John Oliver: Food Delivery Apps
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Historical note:
Side hustle orphanages were very much a thing in 19th century Great Britain, and they almost always involved a great deal of fraud and dead orphans through either neglect or outright murder.
My college buddy has a sweet side hustle: Explaining maps to people.
Dude is a legend.
Here’s the column [about climate change] Meta doesn’t want you to see.
“…Collaborating with others who share our concerns, we have set up a number of public screenings in addition to broadcasts on public television.
Imagine my surprise when I attempted to “boost” a post on Meta’s Facebook to begin our online promotional efforts — and the company summarily rejected it.
Why? According to the automated response I received, the post “doesn’t comply with our Ads about Social Issues, Elections or Politics policy.”
Apparently, Meta deems climate change too controversial for discussion on their platforms.
……..
We are getting along OK without the promotional help of Facebook, but it does seem problematic that a behemoth such as Meta can dictate the terms of our communications.As I write this, I find it a bit ironic that a message has arrived from “Meta Business Support” noting that it’s been a while since I ran an ad and reminding me that: “ads are a great way to showcase your brand.”
So I read Annie Jacobson’s Nuclear War: A Scenario last night after I read that Denis Villeneauve purchased the film rights and saw it had a lot of rave reviews on how scary and timely it is.
I honestly wasn’t that impressed. Her scenario for a nuclear exchange with a North Korea is predicated on a single initial NK ICBM launch onto Washington DC followed by an SLBM launch from just off the California coast onto…wait for it…the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. Nobody ever understands why the launches happen.
Then a series of misunderstandings, miscommunications and faulty judgements basically kill the entire planet in 90 minutes. Everybody is ded ded ded.
I found the assumptions built into her scenario to be questionable at best and downright bizarre at points (seriously? Sending a 60 year old antique sub creeping down the west coast at 5 knots for 2 months avoiding everything and nothing breaking down just to shoot at Diablo Canyon? She really wanted to explain how nuking a reactor makes more radiation and I think we kinda know that)
She also has some sizable gaps: Japan is at the top of the NK: I HATE YOU target list and never even gets mentioned. Europe launched fighters on one way suicide trips with nuke gravity bombs, but she never mentions the British and French strategic arsenals, which are formidable.
Some of the minute by minute breakdowns are interesting, but there was very little new info that you wouldn’t already have been aware of if you saw The Day After and read John Hersey’s Hiroshima.
I hope the movie script is better.
Increased computing power seems to magnify negative human behaviors.
Food delivery apps, drive “share” apps, and vacation rental apps enable thievery.
re: #5 Scottish Dragon
I have to admit that Xitter is specifically the first online casualty of the war and that’s legit funny
Massively unprofitable thievery, which is just destruction for its own sake.
re: #8 Eventual Carrion
Even the eastern part of PA is supposed to be clear.
forecast.weather.gov
re: #4 jaunte
Here’s the column [about climate change] Meta doesn’t want you to see.
The heavy hand at Facebook is getting heavier….
re: #3 jeffreyw
My college buddy has a sweet side hustle: Explaining maps to people.
Dude is a legend.
Took almost 3 hrs to pick up on that. If anyone else had posted it, I never would have.
Some day, someone is going to write a book about how so many people were so willing to throw their careers and reputations away for the political career of Donald Trump… the chapter on my former con law professor will be of most interest to me:
“There’s a lot of water to go under the bridge yet before we get there,” Eastman said on the streaming program “The Absolute Truth With Emerald Robinson.”
The former Trump lawyer, who was admitted to the California State Bar in 1997, appeared dismissive of the case against him. Roland had found him culpable for 10 of the 11 disciplinary charges he faced over his involvement in efforts to undo Joe Biden’s presidential win four years ago.
re: #15 KGxvi
Some day, someone is going to write a book about how many people were so willing to throw their careers and reputations away for the political career of Donald Trump… the chapter on my former con law professor will be of most interest to me:
OMFG Eastman was your conlaw prof?
re: #16 retired cynic
If you’ve gotta think about that, then you’re on the wrong side of the equation.
re: #2 Scottish Dragon
Historical note:
Side hustle orphanages were very much a thing in 19th century Great Britain, and they almost always involved a great deal of fraud and dead orphans through either neglect or outright murder.
If you were going to deal with orphans in the 19th Cent, you were going to have a lot of dead orphans on your hands. That’s independent of how honest and dedicated you were. Childhood diseases took off a lot of the rich and pampered, and the orphanages were collecting damaged, undernourished, at-risk rejects. There is nothing shocking about the size of institutional graveyards.
re: #19 lawhawk
If you’ve gotta think about that, then you’re on the wrong side of the equation.
