This is made me laugh...

Biden’s team tapped campaign co-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, a Hollywood mogul, to find a voice coach to improve the president’s fading warble.

Near future Truth Social post? "I offered MONEY but they said no. Strong and Powerful US troops are invading Greenland. 51st state."

That’s two more carolers. Time to reset the trap.

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A PICTURE TAKEN ON MAY 15, 2018 SHOWS AN ISRAELI QUADCOPTER DRONE DROPPING TEAR GAS CANISTERS OVER PALESTINIANS, IN KHAN YOUNIS IN THE SOUTHERN GAZA STRIP ON MAY 15, 2018.

When asked who the leader of Russia was, he said "I'm guessing Putin's father or grandfather".

That sounds like a bit.

I don't know how old you are but as you get older odd, inexplicable pains are more common. I'm in late middle age. Yesterday was a first for me. When I yawned wrong - I got a sharp unpleasant pain in my the lower front part of my neck. What the fuck - from yawning wrong? I felt like I'd imagine I'd feel if I was in a street fight and a dirty fighter used a trick he loved like smashing a knuckle into my neck. Incredible, sudden pain.

For the first few seconds I thought it was funny. Aches and pains - what can you do? But after 5 to 10 seconds I started to worry I might have to go the emergency room. The pain didn't lessen at all and and my neck felt wrong. What the fuck - this is not funny. I started walking around the room to try to relax because that's all I could do. After ~20 seconds (it felt like 20 minutes) the pain finally started to go away. And then ~60 seconds later all I had was a tiny soreness.

Trump in Nevada: 'I Love the Poorly Educated' - YouTube

Feb 24, 2016

Do you have any stories or examples from your life?

A middle school textbook is pretty basic stuff. Think of all problems, blunder, mistakes, accidents, etc happening all over the US every day that are caused by the average American having difficulty understanding anything written at a middle school level or above.

With the rise of the internet along with it's dark side and the expansion of right-wing media - maybe it was enviable that a repulsive republican like Trump would be president not just once but twice. And maybe it's no surprise that huge number of Americans fall prey to conspiracy theories and snake oil salesmen like RFK. A large percentage of Americans hate vaccines and think they cause disease.

My worry is that not only will the problem not get fixed - it will most likely get worse over time. There is a concerted, bipartisan effort to ignore the problem. The GOP likes an uneducated public. Trump even bragged about it. The democrats will remain unwilling to even acknowledge the problem because they think the public will lose faith in American exceptionalism, the American dream, etc.

I'm pretty sure I could Walter white that shit up outdoors with a campfire.

Could have.

I didn't know baking soda could be mined until now.

I had to google. I couldn't quite believe that baking soda could be mined.

Fuck Marry Kill

A reply to NPR's Bluesky post

I can tell most of the replies here are not from Southerners because, as a Louisiana native, I can tell you this doesn't mean what you think it means. It means they aren't encouraging poor minorities to get vaccinated. White middle-class Southerners are still getting the vaccines from their doctors.

https://subium.com/profile/markjarmstrong.bsky.social/post/3ldqt2a5u7c2r

NIMBY concern trolls

Them: "Look, we need to build housing but..."

Me: [Redacted or I'd get banned plus the feds would look at the post.]

NIMBYs make even pilot projects impossible because NIMBYs will even force those into red tape for a decade or two. How can anything ever get better? I think libs should not be allowed to use certain words. "Complicated" for example.

the purge but it's everyone against landlords.

That would be awesome.

Something something something a particular video game character something something something funny. <--- On repeat

I think Trump's second win broke Bouie's brain. For years Bouie had soothed his soul with his take that Trump - in my words - got lucky. Bouie would never deign himself to use such a pedestrian phrase as "get lucky". But in effect that was his go-to take year after year. Trump won due to the Electoral College and if only a few dozen thousand votes in certain swing states went to Hillary - she would have won and he would have lost. Plus Bouie could sprinkle in some Trump bugbears libs love. Russia! James Comey! Etc!

Bouie and other lib NYT columnists will surely move to right during Trump's presidency. I'll be interested to see how fast and how far.

I would have replied to him that with him but...

Some people can reply

And I'm not in the in crowd.

Well, GOP - you're in control in DC but just you wait until the president's polling numbers go down! So what if they are entirely unimportant? That doesn't matter! Just you wait! You'll see!

I love how it's hours : minutes : seconds

7/10

Not nearly enough guns and sunglasses. And the NYPD-branded caps and baseball caps are sort of goofy

I'll leave this here...

An RSS page is typically a list of entries the same way somebody's blog site can have a list of blog entries summaries. Each RSS page entry typically has an easy to find MP3 if and only if the RSS page is formatted already. Browsers used to automatically do that. I assume that's (very) rare now. But a typical RSS page is nothing fancy. The problem is that it isn't HTML and it needs different formatting.

I assume that if you google stuff like "how to read an rss page online" there might be a simple way to read any RSS page so you can find the mp3s you want.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Companies like Facebook and Google hate anything that's simple, generic and exists in a non-walled garden reality. The companies worked hard to make RSS obscure because they want to control everything. If they had their druthers - they'd kill it entirely.

Google used to have Google Reader to read RSS but they killed that off about a decade ago.

but it does seem like they stopped even caring

The level of integrity is at clownish level. Even some years ago there was still a veneer of respectability. ~10 years ago Brian Williams was suspended for ~4 months for lying about his reporting in the Iraq War. I'm not saying that was a minor thing but I think Ward's case is far worse. This was a manufactured news segment.

CNN is in a pickle. I don't think she, herself, manufactured that story. Why didn't they pull the segment and give her a token punishment? My wild hunch is that she had permission from her bosses and at least a few execs surely knew of the bullshit reporting. In fact - it might be an exec's own plan to juice ratings. Ratings are way down and the network is always greedy anyway.

It seems Musk started using his children as human shields because he's afraid of getting got.