We need a constitutional amendment clearly stating that executive orders are illegal and have no legal standing.
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We need a constitutional amendment clearly stating that executive orders are illegal and have no legal standing.
If only ChatGPT would destroy Sam Altman's family and hound him to death.
Jonas is faster than rest of the peloton as Tadej is faster than Jonas.
Me.
Can you imagine the outcry if this was the US? "Removing the swastika is woke!"
I was watching this and thinking there was no way I would ride on that road, but I also wondered if these roads would just serve as barriers to riding anywhere.
Soylent green, after all, could be part of the solution to the housing crisis.
Thank you for not calling me an Israeli apologist, which is what usually would happen on twitter when I had this conversation...😁
Juan Soto is not a fundamentally sound baseball player.
Most of the money the US gives Israel goes to kill Palestinians, not to fund services for Israelis.
Israel spends about $40 billion on its health care. Israeli health care is funded by a 3.1% tax on individuals.
I am anti-Israel, but the US traditionally has given them $4 billion in military aid and has guaranteed to buy $10 billion in arms from them over the years, while US citizens give Israel $2 billion Following the Hamas attacks of 2023, US military support ballooned to about $18 billion a year 1/
"Un-dead"? Then we'll never see him leave office.
An un-dead Trump sounds scarier than a living Trump, but it probably explains why he stumbles around the way he does.
Clearly from the school of "there's no bad press" marketing since this thing is getting 100% ratioed, but hey, we're talking about bananas.
Or else the robot salesman cut his teeth selling stuff on Coach on Cheers. youtube.com/shorts/984Dy...
Bananas must have a huge profit margin if Del Monte can throw away money on stupid nonsense like this. But, hey, they got people talking about bananas which must be pretty hard, so kudos to the marketing team, I guess. youtube.com/shorts/S45N9...
It's weird to me to schedule a sprint stage on Saturday when you might have a big TV audience.
The classics (if Tadej doesn't show up) are more chaotic fun. My unpopular opinion is that sprint stages are boring. LA Vuelta this year has been fun in the early stages but the last few days have been good times to take a nap.
One of the battery clamps on my Subie has a chip of some sort in it and Subaru wanted $125 to replace it. Yikes.
Mountain bikes are diverging more and more from other bikes and the cost to maintain them is starting to reflect that.
I've probably forgotten what non compressed recordings sound like.
If saner minds ever retake Congress, they need to go through federal law and remove things like IEEPA. where their predecessors delegated undue authority to the executive branch.
I don't know, I spend a lot on gardening. Though tomatoes and therapy can both make me cry.
Something else lost in our digital age.
If only I wasn't on the West Coast
I know every stage of a Grand Tour can't be a banger, but today's Vuelta was a snooze fest.
C'mon, if there is anyone who deserves to be doxxed, it's this douche and his wife. This couple needs to have the internet scorch their lives.
"Things no one anywhere, at any time, ever have or will ever ask for for $1000, Alex." But I had almost forgot that movie exists, so thanks for ruining that, Alden.
[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near high quality transit stops, has passed the Assembly appropriations committee! The bill now goes to the Assembly floor, then back to the Senate for concurrence. Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...
They'll hide the gut, while no one wants to see muffin tops in low waisted pants.
There's a bunch of them - Modesto. The king of cow towns - Bakersfield - is the 47th largest city in the country.
Fresno has more than a half million people.
Until I saw the commercial, I didn't know they cooked their chicken in pressure cookers that occasionally exploded.
They're not presenting him as a southern gentleman, but as some kind of crazed entrepreneur.
15 of the largest cities in the country are in California. If we made Los Angeles County a state it would be the 11th largest state, and even without it California would still be the 2nd largest state. LA and California are out of scale to the rest of the country.
"By their own rules." That means pedophilia, right?
I say if these idiots want to build a city on the ocean, let 'em. Revoke their citizenship and kick them out.
"We’re very safe" Well except from the cops.
Why do cities do this? Here's access to a river trail block by a new gate and the city's fix after some complaining. I know the gate was meant to keep homeless away from the river bottom, but it degrades the community by reducing access to a recreational area.
Bianco is an Oath Keeper, is crappy at his job, and somehow was endorsed by @seiu721.bsky.social Public service unions should never endorse sheriffs. They are not are our allies.
These people have certainly lost the thread.
Buried in an unmarked grave sounds appropriate.
youtu.be/lF40NLLSr0s?...
That's insulting to the Baron.
Huel did that last year and then doubled down with some bro-science influencers. It was like the perfect storm of marketing douchery. I used to like their products for an occasional meal substitute, but no more.
She was guilty of sedition and insurrection. She had no honor and deserves none.
California has a specific CUI -cycling under the influence - law
My FAVORITE PART OF DRIVING IS DOING THE SPEED LIMIT AND SLOWING DOWN JUST A TAD WHEN DOUCHEBROS TAILGATE.
I like to make extra long stops at stop signs when I see the person behind me rolling intersections.
I think they should just realign into two divisions of the Haves and Have Nots.
It's interesting how this compares to how Kentucky Fried Chicken has rebranded over the years to KFC and is currently pushing out yet another version of Colonel Sanders.
2 of Musk's DOGE idiots actually tried this. It's Idiocracy. I'm sure these two morons will fail upwards their entire lives. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Now, go spend some money this offseason.
Maybe AI should stop stealing.