I dunno. I’d declare I’m now a walking harbinger of despair and doom for the day….
re: #15 KGxvi
Some day, someone is going to write a book about how many people were so willing to throw their careers and reputations away for the political career of Donald Trump… the chapter on my former con law professor will be of most interest to me:
Makes me feel good about my Con Law Professor, John Rogers, on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a Republican, but when I argued a case in front of him, he joined with the Obama Appointee to rule in favor of an inmate against the prosecutor I was representing.
re: #18 Joe Bacon ✅
Thunderstorm here…
Breakfast at Famous Label’s this morning on Ventura Blvd and as Darthstar would say, did not suck.
re: #17 Scottish Dragon
OMFG Eastman was your conlaw prof?
yeah, i’ve got a couple of pages talking about it.
It was a long time ago now, but at the time, he was a decent guy - he was way out there on social issues even for the mid-aughts, but was still generally kind, loyal, and could be funny. He wasn’t the sort to mock students who disagreed with him (Hugh Hewitt, from what I heard would get close to that (though he was also generally pretty genial in my few interactions with him), but then I had friends who took his class that said it was basically show prep for his radio show).
re: #20 Decatur Deb
If you were going to deal with orphans in the 19th Cent, you were going to have a lot of dead orphans on your hands. That’s independent of how honest and dedicated you were. Childhood diseases took off a lot of the rich and pampered, and the orphanages were collecting damaged, undernourished, at-risk rejects. There is nothing shocking about the size of institutional graveyards.
Smaller operations were often collecting public and private monies on kids they had outright killed or had died through maltreatment. wash rinse and repeat. Institutions that accepted infants and were honest hadn’t yet figured out that simply leaving children in a crib 23 hours out of the day can give you infant mortality rates north of 75%
BTW, an awful lot of unmarked and previously unknown mass graves of children and young women showed up at Magdalene Laundries in Ireland in the 90s, and it was horrifically shocking.
re: #12 gwangung
The heavy hand at Facebook is getting heavier….
I tried reposting that earlier, got yelled at for community standards, so posted a link to my bluesky post instead, and still got yelled at.
re: #21 Scottish Dragon
I dunno. I’d declare I’m now a walking harbinger of despair and doom for the day….
Then being all bright and cheerful is the wrong side of the equation.
My point still stands. :)
“The U.S. has picked up intelligence that Iran is planning a retaliatory attack that would include a swarm of Shaheed loitering drones and cruise missiles. The attack is likely to come between now and the end of Ramadan next week”
https://t.co/jYMBD22x39— Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks) April 5, 2024
re: #12 gwangung
The heavy hand at Facebook is getting heavier….
Is it possible that the decisions are being made by AI and no human hands are involved? That you need to be famous and wealthy to be able to get a real person making a decision?
Seriously, WhiteHouse Station, NJ is a couple of miles from tfg’s Bedminster property.
re: #15 KGxvi
Some day, someone is going to write a book about how so many people were so willing to throw their careers and reputations away for the political career of Donald Trump… the chapter on my former con law professor will be of most interest to me:
Eastman is a terrible person and, my guess is that Trump was his kinda guy and he felt he could finally let his freak fly. After all, he was the one who had a Newsweek article in the summer of 2020 that claimed that Kamala was ineligible to be on the ticket.
re: #15 KGxvi
You know we’re way down the rabbit hole when Emerald Robinson has a show called “The Absolute Truth.”
re: #29 Teukka
That tends to happen when you bomb an embassy. As much as their government are villains, they have the same right to defend their own sovereignty as anyone else.
re: #32 ckkatz
Is a massive, selective sinkhole too much to ask for?
re: #32 ckkatz
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Seriously, WhiteHouse Station, NJ is a couple of miles from tfg’s Bedminster property.
MTG tweeted:
“God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens,”
So god hates DJT it seems from that strong sign.
re: #36 Backwoods Sleuth
uh Marjorie…this is The Big G…would you please shut the fuck up?
re: #40 Joe Bacon ✅
We both know she won’t.
re: #37 jaunte
Is a massive, selective sinkhole too much to ask for?
The social media wags are out in full force now:
“Ivana big mad!”
“The Old Ones arise!”
“Imagine the earthquake damage there!” (Followed by picture of a box of spilled classified documents from the Mara-a-Lago report.)
re: #36 Backwoods Sleuth
Tell MTG that, if we make enough noise, the celestial dragon will disgorge the Sun. She and all her friends should go out and empty their magazines in the dark.
I know the “Dark Ages” thing is largely a myth, but the Republican Party is trying to turn it into a present day reality.
re: #36 Backwoods Sleuth
What she doesn’t understand has to be a miraculous portent, always connected to grasping for more power.
re: #14 Decatur Deb
Took almost 3 hrs to pick up on that. If anyone else had posted it, I never would have.
I didn’t until you posted this.
Then I groaned..
re: #35 Scottish Dragon
That tends to happen when you bomb an embassy. As much as their government are villains, they have the same right to defend their own sovereignty as anyone else.
I just hope it won’t be an insanely idiotic attack on part of the Iranians.
And a bit of salacious gossip. Obviously, I condemn am totally here for it…
Referenced CNN article: Boebert continues stoking controversy amid intense battle to keep her job
Three months after Rep. Lauren Boebert apologized for disruptive conduct at a Denver theater, the Colorado Republican attended a glitzy Republican gala headlined by former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, where her behavior once again raised eyebrows.
