I just realized, they telegraphed it last week, he's going to announce they've discovered the Cause Of Autism.
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I just realized, they telegraphed it last week, he's going to announce they've discovered the Cause Of Autism.
Old: Jerry, no! New: Jerry, nap!
'Get your shit together' is kinda ambiguous from the lady who keeps public records of her bowel movements.
Also if it does happen the ones I want to hear from afterwards are the bouncers, and especially whoever escorted the people (hopefully well compensated sex workers) wandering the floor wearing color-coded "please maul me and I'll give detailed feedback later if you've paid thousands" wristbands.
I find it oddly funny that this supposed event - and I'm incredibly suspicious whether it will both be remotely as described and be permitted to happen by local authorities, their landlord, and for that matter by vendors - isn't in Las Vegas but in "East Bay CA" (presumably near where she lives?).
The last paragraph is incredibly telling: to the extent there was ever an argument for novelty and the ability to get the children engaged, that had completely worn off, the kids who bothered with it at all just wanted to use it to actually *decrease* their engagement, to avoid thinking or writing.
I don't even have kids, which means it's literally impossible for me to explain equal marriage to my kids. But did the equal marriage advocates ever think about *that*?
Last time anyone tried to read him some expert warnings he ignored them and blew up a bird sanctuary. Though to be fair there were no consequences anyhow. Except for the birds, of course.
When I was a kid the whole damned country was Jordan fans, and the median Jordan fan might have been able to name two other Bulls players.
So hard to say whether he's found a new way to be a misogynist creep or if it's just one of the many old ways.
Ah yes, the Quatorze Mots.
I mean, Elon has every ideological and quite possibly also financial reason to want to see Houston's most vulnerable communities wiped out.
I can't help but be suspicious about traffic on (mostly) text-based microblogging sites when I haven't heard Threads mentioned in months, and when X/Twitter's big feature is that they have LLMs to chat to their users who can't otherwise get the engagement they want. (though also, their users suck)
I have known a number of Chinese people who love Panda Express, a culinary invention from Pasadena CA, along with (allegedly) the cheeseburger.
New favourite footballer
Ex-girlfriend and now Trump's ambassador to some pleasant country or other, never to be heard from again.
But the story claims that he stuck around and hobnobbed with the cops and then later after it was all over and he'd driven away some speed demon rammed him from behind. Even if every word of the story were true and there's camera footage, it's not relevant. Also: very skeptical re the crash.
On the one hand if it happened there should be a police report. On the other hand, even if it did happen (which, lol) then that was earlier and elsewhere and not relevant to him supposedly getting rear-ended.
Why does a guy who's bankrupt and being sued by his last business partner have a new business partner and, in that statement, a 'head of security'? Also, what possible relevance could his supposed rescue of a distraught woman have to him allegedly getting rear-ended later and elsewhere?
Post-reproductive fitness has only a limited selective effect (thus, genetic diseases that have horrible effects in later life can be more common more easily than those similarly afflicting kids). By definition men only turn into dads, and start doing Dad Jokes, after they have already had kids.
There is a vile eugenics idea behind MAHA, that anyone who is truly patriotic will be strong and healthy, and anyone who succumbs to illness or relies on a crutch like medical care is morally flawed and unpatriotic. Letting COVID or Measles or bacteria in raw milk wreak havoc is doing God's work.
The French guy (Didier Raoult) was chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, at least initially, I think the ivermectin was some other quack. But there's an element of ideology that's important. The various magic silver bullet snake oil salesmen, like Raoult, didn't really have it.
The entire point here is that Lorenz is happily spreading Nazi-originated conspiracy theories about Jews and Israel, obviously nonsense when applied to either and applied to both interchangeably. I don't know why anyone would try to argue that maybe she only likes some of the vile intermingled lies.
Scroll up about four posts and look at the image again. It mentions Israel. (the censored slur word was aimed at Jews)
There are crimes that go unreported but if anything happens to your car that could affect your insurance, a police report is generally required.
