Interesting News, Articles & Stuff

[florduh]

When will it be
your turn to burn?

Brother, did you not live through the last three years? Unless something is currently happening to me personally, in this very moment, it is a hoax.

It is a hoax until the doctor is shoving the tube down my throat, or my house is the one burning. Up until that very moment it is Fake News.

 

[Trajectory.]

Brother, did you not live through the last three years? Unless something is currently happening to me personally, in this very moment, it is a hoax.

It is a hoax until the doctor is shoving the tube down my throat, or my house is the one burning. Up until that very moment it is Fake News.

Damn right. It is all maya, or illusion, as the Buddhists taught us a couple millenia ago.

 

[vapviking]

Oldest trick in the book!

New York prisoner uses sheets to escape from fifth floor of hospital, police say

Man, 44, still at large after tying sheets together and lowering himself to ground from Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan

www.theguardian.com

 

[cybrguy]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/opinions/2023/08/10/se-cupp-unfiltered-trump-woke-christianity-evangelical-vpx.cnn

 

[Canna Chameleon]

Oldest trick in the book!

New York prisoner uses sheets to escape from fifth floor of hospital, police say

Man, 44, still at large after tying sheets together and lowering himself to ground from Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan

www.theguardian.com

I’d check for a file in the cake too!

 

[fucreg123]

'I'll pardon Julian Assange': US Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr makes big promise

Since his asylum was withdrawn in 2019 following disputes with the Ecuadorian authorities, Assange is in a category A prison in London—Belmarsh.

www.businesstoday.in

If he gains traction he won't live long I'd guess..

 

[florduh]

We should be spending Moonshot money on this Fusion shit. It's how you solve most of humanity's problems with one weird trick...

Remarkable: For the Second Time, U.S. Scientists Have Achieved Fusion Ignition

And the results are even more spectacular.

www.popularmechanics.com

The nuclear fusion era has arrived, if we choose it

The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.

bigthink.com

 

[cybrguy]

Somehow I don't think it's the money. I think they're already spending moonshot money on it. After all, the payoff is gonna be crazy huge.

 

[vapviking]

It blows my mind that way back in the Dark Ages, like 1963 when I was 12, teachers would tell use about the wonders of fusion, and that we wouldn't see it until at least 2030.
How the fuck did they know?

 

[florduh]

Somehow I don't think it's the money.

It's at least part of it.

From the Big Think article:

According to publicly available data, the United States government, through the Department of Energy, has been funding nuclear fusion research since 1954. Using inflation-adjusted numbers (to modern-day dollars) over that time, we’ve invested a cumulative total of $34 billion in fusion research: including contributions to ITER. For comparison, it’s estimated that climate change-related extreme weather events cost the United States $165 billion last year.

We've only spent $34 billion in the past 70 years. Or, about a week and a half of the current Pentagon's budget. Over 70 years.

It sort of makes sense to me given that the United States is less of a country, and more like 5 international oil companies in a trench coat. And this would put them out of business.

 

[CANtalk]

Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor

Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.

www.propublica.org

Harlan Crow Bought Property from Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.

The transaction is the first known instance of money flowing from Crow to the Supreme Court justice. The sale netted the GOP megadonor two vacant lots and the house where Thomas’ mother was living.

www.propublica.org

Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court

In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.

www.propublica.org

Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V. and the Friend Who Financed It

The vehicle is a key part of the justice’s just-folks persona. It’s also a luxury motor coach that was funded by someone else’s money.

www.nytimes.com

Moar

Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel

The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

www.propublica.org

 

[macbill]

Elon Musk Wants to Brawl with Mark Zuckerberg in Ancient Rome

But Musk also says results from an MRI reveal a back condition requiring minor surgery with a few months of recovery time.

gizmodo.com

 

[Madtater]

Elon Musk Wants to Brawl with Mark Zuckerberg in Ancient Rome

But Musk also says results from an MRI reveal a back condition requiring minor surgery with a few months of recovery time.

gizmodo.com

Our country has finally hit the bottom of the barrel

 

[Knewt]

Elon Musk Wants to Brawl with Mark Zuckerberg in Ancient Rome

But Musk also says results from an MRI reveal a back condition requiring minor surgery with a few months of recovery time.

gizmodo.com

Let’s hope they use Thunder Dome rules.