At the December soiree, which was the New York Young Republican Club’s annual gala, multiple witnesses saw a server tell Boebert they would not bring her any more alcohol, with one witness telling CNN the server told the congresswoman they believed she had been overserved. Throughout the night, Boebert also kept attempting to snap selfies with Trump, who was sitting at the same table as her. Eventually, Trump’s security detail stepped in and asked Boebert to stop, according to the witnesses, who attended the event and saw the interaction take place.
*snip*
re: #47 Teukka
I just hope it won’t be an insanely idiotic attack on part of the Iranians.
We won’t know until they attack. The “big dumb” ballistic missiles they hit our airbase in Iraq with were almost certainly GPS guided and they wrecked a lot of stuff. If they choose to do a complex attack with several different missile types with different flight profiles, it can be very hard to defend against.
I still don’t understand why Bibi decided now was a good time to poke the country that’s currently holding Hezbollah in check. They can fire 1000s of Grad and Katyusha type rockets in an hour into Northern Israel.
re: #43 Decatur Deb
Tell MTG that, if we make enough noise, the celestial dragon will disgorge the Sun. She and all her friends should go out and empty their magazines in the dark.
MTG is right.
There is only one way to save us all.
re: #50 Patricia Kayden
I second that. Great Job Joe.
I didn’t look in yesterday, but I assume everyone saw the news about the IDF Lavender and Where’s Daddy AI targeting programs?
re: #12 gwangung
The heavy hand at Facebook is getting heavier….
There probably wasn’t a hand. Just stupid fucking algorithms doing what stupid algorithms do.
re: #55 ckkatz
File under “New Jersey gets no respect”…
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New Jersey will get respect when it is deserving of respect
re: #51 Dr Lizardo
MTG is right.
There is only one way to save us all.
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Our area is only going to have 75% occultation. I’ll bet that will be enough to bring out fireworks and riflery.
re: #36 Backwoods Sleuth
Maybe we should sacrifice MTG?
OK. Sounds legit to me.
re: #57 Decatur Deb
Our area is only going to have 75% occultation. I’ll bet that will be enough to bring out fireworks and rifelry.
We won’t see it all here in Europe. But we can always watch it on livestream or something.
Time for me to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
Racists on Xitter keep insisting immigrants are stealing jobs from Americans, but in reality prime age employment is near an all-time high. Maybe there are some sixty somethings who retired during the pandemic who could be coaxed back into working, but I guarantee you that they won’t be picking crops or roofing houses.
re: #58 nines09
That’ll just piss of Crom even more.
re: #49 Scottish Dragon
We won’t know until they attack. The “big dumb” ballistic missiles they hit our airbase in Iraq with were almost certainly GPS guided and they wrecked a lot of stuff. If they choose to do a complex attack with several different missile types with different flight profiles, it can be very hard to defend against.
I still don’t understand why Bibi decided now was a good time to poke the country that’s currently holding Hezbollah in check. They can fire 1000s of Grad and Katyusha type rockets in an hour into Northern Israel.
My guess is Bibi is banking he will remain in power while there is war.
Bibi is now invested in staying at war.
re: #63 Patricia Kayden
And don’t forget the couple hundred thousand who bought his pandemic advice that are no longer here.
Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social
I was born disabled, so I’ve had a lot of painful medical procedures over the years. The most painful thing I’ve ever experienced was getting an IUD put in. I was told to take 600 mg of ibuprofen beforehand and that it would just feel like “pressure.” Which. lol. More places should offer sedation.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
But like it’s not like Man Pain so it’s not pain, right
Starting in third grade every cis dude should have to get to know the cervix way up close and intimate. Dolls. Replicas. Fucking I don’t care.
You want a Lego shoved in your urethra with just a Tylenol?? No???
Can you imagine the insane fits being thrown by the right wing if little Johnny had to learn about female parts in school?
The GOP is demanding budget cuts, loosening regulations, and more natural gas export terminals. Using a collapsed bridge as a tool for extortion. Just disgusting.
GOP Hard-Liners Balk At New Government Money For Baltimore Bridge Replacement
re: #66 Charles
The GOP is demanding budget cuts, loosening regulations, and more natural gas export terminals. Using a collapsed bridge as a tool for extortion. Just disgusting.
GOP Hard-Liners Balk At New Government Money For Baltimore Bridge Replacement
They act just as a protection racket would run. The same.
re: #62 nines09
If the war consists of destroying HAMAS, no problem. We’re not really seeing that aspect of the war.
re: #68 Patricia Kayden
If the war consists of destroying HAMAS, no problem. We’re not really seeing that aspect of the war.
Bibi and the hard liners see no difference between civilians and Hamas. Zero.
re: #66 Charles
The GOP is demanding budget cuts, loosening regulations, and more natural gas export terminals. Using a collapsed bridge as a tool for extortion. Just disgusting.
