Don’t threaten. DO IT. THROW THAT PASTY WHITE ASS IN THE SLAMMER, just like they did to Matty Maroun (bridge troll who sued Canada)!
I guess now we know who gave him the bad legal advice that it would not be a violation. https://t.co/2QM5V429LN
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 7, 2024
re: #2 Belafon
I was told there would be no math.
This goes out to Kristi
Just started watching “Funny Girl” on Britbox. Looks promising.
Hydroponic trough status
after running for a week remove it so I could set some foundation cement tiles and footings.
And got it back into place
Been running it for a week or more to get the flow mechanics down.
And I think I did. It starts right in the AM. And it drains correctly when the pumps shut off at night. It doesn’t overflow.
Next is the bamboo pipe/cover for the outlet.
Then the bamboo cover and support brace for the inlet spout.
And one more slat across the front of the raised bed to 1/3 shield the trough.
Then we’re ready for rocks and plants. The first hydro batch will likely be basil
“Hey great news I know just the way to market your product, let’s take man’s best friend here, you’re probably thinking how can this situation be improved?”
All I ask is for one Judge…just one Judge…to tell TFG to keep a tooth -brush in his pocket at all times that he is in their courtroom.
I think Burns has to respond with a diss track now. The World should know if he was involved and ok’d the deal language or not:
The proposal for a hostage-prisoner exchange and cease-fire that Hamas said on Monday that it could accept has minor wording changes from the one that Israel and the United States had presented to the group recently, according to two officials familiar with the revised proposal.
The officials said that the changes were made by Arab mediators in consultation with William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, and that the new version keeps a key phrase, the eventual enactment of a “sustainable calm,” wording that all sides had said earlier they could accept.
The two officials said the response from Hamas was a serious one, and that it was now up to Israel to decide whether to enter into an agreement. The proposal, they said, calls for Hamas to free hostages — women, the elderly and those in need of medical treatment — in return for a 42-day cease-fire and the release of a much larger number of Palestinian prisoners. Israel had sought 33 hostages, but it is not clear how many women and elderly are still alive, and the first tranche could end up including remains.
re: #7 jaunte
Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social
sneaking into the movies with my outside snacks
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re: #10 Dangerman
Hydroponic trough status
after running for a week remove it so I could set some foundation cement tiles and footings.
And got it back into place
Been running it for a week or more to get the flow mechanics down.And I think I did. It starts right in the AM. And it drains correctly when the pumps shut off at night. It doesn’t overflow.
Next is the bamboo pipe/cover for the outlet.
Then the bamboo cover and support brace for the inlet spout.
And one more slat across the front of the raised bed to 1/3 shield the trough.Then we’re ready for rocks and plants. The first hydro batch will likely be basil
Is the trough level or do you have say, a 1/4” per 12” slope to facilitate draining?
What do I do with my superseded prescriptions?
Don’t have many but unable to find where to donate them.
(The following article is dated July 18, 2017)
It has become clear that there are people with deep pockets who have elevated the value of the Truth Social stock as a means to enrich Trump, with the assumption that he will repay them many times over by getting re-elected. Or is this a Gamestop situation where a large number of small players keep investing because of their deep conviction that Trump is the messiah, there to save them from the evils of DEI, wokeness, CRT, .and Obamacare?
re: #19 BeenHereAwhile
A friend of our whose a nurse practitioner tells us we can easily go a year past the expiration date on solid drugs.
re: #20 Hecuba’s daughter
It has become clear that there are people with deep pockets who have elevated the value of the Truth Social stock as a means to enrich Trump, with the assumption that he will repay them many times over by getting re-elected. Or is this a Gamestop situation where a large number of small players keep investing because of their deep conviction that Trump is the messiah, there to save them from the evils of DEI, wokeness, CRT, .and Obamacare?
Probably both things are happening.
A tornado hit Bartlesville, ok, and killed two people at a Hampton Inn.
re: #21 Belafon
A friend of our whose a nurse practitioner tells us we can easily go a year past the expiration date on solid drugs.
I saw a study a while ago… can’t remember where… that found that even pills much older than that retained 90 - 95% potency if they were stored properly. (Don’t play this game with drugs where the dosage has to be exact).
re: #23 Belafon
A tornado hit Bartlesville, ok, and killed two people at a Hampton Inn.
Fuck. One of my nightmares.
re: #6 jaunte
In high school, I found X once. I have no desire to ever try to find it again. That is someone else’s problem.
re: #26 Egregious Philbin
In high school, I found X once. I have no desire to ever try to find it again. That is someone else’s problem.
When I was taking calculus in college and I got to equations that had ‘no solution’ I decided I’d reached the end of math.
re: #26 Egregious Philbin
I found the solution to the problem was to major in art.
re: #10 Dangerman
I used to do hydroponic tomatoes. Super easy setup, go to the store, get 2 big plastic storage totes. For the bottom one, you cut a hole for the pipe in the middle of the top piece, and several drainage holes. For the top one, cut holes in the bottom of the storage tote and a hole for the pipe. Cut a hole in the top for the pipe, and 4 holes big enough to hold the plastic planters which have the volcanic pebbles and the open slots for drainage. Put the PVC pipe through both of the totes. Attach a pump in the bottom tote to the pipe, and attach a 4 way valve to the top of the pipe, and run aquarium hose to each planter. Fill the bottom tote with hydroponic plant food and water (I used one for bloom, one for growth, and one for micro nutrients, which changes as the plants develop). Plug in, and ensure each planter is getting a steady stream of liquid, and that it is dripping back to the bottom tote. Plant your tomatoes and, you have very fast growing hydroponic plants.
re: #26 Egregious Philbin
In high school, I found X once. I have no desire to ever try to find it again. That is someone else’s problem.
Someone’s name is “Mathematica”
re: #28 jaunte
The joke is on the world, I run standard deviation analysis for a Fortune 50 company, I still have very little understanding of the mathematics…
One of my old bosses from a previous company just posted pics posing with his new Cybertruck. Of all the responses the best one was from his wife, who said, “congrats on getting the ugliest vehicle ever…at least I don’t have to worry about it being a chick magnet.”
re: #32 darthstar
I finally saw one, it was clad in black cover plating. It still looked incredibly stupid. And, in Phoenix, in the next few months, when its 114 degrees outside, they will find out what all those huge windows do to the internal heat, and the AC in those things is bad…and it runs the battery way down.
re: #33 Egregious Philbin
I finally saw one, it was clad in black cover plating. It still looked incredibly stupid. And, in Phoenix, in the next few months, when its 114 degrees outside, they will find out what all those huge windows do to the internal heat, and the AC in those things is bad…and it runs the battery way down.
