Monday Morning Links

by | Apr 6, 2026 | Daily Links | 227 comments

I hope everybody had a Happy Easter weekend. My kids get another day off today and will undoubtedly drive me nuts. I fear TTUN will as well, because I think they’re gonna drink UConn tonight to win the NCAA Tournament. In baseball, the transition to the appeal program seems to be working with few complaints. And of course the Yankees and Dodgers are on top of the game early. But the Astros are off to a decent start. Could be an interesting year. Across the pond, Leeds made the FA Cup semifinals after a wild one. They’ll play Chelsea, Man City and second division Southampton will play the other, after they beat Arsenal. And that’s it for sports.

“You can probably do this, but I’m not gonna let you anyway.” I guess the Supreme Court’s decision just three years ago doesn’t matter to some of these judges.

The answer is “probably not.” Not because it’s not physically doable. But because the public sector doing it means it will be done by connected grifters rather than businesspeople.

Greedy bastards. No, I’m not referring to the people who actually earned what they have.

She deserves the mockery. They ought to treat student load deadbeats the same way they treat child support deadbeats, by pulling their passports.

I don’t guess this is ending any time soon. Even though these guys keep having big meetings and popping their heads up to talk shit. There’s another one waiting in the wings to take these jobs.

This is true. But at least the British would have the will. From what I’ve read, the rest of Europe would have valued the equipment more than the men.

Well, I guess you know what this means: We have to change our entire way of life and abandon our culture because people are being asked to follow the law.

What the hell is wrong with people? Some of this should be considered a war crime.

What a dumbass. I’m sure this is somehow my fault and/or the fault of the greedy oil companies.

What a shitty situation. I wonder who ate what before they left.

Here’s a lovely track. Uplifting, even. The same goes for this one. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Easter Monday, dear friends.

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227 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “The federal judge said the federal government likely has the authority to collect the data, but the demand was rolled out to universities in a “rushed and chaotic” manner. ”

    OFFS!

    • sloopyinca

      It’s ridiculous. The SC really needs to stomp on these judges who openly defy their rulings.

      • juris imprudent

        They all think they are Judge Dredd.

    • Ownbestenemy

      If that was rushed and chaotic and even of a basis to play Nazgul then they need to look at nearly all the actions of the Federal Government from about 2001, starting with the Partriot Act on through O-Care and on and on

    • AlexinCT

      Anything to leave the space to rig the next election..

    • rhywun

      Hits the “When are we going to impeach these activist judges already” macro again.

    • R C Dean

      This won’t stop until there are personal consequences for the judges doing it.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Impeachment. But there is a reason for such a high bar.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s the problem – too high of a bar and one that greatly exceeds simple accountability.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        The bar isn’t too high, as with the attempted impeachments of Trump. You have to set it high to get over the hump of gross politics, which is what we saw in those fiascos.

  2. Common Tater

    “student load”

    Think I saw that video

    • Gdragon

      They didn’t pay it back, they spread it around.

      • AlexinCT

        Who’s your teacher?

      • Gdragon

        Home schooled.

        Oops, I meant to say step-home schooled…

      • AlexinCT

        Not familiar with that genre….

        Is it on pr0nhub?

      • Gdragon

        It does not matter what you are asking about, the answer to “Is it on pr0nhub?” is always “Yes, unfortunately it is…”

  3. Common Tater

    “The bartenders dissolve chicken bones in acid and add a dash to the cocktail.”

    No.

  4. Not Adahn

    Bloody Bulls are freaking delicious.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Yes, but sometimes the matador doesn’t win.

      • (((Jarflax

        I think you need to talk to Pie about that variant of the drink.

    • Nephilium

      I’ve got a recipe kicking around for a “corrected” beef broth. The correction is Scotch, with a couple of other additions to make a savory cocktail.

  5. Ted S.

    Well, I guess you know what this means:

    The kids could go live with their parents?

  6. Not Adahn

    Good morning all!

    I wake up early, and it annoys me to no end that I can’t get the breakfasts I want here, when I want them. Whether it’s a Full Irish with a pint or an English or other fry-up with cider, weekend breakfasts are sometimes either sub-optimal or leave me with too many dishes to wash.

