John Oliver Gets Into Deep-Sea Mining
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“One of the richest billionaires” spends zero of his own money to pay for his mounting legal costs, which Federal Election Commission filings show amount to around $90,000 per day over the past three years.”
The rubes: can I please send another $100?
re: #1 Dangerman
“One of the richest billionaires” spends zero of his own money to pay for his mounting legal costs, which Federal Election Commission filings show amount to around $90,000 per day over the past three years.”
The rubes: can I please send another $100?
Oh wait, there’s a clip for that
Coulda saved myself the typing
re: #1 Dangerman
$90K / day works out to about $33 million per year.
Nodules with 1mm deposits over a million years? We can strip that out in a few decades.
The Supreme Court is running a game today, ruling that the mifepristone-hating weirdos do not have standing.
That should calm everyone down enough that they can get back to stripping away rights and protections.
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
$90K / day works out to about $33 million per year.
Yup, thats not being spent on any Rs actual campaign. I’m all for it
re: #5 Charles Johnson
The Supreme Court is running a game today, ruling that the mifepristone-hating weirdos do not have standing.
That should calm everyone down enough that they can get back to stripping away rights and protections.
It’s even more basic than that. They’re giving us that ruling so that, when they take a nuclear bomb to the administrative state and reverse the doctrine of Chevron deference tomorrow, they can point to this ruling and be like, “See, we were fair and balanced!”
Deep sea mining is one of those technologies and methods that is feels like it’s 10 years off.
Because I recall distinctly that we’ve been trying to figure out how to do it for decades, and we’re no closer to figuring out how to do it economically (to get them at scale to make it worth the cost of creating the tech and deploying it to the deep ocean).
Heck, it was the cover story for the construction and deployment of the Glomar Explorer, which was a deep CIA project to recover a sunken Soviet sub in the Pacific (K-129).
re: #5 Charles Johnson
The Supreme Court is running a game today, ruling that the mifepristone-hating weirdos do not have standing.
That should calm everyone down enough that they can get back to stripping away rights and protections.
As I noted in the dead thread, Thomas’ concurrence was explicitly stating what he wants/expects a plaintiff to do to succeed in ending access to mifepristone.
So the Trump immunity ruling is going to come on the very last day, at 11:59pm, yeah?
re: #11 Unabogie
So the Trump immunity ruling is going to come on the very last day, at 11:59pm, yeah?
Typically, this would be the last day. There was an announcement late last week or early this week that they may issue additional opinions tomorrow. They literally extended the deadline so that they could fuck us all over in as dramatic a fashion as possible, before jetting off to their Harlan Crow-paid summer vacations.
𝕁, the dearly gparted @checkwithscience.com
also, I cannot stress strongly enough: just fuckin’ lie. tell them you’re immunocompromised. no one is checking. every person who gets a shot reduces risk for their community.
Raea 🦋💕🏳️⚧️🏴 @raeaa.bsky.social
the CDC is again trying to limit the 2024-25 booster availability to provably immunocompromised and elderly people. they’re taking written comments through the 17th. please take a minute to let them know boosters should be available to all who want them: regulations.gov;
re: #1 Dangerman
“One of the richest billionaires” spends zero of his own money to pay for his mounting legal costs, which Federal Election Commission filings show amount to around $90,000 per day over the past three years.”
The rubes: can I please send another $100?
‘Like Talking to Your Drunk Uncle’: Trump’s Closed-Door Rant to House Republicans
Donald Trump came to Capitol Hill to talk about his agenda for a second term. He instead spent an hour delving into House GOP drama, cracking jokes and saying weird things about Nancy Pelosi’s daughters.
re: #13 Nerdy Fish
The last few years the Court has pushed the session beyond the originally scheduled last day, and dropped significant cases in the process.
I have a bad feeling about Chevron. This is the seditious six’ best opportunity to gut and filet the administrative state, and hamstring every administrative agency across the nation. It would be harmful to all Americans, but billionaires would benefit. So that’s it.
Rishi Sunak greets Giorgia Meloni in the style of an 80s sitcom. pic.twitter.com/7aoBe7xbII
— The Jase 🐶 🎸 🎥 (@jasemonkey) June 13, 2024
re: #16 jaunte
‘Like Talking to Your Drunk Uncle’: Trump’s Closed-Door Rant to House Republicans
Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana also had his moment in the Trump spotlight. Sources told NOTUS that the former president delivered an extended monologue about his love for the No. 2 House Republican, recalling Scalise’s time in the hospital after he was shot in 2017 during a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game.
“I saw him in the hospital,” Trump said, according to a source. “I can tell your wife really loves you, Steve, because some wives wouldn’t care.”