GOP Hard-Liners Balk At New Government Money For Baltimore Bridge Replacement
The gurus expect this hurricane season to be much more severe than normal. Hurricanes are sort of a Confederate states thing. Just say’n…
German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice
“We have no influence on the operating processes of such [proprietary] solutions and the handling of data, including a possible outflow of data to third countries. As a state, we have a great responsibility towards our citizens and companies to ensure that their data is kept safe with us and we must ensure that we are always in control of the IT solutions we use and that we can act independently as a state.”
re: #69 Charles
“If my demands are not met, I will then start to slowly eat the moon.
You have been warned…”
re: #69 Charles
And some folks are going to agree with that “comment.”
re: #67 nines09
They act just as a protection racket would run. The same.
The GOP are basically Capos for Fortune 500 executives.
re: #66 Charles
The GOP is demanding budget cuts, loosening regulations, and more natural gas export terminals. Using a collapsed bridge as a tool for extortion. Just disgusting.
GOP Hard-Liners Balk At New Government Money For Baltimore Bridge Replacement
This may be an unpopular opinion, but we should export more liquid natural gas. It will undercut Russia, and if it keeps Germany from burning more coal it will actually reduce emissions. This would be a good bipartisan deal.
re: #66 Charles
So Republicans are willing to impede the reconstruction of a bridge which is crucial to our national economy? President Biden needs to run ads on this if they persist. Stop letting them get away with nonsense.
Every chance they get, they attempt to hold our economy hostage to their anti-working class gibberish.
re: #39 Eventual Carrion
MTG tweeted:
“God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens,”So god hates DJT it seems from that strong sign.
Tfg may claim earthquake damage soon…
re: #48 ckkatz
I really hope voters kick her out of office and replace her with her Democratic opponent. She’s such an embarrassment.
re: #70 nines09
Bibi and the hard liners see no difference between civilians and Hamas. Zero.
And have made no real effort to get the hostages, which has shocked me.
re: #57 Decatur Deb
Our area is only going to have 75% occultation. I’ll bet that will be enough to bring out fireworks and riflery.
75% will not differ much from 0%. Maybe there will be fireworks and shootings but it won’t be because it got dark.
re: #57 Decatur Deb
Our area is only going to have 75% occultation. I’ll bet that will be enough to bring out fireworks and riflery.
I’m excited. It will be 100% from my backyard
re: #79 Patricia Kayden
I really hope voters kick her out of office and replace her with her Democratic opponent. She’s such an embarrassment.
Yes she is!
There are a couple of lizards here who are familiar with her district.
Iirc, they have noted that last election she came within a few hundred votes of losing. And there is a good chance she will lose next time.
Her neighboring district GOP colleague retired this term. Apparently when she started looking at moving to that district next election, he bailed in a way to ensure she couldn’t.
As always, there is the concern that she might be replaced by a competent MAGAt. Fortunately, those are in extremely short supply.
re: #39 Eventual Carrion
MTG tweeted:
“God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens,”So god hates DJT it seems from that strong sign.
Still amazes me that there is a congressional district in GA where a majority of voters look at this asshat and go “Yep, she thinks exactly how I think, I want her representing me in Congress.”
Like, if I ever visited that part of GA, I’d probably get murdered by the cops or someone because I wouldn’t be able to hold my tongue about how embarrassing as humans they are.
I applied for “Community Notes” access 6months ago and was finally accepted today. I can therefore see the proposed community notes on Elon’s posts like this.
There are three proposed notes. Two point to high quality sources debunking the notion that your tax dollars are paying… https://t.co/nGYQQEU1KY— Robᵉʳᵗ Graham 𝕏 (@ErrataRob) April 5, 2024
The Champion of Free Speech (tm) strikes again. 🙄
re: #82 Eventual Carrion
I’m excited. It will be 100% from my backyard
We traveled for the last one, fell in to a little town on the line. There were a hundred or so people with serious amateur observation/photo rigs, so it was worth spending the whole day with them. (I rigged a cheap scope to do eyepiece projection into a dark container—several people could observe safely at a time.)
Let me try this….
Got a call today from Capital One Bank.
Sure I did.
I answered with “And what is this about?” and the silence then click as I am now a live one.
Very heavy Indian/Paki accent, you can hear the buzz of the room as they are phishing.
I let her talk, can hardly pull it out, and then I hear the target words.
So instead of my usual treatment, I figure, let’s go here.
I said in an even friendly voice “Please take me off of whatever list I am on and do not call again. And stop. Just stop. Get another job. You are better than this. You are better than this. Now have a wonderful day. Bye,”
I’m sure they are reevaluating career choices now…..
re: #5 Scottish Dragon
So I read Annie Jacobson’s Nuclear War: A Scenario last night after I read that Denis Villeneauve purchased the film rights and saw it had a lot of rave reviews on how scary and timely it is.
I honestly wasn’t that impressed. Her scenario for a nuclear exchange with a North Korea is predicated on a single initial NK ICBM launch onto Washington DC followed by an SLBM launch from just off the California coast onto…wait for it…the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. Nobody ever understands why the launches happen.
