Via Pinboard’s twitter feed:
Poles have rallied in support of Ciapunio – a dog accused of eating 100 heads of cabbage from a neighbouring farm – after he featured in an investigative programme on public television https://t.co/e2v6SoUu8D
— Notes from Poland ???? (@notesfrompoland) September 25, 2023
In my opinion… If Ciapunio did eat 100 cabbages — and from his smile, he seems capable of it — then any humans living around him have already been punished, thank you.
Well, there's a screw loose somewhere. https://t.co/H6hUBy0PFO
— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) September 19, 2023
Since I am no expert on deer stands, I showed this to the Spousal Unit, who grew up among them. Wouldn’t the rifle recoil knock you right out of the tree? I asked. Unless you were bow-hunting, he replied, in which case you’d fall and *land* on your arrow…
Is it possible autopilot didn't malfunction, just thinks he's an unbelievable dick like everyone else? https://t.co/N6XF1WdDof
— Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) September 17, 2023
This whole thing is a giant example of people not understanding the sunk cost fallacy. Just admit it’s a failure and move on! https://t.co/4ggaqVPjJj
— Jean-Michel Connard ?? (@torriangray) September 25, 2023
Just remembered how it was a mantra for years that NASA was a failure and Musk was going to beat them to the moon and then Artemis 1 went to the moon and back without a hitch and Musk's rocket blew up because he was too cheap to pay for a ditch.
— Argella Stone (@argellastone) September 26, 2023
War for Ukraine Day 580: Russia Once Again Opened Up on Ukrainian Targets Overnight
Chetan Murthy
Wait …. so maybe the robots *are* on our side after all?
NotMax
Vivid, bright ring around the Moon tonight. Often a precursor to wetness arriving soon yet all the forecasts are for clear skies.
piratedan
so all that poor pup did in the first item was prevent the crime of Pole-Slaw from being manifested….
Odie Hugh Manatee
Musky is angry because his creation tried to kill its creator. How dare it! I’m imagining all of the cars his company builds recognize an RFID chip that is implanted in his ass (the reader is built into the seat) so any Tesla he drives recognizes him and calls him GOD while he in the pilot seat…lol!
Fuck Space Karen.
smike
FSM, I hope this story is true.
karen marie
If this was Tuesday, I cannot WAIT for Wednesday.
His supporters will want to wipe away our smiles. The one thing that makes me nervous is that Trump will inevitably end up in the hospital, and all hell will break loose.
I may have to scrub the remnants of the Obama\Biden sticker off my car.
NotMax
Did someone say cabbage patch?
“Drat those owls.”
:)
NotMax
@karen marie
2nd R candidate debate Wednesday (sans Crimey McCrimeface).
sab
@smike: Which story? I would have been very angry if those were my cabbages. On the other hand, Musk and his vehicle…
Baud
Car was mad that Musk ruined Twitter.
HumboldtBlue
There are so many ways to turn a phrase
lowtechcyclist
That would have been bad for the people in the oncoming cars, so it’s a good thing it didn’t happen.
Autopilots, you’re smart enough to do him in without killing anyone else. Figure it out!! ;-)
Tony Jay
@lowtechcyclist:
If we had flying cars – like we were promised – we could avoid the whole oncoming traffic issue by freeing the autopilot to go vertical with its waste product.
satby
Well, I’m rooting for Ciapunio too.
