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High-Profile Scientists Keep Winding Up Dead Or Missing — GOP Rep Suggests There May Be A Conspiracy At Play
Stay safe, OMWC!
They already got my dad and uncle, so the whole thing is real!
They shouldn’t have been drunk driving in the skies over Roswell.
Hey! I resemble that remark!
The Physics that Make Interstellar Travel Impossible
Morning Banjos.
No. No mail-in ballots should count.
What this guy said..
I’m ready to extend this to the military and anyone else not able to show up at the polling site. Also, punitive action for elections officials that make hours long wait to vote. Smaller pricincts and more voting booths.
Agreed. I rarely have to wait more than 15 minutes. I’m amazed at scenes of people waiting for hours to vote.
That was us before mail in voting. Most time was usually just the check in and straight to an open booth.
Correct UCS
“U.S. Senate Moving Bi-Partisan Bill to Ban Sports Betting on Prediction Markets like Kalshi, Polymarket”
They are pissed they can’t wet their beaks here?
Right? We’ve all seen this movie before, and its sequels as well…
Twist a pigs ear, watch him squeal.
It’s funny watching the mental gymnastics surrounding gambling. The moral/economic arguments against it magically go away if there is enough skim to the State. Private gambling, with an open market, would prey upon the vulnerable! Gambling where the State is the house or the house pays a huge fee to the State to be the only gambling venue in an area is just peachy. Never mind that this model removes the very competition that would keep odds honest.
The fact that there are moral arguments about it prove it has no business being a legislative matter. Address it from the pulpit if you must.
I am willing to bet state lotteries involve a lot more addictive and negative behavior, targeting the least likely to be able to afford the expenditures, than these gambling apps. But the political class and the states are making big cash from these, so they do not care. Other than the occasional disclaimer gambling is a problem in their advertisements, there is no panic or moral posturing…
The odds in the lottery are significantly worse than the most crooked indian casino.
“Iran, Israel Continue Strikes in Middle East”
I approve sending as many of these cultist members of the religion of death to meet Allah in hell.
I second this.
I have never understood how mail in ballots and early voting can be reconciled, for federal elections, with the Constitutional language that there be an election DAY.
Narrator: They can’t.
Living Constitution
Penumbras & shit…
See also: general warrants issued by secret magistrates in a court that only the Government can access. Laws created by unelected unaccountable regulators. Courts issuing injunctions that supplant Executive authority. Congress having failed to pass a budget for 30 years. etc.
The Constitution was a wonderful system of government, I wish we lived under it.
I’ll take “Things that were supposed to be remedied by the 2nd amendment for $500, Alex”.
Careful there WTF, next you’ll be quoting Jefferson about a revolution every generation.
Government of the people when the people don’t want liberty.
The existence and prevalence of HOAs makes it very clear how little the people want liberty. It’s a hyper local, hyper intrusive level of government we created to make damn sure the neighbors don’t enjoy themselves wrongly!
“That tree needs some watering”
People want the homes and they tolerate HOAs that are already in existence. I’m not sure how many would vote to create a new HOA or retain their current one.
Also, other people are asshoe.
Who cares about that dead, dusty piece of paper? /proggies everywhere
The people that did this give a fuck about the constitution. They want a means to overcome the stupid masses screwing things up and voting for an outsider like Trump instead of their approved uniparty asshats.
Somehow in the horse and buggy days people were able to get out and vote on the same day. But in 2026, with all our supposed technological advances, it just can’t be done.
Whycome you hates democrazy, TOK?
And retirees with pencils and paper could add up all the votes before the 7 o’clock news.
All you need to know about the issues surrounding voting – and today’s other theme, immigration – is who supports what.
““Too many young people in Utah are getting exposed to addictive sports betting and casino-style gaming contracts that belong under state control, not under federal regulators,’ Sen. Curtis said in a statement.”
So state-controlled gambling isn’t addictive?
““Banning sports on regulated prediction markets would just push this behavior offshore, where no regulation exists,” the company told the Post on Monday. “It’s clear this bill is motivated by casino interests that are threatened by competition.”
No shit.
State-controlled gambling allows state politicians to pick who gets to run the gambling.
So I again tried to play Phantom Liberty. Supposedly it’s a widely beloved DLC for Cyberpunk 2077.
The first time I tried to play it, there were weird geometry issues where NPCs had verticies no properly attached to their bodies, and thus were very spiky.
Then they ruined a stealth approach by spawning a guard in a confined space I’d just walked through, so I knew there was nowhere he could have come through. This made me walk away for quite some time.