Then a series of misunderstandings, miscommunications and faulty judgements basically kill the entire planet in 90 minutes. Everybody is ded ded ded.
I found the assumptions built into her scenario to be questionable at best and downright bizarre at points (seriously? Sending a 60 year old antique sub creeping down the west coast at 5 knots for 2 months avoiding everything and nothing breaking down just to shoot at Diablo Canyon? She really wanted to explain how nuking a reactor makes more radiation and I think we kinda know that)
She also has some sizable gaps: Japan is at the top of the NK: I HATE YOU target list and never even gets mentioned. Europe launched fighters on one way suicide trips with nuke gravity bombs, but she never mentions the British and French strategic arsenals, which are formidable.
Some of the minute by minute breakdowns are interesting, but there was very little new info that you wouldn’t already have been aware of if you saw The Day After and read John Hersey’s Hiroshima.
I hope the movie script is better.
The French actually have silos placed so if they get taken out, air currents push the fallout over Moscow. At least, this is what I was told in poly sci.
re: #88 nines09
I’m sure they are reevaluating career choices now…..
Uhm. Not to dissuade you from your really good life coaching skillz, but I’m going with Unlikely.
re: #89 steve_davis
The French actually have silos placed so if they get taken out, air currents push the fallout over Moscow. At least, this is what I was told in poly sci.
I’d ask for your tuition back then if that was the sort of thing they were teaching you.
In 1955, the test pilot for Boeing flew a 707 prototype over a crowd of 250,000 at Seattle’s hydro races on Lake Washington. Lots of airline executives present as well as the head of Boeing. Without telling anyone before hand, the pilot, Alvin Johnston, did a barrel roll. In fact he turned around and did another one. The President of Boeing was ready to fire the guy until he was told what a huge coup it was and that everyone wanted a Boeing jet.
Old Boeing. Bet the whole company on a stunt they did not even know about. Wonder what would happen if Boeing had tried that with a 737 Max? /s
A Yamaha Music CEO with close links to Vladimir Putin’s inner circle has been found dead in a 5-star Moscow hotel.
Music chief Jun Aoki, 55, Russia, died in the iconic Stalin skyscraper, formerly the Ukraine Hotel, now the five-star Radisson Collection Hotel Moscow. His company said the cause of the death was “currently being determined”.
Russian outlet RBC also reported an investigation was underway while “no bodily injuries were found”. A law enforcement source reportedly told RBC the businessman’s death did not appear to be of a “criminal nature”.
*snip*
re: #89 steve_davis
The French actually have silos placed so if they get taken out, air currents push the fallout over Moscow. At least, this is what I was told in poly sci.
The fallout would go all over western and eastern Europe before it got to Moscow however.
re: #92 silverdolphin
Right now the whole plane would fall apart.
re: #39 Eventual Carrion
MTG tweeted:
“God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens,”So god hates DJT it seems from that strong sign.
Well, as far as the eclipse is concerned, astronomers have had it predicted - its exact path down to a 10-meter zone, and timing down to the minute (if not second) for several years, so “unexpected portent”? Not so much….
However, earthquakes are NOT predictable, so she’s right there (vaguely)….
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Uhm. Not to dissuade you from your really good life coaching skillz, but I’m going with Unlikely.
We will never know will we?
re: #93 ckkatz
Poisoned with no bodily injuries much more innocent than ‘found mysteriously at bottom of gravity well near Stalin skyscraper.’
I can imagine MTG beating someone to death with the femur of a beast and then eating the heart.
While wearing a snappy summer dress.
30 years ago today: Kurt Cobain found dead of suspected suicide.
Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher Announce They’re DivorcingThe couple announced Friday in Instagram Stories on their respective accounts that they had filed for divorce in 2023 and were sharing the news now.
“After a long tennis match lasting over twenty years, we are finally putting our racquets down,” their matching statements read over a photo of them in tennis outfits. “In 2023 we jointly filed to end our marriage.”
re: #101 Eclectic Cyborg
30 years ago today: Kurt Cobain found dead of suspected suicide.
Bad joke back then.
Kurt died shooting dope.
YT showing how to kludge an eyepiece projection of the eclipse. The virtue is that there is no risk to the eyes, and a large party can view in real time. (This scope is a reflector. It’s even easier with a refractor.) Placing the target in a shaded barrel or bin improves the contrast. The scope is aimed indirectly, by moving it to minimize its shadow.
re: #70 nines09
Bibi and the hard liners see no difference between civilians and Hamas. Zero.
And neither did we during WWII.
re: #104 Decatur Deb
Hmm. I know in 2017 the eclipse was shown online. I think for me that is the best place to watch it.
re: #106 PhillyPretzel ✅
Hmm. I know in 2017 the eclipse was shown online. I think for me that is the best place to watch it.
Beer.
Food Trucks.