      • Not Adahn

        There are places I could get them, were I willing to wait until late morning to have breakfast. Which I am not. I am still mildly grumpy that Triangle moved their opening time to 7:00.

        BTW, there are matches both days this weekend. A KFGC GPA one on Saturday and a Steel Challenge at SaraSpa on Sunday. I will be at both but only help setup/tear down the Sunday one.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m going to Syracuse this weekend. I even went so far as to book a hotel room so I could attend both days of the show without excessive driving. (Sure, it’s only 2.5-3 hours each way, but I wanted to avoid the extra trip)

      • Gdragon

        Syracuse used to mean a trip to Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. Is it still good or have they lost the touch?

      • UnCivilServant

        There’s a Dinosaur down the road from where I live.

        They’re fine. I never thought them particularly exceptional in any location I visited. Never understood the hyperbolic praise they got. But it also means they haven’t gone down from where they were previously.

        Haven’t been to the Syracuse location(s) in ages, but was down the road late last year.

      • Gdragon

        Yeah it has definitely been declining, I haven’t been to the original location in forever and was hoping that it was still good. Once I saw a Dinosaur in Connecticut I figured it would slowly turn to shit.

      • Not Adahn

        I went to the Albany one early in my time here. I was impressed by the sides. I haven’t been back and the only decent place I’ve found near to me closed.

      • (((Jarflax

        I would contribute to a program to release dinosaurs in Connecticut, and I would fully intend for them to turn some people to shit.

      • Ted S.

        Why do you want to turn Alex to shit?

      • Gdragon

        Alex won’t be a victim, he is going to be the hero in that movie.

      • Not Adahn

        There is a youtube channel called Tundra Tactical that has a series of comedic rants about gun shows. You can watch them and compare them to reality… and write it up.

      • AlexinCT

        Alex won’t be a victim, he is going to be the hero in that movie.

        As them Minnesodans say: “You betcha!”

        And I will steal that quote from Gunny Highway about drinking more bourbon, pissing more blood, and banging more quiff than the lot of the other people in that movie ending up as dino chow.

  7. Muzzled Woodchipper

    In baseball, the transition to the appeal program seems to be working with few complaints.

    That because people are idiots.

    The assumption is that the computer is correct. The problem is that the computer computes balls and strikes in a way that is not in accordance with the rules.

    The strike zone is a 3D area. ABS calculates balls and strikes on a 2D plane at the middle of the plate. The game is essentially using two separate strike zones, with the “definitive” one not in accordance with the rule.

    • Ted S.

      See also when the computer doesn’t agree with the physical mark the ball leaves in the clay in tennis.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      THIS!!!!!

      They have umpires for a damn reason, get rid of anything that cannot be used at little league level of play. This is not the game anymore, and, no, banana ball isn’t the answer for grumpy old men like me, either.

      And get rid of all instant replay BS in sports, too.

      • Grummun

        The problem is that with all the cameras in place for television broadcasts, you’ve got de-facto video replay for everything already, it’s just the crowds and broadcasters that are using it. So when a ref gets the call on the field stupid wrong, everybody sees it. The leagues have to use it.

    • Gdragon

      If the computer is going to stand as “correct” and be the final standard then use it all of the time. And if using it all of the time isn’t actually the best solution then why on earth are we using it some of the time?

      Maybe I am nuts but I don’t think that “Hey, do you think that this call is important enough for us to make sure that it’s ‘correct’ or should we let it go?” should be a question of strategy for a team that is participating in a sporting event.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        They don’t want to admit that we already had the best solution.

        The problem wasn’t really umpires. The problem was that little fucking box on the screen that isn’t really representative of the strike zone in any realistic way, and that little dot where the teevee says the ball crossed the plate, which also wasn’t accurate in any realistic way. It gave people the false idea that they could see something umpires couldn’t, and so people demanded more accuracy from umpires when it probably wasn’t warranted.

        Now we have this monstrosity of a situation where a computer uses a single plane to determine something that isn’t defined by a single plane.

        I fucking hate it. I also don’t really approve of calling out umpires for “missing” a call by 1/10” on a 95mph pitch that moves 2.5’

      • juris imprudent

        If umpires really did their job then managers should never argue with them.