Poor Convicted Felon Donnie. His wife wouldn’t show up for his election fraud trial.
re: #17 lawhawk
The last few years the Court has pushed the session beyond the originally scheduled last day, and dropped significant cases in the process.
I have a bad feeling about Chevron. This is the seditious six’ best opportunity to gut and filet the administrative state, and hamstring every administrative agency across the nation. It would be harmful to all Americans, but billionaires would benefit. So that’s it.
It’s as I said when that complete turd of a case (the mifepristone case) inexplicably made it through the Fifth Circus and to SCOTUS: Yes, they want to defenestrate the federal government and return to that “originalist” ideal of elected politicians deciding everything, because they will decide on the absolute bare minimum, and that benefits businesses and billionaires. But they don’t love that idea so much that they’re willing to let their carefully crafted doctrine of standing get thrown into the shitter to get it - not if there’s a better way.
John Oliver saves one of the best points for close to the end; China is already heavily invested in sodium battery technology for electric cars, which would hugely reduce the need for rare and difficult to mine metals.
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It’s you
not just another mouth in the lipstick vogue
That is all
I’m getting better at understanding clues for pictures. Frustrated because I could not read the date on a calendar, I realized that I _could_ tell December 1 was on a Tuesday, which got me 1959. This is actually way more fun than Wordle!
re: #8 lawhawk
One of the things that Oliver touches on is the Chinese battery company that figured out how to make batteries using salt. That’s a disruptive technology that eliminates the need for some of the rare earth minerals.
What also can serve as disruptive is the fact that in many parts of the world, we’ve got tailings and spoils from various mines that could be laden with the very kinds of minerals and metals that are essential to next generation batteries and technologies. It wouldn’t require anything more than going and analyzing those piles of spoils and tailings and then refining them using standard technologies.
But for some, it’s easier to take advantage of lax/nonexistent regulatory oversight, countries desperate for a dollar, and unscrupulous people who think they’ve got a winning message (let’s go collect golf balls from the ocean floor).
re: #8 lawhawk
Deep sea mining is one of those technologies and methods that
isalways feels like it’s 10 years off.
re: #25 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Love this guy. Heard him on NPR the other day.
re: #295 Eventual Carrion
And don’t they know by now that TFG is lying sac of shit.
They do. They don’t care.
Since conservatism is only about power, they have for decades angled for the power to tell you what’s true, by the force of law if necessary (see schoolbooks for your children, enforcing religion on your children, economic wishcasting such as tax cuts yield growth (for over a hundred twenty years), lying claims about immigration “taking jobs,” tanking the economy every time conservatives are in power for everyone but oligarchs and calling that a “good economy,” beating children and calling it “good for them” and “discipline,” &c.
Conservatives miss their slaves. You can tell an enslaved person anything you want too, and they can’t talk back.
Did I show you all my horrifying starling photo? Look at this scary baby! 🪶
— Coral Sheldon-Hess (@birdfriendcoral.bsky.social) 2024-06-13T16:32:41.677Z
re: #14 jaunte
𝕁, the dearly gparted @checkwithscience.com
Raea 🦋💕🏳️⚧️🏴 @raeaa.bsky.social
Ok, if the CDC is only recommending it for the elderly and immuno compromised why would you want to lie to get it? The CDC isn’t doing that just because they want to keep it from you, they did a risk benefit analysis and decided it didn’t make sense for young healthy people to take it.
If you think people were stupid for ignoring the CDC when they said you should take it why is it ok to ignore them now?
Deep ocean mining, specifically manganese nodules, was the cover story for Project Azorian, the amazing 1970s project to salvage a sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine. The special ship built for this, the Glomar Explorer, was far too large and odd looking to hide any other way. The contractor, Global Marine, was basically an offshore drilling company that had developed advanced station keeping technology. It was a perfect match of contractor and mission, since there was nothing strange or alarming about a company like Global Marine trying its hand at seabed mining.
re: #33 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Deep ocean mining, specifically manganese nodules, was the cover story for Project Azorian, the amazing 1970s project to salvage a sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine. The special ship built for this, the Glomar Explorer, was far too large and odd looking to hide any other way. The contractor, Global Marine, was basically an offshore drilling company that had developed advanced station keeping technology. It was a perfect match of contractor and mission, since there was nothing strange or alarming at a company like Global Marine trying its hand at seabed mining.
Wasn’t Howard Hughes involved, someways…????
re: #32 danarchy
Ok, if the CDC is only recommending it for the elderly and immuno compromised why would you want to lie to get it? The CDC isn’t doing that just because they want to keep it from you, they did a risk benefit analysis and decided it didn’t make sense for young healthy people to take it.
