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Monday Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  March 11, 20249:24 pm| 126 Comments

This post is in: John Cole Presents "Stories from the Road", John Cole Presents "This Fucking Old House"

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I tell you what, this fucking Daylight Savings Time is kicking my ass. I finally adjusted to being two hours behind the east coast and now it’s three hours and I am messing up left and right.

Finally got around to watching the SNL cold open from Saturday night, and MAN OH MAN did Scarjo nail Britt- she was as good at playing her as Tina Fey was at portraying Palin. Although Palin was just a much easier target for humor because that Britt lady is like a freak of nature evangelical with crazy eyes. That rapture look that all the Mormon influencer mom’s have in their instagram feed with their seven tow-headed kids named Chandler, Skylar, Brynlae, Canyon, Stockton, Braxton and Brigham. Freak show.

Finished the sun room/dog room and got everything mostly cleaned up, and will move the furniture in tomorrow.

I really thought I had more to say but I guess I do not.

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  1. 1.

    geg6

    March 11, 2024 at 9:34 pm

    LOL on the rapture look.  She had the trad wife voice thing, too.  It was a tour de force.

  2. 2.

    grumbles

    March 11, 2024 at 9:35 pm

    The List of modern Mormon child names was inspired.

  3. 3.

    MattF

    March 11, 2024 at 9:36 pm

    Johansson had practice in playing ‘woman with far-off look’ in Lucy. Good movie, but quite strange.

  4. 4.

    Percysowner

    March 11, 2024 at 9:37 pm

     

    Robert Hur resigns ahead of House hearing with help from ‘Trumpworld figures’: report

    “According to multiple sources familiar with Mr Hur’s plans, the special counsel, who is appearing before the Judiciary Committee at the request of the Republican majority led by Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, has arranged his departure from the Department of Justice to be official as of Monday 11 March, one day before he is scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill,” wrote Andrew Feinberg. “Instead of appearing as a DOJ employee who is bound by the ethical guidelines which govern the behaviour of federal prosecutors, he will appear as a private citizen with no constraints on his testimony.”

    Well, well, well. I wonder how hard he will shiv Biden.

  5. 5.

    grumbles

    March 11, 2024 at 9:40 pm

    @Percysowner:

    I wonder how hard he will shiv Biden.

    He won’t have immunity as a prosecutor, so I expect he’ll be more careful about factual matters.

    Durham did the same thing and refused to renew some of the accusations he made in his report when he testified without immunity.

    Of course sleaze is just opinion.

  6. 6.

    MattF

    March 11, 2024 at 9:41 pm

    @Percysowner: I think the ‘Joe is senile’ horse is out of the barn, over the fence, across the river, and gone. And there’s the reminder that TFG is not always entirely coherent…

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 11, 2024 at 9:43 pm

    I really thought I had more to say but I guess I do not.

    This so needs to be a rotating tag.

  8. 8.

    Matt Smith

    March 11, 2024 at 9:44 pm

    @grumbles: I came here to say the same. Braelyn!

  9. 9.

    Leto

    March 11, 2024 at 9:51 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: as long as he cites Pink Floyd as the original source :P

    Edit: “but I guess I do not.” Is original work, so I don’t know how that’ll work. They can sort it out in court!

  10. 10.

    Melancholy Jaques

    March 11, 2024 at 9:55 pm

    For reasons I know nothing about, the time change never affects me either way. This time, I forgot all about it. Because the clocks I use – laptop & phone – change by themselves, I didn’t realize it until I got in my car this morning.

    The closer I get to retirement, the more I like the idea of being disconnected from what most people think of as reality. But I do worry that I’m going to end up like Cousin Ellis in No Country for Old Men.

  11. 11.

    trollhattan

    March 11, 2024 at 9:56 pm

    Jesus, this poor guy.

    A former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm’s production standards has been found dead in the US.

    John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017.

    In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company. Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr Barnett’s passing. The Charleston County coroner confirmed his death to the BBC on Monday.

    It said the 62-year-old had died from a “self-inflicted” wound on 9 March and police were investigating. Mr Barnett had worked for the US plane giant for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017 on health grounds.