Drunk Man Jumps Off Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship in Front of Horrified Family MembersEyewitness Bryan Sims, who had hung out with the victim moments before, described the incident to The Post as “insane” and “surreal.”
“I had hung out with him and his brother in the hot tub until 3:30… he was pretty drunk,” said Sims. As they departed the hot tub, Sims said the man’s brother and dad approached them, his dad “fussing at him for being drunk.”
“When we got to them, he said to his dad, ‘I’ll fix this right now.’ And he jumped out the window in front of us all,” Sims told The Post.
There was instant pandemonium as the ship’s crew immediately commenced search and rescue efforts. The US Coast Guard also arrived on the scene, and according to Royal Caribbean, they have since taken over the search.
re: #91 Nojay UK
I’d ask for your tuition back then if that was the sort of thing they were teaching you.
It was a passing comment from 40 years ago from a prof, so who knows. The French did have ballistic nukes so it’s not just a nuts proposition that they were located such to make the Russians think twice about preemptively taking them out.
re: #104 Decatur Deb
YT showing how to kludge an eyepiece projection of the eclipse. The virtue is that there is no risk to the eyes, and a large party can view in real time. (This scope is a reflector. It’s even easier with a refractor.) Placing the target in a shaded barrel or bin improves the contrast. The scope is aimed indirectly, by moving it to minimize its shadow.
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You just have to practice looking at the sun for a little bit longer each day to train for the eclipse, so you don’t need eye protection by the time of the eclipse.
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re: #108 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
That would make for a bit of an awkward funeral.
My understanding is that the Earthquake in NJ was caused the by the Oceans’ 11 crew tunneling under the Bedminster Golf Course to reach Ivanka’s grave, where DJT’s bullion is kept…..
re: #15 KGxvi
Some day, someone is going to write a book about how so many people were so willing to throw their careers and reputations away for the political career of Donald Trump…
There was some epectation that DJT was going to make reciprocal efforts on his part to benefit the party. But he don’t roll that way. You help him until you are used up, then he ditches you.
re: #110 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
LGF is OK, but there are sites where you go to hell for posting that.
India appears to confirm extrajudicial killings in Pakistan
I don’t feel good about the current expansion of what’s considered tactical action. War on Terror logic continues to be used to roll back the rules of engagement, and it’s mostly right wing government arguing that they’re entitled to parse who is a terrorist and do these interceptions.
But I suspect that correspondingly there’d be uproar if Haitians, say, started shooting at the Floridians that ship guns to the gangs eating Port Au Prince.
Semantics is such a banal thing to emphasize, but the definition of “terrorism” is so incredibly load-bearing that we all have to pay attention to how the term is being used, and when the definition is added to or expanded.
Much like cop shootings are built on a semantic game in which “threat” has been pushed to beyond coherence with the dictionary definition, we’re seeing the selective application of terror creep in domestic settings, like with Cop City. But we’re also living with about a fifteen years of expanding, both domestically and internationally, the acceptable parameters of who can be killed in surplus to achieve the comparatively small objective of removing one replaceble leadership figure.
The fantasy world racists live in is amazing. They are absolutely sure there are millions of desperate unemployed American men being unfairly denied the opportunity to pick crops or roof houses day after day for hours on end under the hot summer sun who would jump at the opportunity if only we would deport all those nasty brown immigrants stealing those jobs from them. Completely and utterly disconnected from reality.
re: #115 The Ghost of a Flea
Why do you hate Commander James Bond?
re: #15 KGxvi
Some day, someone is going to write a book about how so many people were so willing to throw their careers and reputations away for the political career of Donald Trump.
There are already plenty of books about why and how people get sucked into cults.
re: #101 Eclectic Cyborg
30 years ago today: Kurt Cobain found dead of suspected suicide.
Guitarist joke:
What kind of strings did Kurt Cobain use?
- Last I heard, he was using a 12-gauge!
re: #114 Decatur Deb
the biggie for me is that the courtesy for linking the original content was put in place, not like someone was taking credit for someone else’s work. Not every site allows that, I follow links frequently outta LGF, expands my horizons and introduces me to other voices. Some other places like to co-opt that original source and claim the content as their own. I appreciate sites like here and Balloon Juice where interesting work is found and shared, but credit and link backs to the original source are the norm.
re: #17 Scottish Dragon
OMFG Eastman was your conlaw prof?
which is why KGxvi has to rethink everything he thinks he learned in that class…
re: #117 Decatur Deb
Why do you hate Commander James Bond?
I’ve watched most of the Bond films; super weird for a kid who grew up mostly in colonies, watching a kind of sad British “but actually we’re still relevant” fantasy. Got much much funnier when I got to reading about how shoddy MI6’s gentleman spies really were (with the rare exception of the team that worked Pimlico…which notably involved one of the few women agents).
Also if you present me with a movie where San Fransisco can be saved by the sacrifice of Roger Moore or Grace Jones…well, I’m really sorry but the Bond franchise should have just made the lateral move. Great Duran Duran title song tho.
re: #120 piratedan
I’m a little lost—#114 tried to say that there are sites (cough..FR…) where some of them would try his ‘viewing’ sarc and do themselves harm.
re: #94 Scottish Dragon
The fallout would go all over western and eastern Europe before it got to Moscow however.