If you think people were stupid for ignoring the CDC when they said you should take it why is it ok to ignore them now?
re: #33 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Interesting. I dimly remember the manganese nodule mining story from when I was a kid, but I didn’t know it was the cover story for an intelligence operation.
Ukraine and climate identified as the top two vectors for #disinformation in the EP elections, per 40 orgs working under the European Fact-Checking Standards Network.
techpolicypress/what-we-lear...
— Jennie King (@jkingy.bsky.social) 2024-06-13T18:11:56.383Z
Her URL is broken, it should be techpolicy.press .
re: #38 darthstar
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you don’t drop out after you win all the primaries, ffs.
if there was someone better, they’d have stepped up, run and come out on top
the voters of both parties have spoken
the Ds want Biden
the Rs want a felon who spews gibberish
re: #34 Jay C
The company behind Glomar was a Howard Hughes outfit.
re: #33 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Found an entertaining book on a CT about the sub the Glomar Explorer was sent after.
Supposedly it had been taken over by a rogue faction in the KGB or GRU (been awhile) and they were in position where they were, way outside the normal patrol area for that class of boat, to try and start WWIII by pretending to be one of that class the Russians had sold to Red China and launching a missile attack on Hawaii. Said folks didn’t know that the missiles were supposedly equipped with US supplied Permissive action link security that caused the missiles to explode rather than launch sinking the sub.
Entertaining read at least, better than most of the pseudo science and fake history on the remainder table that day.
The GOP is out to wreck access to health care, as the Senate GOP again blocks effort to make IVF accessible nationwide.
GOP keeps doing these things, which should inure benefit to Democrats. Democrats need to cut ads for this to run daily. They need to get in front of the cameras and show the GOP for what they are - a bunch of out of touch misoygnistic authoritarian despots beholden to a convicted felon.
re: #44 William Lewis
That can be taken at least a couple of ways.
re: #45 PhillyPretzel ✅
That can be taken at least a couple of ways.
Well, it’s my day off, I just got done with 6 hours at the VA clinic and I have a Guinness in hand so that’s my preference 😈
re: #34 Jay C
Wasn’t Howard Hughes involved, someways…????
Hughes was the principal owner of Global Marine. He and his actual company had little real involvement with the project though. He was basically lending his name and reputation to the cover story.
Unfuckingreal.
The AP deleted this 10 seconds after posting probably the most debasing thing a news organization has posted in 8 years
— Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC (@mattnegrin.bsky.social) 2024-06-13T19:59:23.833Z
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They do. They don’t care.
They love him for his faults as well as for his lying, his arrogance, his lack of taste and tact, his misogyny and xenophobia, his ignorance of world affairs and of how government and diplomacy functions, etc.
re: #31 Charles Johnson
Did I show you all my horrifying starling photo? Look at this scary baby!
That is what these monsters look like to any worm or bug
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They love him for his faults as well as for his lying, his arrogance, his lack of taste and tact, his misogyny and xenophobia, his ignorance of world affairs and of how government and diplomacy functions, etc.
Trump is the MAGA electorate as they wish they were.
re: #48 Charles Johnson
When the truth is found to be lies……
re: #37 EPR-radar
Interesting. I dimly remember the manganese nodule mining story from when I was a kid, but I didn’t know it was the cover story for an intelligence operation.
I also wondered why we never heard about any further developments in managanese nodule mining…
re: #32 danarchy
Ok, if the CDC is only recommending it for the elderly and immuno compromised why would you want to lie to get it? The CDC isn’t doing that just because they want to keep it from you, they did a risk benefit analysis and decided it didn’t make sense for young healthy people to take it.
If you think people were stupid for ignoring the CDC when they said you should take it why is it ok to ignore them now?
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is what these monsters look like to any worm or bug
I’ve been watching birds pick cicadas out of the air today.
re: #32 danarchy
Ok, if the CDC is only recommending it for the elderly and immuno compromised why would you want to lie to get it? The CDC isn’t doing that just because they want to keep it from you, they did a risk benefit analysis and decided it didn’t make sense for young healthy people to take it.
If you think people were stupid for ignoring the CDC when they said you should take it why is it ok to ignore them now?
Because that “risk/benefit analysis” involves profits for companies, not your health.
Covid-19, if it doesn’t kill you outright, weakens your organs every time you get it again. Without a cure, the only way to prevent that is to use all tools available, which includes vaccines.
Soviet Union: “Let’s eradicate smallpox globally.”