He lives in Arizona. I replied, “Hop on the hood in shorts in July and tell us how it feels.”
re: #35 darthstar
One good monsoon storm and the Cyber Truck will be rusting….
re: #35 darthstar
and if they cook themselves inside their nether proxies machines, nothing of value will be lost.
8 weeks from right now…It’ll be the end of the first official day of my retirement!
DAMN I CAN’T WAIT TO BE FREED FROM THE TURKEY FARM!
re: #32 darthstar
One of my old bosses from a previous company just posted pics posing with his new Cybertruck. Of all the responses the best one was from his wife, who said, “congrats on getting the ugliest vehicle ever…at least I don’t have to worry about it being a chick magnet.”
I got to admit. Sleazy E actually developed a vehicle even uglier than my 1970 1/2 base model AMC Gremlin!
Unlike the Sleazymobile my Gremlin didn’t rust after getting washed and hot waxed at the local car wash.
re: #41 Joe Bacon ✅
but in the summertime, all of those AMC rides were hot as hell when you tried to open those sun baked stainless steel door handles.
re: #39 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
At least they took the allergy seriously
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Tornado warnings still popping off for Kansas and Iowa.
Very stormy night in tornado alley.
re: #45 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Tornado warnings still popping off for Kansas and Iowa.
Very stormy night in tornado alley.
I wonder, who the hell looked at the central/western US and said to themselves, “Every spring and summer the sky reaches down to the ground and rips everything loose and throws it into the next timezone. Let’s build towns and cities here! Yay!”
re: #47 Nojay UK
I wonder, who the hell looked at the central/western US and said to themselves, “Every spring and summer the sky reaches down to the ground and rips everything loose and throws it into the next timezone. Let’s build towns and cities here! Yay!”
People who looked at lots of flat land that was cheap, had good rail access and they wanted a better place than Wisconsin as the breadbasket of the US to grow that grain. Shrug. It’s still that if you are willing to live with the tradeoffs.
re: #47 Nojay UK
I wonder, who the hell looked at the central/western US and said to themselves, “Every spring and summer the sky reaches down to the ground and rips everything loose and throws it into the next timezone. Let’s build towns and cities here! Yay!”
The American expansion into the middle of the continent was quite the rush - some of my ancestors did it.
Free land (ignoring the previous inhabitants), some of the best agricultural land on the planet, pour as many people as possible into it.
And it’s still mostly empty.
re: #47 Nojay UK
I wonder, who the hell looked at the central/western US and said to themselves, “Every spring and summer the sky reaches down to the ground and rips everything loose and throws it into the next timezone. Let’s build towns and cities here! Yay!”
To be fair, the chances of any particular location being razed to the ground by the finger of God are relatively low, as opposed to the shit people put up with in places where the ground can’t stay still or where God throws the Mother Of All Storms at you.
You’ve gotta be freaking kidding me. AGAIN.
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re: #55 Nerdy Fish
To be fair, the chances of any particular location being razed to the ground by the finger of God are relatively low, as opposed to the shit people put up with in places where the ground can’t stay still or where God throws the Mother Of All Storms at you.
There is no place on this planet that can’t be erased by the fickle finger of fate though.
re: #16 BeenHereAwhile
Is the trough level or do you have say, a 1/4” per 12” slope to facilitate draining?
it’s level - more or less
- when the pumps go on, it slowly fills up, evenly
- when it hits the height of the pipe it starts to drain
- at the end of the day, the pumps go off, then it drains down to about one inch through the hole near the bottom of the side of the pipe
then the roots can breathe overnight.
it works like a bar sink overflow but with the extra hole in the side so it drains down at night.
Boeing called off its first astronaut launch because of a valve problem on the rocket Monday night.The two NASA test pilots had just strapped into Boeing’s Starliner capsule for a flight to the International Space Station when the countdown was halted, just two hours before the planned liftoff.
United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno said an oxygen pressure-relief valve on the upper stage of the company’s Atlas rocket started fluttering open and close, creating a loud buzz.
re: #39 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
At least they took the allergy seriously
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Yep. And expressed clearly on the order.
re: #20 Hecuba’s daughter
It has become clear that there are people with deep pockets who have elevated the value of the Truth Social stock as a means to enrich Trump, with the assumption that he will repay them many times over by getting re-elected. Or is this a Gamestop situation where a large number of small players keep investing because of their deep conviction that Trump is the messiah, there to save them from the evils of DEI, wokeness, CRT, .and Obamacare?
i must be missing something because i dont see how this could possible work.
tfg has so many shares it’ll be a question of whether he wants to control this loser company or milk it and get out (like the casinos).
he’s got so damned many shares maybe he doesnt care and it’s just liquidating cash flow to him - that’s the grift.
others keep buying right now but they dont have that many outstanding shares overall.
yes this pushes the market price up, but *currently* it does nothing for tfg right now.
in september he can start to sell and say he does
if the price is still higher than his basis, then he’ll make some gains on the initial sales sure.
if he tries to sell *a lot* and quickly, the market price will plummet and he will start to sell at a loss.
(again it’s still a lot of dollars so does he care?)
the only way this works as influence buying is when the price plummets, then these ‘others’ have to start buying at that lower price to prop it back up again
he gets his cash and capital gains
they have a mixed portfolio of the original high buys and low buys.
if they try to sell they will take some losses
the only way this convoluted thing works is *when* he sells *then* they start buying to keep the price from essentially going to zero.
this whole thing is way too convoluted and i still dont see the brilliance in how this would work or why as ‘money laundering’
more than likely the price bounced because of the short seller squeeze. not some conspiratorial plot.
Things you can do to help defeat Trump and the Right. Specifically, some key candidates and issues you can donate money to, because that is what they need the most. You can also help for free by talking on the internet about Democrats’ best issues, such as abortion rights and healthcare.
Thirteen Trump appointed judges announced they will not be hiring Federalist Society members who graduated from Columbia University; they will be hiring Federalist Society members who graduated from other universities instead. So any little reactionaries who attended Columbia with dreams of someday declaring zygotes to be person with constitutional rights from a federal bench will just have to go work for daddy’s law firm instead.
re: #54 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Trey for this AM.
