World According to the GOP
Marijuana Moment
No news to me. I was on a pretty severe downward spiral my last few years with the VA. The analgesic effect for me is very different from opiates, but works nonetheless. Opiates totally block pain at various types/levels/dosages/usage patterns. I still sense pain, acutely at times, but the chronic stuff less before squelching somehow.
It’s actually kinda disturbing sometimes how when I’m walking the dogs I can physically sense inflammation building in the nerves driving my back, butt and legs. but it doesn’t bother and hurt to the point of stopping me. I just pay a little price later and the next day.
Prince Harry’s not as Popular as He Thinks
Just get in the car and go wherever the fuck you’re going. We have enough traffic issues without self-important royalty fuckwits running around creating public relations hazards on the streets.
High Profile Fuckass
This former NFL quarterback’s legal issues with welfare fraud in Mississippi are disgusting to say the least. When he decides to sidle up to the nazis for cover, he can kiss my rosie red rectum.
Sounds About Right
Did Harlan Crow recently buy out CNN?
Biden Crime Family
This snap from the Ground News™ feed on my web browser tells you alot about the story, without reading a single one of them. I been using GN more lately because they seem to give a decent high-level 1st pass on the media misinformation parse. In this case, I have to wonder what happened to a rating conspicuously absent from the list? A high factuality rating for a story fabricated from whole cloth might be a somewhat difficult oxymoron of a journalistic exercise to achieve, in my view.
Nothingburger 2024
It’s hard for me to imagine how an upcoming U.S. Presidential election has so many pre-concieved notions setting the stage all across the electorate. Biden must be the most well-known political quantity the world has ever seen. Same for Trump, on the other side of that politics coin. Don’t know how long deSuckass, Haley, and the rest of the GOP field’s legs are, but early indications seem to suggest they are running in place against the Mango Menace.
Fuck Zuck
Zuckerboy’s been doing it with Fuckbook™ for going on decades, and the trail’s cold now. I’m sure the Meta™ move left enough obfuscation in it’s wake to forestall any further legal and/or moral examination of the heaving social media entrails.
Yintao “Roger” Yu said in a complaint filed on Friday in San Francisco state court that the Chinese tech company engaged in a “worldwide scheme to steal and profit from the content of others” without seeking permission.
Fortunately people caught on at some point, but the damage is done. Here’s the cocsksucker who started it, largely responsible for the Internet-hosted mess we find ourselves in today.
Welcome to the Cloud
Just wait till Musk points the Tesla hackers at automotive targets of opportunity for competitive advantage.
I have a question for the car companies. And trust me when I say the fact-checking will continue: Is there any possibility under any conceivable circumstances, environmental conditions or foreseeable physical anomalies of any kind under which reasonably competent coders might devise a system whereby the vehicle will fail to operate due to lack of authenticated network connectivity?
Starting Early Today
I usually try to finish updating the firewall before jumping into the political stupidity, but another item came to my attention right away. This fuckwit senator Tuberville from Alabama thinks he can mount a MAGA protest by just blocking military appointments. He can suck a big, fat hard throbbing cock.
How I Respond
This is how I respond to MAGA government bullshyt these days. We get self-fulfilling prophesies and manufactured emergencies while those responsible like that Chip Roy scumbag bloviate about security instead of immigration. Let them know exactly what you think:
Santos Indictment
McCarthy might be be worthy of Tour de France accolades with the backpedaling he is now facing. I swore not to waste my time on such a lowlife POS back when the fraudulent fuckwit from New York got elected and the story first broke. This had to be a foregone conclusion. Ben Meisalas has a nice intro.
There’s no shortage of criminally-indicted lawmakers through history. You’ll be hard-pressed to find one with an equally astonishing pattern of repeated offenses over time like Santos wields.
Square Trade
This warranty extension program Costco offers used to be a good deal. I used it twice in the past 10 years with satisfactory results, until today. Now it appears to be just another multi-layered time-wasting consumer abuse program. Here’s what happened after getting started today, confirming what I already knew last night after the TV switched itself off for some reason: I hate Samsung. Not the Koreans. They seemed like really nice people – at least the ones I met…
So the 1yo 75″ Samsung is toast. That’s almost expected these days with the ever-falling materials and manufacturing quality coming out of those eastern sweatshops. Warranty support has gone south now, as well. Had to go through four different phone calls with commensurate waiting periods in between and during, struggling to understand broken English, repeating all the same information each time, responding in things like long, drawn-out phonetically spoken email addresses, for a total of almost an hour invested, only to be informed I would be waiting up to another 48 hours for a call-back. This happens inside the 1-year manufacturer warranty. I paid $100 for that.
No doubt they’ll send somebody out with a new mainboard in a few days. But if that can’t be done with one, maybe two phone calls + a serial number, happening alot more quickly, with alot less intervention on anybody’s part, the shyt’s fucked up. I’m pretty sure everybody that talked with me on the phone this morning is getting paid. They got a little bonus today. JMHO. Going forward, it’ll be worth it to me avoiding the frustration, just periodically give ’em more money and trash the junk every few years, or whenever.
Free Range Kids
As one of the last of the Baby Boomers, right on that cusp of having early Boomer parents, I could make my own list. #3 reminded me of a measles medication made by Seagram’s.
RELATED NOTE: Half of baby boomers have no retirement savings.
A Real MAGA POS
Beau gives a good preliminary breakdown. I’m too disgusted to write anything.
JWST #25: Pandora Starstruck
“When the images of Pandora’s Cluster first came in from Webb, we were honestly a little star-struck,” said Bezanson. “There was so much detail in the foreground cluster and so many distant lensed galaxies, I found myself getting lost in the image. Webb exceeded our expectations.” The new view of Pandora’s Cluster stitches four Webb snapshots together into one panoramic image, displaying roughly 50,000 sources of near-infrared light.