    From 2010, he worked as a quality manager at the North Charleston plant making the 787 Dreamliner, a state-of-the-art airliner used mainly on long-haul routes.

    In 2019, Mr Barnett told the BBC that under-pressure workers had been deliberately fitting sub-standard parts to aircraft on the production line.

    He also said he had uncovered serious problems with oxygen systems, which could mean one in four breathing masks would not work in an emergency.

    He said soon after starting work in South Carolina he had become concerned that the push to get new aircraft built meant the assembly process was rushed and safety was compromised, something the company denied.

    There are no winners in the ongoing Boeing saga. Just grave disappointment and anger at those who allowed their collapse to occur.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 11, 2024 at 10:01 pm

    @trollhattan:

    In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company. Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr Barnett’s passing. The Charleston County coroner confirmed his death to the BBC on Monday.

    It said the 62-year-old had died from a “self-inflicted” wound on 9 March and police were investigating.

    None of that is in the least bit suspicious. Move along, now.

  13. 13.

    RaflW

    March 11, 2024 at 10:02 pm

    We had a thread just days ago about Boeing and their bullshit about records they “can’t find” for the Max with the ejecting door.

    Well, now this (via BBC):

    A former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm’s production standards has been found dead in the US.

    John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017.

    In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.

    Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr Barnett’s passing. The Charleston County coroner confirmed his death to the BBC on Monday.

    It said the 62-year-old had died from a “self-inflicted” wound on 9 March and police were investigating. …

    He later told the BBC that workers had failed to follow procedures intended to track components through the factory, allowing defective components to go missing.

    He said in some cases, sub-standard parts had even been removed from scrap bins and fitted to planes that were being built to prevent delays on the production line.

    He also claimed that tests on emergency oxygen systems due to be fitted to the 787 showed a failure rate of 25%, meaning that one in four could fail to deploy in a real-life emergency.

    Mr Barnett said he had alerted managers to his concerns, but no action had been taken.
    (emphasis added)

    — —

    I’d imagine testifying against a behemoth like Boeing could be stressful enough to lead one to self-harm. But I also think Boeing or some badly motivated employees could, conceivably, have taken a page from Putin.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 11, 2024 at 10:06 pm

    @Leto:

    When did we ever give attribution around here?

  15. 15.

    Scout211

    March 11, 2024 at 10:06 pm

    In a settlement, Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law is now “Don’t Say Gay in Classroom Instruction” law.

    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Students and teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms, provided it’s not part of instruction, under a settlement reached Monday between Florida education officials and civil rights attorneys who had challenged a state law which critics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.”

    . . .

    Under the terms of the settlement, the Florida Board of Education will send instructions to every school district saying the Florida law doesn’t prohibit discussing LGBTQ+ people, nor prevent anti-bullying rules on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or disallow Gay-Straight Alliance groups. The settlement also spells out that the law is neutral — meaning what applies to LGBTQ+ people also applies to heterosexual people — and that it doesn’t apply to library books not being used for instruction in the classroom.

  16. 16.

    frosty

    March 11, 2024 at 10:08 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: That is definitely the rotating tag for the Greater Commentariat.

  17. 17.

    Delk

    March 11, 2024 at 10:12 pm

    Rest in Peace Karl Wallinger

  18. 18.

    different-church-lady

    March 11, 2024 at 10:12 pm

    @Percysowner: HOLY FUCKIN’ GOD.

  19. 19.

    different-church-lady

    March 11, 2024 at 10:13 pm

    I WANT TO PUNCH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME IN THE FACE. REPEATEDLY.

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    March 11, 2024 at 10:15 pm

    “Damn. Now the furniture won’t fit. I shouldn’t have slapped on that extra coat of paint.”
    :)

  21. 21.

    Lyrebird

    March 11, 2024 at 10:16 pm

    @grumbles: Agreed!

    Sir Cole, that was lovely.