Recently I tried again. Just after killing the named Voodoo Boys I got the call that started the DLC mission. As I was driving towards the start of the mission, I had some hostiles in vehicles roll up. I figured I’d just aggroed some Voodoo Boys, having made a mess of their leadership and an enemy of the gang. So I ignored them and drove for the gates. Turns out these driving hostiles were with the warlord of dogtown, so I was caught between them and the endlessly spawning gate guards. After carpeting the groud with bodies to the point I was worried by game would crash, I figured out the endlessly spawning part and withdrew to reset the gate. After a walk around the block, the gate guards forgot I’d just waged a small war there and let me walk over to the garage entrance where Songbird rudely hacks into your head.
I fucking hate songbird. It’s a toss-up between her and Johnny which is more annoying a yapper. At least the plot of the main game is trying to kill Johnny. The plot of the DLC is trying to save Songbird. Anyway, finally got into the DLC zone. And onto the damn rails. It opens with a linear platforming section which is all “go there, wait for songbird to remotely move obstacle, repeat” all the while she never stopped talking. I just stopped responding to her dialog. I got a brief respire in the black market where I refilled on ammo then it was back on the rails – “go there, now there, now there” no chance to assess the problem and choose my own route or approach. I did sneak past the warlord’s dudes on the approach to the crash site, and met up with bitch myers. She’s even more obnoxious than songbird. At least songbird didn’t leroy jenkins the enemy when they spotted a body and we were still hidden. (on account of songbird not being physically present). More stay on the rails moring setpieces and shootouts leading to a on rails boss encounter, a quick time event, then a dull boss fight against a giant enemy crab with glowing weak points. Then on the rails to the safe house.
Finally ditched bitch myers to find Reed. I could have left, as this was the point you got off the rails, but I was hoping he was less insufferable. I was wrong. When he drove us into an ambush by the warlord’s goons and blamed us for it, I bailed. Just quit out of the game without saving. Might not go back.
I dicked around in that game for some hours last year but stopped before a looming plot point where I was supposed to hack some object from a bad guy. If I go back I will probably have to start over or somehow trigger the sequence again that shows me how to do that.
Initial reviews of Cyberpunk scared me away from ever playing that game.
I been doing Borderlands 4 recently, along with 7 Days To Die.
BL4 is more BL goodness with some Far Cry openness added into the mix.
7DTD is is kind like high resolution Minecraft with lots of zombies. Fun Pimps have been updating this game for 11 years and I’ve been playing for almost 9.
Both games are good co-op.
“Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor who was convicted in 2013 of killing three babies who were born alive in a case that made nationwide headlines, has died. He was 85.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/24/us-news/notorious-philadelphia-abortionist-kermit-gosnell-who-killed-babies-born-alive-dead-at-85/
Dispose his body as medical waste.
I thought he was already dead.
Oh well.
Only his soul. The husk finally died as well.
He was already dead as of yesterday’s PM links, and the article said he had died some time back.
So yes, he was already dead.
Now this is pretty funny. I say no just because he doesn’t announce how he opposes Trump.
I say yes, because of Biden’s racist formulation of Obama being a clean, articulate black man (who makes suburban woman moist in the panties too).
who makes suburban woman moist in the panties too
I don’t get it; he comes across like a twink to me.
He is effeminate and can’t talk himself out of a wet paper bag.
I say yes, because he’s always been willing to say whatever it takes to get what he wants.
Yeah, he’s directly amd indirectly pushed for a lot of the shit we’re seeing today, he was just smart enough to keep it under his belt until elected, so those positions could ‘evolve’.
Yeah my first thought is those positions might be how he fooled the voters into electing him but it feels like he reversed his position on most of those issues, leading and/or following the party as it galloped to the left.
I would say yes, because he would change all of those answers in a heartbeat if he was up and coming today.’
It’s not like they were any strongly held principles.
Poor Obama – one Glib thinks he’s a flag, another thinks he’s a fag.
It’s not like they were any
strongly heldprinciples.I’d say, “it depends”.
Is Hilary running again? He won the first time because he gave the liberals the perfect excuse to not vote for Hilary. They were voting for the first black president! You can’t blame them for being a misogynist if that is the case.
I have no idea if it was anyone else. The Dems have a lot of crazies out there who might make Obama look like the lesser of two evils.
Gun news which is relevant to local glibs!
Some drama must be going on with IDPA. The local UDPA club dropped them and switched to GPA, which really is kind of a joke. But probably a friendlier environment, especially for new shooters.
Specifically for UnCiv: American made* 2011 that doesn’t suck for sub-$1k**. I don’t plan on buying one, because I love near-zero maintenance guns. But you like futzing around with mechanical stuff, you might enjoy it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro7kd6fICXw
*Not just American made, but a former NY company that bailed out like all sensible manufacturers should.