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Couldn’t sleep. So I did some searching to bore myself. I remember when the DOW broke 1000 (November 14, 1972). I was a junor in High School. So I was curious what the trajectory of the DJIA looked like since 1915. Here it is from Macrotrends
Nice and pretty steady rise outside of recessions, shown in gray.
Now, this is an imprefect measure since the members of the Dow have changed over time but it is a measure used by many.
But what is interesting is what this looks like if adjusted for inflation.
Whoa. Does that look different. The market peaked in 1965 then dropped over the next 20 years as the stock gains lagged behind the huge inflation seen then. In fact, when that period ended, in 1982, the adjusted value of the Dow was about the same as it was after WW2, 35 years earlier.
Isn’t math fun ;-) Now I am tired enough to go back to sleep. Night all.
ugh….
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re: #66 silverdolphin
Doonsberry drew a cartoon in one of his first books (back in the 1970s; he was drawing very simple characters back then) where Mark tells his his ultra-conservative father that Dow had dropped 60(?) points. As his father almost strokes out, just joking. Doesn’t seem to be anywhere I can find stripes from those books.
Amazon’s Delivery Drones Won’t Fly in Arizona’s Summer Heat
Amazon plans to start flying delivery drones in Arizona this year—but don’t count on them to bring you a refreshing drink on a hot day. The hexacopter can’t operate when temperatures top 104 degrees Fahrenheit, or 40 degrees Celsius, the company says, and average daily highs exceed that for three months of the year in Tolleson, the city outside Phoenix where Amazon is preparing to offer aerial deliveries from inside a 7.5-mile radius. The drones can’t help with midnight snacks either, because they’ll be grounded after sunset.
re: #68 A Cranky One
This is what happens when you embrace the dark side.
re: #71 darthstar
This is what happens when you embrace the dark side.
That’s terrifying honestly. Was that really the same person? From stunningly beautiful to..whatever that is.
I get wanting to let your freak flag fly. But I don’t get turning yourself into a caricature to get there.
re: #62 Dangerman
i must be missing something because i dont see how this could possible work.
tfg has so many shares it’ll be a question of whether he wants to control this loser company or milk it and get out (like the casinos).
he’s got so damned many shares maybe he doesnt care and it’s just liquidating cash flow to him - that’s the grift.others keep buying right now but they dont have that many outstanding shares overall.
yes this pushes the market price up, but *currently* it does nothing for tfg right now.in september he can start to sell and say he does
if the price is still higher than his basis, then he’ll make some gains on the initial sales sure.
if he tries to sell *a lot* and quickly, the market price will plummet and he will start to sell at a loss.
(again it’s still a lot of dollars so does he care?)the only way this works as influence buying is when the price plummets, then these ‘others’ have to start buying at that lower price to prop it back up again
he gets his cash and capital gains
they have a mixed portfolio of the original high buys and low buys.
if they try to sell they will take some lossesthe only way this convoluted thing works is *when* he sells *then* they start buying to keep the price from essentially going to zero.
this whole thing is way too convoluted and i still dont see the brilliance in how this would work or why as ‘money laundering’
more than likely the price bounced because of the short seller squeeze. not some conspiratorial plot.
Think of it as a way to hide support to Trump’s election chances. Keeping the junk stock from collapsing before November might take periodic bumps of cash, much of which can be recovered in subsequent trades. The profit potential is not there, and rational investors wouldn’t buy a stock whose auditors have just been shut down.
re: #70 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
I see a flaw in a delivery service that can’t deliver during either day or night.
re: #75 No Malarkey!
I see a flaw in a delivery service that can’t deliver during either day or night.
Almost like it’s a PR thing rather than a serious attempt to establish a reliable and flexible service.
From the docket, prosecutors think they need 8 more days to complete their case in chief against Trump. That puts us in last week of May to hand case over to defense and any witnesses they put on.
Given that the defense isn’t likely to put up any witnesses, and definitely wont put Trump on the stand, this case is likely going to closing statements at the end of the month.
re: #76 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Almost like it’s a PR thing rather than a serious attempt to establish a reliable and flexible service.
Who is writing the liability coverage on the aerial delivery of Acme anvils?
re: #78 Decatur Deb
Who is writing the liability coverage on the aerial delivery of Acme anvils?
I presume they picked that location for reasons related to lessening complexity of the operation*. And perhaps there are legal and/or insurance reasons for choosing that locale as well.
I expect there will be some premium delivery charges involved since the equipment and specialized labor involved has got to be more complicated and expensive than a driver and standard delivery van. (Including some sort of hanger set-up since I presume the drones don’t sit out in the open on concrete awaiting being put to use.)
* - Research for this perhaps overlooking the region’s usual temp range.
re: #64 No Malarkey!
So they’re punishing rightwing graduates who just happen to have been Columbia students? Does that make sense?
re: #68 A Cranky One
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re: #80 Patricia Kayden
So they’re punishing rightwing graduates who just happen to have been Columbia students? Does that make sense?
They’re trying to punish Columbia University by saying they won’t hire any of their graduates, though I’m not sure how many Columbia graduates were really dead set on clerking for any of these repugnant assholes.
re: #79 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I presume they picked that location for reasons related to lessening complexity of the operation*. And perhaps there are legal and/or insurance reasons for choosing that locale as well.
I expect there will be some premium delivery charges involved since the equipment and specialized labor involved has got to be more complicated and expensive than a driver and standard delivery van. (Including some sort of hanger set-up since I presume the drones don’t sit out in the open on concrete awaiting being put to use.)
* - Research for this perhaps overlooking the region’s usual temp range.
Yeah, I’m leaning towards there being some massive savings on insurance or operating costs versus putting this in an equally desolate but more temperate operating environment as a proof of concept test.
re: #79 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I presume they picked that location for reasons related to lessening complexity of the operation*. And perhaps there are legal and/or insurance reasons for choosing that locale as well.
I expect there will be some premium delivery charges involved since the equipment and specialized labor involved has got to be more complicated and expensive than a driver and standard delivery van. (Including some sort of hanger set-up since I presume the drones don’t sit out in the open on concrete awaiting being put to use.)
* - Research for this perhaps overlooking the region’s usual temp range.
