The Brewers are on the brink of a World Series. And a sweep of the Dodgers, no less. The Indians and Devil Rays will play game 3 tonight. There wasn’t much else going on yesterday in American sports, Across the pond, Man City got doubled up by PSG, Liverpool doubled up LASK, Real beat Roma, Stuttgart won at Bratislava on a field that was beat to death by Enrique Iglesias fans, and Bodo Glimt beat Dortmund. And that’s it for sports.
What did they expect to happen? The company has said all along that they weren’t to be used to make war with. Meanwhile, Rico Suave is a fan of more war.
Here’s the good kind of fascism, I guess. This is in no way a surprise. And neither is the cheering it on from the left.
Sounds like a successful canary trap. Just need to wait and see who gets fired.
Wait, he was personally supposed to handle it? Sounds like they don’t want any kind of due process. And first of all, this should have only been handled by law enforcement. Second, the school has a Title IX department that did its job. The people complaining should talk to them.
They’ll find a way to keep her out of office. By hook or by crook. Because it’s what they do.
Hey, whatever works. Although I don’t want to go to the gym and see a bunch of boners.
This will be interesting, though probably not highly covered in a session full of other big cases. I don’t see how it won’t be 9-0 since the word “tape” is right there in the law. But it’ll probably be 6-3 because three of the justices are mentally retarded.
LOL, this guy is great. We should grant him asylum after he’s found guilty.
They need to criminally charge the staffers. That would accelerate things and I have no doubt a couple of them would rapidly seek immunity for their testimony. I was on the fence before on whether they’d actually do anything about this, but now I’m thinking they’re going all the way with this one.
I respect her for sticking to her principles. The “blood on my hands” is a bit over the top, but she has a point. Good for her.
Gotta love that voice. Such a weird guy with weird lyrics, but such great songs. Here’s another one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
Here’s the good kind of fascism, I guess. This is in no way a surprise. And neither is the cheering it on from the left.
As long as it is only bad people who deserve it it is ok.
As if anyone expects some kind of principle out of people of the left.
Wait, he was personally supposed to handle it? – join in in student orgies to make sure everything is good.
They’ll find a way to keep her out of office. By hook or by crook. Because it’s what they do.
The cordon sanitaire must hold at all costs.
The new domino theory.
The firewall has already fallen in Germany, France usually falls next.
Hey, whatever works. – it also prevents heart attacks it seams.
Viagra was discovered when researchers were looking for a treatment for angina.
Talk about throwing red meat in front of the Justices.
I respect her for sticking to her principles. The “blood on my hands” is a bit over the top, but she has a point.
I blame out of control libertarianism leading to gambling legalization
It should be legal but I am disgusted how every team, league, and I guess now broadcaster is balls-deep in gambling. How is that not a conflict of interest?!
“balls-deep in cheerleaders not in gambling.”
Right there with you. You want people to stop thinking games are fixed, stop partnering with sports books.
They are going to forgive Pete Rose now right?
See. I do know one sports thing.
And Michel Vick.
100%
I am genuinely curious how Inrique Iglesias developed such a large fanbase in the former eastern bloc.
search me. The same as Spanish language telenovelas I assume.
Are they really popular there as well?
they were 20+ years ago. In the meantime they were at least somewhat replaced by turkish or korean equivalents.
Are Turkish chicks hot?
Are Turkish chicks hot? – not particularly. not if you compare to Eastern European chicks.
Maybe not in general, but the ones that came over here to work are absolute smoke shows.
Is that like David Hasselhoff in Germany?
His video for “Du” in EuoroTrip was hilarious.
I’m sure this is already a common practice at specific gyms.
Not my neighborhood gym, which is predominantly occupied by boomer men and women just trying to keep fit.
Try one frequented by younger dudes, perhaps in San Francisco.
As I said yesterday regarding Shane Gillis’ comments, what would the response be if men were dressing to show off their packages?