**Prices undoubtedly higher in NY.
🤔
I’ve had this odd self-imposed rule that I’m collecting only one gun per caliber. Partially to avoid a collection of a lot of the same. Partially because I thought it’d be funny.
I’m also trying not to spend all of my money. I spent too much on the Lego Rifle and it’s still not finished.
Whycome you tempt me to spend?
I feel guilty that you don’t love your S2. When I have money again, I’ll buy it from you.
I go the opposite way. All my guns are in one of four common calibers – .22LR, 9mm, 5.56mm, and one lonely .40S&W Limited gun from back in the day. This greatly simplifies ammunition management.
That sounds boring.
9mm; 5.56/.223; 7.62/.308; 20 gauge.
Nothing else.
Kinnath, that’s mad. I see no .45ACP
If I recall what’s at the bottom of the river, my collection shoots .22LR, .308, 7.62x54mmR, .45 Colt, .45 ACP, 9mm, .357 Mag (and .38 Spec), and will soon add 5.56.
I do not currently have a shotgun.
Different focus. I’m not a collector, and have no real interest in guns beyond the shooting part.
9mm, 5.56mm, and .22LR cover all my use cases.
UnCiv. All my 1911s are in 9mm.
.45 cal, 9mm, .40 S&W, .357 sig, 30-30 Win, 12 ga., 20 ga.
Fair enough.
I collect. Plastic Crack, Firearms, etc.
😱
Yeah. I’m in ES’s camp. I can only justify buying a gun with a specific use case. Though it has happened that my planned use cases don’t pan out (my PCC build for multigun stays 99+% of the year in the safe. Likewise my L10 Major build might not actually ever see the skies of OH or UT.
Lessee:
.300 Win Mag
.22 LR
.556
9mm
.45 ACP
12 Gauge
And the oddball .410/.38 derringer.
All my 1911s are in 9mm
Why not just get the Browning Hi-power? Particularly if you could get an old Belgian one.
I remember talking about this back in the early days at Glibs.
My wife and I have the Springfield EMP and EMP 4 (both of which have been renamed since then).
They didn’t stick a 9mm barrel and mag into a standard .45 pistol and hope it worked. The redesigned/rescaled the pistols from scratch to take 9mm or .40 S&W.
The pistols run flawlessly.
I can only justify buying a gun with a specific use case.
Hmm like a model 17 because it handles the same as the 686 but is cheaper to shoot!
Why not just get the Browning Hi-power?
Wasn’t on my radar at the time. And there weren’t any in the rental case to see, touch, and shoot.
I fell in love with the 1911 the first time I pulled the trigger.
Oh well. Still happy with our decisions back then.
I keep to a limited number of calibers because I don’t shoot often enough anymore to justify the variety.
.22LR, .40S&W, 9mm, .223, 7.62×39, .308, 12ga
The BHP is a nice gun, but 1911s are just better. Better trigger, more durable over high round counts, much more aftermarket support.
Also, the BHP is one of the only pistols that gives me hammer bite, so I have a personal grudge.
9mm, 5.56, .380, .32, .38, .22, 20ga, .410, .45GAP
.40 S&W, 7.62 (Asian[39] and European[51]), 5.7, .45, .45 Colt/.410, 12 Ga, and a .50 Cal Black Powder for scaring deer.
I can only justify buying a gun with a specific use case. Though it has happened that my planned use cases don’t pan out.
No zombie outbreak or attack by North Korea/Soviet Union?
“WOLVERINES!”
Y’all are sleeping on one of the most fun calibers out there.
17HMR
FR
Yeah, ammo costs are up post covid, but that’s true for everything.
“The BHP is a nice gun, but 1911s are just better. Better trigger, more durable over high round counts, much more aftermarket support.”
And this is how we know Evil Sheldon is a witch. Any gun that has to be so modified as to be useful, is, instead, useless.
BHP all the way, and everyday!
(I had a [spits] 1911, and sold the useless POS over the weekend.)
As we all know from watching Tiger King, guns with magazine disconnects kill their owners.
And, before every Glib comes out to Oregon to smite me, I learned to shot handgun with my fathers BHP, and didn’t pick up a 1911 until much later. Never got the hammer bite that so often is complained about, but never could stand the *****ing grip safety of the 1911.
Anything that causes that much consternation in shooting must be avoided, either one or the other. Also, .45 is, as seen in the number of people who change it in a gun that was designed for it, not optimal. Either you are limited in ammo, or the grip makes a 2×4 seem slim and petite, with nice curves.