There is going to be a flashback that limits low-altitude flightpaths over property and privacy rights.
Can Landowners Exclude Drones from Their Low Airspace?
thecgo.org
re: #83 Targetpractice
Yeah, I’m leaning towards there being some massive savings on insurance or operating costs versus putting this in an equally desolate but more temperate operating environment as a proof of concept test.
That. Or the terrain is really flat and lacks obstacles and things that might interfere with control and guidance signals.
Gift link from Gaiman, NYT review of the next installment of Miracleman
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re: #84 Decatur Deb
There is going to be a flashback that limits low-altitude flightpaths over property and privacy rights.
Can Landowners Exclude Drones from Their Low Airspace?
thecgo.org
I have been wanting to try out my dad’s Model 59 Winlite 12 gauge.
re: #79 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Sky stunt: Amazon to fly warehouse to deliver you goods through drones
re: #87 Shropshire Slasher
I have been wanting to try out my dad’s Model 59 Winlite 12 gauge.
Can’t shoot in my neighborhood. I can own and train falcons, though.
re: #88 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Sky stunt: Amazon to fly warehouse to deliver you goods through drones
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I expect there will be a whole series of court decisions and FAA stuff regarding commercial drone usage and private property rights regarding overflight. With quite a bit of pressure from Amazon, et al. to make it legal for their delivery drones to violate said space to make a delivery.*
I also expect some legal decisions along the lines of making it a crime to shoot down or otherwise interfere with commercial drones making a delivery whether or not they cross an air space they do not have explicit permission to enter.
And I bet there will soon be a market (or black market) for DIY “drone zappers” since electronic warfare will quickly become the option since outside of rural areas using a shotgun on them will be made illegal pretty quickly. Might be some interesting rhetoric around these cases as 2nd Amendment and Castle Doctrine faces off against capitalism.
* - Without something like this making deliveries into a suburban area that is a massive patchwork of allowable and not-allowable spaces becomes really complex and probably risky and expensive. Plus something as simple as a bit of wind will be pushing drones over lines into no-go territory. I also expect HOAs will quickly get heavily involved in this. Probably charging the delivery companies a fee for access in exchange for a blanket permission to enter the air space. (Control of which they’ve taken from the property owner as part of the HOA contract.)
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
So they’re punishing rightwing graduates who just happen to have been Columbia students? Does that make sense?
It makes sense, when you recall that their base assumptions are simply not yours.
Conservatives right now have formed a consensus that all institutions of learning are hives of leftist ideological indoctrination and the only solution to this is to invert this: that’s what Chris Rufo has been doing, and it’s now the accepted norm that schools should be hounded to do what conservatives want. To achieve this end they’re willing to act in a degree of bad faith that non-conservatives would view as de-legitimating of their supposed agenda of reform…but these people don’t care because they believe they are correct on a level that is effectively spiritual, and that what they want contradicts the basic idea of academic inquiry is a plus not a minus.
(It is also notable here that their understanding of “leftism” places things like…the mere existence of LGBTQ people, the history of global financial exploitation by colonial powers, and global warming…all as indicators of Marxism. It doesn’t matter whether their concern is genuine or insincere, their goal is an education system that only reproduces their beliefs and is willing to discard all forms of inquiry, including empiricism, to achieve that end.)
These judges function as apparati of the Federalist Society and its patrons, and those patrons now view Columbia as tainted ground, with the administration failing to act in a way that corresponds to the preferred conservative response. This statement is both a re-affirmation of loyalty to those patrons and part of the larger punishment that wealthy conservatives are going to perform on universities who do not adapt their specifications of how to deal with protests (with immediate severe penalties) and what constitutes free speech (there is an ideological test that favors only conservative speech).
Comparatively a few law students at the school that the Federalist Society would deem acceptable don’t matter.
The protests are just an opportunity to do this more openly, during a window where libs are worried that there’s too much speech and thus will convince themselves that this might be necessary in this one circumstance, and this isn’t something that conservatives have been working on for years and will take maximum advantage of.
re: #92 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
You think a Good Humor truck is bothersome? Any significant drone activity will blow the hell out of local noise ordinances. This is a Rube Goldberg solution in search of a problem.
The gag order and subsequent rulings by Judge Merchan make it clear that Trump’s repeated jury intimidation, witness intimidation, and attacks on the rule of law and the justice system have consequences beyond the fines and potential jail for continued violations.
Merchan has already ruled that Trump’s legal team gets shorter notice of who is appearing as witnesses against him from the list proffered earlier this year (the list had over 100 names, but only a handful will actually be called). This is designed to protect the witness and limit the potential intimidation, but it puts Trump’s legal team at a disadvantage since they don’t get the usual amount of time to prepare for a cross examination.
Suck it Trump - your actions have consequences. That would put anyone else in jail for repeated violations of gag orders and other criminal conduct (like violating conditions of bail, engaging in multiple felonies that otherwise would require remand to jail pending trial - the classified docs trial for instance), and this continues to show that we’re dealing with a two-tier justice system where Trump benefits in ways that no one else is able to. And even then, Trump’s conduct is eroding those advantages (but not removing them entirely).
re: #88 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Sky stunt: Amazon to fly warehouse to deliver you goods through drones
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Pie in the Sky BS since the costs of development and logistics for actually running something like this would take decades to make up compared to running things land-based and similar to how they are now. Especially since you’d need 2-3 flying warehouses for an area since one (or more) of them could be down for maintenance or overhaul. And just one to use for stadium events is a lot of investment for something that sits around for extended periods of time.
I presume the “45,000 feet” thing is tossed in to imply it will sit above weather and thunderstorms. (You know, the things that killed a series of lighter-than-air ships in the 1930s.) But at 45,000’ you also have to provide oxygen, heat, etc. etc. for the crew plus it takes extra time for the drones to ascend and descend from that altitude. So it would operate lower and thus have to deal with the environmental factors anyways.
And there are a myriad of reasons commercial lighter-than-air ships are not all over the place. The concept just keeps popping up in the popular science arena every decade or so and it looks wonderful as long as you overlook some of the major issues the practical application of the technology has.
re: #95 lawhawk
Speaking of the classified docs case, Loose Cannon continues slow walking the rulings and aiding Trump in every way imaginable.