     

    And as far as crazy-eyed libel spreaders, I was sad but not surprised to see that Ms. Jacinto has confirmed that no one from the senator’s office contacted her before using her story in that speech.  I was also happy to see her get some time to say her piece!  Note it’s a DKos link to coverage of a CNN story.  Obvs the subject matter merits a content warning, but the story is less about Ms. Jacinto’s suffering and more about her gracious statements of concern and advocacy.

    ETA: any Spanish-speaking pedants (i mean experts, just a shout out to NotMax) in the house?  Should I be referring to her as Ms. Jacinto Romero instead?

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    March 11, 2024 at 10:17 pm

    @different-church-lady

    Saving, not Savings.

    /pedant redux

  23. 23.

    RaflW

    March 11, 2024 at 10:19 pm

    Now for more possible Boeing bad news, via Reuters:

    March 11 – At least 50 people were hurt when a Boeing 787 operated by LATAM Airlines (LTM.SN), opens new tab dropped abruptly mid-flight from Sydney to Auckland on Monday, according to the airline and a New Zealand health service organisation that treated the injured.
    The aircraft experienced a strong shake and as a result, 10 passengers and three cabin crew members were taken to a hospital, the South American carrier said as it investigates the cause.

    At least one airtavel blog is claiming that the pilot told a passenger “my gauges just blanked out, I lost all of my ability to fly the plane” though I’d take that very much as hearsay so far. Clear air turbulence can cause what was in the Reuters article. But so, perhaps, could a faulty airdata computer or another f’kd up angle of attack sensor.

  24. 24.

    Quaker in a Basement

    March 11, 2024 at 10:19 pm

    I really thought I had more to say but I guess I do not.

    Kudos for stopping there. Having nothing more to say doesn’t stop some from rambling.

  25. 25.

    RaflW

    March 11, 2024 at 10:21 pm

    @NotMax:

    @MerriamWebster

    You can curse daylight saving time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight savings time, and/or daylight time.
    All are considered acceptable so go off.

    7:25 AM · Mar 12, 2023

  26. 26.

    different-church-lady

    March 11, 2024 at 10:21 pm

    @NotMax: ​
      NOW I WANT TO PUNCH SOMETHING ELSE IN THE FACE!

  27. 27.

    Scout211

    March 11, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    @Lyrebird: The CNN article from this morning.

    CNN’s Freedom Project, “which seeks to raise awareness about modern-day slavery”, previously profiled Jacinto’s story.

    In the interview published this morning she said that her story was used for political purposes before by officials in Mexico and she doesn’t appreciate it. She did not appreciate Britt using her story for political purposes this time.

  28. 28.

    Origuy

    March 11, 2024 at 10:32 pm

    @Lyrebird: Using both surnames is more formal and would be found in legal documents, certainly. In more informal usage, only the father’s surname is generally used, unless it’s so common as to be unclear. So Karla Jacinto would be an acceptable way to refer to her.

  29. 29.

    Another Scott

    March 11, 2024 at 10:32 pm

    @RaflW: Now do Safety Deposit Box.

    [ muahahahah ]

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  30. 30.

    different-church-lady

    March 11, 2024 at 10:34 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: It needs to be a permanent tag.

  31. 31.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 11, 2024 at 10:36 pm

    @Scout211: No disrespect to Ms Jacinto intended, but what the fuck did she think would happen with her story?

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    March 11, 2024 at 10:38 pm

    @RaflW

    Sorry, Merriam. Sorry, Webster. The text of the law is Daylight Saving Time.

    it’s like referring to the “Internal Revenues Service.”

  33. 33.

    Lyrebird

    March 11, 2024 at 10:38 pm

    @Origuy: Danke schoen!

  34. 34.

    Betty

    March 11, 2024 at 10:39 pm

    @Percysowner: I expect Goldman and Raskin will be ready for him.

  35. 35.

    RaflW

    March 11, 2024 at 10:40 pm

    @Another Scott: I’d have to ask several Attorneys General.

  36. 36.

    bcwbcw

    March 11, 2024 at 10:40 pm

    I thought Scarlet Johanson’s delivery was good but her pitch was still too low, too much adult and not enough seven year old to meet church requirements as a proper baby vessel. They needed to feed her some Helium before her performance.