But, lastly, the rundown: .22lr, .22 Hornet, .303brit, .303brit improved, .30-40 KRAG, .38spl, 7.65 Lugar, 9mm, .44mag,12 gauge 2-1/2″, 12 gauge 2-3/4″. There are multiples of some, and singles of others.
Basing your style of shooting on Tiger King is as silly as basing it on HEAT.
I’m jealous ES.
I wanted to be simple but kept expanding.
My latest expansion was to 9mm.
I finally caved to it a couple years ago.
22, 30Carb, 38/357, 45acp, 223, some odd caliber my dad gave to the boy, 308, 12 guage, 50bmg
I want one in 10mm.
Why?
Because I can.
As a mechanic, take it from me, you don’t want it in 10mm, It’ll just get lost.
[golf claps] for DrOtto
“Quadruple amputee, pro cornhole player allegedly shot and killed acquaintance during argument — then drove off with body”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/23/us-news/quadruple-amputee-pro-cornhole-player-allegedly-shot-and-killed-acquaintance-during-argument-then-drove-off-with-body/
STIJLTH
Pro cornhole league tells me we just have too much stupid money floating around.
If they are into cornholing, taking that body with em gets into a whole new realm of crazy possibilities…
What about pro pickleball? 😉
When you can get a full ride to college on a cornhole scholarship, I’ll buy this.
I’m waiting for Olympic cornhole.
Did I wake up to yesterday or something…?
How does he pick up the drugs that fall out of his ass?
This meme is becoming increasingly meaningless.
He gets around well for a quadruple amputee.
How do you handcuff him when he gets arrested?
“One in a million shot doc, honest.”
Attach prosthetic arms then handcuff?
“This meme is becoming increasingly meaningless.”
Blasphemy!
Due to the number of uses of the term, he calls Teds.
Ahh, a heart warming story of a man overcoming his limitations so he could fail to overcome his temper.
The dude definitely has a short fuse.
Fascinating. School shooter enters TX elementary school, is stopped by the security vestibule, shoots no one.
https://www.currentrevolt.com/p/heavily-armed-iraqi-man-defeated
I was told that the only way to stop school shootings was to ban gunz?
They’ll say he was stopped by a GovSec worker with a gun.
He changed his name to Kyle Chris? Are you sure this isn’t a parody site?
I thought the same thing and DDG’d the name. Several other semi-legitimate media sources also report this as happening.
I thought the same thing.
It sure would be easy to spin that at trial.
That’s a cool solution, good to see it worked.
Mantraps are good for some cases. Most still have glass doors though. It is first level hardening to catch people like this.
“Controversial kids’ YouTuber Ms. Rachel finally admitted that she is “political” as she spearheads a campaign to close a contested Texas immigration detention center that held 500 children at its peak….
“I am political. It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border,” Accurso told the outlet.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/24/us-news/ms-rachel-admits-shes-political-while-railing-against-texas-immigration-detention-center/
toxic empathy
Was this vile propagandist pretending not to be political?
I find it hilarious that she’s “controversial”. We babysit kids and they used to watch her. It’s just her singing kid songs and nursery rhymes, she just happened to hit it big. But of course she can’t just stand by and watch the evil Trump admin ruin the world.
Like any good leftist, she is compelled to shout her virtue to the world. You don’t bask in the glow of admiration by keeping your mouth shut.
The Blurting:
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2019/09/the-blurting.html
There is a house I pass every so often where in addition to the “We Support Immigrant Families” and “Protect Trans Kids” signs that are everywhere here, they’ve got some long screed written in tiny print on a sign that must be at least 4′ x 6′. I haven’t paused long enough to read more than a few words but it seemed like something tranny-related. Plus they are obviously batshit crazy so I step lively past that house.
I live in hard left Broward County Florida. All democrat. My city banned plastic straws.
We dont have any of the weird BLM/Antifa/Trans/LGBTQIA+/immigration signs. I was in Duluth MN late last year and that stuff was everywhere.
Pre-trump I lived in a sea of Obama signs. Post 2016, we had 1 kook with Trump/Kennedy custom sign in the front yard. Almost no other political signage. (The gay neighborhood has some rainbow flags and storefront murals, but a normal “this is the gay neighborhood and this is a gay bar” amount.
The culture shock hit hard. Particularly because Duluth is fairly small and is a working class port city with rural hunting and fishing country in all directions.
“Two countries” is real.
Around here nearly every business downtown has a rainbow flag decal in the window to show how “welcoming” they are.
@ rhywun: a better sign.
The Blurting is just their version of Testifying, and Witnessing.