NEW: Judge Cannon enters an Order “temporarily staying” the requirement for Trump to have to file his CIPA Section 5 notice in the MAL classified documents case.
Sec. 5 requires Trump to disclose to the Government the classified materials he intends on using at trial. pic.twitter.com/wC3sOpUKtj— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) May 7, 2024
re: #98 lawhawk
Speaking of the classified docs case, Loose Cannon continues slow walking the rulings and aiding Trump in every way imaginable.
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Is this because of the whole “I’m going to put the most ridiculous interpretation of the Presidential Records Act possible into the jury instructions” bulkshit that is currently being appealed (I think)?
re: #101 lawhawk
Separate issue.
Separate issue, yes, but I wonder if she’s temporarily staying these things, basically delaying the case waiting for that to be resolved, because she’s mad about being called out over it.
re: #74 Decatur Deb
Think of it as a way to hide support to Trump’s election chances. Keeping the junk stock from collapsing before November might take periodic bumps of cash, much of which can be recovered in subsequent trades. The profit potential is not there, and rational investors wouldn’t buy a stock whose auditors have just been shut down.
yeah maybe to sorta support the election instead of giving to the campaign or a pac.
but not as a way to buy influence if he should win.
they gonna walk into the white house with their brokerage statements and say ‘see what i did’, and then hope? not with this guy.
or are they sending him their statements now, with every trade?
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
So they’re punishing rightwing graduates who just happen to have been Columbia students? Does that make sense?
Sense? Out of conservatives?
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re: #109 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
The prize is time in a jail cell.
Gentle reminder that even if a drone is violating your airspace rights, it’s still illegal to shoot it down. The appropriate remedy is to take evidence and call the FAA.
OOPS
Donald Trump is scheduled to give the keynote address at the Minnesota Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on May 17, the same day he requested off court to attend his son Barron Trump’s graduation ceremony,” Newsweek reports.
So now we know what witness tfg was complaining they didn’t have enough time to prepare for
Eta: the one witness everyone knew was gonna testify.
Daniels
You know, the woman he still denies having an “affair” with.
And yet he paid her for….????
re: #110 Nerdy Fish
Gentle reminder that even if a drone is violating your airspace rights, it’s still illegal to shoot it down..
In the US and most other nations airspace is controlled by the authorities, not by the owners of the land. Private pilots and airliners can fly over Texas ranches and urban houses without demur or the expectation that some idiot will shoot at them for doing so.
Drones can legally fly over your house as long as they’re more than a given height (I think it’s 50 feet or so above the highest structure like a roof or antenna mast for the US). There are areas where they’re not permitted to fly such as around airports or over industrial plants like oil refineries but they’re an exception and modern drones have geofencing built into their flight systems to deal with those restrictions.
re: #113 Nojay UK
In the US and most other nations airspace is controlled by the authorities, not by the owners of the land. Private pilots and airliners can fly over Texas ranches and urban houses without demur or the expectation that some idiot will shoot at them for doing so.
Drones can legally fly over your house as long as they’re more than a given height (I think it’s 50 feet or so above the highest structure like a roof or antenna mast for the US). There are areas where they’re not permitted to fly such as around airports or over industrial plants like oil refineries but they’re an exception and modern drones have geofencing built into their flight systems to deal with those restrictions.
That’s the Supreme Court case that set it at 300’ (rural areas) back in the 1940s. And superceded the “common law” claim that the air space owned by private land was infinite upward.
Ok I’m a child sometimes
Dear Lord,
I really don’t ask for much, so if you could please, please please pretty please have Stormy Daniels describe Trump’s toadstool peen in front of him with the world listening while he can’t say a word, that would be swell.
Thank you.
Jo— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) May 7, 2024
re: #85 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
That. Or the terrain is really flat and lacks obstacles and things that might interfere with control and guidance signals.
In this case, it is both. Maricopa County is basically ground zero for testing this kind of tech
re: #116 Dangerman
I hope JoJo from Jerz gets her prayer answered.
re: #114 Joe Bacon ✅
Poopy Pants will do a Zoom with them from his kid’s graduation.
Nah, exact opposite. He’ll show for a few photos, pat Barron on the head, and then bail out on the celebrating to fly to the dinner.
Fake tough guy Trump went from pledging to defy the judge’s order when leaving court yesterday to stand up for his rights to meekly and quickly deleting social media posts after getting a call from his lawyer this morning.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 7, 2024
re: #121 Dangerman
But also posted new violations of the gag order today - so there’s that.
In the run-up to Inner City Press’ live thread to start at 9:30, the below. Will prosecutors raise, even before the Stormy witness- & will Justice Merchan act? Or schedule another contempt hearing? Gag order (and order of witness disclosure) showdown. Countdown… pic.twitter.com/lXKM7Bt0Hq
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) May 7, 2024
re: #119 Targetpractice
Nah, exact opposite. He’ll show for a few photos, pat Barron on the head, and then bail out on the celebrating to fly to the dinner.
The school will give Barron his diploma before the speeches so they can be rid of his father’s menacing presence.
re: #121 Dangerman
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re: #123 darthstar
The school will give Barron his diploma before the speeches so they can be rid of his father’s menacing presence.
Won’t even have to worry about that. He’ll drive up to the school, get out, give Barron a few words of “congratulations,” pose for a pic, and then be back in the limo and on the way to the airport. In and out in under 30 minutes.
re: #122 lawhawk
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How does that violate the gag order?
Prosecution jerking Trump’s chain by announcing Stormy as a witness, but then having another witness start the day ahead of her. He’s gonna be a wreck by the afternoon.
re: #126 danarchy
How does that violate the gag order?
He’s not allowed to talk about the witnesses…at all.
re: #113 Nojay UK
In the US and most other nations airspace is controlled by the authorities, not by the owners of the land. Private pilots and airliners can fly over Texas ranches and urban houses without demur or the expectation that some idiot will shoot at them for doing so.
Drones can legally fly over your house as long as they’re more than a given height (I think it’s 50 feet or so above the highest structure like a roof or antenna mast for the US). There are areas where they’re not permitted to fly such as around airports or over industrial plants like oil refineries but they’re an exception and modern drones have geofencing built into their flight systems to deal with those restrictions.
