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Netanyahu walked into the United Nations expecting a global audience—and instead got rows of empty seats.’
Netanyahu was very disappointed. He even brought along one of his cartoon panels again but there were too few people present for him pull it out and show it.
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UN delegates walking out before Netanyahu speech: This is just cheap theatre if it’s not followed up with actual sanctions.
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Alice X The delegations that walked out were from countries that have no power to undertake sanctions, except to not trade with Isr which many already do not. So I wouldn’t call it cheap theater.
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Darthbobber If so, it would be cheap theatre in response to other cheap theatre.
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Bugs The scene I’d prefer is UN security taking it upon themselves to arrest him and bundle him off to Teheran for trial and sentencing.
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MEE
NAZA review: Portrait of Israel as a nation stuck in a moral abyss
Testimonies from military and intelligence whistleblowers debunk myths about the reasons behind the Gaza genocide
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NAZA, as the film explains, is the Hebrew military acronym for the expected number of civilian casualties resulting from a planned strike (“nezek agavi” approximates to “collateral damage”). Many of the interviewees use the term to subconsciously safeguard themselves from regarding Palestinians as human beings, as well as shield themselves from accepting the gravity of killing.
Defenceless civilians are not only the collateral damage suggested by the film’s title but a pretext for murdering as many Palestinians as possible.…
Grim, but worthwhile reading.
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Chris Fay I remember the kill ratio for drone strikes that Obama oversaw under the direction of the thug running the CIA was supposedly 1 baddie in 10 killed. Government statistics so the range is one guy who we barely have a clue with 10 to 50 real people nearby. Some days not a single bad guy but plenty of other people.
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The Rev Kev I believe that in the war Afghanistan, that a ration of 1 “baddie” to 17 innocent bystanders was considered acceptable.
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Locally I’m seeing a DCCC Red-to-Blue ad blitz. Candidate emphasizes blue collar roots. He doesn’t trash the Democrats, he goes after “DC” but never specifically criticizes Democrats. Everything about this math teacher turned candidate reeks of DNC embed and I suspect most of the Axios candidates are more hardwired into the system than they let on. No mention in the Axios article of Ukraine, Iran or Israel. I would expect genuine reform candidates to lead with our forever wars.
This is how the second-rate minds at the DNC cope with their stunning unpopularity: they recruit stealth candidates to run against the DNC. They’ve been doing this since at least 2018.
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The Rev Kev Say, wasn’t Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first elected back in 2018? Just a coincidence I am sure. :)
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flora She’s beginning to look like Lily Munster. Must be her eyebrows. / ;)
Then there’s this. / ;)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/kamala-harris-campaigns-for-abdul-el-sayed-at-detroit-maternal-health-roundtable/ar-AA2cM6l8Reply ↓
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flora From Due Dissidence:
Abdul El-Sayed POISONS His Campaign With CRINGE Kamala Collab
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Alice X It’s Kamala who is looking for progressive rehabilitation (it will be fake, of course). The racist tirades against Abdul here in MI are sickening. Abdul is superbly articulate.
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pjay My understanding is that El-Sayed also needs a strong showing among black voters. Dissing Kamala would be counter-productive in that sense. This might irritate readers of NC or the Black Agenda Report (or the Due Dissidence guys), but sadly I think Kamala is still an important symbol for many of them. In this she is like Obama – though an even emptier symbol in my opinion.
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tegnost A DNC martini is 12 oz. gin and and don’t even glance at the left.
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The One Two, universal health care from cradle to grave, no war. In either order. Keep it simple as it is the most economical. Complication via Mean Testing creates those fake jobs. The Money Be Gone or the War budget, Susan Collins’ $150,00o kick back for a fraudulent $20,000,000 contract nuff said.
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Thank you, Haig.
Readers may be interested in this bit of an oldie: https://jpo7.substack.com/p/is-manchester-united-secretly-owned.
The author does not mention that the Rothschilds, big landowners in my home county of Buckinghamshire for the past 200 years and former MPs, encouraged Maxwell to buy local printing works, including one that printed airline tickets and Reader’s Digest, and run for Parliament, MP, for Buckingham from 1966 – 70.
The Maxwells were regular visitors to the Rothschild estates and eventually bought Oxford and Reading football teams and leased Headington Hall from Oxford city council.
The Oxford connection facilitated the particular Maxwell interest in scientific publishing.