    • Drake

      The zone used by umpires and computers is ridiculously low compared to the rule book.

    • Gdragon

      His mom probably did that, she just wanted to make sure that he kept up with his reading while he was away at war LOL

  8. rhywun

    But because the public sector doing it means it will be done by connected grifters rather than businesspeople.

    I’ve noted this in the past but yes, the US public sector is actually much more corrupt than in some of these countries that already have “high speed rail”, like Germany – or at least, already had such works several decades ago. I suspect they are moving rapidly in our direction when it comes to public corruption because they seem to be losing their “high trust” societies much like we did ours long ago.

    • rhywun

      In the near-decade since operations began, more than 200 people have been hit and killed by Brightline trains

      JFC!!

      • Ted S.

        I assume the number would be no lower if Big Government were running these trains.

      • rhywun

        No, because they’re running 125 MPH trains with street crossings. That is a recipe for disaster.

      • Raven Nation

        Those evil private trains – seeking out people to kill.

        With no hard data at all, I’m going to guess that at least 90% of the people killed by trains are the ones at fault.

    • juris imprudent

      There is no reason to prefer “high speed” rail to high speed air travel. That peoples actual preferences don’t align with the preferences of the proponents of choo-choos is too fucking bad.

      • Drake

        This. I can catch a direct flight from Greenville SC to Providence RI that takes 2 hours. The tickets were under $100 each way before the war started.

        Nothing even close is possible with trains.

      • rhywun

        It can work in limited parts of the US like the NE where the distances are shorter and the hassles of dealing with airports can be avoided. Nowhere else here, probably.

      • slumbrew

        But then you’re in Providence…

        (I keed, I keed – I like Providence – if RI weren’t so fucked, financially, I’d consider a move there)

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        What you have are a bunch of Yalies and Vassar girls who got a Eurail pass one summer thought it was soooooo great and why can’t we be more like them? Not thinking about how Europe’s insistence on incinerating itself every 50-100 years gives fertile ground for things like this as it resets the place to essentially year zero each time, tech wise.

      • slumbrew

        Really, the best part of the train is the ability to arrive 5 minutes before departure and just walking on.

        Although, I dunno if it’s just Logan, but I’ve been absolutely breezing through TSA the last few times I’ve gone. Like, 8 minutes from Uber drop off and through security, 5 minutes of which is just schlepping from the ride share drop off.

      • PieInTheSky

        For short enough trips I prefer rail. More comfortable, less hassle, the train station is closer to downtown than the airport. You can watch the view walk about the train have a drink in the bar cart. No turbulence. If the train does 4 hours or less I like it.

      • slumbrew

        Oh, yes, ZWAK touches on another things about the BOS to NYP line – it runs thorough some totally beautiful waterfront land. An attempt to build it from scratch would require trillions in eminent domain seizures.

      • slumbrew

        Yes, Boston to New York kinda works because it’s about 4 hours. And those cities are incredibly close by US standards. Same for NY to DC.

        I’d never even consider Boston to DC on the train, even the Acela.

      • Not Adahn

        The only time I took a long train ride I was looking forward to it because I thought I’d be able to nap. I was wrong.

        I do like taking VIA rail from MTL to Quebec, but that’s just a part of visiting French Canadian Disneyland.

      • rhywun

        There was a time when flying was more expensive that the train so I took it cross-country a couple decades ago. Got trashed and played cards with some strangers between Buffalo and Chicago.

      • PieInTheSky

        I took the bus from Bucharest to Barcelona. Do not recommend.

      • UnCivilServant

        bus from Bucharest to Barcelona

        Does that route go north or south of the Alps?

      • Rat on a train

        Maybe a train from Milan to Minsk …

      • PieInTheSky

        South. slovenia-italy-france

    • Threedoor

      Passenger rail simply does not pencil out.

      It’s like any other form of transit as it costs more per passenger mile than simply buying a car.

    • rhywun

      “Jiggled, not stirred.”

      • Sean

        🙂

    • Not Adahn

      I wouldn’t object to some Girl-Bond-on-Bond-Girl action.

    • DrOtto

      James Blonde (I’m trademarking that)

    • PieInTheSky

      South. slovenia-italy-france

      • PieInTheSky

        what the fuck.

