To be fair… the bar is far more fun than the grocery store.

Hey everybody! Get a look at Money Bags over here being able to afford to go to the dentist!

(kidding, low key jealous… please marry me so I can have benefits/health coverage)

Oh yeah, totally non-fatal fire, just a church and two homes burned to the ground.

Seriously… the fact that Rachel Ray is the only one to made it out of Oprah’s influence with any kind of wide-spread appeal is crazy.

I was so tempted to try their service, but it was always in the back of my mind, inside the part of my brain that was conscious during marketing 101 class in college: “What’s the long term business model here? What happens after they have everyone’s genetic identity?” Then it dawned on me like ooooohhhhh that’s the plan… no thanks.

The automotive manufacturers General Motors and Chrysler were partially nationalized in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis as were several banks… these were less a full government takeover and more of a government guided restructuring, but the government owned large stakes in these companies. Before that, the only full nationalization of anything substantial was the bankruptcy of the Penn Central Railroad and subsequent establishment of Consolidated Rail (branded as ConRail) the US’s only national freight rail company.

Conrail was later privatized into what is now the private companies CSX and Norfolk Southern. The collapse of Penn Central was the largest bankruptcy in history until Enron in the 1990’s. Amtrak, our national passenger rail corporation, is also a nationalized entity created around the same time as ConRail, for similar reasons, and is still nationalized (although the Trump admin wants to privatize it).

As the article states, it’s a VERY recent discovery. I like to pull it up whenever folks try to tell me that “people being trans is a new fad” or that “tHeRe’S OnLy TwO gEnDaRs: pEnUs aNd vAgInA.”

Oooooooo!!! Don’t forget Polish military strategist and father of American calvary Casimir Pulaski who has, for all intents and purposes, been proven to be intersex. Queer people and folks who do not fit into the normative sex, sexual, or gender binaries have always existed and deserve to be celebrated!

Leonard Nimoy was a pretty tough celebrity death for me. It was like losing a super cool uncle, a person who’d been in my life for my whole life, but hadn’t seen in a long while, was dead.

If only we’re that lucky. Like, I’ll even take “caught in a hot mic” trashing what few fans he’s got left while in a k hole. After he dies we’ve got to commit to a global effort to never allow his legacy to be white washed. Make him Benedict Arnold… did some good things, but was an unforgivable jackass otherwise. Maybe we can make his name synonymous with something anti-social? I dunno what that should be but we did it with Rick Santorum and it should be easy to do with Musk.

Skin on different parts of the body tastes different. It also depends on how it’s cooked.

so many LLM’s just tell their users they’re always right

This is the problem, they apparently cannot be objective as just a matter of course.

Guess I’m not playing it then. Oh well.

I think it’ll be more of an Enron slash Theranos docudrama… questionable accounting and overvaluation mixed with a superstar CEO stuck in a faking-it-till-you-make-it corporate death loop with investors drunk on hype.

Some US states and local school boards are doing this as well. I believe South Carolina has a law like this going into the upcoming term in August. Students will be allowed to bring devices, but they must be stored during class. One school district is using these little pouches with magnetic locks to which the teachers and admin have the key… so students can keep their devices on their person, but would be unable to access them.

Sadly, one of the more relevant (and understandable) arguments against this trend is parents concerns about being about to get in touch with their child in the event of a school shooting. In active shooter events and lockdowns, many school systems and local governments have been slow to inform parents of the situation… this exacerbates concerns where parents (again, understandably) want to be able to get in touch with their child.

Us Americans live in a hell scape of tragedy and senseless death.

Nah, it’s on the bridge… that panel is loaded to the max with rocks and fireworks.

Still… I expect hurricanes in Florida, not in Tennessee.

Indeed it is brother… indeed it is.

Rugby players.

I don’t care for sports so much, but a ton of my friends play rugby. Several of my exes play rugby. I’ve got cousins who play rugby. I live in the States and, while rugby is popular, it’s no where near the levels of enthusiasm where like 90% of the people a person hangs out with plays it (and you not also play or have any real interest in it). Mostly to support people I was dating, I’ve been to like ten games in my life and, while I understand how the game is played, I’m just completely uninterested in sports and following sports as a hobby or interest. I don’t know why, but rugby people love me and I love them.

Season 1 was basically Seth MacFarlane’s TNG fan scripts… it’s a Star Trek series through and through.