The Rothschilds encouraged Maxwell to expand in the US, a way of breaking into the US mergers and acquisitions market.
When the Maxwell empire collapsed, the Rothschilds walked away quietly from the corporate wreckage, unlike Goldman Sachs, which was fined £200m. However, the Rothschild connections with the family did not end. They acted as financial advisers to the Maxwells, including an investment in Teva, and their Liechtenstein based foundation.
This money keeps the Maxwells in some style and funds their campaign against the victims of Epstein.
Speaking of Epstein, some City gossip has it that he connected with the Maxwells as early as the mid-1970s. There’s a story that Epstein accompanied Ghislaine Maxwell to a shoot in the early 1980s, invited by her friends at Oxford university. The pair dressed in macs, rather than tweed, and stood out on the grouse moor.
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What? Has Global Boiling already been replaced by “climate overshoot”?
Next it’ll be “whatever happened to that nice mild spell?”
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Steve H. This is a situation where the goals of the study get way over-generalized in translation/popularization. The study was so restrictive they included ‘only the 42 [scenario] pairs where global mean temperature in the OS scenarios returns to the baseline level before 2100.’ The question they were asking: are there scenarios where climate change is reversible to some baseline? They showed that you better count on non-reversibility when hysteresis is in play.
The deep issue is the assumption in the question that overshoot decreases to an equilibrium. The only way to restrict the numbers for that 2100 equilibrium is to keep the input numbers low. In the logistic equation for population, overshoot only occurs when the reproductive rate r is greater than 2. So the papers guidelines are equivalent to saying rabbits can only have two or three kits per litter. But when r=4, the system crashes to extinction. Extinction is a hell of an outcome to ignore. Which is what any over-generalization of this paper risks.
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“Britain’s last great airship”
A video very much worth watching. I know that that ship suffered from bad engineering and that it was doomed in the long run but damn man, just once I would have loved taking a trip aboard that airship. They certainly decked it out in style and the views would have been something. Of course you have to wonder. Did they have a 1,000 foot high club?
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Carolinian Practically all of the great airships met bad ends. It’s not just our era that has off the wall techie enthusiasms.
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dearieme That was the government-built airship. The rival R100 Airship built under Barnes Wallis at Vickers worked safely and well. Neville Shute tells much of the story is his autobiographical “Slide Rule”, having been a senior aeronautical engineer on the Vickers project.
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Carolinian One should add that airplane travel back in that day was also quite dangerous. But the planes were mere toys compared to the resources expended on the giant airships.
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Re: Why Trump May Not Serve Out His Presidency The New Republic
The piece suggests only two possibilities: resignation or impeachment.
Are those really the only two possibilities? I think NC likes the military coup idea, but I wonder if there are others.
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rob There are the other two distinct possibilities;
Either he has a medical malfunction and dies or something…
then there is the fact that I’m sure there are A LOT of people actively thinking about killing him and his family, and his business enablers… and all the rest who deserve to be taught a lesson.
I could imagine multiple governments and religious adherents plotting his demise…
The fact that he knows people will be hunting him and his family for the rest of their lives must add to the stress, which could be what ultimately does him in….
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Carolinian The Johnson link comparing him to Commodus (of the Gladiator movie) conspicuously points out that Commodus was strangled in his bath by his personal trainer.
Don better keep an eye on Melania although allegedly they barely live together any more.
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JP The only assassination I would condone is if the ghost of Harry Truman did the deed.
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DJG, Reality Czar Es s Ce Tera: I’m not sure that Timothy Noah is putting forth any serious possibilities.
There is this: ‘Last week, Thomas B. Edsall wrote in The New York Times that “no action to remove Trump from the White House will happen until he does something so threatening and damaging that drumming him out of the White House becomes an inescapable necessity.” But does anybody honestly think that day is far off?’
Edsall and Noah have been around the block. Edsall has been on this beat for forty or more years, Noah at least thirty-five years. And they can’t diagnose “threatening and damaging”? Here’s a few hints: DOGE. The administration of ICE and Homeland Sekuritei. The prosecution of the wars in Ukraine and Iran. The subsidy of the genocide in Palestine. Impeachment is purely political, and Trump crossed the dire line long ago that even the current jaded gaggle of congresscritters should be able to take note of if they, too, have some functioning synapses. Conviction also is political: He doesn’t have to be found with kiddieporn on his computer or stolen silverware in his pocket.
