Happy Thursday. The final Thursday of March. Only a few hours left where I can dream that the Texas Longhorns are one of the top 8 basketball teams in the country. I’ll be honest, I hadn’t watched a lick of college basketball all year, but was shocked to see Texas win not only the play-in game, but two more. The Ginger Giant they have is pretty decent. Not, I think, good enough to carry them to victory.
Also, does your spouse ever do something that becomes the comedic gift that keeps on giving? My wife’s inside door handle broke inside her car a couple of days ago, and the Mongo/She-Hulk jokes have been flowing ever since. Seriously, I’m going to give her a complex. She’ll probably tear the bedroom door off the wall going to cry about it.
Anyhow, enough about how I’m not getting laid anytime soon, even by married standards. You guys are her for… the links:
I’m not saying birds aren’t real, but this is the year the US government declassified alien activity.
Goddammit, don’t mix the awesomeness of X-Com with the shit of Star Wars.
Florida Woman, your attorney should probably look into how the owner of the property you are accused of ruining came across that video evidence.
Is this not how one should parent?
She reportedly found that an antique Crown Royal chair, rug, typewriter, four dining room chairs, coffee maker, bed, TV, record player, toaster, and electric fireplace needed to be replaced, amounting to $3,980 in damage.
I guess she is going to pay extra for that.
I said a mildly snarky thing to Michael Malice on Twitter and now I’m getting dogpiled. 🙄
And they aren’t even cute puppies!
🐶
Now you just have to monetize it.
Da Fuq?
Don’t get high off your own supply.
Player Turn
*takes 95% shot*
*Miss*
*takes 99% shot*
*Miss*
*takes 110% shot*
*Miss*
Enemy Turn
*takes 12% shot*
*Hit!*
*takes 8% shot*
*Hit!*
*takes 0% shot*
*Critical Hit!*
X-Com is wonderful.
I was one of the few who completed the first one in Ironman mode, which led to confusion when I started up the second one.
“I’m not saying birds aren’t real”
That drone better be disguised as a bald eagle wearing a MAGA hat.
That got a childish laugh outta me, bigger than it should’ve. But, ships fly flags, yeah? Bird-Drones should have national flavor, as well.
The Southeast Asian ones should all be flying tuk-tuks w a different, nat’l pride colors and hat thingys. I was gonna make a joke about Singapore’s being the quickest and most secretive, and well-funded, but Singapore absolutely does not have tuk tuks.
See also: Well-funded.
Sharks Are Testing Positive For Cocaine And Caffeine in The Bahamas
Kanizame Shakurabu
What jobs are the sharks applying for that the drug tests look for caffiene?
Tennis player?
🦈🎾
That is so ridiculous I can’t even.
Do we have any idea how many cups of coffee that actually is?
Seems very Euro. ~Same time their sharks went after Armstrong? Must protect their precious Europeanness!
(Read: Get their cut. Their winners.)
They don’t even pretend to give a shit about that anymore, and dare not to out loud. Yeesh.
google says: Typical blood caffeine levels in coffee drinkers are highly variable, often fluctuating between low concentrations and a peak of ~10 mg/L after a single dose. Regular, moderate drinkers often keep plasma concentrations in the range of 1–5 mg/L, but this depends on consumption habits and metabolic speed, with caffeine peaking 15–120 minutes post-consumption.
so 10 mg/l should be the same as 10 micrograms/ml right? can’t be certain of doing math in my head anymore.
So, her level was just above typical for a coffee drinker.
A single cup is about 150 miligrams.
How many microliters of blood are in a human? 9 pints for a woman, 4.26 liters, 4259.3 mililiters.
150 Miligrams in micrograms is 150,000 micrograms.
One cup of coffee, fully absorbed would put 35.21 Micrograms per milileter of blood.
Implies the rule is “no caffeine the day of competition”
Okay, I skipped rates of absorbtion and metablization. So go with Kinnath, but the answer does appear to be One
Those units always confuse me, aren’t you an engineer? 😉
Mostly because different professions use different prefixes for the same volume. My wife the RN is I go to for that.
A former coworker of mine was an Olympic cyclist back in the 90s. He said he never doped, which is why he probably didn’t medal, but he did tell me about caffeine suppositories.
😱
aren’t you an engineer?
You talking to me? glares into the mirror
Yes I am. I haven’t need to do math in decades. That’s what excel is for. 😉
And I am a senior citizen, so the brain isn’t as sharp as it used to be.
I suffer from the same.