I think the idea was that France would assume they might be “last man standing,” so to speak, and they wanted to make sure if everything else was cratered, they’d be sure to add to the general “dirty fallout” making its way back to Russia. But yes, of course, there’d be plenty of other nuclear debris making its way to Russia as well. As I said, though, it was a passing comment that just kind of stayed with me all these years, just because I thought the idea of a country kind of doing its part to provide a “dead man’s switch” was kind of intriguing.
re: #116 No Malarkey!
The irony is that if we deported all those migrants, the American economy would grind to a standstill. Produce would rot in the fields. Construction would be negatively impacted. Rightwingers are ridiculous.
re: #125 darthstar
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The good judge probably allowed them to file it because, “Oh, what the hell. What could they possibly be arguing now.”
I think Trump has figured out that if he’s found guilty, the sentence will come with jail time, and he will be remanded into custody, pending appeal. and that will be it for Trump, because the American people’s stupidity isn’t to be underestimated, but their willingness to vote for someone who would literally be running the country from a prison cell almost certainly does come with limitations.
re: #35 Scottish Dragon
Not a concept that is understandable to the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives.
re: #124 steve_davis
That’s not how fallout works, despite the video games and bad movies. The US fired off a couple of hundred above-ground nukes in tests in the south-western US and Las Vegas is still there unchanged; the glow-in-the-dark is neon and garish attractions, not nuclear in origin. Very very very exact measuring devices can detect the residue from those tests today but even the prompt immediate effects were generally meh. There’s a sort-of funny story about a herd of cows, for example…
re: #116 No Malarkey!
The fantasy world racists live in is amazing. They are absolutely sure there are millions of desperate unemployed American men being unfairly denied the opportunity to pick crops or roof houses day after day for hours on end under the hot summer sun who would jump at the opportunity if only we would deport all those nasty brown immigrants stealing those jobs from them. Completely and utterly disconnected from reality.
Literally will burn the world rather than admit that the ownership class is the source of both their alienation and the beneficiary of a less-than-free immigrant labor pool.
re: #130 Nojay UK
That’s not how fallout works, despite the video games and bad movies. The US fired off a couple of hundred above-ground nukes in tests in the south-western US and Las Vegas is still there unchanged; the glow-in-the-dark is neon and garish attractions, not nuclear in origin. Very very very exact measuring devices can detect the residue from those tests today but even the prompt immediate effects were generally meh. There’s a sort-of funny story about a herd of cows, for example…
Was Trinity different?
re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg
There are already plenty of books about why and how people get sucked into cults.
Considering Jim Jones and heaven’s gate, these guys should be happy to wind up broke and unemployable. They’re getting off light.
re: #130 Nojay UK
That’s not how fallout works, despite the video games and bad movies. The US fired off a couple of hundred above-ground nukes in tests in the south-western US and Las Vegas is still there unchanged; the glow-in-the-dark is neon and garish attractions, not nuclear in origin. Very very very exact measuring devices can detect the residue from those tests today but even the prompt immediate effects were generally meh. There’s a sort-of funny story about a herd of cows, for example…
Depends on the type of burst (ground, air, underground), casing material, wind, total yield of the device as well as if it is a combination device (fission only or boosted fission or fission/fusion or fission/fusion/fission device). All of these factors will go into making up the type and duration of the fallout. Had the probable Russian missiles hit the Minuteman silos in Montana or the Dakotas, Minnesota & Wisconsin would be, essentially, wastelands for a long enough time.
re: #135 GlutenFreeJesus
That explains why my hair looks greenish at night! Thanks for the education.
re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg
There are already plenty of books about why and how people get sucked into cults.
Okay I’m splitting hairs, but I think there’s a gulf between the professionals siding with Trump and the genuine believers (but even the genuine believers can be divvied up, but’s a different post), and the “mystery” of that former should be dispelled with a frankness and impoliteness that will singe pundits’ and centrists’ nose hair.
While I’ll always contest what the word “cult” means, in the case of the practiced flacks, you can just instantly sort them into “people that have the policy goals to advance via Trump because their entitlement manifests as theft through hierarchy, and Trump is if nothing else a catalyst for theft” and “utter cynics that see an opportunity for a faster form of theft than the conventional theft of our blob of lobbying, sinecures, etc.”
Conservatism doesn’t really believe in anything that’s more important than hierarchy, and all undergirding beliefs transform accordingly. Shifting from one style of rhetoric to justify inequality coded into law to another, Trumpian one, shouldn’t be notable because conservatism has always been a Ship of Theseus. These are people that have fundamentally altered the Word of God to fit their convenience, they’re not going to be held down by anything as trivial as consistent ideology. Flacks siding with Trump is just a tactical decision that the new bloc will create more license, a slightly different caste system. They’re less in a cult and more…the kind of shitheads who fully accept that profit means getting under someone and getting the middleman bag.