See #84 for discussion of current and future controls. If my land use is bird sanctuary or meditation garden, drone-boy has a problem.
re: #125 Targetpractice
Won’t even have to worry about that. He’ll drive up to the school, get out, give Barron a few words of “congratulations,” pose for a pic, and then be back in the limo and on the way to the airport. In and out in under 30 minutes.
we can game this out lots of ways
but: tfg and his lawyers argued for ‘attending the graduation’
these kinds of orchestrations to wriggle out of this (and for a fundraiser) may not sit well with the judge
yes i know, the judge and the gag orders and all that
still - up until this ‘conflict’ arose, pretty much everyone sort of assumed he’d be at the graduation, for the graduation. not a photo-op pretending such.
re: #128 darthstar
He’s not allowed to talk about the witnesses…at all.
Sorry, that is a stretch. He didn’t talk about the witness. Just that there is a witness. It is a complaint about how the prosecution is conducting themselves not a statement about the witness.
re: #130 Dangerman
we can game this out lots of ways
but: tfg and his lawyers argued for ‘attending the graduation’these kinds of orchestrations to wriggle out of this (and for a fundraiser) may not sit well with the judge
yes i know, the judge and the gag orders and all that
still - up until this ‘conflict’ arose, pretty much everyone sort of assumed he’d be at the graduation, for the graduation. not a photo-op pretending such.
I think most us knew or strongly suspected that he was going to bring up the graduation as soon as the media mentioned that the trial would run over it. And that if Merchan granted him a snow day, he’d exploit it in some way to flip off Merchan in as public a fashion as possible. I expected him to schedule a rally, but I guess he doesn’t have the money for those anymore.
And the weather forecast for the entire US today is “Mostly Stormy”.
re: #131 danarchy
Sorry, that is a stretch. He didn’t talk about the witness. Just that there is a witness. It is a complaint about how the prosecution is conducting themselves not a statement about the witness.
I believe his lawyer had him take it down. If he left it up unchallenged he’d push the envelope on the next post.
re: #64 No Malarkey!
Thirteen Trump appointed judges announced they will not be hiring Federalist Society members who graduated from Columbia University; they will be hiring Federalist Society members who graduated from other universities instead. So any little reactionaries who attended Columbia with dreams of someday declaring zygotes to be person with constitutional rights from a federal bench will just have to go work for daddy’s law firm instead.
Probably because the students on the Columbia Law Review asked for exams to be canceled under all the general confusion and to either give pass/fail.
Or something equally ridiculous.
Apparently Walt Nauta took pics of classified docs with his phone and texted one to at least one other person. There goes Trump’s ‘those docs were secure’ defense.
re: #70 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
So after about the middle of June those drones will be grounded until late September. And even if it’s illegal to shoot at a drone, I still think there will be plenty of good ole boys who will take a potshot at one, just to try.
re: #137 darthstar
That’s prison for old Walt…
re: #133 Targetpractice
I think most us knew or strongly suspected that he was going to bring up the graduation as soon as the media mentioned that the trial would run over it. And that if Merchan granted him a snow day, he’d exploit it in some way to flip off Merchan in as public a fashion as possible. I expected him to schedule a rally, but I guess he doesn’t have the money for those anymore.
I’d be surprised if his lawyers don’t stronglyt suggest he attend the graduation.
Oh what am I saying
re: #138 mmmirele
So after about the middle of June those drones will be grounded until late September. And even if it’s illegal to shoot at a drone, I still think there will be plenty of good ole boys who will take a potshot at one, just to try.
re: #54 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
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re: #64 No Malarkey!
Thirteen Trump appointed judges announced they will not be hiring Federalist Society members who graduated from Columbia University; they will be hiring Federalist Society members who graduated from other universities instead. So any little reactionaries who attended Columbia with dreams of someday declaring zygotes to be person with constitutional rights from a federal bench will just have to go work for daddy’s law firm instead.
There is no shortage of Federalists from other universities, eager to destroy our democracy.
The jurors are paying attention, and they’re beginning to get an undrestanding of what kind of POS Donald Trump is.
re: #149 darthstar
The jurors are paying attention, and they’re beginning to get an undrestanding of what kind of POS Donald Trump is.
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I won’t be surprised if Trump is indeed found guilty on most, if not all, of the charges against him. Which leads to two pertinent issues.
What sort of punishment would Trump be in for?
The Republican Party will be nominating a convicted felon, freshly found guilty of crimes by a jury of his peers, to the office of the President. That’s…..not a good look, is it?
The #UAE Embassy in #Israel posted about the Holocaust, extending condolences to the Jewish people for the tragic loss of 6 million Jews in Europe.
Surprisingly, hundreds of accounts from the Arab and Muslim world criticized the UAE for this post, questioning how it could be… pic.twitter.com/Z2peYcUTNG— Loay Alshareef لؤي الشريف (@lalshareef) May 7, 2024
The #UAE Embassy in #Israel posted about the Holocaust, extending condolences to the Jewish people for the tragic loss of 6 million Jews in Europe.
Surprisingly, hundreds of accounts from the Arab and Muslim world criticized the UAE for this post, questioning how it could be made during the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
This reveals three critical insights, which I hope will serve as eye-openers:
First, the prevalent mindset in much of the Arab and Muslim world refuses to acknowledge that there was a ceasefire on October 6, which Hamas violated on October 7 by massacring 1,200 Israelis and abducting over 200, triggering this horrific war. Thus, Israel is habitually blamed.
Second, there is a pervasive belief that even though Jews have historically suffered, they are now to blame because they should remain defenseless or live as Dhimmis (second-class residents under Islamic rule). The reality that Jews now have a sovereign nation is seen as a defeat of radical ideology by many in these communities.
Third, the myth “We don’t hate Jews, only Zionists” should no longer be entertained in any serious dialogue. This assertion is patently false. There is significant animosity towards Jews simply for being Jews. The solution lies in education reform by enlightened and educated Muslims to eradicate the myth that Jews and Muslims are eternal enemies.
This blunt, honest insight is something you might not often read in the Arab and Muslim world.
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
“free speech” is too nuanced a concept for these nimnuts
Prosecutors are busy introducing Trump’s own books as evidence against him - that he is a micromanager who reveled in the power of writing checks, negotiating the price of everything, and that he trusted Weisselberg.
This circumstantial evidence buttresses the evidence that Cohen is soon to testify to.
re: #28 jaunte
I found the solution to the problem was to major in art.