My brain has always been kinda round and wrinkly.
Beginners.
I was searching (in my head) for a name. Ron????
I could not come up with a last name, a name you and I might use any/every day. It was driving me nutty.
Finally I had to give him. Internet check. Of course, Ron Paul. I was blanked out, not any where near that in my head.
Don’t send me to the store without a list…
“A single cup is about 150 miligrams.”
What’s that in scruples per firkin?
Life imitates art.
I am gonna get a hat made that says Cocaine Shark.
Two chicks at the same time!
In too local news: I may be jaded and cynical, but I think this is what the kids would call “sus.”
A fire reportedly limited to the roof of a Chinese-owned factory with a dodgy safety record burns for almost two solid days (Sunday to Tuesday,) spewing smoke on the surrounding neighborhoods. What the hell did they have up there?? And they haven’t started trying to figure out what happened? 🤨
“No spy gear up there, only grass.”
What would happen to a non-Chinese owner?
Yuuuh huh. (I suppose it’d depend on who they donated to.)
GM and Safelite hit hardest?
No comment from Saint Gorbain.
They won’t have enough glass to do both EVs and ICs, have to stop making one or the other. Oh well, life is like that.
More like nuestros, not sus.
I have a Fuyao replacement windshield. It was made in Ohio. My wife has a PGW (Pittsburgh Glass Works) replacement windshield. It was made in China.
Like Honda’s mostly U.S. cars and GM’s Mexican and Korean cars.
It’s a global market and economy.
I just love the irony of Fuyao being made in US and Pittsburgh being made in China. PGW took a play out of Harbor Freight’s playbook.
Also, that Fuyao plant sounds like it’s run like the “insourcing” suggested in the movie “The Campaign”.
Do you do your own glass or have somebody that comes to your shop?
It’s a bit of a specialty trade.
I’m totally mobile (I’m a “concierge” mechanic). So I don’t do windshields or other fixed glass, but do replace broken side windows. If it’s windshield or other fixed glass, I refer them out.
Did not know that! Cool.
They were storing the oil from the shadow tanker fleet that passed through the Strait of Hormuz.
It’s not about the money!
For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people’s mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide.
For the first time, juries in two states took their side.
In Los Angeles on Wednesday, a jury found both Meta and YouTube liable for harms to children using their services. In New Mexico, a jury determined that Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms.
Tech watchdog groups, families and children’s advocates cheered the jury decisions.
They only want justice.
Meta and/or Youtube ate my homework.
“The Los Angeles case had a single plaintiff, who goes by the initials KGM, against Meta, Google’s YouTube, TikTok and Snap.”
Now she can afford the latest iPhone!
And join each of those socials all over again
When I was a younger person a neighbor kid threatened every day to beat me up.
I learned to avoid her.
I made that up but wouldn’t avoiding those places on line prevent one from getting beat up?
KGM?
Kids Gone Meta?
If social media were to be destroyed, would we maybe go back to the salad days of privately hosted interest-based discussion forums?
We really didn’t know how good we had it in the 90’s…
Pour one out for BBSs.
Usenet pre endless September.
Alta Vista searches.
I highly doubt teenagers are pushing any ideas about social media being detrimental. And parents can restrict their chickened if they feel that way. SM media like most things is not the business of educators.
The verdicts show the public’s growing willingness to hold the companies responsible for harms and demand meaningful changes in how they operate. What’s not apparent, at least not yet, is whether the companies will take heed. Both Meta and Google said they disagree with the verdicts and are exploring legal options, including appeals.
What magical “fixes” can we expect?
Intrusive age verification
Like alcohol sales where the registers no longer let the clerk override or enter age manually but must scan a DL barcode.
California says, “Hold my beer.”
Oooh. Fun bit of gas stn life: We can enter birthdays anytime we want to, really. Colleague tried to see how far back it would go. It wouldn’t do 1215, he told me, but it did allow 16-something. He didn’t have chance to test it further, but I’d say 1500 AD and on is a good guess.
Some staff reportedly questioned how sexy ChatGPT benefits humanity.
OTH, Palantir…
All the erotic fiction an AWFL could ever read.
In my head, and I assume I’m correct, AWFLs are much more likely to be into getting dominated in bed. (IN A SAFE MANNER@!@!!) I almost can’t see why they wouldn’t be. Probably repetitively, cuz they lack imagination.
All bottled in all the time… they may be into domming soy bois cuz AWFLs lack upper body strength, but I don’t think that’d do the trick for ’em. I’m making all this up, but somehow. I’m not. Think about it.
