Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Republicans do not trust women.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

People are weird.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Come on, man.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

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The ‘Darkside’ people went to great lengths claiming they were just a humble bunch of internet freebooters, seeking only plunder for their simple needs, nothing political about them at all. I personally misdoubt such a high-profile heist could be undertaken within his kleptocracy without some awareness on the part of President-for-Life Putin, so either he was testing the fences, or he’s under sufficient pressure that these GRU veterans decided a sufficiently large smash & grab was worth the risk…

This… doesn’t sound great, either:

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  5. 5.

    mrmoshpotato

    @RobertDSC-Mac Mini:

    Does anyone want to buy my NFT of a bag of gas? 

    Only if it’s a picture of a bag of gas.  And only if it’s a picture of a bag of air – not anything that would be actually useful or valuable under normal circumstances.

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    Amir Khalid

    I’m still amazed that some people are foolish enough to store petrol — petrol! — in plastic shopping bags. They’re thin, they puncture easily, and you never know what the petrol might do to the plastic.

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    L85NJGT

    Colonial’s insurer paying the five million is the current flaccid line of attack. That’s why they have insurance, ya fucking morons.

  15. 15.

    Pete Downunder

    @Comrade Colette: I totally love it. Fortunately I hate long road trips, which is good because Australia is still a little behind on charging infrastructure and has huge distances. But for my use it’s perfect. Mrs Downunder likes it because it is very zoomy.

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    Dan B

    @Pete Downunder: We have a Leaf on a lease and a small Toyota truck my partner owns.  We are forced to drive the truck at least once a week to keep the battery, and other systems, from dying.  Forced to drive a stinky noisy ICE I say!

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    Pete Downunder

    @Dan B: zoomy is the best. No one is expecting the instant acceleration. We have an old Isuzu pick up at the farm which reminds us what used to be

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    a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio

    Somewhat OT, although it’s still about infrastructure—

    You all, being jackals of an inquiring disposition, are aware that the Hernando de Soto Bridge, which carries I-40 over the Mississippi at Memphis, is closed because of a huge crack in one on the support beams (“crack” hell—the damn thing has sheared in two.) Not only is that bridge closed, with vehicular traffic re-routed to the bridge on I-55 and other crossings north & south, but the river itself is closed—apparently they’re trying to sort out whether pieces are likely to break off & land in the river. By Thursday, there were 47 tow boats handling 771 barges stuck on the River there. (For more details about the barges, look here. For a piece about the bridge and audio of the bridge inspectors’ 911 calls, asking that the bridge be closed, look here. To see why the bridge inspectors asked for the closure, google “I-35 bridge Minneapolis”).

    If your post-Covid vaccination plans included a trip to Graceland or the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, you may need to for check alternate routes.

  22. 22.

    opiejeanne

    @a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio: We just realized tonight that we were on that bridge in July, 2019, on our trip through the Ozarks from KC to Memphis, and down to Vicksburg. The crack was probably just a hairline then, just getting started.

    That trip was quite the eye-opener for both of us and, even though we had a mental image of what it would be like, it was jarring to see it in front of us, especially the utter neglect of the citizens of those places by their state governments.

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    Amir Khalid

    @Mary G:
    I remember seeing a wildlife show on TV where a cheetah decided to mess with the human tourists for fun. It climbed onto the roof of their truck, swung its butt over the sun roof, and went, bombs away!

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    Dan B

    @Pete Downunder: We have made a game of trying to get as far as we can on a charge and Fast Chargers.  We’ve found a fantastic Japanese restaurant at a casino (ugh) with decks overlooking a broad rural valley and the dramatic front range of the Cascades stretching in a line for 60 miles, a great brewpub at Snoqualmie Pass we spent time with a beefy handsome and very fun local resident, a resort in pine covered mountainsides on the sunny side of the mountains, and some okay outlet mall and a Taco Truck at a funky rural gas station.  It’s been fun to see “drive past” places.  Local roads with slower speed limits extend the range and have led us to an oyster farm with picnic tables on a tiny peninsula on Puget Sound with the mountainous San Juan Islands a couple miles across the water.  It’s been a treat to skip the inevitably dreary gas stations and associated road food.

    Washington State is installing many more fast chargers and may be coupling that with a friendly-to-EV’s tourism pitch.

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    Geoduck

    @Dan B: I was going to say, my local grocery (SW WA state) has installed a couple of free charging ports in their parking lot. Dunno if how universal-use they are, but good to see nonetheless.

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    Dan B

    @Geoduck: All the early Fast Charger installs seem to be around shopping, gaming, electric car dealerships, or tourist areas.  It’s weird that there are so few around grocery stores.  There’s one at an organic and notoriously anti-union grocery on Mercer Island (suburb of Seattle in the middle of Lake Washington). I believe the grocery left because of bad publicity.  If we ever go to Portland again we’ll be stopping somewhere near you unless you’re a long way west of I-5

    We’d like to see many more in apartment buildings and parking garages, with better reporting on which ones are available or when the ones in use will be done charging.  At present they’re reported by the vehicle owner and it’s pretty useless – people fail to report.

    Tech companies should be able to work this out.

    BTW We were surprised how many EV’s were on display at four dealerships we visited last week.  They’ve having trouble getting enough between demand and supply chain / chip issues it’s tough at the moment.

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    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    It’s so bad people are filling their inflatable sex dolls with gas.​

  31. 31.

    Jay

    @Dan B:

    there are BC Hydro fast chargers on the Coq, ( The Highway From Hell),

    they just stuck 2 fast chargers outside our apt building, and there are 22 in all  4 floors of our garage parking.

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    Jay

    So if I read this right: Soviet-born honey pot worked under direction of former British spy hired by Erik Prince, alongside former Grassley staffer/Flynn ally, and source with access to NSC calendar, all to target Ntnl Sec Advisor and FBI agents. Not ideal https://t.co/nE8u82yoSW— Peter Strzok (@petestrzok) May 13, 2021

  34. 34.

    Dan B

    @Jay: It sounds like a trip in an EV around SW BC would be easier than a trip in an EV in WA or OR.

    There are many apartment buildings and condos in Seattle with no chargers.  Condo associations are notoriously change averse.

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    Geminid

    @Dan B: EV charger scarcity may change a lot if and when Congress passes the infrastructure bill. I believe that the administration’s version has a target of 700,000 new charging stations nationwide.

    There is also a target of converting 20% of the nation’s school bus fleet to electric by 2030. That goal may well be exceeded. Once people understand the benefit of the cleaner air kids will breath, every district will want them. Rural areas withonger distances to travel may end up with hybrid vehicles, just as UPS intends to supplement electric vans in its planned fleet with hybrids.

    When Vice President Harris visited North Carolina a few weeks ago, one of her stops was at an electric school bus plant in Rocky Mount.

  37. 37.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    The Soviet-born honey pot and her handler were really easy to spot (photo)

  38. 38.

    Cameron

    I haven’t driven a car in almost 50 years, but I suppose I could run around with my hair on fire if it would make anybody feel better.

  41. 41.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Delk: I thought Rush Limbaugh was dead.

    (sigh) Voilà, a classic illustration of why, when (typically) late to a thread, I hold off on the snappy comeback to a post before scrolling through the rest of the replies in case some Jackal got there foist. Usually someone has. Typically not as quickly as 6 posts farther down, but still…

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