For Hayek, apropos of nothing; I think he links to a lot of the research literature, but I have a list somewhere here.
Lots of promising research with a well known mechanism of action. Advantage is that it won’t interfere with standard of care (and in fact probably enhances it) and it has a very long, well established safety profile over decades and billions of doses. And cheap! So it’s something to try with no downside that I can see – unless one sees potentially being thought of as a loon a downside, but you hang out here, so clearly not an issue. And remember, there’s a reason radio-tagged glucose is used to trace tumor locations – if you’re not already low glycemic/carb on the nutrition side, give that a thought too.
Hopefully surgery is an option to clean up the bulk, but need all troops deployed to the fight, especially if it’s metastasized at all.
Best wishes – that’s about all we can do, as empty as that sometimes seems.
I’m on this path though slowly going more carnivore. I need to try fasting and see if I can get my joint pain and non cancerous tumors to shrink through fasting.
On March 7, police in Akron, Ohio, responded to a report of an automatic seat in a 2026 Palisade collapsing on a two-year-old, according to a police report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Obviously some parental culpability here, but do we really need the complexity of of power folding seats in most vehicles? My MDX has manual folding seats and I can tell you the aren’t particularly difficult to put down. You pull a strap they go down.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/hyundai-suv-seat-defect-leads-to-recall-after-one-childs-death-four-injuries-d0531930?st=26HADp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Whycome cars so expensive???
Government regulations?
^^^^^^^^
MAKE AUTOMOBILES DANGEROUS AGAIN
“but do we really need the complexity”
No. That’s the problem with modern cars.
It’s absurd.
I can’t believe you suffer the indignities of manually folding your own seats in an alleged luxury vehicle? Real luxury means having your orphans do that for you.
Hopefully the orphans are faster than most of the motorized seats. Most are painfully slow.
“A Utah mother allegedly kidnapped her autistic son’s bully and kept him at her home until he apologized — then threatened to have her husband beat him up….
Shannon Tufuga, 40, was slapped with kidnapping charges Monday after she rolled up on her son’s 11-year-old bully while he was riding his bike around his neighborhood in early September, according to charging documents obtained by KSL.com….
She allegedly hightailed it back to her home in Provo, Utah, and kept the boy there until he apologized to her son….
Tufuga eventually drove the shell-shocked boy back to his home.
Tufuga was charged with child kidnapping and aggravated child abuse on Monday, both as second-degree felonies. The charges were lowered from first-degree felonies after the Utah County Attorney’s Office determined that a “reduction would be in the interests of justice.””
https://nypost.com/2026/03/24/us-news/utah-mom-accused-of-kidnapping-autistic-sons-bully-until-he-apologized/
“in the interests of justice”?? I’m thinking if some guy snatched an 11-year-old girl, the charges would be much different.
Was the kid she kidnapped actually a bully? Who knows, she seems stupid enough to have snatched up the wrong kid.
Illustrated: https://youtu.be/eVYmfXGr9iA?si=5w_d9OOl6eCRaHzQ
In some states the police would have kidnapped the boy and charged his parents for letting him out unsupervised.
Bravo. And true.
Agree on the gender and free range parent observations.
Also, when I was a kid, my dad would have subsequently kicked my ass for picking on some autistic kid. We didnt have full-on community parenting, but if you were screwing up, any parent would be expected to snap you back.
any parent would be expected to snap you back
These days, the police would be involved if you disciplined some other person’s kid.
Even at the conservative church we go to, I’m very light on the other kids because we skew very disciplinarian compared to the average. Effeminate therapy think is the current default for parenting.
We didn’t have any autistic kids.
We had one full blown retard in gradeschool that would scream all the time.
And… I’m out.
Hahahaha… that was exactly my reaction. I was skeptical at the very concept, but interested to hear what they had…. and then… UFO.
“The drama began in 2017, when a neighbor took issue with the smell wafting from the strip mall restaurant and began calling incessantly.
Owner David Liao said her concerns weren’t shared by the other customers, who never complained or said they smelled a distinct odor….
Not only would it affect the restaurant’s attempt to share tradition, but the dish also accounted for 10 to 20 percent of their revenue, so they continued to sell it.
But the nail in the coffin came in 2017, when the restaurant received a city notice citing a municipal code violation for emitting odors deemed a public nuisance…
t wasn’t until 2025 that Liao tried to revive the dish, launching a stinky tofu newsletter to alert customers to occasional weekly drops at the restaurant…
But once the nosy neighbor caught wind of this, they immediately launched their phone campaign again, calling so much that she managed to block the restaurant’s phone line, preventing customers from placing orders.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15671419/california-restaurant-stinky-dish-odor-complaint.html
CWAC
Sell durian instead.