I got as far as second-semester Calculus. Probably would have endured but I tried to take it in summer semester where it all just came to fast and heavy to sink in.
re: #151 Teukka
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IMO, this only further illustrates the fact that Israel had the moral high ground after October 7th, and squandered it exactly as Bush squandered it after 9/11.
A response was warranted. Hamas had attacked unprovoked and there can be no glossing over their murderous act. Yet the hardliners in Israel are making it nearly impossible to stand with them. Even now, while the Biden administration is bending over backwards to support them in the face of massive opposition from some on the Left, Netanyahu flips him the middle finger at every opportunity. In light of these facts, Israel is inviting more antisemitism and is making it more acceptable for people all over the world. It’s atrocious leadership that is hurting the people he’s supposed to be protecting.
re: #49 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The American expansion into the middle of the continent was quite the rush - some of my ancestors did it.
Free land (ignoring the previous inhabitants), some of the best agricultural land on the planet, pour as many people as possible into it.
And it’s still mostly empty.
IIRC, the population has been in decline since the Dust Bowl.
re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
IIRC, the population has been in decline since the Dust Bowl.
Except in the scattered major cities or state capitals.
re: #159 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Except in the scattered major cities or state capitals.
I mean the rural farming population
No idea why I managed the birbie today.
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re: #20 Hecuba’s daughter
It has become clear that there are people with deep pockets who have elevated the value of the Truth Social stock as a means to enrich Trump, with the assumption that he will repay them many times over by getting re-elected. Or is this a Gamestop situation where a large number of small players keep investing because of their deep conviction that Trump is the messiah, there to save them from the evils of DEI, wokeness, CRT, .and Obamacare?
the latter. also, people probably borrowing other people’s shares so that they can take easy 10% gains when the stock invariably crashes, only to do it all over again.
Just ran into a post on IG about some kid that brought a scale to the restaurant and weighed the 8oz steak he ordered and complained it was 6oz. “I’m being ripped off!!!”.
The ignorance is just astounding.
re: #164 GlutenFreeJesus
Same people complain about half-empty bags of chips.
re: #42 piratedan
but in the summertime, all of those AMC rides were hot as hell when you tried to open those sun baked stainless steel door handles.
ah! those summers coming back from the pool in the station wagon, realizing my wet skin had fused to the vinyl-covered seats. there’s normally a reason why they don’t make ‘em like they used to.
re: #164 GlutenFreeJesus
Just ran into a post on IG about some kid that brought a scale to the restaurant and weighed the 8oz steak he ordered and complained it was 6oz. “I’m being ripped off!!!”.
The ignorance is just astounding.
Would it be illegal to slap a raw piece of meat on a plate for him?
re: #163 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Take this path into a world of magic and adventure….
(It’s actually a cave in Curaçao.)
Is that where they harvest the blue color they put in the liqueur?
re: #151 Teukka
Hundreds of posts from a country with a population of 10 million, huh?
0.0000999% in the most generous apportioning of what constitutes “hundreds,” with the even more generous assumption that every single tweet is authentically from an individual Emirati.
This is definitely statistically significant and not an example of how social media rots perspective by presented a hug box of people that will tell you things you want to hear.
re: #169 The Ghost of a Flea
To be fair, most of that 10 million are indentured laborers from other countries, and likely wouldn’t have a lot of social media access in their dormitories.
re: #169 The Ghost of a Flea
Hundreds of posts from a country with a population of 10 million, huh?
0.0000999% in the most generous apportioning of what constitutes “hundreds,” with the even more generous assumption that every single tweet is authentically from an individual Emirati.
This is definitely statistically significant and not an example of how social media rots perspective by presented a hug box of people that will tell you things you want to hear.
Especially since news agencies have fired all those expensive investigative reporters and replaced them with unpaid interns whose job is to mine the Internet for #trending stories.
re: #164 GlutenFreeJesus
Just ran into a post on IG about some kid that brought a scale to the restaurant and weighed the 8oz steak he ordered and complained it was 6oz. “I’m being ripped off!!!”.
The ignorance is just astounding.
And then to compound his crimes, he ordered it cooked well done and substituted ketchup for steak sauce.
(Just don’t ask what toppings he likes on this pizza.)
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Michelle Yeoh Cast in ‘Blade Runner 2099’ From AmazonPrime Video’s Blade Runner TV project has cast Michelle Yeoh in a lead role.
The Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All At Once actress has signed on to Blade Runner 2099.
The limited series is from showrunner Silka Luisa (Shining Girls) and executive produced by original Blade Runner director Ridley Scott. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun) will direct the first two episodes.
There’s no description yet of Yeoh’s role. The actress made history last year as the first best actress Oscar winner of Asian descent for Everything Everywhere All At Once. She’s also known for her roles in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, Tomorrow Never Dies and Star Trek: Discovery.
re: #173 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
There’s no description yet of Yeoh’s role. The actress made history last year as the first best actress Oscar winner of Asian descent for Everything Everywhere All At Once. She’s also known for her roles in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, Tomorrow Never Dies and Star Trek: Discovery.
Don’t forgt The Brothers Sun, a Taiwanese/US crime/family drama.
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Especially since news agencies have fired all those expensive investigative reporters and replaced them with unpaid interns whose job is to mine the Internet for #trending stories.
No, no.
One guy who says most Muslims are antisemites on multiple social media accounts and happens to be a PR specialist (on LinkedIn) is definitely a reliable source.
And now… the moment you’ve all been waiting for… Stormy Daniels testifying in Trump’s business records fraud/election fraud case.
She’s recounting Trump telling her about how she reminds him of Ivanka.
DANIELS: We talked about what i really wanted to do, which is be taken seriously as a writer and director. “Nothing against the adult entertainment business.” I have “no shame, that’s who I am”
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) May 7, 2024
re: #175 The Ghost of a Flea
No, no.
One guy who does most Muslims are antisemites on multiple social media accounts and happens to be a PR specialist (on LinkedIn) is definitely a reliable source.
People often forget and/or ignore that Arabs are a people whose attention often has been misdirected by autocratic leaders blaming Jews for centuries when they’re unable to rule their countries properly because of incompetence or greed and lust for power.
And you can’t ignore that. And that needs to change, because it feeds into the whole Charlie Foxtrot which is the Middle East.
re: #177 Teukka
People often forget and/or ignore that Arabs are a people whose attention often has been misdirected by autocratic leaders blaming Jews for centuries when they’re unable to rule their countries properly because of incompetence or greed and lust for power.