  37. 37.

    different-church-lady

    March 11, 2024 at 10:40 pm

    @NotMax: ​
      BRING THE LAW AROUND HERE AND I WILL PUNCH IT IN THE FACE, OKAY?

  38. 38.

    Scout211

    March 11, 2024 at 10:43 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    She has been telling her story to raise awareness for the victims.

    “I hardly ever cooperate with politicians, because it seems to me that they only want an image. They only want a photo — and that to me is not fair,” Karla Jacinto told CNN on Sunday.
    . . .
    Jacinto told CNN that Mexican politicians took advantage of her by using her story for political purposes and that it’s happened again in the United States.

    “I work as a spokesperson for many victims who have no voice, and I really would like them to be empathetic: all the governors, all the senators, to be empathetic with the issue of human trafficking because there are millions of girls and boys who disappear all the time. People who are really trafficked and abused, as she [Britt] mentioned. And I think she [Britt] should first take into account what really happens before telling a story of that magnitude,” Jacinto said.

  39. 39.

    TBone

    March 11, 2024 at 10:44 pm

    @RaflW: shades of Silkwood.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkwood

    Warner Bros. ultimately abandoned the project after producer Buzz Hirsch was subpoenaed by an Oklahoma City judge to disclose all of the film’s research materials, an effort that was overruled by a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver

  40. 40.

    Mike in NC

    March 11, 2024 at 10:46 pm

    Watching Oscar winner “20 Days in Mariupol” and it is absolutely horrifying.

  41. 41.

    Jackie

    March 11, 2024 at 10:47 pm

    @Percysowner:

    Committee at the request of the Republican majority led by Ohio Representative Jim Jordan*, has arranged his departure from the Department of Justice to be official as of Monday 11 March, one day before he is scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill,”

    *Needs to be emphasized.

  42. 42.

    coin operated

    March 11, 2024 at 10:47 pm

    @Percysowner:

    Well, well, well. I wonder how hard he will shiv Biden

    Gym Jordan is going to try to restart the ‘Biden is old’ fire that went out about 30 seconds after the SOTU concluded. As mentioned above, Hur is going to have to tread a little more carefully now that he loses prosecutorial immunity.

    I think that inviting Hur to testify is going to be an own-goal…Dems on the Judicary Committee are going to tear Hur into bite-sized morsels.

  43. 43.

    TBone

    March 11, 2024 at 10:49 pm

    @Another Scott: that one gets me.  Safe.  It’s inside a safe, for safety.

  44. 44.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 11, 2024 at 10:52 pm

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA:

    NEW — Bloodbath at the RNC. New Trump team expected to push out some 60 staffers

  45. 45.

    TBone

    March 11, 2024 at 10:53 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: 😍

  46. 46.

    different-church-lady

    March 11, 2024 at 10:54 pm

    Did you know that you can cut an ice cream sandwich in half with scissors?

  47. 47.

    Jackie

    March 11, 2024 at 10:55 pm

    A few weeks back, after the GQP, led by TIFG. unbanned Bud Lite because of $$$ donations, it’s happening again. Reported by Rachel Maddow, after the Senate approved banning TikTok, per TIFG’s instruction, he has done a 180 and now suddenly is against banning TikTok. I wonder $$$ why?$??$?

    Apparently there’s a bribedonation involved – JUST AS TIFG NEEDS BIG MONEY.🤷🏼‍♀️

  48. 48.

    Anoniminous

    March 11, 2024 at 10:59 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Looks like Putin just bought himself a US political party.

  49. 49.

    AlaskaReader

    March 11, 2024 at 10:59 pm

     

    Nancy Mace does not want anyone trying to shame her for supporting a rapist.

    How dare they?

    Shame, Shame, Shame

  50. 50.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 11, 2024 at 11:00 pm

    @Anoniminous: ​ 

    He made that purchase at least a decade ago.

  51. 51.

    Manyakitty

    March 11, 2024 at 11:01 pm

    @Mike in NC: I made it about 4 minutes in before I had to stop.

