Wait until you get locked in a struggle against the non-birds who want to eat from the bird feeder as well. My dad spent years experimenting with different mounting devices, guy wires, and shields before he finally perfected a system to defeat the squirrels, raccoons, and other bandits.
You're joking but a few months ago MAHA did in fact send Dr. Oz out to tell people to drink more alcohol
people.com/dr-oz-explai...
probably goes farther in Budapest
DAPL is a sort of precursor. Left anti-capitalists and environmentalists were opposed for the obvious reasons, but the threat of eminent domain has right-wing farmers up in arms. They don't like to feel the power of big corporations and their hired politicians turned on them.
probably most of them also intimidate the workers who do show up by threatening to call ICE on them
From the Wikipedia article "Dean Scream". When Dean walked on stage, the crowd "just went bananas. It was like a rock star," explained Mills. Those at the event recalled the crowd being so loud they could not even hear Dean; this experience was not reflected in television broadcasts of the rally, as the audio they used was from the unidirectional microphone Dean was holding that significantly decreased the background noise.
My favorite part of that story is the venue was insanely loud but his mic for the TV media was set up to isolate his audio. He was yelling to be heard over the crowd, and the press people all knew it, but they took advantage of the opportunity.
B certainly isn't something you wrote, and I don't think it's something you even meant to imply.
e.g.
(A) Soviet control of Eastern Europe was bad and the US government had reason to oppose it. That supports the position that the Cold War *in general* was a rational response.
(B) It does not support the position that any *particular* American action or decision was rational or justified.
I get you're not trying to argue everything the US did in the Cold War was rational, but the microblogging format flattens nuance and anything that's not fairly explicit is likely to be misinterpreted.
in a decaying orbit, descending to the dark center of the gravity well
"We Built This City" playing in the background
more distorted and repulsive with every revolution, we lose ourselves, we no longer understand
why is the bridge traffic radio from different cities?
all is darkness
I am on board with this proposition. However, the song "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band exists. If we are considering highest production value worst song, "The Joker" is *extremely* hard to beat, like final boss territory.
Imagine there are multiple cabinet officials who've been compromised, but the agents who entrapped them have to call Beijing to say, "I'm really sorry, we did a honeypot on the SecDef but he's always too fucked up or hungover to produce anything. Is there a rehab we can get him into?"
I was there for it so I know how we got here but it is honestly wild to stop once and a while and think about the kind of stuff MAGA gives us. We have a "I'm good to drive, I only drank wine and beer, no liquor" guy, except instead of driving with 0.3 BAC he's running the FBI.
not if they [checks notes] invent AGI and build millions of sentient humanoid robots in the next few years
Eventually the ATF questioned why the PD in a town of 700 people needed permission to buy 90 machineguns in a four year period. The investigators found he kept an M60 at his house (feral hogs, I guess) and an M2HB at his store to show off to customers. He's still locked up now AFAIK.
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Even tiny departments can ask the ATF for permission to buy machineguns. He also had an FFL and owned a gun store. So, he bought machineguns, sold them to himself at cost, then retailed them or sold them on to other gun dealers at a profit. He made about $80,000 altogether.
As is often the case for shitty cops he just got a job elsewhere. He was chief of police but in a tiny town with three officers and two cruisers, so it was actually a pay cut. He needed to make up the lost income, which is how he fucked bad enough to make national news and go to federal prison.
The breast lawsuit went away but state and federal revenue still came after him and he lost a bundle in back taxes and penalties.
Finally the police department decided to get rid of him. I think for falsifying time cards, which probably all of them were doing but it gave them a justification.
Cop sued her for the value of her breast implants (which he'd forced her to get). My dad represented her.
Long story short, he had the cop's financial records from discovery, established that was cheating on his taxes, and maneuvered him into admitting it on the record at a deposition.
Big surprise, while he was a cop he was also an abusive partner. Eventually his wife divorced him. Afterwards he kept filing spurious lawsuits that he always lost but he made her hire lawyers and go to court. Very common tactic used by abusers to enlist the legal system in continuing the abuse.
🧵 but IMO worth it to read to the end
My dad had a long career as a small-town lawyer. I asked him if he ever had a Perry Mason moment. Just once, he said.
There was this cop in my home town who was so terrible they eventually fired him. It is very hard to get fired from a rural small town PD.
He said she apparently still takes communion because there's some kind of system where you can sign up to have sedevacantist priests send you illicit eucharist by mail.
IMO if adult convert tradcaths like JD want anybody to take them seriously they need some coaching from Catholics like this lady.
A guy at work was telling me about a woman who drops her grandkids off at his church but never comes inside because she's a Benevacantist. She believes the papacy became vacant and apostolic succession ceased when Benedict XVI resigned in 2013. Francis and Leo XIV are of course illegitimate.
It was really eye-opening. e.g. Toyota is clearly at least 4-5x more valuable, but Tesla's market cap is 4x Toyota's.
Most car manufacturer stock P/E is 5-10. Tesla's is >300. The market thinks Tesla is a tech stock with unlimited growth potential. As you say, >85% of Tesla's valuation is fantasy.
A few years ago when Elon was overtaking the other super-rich I was curious and looked up information about Tesla. I'm not a business genius so just very basic stuff like assets, gross and net revenue, P/E ratio, how many cars they make, etc.
Then I compared the numbers to other car manufacturers.
Assuming we're talking about popular meats
* of ordinary quality (neither bargain-basement nor premium) and
* competently prepared (neither exquisite nor ruined),
Ham is the worst. It's okay, but only okay.
Agreed.
Bacon is not supposed to be the main component of a meal. It is a garnish that supplies salt and savory flavors. In terms of kitchen purpose it has more in common with anchovies than with a pork chop.
e.g. BLT is not a bacon sandwich, it's a tomato and lettuce sandwich seasoned with bacon.
To make it even more completely insane, they were COVID deniers and they were posting "died OF covid or died WITH covid?" bullshit while he was in hospital dying of COVID, and continued to do after he died.
Photo from a negative review of Arby's Steak Bites by Michael Palan in The Takeout, 6 October 2025: https://www.thetakeout.com/1987564/arbys-steak-nuggets-review/ There is a small informational pamphlet about the nuggets on the left, dishonestly describing them as "juicy" and "tender". The actually nuggets are resting on a clear plastic drink cup lid, with a fork stuck in one for scale. The order consists of three unappetizing, burnt-looking wads of beef that resemble nothing so much as animal droppings.
see also the steak nuggets they sold in select markets for a limited time in 2025
It's also hilarious because they go Catholic for the aesthetics and whine about the Woke Pope, but there are so many denominations that match their politics but have terrible aesthetics. Like, belief system of uncut white nationalist theocracy but the churches are all converted big box stores.