To be fair some of those Asian fish dishes smell like an open sewer mixed with cod liver oil that’s been left in the sun.
Isn’t “fish guts left in the sun” literally how fish sauce is made?
Either left in the sun, or buried and forgotten.
No need to raise a stink over it.
“Russia has impounded hundreds of boobytrapped boot insoles intended for Vladimir Putin’s foot soldiers, say the Federal Security Service (FSB).
The ‘heated’ insoles for use in cold weather were rigged with enough explosives to blow off a victim’s limbs, it is alleged.
Russian counterintelligence blames Ukrainian secret services for a ploy to maim up to 504 soldiers…
The insoles were in a consignment of ‘humanitarian aid’, it was alleged.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15674111/Russia-discovers-hundreds-boobytrapped-boot-insoles-rigged-explosives-blow-soldiers-legs-off.html
Clever. It seems the Ukrainians have been taking lessons from the Israelis…
Will Russians need to take off their shoes before a flight now?
The first sign of a problem is that someone was sending humanitarian aid to the Russian army.
“Flowers”
Test yourselves…
Share your findings..
First question:
My response of “who the fuck is defining “fairly?” is not given as an option.
The global governing body, naturally…
Just remember how the clot shot was allocated when the Top Men thought it actually effective. Unauthorized recipients were punished just as firmly as later refuseniks.
Yes, I felt it was loaded and had no answers that met with my philosophy. I did take it, came out Plato/classical, but somehow with a dash of Hegelian. Overall mixed, which is understandable given the pick and choose answers.
Metaphysics
Strong Platonist
Politics
Mixed
Epistemology
Strong Hegelian
Technology
Mixed
Human Nature
Strong Aristotelian
Of course, this shit means nothing to me.
I are engineer, duh.
Inconsistent.
No surprise there.
Metaphysics
Strong Platonist
Politics
Strong Classical
Epistemology
Strong Hegelian
Technology
Strong Heideggerian
Human Nature
Strong Existentialist
I’m not just inconsistent, I’m strongly inconsistent.
Nice try AlexBot. 😏
My plans have been foiled! 😎
What I find frustrating about this — not just this btw — isn’t even the simplistic keyword-containing questions. It the whole “give four answers each containing multiple poorly defined terms and make sure they’re all false in at least one way.”
Apparently (like most humans) Great Philosophers are fond of false dichotomies such that I wind up with a “Shadow” who totally destroys me from my blind spot that I agree with.
Likewise, I am NOT a Straussian just because I know for a fact that some writers definitely do encode non-obvious teachings and have been doing this since the ancient Greeks. I can score 100% on a test Strauss’s particular beliefs just by how the answers were phrased, so maybe there is something to this close reading after all.
The whole purpose of the thing felt like putting the answered in the box. Like you I disliked every single possible answer. I then just chose the one least offensive or stupid to me to go with..
“Promethean Existentialist,” even though I find Existentialism the most ridiculous (as in worthy of ridicule) philosophy there is.
And I don’t drink enough to damage my liver to a Promethean level.
Moderate Platonist
Strong Classical
Very Strong Straussian
Slightly Promethean
Strong Aristotelian
The Straussian is interesting since I have never read any Strauss
“The primary unit of climate collapse is the zettajoule. If you have never heard of this term, you are not alone. Even scientists who work on a planetary scale struggle to relate the immensity of the change measured by this titanic unit of energy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/24/what-are-zettajoules-earth-energy-imbalance
“As most of us are now well aware, the burning of oil, gas, coal and forests is releasing heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere. This constipates the Earth system’s ability to excrete heat out into space. And the more energy gets stuck in our home, the more we – and all other forms of life – feel hot, uncomfortable and are vulnerable to heatwaves, storms, floods, droughts or fire.”
constipates?
Excrete?
Science!
Totally not a religion.
The opiate of the masses results in global constipation?
Scientists can’t comprehend it, but Guardian writers can….
“Misogyny, misogynoir and objectification waste women’s time. Instead of being allowed to thrive, organizations like the NCAA, WNBA and NWSL are stymied by pervasive narratives that question women’s legitimacy. Online commentary from men insisting that women should not advocate for higher salaries because their leagues are allegedly less profitable or entertaining exemplifies this obstruction. Women are then trapped in a cycle of constant negotiation, explanation and self-validation. They must repeatedly demonstrate their competence rather than simply do their jobs.”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/24/molly-miller-arizona-state-university-basketball
allegedly less profitable?
Thank goodness my male privilege and “legitimacy” means I am never required to demonstrate competence.