Trump can be impeached simply for being non compos mentis and incapable of carrying out his duties. Washington being Hollywood for ugly people and a clique, no one is able to consider just shoving him out the door back to NYC.
So Noah is dancing around issues. It’s typical gutless liberal speculation. And the midterms are likely to produce a kind of hung Congress. Don’t count on a supermajority for the Dems in the Senate (with damaged goods like Fetterman). And the House is inhabited by all kinds of Dem slobs of the first order–my favorite being Epstein Whisperer pseudocongressperson Stacy Plaskett.
I had visitors this week in the Chocolate City. At one point, we speculated on Trump’s health and weight.
He’s eighty years old. I estimate his weight as between 300 and 400 pounds, closer to 300.
He’s a couple of Diet Cokes away from a cardiac implosion. And a visit from Comare Secca.
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KLG I almost stopped reading (should have) when Noah attributed “long twilight struggle” to JFK. Yes, it was in his Inaugural Address: “The torch has been passed…Ask not what your country can do for you…” and all that. But “long twilight struggle” in the context Noah used is originally from George F. Kennan’s “Long Telegram” by “X” from Moscow in 1946. This is something a journalist of Noah’s standing should have pointed out.
And that long twilight struggle was won before the end of the 20th century, but our government couldn’t take the win with grace and then set about creation of a genuinely free and equal world, because that would have broken too many soup bowls belonging to our politicians’ true masters.
Oh, and here is the paragraph from JFK showing how cheap Noah’s use of “long twilight struggle” was:
“Now the trumpet summons us again–not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need–not as a call to battle, though embattled we are– but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, ‘rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation’–a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.”
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pjay “… Noah is dancing around issues. It’s typical gutless liberal speculation”
Exactly. All those “symptoms” of Trump’s “mental deterioration” – his grandiose claims, his narcissistic assertions of his name on everything and that his every achievement is the “greatest ever in history,” etc., have long been part of his shtick. Trump is a demagogue. Electoral politics in the US today is just theater. Trump’s best preparation for his political success was WWE performance in which narcissistic assertions and grandiose claims are cheered on by the crowd. Trump is Gorgeous George. He knows, or at least he used to, that much of what he is saying is ridiculous (remember back when he suddenly started questioning Obama’s birth certificate?). He turned the last Republican convention into pure WWE cheerleading, complete with Hulk Hogan. It doesn’t matter. His “fans” love him for it – or at least they used to.
It may well be that Trump is losing it now. His act is starting to lose potency among his MAGA faithful as a little bit of reality starts to leak into public awareness. But he is still much more coherent than Biden his last few years. And look at how they wheeled in McConnell in a near Weekend at Bernie’s performance in the Senate, and it didn’t f**king matter! The media just let it slide. As you say, this is just liberal rhetoric.
What *does* matter are the actual policies you mention: Decimating domestic programs (and institutions); continued militarization of ICE and “Homeland Security”; wars in Iran and Ukraine; genocide in Palestine. All of these policy trajectories were started long before Trump and carried out through Democrat administrations. It’s just that Trump, typically, has prosecuted some of them more openly and noisily (except perhaps for Ukraine, which is more of a liberal Atlanticist red line). Trump is a clown, and a dangerous one. But when he’s finally gone they’ll simply replace him with a more “statesmanlike” front man, and the show will continue.
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Carolinian Yes it’s the Ancien Regime itself that has to go.
But one can’t deny that their stooge and whipping boy Trump is peculiarly dangerous. He’s so bad that even the Democrats would be better. Even Biden didn’t start a war with Iran.
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Vicky Cookies DJG, that was vicious and realistic. I howled at “Hollywood for ugly people.”
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DJG, Reality Czar Vicky Cookies: That line doesn’t originate with me:
Roger Simon, Politico, 2014:
“Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.
“That line, or a variation thereof, was first used by Paul Begala in the 1980s. Begala says he might have heard it in a bar. Which is where most truths about Washington and Hollywood originate.”
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tegnost My suspicion re the post midterm strikes is they’ll let the election go forward then claim “irregularities” and chaos will reign over the holiday season.
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The Rev Kev I think that you are right. Trump loves the chaos and uses it to take advantages for himself. As they said in Game of Thrones-
‘Chaos is a ladder’
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The White House must be a very stressful place to work these days, the degree of cognitive dissonance necessary to “function” there is off the charts.