    • The Other Kevin

      THAT’S how you 4-D chess. Or 4-D chest, take your pick.

    • UnCivilServant

      Only those women who are prone to initiating domestic violence. Lesbians hardest hit.

      • DrOtto

        Also, lesbians hit hardest.

  9. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    The US doesn’t have high speed rail because it doesn’t work in most of the country. The only place really available for it would be the Acela corridor, which is already served by a train that can only go so fast in built up areas, which it already does. The rest of the country is better served by roads and air travel, which we already have. If the US was going to do HS rail, it would have done it in the sixties, but at that point we didn’t have nearly as much moving about the country, as it is highly regional.

    It is out dated tech, superseded by aviation.

    • slumbrew

      Acela BOS to NYP is pretty pleasant but is a toss-up, time wise, vs. flying. And it’s often more expensive. And they still manage to lose money.

    • creech

      What kind of greedy monsters would deny the rights of rail hobbyists, people afraid to fly, people who get bus sick, and retirees wanting to see the country from ground level the ability to extract billions of dollars from taxpayers in order to build high speed trains? Planners, engineers, and construction workers need to eat too, and bureaucrats get tingles from practicing eminent domain every time one of these boondoggles gets built.

      • (((Jarflax

        Eminent domain, routing the trains to isolate uncooperative regions and reward cooperative ones, huge contracts for grading, tunnel and bridge building, and track laying with enormous graft potential, of course they love trains.

  10. rhywun

    I’m not getting why the “Iran rescue” is wall-to-wall 24/7 news.

    • UnCivilServant

      Donno, all we did was conduct a massive search and rescue operation over a hostile country, plonk down a forward operating base on the doorstep of a major military nexus, successfully extract all of the people alive, and lost fewer aircraft to enemy action than to soft soil.

      • rhywun

        I don’t know the details, it just seems like “shit that happens during war”.

      • AlexinCT

        It was shit that happens during war when you have competent people in charge. The thing that aggravated the credentialed expertise class the most, was that the fear they had of the contrast of their ineptitude and stupid choices would brutally be contrasted to what competence looks like. Pete Hegseth and efforts to dewokify the military were resisted because of this: it made the ineptitude of the credentialed expertise class and their woke agenda brutally obvious.

      • Drake

        That was the good part (sold there really were no casualties). Losing a half $ billion worth of aircraft in a day is the not so good part.

      • AlexinCT

        Losing half a billion dollars of hardware, even if it is in one day, to save a serviceman, sounds far more palatable than the close to $100 billion left in Afghanistan or the close to $2 trillion in welfare fraud at the federal and state level so democrats can enrich themselves and their friends and run ops for the CCP to me. And call me when we start discussing how pallets of cash where given to these assholes in Qom that were then spent on weapons and terrorism instead of improving the lives of their people. BTW, here is what Iranians think of this….

        Know what I am saying?

    • AlexinCT

      Because there was a whole cabal of people hoping that/rooting for Iran would capture that WSO and give the Trumpians a black eye?

      Think about it. After some 20K sortees and Iran’s military being annihilated (I hate people that say decimated, because decimated means one in ten got killed) these tools were saying the war was now surely lost because the Iranians finally got luck and shot down ONE 30 year old aircraft. When the WSO was found and saved, they pivoted to complaining about the hardware losses saving one man. These are the same idiots that made excuses for Biden leaving $98 billion of military gear in Afghanistan along with 13 US servicemen a few years back, and have been defending hundreds of billions in welfare program fraud committed by democrats and their foreign replacement voter classes.

      There is a reason the socialists are more concerned about the $$ losses to save one life. I remind you these are the socialists constantly talking about how others have right to the money I/you have earned, make people in dire medical conditions wait years for treatment they need in days (and now offer them assisted suicide as an alternative), demand we be unarmed and wait for policemen to show in minutes when seconds count, and hate western civilization and Judeo-Christian values.

      • Not Adahn

        Compare and contrast with Operation Eagle Claw.

