@aqua-letifer said in "America’s Welfare State Is on Borrowed Time":

I'll be looking extra hard at Dogecoin this week just in case hyperinflation ever becomes a Thing here.

Why not gold? Just curious why you would prefer cryptocurrency over precious metal as an inflation hedge.

It's no worse than WaPo, just consider the source.

@mik said in What is it about Harry and Meghan:

Meme of the day.

@aqua-letifer said in The QAnon Shaman's lawyer speaks:

@horace said in The QAnon Shaman's lawyer speaks:

I think it's inspirational that these mentally challenged people engineered the greatest attack on our democracy since the Civil War. And also learned how to work their iPhones for the selfies. It's time that we all re-think what retarded people are capable of.

Breaking into the Capitol while an election is in progress is not something I've ever seen tourists do down there. In fact I've never even hear—wait no, I guess that's not true anymore!

Worry not. They are charging people with trespassing weeks after the fact and using SWAT team tactics to serve the warrants.

Himmler smiled...

Won't be the first time "Big Tech" turning stuff on for you without your consent. Not long ago Comcast got quite a bit of bad press turning on an additional Wi-Fi hotspot (SSID) that lets guests and other Comcast customers get online through the Comcast-supplied Wi-Fi router installed in your home. If you look at Apple's AirTag product, it also uses all the U1 chips in all the iOS/iPadOS, HomePod, maybe even AppleTV devices to pick up AirTag signals and transmit AirTag information to Apple's cloud/servers, including those of AirTags belonging to other people.

@aqua-letifer said in Joe's Venmo account:

When this very issue was brought up regarding Trump's hacked Twitter account, it was downplayed by conservatives.

I don't remember that. But, in my dotage, that might be because, well, I'm in my dotage.

Gotta link?

Edit - never mind. I found the story, but it was Twitter, not Venmo. That's why I didn't remember.

Funny, the Schubert video took me to youtube which led me to this Charles Grodin classic, I watched it this morning, I didn't know he was gone

Link to video

RIP Mr. Grodin

Make something new.

@george-k said in Sokolov's Schubert Impromptus Op 90:

I got an ad for VRBO

That seems to be happening to me more the past couple of days. I'm thinking the folks at "Don't be Evil, Inc." are seeking more income.

@george-k said in Liz Cheney on SNL Weekend Update:

@doctor-phibes said in Liz Cheney on SNL Weekend Update:

unleash another Kraken.

That post should be in the "snarky caption" thread.

LOLz

Macau has one of the world's most vibrant Jenga scenes.

@bachophile said in Tuesday Morning Snarky Caption Contest: Law Enforcement Edition:

Finally the model for Rodin’s thinker is found.

ROFL!

Big talk.

The bread house.

That's the charitable interpretation, anyway.

@mik said in Smugglers' Blues:

Knowing how metric converts to English in grams, ounces and pounds is a product of my misspent youth.

LOL. Do tell?

Nah, never mind. We can guess.

@mik said in I missed that part of the constitution:

@lufins-dad said in I missed that part of the constitution:

Rare is where the problem comes in. If it is a simple medical procedure, just a removal of a clump of cells, then why should it be rare? We don’t talk about making mole removal safe, legal, and rare. I have never heard a politician make an argument about liposuction being made safe, legal, and rare. We publicly promote birth control, (despite there being many health risks posed by the pill) with no qualms, but yet many pro choice individuals find it necessary to assign a public responsibility to make abortion “rare”. That clearly points to moral and ethical considerations. And if there are ethical and moral considerations and consequences over a clump of cells, then the pro choice argument falls apart.

Don't get me wrong - I am not what you would call pro-choice. I simply recognize the reality of what we face here. Anything that goes to lessen the suffering is a good step and a compromise worth making. You're not going to get rid of abortion until you change people's hearts and jamming prohibition down their throats is not going to do that.

I get that, and that wasn’t meant towards you, more the other side. The Safe, Legal, and Rare comment has been a part of the Democrat playbook for decades and there is a fundamental flaw in that discussion.

The Right Politics.

Well you are one up on me. I've not listened to her by choice.