And you can’t ignore that. And that needs to change, because it feeds into the whole Charlie Foxtrot which is the Middle East.
Or as was the case withe the Mohammed caroons (which was about the time I joined here at LGF) that many people in Arab lands assume that anything broadcast/published in the media/newspapers has to be government approved or placed there directly by the government.
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Or as was the case withe the Mohammed caroons (which was about the time I joined here at LGF) that many people in Arab lands assume that anything broadcast/published in the media/newspapers has to be government approved or placed there directly by the government.
Sure. In most of the Arab countries of the MidEast - maybe even all of them - there’s some government ministry responsible for censorship.
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Or as was the case withe the Mohammed caroons (which was about the time I joined here at LGF) that many people in Arab lands assume that anything broadcast/published in the media/newspapers has to be government approved or placed there directly by the government.
Or the ongoing Quran burnings in Sweden, the most common narrative among Muslims is that the government approves or orders it, when that absolutely isn’t the case. Police have tried to deny Salwan Momika and his posse permission to demonstrate citing security concerns, but that denial of permission has been overturned on appeal, which means they continue.
And because of corruption safeguards in Swedish government, a government minister cannot directly interfere, which means that the PM or interior minister can’t order the burnings to stop.
There’s actually an ongoing case of agitation against a population group against Salwan Momika and others, and the freedom press and expression has an explicit exception for that (along 17 others). But it takes time, because such cases are notoriously difficult to prosecute in court.
So, yeah, no-one in the Swedish government (executive or parliament) is approving or ordering Quran burnings, it’s just Salwan Momika and his posse.
A person who, in a statement or other communication that is disseminated, threatens or expresses contempt for a population group by allusion to race, colour, national or ethnic origin, religious belief, sexual orientation or transgender identity or expression is guilty of agitation against a population group and is sentenced to imprisonment for at most two years or, if the offence is minor, to a fine.
If the offence is gross, the person is guilty of gross agitation against a population group and is sentenced to imprisonment for at least six months and at most four years. When assessing whether the offence is gross, particular consideration is given to whether the communication had particularly threatening or offensive content and was disseminated to a large number of people in a way that was liable to attract considerable attention.
today’s run notables by Smashrun:
- fastest run in 6 months
- highest calories/hour in 6 months
- fastest mile split in 6 months
- best performance in 6 months
- fastest km split in a month
also notable: 88 freakin degrees
re: #181 Vicious Babushka
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Juliet Foxtrot Charlie. Over.
re: #150 Dr Lizardo
I won’t be surprised if Trump is indeed found guilty on most, if not all, of the charges against him. Which leads to two pertinent issues.
What sort of punishment would Trump be in for?
The Republican Party will be nominating a convicted felon, freshly found guilty of crimes by a jury of his peers, to the office of the President. That’s…..not a good look, is it?
that ship sailed lonnnnng ago
TheStreet: Bayer CEO is getting rid of bosses
“We hire highly educated, trained people, and then we put them in these environments with rules and procedures and eight layers of hierarchy,” said Anderson while speaking to Business Insider
I was always amused by the fact that the last big company I worked for had this meticulous hiring process where the first screen was basically 3.6 or higher GPA from a place like MIT or Stanford or a 3.8 from a backwater school like the University of MN and then had in place a performance review process designating everyone “average” except for about 5% of the top performers (or whoever had the most recent stellar slide deck).
So, disregarding the fact that a recent major challenge for Bayer has been the headache they acquired by the Monsanto purchase (last two paragraphs of the article), it’ll be interesting to how this plays out. I’d like to be positive because I really like the idea of employee freedom and flexibility but management often freaks out when they don’t feel control. It also doesn’t matter if the people making the decisions are middle management or frontline employees if they’re untrained/lack complete picture.
re: #164 GlutenFreeJesus
Just ran into a post on IG about some kid that brought a scale to the restaurant and weighed the 8oz steak he ordered and complained it was 6oz. “I’m being ripped off!!!”.
The ignorance is just astounding.
i remember in the old days ‘the quarter pounder is ‘only’ 4 ounces’
re: #179 Dr Lizardo
Sure. In most of the Arab countries of the MidEast - maybe even all of them - there’s some government ministry responsible for censorship.
Something even remotely similar in Sweden would only exist when, as Basic Law states, “the Realm is at War or in a War-like state.”
Ukraine has detained two security officials allegedly involved in a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky, which Kyiv’s state security service (SBU) said it foiled.Two colonels in Ukraine’s government protection unit were accused of carrying out “subversive activities against Ukraine in exchange for financial compensation,” Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s office said Tuesday.
Both colonels were charged with treason; one was also charged with preparing a terrorist act.
re: #190 Patricia Kayden
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Chicken wings from Market 32 today for lunch.
Prices at America’s biggest fast-food chains have soared above the rate of inflation in the last five years as firms come under fire for ‘greedflation.’
Customers are now voting with their wallets causing traffic to chains to drop 3.5 percent in the first three months of the year compared to 2023, according to data from Revenue Management Solutions.
It means big chains like McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Popeyes, Pizza Hut and Chipotle have likely sold millions fewer burgers, pizzas and burritos.
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2 Popeye’s
3 Taco Bell
4 Chipotle
5 Jimmy John’s
6 Arby’s
7 Burger King
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re: #193 Teukka
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re: #141 Decatur Deb
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and those good ole boys will find themselves working for free for Amazon when they’re collected by the company’s new Harvester drone:
re: #150 Dr Lizardo
I won’t be surprised if Trump is indeed found guilty on most, if not all, of the charges against him. Which leads to two pertinent issues.
What sort of punishment would Trump be in for?
The Republican Party will be nominating a convicted felon, freshly found guilty of crimes by a jury of his peers, to the office of the President. That’s…..not a good look, is it?
he’ll go to jail. 4 years. the judge will take in both his complete unrepentance about ANYTHING and the level of damage that the conspiracy actually resulted in. This isn’t some shmuck in a sleeper community in Connecticut engaging in some fraud. It’s effectively a mafia-level cover-up. The only thing missing is a New Jersey farm with some bodies being uncovered with ground-penetrating radar.
re: #96 A Cranky One
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Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank.
Give a man a bank and he can rob the world.
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