  52. 52.

    dmsilev

    March 11, 2024 at 11:01 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: I presume their salaries are going to be redirected into accounts labeled ‘Trump, legal expenses’ and ‘Trump, slush fund’?

  53. 53.

    Jinchi

    March 11, 2024 at 11:01 pm

    The Britt lady is hard to parody, because even a playing her straight would seem over the top.

  54. 54.

    Manyakitty

    March 11, 2024 at 11:03 pm

    @Jinchi: that’s the problem with all these people. Nobody would ever believe they’re real.

    Nevertheless.

  55. 55.

    Jay

    March 11, 2024 at 11:08 pm

    @Jackie:

    https://nitter.poast.org/P_Kallioniemi

    has a long thread on what the TikTok issue is.

  56. 56.

    Jinchi

    March 11, 2024 at 11:08 pm

    @Scout211: The settlement also spells out that the law is neutral — meaning what applies to LGBTQ+ people also applies to heterosexual people

    Now we’re just waiting for the first teacher to be fired for keeping a photo of her husband on her desk.

  57. 57.

    catclub

    March 11, 2024 at 11:11 pm

    @Anoniminous: Looks like Putin just bought himself a US political party.

     

    Just??  How long has he owned it is the question.

  58. 58.

    Jay

    March 11, 2024 at 11:13 pm

    @Manyakitty:

    I am watching it for the 3rd time, I do it by watching about 5min at a time, then taking a break.

  59. 59.

    Manyakitty

    March 11, 2024 at 11:18 pm

    @Jay: I feel obligated to witness it. Maybe that way will work for me. Thanks.

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack

    March 11, 2024 at 11:23 pm

    @Jay:

    Link to the actual TikTok thread.

  61. 61.

    Yutsano

    March 11, 2024 at 11:29 pm

    @Jay: ​I believe our esteemed front pager Adam L Silverman* warned us that TikTok is Chinese malware.

    *If that is his real name…

  62. 62.

    Jay

    March 11, 2024 at 11:32 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    thank you.

  63. 63.

    Jackie

    March 11, 2024 at 11:37 pm

    @Jay: @Steeplejack:

    Thanks!

  64. 64.

    Geoduck

    March 11, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    @RaflW:  Another report I read elsewhere claimed that the crew never made any kind of public announcement to the passengers after The Incident.

  65. 65.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 12, 2024 at 12:17 am

    I think this sentiment is universal around these here parts.

  66. 66.

    glc

    March 12, 2024 at 12:50 am

    Next Boeing article.

    I find myself linking to the NYT.  Possibly a first for me, but I’m aware they occasionally do some reporting.

  67. 67.

    BigJimSlade

    March 12, 2024 at 12:51 am

    @Delk: Aw, damn. Yeah, RIP.

  68. 68.

    piratedan

    March 12, 2024 at 1:02 am

    two things… I fully expect that Jordan and his crew believe that with Hur’s testimony they can drive whatever narrative that they want to try and restore the false equivalency in the handling of documents.

    I also think that Mr. Hur is going to find out just how well the Dems have learned on keeping receipts.

     

    also sad to learn that Eric Carmen has passed, yes, in his later years he was a MAGA proponent, but once upon a time, the man knew how to craft a pop song.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtp8WSAzrGw

  69. 69.

    BigJimSlade

    March 12, 2024 at 1:09 am

    @Percysowner: someone should bring to the hearing a video of all the times Cheney said he couldn’t recall.

  70. 70.

    Ivan X

    March 12, 2024 at 1:32 am

    Who the fuck cares about you and your time zones, dickface.

  71. 71.

    Roberto el oso

    March 12, 2024 at 1:33 am

    @Melancholy Jaques: at least you’ll have the cats to tell you who just pulled up in your driveway.

  72. 72.

    seaboogie

    March 12, 2024 at 1:44 am

    Hey JC, I was over to the local mini Walmart groceteria here in NorCal, and I saw a gent in overhauls and a straw hat…thought of you in your tie-dyes down in AZ with wife and fur-kids.

  73. 73.

    wjca

    March 12, 2024 at 1:51 am

    I tell you what, this fucking Daylight Savings Time is kicking my ass.