I feel the urge to track down the Beavis and Butthead clip where they discover that they have white privilege and just start taking everything.
You mean like everybody else in the world who’s not a complete wastrel?
NBA players weren’t making bank back when their league was young and trying to attract fans.
The NBA would be fools to not continue subsidizing the WNBA. It may seem like a money losing proposition now, but I’m sure in the future, they will want to share in all the revenue that the WNBA brings in.
This is another issue that simple economics could solve if people weren’t so darned insistent that it be ignored.
If the women’s sports leagues were truly successful and generated gobs of money, the players would be paid accordingly. The leagues aren’t generating much (if any) money, so there is no money to pay the players huge salaries.
Those points seem eminently sensible to me. As for the proposed $250 federal EV registration fee, as Harto and Jaff note, “EVs have not played a significant role in the downward trajectory of federal or state transportation infrastructure revenues, nor can they currently make a significant contribution to reversing those declines.”
I wonder how these author and the article feel about confiscatory taxes those with ultra high net worth? Essentially confiscation won’t change our national debt.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/03/republicans-in-congress-add-250-annual-federal-ev-tax-to-transport-bill/
I watched an extremely entertaining movie last night- Three Bad Sisters
If you like conniving female psychopaths, this movie is for you.
I wonder how these author and the article feel about confiscatory taxes those with ultra high net worth? Essentially confiscation won’t change our national debt.
You punish people for being bad. You don’t punish people for being good. That wouldn’t make sense.
From Racket News, Republicans doing Republican things.
Joe Kent to be hooking up with Candace Owens in 3, 2, 1…
https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-news/ex-trump-counterterror-honcho-joe-kent-peddles-bizarre-conspiracy-theory-that-israel-had-a-hand-in-charlie-kirks-murder/
““We’ve been told that this individual, Robinson, is the one gunman, and maybe he is, but the investigation that I was a part of — the National Counterterrorism Center was a part of — we were stopped from continuing to investigate,” Kent told Carlson, claiming the FBI wanted to turn over the investigation to Utah prosecutors.
“There was still a lot for us to look into that I can’t really get into, but there was still linkage for us to investigate that we needed to run down,” he added.
A law enforcement source familiar with the matter scoffed at Kent’s version of events, telling The Post that he had “no authority” to probe Kirk’s death and “wasn’t ‘blocked’ from investigating s–t — he was blocked from accessing files he had no role or statutory authority to access.”
That source also said that during the early stages of the Kirk assassination investigation, Kent “would walk [into] meetings, without any information or evidence, and speculate that Iran had killed Charlie,” then “when asked for evidence, he had none.””
Iran killed Kirk because they wanted to get into a war?
Like I said earlier, Kirk’s not the first SF operator to go publicly nuts, and he won’t be the last.
Until he testifies in whatshisyiff’s defense, he doesn’t actually believe it.
““[Alexander] Vindman 2.0 here leaked, got caught, and is now trying to salvage his play by fabricating moronic conspiracies with the digital prostitutes crowd,” conservative radio host Dana Loesch chided.”
The leak thing sounds like bullshit.
The Supreme Court hates democracy
President Trump has long railed against mail-in voting, believing — incorrectly — that those late votes improperly cost him the 2020 election. But citizens and politicians alike have enthusiastically embraced voting by mail.
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But in the Supreme Court Monday, the conservative justices, like Trump, seemed suspicious of extending a short grace period to count late-arriving ballots. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, for instance, fixated on what they deemed the possibility of voters “recalling ballots,” which they said could be theoretically done by the U.S. Postal Service or other common carriers like FedEx.
Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart tried repeatedly to assure the court that the state does not permit ballot recalls. But Gorsuch in particular seemed to view those assurances as unreliable.
“FedEx isn’t an election official,” Gorsuch said.
I seem to recall a lot of those ballots did not have postmarks, or were postmarked after election day. We should count them anyway, just to be fair I guess.
If the question, “Do absentee ballots that arrive after election day count?” had been on my 8th grade Civics test, I would have been overjoyed that the test was so easy.
Listing the handful of valid reasons a person could receive an absentee ballot would have been more difficult.
Other gimmee questions would have been (T/F):
Q: The govt mails out ballots to all the last known addresses of registered voters
Q: Voters can fill out their ballots and mail them in at any time starting weeks before an election
Q: Mail in ballots that arrive after election polls close still count
Maybe I’m not recalling correctly, but didn’t Fetterman win in Penna. because a good number of ballots had already been mailed in before he had his terrible performance in the debate with Oz? Late hitting exposes or verbal gaffes or “deplorables” -type views have the possibility of swinging elections and, for many who already voted, it is hard to “take back” their vote.
