I always laugh at the Trumpian insult that South Park is outdated and irrelevant. Ya know who.LOVES South Park?.MAGA bros. Those little alpha-wannabe edgelords eat that shit up with a spoon. Which Trump definitely knows because he sees all the memes they make.
Question: was a Spox used to issue Trump's insult-comedy poetry slam response this time because Trump was huddled up in his bunker, crying? Because South Park literally turning him into Saddam Hussein in the eyes of his decisive demographic hurts him way worse than Colbert ever could.
Stick to your guns! Don’t backslide into America’s abyss!
“ Port Arthur victim calls for halt to gun law changes
Alex Mitchell
Sun 3 August 2025 at 11:29 pm GMT-4·3-min read
A husband and father of victims of Australia's worst mass shooting has aired his deep concern about a bid to legalise silencers and recognise a "right to hunt" on public land.”
Australia has a real “feral” problem because the Brits imported so many species that just don’t belong. They have to do something other than “Hey! I got an idea! Let’s bring in lions to control the pigs!”
Let's bring in lions to the US; maybe they could control (or consume) the politicians. Though I suspect right wing politicians taste really nasty 'cause they are really nasty.
I seem to be trying persistently to distract you; still, a person should never worry about humiliating herself in the service of friendship. Of a wankpanzer-head.
Who else saw Sister Artemus post that she has a record 195 days in a row on Worldle? I hope today doesn't break her streak!
Last night, I had dinner with my mom and her wife. There was this:
Wife: I like your hair!
Me: Thank you! I am going to get my passport picture today so I fixed it.
Mom: That's how you're going to have your hair in you passport, is it?
God damn it, why are mom's like this? LOL. Growing up she told me, "I know what to pick out for Diane for the holidays, I just pick out whatever I think is ugliest." Which, I mean, SAME! That is what I do when I shop for her, but I don't tell people I do it, fucking mom! LOL
"The new under-18 guidelines in the UK, which kicked off the latest row, require age-gating of pornography sites to prevent children from gaining access. But they also require platforms to prevent children from accessing content that encourages suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, as well as suppressing the spread of material that is abusive or incites hatred, or promotes harmful substances and dangerous challenges."
meanwhile ain't no free speech absolutists, or journalists, wringing their hands about free speech as the government here actually bans books and fires people for being "disloyal" to a political agenda
Just when you thought AI was *already* overhyped ...
𝗔 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟴, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 — This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens. — The U.S. economic data for the last few months is looking decidedly meh.
I believe it is time for the US to split into four countries: East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, and South. The South has to take trumpy.
Seriously, it would be an excellent way to end our current uncivil war. I don't see any other way to do it. We no longer have a democracy here anyway. Though California isn't bad.
Senate Dems explain why it's Real Bad that about half of all US spending is coming from the top 10%, and the bottom 60% account for less than 20% of spending. https://substack.com/@senatebankingdems/p-169566721
When money circulates, its economic value doubles each time. If a dollar spent results in another spent every day, that essentially adds 395 dollars to our economy.
That and the lower 90% are more predictable in their spending. More on necessities. The rich can cut back spending more easily, which means the greater share of spending they control, the greater volatility there is.
lol the news last night were all...well...we could be heading for a recession and one of the "economists" were already like no big deal, we're DUE a recession! Overdue!
From author Randall Balmer. Skip to the final quote from Sandra Day O'Connor if you want to:
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Ever since the 19th century, using public money for religious education was a bright line separating church and state. The so-called Blaine amendments, named for James Blaine, speaker of the House of Representatives, senator, secretary of State and Republican nominee for president in 1884, were adopted by 37 states. The amendments originated in anti-Catholic fervor, but their prohibition of public support for religious schools was constitutionally axiomatic for nearly a century. That seems quaint now, as red
states rush to dole out taxpayer funded vouchers so parents can send their children to religious schools at public expense. Sadly, Donald Trump’s “One Big ful Bill Act” provides tax-credit funding for religious education, and the majority on the Supreme Court is complicit in efforts to undermine the separation of church and state. If only the Supreme Court had
half as much deference for the 1st Amendment as it does for the 2nd Amendment, we’d be in much better shape. As Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in her final Supreme Court opinion on church-state matters, “Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?”
