There are studies and data on police shootings. And when they interview the officers involved and ask them how many shots they and/or others fired, almost 100% underestimate by almost a factor of 10. ( I would think that the same would be true of soldiers also.) That does not make an excuse for what happened in MN, but I guess if you talked to the ICE people before they saw/heard the videos, etc., they would probably say that there were maybe two shots fired.

@Mik LOL

Yeah, that was a bad day. What stuck in my mind at the time was how somebody filmed the people watching, which I thought was particularly unnecessary. A bit of a precursor of where we are now, I guess.

Huh ... must be divine punishment for all the ICE sins that went down in Minnesota.

@horace that is awesome!!

I guess the Kremlin felt the need to say something in response to Sybiha’s statement. The fact that it was wholly disingenuous does not even register in their amoral minds.

The Ambre is not terrible in price, but that's a really good house. I used to buy it. Probably still could if I went to Kentucky. Yep - still about $50. Very close to an XO but much cheaper.

But you can boink the widows on board. Close enough.

@blondie Bessent lied today again alleging that Carney “aggressively walked back” his Davos address when he spoke with Trump on the phone. The man’s a creep.

Canada in second place? Who ever complied that list has not travelled public transit in Edmonton in the past five years. Edit. I see now that it is about technical safety standards.

Sad. Obviously, government acceptance (and probably cooperation) in places like Laos. Like in teh picture above, having this big casino and random office blocks in the middle of what is basically jungle makes no "rational" sense. Obviously something bad is going on there, yet, the police are bought off, etc. As the article says, (in so many words), "the workers are relatively free to move around, because there is no place for them to go, and if they do leave the compound, the police would quickly track them down."

Seems fair enough. If the seat could have been filled by a paying passenger I see no justification for a refund.

Light weight.

Link to video Classical at its core, pleasantly and accessibly intellectual in its approach, retro and fresh at the same time. If you want original classical-sounding chamber music that (1) is not boring, not too predictable, and (2) won't leave you questioning WTF has contemporary classical music become, this fits the bill. The composer is still living.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/tiktok-claimed-bugs-blocked-anti-ice-videos-epstein-mentions-experts-call-bs/ TikTok wants users to believe that errors blocking uploads of anti-ICE videos or direct messages mentioning Jeffrey Epstein are due to technical errors—not the platform seemingly shifting to censor content critical of Donald Trump after he hand-picked the US owners who took over the app last week. However, experts say that TikTok users’ censorship fears are justified, whether the bugs are to blame or not. Ioana Literat, an associate professor of technology, media, and learning at Teachers College, Columbia University, has studied TikTok’s politics since the app first shot to popularity in the US in 2018. She told Ars that “users’ fears are absolutely justified” and explained why the “bugs” explanation is “insufficient.”

@jon-nyc I think it was somewhat calculated. President Trump has no filter and whatever he thinks, he posts. I dont believe that VP Vance is the same. More like President Obama, where everything is carefully thought out before saying anything. Very little "off the cuff" stuff.

I did not either. Saw something similar on high priced Italian purses. Something like 95% is made in China, and then they do the final sowing of the zipper in Italy and attach the label. That is considered sufficient manufacturing so that they can call it "made in Italy"