USA (thankfully didn’t): “That costs too much. Wage slaves should be at work spreading smallpox.”
re: #56 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
I’ve been watching birds pick cicadas out of the air today.
Yeah: the recent brood outbreak has been basically an open buffet for most insectivorous species…
re: #48 Charles Johnson
There are far too many MAGATs and wusses in the media today.
re: #55 jaunte
One of the first things I asked today at the VA clinic was if there was a new Covid shot yet. I work at a hotel facing idiots 5 nights a week; so far I have Not gotten it and I’d like to keep that record intact. At this point last December’s was the most recent so I’m good.
re: #61 Charles Johnson
They are bound to infest every corner of the internet unless we stop them.
re: #62 William Lewis
One of the first things I asked today at the VA clinic was if there was a new Covid shot yet. I work at a hotel facing idiots 5 nights a week; so far I have Not gotten it and I’d like to keep that record intact. At this point last December’s was the most recent so I’m good.
There’s no way you haven’t caught it facing idiots five nights a week. You’re one of the lucky asymptomatic people who clear the virus without ever feeling sick.
re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg
They are bound to infest every corner of the internet unless we stop them.
wear pointy-toed shoes
re: #38 darthstar
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Calling Bret Stephens prominent is a s—-t—-r—-e—-t—-c—-h in my book. More of a pompous asshole.
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Because that “risk/benefit analysis” involves profits for companies, not your health.
Covid-19, if it doesn’t kill you outright, weakens your organs every time you get it again. Without a cure, the only way to prevent that is to use all tools available, which includes vaccines.
Soviet Union: “Let’s eradicate smallpox globally.”
USA (thankfully didn’t): “That costs too much. Wage slaves should be at work spreading smallpox.”
Which companies? The pharmaceuticals would want them to say everyone should keep taking it, the insurance companies want it to not be covered. The CDC doesn’t make money from the sales. If you are saying they are in the pocket of one of those groups you sound like the anti-vaccine people who were convinced Fauci was getting rich from pushing the vaccine.
Sorry, I am going to trust the experts in this case over internet rando’s.
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Without watching - do you carry all the extra stuff? do you walk point? do you get to use the 5 foot poll to look for traps? are you the one who gets to taste test the potions that the “identify” spell failed to identify? If so, you might be a minion NPC! (My one of my last parties paladin did require a full share of loot for all NPC’s and in cases of fatalities, for each family member of their survivors. Kept the abuses down, let me tell you … 🤣 Gal played a truly good paladin. Not always LG but always _good_ Hard being a rogue around her sometimes < whistles innocently >)
re: #67 danarchy
Their cost/benefit analysis doesn’t quantify a reduction in transmission. That doesn’t mean it’s not there, just that they can’t quantify it. Reducing hundreds of hospitalizations among the younger age groups, and reducing transmission (unquantified) is worth getting a booster.
re: #64 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
There’s no way you haven’t caught it facing idiots five nights a week. You’re one of the lucky asymptomatic people who clear the virus without ever feeling sick.
Could be. Or it was low level enough I thought it was a cold/flu and carried on. But I never had anything remotely like what so many others had.
re: #71 William Lewis
Could be. Or it was low level enough I thought it was a cold/flu and carried on. But I never had anything remotely like what so many others had.
When I got it I had a very mild sore throat and a headache. That was it.
re: #27 lawhawk
A lot of it is also the techbros love for ‘technology’ doing ‘impossible things’. They just can’t help themselves.
Here’s a fine case in point. Some techbros reinvented trains, again.
re: #48 Charles Johnson
I’m amazed they didn’t put a ‘Oorah Rodina!’ at the end of that.
re: #58 Jay C
Yeah: the recent brood outbreak has been basically an open buffet for most insectivorous species…
Which is why the cicadas do it. Huge outbreaks every odd/prime numbered years means the predators can stuff themselves without endangering the nest generation. It also makes it very difficult for a predator that specializes in eating adult cicadas to evolve.
💥🔥 In Moscow, the premises of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, where Su series aircraft are developed, are on fire. pic.twitter.com/F3WWuV6o3v
— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) June 13, 2024
Fox News host: I’d ‘walk through broken glass in the middle of a house on fire’ for Trump
Every election year, the stakes are higher than ever before, if most politicians are to be believed. But for Lisa Boothe, a conservative commentator on various political issues and frequent Fox News contributor, this year’s election is so important, that she said she would willingly “walk through broken glass in the middle of a house on fire to support Donald Trump.”
Boothe’s possibly hyperbolic comments came Thursday afternoon on “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” in which she also said the 2024 election is about “saving the Republic, and “the rule of law.”
re: #75 Charles Johnson
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“Work surveillance on the rise.”