Ripley
Many years ago, I had a job as the landscaper for a mid-sized high school. One day, I took the electric hedge trimmers out and was merrily trimming along when I turned the wrong way and sliced right through the trailing electrical cord. (hold your laughter, please)
Being an ambitious, if not intelligent, 19 yr old with a solid Midwestern work ethic, I decided I could tape the cord back together and carry on. So, I went back to the shop, grabbed some electrical tape and Bob was my uncle. I headed back out, feeling pretty good about myself and wishing Dad could have been there to see me fix my own mistake, and got back to trimming those hedges. (get ready)
You guessed it – I turned the wrong way again and sliced right through the electrical cord. Again. (Now you can laugh)
I guess the moral of the story is: for the love of all things holy(!), give me control of Twitter. I learned something from making, literally, the same mistake more than once. On the same day. Jebus…
Baud
@Ripley:
Haha. Nice story.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
I missed the overnight discussion on the New York State summary-judgment order, but I read the order itself. Entertaining, but my jaw didn’t drop until the last page – court-ordered receivership and dissolution!? Juliet-Foxtrot-Charlie, that’s the legal-entity equivalent of the death penalty – I don’t know whether the gas chamber, the electric chair, the gallows, or drawing and quartering would be the most appropriate simile here.
OzarkHillbilly
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: Drawing and quartering. The gas chamber, the electric chair, and the gallows are all relatively quick, but the disassembly of the trump org promises to be like a long, drawn out torture session in GITMO.
lowtechcyclist
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: Guillotine!
Matt McIrvin
Too bad the Artemis program is supposed to get its first Moon lander from SpaceX as a derivative of Starship. At least they’ve got a backup plan from another company.
ColoradoGuy
If I understand the various Ars Technica articles on the new Moon program correctly, it will involve using the SLS launcher (which is not as powerful as a Saturn V), a rendezvous near the Moon with a SpaceX Starship modified for landing, landing on the Moon, a return to lunar orbit, transferring back to the SLS capsule, and a return to Earth. All while the Starship can simply can go the Moon on its own, dispensing entirely with the SLS rocket.
The SLS is often called the “Senate Launch System” because the program (absurdly) dictated to NASA that the SLS rocket be built from castoff Shuttle parts. So the SLS is less powerful than the Saturn V, costs more, and has a launch cadence no more than once a year. Yes, the Senate dictated to NASA how to build a Moon rocket … with predictable results.
Frankensteinbeck
@karen marie:
Relax. It will absolutely not happen and they’ve proven that already. They’re lazy chickenshits. It’s one of the driving motivations of the movement, their anger that their failure to be strong isn’t being praised. The tiny, tiny minority he managed to convince would face no consequences on J6 are partly in jail, and the rest are shitting their pants afraid of it happening, to the point their biggest violence since has been against each other. They’re sure anybody who pushes them to violence must be an FBI plant.
Every time Trump calls them to violence now you get a couple of dozen peaceful protestors. Take him out of the equation and you won’t get that.
Shit like keying your car or angry rants in stores might temporarily increase though, yeah.
Betty Cracker
Imagine what a fart-bomb Ciapunio the dog must be after ingesting even a fraction of those cabbages!
Once hubby and I were sitting in a depressing hospital cafeteria, and we overheard two women discussing their lunch options. One urged her friend to try the stuffed cabbage, but the friend said she couldn’t because it was “date night.” We laughed so hard we got nasty looks from everyone.
hueyplong
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: I see no reason why any and all should hesitate to call Trump a proven purveyor of fraud in response to each and every idiotic thing he says from this point through the election.
A proper media would relentlessly use the willingness or unwillingness to do so as a separator between actual candidates for the GOP nomination on one side, and candidates for Trump’s VP on the other.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Twenty felony counts here, twenty felony counts there, and pretty soon you’re talking real time.
Chief Oshkosh
@Frankensteinbeck:
And they feel suppressed and persecuted because of this – because The Law won’t let them continue their violence! It’s as if Daumer were to whine if someone took away his set of steak knives.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Haha. Save the cabbage for after the wedding.
Frankensteinbeck
@Betty Cracker:
I have never heard an animal fart. I have to take people’s word for it that it is common. Due to allergies I’ve never had a pet bigger than a rat either, and I guess I’ve gotten lucky visiting pet owners.
Baud
catclub
The CNN headline;
Unfortunately, I think the grave threat is the large number of entitled idiots that back him. They will fall for the next fascist when Trump is gone.
SFAW
@piratedan:
I can’t decide if you’re in the running for winning the Intertubez for today, or consigned to the NotMax Bad Puns Hall of Shame.