You see this with the Nazis' contempt for 'Jewish Physics' and at roughly the same time with Stalinist Russia's persecution of experimental geneticist and their unsound theories of heredity.
And broadening the scope to authoritarians more generally, its extremely characteristic that scientific fact and indeed the process of doing science, with its skepticism and uncertainty, should be discarded in favor of more ideologically sound proclamations about how the world really ought to work.
Though to be fair I'm going on recollections of Medvedev's book and while it's a great book and I'd recommend it to anyone it's definitely not unbiased in whom it chooses to blame.
Did Lysenko ever have the (truly willing) support of scientists? As I recall Lysenko just had an initial unconfirmed result (maybe even real, who knows) and a theoretical explanation for it that was extremely ideologically sound, that was utterly sweeping in scope, and that the commisars loved.
RFK would be playing the Stalin role here, or some intermediary government minister, the Lysenko role requires a pretension to scientific theory and even supposedly having done experiments.
Bhattacharya has been auditioning for the role for years. And really what could be more Lysenko than unleashing upon a nation an untested, disastrously lethal theory that has zero scientific basis but is extremely sound ideologically, should really work if the world were as they insist it must be?
She fucking well retweeted a 4chan post saying it's Israel (and the version she retweeted had a word blacked out - in the original, a vicious antisemitic slur word that in modern times is used exclusively by Nazis). So, it's "likely" she was referencing Israel, she quite explicitly was doing that.
The pay isn't amazing, and any advantageous investments from connections and insider information - which obviously do happen - require bad ethics (I assume she's got that covered) and starting capital (maybe she didn't have a lot?). Also roughly around that time she'd gone through a messy divorce.
Trump got more votes in California losing by twenty points than he did in 14 states that he won, *combined*.
The thing about California being huge is that a Republican can get whalloped there and still get more votes than in pretty much any state but Texas or Florida. Trump lost California by 20 points, and just *barely* got fewer votes than in Texas or in Florida, each of which he won by almost 15 points.
Obviously when we say "paper ballots" they will have to be tested for bamboo fibers.
Her Wikipedia page says she is (or was recently) flat broke, so she may badly need to maintain her access to the sorts of sinecures available to someone like her: corporate boards, university gigs from lectures to presidencies, etc. An angry GOP could presumably blackball her from most of that.
Because of the usual line about "spend more time with their family" I looked at the 'personal life' section of her Wikipedia page: she isn't rich, she's divorced, and her (alleged) romantic relationships are with aides and lobbyists, presumably she'd have fewer opportunities for that out of office.
The entire west coast of the contiguous United States uses mail ballots, which obviously doesn't involve presenting an ID. It's popular, it increases participation (and gives the voter more opportunity to research more obscure offices and ballot measures), and it isn't a source of voter fraud.
I suppose it's good that his illegal unenforceable executive orders are about controversial and unpopular right wing stances rather than an executive order saying everyone should get to go home and take a nap, they look tired.
Weird Little Guys is the name of Molly Conger's podcast about researching neo-Nazis. Very good podcast, won a major award recently.
None of that should delay for one moment his wife getting the help she needs, but it (and his lack of remorse or reconsideration) makes him quite the piece of shit.
It is worth noting though that even as Erickson insists his vulnerable cancer patient loved one should be able to get the vaccine, he implicitly agrees with RFK Jr's HHS denying the vaccine to anyone who isn't at extremely heightened risk. And Erickson has a history of COVID vaccine fearmongering.
Although, speaking of Nuzzi (and SFAIK completely unrelated to Lorenz), the new owners of Vanity Fair reportedly want to bring her on board.
It was a joke.
About a post that even in the censored version she posted was a weird conspiracy theory about Israel (the uncensored version uses a vicious racial slur; she either knew that and censored it, or she should have wondered). It's not the weirdest conspiracy theory about Israel she's embraced recently.