I have this crazy idea that elections should take place on Election Day.
I also think legislation is something that should be passed by a legislature.
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Certain citizens and certain politicians, NPR. We also condemn other countries when they pull that shit. Stop gaslighting.
extending a short grace period
Just one long enough to ensure the right person wins, right?
That’s good. I hate democracy too.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s a good one.
All kids need a dog.
I remember times as a kid when the whole world was against me. Except for my dog. You could always count on her to have my back in those dark times.
Apparently, that dog needs a kid to have its back.
Ron:
Loyalty goes both ways. A good lesson to teach a kid.
Adorbs.
A decision overturning Mississippi’s law would have particularly profound implications for large rural areas, and members of the military abroad.
I thought there were long standing established procedures for military voters.
As if they care about rural areas.
If you don’t know at the close of polls a pretty darn accurate count of how many ballots you’re going to be counting, there’s a pretty serious problem with your voting system.
“close of polls” lol
The polls close when the right result becomes clear.
The rural areas who in the 19th century had no problem getting on a horse and riding into town for a day to vote?
When I was in the military, I remember them really pushing everyone to vote. They made sure everyone knew how to get their absentee ballot.
GOTCHA
President Trump, an outspoken critic of voting by mail who called it “mail-in cheating” on Monday, voted by mail ahead of a special election in Florida on Tuesday.
Records from the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website show that the president mailed his ballot earlier this month from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach County. Early in-person voting concluded on Sunday.
What a hypocrite. He should have organized a giant motorcade with a big mob of reporters to go down to the polling place. He could have sent a security team to shut it down for a few hours while they swept the place for threats.
“A judge has granted house arrest for a 12-year-old boy for his alleged role in the 2025 violent rape of a 12-year-old girl at a Miami community garden.
Jusiah Jones, 12, was granted house arrest while awaiting trial in a hearing on Monday, while 13-year-old Nelson Nunez was denied bond. Jones, Nunez, and 15-year-old Xavier Tyson have all been charged as adults in the case, per NBC 6.
Police say that the victim informed investigators that she had been taken to the Green Haven Project in the Miami neighborhood on Overtown by the group of boys on June 18, 2025, and was held down by Jones and Tyson. She said she was prevented from screaming when her mouth was stuffed full of rocks. Nunez went on to rape her, police said.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/judge-releases-miami-boy-charged-in-violent-gang-rape-of-12-year-old-girl
WTF??
What more could you demand of this poor child?
Vested interests? What are you talking about?
Minnesoda is considering new laws to allow plug in solar panels. It isn’t like you could just let people do what they want with their own property.
The legislation looks like an uphill slog because utilities and the electrician’s unions are all against this. How dare they allow something that might cut into their pie?
I was sort of intrigued by the idea of these units. Basically, they feed directly into your house. Advocates say they can knock off $35-$55/month from you electrical bill (cost high hundreds to low $Ks).
Then I read this objection from the utilities:
To me the real benefit of solar is to decentralize the grid, so outages aren’t as severe. But now you are telling me that my solar isn’t usable after a storm? Fuck that noise.
I watched people install them in Texas. Yes, we have tons of sun! You could generate power. BUT, we get devastating hail every year. Solar cells break in hail, or even if they don’t your roof might need to be replaced. The cost/benefit isn’t there if you have to replace them or move them every couple of years.
RJ:
we get devastating hail every year
Just build a roof over them. Duh!
hahahahaha! Touche!
Donna Brazile, nonpartisan advocate of democracy
Examples of Trump’s assault on our democracy and freedoms abound, echoing past actions of foreign leaders who replaced democracies with fascist, communist and theocratic tyrannies. The president has politicized and weaponized the FBI, Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security, and demanded — without justification — that his Justice Department launch investigations and prosecutions against former and current government officials whom he opposes. This is a clear abuse of power.
So many examples, so obvious and shocking it would be pointless to list them.
Launching investigations and prosecutions against former and current government officials whom one opposes is a clear abuse of power until the day after the midterms when suddenly it becomes the highest form of patriotism.
The legislation would require people to produce a passport or birth certificate (disadvantaging married women who take their husbands’ last name) to register to vote, outlaw voting by mail under most circumstances, give the federal government unprecedented control of elections in every state and take other actions to make it harder for groups that tend to support Democrats to vote.
There is absolutely no way for a married woman to provide evidence of being married.
disadvantaging married women who take their husbands’ last name
Yeah, it’s not like the government deals with this issue 1000x every single day and has a process in place for issuing new documents to address this exact problem. Nosiree
Ballot harvesters and crooked poll workers hardest hit.