Either way, a feather in your pirate cap, I guess.
Kay
@catclub:
I listened to Maddow’s interview with her and it was a little disturbing. It’s like she almost gets it, but ultimately misses. An example: Maddow said that Hutchinson writes in her book that Mark Meadows, her direct supervisor, lies to her a lot – not just in the context of 1/6 – he lies to her a lot in the course of their working relationship. Hutchinson seems to blow this off as important- says they worked quite well together most of the time. This current group of conservatives really seem to have some essential “lack of character” detector or “bullshit detector” missing. It’s not ordinary or acceptable for your boss to LIE to you. Why does she accept this behavior as normal?
Marcopolo
@Frankensteinbeck: Lol, go stand amidst some bovines. Having four stomachs really ups their game.
As for smaller animals, I’ve know several older dogs in my life that could evacuate a room with their gaseous emissions.
Betty Cracker
@Frankensteinbeck: It’s definitely a thing! Certain dog breeds are notorious for farting, including boxers. Her own farts used to startle our old boxer dog Daisy — she’d look at her butt to see what was going on!
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
We’ve all been there.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: I read that they tried to reincorporate in Delaware but the judge said, hey, all your assets belong to me.
Geminid
Chuck Schumer will hold his weekly news conference today at 2pm. The future of Senator Bob Menendez will likely be a hot topic. Senator Stabenow, the third-ranking member of the Democrats’ leadership team, has called for the gilty Menendez’s resignation.
Jinchi
This was back when the tech bros were lobbying to ban humans from driving completely, arguing that would save 30,000 lives a year.
Kay
I’ve been following this for days and it is now impossible for me to believe this is accident or stupidity/laziness.
It’s deliberate. They’re deliberately misinforming people.
Josie
@Marcopolo:
We had a golden retriever named Lobo who scarfed down anything that closely resembled food, upsetting his stomach in myriad ways. We named his resulting emissions Loboroma. He was kind of famous in our small circle.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Are they equating a speech to supporters at a non-union shop with Biden’s visit to the picket line? I’m sorry to hear so much of the coverage is crap. A couple of MSM pieces I read yesterday were remarkably accurate, which made me hope that would continue.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
Oh, God, it’s worse than that. They are reporting that he is “addressing UAW members” or “addressing union workers” – Jesus fucking christ but they’re morons. It’s been DAYS and they’ve been reciting inaccurate information over and over. He really knows them so well. He knows exactly how to phrase lies so they’ll get bamboozled and repeat them. What he means when he says he is addressing UAW members is that they are not there. He’s only “addressing” them in the abstract – they’re not PRESENT.
These are supposed to be word people. Language is the tool of their trade. How could they make this error, not just once but across companies and platforms over and over? It’s a deliberate lie.
Barry
My question is how will this actually be enacted?
If this actually starts in 10 days, that’s one thing.
If it might start in five years, after all appeals have been exhausted, and the Trump family can harvest most of the wealth, that’s quite another thing.
Ken
@Jinchi: You must admit that if everyone was terrified to get in or near a car, the number of traffic deaths would drop.
tokyokie
@Kay: I graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, considered one of the best such schools in the country. When I was there, I learned there was a hierarchy of j-school students: New-ed majors (the print journalism students) at the top, advertising and public relations in the middle, and at the very bottom, the students everybody else considered to be dimwits, the TV journalism students, or to be more specific, those who planned to be on-air talent. The TV production people — editors, camera operators, sound techs — were pretty sharp — but the folks who wanted to be on camera were largely vacuous dullards.
And although that was a long time ago, I doubt a whole lot has changed.
JustRuss
Is anyone else getting Pontiac-Aztek-vibes from the MuskTruk?
moops
@Barry: The nice thing about a civil ruling like this is that all Trump Org assets are FROZEN during the entire appeals process.
Trump Org can only do what the receiver allows now, even while the appeals are playing out.