If you were marginally sane when you started working there, you won’t be after a few weeks.
The consequences on a personal level won’t be pretty, and on a public level…hoo boy.
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Mark Gisleson Is there any sector of the US not going through massive cog dis? This is shared pain, stress is everywhere.
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Re; AI
For those whose humor shades that of a rich, full-bodied coffee, a raison d’être for one’s unshakable bedrock of cynicism:
Cambodia an early warning of China’s AI surveillance exports
“For [blank], the danger posed by this is not abstract. Attacks on opposition voices and critics of the regime are already commonplace, including beyond [blank]’s borders. Expanding the state’s ability to identify, track, and monitor individuals could give authorities in [blank] powerful new tools to target those already vulnerable to intimidation and repression.”
Read further for the punchline(s).
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‘@sciencegirl
Science girl
Researchers suggest the Moai statues on Easter island were moved upright by rocking them with ropes, allowing them to “walk” to their destinations’
They did this experiment successfully years ago and one member of that team made an observation. The locals had the legend that those statues walked to where they were finally placed and this guy, when he thought about it, noted that using ropes did make those statues look like they were actually walking.
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Betty Thanks Rev Kev. I was sure that I had read that story before. I wonder why science girl is writing about it now.
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re: Netanyahu’s UN speech.
In full:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGGRNErktOs
tldr:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mT-5JI59s5s
And yes, he brought a pager and waved it around saying, “Remember these things?”
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Watching the Musk Official Trailer reminded me of something. When the fire department is called out in a small town to rescue a cat in a tree, almost always the cat was a house cat who somehow got outside. The problem is, that raised as a pet in someone’s home since birth, the cat never really became a complete cat; It never hunted for food, climbed trees, protected itself, or got down from a tree, etc.
When I listen to Musk and these other tech billionaire oligarchs, it seems to me they are hell bent on creating a world where human potential for fulfillment is blocked in order that humans serve an ideology that serves their desires only; Humans that are no more human than a house cat is a cat.
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Alex Cox My dear wife called the fire department many years ago, to rescue a cat caught in a tree. The fireman said the cat would find its own way down, and asked, “Lady, did you ever see a cat skeleton in a tree?”
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“OpenAI admits another rogue agent incident”
I don’t believe that these are rogue agents at all. They could air gap them from the internet but they always seem to let the AI have access to it anyway. And the AI developers just cover their faces with their hands at these “accidents” while they peek between their fingers at what they are doing and what data they are bringing back. And those 53 images of ChatGPT users that were accidentally released are just a planned distraction. At this point those AI corporations are just using those AI agents to hack the world’s computer systems for personal profit.
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Paul This. Its purposeful attacks for press/ building a defense case for c-suite when the trade bubble implodes. Like the enigma code: 15 years of online forum talk by experts/nerds solved it in 2 days, not the LLM process (although random language permutations are the whole game with codes). Just who would spend the compute cost otherwise?
If AI could autonomously hack and autonomously launder cash or wreck stuff like any real hack… It wouldn’t be hitting the gov’t site for guppie preservation in Utah. But a real AI is nothing like an LLM.
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Lefty Godot Right. There are humans to blame for letting these “rogue” agents loose, and I would be very surprised if it was not intentional in most cases, for publicity purposes. Keeping the AI stories coming, whether big scary stories or wonder miracle stories. As Oscar Wilde said, “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
And consider that a grandmother in Iowa or a teenaged hacker in New Jersey would be getting prosecuted and fined bigly (maybe jailed) for half the stuff that the AI companies are doing. More elite impunity.
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Jeremy Grimm AI cyber attack agents could be released to encourage the sales of AI protect agents. I am not aware of what other avenues exist to profit from AI. For a while, AI protect could make significant profits from countering AI attacks. For the future, I am not sure how much AI attack depends on the tireless work of security experts checking beta, gamma, and … psi released code from our magnificent code vendors. I am not sure how much AI attack relies upon the libraries of existing and new found vulnerabilities — and existing attack techniques. I suppose AI might create novel attacks “created” by the AI agents, most likely using frameworks extracted from existing hacking exploits. In any case, the Internet could become an “interesting” place to visit — “interesting” in the sense of the putatively ancient Chinese curse.