From the same companies that moan endlessly that workers are “quiet quitting” because they won’t do more work than their paid to do.
re: #75 Charles Johnson
You can always count on humans to try and find ways to avoid working.
Perfection
I never knew this entire scene was directly quoting an actual former US president pic.twitter.com/BTcP1UsdeW
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re: #86 gocart mozart
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At times like this, I really love the interwebs.
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Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs drank too much raw milk!
Eric Neugeboren
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RFK Jr. refiles Nevada ballot petition after ‘United States’ typo
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential campaign refiled its petition to land on the Nevada ballot on Tuesday after it misspelled “United States.”
In an email to state officials, campaign attorney Paul Rossi submitted the revised petition because “we do not want ballot access to be rejected because of an typo” (sic). The petition said Kennedy and attorney Nicole Shanahan were running for president and vice president of the “Unites States.”
In an interview Thursday, Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said he did not know whether the refiling was necessary, but he’s “glad they’re being proactive.”
The campaign’s first petition — which received enough signatures — was deemed invalid because it did not list a running mate. Kennedy’s campaign filed a lawsuit to overturn that decision, but filed a new petition that was approved last week, which included the typo.
The campaign must gather at least 10,095 signatures by July 5.
re: #69 jaunte
Their cost/benefit analysis doesn’t quantify a reduction in transmission. That doesn’t mean it’s not there, just that they can’t quantify it. Reducing hundreds of hospitalizations among the younger age groups, and reducing transmission (unquantified) is worth getting a booster.
So in the absence of full evidence the CDC made the best recommendation they could and you are coming to a different conclusion because…why, your gut?
Years later this remains one of the best music videos ever made. Love watching them switch places.
But I still sing The Who in place of the Rolling Stones and Baba O’Riley in place of Here comes the sun… LOL! “We’re gonna make mistakes you know…”
re: #91 danarchy
Did you read the cost benefit analysis?
re: #77 jaunte
Wisconsin brought the Republican party into the country in 1854; we can also take you out. Trump just lost Wisconsin in November. Mental illness will do that to you.
re: #67 danarchy
re: #67 danarchy
Which companies? The pharmaceuticals would want them to say everyone should keep taking it, the insurance companies want it to not be covered. The CDC doesn’t make money from the sales. If you are saying they are in the pocket of one of those groups you sound like the anti-vaccine people who were convinced Fauci was getting rich from pushing the vaccine.
Sorry, I am going to trust the experts in this case over internet rando’s.
Strangely physicians all over the world hold a different view.
What’s a good way to raise prices? Restrict sales.
Capitalist pharma companies have two goals which are in opposition to each other: a) providing the best medicines and vaccines they can, and 2) profit.
Guess which one wins in capitalist societies.
Do you know what won’t hurt you? Getting a vaccine if you don’t need it. Do you know what will hurt you? Getting a disease if you could have prevented it or reduced its severity.
How does restricting vaccines to only certain classes of people prevent a disease from spreading or being eradicated? You didn’t explain that part. How does a disease known to damage people’s organs make them somehow safer if they don’t get a vaccine to prevent it or reduce its severity?
Why intellectual property and pandemics don’t mix (Brookings Institute, June 3, 2021)
Current deaths last week available, all causes, CDC (0.6% from Covid-19)
Emergency department visits, all causes, CDC (0.5%, +16.2 change from previous week)
Capitalists are risk-adverse (when it comes to profit), so as more red state attorneys general sue Pfizer and Moderna for “lying” about the effects of vaccines, it is simpler (more profitable) to simply cave.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Pfizer for Misrepresenting COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Conspiring to Censor Public Discourse (Office of the Texas Attorney General, November 30, 2023)
Pfizer engaged in false, deceptive, and misleading acts and practices by making unsupported claims regarding the company’s COVID-19 vaccine in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
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Plus conservatism is involved (as everything is about power to a conservative). The constant gutting of FDA and NIH scientists when Republicans are in charge, coupled with reduced funding, means promoting healthcare programmes becomes difficult or impossible (conservatism=death).
re: #95 terraincognita
Wisconsin brought the Republican party into the country in 1854; we can also take you out. Trump just lost Wisconsin in November. Mental illness will do that to you.
Nah, the northern 3/4 of the state, when not watching sports ball, hates Milwaukee because it’s infested by N-words. If the Republicans could, literally, nuke it without touching Waukesha and the other rich suburbs they’d be set for life. Never forget how Purple Wisconsin is right now. This is a very knife edge state. I remember in 2016 listening to people saying they didn’t think Trump was all that good but “Shillery” was too dangerous and evil to be let into the white house. It only got worse as the election got closer and Faux cranked up the Stochastic terrorism.
