentially dangerous subject until the scene is secured, and it very likely wasn’t.
Also, was the diagnosis of ‘mild anxiety attack’ made at the scene, during transport, or at the hospital? The article isn’t clear and it makes a difference. If you roll on scene and have a police officer who’s presenting symptoms of a heart attack, and a perp who just got shot while pointing a gun at the police officer, who would you transport first?
It’s certainly possible that there was a certain amount of, “Shitbag got what he deserved, brother officer goes first,” either among the ambulance crew or (more likely) the cops. But it’s also not as simple as, “Silly girl cop gets mildly flustered and leaves the poor shooting victim to die in the street.”
Fair enough, but I doubt we’re going to get the information necessary.
I have boneless pork chops or NY Strip to choose from for dinner. I was pallning to have the pork and save the steak for tomorrow, but the spitefullness in me makes me want to cook the steak instead.
what wine are you pallning to drink?
Why would I drink wine?
it goes with meat.
But it’s still undrinkable.
Pork keeps better than steak.
Dry brine the steak and cook it tomorrow.
https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/us-news/judge-says-nein-to-german-tourist-lawsuit-over-spicy-tacos-suit/
Why would guacamole contain dairy?
He needs to be sentenced to more spicy tacos, at hiss own expense.
Is there any way we could throw this shitbag a beating before sending him home?
Apparently some guacamole recipes incorporate sour cream, for extra creaminess. Not the way I personally roll, but I’m willing to give a place a break if they cook their tortillas in lard…
Yep. And I bet that spicy sauce was just normal spice level.
That guy does need a beating before he is kicked out. Revoke his visa to travel to the US while we are at it.
I think Germany is still an “No Visa for Tourists” country.
We can ban reentry though.
He must be fun at parties.
“Apparently some guacamole recipes incorporate sour cream”
I do avocado, onion, lime juice, and cumin.
Anyone adding mayonnaise should be deported to Holland.
Avocado, lime, chilies. If the avocados are underripe, then salt.
You forgot diced onions.
Diced tomatoes are also acceptable, but I don’t prefer them.
You probably put onions in your chili too.
Of course. Also beans, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream, and cornbread. I like my chili with everything.
For guacamole, the diced onions give it a little bit of texture and sweetness.
Avocado, lime, onions, jalapenos, and cherry tomatoes
There are people that make chili without onions?
Straight to jail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wty2aL2aECc
Can we just agree any mayo and you’re looking at windmills?
No, Tater, not unless we ban avocado.
No. You can’t make chicken salad or club sandwiches without mayonnaise, and that gets it a reprieve.
Miracle Whip, on the other hand…
@Sheldon – I was negotiating under the assumption we were still only talking about Guac.
If Tater wants a universal mayo ban it’s because he’s afraid of being made into salad and needs therapy.
“Bridget Fonda, 62, shows off incredible 100lb weight loss amid rumors she’s considering a Hollywood comeback”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15637927/Bridget-Fonda-weight-loss-Hollywood-comeback.html
Her crazy aunt looks younger.
That’s the after picture? How big did she get?
Really big.
ISTR she was in an accident and hurt her back and really blew up after that.
I suppose I could at least skim the article:
“Sydney Sweeney was missing from a Euphoria group photo after Zendaya ‘refused to stand next to her’ amid their ‘bitter feud’.
Back in November 2025, the Daily Mail revealed that Zendaya, 29, was refusing to do press calls with her co-star for the upcoming third season.
We also reported that the reason why they were refusing to refusing to stand near each other at events was because of their different political views.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-15638873/Sydney-Sweeney-Euphoria-group-photo-Zendaya-feud.html
Deport Zendaya
Sydney Sweeney doesn’t need them. They need Sydney Sweeney. They best play nice.
Tolerant lefty I presume
Left out the interceptor discussion above – they are really good against manned aircraft which (unless you’re flying a relic) are still way more expensive than the missiles.
As we are sending all our interceptor inventory to the Middle East, Russia fighters are now visible on the sky over Ukraine.
https://x.com/i/status/2031920371901882759
Quality shit-talk from Max:
the author of the NYT ai writing quiz does not seem to know writing either. What is the punctuation they think is missing here? really bleak
https://x.com/cd_hooks/status/2031476738643853790
Obviously it’s “As, well, ask men what they think: of stone.”
Noam Chomsky once called English spelling “a near optimal system.”
You might think he was being ironic. Far from it.
The silent ‘b’ in “bomb” reappears in “bombard.” The silent ‘n’ in “hymn” is pronounced once again in “hymnal.” The silent ‘g’ in “sign” comes back in “signal.”
English spelling keeps these words looking like the family they are, even when pronunciation pulls them apart.
https://x.com/colingorrie/status/2031724726410707055
Wait there’s a silent b in bomb?
English spelling sucks ass.
English spelling is gracious and welcoming, accepting all those foreign words yearning to breathe free retain their native spelling.
Unlike those stuck-up bitches French and Spanish.
I swapped the simulator for my Nintendo Switch
I was never much of a Max fan, but that’s excellent. There’s fuck you money, and then there’s fuck you talent. If Max walks away from F1 it will be hard for those dumb fucks at Liberty Media to pretend everything is fine.
Huh. I just got an email announcing a sitewide Mario Kart tournament.
Holy shit, the eurotards are talking price controls on energy?
I guess that is what tards do.
Would you stop using the e slur??
no
Holy shit, the eurotards are talking price controls on energy
Now is the time to ban petroleum outright. They can tow their cars around with horses like in WWII.
Wood gas Volvos.
Can’t you run Diesels off of vegetable oil?
Yes, but that was in short supply.
Another officer described Perrotta at the time as “visibly hysterical (crying and breathing rapidly) and had blood all over her uniform,” the report said.”
Somebody should have just slapped her.
Who’s blood? How close was she to the guy she shot in the back?
After RTFA, the NYP is saying she wasn’t even involved in the shooting. How TF is she suitable for police work?
“She improces our diversity scores.”
Sydney Sweeney doesn’t need them. They need Sydney Sweeney. They best play nice.
Okay, Zendaya, let’s see if we can get this in one take. You see the tiger. You scream. The tiger pounces on you and you go over the cliff. Your last check will be mailed to you. There’s no need for you to come around anymore.
How TF is she suitable for police work?
You and your silly questions.