I like team time trials better than individual TTs. I'm happy La Vuelta brought it back this year. #bikesky
It's pretty simple not to get mean looks. Be a decent human being. For Sean, I would settle for just being a human being.
Lol. This is the Onion, right?
So the @pirates.com have Skenes, Keller, will have Jared Jones back next year, and now Bubba Chandler. But they still will still lose 90 games next year because they won't spend $130 million like a real major league team. (Which adjusted for inflation is what they were spending 10 years ago.)
Robin might have wanted to shave his legs. 😁
Fuck David Frum, though.
Very illuminating clip here: Los Angeles City Councilmember Imelda Padilla criticizes SB 79 because it limits local elected officials’ power to block new housing, then @jonlovett.bsky.social reminds her that we have a massive housing shortage that is strangling our state’s growth.
Another thought about this - Fresno, Kern, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties aren't going to be able to support the rest of those interior counties.
I think we need a Great Move. We pick a year that everyone has to move to a state that best represents their interests. All blue state MAGAs and red state liberals have to move. Once that happens, the blue and red states hold a Congress to see if they want a divorce.
I would be moving. Also Riverside and San Bernardino Counties have Democratic pluralities, so I doubt they would go quietly into a Republican hell hole.
Almost there, RJ. Let me fix it for you. "Rivian CEO says it 'blows my mind' that the US a̶u̶t̶o̶ ̵i̶n̶d̶u̶s̶t̶r̶y̶ is reprioritizing capital toward g̶a̶s̶̵-̵p̶o̶w̶e̶r̶e̶d̶ ̵v̶e̶h̶i̶c̶l̶e̶s̶ 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐬"
I need to get Subway gift certificates for any kid who shows up at my door dressed liked this.
"This is a time right now that Jews are being killed and slaughtered on the street, and threats are happening," said Sigalie Sabag, a BHUSD board member. To say nothing about Palestinians, journalists, medical workers, aid workers. How about we just don't fly flags www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
JFC. Fuck the GOP, fuck the NRA, fuck the MAGAs, fuck the Supreme Court.
I have Strael 4.0. It's a wonderful bike. It's as close to custom as you can get for about half the price. Right now, though. the duties and tariffs make importing one prohibitive. Secan has 11% duties and 20% tariffs. (Duties on a Strael are less.)
Fairlight is big on details.
Every shop to bed in your brakes for you. But then every manufacturer should do before shipping the bike out.
I was so happy when I bought my last bike and there was a card in the packet that came with it that they had used one of these to bed in the brakes.
So, late stage capitalism.
To paraphrase RATM, some of those that work forces are the same that deport your neighbors.
My partner does intake for CPS and gets these calls all the time. No one is going out on them. Most likely, most hotlines won't even take a referral. If they do, it will get eval'ed out. It is definitely a waste of an intake person's time, though. The husband needs to tell his wife to knock it off.
Happy #nationalDogDay
Though, I'm of the mind it was a pretty crappy sign change. But "the ability to hold two opposed ideas..." thing.
I always thought Cracker Barrel of someplace you stopped at on the interstate, like Howard Johnson's or Stuckey's. I didn't realize it was a place people actually dined out at They should double down "Cracker Barrel - a place you can be a cracker." Napkins that double as hoods. That sort of thing
He was definitely a handsome long boi, but I'm of course biased.
And I can't help posting my beautiful noodle, even in his cast.
Not so subtle jab at Bakersfield.
When our greyhound broke his leg, it was a huge challenge to get him up to go outside or get in the car. It's not something you think about when you get a big dog.
You waited half the movie? One thing being an old white guy is I don't wait to break out my privilege. 10 minutes in and it would have been on.
The MAGAs may have made this about "culture", but honestly that new logo was New Coke level of marketing stupid, It's a logo that screams "We spent a fortune with a some big consulting firm because we're just incompetent."
I can still print, though as my eye sight has gotten worse, so has my printing. I don't think I could print or write in longhand fast enough to fill up a blue book.
Just a reminder, always carry a valve core tool.
They would still get you coming through customs, unless you go full joey. "Why, yes officer, these are all my clothes. Haven't you seen anyone layer?"
The very first time I tried to re-use a Shimano link, it came undone. It really isn't a big deal for me since I don't hot wax my chains, but I do take my chain off a new bike to strip the factory wax. If Shimano is adamant about it, they should give you a spare link.
My question is why is a chain link a third of the price of a complete chain? And if they aren't reusable, why don't they give you at least one when you buy a new bike? When you buy wheels, they give you extra spokes, which (no jinx) I have never ever used.
John Cleese joins the war on cars...
We never ever need one single more second of the LOTR, and especially stuff Tolkien didn't write. The one exception would be Beren and Lúthien, which I'm sure someone would screw up.
Well of course that pedophile wants to talk about human trafficking. It's a subject close to his crotch... er... heart.
Born today in 1892, Pirates & Braves third baseman Tony Boeckel. He passed away in 1924 at age 31 and was the first MLB player to pass due to a car accident. #waroncars
Of course the real problem is that most guns nuts fully embrace Trumpian authoritarianism.
After the Battle of Bladensburg in 1814, President Madison commented "I could never have believed so great a difference existed between regular troops and a militia force, if I had not witnessed the scenes of this day" A fully equipped US Army platoon would swat off innumerable militia like flies.
There was a time our border collie was getting 2 walks a day and it barely made a dent in her energy; she's mellowed a little fortunately. Our greyhound, however would have been happy never to leave the couch.
That sounds like a law (and an unconstitutional one at that).