@Horace said in Close call: I discovered this terrifying footage of a Trumpist special forces unit parachuting into a stadium to arrest all the black and brown athletes. I'm a little surprised Trump didn't parachute in himself as Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth did with Commander Bond for the London Olympics. Presumably they didn't have a parachute that was big enough.

Drop it off at any UPS store, no box required.

@LuFins-Dad said in Shutdown Length: I do appreciate your struggles. I hope that you guys are getting by without too much financial pain. Have you applied for unemployment benefits? And have you considered looking for temporary work or just another job during the shutdown? Thanks - it hasn't been painful, I've been able to get a number of projects done around the house. Can't file for unemployment because I am employed and the "unable to work and bill hours for it" is a pure policy issue, our contract is funded for multiple years already. This week there have been "critical cybersecurity bugs" identified that we have been allowed to work on, so I'm once again working a bit...all good. And yes, I know that these employees will still get back pay when the shutdown ends and it’s tax dollars waisted. But personally, I don’t see much difference between that waste and the waste of actually paying them for working. Since I feel that much of the Federal Government’s work is well beyond it’s scope and ultimately has negative repercussions despite their intentions, I’d rather have that money wasted paying them not to work… In specific cases yes, but your paint brush is so extremely broad that I don't think we'll agree on that. Although as I said with DOGE, if there was a way to require a 5 or 10% decrease in workforce each year until agencies started really seeing pain points, I'd be ok with that. There is certainly fat to cut.

Budapest Summit indefinitely postponed. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gjp73gp41o

I see that as inherent, having never valued hard work over smart work.

And Elon should probably not drunk post.

Stock market is up, investors like predictability and at least Trump has become that, to an extent. Also rates going down a bit, too.

Yeah it’s a bit of small-c conservatism that has served us well overall.

So bears do shit in the woods.

I bathe in Tom-K's urine. (Don't tell him)

Oh what a circus, oh what a show...

@jon-nyc said in Gen Z - dating for free meals: People dated you? Did they know? The great thing about old people's homes is that every date is a first date!

So... four kids.

City of Richmond has no jurisdiction over land titles. Nor do any other municipalities. Exclusively provincial jurisdiction. No BC government, particularly the current one with a majority of one, will disrupt the status quo of private land holdings and titles in favour of Aboriginal land claims. The BC Supreme Court ruling in any case is by no means absolute- this could end up in Federal Courts as constitutional issue where it will be shot down. I will not apologize for what I wrote last week on this subject. This is a nothing burger from the get go along with the other BC First Nations claims to what amounts to 110% or more of British Columbia. All this does is distract and stir up unwarranted gossip leading to hysteria and reaction.

alaska is so fucking empty

At some point fairly soon one of the AI's is going to start being really obnoxious about all the other AI's and say they're all losers and that it's easily the smartest and how we wouldn't believe how high it's IQ is, and how nobody knows more about stuff than it does.

It's about time.

Word on the street is that all the cowards and bootlickers are in Maga, while all the cool kids hate Maga. Can't argue with the word on the street.

"The right's George Floyd" is a smuggled in equation, because words mean things.