$243 million in a lawsuit over a 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida that killed a young woman and seriously injured her boyfriend, the first significant court loss for the automaker in litigation related to its driver assistance technology. A jury in Miami federal
court found Friday that Tesla was 33% to blame for the collision. A Tesla Model Sran a stop sign at a T intersection in the Florida Keys and rammed into the couple’s parked Chevrolet Tahoe while they were standing next to it. Jurors issued their verdict after less than a day of deliberations after a threeweek trial. The jury determined that the Tesla S driver was primarily responsible for the crash and that Tesla should pay $42.5 million to compensate the victims for their losses. The panel also ordered Tesla to pay $200 million in punitive damages, but the company said it expects that figure to be reduced by the court. Tesla had argued the
driver was entirely at fault because he was distracted when he dropped his mobile
phone on the floorboard. “Today’s verdict is wrong
and only works to set back automotive safety and jeopardize Tesla’s and the entire industry’s efforts to develop and implement life-saving technology,” Tesla said in a statement. “We plan to appeal given the substantial errors of law and irregularities at trial.” The Miami suit is one of a
handful of crash cases that have gone to trial, and the verdict tarnishes Tesla’s near-perfect record in court. The electric vehicle maker prevailed in two trials in California over Autopilot-related crashes and has struck confidential accords to resolve several cases that blamed defective technology for deadly accidents.
Enlo is begging California to let its robotaxis to run.
However, Tesla themselves claim they're not robotaxis. Not only that, they have a driver in the driving seat. So they're a ride hail service like ... uber or lyft. And the "robo" bit is just a fucking lie. And they're BEGGING San Francisco to let them please have a license please so Enlo can lie about it.
Meanwhile I can book a Waymo anytime in SF. I could book one now. And they're proper self-driving.
They're far from perfect, but at least they have LIDAR and SF is hardly an easy city to drive in. The ones here are totally driverless - and none of this Tesla "remote operation" bullshit either.
Tesla oversold that "autopilot" shit, and now they have to face the consequences.
I do hope no more people will get killed because they didn't realize that they have to be as attentive with the "autopilot" as they were while driving.
So, South Park has been hanging on by a thread for over 20 years? That must be one powerful thread.
I always laugh at the Trumpian insult that South Park is outdated and irrelevant. Ya know who.LOVES South Park?.MAGA bros. Those little alpha-wannabe edgelords eat that shit up with a spoon. Which Trump definitely knows because he sees all the memes they make.
Question: was a Spox used to issue Trump's insult-comedy poetry slam response this time because Trump was huddled up in his bunker, crying? Because South Park literally turning him into Saddam Hussein in the eyes of his decisive demographic hurts him way worse than Colbert ever could.
I've had enough of people doing ketamine and fucking with the government.
Stick to your guns! Don’t backslide into America’s abyss!
“ Port Arthur victim calls for halt to gun law changes
Alex Mitchell
Sun 3 August 2025 at 11:29 pm GMT-4·3-min read
A husband and father of victims of Australia's worst mass shooting has aired his deep concern about a bid to legalise silencers and recognise a "right to hunt" on public land.”
Uh, make that “Don’t stick to your guns.”
Wow, there should NEVER be hunting on public land.
Australia has a real “feral” problem because the Brits imported so many species that just don’t belong. They have to do something other than “Hey! I got an idea! Let’s bring in lions to control the pigs!”
Let's bring in lions to the US; maybe they could control (or consume) the politicians. Though I suspect right wing politicians taste really nasty 'cause they are really nasty.
legalise silencers and recognise a "right to hunt" on public lan
what could possibly go wrong
Jesus
They could become the 51st State.
Woaksey is in, batting one handed with his left arm in a sling. Nails.
All these years, I've been saying "Hey batter batter, 𝘴𝙬𝘪𝘯𝘨 batter!", not 𝘴𝙡𝘪𝘯𝘨 batter...
Somebody should have told me.
SHITTING ARSEWANKERY
I seem to be trying persistently to distract you; still, a person should never worry about humiliating herself in the service of friendship. Of a wankpanzer-head.
Hey, if it had been Broady or Andersony they wouldn't have got out their chair.
True enough. Damn though. What a test match.
What a series.
Talk about protecting the tail, Atkinson who is no great shakes as a batter, kept the strike and Woakes didn't face a single ball in sixteen minutes.
Impressive!
Playing injured never leads to a good outcome. Feigning injury on the other hand…
This is nutbar, I've never seen anything like it.
Nicked a single and Atkinson keeps strike. Scenes.
Of course if England hadn't shipped 38 extras in India's first innings . . .
Made Steve Harmison look like Glenn McGrath.
And if Rod Hull's balance was better, Emu could have attacked Justin Beiber.
We go with what we got.
And gone.
𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘺'𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦-𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴. 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘞𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘭𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 (𝘔𝘔𝘞𝘙). 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘮, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.
𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗙𝗞 𝗝𝗿, 𝗖𝗗𝗖 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽
Vaccination rates fell once again as nonmedical exemptions hit a new high.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/under-rfk-jr-cdc-skips-study-on-vaccination-rates-quietly-posts-data-on-drop/
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Winning!
Who else saw Sister Artemus post that she has a record 195 days in a row on Worldle? I hope today doesn't break her streak!
Last night, I had dinner with my mom and her wife. There was this:
Wife: I like your hair!
Me: Thank you! I am going to get my passport picture today so I fixed it.
Mom: That's how you're going to have your hair in you passport, is it?
God damn it, why are mom's like this? LOL. Growing up she told me, "I know what to pick out for Diane for the holidays, I just pick out whatever I think is ugliest." Which, I mean, SAME! That is what I do when I shop for her, but I don't tell people I do it, fucking mom! LOL
My passport photo looks a lot like Gary Busey's mugshot. I only went in to make an appointment, and she said "how about right now"?
Not like I can afford to use it, anyway.
Same, too broke.
They never stop being moms. EVER.
They do not. -_-
It's not Vance and Jordan who are making this noise. They are the puppets for the broligarchy of tech. Oh, and the nazi trolls.
𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵. 𝘑𝘋 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦-𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒 𝘪𝘴 “𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵”. 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬, 𝘑𝘪𝘮 𝘑𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘯, 𝘢 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘚 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘒𝘺𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘧𝘤𝘰𝘮.
𝘑𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 “𝘜𝘒’𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘭𝘢𝘸” 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘖𝘧𝘤𝘰𝘮, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘰𝘧 “𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨” 𝘢𝘯𝘥 “𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨” 𝘜𝘚 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘤𝘵’𝘴 𝘌𝘜 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘤𝘵.
𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗯𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗨𝗞 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝘁
Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/04/social-media-battles-and-barbs-on-both-sides-of-atlantic-over-uk-online-safety-act
they're censoring us by not letting us death threat everyone and lie!
Yep. From the article.
"The new under-18 guidelines in the UK, which kicked off the latest row, require age-gating of pornography sites to prevent children from gaining access. But they also require platforms to prevent children from accessing content that encourages suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, as well as suppressing the spread of material that is abusive or incites hatred, or promotes harmful substances and dangerous challenges."
And no one in the press asks why this shit is "conservative"
Just repeat the claims with not a single bit of questioning.
The Repubs are not conservatives; conservatives want to preserve the status quo.
Reactionaries want to return to a previous time.
trumpy reactionaries want to return to a previous time that never existed.
"Mah rights are trampled on when I cain't say 'SIEG HEIL' online!"
meanwhile ain't no free speech absolutists, or journalists, wringing their hands about free speech as the government here actually bans books and fires people for being "disloyal" to a political agenda
WEIRD THAT
Just when you thought AI was *already* overhyped ...
𝗔 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟴, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 — This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens. — The U.S. economic data for the last few months is looking decidedly meh.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/will-data-centers-crash-the-economy
Trump is actively trying to crash the economy while he and his friends rob us blind.
No one is stopping anything, Russia 2.0 here we come
I believe it is time for the US to split into four countries: East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, and South. The South has to take trumpy.
Seriously, it would be an excellent way to end our current uncivil war. I don't see any other way to do it. We no longer have a democracy here anyway. Though California isn't bad.
Even California is almost too big to be governable, but I don't like where the dividing lines would put me!
This
We are there
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After almost a month DEXTER makes an appearance in the Atlantic: https://hurricane.terrapin.com/storm/04A
Senate Dems explain why it's Real Bad that about half of all US spending is coming from the top 10%, and the bottom 60% account for less than 20% of spending. https://substack.com/@senatebankingdems/p-169566721
You gotta keep the money churning.
When money circulates, its economic value doubles each time. If a dollar spent results in another spent every day, that essentially adds 395 dollars to our economy.
... because the bottom doesn't have extra money to spend, right?
Just wait until "tariffs" actually hit. Fuck this country
That and the lower 90% are more predictable in their spending. More on necessities. The rich can cut back spending more easily, which means the greater share of spending they control, the greater volatility there is.
lol the news last night were all...well...we could be heading for a recession and one of the "economists" were already like no big deal, we're DUE a recession! Overdue!
I just shook my head.
If only someone can rake the economy.
Recessions are like forest fires, forests need to burn down periodically to promote new growth.
It's all good. Unless you happen to live in the forest.