That interview - which was preceded by a narrative that they were mortal enemies, accusations of 'doxxing', threats of lawsuits - was VERY chummy. Like, to a degree that transformed the narrative, especially as details leaked out.
Oh, for fuck's sake. Seriously get a goddamned grip on yourself.
You can be concerned about increased restrictions on the internet - notably age-verification laws in the UK and Mississippi and other backwards places - but they primarily target Queer communities (and, before that, sex workers), they're not some global conspiracy to benefit the one Jewish country.
In the screencap of her post there is a racial slur against Jews blocked out - it's *possible* she didn't know what had been there, but maybe *she* blocked it out, and anyhow she should have wondered - but also left intact is a claim the internet, the whole damned thing, will be censored b/c Israel.
Like the shoe brand with the swoosh, but not starting with an "N". A very hateful term, once fairly common in the US but not much used for the last few decades, except when deliberately chosen by overt Nazis.
Obviously the reason we can't see evidence of alien intelligences on distant stars from SETI is that the logical endpoint of technological development is for a society to disappear into an AI-generated fantasy world trapped behind the Dyson sphere that powers it.
It's a joke about Etsy not 'delivering' - not providing its users with the experience they want, which is jokes about Trump - and the 'de minimus' policy change that means many items previously sold on Etsy can't be mailed to buyers in the US, so can't be delivered.
His golf game long ago transcended the bounds of mere physical existence - he won a club championship without even competing in it - and one day so will he.
Fair enough not to like the other guy, but there must be another option, or twenty.
I don't think you should be framing this as a binary choice, because I don't think anyone should be nominating a candidate who would be sworn in to begin their six year term just a week after their 79th birthday, no matter how great they are, unless it's the only possible way to win the seat.
Given how small the fonts often are in conference name badges, I tend to assume the badges serve some purpose I'm unaware of.
Your theory being that this apple farm doesn't know their own business or product?
When you really weant to keep the doctor away.
Quoting Jim Hightower FFS.
I can't tell if your instructor was being somehow racist against Italians or having a stroke.
I read about this last night, everyone involved is worse than the last one, and while the FBI director's 24 year old (iirc) conservative influencer girlfriend definitely isn't a secret agent working for Israel it's still fucked up that he has a 24 year old (iirc) conservative influencer girlfriend.
To be fair if they get a redo then this time there won't be a sudden dramatic revelation most of the way through the case that they've been hiding all the recordings and data and trying to overwrite them and lying to everyone about it for years. (Judge didn't quite find deliberate intent though)
Always sad when it's one of the better ones though. Easier when it's just, say, Cleese being an asshole again.
On the other hand: some time before Queen Elizabeth died I heard a description of the rules at the BBC for when it happened, involving a cupboard up a back staircase containing the Emergency Tuxedo to be worn when announcing the sad tidings. I wonder if Fox News has anything planned.
Some weekend fill-in on InfoWars.
The Trumpists love to make up stories about body doubles and since every other weird accusation they make turns out to be projection I don't see why the fun has to stop just yet.
It's not like most of the damage is coming from the complex schemes of Donald Trump.
Or at least criticizing them on some rational basis, not just making shit up and saying 'nuh-uh'.
I thought they only made one sequel.
Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for ending Dubya's lawless warmingering administration (not a great reason, but probably a fair assessment of McCain) and maybe Trump had an idea. Unlike all the other Nobel prizes, to win the Nobel Peace Prize you don't have to be alive when the prize is announced.
Weirdly inconsistent.
This is telling a different story, that doesn't involve any of that (no claims of probems from the vaccine, no story of past COVID)? Per the article, he did adhere to party line that only some rare vulnerable people should ever get the COVID vaccine, and even so his MAGA followers attacked him.
As a diligent worker I'm sure he's been working on it for years: all of Trump's closest advisers and supporters are there, carefully labeled. It's meant a lot of work replacing Pence with Vance, erasing Trump's various disloyal chiefs of staff and NSAs, removing Musk, restoring Musk ...
