Is there a little hydropower generator built into the thing? How else you’re going to power the electronics? And do they use discreet mechanical buttons for controls? Why would you do that when you know he users will fiddle with the controls with wet fingers? EDIT/addendum: found my answer, the speaker is removable and you charge it through a USB port.

@doctor-phibes said in The Illinois 500: For an awful moment I thought this was going to be about Indycar Thank God it wasn't Grand Prix...

The mayor doesn't bother me. Our congress critters were got vaccinated - why not a mayor?

@aqua-letifer said in Rocket to Mars?: Gonna need a ton of juice for that kind of trip. But compared to current chemical rockets...

@aqua-letifer said in Woman stabs OJ!: What in the FUCK. https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1355608590652993537

They managed to shit in their own house, the Senate. The normal people exit. Pack the Supreme Court and it will be another toxic dumping ground. Nice work.

Poor ol' terribly ferocious kitteh.

Wow, way cool. The USA is kinda small on that chart, isn't it? Hey Klaus, when you get it all nice, how about taking a picture so we can see how it looks. I suppose it is made in China? That's not a dig, actually it would seem rather appropriate!

@jon-nyc @Horace 555

@copper said in Okay this is hilarious.: I had more than a few pints in the pub where Mr. Hood used to drink Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, claims to be the oldest in the UK, 800+ years I bet JD has been there Very cool. Some of those english pubs are quite neat. I took a "Jack the Ripper" walking tour in London one time, and the last stop was a pub near one of the murders. They ended it by saying that Jack the Ripper may have drink there! Of course, there is no idea, but fun to think of.

@copper said in The Return of the Coffin Nail: The gross margin on cigarette taxes must be very attractive to Biden democrats. I read an interesting article on why mainland china did not have more anti smoking things in place, considering the health costs because of smoking. Up until (somewhat) relatively recently, the state tobacco bureau had a monopoly on all cigarettes, and the taxes and profits off of cigarettes was very huge.

@aqua-letifer said in The Rally: @jolly said in The Rally: @horace said in The Rally: @doctor-phibes said in The Rally: @horace said in The Rally: @doctor-phibes said in The Rally: @horace said in The Rally: @doctor-phibes said in The Rally: We really don't need the GOP to drift further to the right. The country's bonkers enough already. "Further" to the right? Trump was conservative? I am led to believe that he was a cult of personality pretending to be conservative. I didn't mean further to the right than Trump, I meant further to the right than they are now. If you prefer, I could say 'even more fucking bonkers', so that you've got a bunch of conspiracy theorists and QAnon kooks competing with left-wing idiots like AOC. Trump was an opportunist, IMO. All that Bible stuff and embracing guns and the flag - sheesh, was anybody taken in by that? I was certainly never sold on his devotion to Christianity, nor to the military. No, but many were, or at least were engaging in a willing suspension of disbelief. Politicians say the darndest things, but in the end, it's how my own politics color everything they do that matters. Amen. NNTTM. You can attempt to heap shame on those who choose a side politically, but in the end choosing a side is the only way to achieve any of the miniscule political power an individual has. Or you can vote third party because your preference is to not be associated with real politics but rather the idea that you're above it all. I guess the nightmare would be that that third party politician would win, then you'd have to take some personal responsibility for your support of a politician that would almost certainly be more ridiculous than the ones for whom you find support unconscionable.

I'm not sure that's a real resume. Is there even a "River Brook University?" Googling it, I only see it on sample resumes.

For other highly imaginative and decidedly fictitious ways to recharge a TAH with built-in batteries, see Crank: High Voltage (2009). I would put it in my "lame movie" thread except I can't find link to a freely streamable version of it. :man-shrugging:

@jon-nyc said in Florida Man bad, New York Man good?: In fact one genre of piece you’ll see in the media is ‘when can we start hating Cuomo again?’ [image: 1612010260133-screen-shot-2021-01-30-at-6.29.48-am.png]

Send me a cute enough honeypot and they can definitely get their sample.

Once I was in a cynical mood while going through airport security. I was looking at all the time and expense that went into it. Hundreds of man years wasted per day just by people all over the country standing in line. Not to mention the ritual of taking off your shoes. I called it the modern equivalent of jizyah, the tax that non-believers had to pay to their Muslim rulers. Anyway every time I see that fence for the rest of my life the phrase ‘Magat tax’ will come to mind. It’s the enduring physical symbol of Trump’s Great Lie.

This is a lesson taught by Paul Revere Cut communications

@copper said in The Four: I refuse to believe that we have a member who is not an expert on Lithium reserves. Okay props, that's a good one.