Every dictator has a crowd of opportunists around them that already had power, but wagered they could scrape in more with the new loyalty. In fascist states this is particularly blatant: the leadership cadre just turn the capital of the nation into buffet, and the ones that have some ideology then get to play at ideology (case in point: Himmler, weird even to his colleagues, but permitted because he was doing his day job…mechanizing theft and murder).
Not only should we not bother to analyze these people, we should probably never let them explain themselves without throwing in their faces that they were seeking personal profit or a kind of power that only dictator would grant.
re: #130 Nojay UK
That’s not how fallout works, despite the video games and bad movies. The US fired off a couple of hundred above-ground nukes in tests in the south-western US and Las Vegas is still there unchanged; the glow-in-the-dark is neon and garish attractions, not nuclear in origin. Very very very exact measuring devices can detect the residue from those tests today but even the prompt immediate effects were generally meh. There’s a sort-of funny story about a herd of cows, for example…
There’s a huge difference between above ground tests, deep well bore tests, and a hypothetical surface strike on an unlaunched IRBM containing MIRVs.
The last scenario would be like Castle Bravo, real bad.
re: #49 Scottish Dragon
Those killed in the strike near the embassy (wasn’t the embassy itself) were high-ranking members of domestically and internationally-recognized terror groups involved in attacks against Israeli and Western targets and believed to be involved in part with the October 7 massacre. Zuhairi, the Kuds Force commander, was a partner of both Qassem Soleimani and Imad Mughniyeh - who between the three of them had thousands of deaths on their hands, including hundreds of Americans. Leaving out the Hezbollah members there, all the IRGC officers killed in the strike oversaw covert operations in the Middle East, and the strike essentially wiped out the IRGC leadership responsible for Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. Given that gatherings of such high-ranking officials in one place outside of Iran are exceedingly rare and may well have been ahead of some sort of operation, the meeting was likely too good an opportunity to pass.
Also, it’d be a mistake to assume that Bibi’s the one person calling the shots, especially on the “big stuff”. He’s not. Since October 7, he’s been trying to project an image of strength that runs counter to the reality that he was, and is, paralyzed with indecision while trying to save what’s left of his reputation (domestically - he knows he’s toast after this and is trying to mitigate the harm to his “legacy” caused by his failure on October 7 with a “successful response”). His indecision, coupled with the far-right hardliners demanding harsh action (while having no military experience whatsoever) is part of why Benny Gantz, an opponent of Bibi who was already betrayed by him in the past, got into the “small emergency unity” government: so that there’d be a responsible adult in the room.
Assuming Israel did carry out the strike, there’s no scenario where Gantz, a seasoned and cautious general with substantial experience, signed off on it unless it was deemed both necessary and an opportunity they likely wouldn’t see again. And there’s no way they did it without coordinating with the DOD in advance.
re: #135 GlutenFreeJesus
Wear red and green!
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Our eyes actually pick up greens more than red.
re: #139 goddamnedfrank
There’s a huge difference between above ground tests, deep well bore tests, and a hypothetical surface strike on an unlaunched IRBM containing MIRVs.
Oh dear, you’ve been watching bad movies again, haven’t you? There’s a fantasy physics idea that exploding a nuke near other nukes sets them off like some kind of nucleonic ammo dump. This doesn’t happen, it takes a lot of very precise things to happen at very precise times for anything energetic to occur in a nuclear weapon and an explosion, even a nuclear one close by would do nothing except to spread some unfissioned material around. It’s worth pointing out that most nukes only fission a few percent of the actual core material anyway and they’re designed to work as efficiently as possible.
How to destroy a nuke that might fall into enemy hands at an airbase in West Germany or elsewhere in danger of being over-run during a hot start to WW3 was considered, and processes to destroy them in place were developed. A large amount of thermite, a timer and a good pair of running shoes sums up most of the solutions. No earth-shattering KABOOM! just a loud fizzle as the implosion lens sub-orders and slags down. I wouldn’t like to be in the bunker when it happens but no continent-destroying plume of fallout results.
The last scenario would be like Castle Bravo, real bad.
Castle Bravo wasn’t a weapon, it was an experiment that revealed some extra information about nuclear processes that weren’t taken into consideration before. Lithium-7, whoda thunk it? AFAIK no-one today except maybe the Chinese have deployable nuclear warheads in the Castle Bravo yield class and they might have, in total, a dozen or so such weapons.
Radiation and contamination is Magic to most people. The physics are fascinating and the biology is complicated but mostly it’s statistics — the Castle Bravo fallout affected a couple of ships and resulted in one death, oddly enough of the radioman on the Lucky Dragon 5. More of the crew suffered from radiation sickness but most of them were still alive twenty years later and healthy enough to attend the installation of the boat hull in a museum in Tokyo. This only happened after the boat was retired as it had been repurposed after the event for research purposes by a university, not something you’d really expect of a super-ultra-contaminated fallout survivor but then again, physics isn’t fiction.
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