I certainly am!
plot twise, Pie took a holiday job as a UPS driver. They’re not actually his packages.
I find it insane how UPS drivers wear those stupid brown shorts in summer. In Romania any other delivery service has the people wear a shirt with a logo, they wear whatever pants they want.
Something like this?
Like these?
Chipping Pioneer:
More like this.
Neph writes links on Fridays, but apparently doesn’t read other people’s links….
Ted S:
There’s links in the comments?
Brown socks too.
The UPS pilots have brown flight uniforms.
The men have to wear baggier clothes because of the tadalafil and the attire of what the women are wearing.
Also, yahoo way behind on the times. The gym bros on X have been talking about tadalafil for cardiovascular health for years.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Obviously, Rico.
The war must go on.
Mocking him mercilessly was one of the enjoyments of the old place.
The people complaining want heads to roll and the president has a head. It doesn’t matter what he “did” or “knew”.
I may be getting my own desk spot on a 3-5 person ‘bench’ today. Didn’t get to do too much shadowing yesterday, but I have done the actual process before. Just gotta have access to Workbench to do it myself, and learn how the system is kinda laid out, all the steps, etc.
It’s a ridiculously easy gig, though nothing was wrong w any of the VIN + lien/etc docs when I was shadowing. The 60/hr –> 220/hr doc quota makes absolute sense. Each one is a 10sec process max if nothing is amiss. It’s Lucy in the chocolate factory, but much easier, no melting, and.. just… ridiculous. Not in a bad way, but it’s kinda like putting in individual slips into pre-baked fortune cookies, but with important docs.
This is very bizarre. I don’t this to be my ‘destination’ job, but I’ll def see how it goes for now and make bank, considerably more than any gig I’ve had in the last four years. It’s the same as the Peru Tribune, oddly, at $40k/yr, but hourly. Absolutely a place to make money and save, and *possibly* room for upward advance, but others in the gig don’t seem to want to move up. My trainer’s been there for 4 years in the same gig, mostly 40s-50s black ladies, but not all. I’m again the only dude in this role! (Ha!)
Onward and up, folk. Be good and well. (Don’t do anything *I* wouldn’t do, which… well. That advice doesn’t help much, does it?)
So you’re getting benched. :-p
Yep, far away from the one cutie. Grrrg.
She’s smoking w two other gals outside as I park now. I’ll let them have gal time, but I’d like to slip in some time. Ooh. Euphemism is optimistically euphemistic…
Unpopular opinion; No one – literally not a soul – actually enjoys the taste of beer. Not a single human. Those who claim to enjoy beer, don’t actually. It’s really just a social ritual, a form of self deception… the impact of decades of stacked marketing to convince you that beer is anything but an alcohol delivery mechanism. You can enjoy getting sloshed. You can enjoy the social liberation that alcohol offers. You can enjoy the party. But don’t act like you actually like the taste of beer. You don’t. You might think you do. But you don’t. Because it tastes like it looks: bitter dehydrated piss, with bubbles. In the case of Guinness, like diarrhea, with bubbles. And you know it.
https://x.com/danushman/status/2110044470204875213
ofttimes people will say a popular opinion prefixed with “unpopular opinion”. I am not sure this is one of those times.
Not just an unpopular opinion, but incorrect.
I really enjoy the flavor of some beers. Particularly a good brown ale.
The guy must have immature taste buds.
He wouldn’t have bitter taste receptors. Must be a lizard person.
They can’t be that immature. He apparently knows what shit and piss taste like.
No kink shaming!
Looks like we’ve stumbled upon Ted’s burner account.
Hateful®.
No one. Literally not a soul – actually enjoys the taste of coconut. Not a single human. Those who claim to enjoy coconut, don’t actually. It’s really just a social ritual, a form of self-deception…
Tallahassee: “I hate coconut. Not the taste, consistency”
I’m mainly a whiskey drinker but I enjoy a beer every once in awhile especially with dinner.
