@lufins-dad said in Want to really piss Americans off?: @loki said in Want to really piss Americans off?: Much of the new car shortage is chip related. When you consider what those chips do, like rear cameras and lane control if a revolution is caused by not having those features then we deserve to all die. Remember that the cameras are required by law since 2017. Oh. Did not know that. I don’t really use mine except the beeping is helpful in parallel parking.

Reviews seem mixed.

The Isle of Man TT is an unbelievable race, and Joey Dunlop was an amazing guy. We went there on holiday when I was a kid - it was a short ferry hop from where I grew up. The roads over the mountains are really narrow.

I was surprised Israel got an extra four days to prosecute its defense. The optics of asymmetric war is always complex and the risks of spillover consequences too great. Biden in my opinion gave cover to Israel for more days and we are not privy to the real dialogue between him and Netanyahu who I suspect was grateful. Anti-semitism is real and rampant around the world. Israel does itself no favors by continuing to expand in new settlements. Clinton did a great job of getting so close to an agreement that would be unthinkable today. The Palestinians put too much pressure on Arafat so he bucked and now we see what happens when there is no deal. Generational misery.

I could not possibly care less what either one of them think on any subject save their own writing.

@mik said in Without Remorse: Willem Dafoe was the perfect Clark in Clear and Present Danger. The other thing I REALLY hated about it was the 'SAY HER NAME' thing. Really? Got to get the Woke/BLM thing in there.

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@lufins-dad said in Wrong leg: And he still has the other leg needing to come off... But, let’s face it, at his age he was spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair anyway... To your point: The patient was suffering from "numerous medical conditions" and ailments affected both his legs. From a different article: Austrian news outlet Heute reported that the patient did not initially recognise the mistake, because of his illness. It also said the 82-year-old was asked to confirm beforehand, but his articulation was limited, it reported Fritsch saying. But yes it is terrible just the same.

@george-k I've read many times that when kids abuse animals they very often graduate to similar actions against people. He's not a kid, but I wonder where this guy's behavior is headed.

If the point is merely to know about the weight, why not just weight the whole plane? Actually, I would have assumed that modern airplanes can already measure their own weight. If it is really necessary to compute passenger weight, then it shouldn't be too hard to do that automatically without anyone noticing or explicitly stepping on a scale.

Well, you'd have to ask yourself whether you'd rather hear me play badly on a good piano or on a bad piano.

NYC has said some of theirs will become permanent

@lufins-dad said in Karla’s away and Luke’s staying overnight at a buddy’s...: I went with hookers and blowa fire and my second sweetheart, Dakota Good choice. You'll be glad in the morning.

@jolly said in The Cuban Connection: Maybe you need to try a Clinton cuban... So many snarky options, so little time.

@horace said in The Commission: There is no way of preventing Portland or CHAZ type riots, since the culture accepts them as basically just and the backlash against attempting to combat them would be severe and widespread. That's why there was no response. Meanwhile we are more than happy to combat "Capitol insurrections" now that we're on alert about them. Yet the "Capitol insurrection" is the real threat? An insurrection that could have been easily prevented with basic security measures? Like I said I would support the commission if not for the dems blowing it too with the hasty political impeachment #2 event. Nevertheless this Commission is dead on arrival. I think the lessons have been learned that will be learned, lock up the people who crossed the rubicon and crack down on rioters wherever they are.

poor duck.

Be interesting to see if the protests continue or die out now.