    Forget Daylight Saving Time, just for a moment.  Ask yourself, why do we have a time zone structure at all?

    The reason is right there in the original name: Railroad Time.  Railroads wanted consistent times across the country to make their scheduling easier.  But how much are railroads visible in our everyday lives any more?

    If you think about it, there’s no reason we couldn’t go back to every town setting its clocks however they like.  Or even each individual.  Sure, you need some way to deal with scheduling stuff with other people, but that’s easy enough.  I have a lot of Zoom calls with people scattered across the globe.  Scheduled start times are routinely given as UTC (once GMT, or Greenwich Mean Time, but anti-colonialusm eventually put a stop to that).  Everybody just converts to their own time to figure out when to connect.

    As individuals, our watches, clocks, and computers can be set to whatever time we like.  Easy enough to display UTC right next to whatever passes for local time.  And run your calendar exclusively on UTC.

    At which point, you can embrace or ignore Daylight Savings as you prefer.  Your only real constraint is 1) needing to start work when your boss expects you, and 2) needing to get the kids to school “on time” — which now means “whenever their first class starts”.  If neither of those impact you, do whatever the hell you like.

  74. 74.

    cain

    March 12, 2024 at 2:00 am

    @Percysowner:

    Someone thinks that he can get a new career in the grifting world. Looks like Maga will need to increase their payments to the GOP to fund another asshole.

  75. 75.

    cain

    March 12, 2024 at 2:00 am

    @Percysowner:

    Someone thinks that he can get a new career in the grifting world. Looks like Maga will need to increase their payments to the GOP to fund another asshole.

  76. 76.

    cain

    March 12, 2024 at 2:01 am

    @Percysowner:

    Someone thinks that he can get a new career in the grifting world. Looks like Maga will need to increase their payments to the GOP to fund another asshole.

  77. 77.

    cain

    March 12, 2024 at 2:01 am

    @Percysowner:

    Someone thinks that he can get a new career in the grifting world. Looks like Maga will need to increase their payments to the GOP to fund another asshole.

  78. 78.

    cain

    March 12, 2024 at 2:01 am

    @Percysowner:

    Someone thinks that he can get a new career in the grifting world. Looks like Maga will need to increase their payments to the GOP to fund another asshole.

  79. 79.

    cain

    March 12, 2024 at 2:01 am

    @Percysowner:

    Someone thinks that he can get a new career in the grifting world. Looks like Maga will need to increase their payments to the GOP to fund another asshole.

  80. 80.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 12, 2024 at 2:06 am

    I think someone is gonna get a career in the grifting world.

    Just sayin’.

  81. 81.

    cain

    March 12, 2024 at 2:06 am

    @coin operated:

    It’s not a safe space for Hur. There are Dems who have been waiting for this opportunity.

  82. 82.

    cain

    March 12, 2024 at 2:08 am

    @dmsilev:

    Hey everyone in the GOP will be shoveling money into the cult leaders legal fund and not to any races.

    They can’t win on MAGA votes alone. So they still need to get the undecideds. Moronic as that is

  83. 83.

    cain

    March 12, 2024 at 2:10 am

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Lol I just said that many many times 😂

  84. 84.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 12, 2024 at 2:13 am

    @wjca: ​

    Everybody just converts to their own time to figure out when to connect.

    We can’t convince stupid motherfuckers who vote GOP how to fix the clock on their microwaves, and you expect them to do math?

    Oddly enough, the clock on the cheap microwave I bought three years ago doesn’t work and can’t be set to the proper time, so I fit that group as well.

  85. 85.

    Chris T.

    March 12, 2024 at 2:19 am

    @HumboldtBlue: I think “clock doesn’t actually work” is a qualifying excuse…

  86. 86.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 12, 2024 at 2:20 am

    @Chris T.:

    Every month or so I still try thinking, magically, this time it’ll work.

  87. 87.

    Earl

    March 12, 2024 at 2:40 am

    @Percysowner: The moron Garland — Trump’s man in the DOJ — ‘s reign of geniusing continues unabated.