I read that as manly whiskey drinker.
I don’t drink to get drunk. Typically I will have two or three beers a month and only one at a time. I drink what tastes good.
Does anyone really like the things I don’t like?
Since it’s “make a statement that presumes an objective truth supported by no evidence” day, let me say that Mr. Ushman is a fucking moron.
Your statement is supported by the evidence of his tweet.
I too am unclear about how the President of a university should handle a rape accusation other than cooperating with the police in the investigation.
They’ve already set themselves up to be sued by the men who have been accused.
We’re still in the fog of hysterical shrieking – just look at that pic of the protestors for a sample.
Nothing is actually known – it’s just feels.
Maybe the freakout will die down after the election.
“Maybe the freakout will die down after the election.”
They’ll definitely try to drag it out until then.
The men aren’t getting a cent from Lucy Craig, Cornell, or the State. Not in that jurisdiction.
I think Cornell will settle, just like countless other schools in very blue states have settled.
many unis are surrounded by farmers, and they don’t hold much love for college admin shenanigans.
You mean the “town versus gown” divide is eternal?
Ithaca is surrounded by a whole county of old hippies and other trash that tend to cluster around big schools.
You won’t find a lot of farmers until you hit the surrounding counties.
The harridans at the heart of this want “believe all women” to be enshrined in the constitution.
Yet they will disbelieve women who are inconvenient to the narrative. Fuck ’em.
Yet Sydney Sweeney is hated by them for being sexy. Scolds gonna scold.
They didn’t believe Tara Reade.
The Muslim Greens have produced a guide on ‘Islamophobia’ that decrees it racist to question the Koran, to criticise Islam’s treatment of women and to hold Green Party events at the pub. Literally anything can be ‘Islamophobic’ now, says Heydon Prowse
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/14/literally-anything-can-be-islamophobic-in-green-la-la-land/
3) Saying that Islam isn’t a massive fan of the gays
Not a single Muslim country in the world permits or recognises same-sex marriage or lets gay couples adopt. But according to the Muslim Greens, this is all the fault of the Brits.
The guidance says: ‘Queerphobic legislation in many Muslim-majority countries is deeply tied to colonialism.’ Apparently, the British Empire made them do it and has forced them to continue doing it enthusiastically ever since.
“Racist” is just the new Worst Thing Ever that is convenient to apply to the rest of the world when what they really mean is “heretical” or some similar word which is how they have justified the centuries of slaughter and conquest that their faith demands of them.
https://philosophy.institute/religions-of-the-world/islam-global-demographics-arab-identity/
Yep. Islam sure is a singular race.
I don’t see how that “demonstrates” that at all. If anything, “conquest” would be easier along trade routes.
They really don’t understand that real racism is going to come back a lot worse than what it was before, do they?
There’s no such thing as islamophobia – it’s all rational
Both wings in that party believe in the “total state” whatever lies they tell themselves. As a lot of people have pointed out, the non-Muslim Greens won’t be useful for long if the alliance somehow takes control.
Ask the Iranian leftists that wanted the Shah overthrown – oh, you can’t because they are all dead or in exile.
“Can’t hold Green events at the pub”
Normal pub goers breathe a sigh of relief. That at least gives them one place free of screeching harpies.
Don’t make me like Islam.
“Although I don’t want to go to the gym and see a bunch of boners.”
That’s sexist, unless you call them whores.
“Mr Apted said his defence representatives must produce a report confirming his case that “a male person who is considering moving to Islam can wear a burka in public in order to better understand the religion and enable that person to make an informed decision about observing that religion”.”
He could just claim he is also trans.
Paywalled. Does it explain why he can’t wear a burka?
I just turned off Javascript.
In England you can’t protest while wearing a face covering.
I’m guessing there’s an exception to that rule for Muslim women.
R C Dean:
How did you guess?
He did at the protest.
Elon making an important point about AI that nobody will listen to.
https://x.com/firesidealpha/status/2110594098352800162
AI has no concept of truth.