People are calling him Schrodinger's President, which is very unfair to Schrodinger's principles. He's much more like Heisenberg's President.
I seem to recall that 'The Death Of Stalin' starts with a request for some of Stalin's favorite music.
Etsy isn't delivering, but it's probably because of the de minimus change.
That Vance's wife is smarter, harder working, and more ambitious and successful than he is (at least before Peter Thiel made Vance his pet, and NPR told everyone Vance's book was great) may be just as much a problem as her skin color and immigrant parents, and certainly compounds that problem.
Infringing on the copyrights of some of the people they've targeted may be bad ethics but it's even worse self-preservation. Taylor Swift? Really?
Do you think Vance started by believing any of that stuff, in any way he cared about, or did he just get socialized into it because those were the beliefs of his favored online community and support group, and were promoted by his patron and sponsor Peter Thiel?
They say they're not tallying the cost, but you can be sure they've exultantly proclaimed the incredible savings they achieved by firing 90% of the Park Service personnel assigned to DC. (that 90% number is real, according to a post I saw; the national Park Service number is also high, but lower)
Enthusiastically mock Tudor. Really embracing the mockness of its Tudor aesthetic. Would never have been satisfied with a more faithful imitation of the Tudor style.
To be clear, it sucks shit that Jan 6 criminals got pardons, buit those pardons are limited to crimes committed on Jan 6; even crimes discovered as a direct result of investigating Jan 6 crimes (including CSAM found searching a Jan 6 defendant's home) aren't covered by the pardon.
A lot of her voters (and viewers) live in places where that's true, of course.
Reforming the filibuster by nominating people who remember before it existed.
But also this kind of majoritarian bigotry is exactly what I expect from the administration that's waging war on everyone in the country who's not cis, white, straight, and Christian af, while pretending to be upset by something they call 'antisemitism' that rarely overlaps with antisemitism.
Speaking as an American Jew, who therefore has had a lifetime of frequently being made to feel uncomfortable by the 98% or whatever: even if her numbers were spot on, fuck her.
That doesn't mean the primary has to be canceled in favor of Plattner, but it does mean Schumer or whoever should look for alternatives born after the Eisenhower administration.
That said, the only acceptable reason to nominate a 77 year old to six year term is if you believe no-one else can possibly win the seat, and that goes for incumbents and even icons too. I'm sure Mills is a peach but I don't think she is uniquely able to win Maine and start her Senate career age 79.
The closest thing I can think of (involving truly inconceivable levels of wealth, not just A Lot) is deposed authoritarian rulers, notably the last emperor of China.
Benedict Arnold was more legitimately an American military hero than Robert E Lee and it's time West Point acknowledged that.
You can't keep a good journalist down, which is however completely irrelevant to this case.
That's silly, the cone is already the carbs. Still, though: Pizza Cone?
I don't think a magazine slavering to rescuscitate the career of Olivia Nuzzi is aiming squarely for the sort of hardhitting no-prisoners journalism you envision.
The US's leading role as the home of international science and education has been an incredible source of soft power, of brilliant immigrants (and brilliant people who go home again having lived and worked in the US) and even a giant export industry. But these people just hate Education, full stop.
I deleted a comment attacking Newsom for sucking up to Crypto scum because it's unclear to me whether he's sincerely promoting a shitcoin for all the usual awful crypto scum reasons or it's entirely a stunt as commentary on Trump's crypto corruption (which is basically the name of Newsom's shitcoin)
Without assessing that argument, I think the screencapped tweet is a version of it, playing into some established hobbyhorses.
There is an argument (or an assertion) that one reason for the current fascism, and especially for so many establishment figures and wealthy people and especially tech shitheads embracing it, is that they saw the success of government interventions to alleviate economic effects of COVID and said NO.
It's the old Upton Sinclair quote about it being impossible to inform people about something if their income depends on their not knowing it.