     

    I predict people will be rushing in to explain the Top Sekret Geniusing Moves of Garland any second now.  There’s no possible way that his actions — doing his best to not prosecute Trump, appointing Republican hacks to go after the first failson — could be, well, exactly what they look like.

  88. 88.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 12, 2024 at 2:44 am

    @wjca: You can live in Crazy Time Land as much as you like.  You don’t get to impose that idiocy on the rest of us.

  89. 89.

    Jay

    March 12, 2024 at 2:44 am

    Ignore the troll.

  90. 90.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    March 12, 2024 at 2:45 am

    @HumboldtBlue: It’s like a condo; after you buy it there are maintenance fees, and if they need to pay for something* really expensive, they can assess a special fee.

    *Like a shitload of lawyers, so many lawyers, you have no idea how many lawyers…

  91. 91.

    NotMax

    March 12, 2024 at 2:54 am

    @wjca

    Buses and planes don’t rate mention? Doctor appointments or dinner reservations in the next county?

    Freight traffic on the rails ain’t exactly chopped liver either.

  92. 92.

    Chetan Murthy

    March 12, 2024 at 2:55 am

    @NotMax: broadcast And cable TV schedules?  How will everyone know when to tune in to watch the Oscars?  If you’re counting on everyone being able to do the math from GMT, I think thats a pretty tall order.

  93. 93.

    NotMax

    March 12, 2024 at 3:03 am

    @Chetan Murthy

    “Gnomon, co-ordinate.”
    :)

  94. 94.

    Chetan Murthy

    March 12, 2024 at 3:19 am

    @NotMax: and along every town to set its own time works great if everyone uses a smartphone, but fails colossally for people who use watches.  Or at least, watches that don’t talk to GPS to figure out where they are.  When there are only four time zones, It’s still feasible to useold school watches.

  95. 95.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 12, 2024 at 3:22 am

    @Chetan Murthy: Seeing as how it’s March, how will everyone know when to have a basketball jones?

  96. 96.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 12, 2024 at 3:24 am

    @Chetan Murthy:

    and along every town to set its own time works great if everyone uses a smartphone, but fails colossally for people who use watches. Or at least, watches that don’t talk to GPS to figure out where they are. When there are only four time zones, It’s still feasible to useold school watches. 

    But we have six time zones. :)

  97. 97.

    Chetan Murthy

    March 12, 2024 at 3:27 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Sure, that works too.  What makes it work, is that they differ by an integral number of hours.  If two towns differ by 15min, that’s going to be *problematic*.

  98. 98.

    Chetan Murthy

    March 12, 2024 at 3:39 am

    @Chetan Murthy: and then there’s the problem of borders.  With only a few time zones, there are borders but not that many.  Not that many miles.  If every town can declare its own time, there will be borders everywhere.  lots and lots of borders, lots and lots of miles of borders.  And These borders Will Traverse populated areas, and that will be a gigantic mess.  There will be people on either side of the border who, when they cross that border will find themselves, let’s say, off by 14 minutes from the people they interact with.

  99. 99.

    opiejeanne

    March 12, 2024 at 3:49 am

    @Jay: Which one?

  100. 100.

    opiejeanne

    March 12, 2024 at 3:52 am

    @Chetan Murthy: Heh. In 2005 we went with my dad from LA to DC so he could see the WWII memorial, and as the plane was landing he asked me how to set the correct time on his cell phone. He didn’t quite believe me that his phone would take care of it automatically.

  101. 101.

    Jay

    March 12, 2024 at 3:52 am

    @opiejeanne:

    #87

  102. 102.

    AlaskaReader

    March 12, 2024 at 3:52 am

     

    I don’t care what others say, …

  103. 103.

    opiejeanne

    March 12, 2024 at 3:54 am

    @Jay: Thanks.

    There was one other candidate, but I am not sure what he is.

  104. 104.

    Chetan Murthy

    March 12, 2024 at 3:58 am

    @opiejeanne: I remember the first time that happened: I was surprised and pleased!  It’s from around that time, that I stopped wearing a watch.

  105. 105.