Correct. But it does recognize conflicting instructions and data.
“ But let me tell you how things can potentially go wrong in AI. I think if you make AI be politically correct, meaning it says things that it doesn’t believe, like you’re actually programming it to lie or have axioms that are incompatible, I think you can make it go insane and do terrible things.”
We have already seen what the politically correct (woke) movement does to people. Of course it would do the same to AI.
“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.”
“If they can make you believe absurdities, they can make you commit atrocities.”
-Voltaire, by way of Norman Lewis Torrey
“Telling a computer contradictory things makes it go insane” is a particularly retarded invention of 1950s scifi.
He would have opened the doors for a black lesbian.
Oh come on! That trope gave us how many great Golden Age stories? Have a little understanding, bro…
And at least half a dozen Star Trek plot resolutions.
BofA AI, circa 2030, Whitmer Presidency – I’m sorry, but your medical records indicate you have never taken a COVID vaccine. You will have 24 hours to present proof of vaccination or your account will be frozen as anti-vaxxers are known fascists.
“but now I’m thinking they’re going all the way with this one”
As far as I can tell she’s guilty of immigration fraud three times over.
1. She was 18 or over.
2. Her father was ineligible for refugee status under the perpetrator clause.
3. He lied about his name.
If they revoke her citizenship, she becomes a resident. She should lose her House seat (if they follow the law), but it would still take years to deport her.
I doubt she’ll face Minnesota charges for marrying her obviously gay brother, because Minnesota.
I’m pretty sure denaturalization leads to deportation, not mere resident status.
IAAINAL, after losing citizenship she would revert to her previous status, then after her residency is revoked, she can appeal, after the appeal fails, she gets to apply for a visa, then after her visa application is denied, she can appeal because physically present, then after her appeal is rejected, there is a deportation order, which she can appeal although by then her only right is habeas corpus, then after that appeal is rejected, ERO might get around to deporting her….
I’m not so sure.
Last Denaturalization case I saw, once she was found to have lied on her paperwork and the appeals of the denaturalization trial were up, she was booted PDQ.
All of that can (and should) take place while Omar is enjoying the delights of the Federal correctional system.
She would have to be convicted of a crime.
immigration fraud is a crime.
I’ll believe she’s deported when I see it.
And she will have hordes of supporters out in loud protest at every step of the way.
round them up and deport them too.
It would have to go through the courts. Which can take years.
J6ers weren’t convicted of a crime, yet they got to enjoy the inside of a prison for literal years.
They’re going to hold someone they want to deport because she’s a flight risk?
A flight risk does not mean that they will leave the country, just that they will fail to show and become a fugitive, as many illegals in this country do.
It should not be necessary to convict a politician of a crime, before imprisoning and/or executing them.
Law and due process are for human beings, not politicians.
Yeah, yeah, I know, magical dragon, unlimited free ammo, etc…
Someone posted yesterday about a whole web of fraud involving various tribes selling papers to each or some such nonsense, false names, and such. I hope they dig into all of that.
There is one more – her dad never naturalized. The 17 thing relies on the parent naturalizing.
That I haven’t read.
If you’re a straight Episcopal priest who cheats on your wife, that’s a sin. If you then deny that it’s a sin to your bishop, you get defrocked.
If you’re a gay married Episcopal priest, that’s of course a completely different situation.
https://marriageafterequality.substack.com/p/admitting-defeat-marriage-equality
There was a time growing up, when we Catholics looked at our Episcopalian neighbors and said, “We gotta up our game, those guys take this church thing real seriously. They aren’t letting their kids listen to popular music not played by Stryper, they dress like Mormons, and are diligent in attending church.”
Maybe that was just my neighborhood, but WTF?
No transcript for it yet, but NPR ran a story about a horrible bigot who thinks that Christianity might have doctrine beyon “be a nice person.”