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^WORD^^^

    • PieInTheSky

      it is a future blockbuster movie.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Owen Wilson can play the WSO even

  11. Common Tater

    ““There is great stigma associated with it. It affects your credit score. Housing is a human right. It is a predictor of health outcomes,” Pressley said. “It’s essential for social and economic mobility, and so many people, when they receive a notice to quit or to vacate their homes, usually because of non-payment, because wages are not keeping pace with inflation, they don’t know their rights, and a lot of times, they will just accept that notice to quit and leave. And so my legislation is making sure they have access because we found that when tenants know their rights, when they have access to legal counsel, we can usually keep them safely housed.”

    The HELP Act would provide “critical support” to renters at risk of eviction. The legislation includes provisions to prohibit credit reporting of evictions and utility debt, require landlords covered under the bill to inform tenants of their “rights,” and establish a national hotline through the Department of Housing and Urban Development to connect renters with eviction prevention resources.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/ayanna-pressley-brings-bill-to-help-renters-stay-in-homes-without-paying-claims-eviction-is-an-act-of-violence

    CWAC

    • juris imprudent

      Housing is a human right.

      No, it isn’t. So since she is so wrong about that, no need to even debate the rest of it.

      • (((Jarflax

        If you take the notion of positive rights to its obvious end hot young women have to sleep with me! Sexual gratification is a part of human well being after all!

      • UnCivilServant

        You’ve been waitlisted, Jar.

        We can offer you Euthenasia for your disappointment in interpersonal activities instead.

      • (((Jarflax

        That won’t do! I demand compensation! An unlimited category politician tag for my hunting license would suffice.

      • juris imprudent

        You may not cull nor euthanize politicians.

      • (((Jarflax

        How about tarring and feathering?

    • EvilSheldon

      Yes, there should be a great deal of stigma attached to being a bum and not paying your debts.

      • rhywun

        This is another instance where it’s useless to argue with the left because they don’t think this way at all.

        Their entire worldview is centered around making people dependent on the government.

    • Ted S.

      Can’t I not pay the rent known as property tax to the government, please?

    • R C Dean

      I’m surprised it was that recent.

      • SandMan

        Me too.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Whoa buddy! I didn’t know it would apply to me!

      • The Other Kevin

        The second unspoken part is always “and me and my buddies get to decide what speech is ok.”

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      God, that woman is stupid.

      • Ted S.

        Evil, not stupid.

      • slumbrew

        Ted is correct.

      • kinnath

        Why not both?

      • EvilSheldon

        Evil, yes, but she also has that blank dead-eyed look that makes me think of a cow that was just asked a moderately difficult math problem…

      • rhywun

        I always guess “evil” over “stupid”.

        Sometimes there is both but the “evil” is always there with these types. Most of them are not stupid.

    • (((Jarflax

      Popper talked about the paradox of tolerance, where tolerating intolerance ends up allowing intolerance to triumph and paradoxically tolerance leads to intolerance. His ideas have created what I call the Popper paradox where only the least tolerant of disagreement find his idea appealing and label those who welcome debate as intolerant in order to end the debate.

      • juris imprudent

        He doesn’t seem to consider that it isn’t a purely intellectual exercise, it is what people do in mass. The masses must always be constrained, as they are always prone to irrational excess.

      • (((Jarflax

        Heretics must always be destroyed.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Gotta destroy it to save it like that village in Vietnam.

    • Raven Nation

      During covid she quite publicly and happily declared that anything that did not come from the government was wrong.

    • AlexinCT

      Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech is a weapon of war, and censorship is necessary to protect free speech.

      It is as if these commie bints read all the dystopian novels of the last century, warning about the coming abuse of power by the credentialed elite classes, and took them to be “How to” manuals…

      Fucking insane…

      And when they tell you they must trample your freedom to save democracy, they mean to save their hold on power when they do evil, destructive shit.

    • The Other Kevin

      I always like to point out that every successful social movement, from ending slavery to women voting to civil rights to gay rights, all started out as unpopular and “offensive” and would have been subject to censorship. So what important future change are we smothering in infancy with censorship laws? Of course these people are arrogant enough to think they can decide what changes in society to allow.

    • AlexinCT

      I hear a judge in Hawaii just ordered the Trump admin to return that saved WSO officer back to Iran’s IRGC as well…

      • Not Adahn

        Babylon Bee lurker, get on this stat!