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My Great-Great Grandpa Bacon was a conductor on the Underground Railroad in DC back in the 1850s.
Guess it’s time to restart it…
re: #97 Joe Bacon ✅
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Which head is he talking about? 😈
I want him hanged for the coup attempt, not beheaded.
Oh my god, the Apple/OpenAI deal is so weak. Apple paid them nothing, and as @markgurman.bsky.social reports, it could end up costing OpenAI a ton of money if people actually use it at scale. Apple even takes a cut if people subscribe to ChatGPT Plus. Where's the profit, Sam?
t.co/MGTdWeJsyG
No, it's just apple swindling them
Which, I must admit, makes me smile.— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-13T21:13:01.000Z
Oh goddamn. ANOTHER 737MAX8 BullShit Moment.
The FAA is investigating a new incident involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 jet in midair
Joe Raedle/Getty Images
WASHINGTON — A Boeing 737 Max 8 jet experienced a rare but potentially serious problem recently known as a Dutch roll before landing safely.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of the incident during a Southwest Airlines flight last month.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it will continue to hold Boeing accountable after reviewing
National
Boeing promises big changes as the plane maker looks to rebuild trust and qualityLess than an hour after taking off from Phoenix on May 25th, the plane experienced an uncontrolled side-to-side yawing motion known as a Dutch roll while cruising at 32,000 feet. The pilots of Southwest flight 746 were able to regain control and the plane landed safely in Oakland, according to a preliminary report from the FAA.
That airworthiness certificate needs to be pulled. Now. Permanently.
This former member of the 216 Club paid his child support on time every month.
Unlike this clown
GOP U.S. Senate Candidate Royce White Owes More Than $100K Child Support
The mother of one of the Minnesota Republican’s children provided records showing the former basketball star has not been truthful about his whopping debts.
According to financial statements provided by the mother of one of White’s children, however, White owes her more than $100,000 in child support payments for a daughter with whom he is barely involved.
“Thank God I don’t rely on his support or it would be impossible,” the woman told The Daily Beast, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The woman’s claims—together with financial statements, court filings, and the sparse personal financial disclosure White filed after he ran for Congress in 2022—paint a picture of a candidate who has repeatedly failed to pay or disclose tens of thousands of dollars in debts.
The revelation is just the latest in a series of financial issues revealed after White last month won the endorsement of the Minnesota Republican Party to be its candidate for U.S. Senate against the incumbent, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), in November.
The mother of White’s daughter shared images from Minnesota’s online child support portal showing White owes her $100,086.82, having made just one payment this year—$523.91, earlier this month.
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is what these monsters look like to any worm or bug
re: #106 Joe Bacon ✅
Even during my homelessness arc I paid my child support. (It was in fact the child support which made me homeless.)
re: #76 Romantic Heretic
Which is why the cicadas do it. Huge outbreaks every odd/prime numbered years means the predators can stuff themselves without endangering the nest generation. It also makes it very difficult for a predator that specializes in eating adult cicadas to evolve.
It’s the same survival mechanism as an ant nest sending out a large swarm of flying queens and drones at once. The locals predators will arrive and glut on them.* But enough queens will survive to mate and go start new colonies.
* - A carpenter ant nest doing this at the nature reserve in Philly drew a lot of warblers down low to eat flying ants. That in turn drew in every bird photographer who was there that day since word swiftly got around.
re: #100 William Lewis
Acres don’t vote, people do. Excluding the WOW counties of Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee, the corridor between Madison to Milwaukee thru Racine and Kenosha will determine the presidential outcome. Add in Janesville after Ryan’s recent remarks along with all the UW campuses, it really doesn’t matter what “up north” does. By the way, the WI counties along Lake Superior are notoriously blue. Watch what will happen when MKE county gets near the upper 70’s in favor of Biden.
re: #86 gocart mozart
Perfection
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I never knew this entire scene was directly quoting an actual former US president
and amazingly before he actually said it!!
Easy there, Buddy.
Joss Stone and Buddy Guy 🎶’Fever’ pic.twitter.com/fcOUfAAnB9
— bluesharp (@bluezharp) June 13, 2024
re: #111 terraincognita
Acres don’t vote, people do. Excluding the WOW counties of Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee, the corridor between Madison to Milwaukee thru Racine and Kenosha will determine the presidential outcome. Add in Janesville after Ryan’s recent remarks along with all the UW campuses, it really doesn’t matter what “up north” does. By the way, the WI counties along Lake Superior are notoriously blue. Watch what will happen when MKE county gets near the upper 70’s in favor of Biden.