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/15/nx-s1-5996951/wyoming-tribes-ask-church-pastor-to-leave-after-viral-sermon
Good morning all!
From the DedThred (because snakes are my second favorite topic in the world, just behind shooting):
Also a myth. All venomous snakes have complete control over injecting their venom, right from birth or hatching. The only exceptions would be some of the rear-fanged snakes where the venom component is literally their saliva, but those snakes generally aren’t a health threat to humans.
Statistically, across the board, a bite from a venomous snake is about 30% likely to be a dry bite.
Usually it’s a long tail. 😉😉😉
In the “I want to share this neat fact” rather than “well acktchually”
Snakes have short tails and long bodies. Tails are defined as not containing vital organs. So the snake tail is from vent to tip, and is a small portion of the length, as much of it contains various organs.
This is true.
Also with many snakes, it’s possible to get a good idea of the sex by looking at the length of the tail. Long thicc tapered tails are usually male (the tail needs room to contain the hemipenes), while shorter skinny tails are usually female.
This probably only matters to breeders, and possibly the snakes themselves.
Question for the fermenters:
I tried this, and it says “zero sugar” on the can:
https://shopciders.com/orchard_hill_cider_mill/bone_dry_hard_cider_51430
Is it actually possible to ferment out all the sugars from your starting juice/mash? It’s not my favorite but I do like it. The local brewpub makes a “dry” but not this dry cider that also has a very pronounced tartness which this is missing. I’m assuming that’s a product ot the apples though and not the process.
It’s possible, it requires robust yeast and low starting sugars. I’ve had a couple of beers ferment to below 1.000 SG. I don’t believe apples contain any unfermentable sugars (unlike malt), so I can believe it’s possible.
em>Is it actually possible to ferment out all the sugars from your starting juice/mash?
Yes. It is very easy with almost any wine yeast which will ferment until all the sugar is gone assuming you don’t hit the alcohol tolerance.
Even high-sugar apples can only produce about 9% ABV. Pretty much all wine yeasts have an alcohol tolerance of at least 12% ABV.
This is fundamentally different that beer/ale yeasts which attenuate — meaning they consume most, but not all of the available sugar. Different beer/ale yeasts attenuate at different levels. Carefully selecting your yeast is one of the ways that you manage the sweetness level of the final beer/ale.
“The alleged assault at UChicago took place in the early hours of Sunday during a rowdy party at the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house in Hyde Park, The New York Times reported.
The woman, 21, was not a student of the university but attended the party alongside her pal Mia Lara, 21, and another friend after seeing it advertised on the frat’s Instagram…
After searching the house, Lara found a small group of men cheering outside a locked bathroom door in the basement, “saying things like, ‘When’s it my turn?’ and ‘I want to go in there’” she told the Times….
The university said Tuesday it had identified a “person of interest” in the assault who has since been banned from campus.
Chicago police said they are investigating the sexual assault accusations and confirmed the victim went to the hospital for treatment. No arrests had been made as of Wednesday evening.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/14/us-news/rape-reported-at-university-of-chicago-frat-party-as-group-cheered-on-attack-asked-whens-my-turn-witness/
I’ll wait until Rolling Stone covers it.
The woman, 21, was not a student of the university – damn townies
We’re now in the copycat journalisming stage where we will be flooded with every college rape accusation for weeks.
Well that timing is too convenient. I will wait for verifiable facts and details before passing judgment.
Supreme Court split over sentencing when the offender and the victim are both Indigenous
https://x.com/nationalpost/status/2108890952668447115
Oh canada
Easy. Crime would never have happened if Whitey hadn’t stolen the land. Taxpayer pays restitution to both parties. Everyone goes home.