 

[macbill]

More than half of Earth’s species live in the soil, study finds

Study estimates soil is home to 90% of world’s fungi, 85% of plants and more than 50% of bacteria, making it the world’s most species-rich habitat

www.theguardian.com

 

[macbill]

Elon Musk Dares Mark Zuckerberg to Fight at Zuckerberg Home

In a screenshotted text sent to his biographer, Musk challenged Zuckerberg to an MMA fight on Monday. And he's even willing to cede the home octagon advantage.

www.mediaite.com

 

[florduh]

Elon Musk Dares Mark Zuckerberg to Fight at Zuckerberg Home

In a screenshotted text sent to his biographer, Musk challenged Zuckerberg to an MMA fight on Monday. And he's even willing to cede the home octagon advantage.

www.mediaite.com

Really pathetic when Mark Zuckerberg makes you look like a huge fucking nerd.

Although I'm sure this will, somehow, still impress the biggest losers to ever live:

 

[His_Highness]

Really pathetic when Mark Zuckerberg makes you look like a huge fucking nerd.

Although I'm sure this will, somehow, still impress the biggest losers to ever live:

I can't help but wonder if this is all hype and then I remind myself that these two have egos so big they block the sun. If you start to believe your own hype you're bound to get hurt.

For what it's worth my money is on Zuck because I get "If Elon gets hit once he'll fold into the fetal position and cry like a baby" vibes where the vibes I get from Zuck is he would get pissed and forget everything he's been taught and start wind-milling his arms.

Either way I finally found an event I'd happily pay for.......

 

[vapviking]

‘Game-changer’: judge rules in favor of young activists in US climate trial

Sixteen young plaintiffs had alleged the Montana state government had violated their right to a healthy environment

www.theguardian.com

 

[florduh]

At least no one can say we didn't see it coming...

111 years ago today.

In context

 

[macbill]

After Ducking Zuckerberg Fight, Elon Musk Claims He’s Driving to Facebook Founder’s Home In Hopes Of Brawl Breaking Out

Just as the cage fight between Zuckerberg and Musk appeared to be called off, Musk reignited the feud with plans to drive to the Facebook founder's home.

www.mediaite.com

 

[AssistedLiving]

The State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump: Fulton County Superior Court Indictment

DocumentCloud

www.documentcloud.org

 

[florduh]

The State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump: Fulton County Superior Court Indictment

DocumentCloud

www.documentcloud.org

#1 Most Indicted President Ba-by!! Rhonda Santis could never!

DeSanctimonius: 0 Indictments

Donald: Like 1,000 Indictments

Do you think Meatball Ron, that nerd, could make even one perfect phone call? I really fuckin doubt it. He's a Millennial. They're terrified of the phone.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1690373833147260928

This all seems very embarrassing as we're living through it. But in like a decade, the biopic movies will be so fucking funny. They'll be basically impossible to fuck up.

Edit: oh fuck they got Rudy too?! New York Mayor, New York President!! NYC #1 Bab-by Greatest city on earth!!

 

[olysh pops]

Edit: oh fuck they got Rudy too?! New York Mayor, New York President!! NYC #1 Bab-by Greatest city on earth!!

Since the assault on the Capitol in Washington, I understand better what Giulani and his hypothesis of the broken window means.

Edit : modified the gif "return to sender"

 

[florduh]

Since the assault on the Capitol in Washington, I understand better what Giulani and his hypothesis of the broken window means.

It turns out Rudy shut down all the porn shops in Times Square because he's a massive perv who wanted all the smut for himself.

‘Come Here, Big Tits’: Rudy Giuliani’s Sex Abuse Accuser Has the Tapes

“Your tits belong to me. Give them to me,” the former mayor told Noelle Dunphy, according to transcripts filed in court by Dunphy’s lawyers.

www.thedailybeast.com

That's "America's Mayor", folks!