      • PieInTheSky

        you clicked? pervert.

      • EvilSheldon

        Have you considered trying something…spicier?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Im glad my lineage is Norway/Sweden and not some dirty Dane blood

  12. PieInTheSky

    Richard Gere: “The entire planet has fallen off a cliff into the stupid zone. Do you really think these refugees and immigrants are different than us? Do you really believe these clowns like Trump, Orban, Netanyahu, Putin? You really believe what these guys say?”

    https://x.com/Gibboanxious/status/2041033158586425644

    • UnCivilServant

      Do you really think these refugees and immigrants are different than us?

      Yes, absolutely.

      Send them home, so that they don’t turn our country into the shitholes they ran away from.

      • AlexinCT

        Someone should tell this idiot Gere to go back to abusing gerbils…

    • EvilSheldon

      I’d love to know how many refugees and immigrants Richard Gere interacts with on a daily basis, discounting the ones who mow his lawn and raise his children…

      • Ownbestenemy

        Doesnt matter. No one was talking about Richard yesterday and now they are. Achievment unlocked.

      • (((Jarflax

        Old time gerbil botherer, no one you need worry about.

    • The Other Kevin

      A lot of people think I look like him. It’s very sad.

      • AlexinCT

        Yeah, but do you like to make gerbils go, erm “spelunking”?

  13. PieInTheSky

    instead of studying what iran’s resistance means for world liberation, some marxists are fixated on the bourgeois-clerical character of the “regime”. I’m sorry but the irgc, sovereign capacities, and mass mobilisation are the revolution, not some fantasy about workers’s councils

    the iranian state seizing control over the strait of hormuz *is* the proletariat demonstrating its role in the process of global accumulation, the iranian military launching ballistic missiles at targets in occupied palestine and the gulf apparatus *is* the working class at arms

    trotsky *and* stalin agreed that third world movements resisting imperialist domination, whatever their internal character, are revolutionary. this is leninist orthodoxy, not a fanonian guevarist khomeinist heresy cooked up by us on third-worldist twitter

    https://x.com/gudcur1/status/2040949225416966281

    word. preach.

      • AlexinCT

        Removing non existing calories from their word salads..

    • (((Jarflax

      Reading Tanky Twitter will rot your brain.

      • PieInTheSky

        you are obviously not a philosopher

      • Not Adahn

        I am not. It’s likely my farts contain insufficient euphorics for the profession to be attractive for me.

      • (((Jarflax

        It is interesting that the philosophy which preaches that history follows inevitable natural laws along a defined pathway irrespective of personalities is so completely obsessed with cults of personality that it names each micro variant of itself after the “Great Man” who created that variant.

  14. Ownbestenemy

    It is California voters fault they can’t build the high-speed rail that no one will ride.

    He isn’t entirely wrong

  15. PieInTheSky

    China is attempting to do the impossible. The construction of 123 km underwater tunnel, the Bohai Strait Tunnel is on and it will cost China $42 billion.

    On completion, the high speed transport system will reduce travel time between Dalian and Yantai from 8 hours to only 40 minutes. It will be the longest underwater beating 53.85 km Seikan Tunnel.

    https://x.com/akech_andrew/status/2039772496958791974

    • UnCivilServant

      😳

      I would not trust Tofu Dreg Construction, let alone Tofu Dreg Underwater Tunnels

      • PieInTheSky

        pikers?

      • juris imprudent

        How much has California spent on its non-existent high-speed rail?

      • Ownbestenemy

        The books were in the Palisades with a worker that was WFH, we cannot tell you what we spent anymore. /California

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Hey, the Merced to Bakersfield line, also known as the California Wetback, will be done in 2085!

      • UnCivilServant

        It is expected to see a staggering tweleve riders per year!

    • Rat on a train

      Wait until the US get the promised high speed rail to Hawaii.

    • AlexinCT

      Someone should link that video of that bridge they build without doing any risk surveys that ended up getting rocked by a landslide…

      • (((Jarflax

        I dunno that we should mock them too much for that. Yes, building things without paying any attention to the ground is stupid, but so is our habit of never actually building projects because the studies and surveys and impact statements take 20 years to complete.