Look at what the numbers in Wisconsin ARE.
It matters. Lots.
re: #108 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Every word out of Trump’s mouth is a lie.
So is every fart out of his ass and belch out of his mouth.
re: #106 Joe Bacon ✅
This former member of the 216 Club paid his child support on time every month.
Unlike this clown
GOP U.S. Senate Candidate Royce White Owes More Than $100K Child Support
The mother of one of the Minnesota Republican’s children provided records showing the former basketball star has not been truthful about his whopping debts.
According to financial statements provided by the mother of one of White’s children, however, White owes her more than $100,000 in child support payments for a daughter with whom he is barely involved.
“Thank God I don’t rely on his support or it would be impossible,” the woman told The Daily Beast, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The woman’s claims—together with financial statements, court filings, and the sparse personal financial disclosure White filed after he ran for Congress in 2022—paint a picture of a candidate who has repeatedly failed to pay or disclose tens of thousands of dollars in debts.
The revelation is just the latest in a series of financial issues revealed after White last month won the endorsement of the Minnesota Republican Party to be its candidate for U.S. Senate against the incumbent, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), in November.
The mother of White’s daughter shared images from Minnesota’s online child support portal showing White owes her $100,086.82, having made just one payment this year—$523.91, earlier this month.
So, IOW, Mr. White is one of those “dead-beat dads” that Repubs like to characterize as being the core of the problems in the black community when trying to excuse centuries of slavery and segregation.
192 Republicans just voted to restore a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery, which features a Black ‘Mammy’ holding a white soldier’s baby, and a slave following his master into battle. The effort from Rep. Andrew Clyde R-GA lost 230-192. pic.twitter.com/MwWNOP6WIG
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) June 13, 2024
The GOP confirming Critical Race Theory is real.
re: #111 terraincognita
You realize William lives in Wisconsin, right? In general, I tend to defer to the locals when it comes to political statements. They usually know where their towels are.
re: #118 DodgerFan1988
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The GOP confirming Critical Race Theory is real.
good to see the R’s in charge of congress are tackling the urgent affairs of state - you know like the upcoming budget and stuff
192 Republicans just voted to restore a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery, which features a Black ‘Mammy’ holding a white soldier’s baby, and a slave following his master into battle. The effort from Rep. Andrew Clyde R-GA lost 230-192. pic.twitter.com/MwWNOP6WIG
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) June 13, 2024
now can we drop this idiocy
just cause originally he said ‘no’ to pardon and no one asked about commute
he was never going to
no, not even the day before he leaves office whenever that is
Said Biden: “I’m extremely proud of my son, Hunter. He has overcome an addiction. He’s one of the brightest, most decent men I know.”
“The president reiterated that he would not pardon his son, saying he trusted the deliberations of a jury that found Hunter Biden guilty of lying on a gun-purchase form in 2018 when he checked a box saying he was not using illegal drugs.”
“As Biden was walking away from the stage, he was also asked whether he would commute his son’s sentence — that is, reduce its severity. ‘No,’ Biden responded.”
re: #118 DodgerFan1988
The GOP confirming Critical Race Theory is real.
Sounds like the day after it’s back the US will need a patriot with about 6 sticks of dynamite…
< whistles innocently >
just got two flood warnings
cell phone NWS alert and town telephone call to google voice phone
another 4-8 inches tonight
re: #118 DodgerFan1988
The GOP confirming Critical Race Theory is real.
Don’t call them racists though. The centrist press will call you uncivil.
re: #82 Dave In Austin
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Strategic structures have been going up in flames lately in old mother Russia.
re: #106 Joe Bacon ✅
No wonder the GOP loves this guy.
re: #83 Joe Bacon ✅
Fox News host: I’d ‘walk through broken glass in the middle of a house on fire’ for Trump
Every election year, the stakes are higher than ever before, if most politicians are to be believed. But for Lisa Boothe, a conservative commentator on various political issues and frequent Fox News contributor, this year’s election is so important, that she said she would willingly “walk through broken glass in the middle of a house on fire to support Donald Trump.”
Boothe’s possibly hyperbolic comments came Thursday afternoon on “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” in which she also said the 2024 election is about “saving the Republic, and “the rule of law.”
That’s the part that made me spray my monitor.
My my my you can’t call Republicans racist because Maureen Dowd will endlessly whine about that in the Screw York Times and Screw Screwitt will do the same in The Washington Post!
re: #105 William Lewis
Oh goddamn. ANOTHER 737MAX8 BullShit Moment.