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Very worthwhile article from the Spectator, but I do not understand their lofty rhetoric on US respect for property rights as a reason for continued dollar dominance. Venezuela’s gold (even if that was held in London)? Impounding Iranian assets? And this sentence:
“Who wants to hold a currency — or yuan-denominated securities — that could be eliminated at the push of a button by the financial administration of the Communist Party? We know this problem from Euroclear and the Russian central bank’s assets parked there: frozen at the push of a button. ”
– Doesn’t the second sentence provide that dollar-denominated assets in a Western financial network are just as, if not more, likely to be seized than assets held CCP-adjacent institutions?
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Agents do what their principals tell them to do.
Traditionally Principals are responsible for the actions of their agents,
Individually.
It will be interesting to see how Agency Law will be applied to AI Agents, it’s a field I have some background in due to all the “How to CYA” classes I took as part of my continuing education, both as a Real Estate Broker and earlier as a “Qualified Manager”.
Fun times.
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‘@XueJia24682
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@XueJia24682
✨🇨🇳118-meter, 40-ton wind turbine blade snakes through a mountain road in Chenzhou, Hunan’
Looking closer, it looks like there are two bulldozers chained together to help pull that 40 tons up that mountain side.
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>United in debt: America has become a nation of fake rich people
That’s very sad. I’m strictly pay as I go, which means I don’t go very far. I did just use a credit card to buy a new car jack since I had just wrecked my 28 year old one (I never lubricated it). As I was down to $7, and I had to have a jack, I did it (it was $23). :-/
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The Rev Kev Hey, was that old jack the one you used to go under your car for your oil change that you talked about recently? (gulp)
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Alice X Yup! gasp! I’ve learned my lesson. My old car guy just retired (age 60, good for him), his son, who is quite a good guy (a chip off the old block), took over the business. I was trying to take the tire off to take it to him since it had a rim leak and kablooey, the jack collapsed (fortunately before I got the tire off, that would have really been a problem) . Next oil change I’m going to see what he’d charge to do it with my oil and filter. I don’t think I want to crawl under there any more. I was looking into hydraulic jacks but they say specifically to use jack stands once you get it up and that was way more than I wanted to spend :-/
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Carolinian Given my car history I have multiple jacks and always use two plus of course chocking the wheels. I don’t have to slide very far under there to change the oil although my current car has low ground clearance and it could be curtains if it did collapse. And of course you don’t have to go under at all to remove or change tires.
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Alice X Yeah, mine is low ground clearance too, so I have slide a fair ways under to get to the oil plug and filter. I don’t drive very much, so it isn’t something I have to do often.
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Skookumchuck Alice X: “I was trying to take the tire off to take it to him since it had a rim leak and kablooey, the jack collapsed…”
Don’t know if you’ll see this, but PLEASE NEVER GET UNDER A CAR HELD UP ONLY BY A JACK. Go to the auto parts store and get a couple of “jack stands.” These are sturdy steel props that you can put under the vehicle once you’ve jacked it up. I typically put them under the axle, either front or back depending on what I’m working on.
Jack up the car, put jack stands in place, gently let car down on jack stands. NOW you can get under. Wow; save the pressed meat for a panini!
Be safe. Health care ain’t gettin’ cheaper.
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Carolinian I question how much reality that article conveys. The author is long on rhetoric but completely skimpy on any hard info to back up his description of young America.
Meanwhile Starbucks just announced the closure of several hundred stores, Amazon caters to bargain hunters more than fast fashion mavens and Walmart–the most conspicuous presence in my part of the world–is booming.
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Nate The author also has a PhD in “Psychosocial Studies” from an un-named institution and appears to write exclusively for conservative outlets. Many of his articles push conspiracies related to 15-minute cities and the Great Reset which totally lose the plot. So I would take his rhetoric with a healthy skepticism.
With that said, I do share his belief that consumerism is rotting our sense of financial security and social ties.
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Paleobotanist Remember – use the jack to lift the car, then support it with something else (logs, concrete blocks, etc) as a safety move when you crawl under it! Never trust a jack alone!
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Alice X Thanks! I don’t know where to put the supports (jack stands?), but I’ll find out.
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Butch Car manual or internet will show jack points/ locations. Jack stands are super hard to break, check pawn shops for used, call the junk yards.