Peter Boghossian
@peterboghossian
My French friend told me, with despair, “Why are so many Americans gleeful about what’s happening to France? We look at America as a friend. We would never do the same if you were in trouble.”
https://x.com/peterboghossian/status/2110532752080818413
I am not American so can’t say. But I have a suspicion many are not gleeful of the collapse of France per se but more as an I told you so kinda of a thing. Some Americans said the America should be more like Europe. Others disagreed. What happens in Europe now can make the latter gleeful because they can say “see I was right”
Anyhoo. France shall rise from the ashes. And there will be a lot of ashes to rise from.
I would say that you’re largely correct.
To the extent that I think about anyone other than myself, I feel quite bad about what’s happening to France. But, when you fuck with the bull you get the horns, and there’s no bigger bull than economics.
A lot of Europeans (and Canadians) would in fact cheer.
true.
until the shit hits the fan here due to the repercussions at least.
What my reaction has been is tentatively hopeful. It’s disruptive enough that France could change course and begin exporting the invasive migrants (or sending them on speed dates with Madame Guillotine) and recover from it’s century of socialistic malaise.
I doubt many of those protesters do. And a lot of your governments don’t, either.
His friend forgot all the support “Je Suis Charlie” had. We supported them when they could have extinguished the dumpster fire before it even started. Instead they doubled down.
Well . . . if anyone deserves it, it’s the French.
What’s French for “FTFY”?
Today I learned a new Americanese word
Acroamatic is an adjective that means esoteric, abstruse, or communicated orally to a select, initiated group of listeners rather than published or shared publicly
As opposed to achromatic, which means, ‘without color.’
I love English!
Who told you the secret word? Only those of the third circle are supposed to know this!
Acroamatic isn’t a secret word, secret words are acroamatic.
And those in the third circle are supposed to know that you do NOT talk about the third circle outside of conclave.
“If I believed that abortion was murder, that it violated the 10 Commandments, then I wouldn’t support it,” he said, claiming that the current abortion ban in Texas has resulted in “women dying in emergency room parking lots.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/14/us-news/james-talarico-ruthlessly-fact-checked-by-voter-after-claiming-bible-is-silent-on-abortion-at-cnn-town-hall/
citation needed
They never cite a single actual case because it never happens.
The only time one might be denied emergency medical care is if you are being violent towards paramedics/nurses/orderlies because they would be unable to actually administer anything.
A woman with either a medically hazardous pregnancy or a botched coathanger job would be treated.
Yeah, name the woman.
The name of the girl was… Jane Doe.
And now you know, the REST of the story.
Good day!
Analysis (about a 15 minute long video) of escalating attacks on shipping by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. The last half of the video is talking about the economics of increasing freight rates. Before the war, about $3 of the cost of a barrel of oil was transport costs. Now? $30.
The Dems are gonna pound that home.
Which is amusing because higher energy prices are exactly what they promise in every other situation.
Of course they’ll pound it home. And when the Dems take control, and energy prices remain elevated due to Dem policies, do you really think the Republicans will be able to make a case that Dems are to blame? The Dems and their media enablers will be successfully running against Trump long after he’s croaked.
“Metallica Rose reportedly called 911 after killing her family to ask where she could find the right vein in her neck to end her own life shortly after 1:30 p.m. Monday, police said.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/15/us-news/metallica-rose-harrisons-mugshot-revealed-after-alleged-murders/
That’s metal.
Supposedly she planned this out sufficiently that she drained hubby’s 401(k) to pay for the pre-stabbing vacation.
My first thought when I saw this story yesterday was, “She probably murdered them to get out of paying for three weeks at Great Wolf Lodge.” Those places are seriously expensive.
This story is Sad but True and the perp will no doubt be Unforgiven. That will teach you to Seek and Destroy.
She committed a lot of Damage Inc.
I hope she killed the quickly and it wasn’t a Creeping Death.
She should Ride the Lightning and then this whole thing can Fade to Black.
Yes, 911? What is the right vein for ending my life? I want to be Bleeding Me.
If she was serious about getting help with canadian healthcare from 911 she should have said “Hey, I’ve strapped myself with bombs and I’m going to walk into a police station to blow up as many of you pigs as I can.” They’d have PAiD her quickly.