      • AlexinCT

        My point was that they build that bridge in an area that was geologically active was stupid on their part. I was definitely not shilling for the idiotic practice of wasting half a century, costing in the high tens of billions, like that Cali high speed rail, to appease environmental asshats whose goal is to cancel the project.

  16. Evan from Evansville

    Beautiful day, perfect for a five-hour (total) trek to Michigan to pick up supplies. Just me on the journey, it’s always a lovely drive up north on Highway 31. I’m a quarter mile away and take it straight to Niles, MI, before a ten-mile jaunt to 7Engines in Buchanan. Always curious to drive past my old haunts in Peru.

    Cubs play at 4, so I should be able to get back and make it an Ev-Vacation of a day. (Dammit. Not an evacuation. Well, one of stress on the road.) I should have word of contract onboarding by Thurs, taxes are done, and I introduce myself to the Meijer’s pickup “pulling” team on Sat to stay in the flow.

    Good week to change gears in Indiana.

  17. R C Dean

    Glad they got the airman back. I hope somebody gets their hand slapped, though, for a crappy choice of landing fields for the planes they had to blow up.

    And if they blew up the planes that the rescue team used to fly in, how did they get out?

    • UnCivilServant

      They flew in additional planes of a smaller model than the C-130s that initially inserted the team

  18. Ted S.

    It wasn’t all that long ago that lefties were congratulating themselves for addressing Trump with the F word,

    • Ownbestenemy

      See NZ commie post above for how this all works.

      • R.J.

        It’s still going. Loooooooooong.

  19. The Other Kevin

    Some of this should be considered a war crime.

    Mrs. TOK and I both eat a lot of protein. The problem I have with stuff like this is it’s called “high protein” but it only has like 8-10 grams in it. A protein shake or Fairlife milk has 30g, and the Greek yogurt I get at Costco has 20g. It’s really not that hard to meet your daily goals. Stop following the stupid trends and just eat like a normal person.

    • PieInTheSky

      weider 60% bars kick most other bars ass.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m convinced that Paleo, Keto, Whole30, Carnivore, and most of the other trendy diets that have some actual record of success, succeed because they’re an easy no-thought-required way to maintain a calorie deficit.

      Thermodynamics can’t be escaped.

      • slumbrew

        It’s more complicated than CICO, though. How you’re getting those calories does matter.

      • Not Adahn

        This is outside my field of expertise, but has the way we measure calories in food been shown to match biological activity? I remember doing some half-assed calorimerty but the idea that those results had anything to do with metabolism was never established.

      • PieInTheSky

        you cannot really be sure it matches. this is why more likely than not you do not get 7 kcal for a gram of alcohol just because that is what burning it in a calorimeter says.

      • UnCivilServant

        I seriously doubt the way the calorie content is measured reflects metabolic utilization.

      • EvilSheldon

        CICO matters about 95%. How you get the calories matters about 5%.

      • The Other Kevin

        Sheldon there is some truth to that. Protein tends to make you feel fuller, and your body expends energy to digest protein. It’s not a quick and easy source of calories like sugar or carbs.

      • PieInTheSky

        Protein tends to make you feel fuller – not according to the latest Science 🙂

    • Fourscore

      I kicked the daily protein shakes because of the unpleasant side effects. I feel much better.

  20. PieInTheSky

    speaking oh philosophers, I randomly mremember there was this asian libertarian chick back in the day with a name like the pholosopher or something. Also one julie borowski or something like that. I did not runt into their stuff in years wonder if they are still around.

    • AlexinCT

      Was her byline how she was “So ORNY” that she would “LOVE YOU LONG TIME”?

  21. Ownbestenemy

    Hockey Rinks Turn to Plastic Ice as Planet Warms

    Some environmentalists question using plastic to address rising temperatures

    I dont even know where to go with this

  22. rhywun

    I like that era of Simple Minds but some of their earlier stuff that never made it to radio is excellent too. An example.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Shoulda toined left at Albakoiky.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    I celebrated Easter by watching The Ruling Class last night.

    • Common Tater

      “Journalist Michelle Cyca, an adjunct lecturer at the University of British Columbia School of Journalism, Writing and Media, uses her Native American (Cree) background in The Walrus to consider the “colonial logics” of lunar (and space) exploration’s future.”