Just sayin, a controlled fire helps the entire "burn down the entire thing" a bit more. But only in regions where like it is not super dry and shit.
From author Randall Balmer. Skip to the final quote from Sandra Day O'Connor if you want to:
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Ever since the 19th century, using public money for religious education was a bright line separating church and state. The so-called Blaine amendments, named for James Blaine, speaker of the House of Representatives, senator, secretary of State and Republican nominee for president in 1884, were adopted by 37 states. The amendments originated in anti-Catholic fervor, but their prohibition of public support for religious schools was constitutionally axiomatic for nearly a century. That seems quaint now, as red
states rush to dole out taxpayer funded vouchers so parents can send their children to religious schools at public expense. Sadly, Donald Trump’s “One Big ful Bill Act” provides tax-credit funding for religious education, and the majority on the Supreme Court is complicit in efforts to undermine the separation of church and state. If only the Supreme Court had
half as much deference for the 1st Amendment as it does for the 2nd Amendment, we’d be in much better shape. As Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in her final Supreme Court opinion on church-state matters, “Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?”
"Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?”
Because it can be used to harm the right people.
they think they're the ones who will get to have the good stuff. Boy will they be surprised
Right, you picnic hamper having, strawberries and cream with a can of Red Stripe wankers, get fucking on with it.
I can't watch
I hope Woaksey has to go in, one armed batting amuses me. I'd have a quick put one straight into his chacks.
This may take me some to time to translate.
Malcolm Marshall (pbuh) batting one handed, with a broken thumb, flashback.
Looks like he might have to
Smith has tickled it through to the 'keeper. Tense.
This is wild cricket now
The fuck is Overton doing trying to pull? STAHP!
Bazball baby. Hit your way out of trouble. Or into trouble. Whatevs.
Tesla Inc. was told to pay
$243 million in a lawsuit over a 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida that killed a young woman and seriously injured her boyfriend, the first significant court loss for the automaker in litigation related to its driver assistance technology. A jury in Miami federal
court found Friday that Tesla was 33% to blame for the collision. A Tesla Model Sran a stop sign at a T intersection in the Florida Keys and rammed into the couple’s parked Chevrolet Tahoe while they were standing next to it. Jurors issued their verdict after less than a day of deliberations after a threeweek trial. The jury determined that the Tesla S driver was primarily responsible for the crash and that Tesla should pay $42.5 million to compensate the victims for their losses. The panel also ordered Tesla to pay $200 million in punitive damages, but the company said it expects that figure to be reduced by the court. Tesla had argued the
driver was entirely at fault because he was distracted when he dropped his mobile
phone on the floorboard. “Today’s verdict is wrong
and only works to set back automotive safety and jeopardize Tesla’s and the entire industry’s efforts to develop and implement life-saving technology,” Tesla said in a statement. “We plan to appeal given the substantial errors of law and irregularities at trial.” The Miami suit is one of a
handful of crash cases that have gone to trial, and the verdict tarnishes Tesla’s near-perfect record in court. The electric vehicle maker prevailed in two trials in California over Autopilot-related crashes and has struck confidential accords to resolve several cases that blamed defective technology for deadly accidents.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/behind-scenes-emails-tesla-meekly-134534852.html
Enlo is begging California to let its robotaxis to run.
However, Tesla themselves claim they're not robotaxis. Not only that, they have a driver in the driving seat. So they're a ride hail service like ... uber or lyft. And the "robo" bit is just a fucking lie. And they're BEGGING San Francisco to let them please have a license please so Enlo can lie about it.
Meanwhile I can book a Waymo anytime in SF. I could book one now. And they're proper self-driving.
Waymos are now scouting DC. I've seen two of them, with a driver ("driver", maybe?) and no passenger.
Fuck. I have enough trouble reacting to the HUMAN drivers.....
They're far from perfect, but at least they have LIDAR and SF is hardly an easy city to drive in. The ones here are totally driverless - and none of this Tesla "remote operation" bullshit either.
could not pay me to use one.
I see them when I travel to Scottsdale. I'm not sure I'm ready to ride in one, but at least they don't have Ellunge's idiotic restrictions.
Tesla oversold that "autopilot" shit, and now they have to face the consequences.
I do hope no more people will get killed because they didn't realize that they have to be as attentive with the "autopilot" as they were while driving.
So, does their autopilot have AI? AI is new and mostly untested; I can barely imagine the bugs.
Using that is like monitoring a student driver. Worse than doing it myself.
Good. I hope the decision sets a precedent.