Some other staff reportedly questioned how
sexyChatGPT benefits humanity.While both cases focused on harms to children, there are key differences between the two. New Mexico’s lawsuit was filed by state Attorney General Raúl Torrez in 2023. State investigators built their case by posing as children on social media, then documenting sexual solicitations they received as well as Meta’s response. The jury was asked to determine if Meta violated New Mexico’s consumer protection law.
They violated the terms of service to engage in criminal activity? They’re the good guys.
Delivery for the ODing junkie!
BRINC’s new police drone uses Starlink, carries Narcan, chases vehicles at 60mph
Lol ZeroHedge for past month mostly right about Trumps silly adventures into Iran and calling it out.
Trump calls for additional 10 days for talks and it is
Which is it people!
Sounds like talks are working, so he is keeping them going?
No. Buying time so recieve orders from Israel and ground troops
JOOOOOOOOOOS!!!!
Define working?
I dunno how productive they were, considering the Iranians came back with some pretty extreme demands of their own. Like the US must pay all war damages, make Iranian proxies whole, turn the Strait of Hormuz over to Iran, etc.
My guess is they’re about all out of missiles and drones and other nasty things that go bang and need some time to get resupplied.
Never let a sunk cost go to waste.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/here-is-nasas-plan-for-nuking-gateway-and-sending-it-to-mars/
Got to be a functioning engineer today. Spent an hour arguing about semantics on one point in a massive spreadsheet.
Then a couple of hours later, we are inventing new shit with the same people.
Being able to argue the merits and not hold a grudge over it is a nice trait to have.
I may forgive but I never forget. Oh, yeah, I’ll forget within a minute or two, certainly by morning.
So most of the time you’re malfunctioning?
/ducking
that is correct
Since today was baseball’s Opening Day (get outta here, Yanks and Giants) and the weather in Florida has been fantastic, I put twice the usual amount of suet in my backyard bird feeder. I then spent the late morning and half the afternoon smoking a corned beef brisket and watching a couple of bright orange birds go to town on the copious amounts of free seed.
Life is good with a cold glass of
milkbeer and some double-stuffed orioles.Life is better without baseball. :-p
But much better with double stuffed areolas and a glass of beer.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/composer-of-lion-king-chant-sues-comedian-over-circle-of-life-translation/ar-AA1Zu6R5
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Morake wrote the opening chant to Disney’s 1994 animated film and Broadway hit, “The Lion King”: “Nants’ingonyama bagithi Baba,” a line written in isiZulu and isiXhosa, translates to “All hail the king, we all bow in the presence of the king,” according to a federal lawsuit filed March 16 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and reviewed by USA TODAY.
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Last month, Learnmore Mwanyenyeka, a Zimbabwean‑born comedian and content creator, said during an appearance on the One54 Africa podcast that the chant translates to: “Look, there’s a lion. Oh my god.”
When asked if he was joking, Mwanyenyeka replied, “That’s exactly what it means.”
According to the complaint, multiple viewers stated they believed the translation was correct, with some describing it as having “ruined their childhood.”
While “ingonyama” can translate to “lion” in Zulu, according to the lawsuit, in Praise Imbongi and royal metaphor, “Ngonyama or Ingonyama” signifies kingship, ancestral authority, and sovereign presence.
The translation “is a fabricated, trivializing distortion, meant as a sick joke for unlawful self-profit and destruction of the imaginative and artistic work of Lebo M,” the lawsuit states.
Morake accused the comedian of attempting to erase more than 30 years of cultural and artistic work. Mwanyenyeka, according to the complaint, said he had been performing the joke for eight years.
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[head desk]
One of my Peace Corps pals said that when she was a kid, she thought they were singing “pink pajamas, penguins on the bottom”.
My host family in Tanzania gave me a Lion King placemat whenever I ate with them. I guess it was a joke.
Google translate gives a Xhosa translation of “there is a lion, they call him baba”.
Baba means father in many African languages.
Microsoft’s translator returns an incorrect Swahili translation of “here comes a lion, father”. The actual Kiswahili for that is: simba anakuja hapa, baba.
I’m glad I can kinda sorta sound out “Xhosa.” After showing me how to do it properly, Kylie, former SA girlfriend, said mine was pretty good. Yes, assuredly, for a white guy. Likely, that’ll never come in handy, but it’s a fun bit to pocket.
I’m not opposed to giving Whites and Coloured Saffas asylum status Stateside. SA is fucked.