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Alice X Thanks! I know where the jack points are, I just wasn’t sure there was room for a jack stand too, but I’ve just found a picture where that is done. I’ll try a junk yard or pawn shop for the stand, I’m in a low rent district and we have a few of both.
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Oregon Lawhobbit I believe I see them supporting axles a lot, and it’s where I use them on my yard tractor when getting underneath to work on stuff. But I’m better as a Darwin candidate, rather than as a mechanic…..
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From Useful Idiots:
Putin Critic Exposes MAJOR Ukraine Weakness, Zelensky FREAKS OUT
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“Russia strikes at heart of Ukraine’s digital economy with attacks on ISPs and datacentres’
That article had the following bit-
‘Among the targets on Friday was a warehouse used by the McDonald’s fast food restaurant chain outside Kyiv.’
Does that count as a war crime? Good thing that it was not a warehouse used for storing Coca Cola in. We all know what that means-
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ChrisFromGA There is such a thing in the US called a shareholder derivative lawsuit. Any shareholder can file an action seeking damages from the officers of a corporation if they can prove that through reckless or wanton acts they harmed the corporations profits. The damages are not paid to the plaintiff, but rather to the shareholders.
Keeping a warehouse in an active war zone and not moving it out of the country to safer zones (Poland, Hungary) sounds like reckless and wanton acts. Time to claw some money back from Mickey Dee’s CEO, CFO, Chief Risk Officer.
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BrianH The shareholder is acting on behalf of the corporation, so any damages go to the corporation, not the shareholder. And one of many obstacles is the ability of the corporate board to form a committee of the board that can have the action dismissed.
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flora re: shareholder derivative lawsuits.
Thank you, Carl Icahn. Where would once great American companies like TWA airlines be without your work? / ;)
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Re: Trump will lose his war against the press – The Fulcrum
A national press that needs the defense of a columnist like S.A. Cupp is truly a pitiful deeply flawed and useless institution.
Frankly I dont give a damn about these media clones who dare call themselves journalists (rrrright, the term isn’t protected) attacking Trumpinsky. Would he be winning his wars would they utter a single word of opposition?
And that goes for 90% of that same crowd that was salivating over those 6 million killed Muslims during 20+ years of “war on terror” (ie extermination of civilians).
So, spare me your fake wisdom, Mrs Cupp.
She starts with a cheap quote from Marcus Aurelius to finish with reminding us of how unfree Russian and North Korean press is.
So, those 40k per year for Cornell (art history) really paid off, somehow. Soon she’ll be replaced by AI. And I wont shed a tear.
Re: Needless to say Cupp has no clue about the attacks against the RU government in the RU media. And if we talk about criticizing war I rather not dig to find out what Cupp wrote or said about US war crimes of the 2000s.
Or what she had to say about US journalists opposing the Iraq War who got all fired. Which was just a useless invasion 10k miles away.
I wonder what all these sorry clowns would be doing if Canada was launching 1000 Chinese drones against Texan oil refineries every other day. With 200k dead or injured US Marines at the front. And some recruited agents blowing up a mall in Washington DC. Enlisting for WW3 calling Trump “GOAT” with a cheeky smile expressing genuine pride and love?
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Today’s antidote pic could be nicknamed Rommel
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flora heh. good pun.
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Not a computer guy but IMO “rogue agents” are roaming unknown and free to worm their way into and through the internet tube and even their creators (think dogebags) have no idea about it/them ( thats the woke way to i.d. the worms).
I also think however bad we think it is, it’s worse.
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flora the tech bros saying “we had no idea” is “the dog ate my homework” dodge, or doge. (imo, the agents are doing exactly what they’ve been programmed to do.) If they have no idea but are not shutting the agents down to find out “what went wrong” then they do have an idea and they’re fine with how it’s working, imo.
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Jeremy Grimm All this know-nothing pretending by AI builders begs hackers to take “rogue” AI agents and turn them upon their origin creches. Who knows what harm “rogue” AI might wreck upon the rogue AI corporations working so hard to wreck themselves, the economy, and who knows how many innocent and not so innocent individuals.