The FAA is investigating a new incident involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 jet in midair
That airworthiness certificate needs to be pulled. Now. Permanently.
Ah, MD didn’t just bring over their accounting practices, they also brought over their engineering prowess that gave us such features as cargo doors that fall off mid-flight and clustering hydraulic lines so that a single engine failure can knock even the back-ups out in short order.
re: #118 DodgerFan1988
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The GOP confirming Critical Race Theory is real.
Another day, another reminder that the only Southern “heritage” the GQP seem all that worried about protecting is the racism.
re: #119 Nerdy Fish
You realize William lives in Wisconsin, right? In general, I tend to defer to the locals when it comes to political statements. They usually know where their towels are.
And I was living in the “Liberal” part of northern Wisconsin of Hayward. Say only 60% Republican. The rest is worse. I got my concealed carry permit because of the neo-nazi enclaves up there. Make the wrong turn in certain places and it’s fight or die for real.
Wisconsin remains a burning house that fools are fighting in.
(Star Trek reference for those who get it…)
re: #123 Dangerman
just got two flood warnings
cell phone NWS alert and town telephone call to google voice phoneanother 4-8 inches tonight
Check your boat for leaks. /s
Tropical Wave AL-90 is now over the Atlantic Ocean directly east of Savannah, Ga. as of 2PM EDT.
The system is expected to make its way parallel to the coast before moving away from the United States after passing the Outer Banks.
The system is very large and will continue producing heavy rain on-shore.
In the Bay of Campeche, the area there has been upgraded to a 40% chance of a tropical cyclone within seven days before going ashore in Mexico. Regardless, heavy rains are expected along the east coast.
re: #123 Dangerman
just got two flood warnings
cell phone NWS alert and town telephone call to google voice phoneanother 4-8 inches tonight
I may hate winter but there are real fucking reasons I like “Life In A Northern Town”
🤣🤣🤣
re: #43 lawhawk
The GOP is out to wreck access to health care, as the Senate GOP again blocks effort to make IVF accessible nationwide.
GOP keeps doing these things, which should inure benefit to Democrats. Democrats need to cut ads for this to run daily. They need to get in front of the cameras and show the GOP for what they are - a bunch of out of touch misoygnistic authoritarian despots beholden to a convicted felon.
The MAGAts I know reject logic, reason, and the evidence of their own eyes or ears to support whatever lies they are told by the Nazi propaganda networks they watch.
re: #137 Hecuba’s daughter
The MAGAts I know reject logic, reason, and the evidence of their own eyes or ears to support whatever lies they are told by the Nazi propaganda networks they watch.
And the lies they hear from the pulpit every Sunday and Wednesday!
Afternoon Lizards.
ON HUNTER BIDENS CONVICTION pic.twitter.com/n9Y9nI4FJa
— Trae Crowder (@traecrowder) June 12, 2024
re: #85 Eclectic Cyborg
Good thing too. Otherwise we’d still be climbing trees to get fruit, when it was in season, and if the leopards didn’t eat you.
See Heinlein’s ‘The Tale Of The Man Who Was Too Lazy To Fail.’
re: #136 William Lewis
I may hate winter but there are real fucking reasons I like “Life In A Northern Town”
🤣🤣🤣
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I get it
this storm is a big deal because it is kind of rare
days of heavy rain not associated with a hurricane
nothing’s gonna happen in our little corner
the house is high enough
we wont have to bail (or shovel)
the road was flooded yesterday. still passable. it was gone overnight.
there’s probably 3” in the field right now from yesterday.
makes up for the last 2 months of no rain at all
unless someone drives into a light pole, we wont even lose power over this
oh wait, our wires are underground as of february. so not even that.
Let it Rain
Have you ever seen the Rain
Who’ll Stop the Rain
Don’t let it Rain
Rainy Day women etc
Rain (Dicky Betts)
re: #142 Dangerman
I get it
this storm is a big deal because it is kind of rare
days of heavy rain not associated with a hurricanenothing’s gonna happen in our little corner
the house is high enough
we wont have to bail (or shovel)the road was flooded yesterday. still passable. it was gone overnight.
there’s probably 3” in the field right now from yesterday.
makes up for the last 2 months of no rain at allunless someone drives into a light pole, we wont even lose power over this
oh wait, our wires are underground as of february. so not even that.Let it Rain
Have you ever seen the Rain
Who’ll Stop the Rain
Don’t let it Rain
Rainy Day women etc
Rain (Dicky Betts)
It might as well rain until September
Rhythm of the Rain
Raindrops
Raindrops keep falling on my head
OK—I’ll stop now
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