      She looks as Indian as Liz Warren.

      • AlexinCT

        What you talking about paleface?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    I don’t think the voters fully understood, and neither did we in the public sector, what it was going to take to actually get this done.”

    But we meant well, and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

  26. Common Tater

    I didn’t post this yesterday because I did not want to ruin anyone’s Easter.

    “Buck Angel Reacts..Nipples Cost Extra!”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2p4fqPIcyU

    Girls are cutting off their tits not because they are trans but because they just don’t want tits.

    • rhywun

      How has a surgery meant for a transsexual to masculinize themselves now become a part of a transgender nonbinary queer expression?

      Because “transsexual” is no more of a medical condition than “transgender nonbinary queer expression”.

      • Common Tater

        You can argue whether gender dysphoria is a medical condition, but these girls aren’t even trying to look like men.

      • AlexinCT

        I need to subscribe to your feed…

      • rhywun

        Well I’m not a doctor but FWIW no I do not believe there is a meaningful difference between “I think I am a man born in the wrong body” and “I think I am non-binary”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • UnCivilServant

        You can bill more expensive procedures on the first patient if you validate their delusions.

  27. PieInTheSky

    The Bucharest Nine or the Bucharest Format (B9 or B-9; Romanian: Formatul București, Polish: Bukaresztańska Dziewiątka), or NATO’s Eastern Flank[1] (ambiguous as of 2025)[2] is an organization founded on 4 November 2015 in Bucharest, Romania, at the initiative of the President of Romania Klaus Iohannis and the President of Poland Andrzej Duda during a bilateral meeting between them.[3] Its members are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Due to its separate history, Finland is not a member despite its location and its NATO membership since 2023.

    Its appearance was mainly a result of a perceived aggressive attitude from Russia following the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and its posterior intervention in eastern Ukraine both in 2014. All members of the B9 were either part of the former Soviet Union (USSR) or members of the defunct Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.[4][5] All members are also members of NATO and members of EU.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest_Nine#Summits_of_heads_of_state

    In Local News! Trump was sent an invitation to the next meeting but sadly declined, though he said he might send Rubio.

  28. Common Tater

    “Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That’s Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, a Warning From the FDA, and Other Glaring Red Flags?”

    https://dnyuz.com/2026/04/06/why-is-the-new-york-times-laundering-the-reputation-of-a-sleazy-ai-startup-thats-selling-glp-1s-via-a-dishonest-dumpster-fire-of-fake-doctors-phony-before-and-after-pictures-a-warning-from/

    It’s going to get worse.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I got a chuckle out of the phrase “not the New York Times’ finest hour”.

      But… what exactly does this company supposedly even do? Are we supposed to believe that 2 guys and an AI startup are manufacturing pharmaceuticals?! Or… selling pills manufactured by someone else? I just don’t get what people including the NYT think these guys are actually doing.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Another NPR sob story

    Carranza left El Salvador in 1991 during a brutal civil war, leaving behind three young children, to earn money to send home to her family. She overstayed her visa until 2001, when she qualified for temporary protected status, after two earthquakes struck El Salvador, killing more than 1,100 people and displacing 1.3 million.

    This amazing, caring woman who abandoned her family for a better life in the land of opportunity might be kicked off medicare because Trump is a racist.

    What a world, what a world.

    • B.P.

      She’s been on “temporary” protected status based on an earthquake that happened 25 years ago?

  30. Not Adahn

    Impossibility 1: Eliminate the immunity government employees enjoy, both qualified and absolute.

    Impossibility 2: Penalize those who allow early release of people who go on to kill again in the same manner bartenders are penalized for overserving.

  31. B.P.

    From the article on states taxing the rich:

    “And if those residents decide to leave, they want to charge them an exit tax on the way out.”

    How does this work? If my former state sends me a tax bill, I refuse to pay it, and I no longer have any assets in that former state, what happens next? [Insert Come and Take It flag emoji]

    • UnCivilServant

      Under the full faith and credit clause, your current state of residence is given a court order garnishing your income, and is expected to enforce it on behalf of the paracite state.

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