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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/21/john-oliver-united-healthcare
John Oliver on UnitedHealth Group: “Algorithmically driven, ruthless arbiters of who lives and who dies”
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Re: Judges warn of lawslop:
The article is about a Florida attorney who denies his filings were AI generated. There are some lazy lawyers out there, many of whom, thankfully, are caught and chastised. What is probably the larger issue with AI and law is pro se litigants. Most of our fellow countrymen’s interactions with the legal system will be in state civil courts in consumer debt cases, evictions, traffic, and family law matters. In these types of cases, litigants are increasingly likely to be self represented, though in debt and evictions cases, their opponent is probably lawyered up. If we want to fix this issue, and save judges, clerks, and everyone the headache of having a hallucinating robot directing legal strategy, we have to do something about the inequality between parties. Pro se litigants are trying to bridge the gap in knowledge and experience, essentially a class divide, and I can understand and sympathize with that. The court system makes some sense to those who work within it, but to everyone else it is arcane. Simplifying court processes, making certain types of hearings less formal, might be one approach; another could be to bar by legislation this corporate debt collection strategy which has metastasized in the last 20 years of using the courts as a prehensile apparatus towards the indebted working poor, but good luck getting that bill passed.
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out having brunch today outside, finally trying something different in year 7 of exile. There are now 4 people coughing. Out of like 20.
Just another stupid day in a stupid timeline. Hello COVID.
Turns out we have new age brunch here; I just wanted pancakes, can’t believe i’m this old. got a salad for dinner and a coffee cake. sigh. nice view though, only a little chilly. no clouds in the sky. some good with the bad. best sweet potato fries i’ve had.
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Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts’ Ability to Function Futurism
I note that judges are now starting to hand out more and more serious penalties to firms, individual lawyers, and even pro se litigants who abuse the system with their slop filings and memoranda.
It was bad enough with Sovereigns just buying “Beat That Traffic Ticket!!!!” memoranda off teh interwebz ($49.95, IIRC) but now…
I do like the “referral for Bar discipline.” Require a certification that “no AI was used in the preparation of this filing” with a mandatory, say, bigbux/3month/6month/1yr/total disbar set of penalties for any attorney failing or lying on the certification, AND a one-step-down penalty for any supervising attorney who fails to supervise.
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Antagonist I am particularly annoyed at two Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) whose unfavorable written decisions for my Social Security disability claim reek of copied and pasted boilerplate. I know about Yves’s vehement dislike of accusations of writing as AI generated, but what’s stopping judges from using Simulated Intelligence slop? It sure seems like the two ALJs assigned to me did know critical thinking for my disability. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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BBC has a story about an alleged “terrorist” attack being planned on a RAF base. I hate how language has gotten so perverted. Terrorism, if it has any meaning at all, refers to violence against a civilian population (or other civilian target having symbolic or psychological importance), not an attack on a military installation. You could use words like “enemy” or “revolutionary” or “subversive” to maybe describe such a planned attack, but “terrorist” is just plain wrong. But, then, it seems like media just use terms like “terrorist” or “communist” or “radical” to mean “bad guy” in the sense of juvenile, black-and-white television melodramas. Such nonsense.
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The Rev Kev It’s like when the US invaded Iraq and when they captured Iraqis defending and fighting for their country, the US classified then as ‘terrorists’ instead of prisoners of war so that they could do stuff like torture on them. These days it is enough to say that the present form of capitalism is wrong and self-destructive that can get you labelled as a terrorist under the Trump regime.
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re: UN General Secretary successor
Seven candidates remain. I only know a few but my gut tells me this doesn´t look too good:
Rebeca Grynspan, Costa Rica,
Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Guyana
Rafael Grossi, Argentina
María Fernanda Espinosa, Ecuador
Ivonne A-Baki, Ecuador
Macky Sall, Senegal
Olara Otunnu, Uganda
Those with insight, might wanna weigh in.
How much leverage does the West still have?
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flora Interesting list of the latin American countries aligned with Isr. From Times of Isr.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-allies-adversaries-in-latin-america/Make of this what you will.
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Nick Corbishley That list has grown since April 2025 to include Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile and Honduras. If Brazil joins next, which is looking quite possible, Israel will have the full sweep of South America.
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AG Gee, I am always forgetting Israel is the West…it also looks so small and defenseless on a map u know.
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From NOAA.
Knocking for Help: A Pelican’s Unlikely Rescue
September 15, 2026
It is not every day a patient knocks directly on the doctor’s door, but for one clever seabird, desperate times called for an unusually precise house call.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/knocking-help-pelicans-unlikely-rescue
cheers.
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