“A kids football game in Florida turned into an all-out brawl among parents amid claims some on the sidelines were placing illegal bets.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/15/us-news/florida-kids-football-game-descends-into-all-out-brawl-as-cops-probe-illegal-bets/
Gambling is a problem in the Amish community.
Time for more screeching from the usual suspects
Michael Desronvil, the lone holdout juror who wanted to convict Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy of murder in the deaths of her three children, sat down for his first television interview since the jury deadlocked.
In an interview with Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany, Desronvil said he had no reasonable doubt, despite claims from other members of the jury.
“I had a lot of evidence to back up my claim, but out of respect for the other jurors and the court system, I will put that to sleep for now until they go through the process of the court system,” Desronvil said.
That guy should just keep his trap shut. Why give the lunatic hysterics any more ammo to go after him and his family?
On X this week, I’ve noticed that all of the former and current reason staff are out in force supporting the Ukraine war with various propaganda tweets. Today it was Robbie Suave and Kathy Young, among others, decrying Elon Musk’s throttling of starlink, which disrupted Ukraine drone strikes on Russian assets. Unfortunately for them and the Wall Street Journal, it seems that this is not true. The service in question as was also reported by Wall Street Journal is starshield, which is operated and controlled by the US government.
How does this work? What is the command and control for all of these various press operatives to sing from the same song book. Even when it is wrong.
Amazing that Reason has been mobilized in support of US involvement in a foreign war.
What is going on here? Up is down. Left is right…
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
https://x.com/robbysoave/status/2110350875675783503
Young jumps in to call people arguing with him “dumbass”.
Then Soave reads the comments and backs off his earlier statement. Oops.
All these stalwart neocon defenders of foreign intervention…
OK, then.
Yeah, I did not have Reason going neo-con on my bingo card.
Jonathan Ferguson looks at the history of DOPE (data on previous engagements). He finds evidence that is a backronym. It originally came into shooting from horse racing in the early 20th century and was not originally an acronym.
Choose your fighter
“Sydney Sweeney fools LA locals by going undercover in a brunette wig to hang out at iconic Santa Monica Pier”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16210377/sydney-sweeney-brunette-wig-santa-monica-pier.html
“Sydney Sweeney turns heads in hotpants and boots in New York as her latest controversial topless betting ad hits screens”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16210793/Sydney-Sweeney-turns-heads-hotpants-boots.html
In the category of “brains are weird”
When some devices make certain sounds, my brain will often anticipate the response noise when I do something.
On boot, my old AnyCubic 3D printer plays a few musical tones. My new Prusa does not. Yet when I power on the Prusa, my brain remembers and anticipates the AnyCubic “3D Printer is powering on” jingle.
🤷♂️
“Demand for the ‘anti-Mar-a-Lago’ face is rising.
The cosmetic trend, which stands in direct contrast with the infamous MAGA makeover, is defined as being ‘anti-obvious plastic surgery.’
Dr Melinda Lacerna Kimbrell, a double board-certified plastic surgeon and owner of LA Plastic Surgery, previously told the Daily Mail that the most important feature of the ‘anti-Mar-a-Lago’ face is that the person remains recognizable….
Behavioral scientist and social psychologist Jordan Bridger told the Daily Mail that the ‘anti-Mar-a-Lago’ face is ‘less about beauty than about group signaling.’
‘Faces work as quick identity badges. When one look becomes tied to a particular crowd, people who do not want to be read as part of that crowd start to drift the other way, toward softer, more “undone” looks.”
https://www.dailymail.com/lifestyle/beauty/article-16209257/psychology-anti-maralago-face-hollywood-plastic-surgery.html
WTF am I reading?
Last night I watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It’s on Prime. Much to my surprise, it did not completely suck, unlike most of That preening nitwit Tarantino’s later stuff. Not on my 500 best movies ever made list, but I never felt the need to hit the kill switch.