    Steeplejack

    March 12, 2024 at 4:16 am

    @piratedan:

    RIP, Eric Carmen. He wrote and sang one of the all-time great power pop ballads with the Raspberries: “Go All the Way.”

  106. 106.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    March 12, 2024 at 4:24 am

    I was searching something and came across a fake, probably AI site. I was searching “hunting vs non hunting gear set” which is related to vehicle axle gear types. The first link in DuckDuckGo was to a hunting site that has a poorly written article about the subject with a picture at the top of a couple of guys carrying their rifles and walking along with their hunting dogs. Other site articles are about the hunting with dogs stuff…lol

    Fucking bogus bullshit that wastes bandwidth and time. At least it’s good for a laugh.

  107. 107.

    Jay

    March 12, 2024 at 4:29 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    For now, if you know “stuff”.

  108. 108.

    opiejeanne

    March 12, 2024 at 4:38 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Have you seen the weird AI ad for the Chevy Goliath?

  109. 109.

    AlaskaReader

    March 12, 2024 at 4:55 am

     

    A bassist to outshine all others,  …Mohini Dey

    If you know an aspiring bassist, …turn them on to Mohini Den,

    …she is in a class all by herself.

     

  110. 110.

    NotMax

    March 12, 2024 at 5:10 am

    @AlaskaReader

    Obligatory?
    :)

  111. 111.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 12, 2024 at 5:38 am

    @Jay:

    Two new ones in a single thread!

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    Fucking bogus bullshit that wastes bandwidth and time.

    AI does what it does badly.  That does make it a useful tool for people who don’t care if the product is garbage – scammers.  It’s becoming a problem on Amazon already.  Mind you, that makes it just the latest fad in fake authors manipulating Amazon to scam readers.

  112. 112.

    Baud

    March 12, 2024 at 5:44 am

    @Jay:

    More like troll in training. That was a piss poor attempt.

  113. 113.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 12, 2024 at 5:47 am

    Oh, about the AI thing, I learned something interesting.  Predictive text and art makers are becoming desperate for pre-2023 sources of material.  You see, if you feed a generator material that already has significant AI product in it, the output turns into illegible garbage quickly.  They can’t trawl the current internet for training material anymore.

  114. 114.

    Baud

    March 12, 2024 at 5:56 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Recursion for the win!

  115. 115.

    NotMax

    March 12, 2024 at 5:58 am

    @Chetan Murthy

    A rhetorical talk on time and space in the Victorian (and Edwardian) Age.

  116. 116.

    lowtechcyclist

    March 12, 2024 at 6:13 am

    @NotMax: ​
     

    Sorry, Merriam. Sorry, Webster. The text of the law is Daylight Saving Time.

    That’s nice, but most of us don’t refer to the U.S. Code very often.

    it’s like referring to the “Internal Revenues Service.”

    Not really. One sounds natural and the other sounds stilted, and that’s probably why our language has evolved so that people use the one but not the other.

  117. 117.

    NotMax

    March 12, 2024 at 6:46 am

    @lowtechcyclist

    most of us don’t refer to the U.S. Code very often

    More’s the pities. :)

    One sounds natural

    Okay then, change the example to Madison Squares Garden. Or in reverse, Verazzano-Narrow Bridge.

  118. 118.

    Matt McIrvin

    March 12, 2024 at 6:56 am

    @lowtechcyclist: I think that in the original phrase, “saving” is a modifier for “time”, but in US English we’re much more likely to use “savings” as a noun, especially in advertising. Not even necessarily a plural noun.

    “By Grabthar’s hammer… what a savings.”

  119. 119.

    sab

    March 12, 2024 at 7:01 am

    7 am here in Ohio, and in about fifteen minutes the kids will be out waiting for the school buses in the dark. I am ambivalent about daylight saving in general, but we really do not need it in March.

  120. 120.

    sab

    March 12, 2024 at 7:06 am

    @cain: I saw those multiple posts, thought “hmmm”, then looked at the posting time and sure enough. 2 am when the blog hamsters change shifts.

  121. 121.

    Matt McIrvin

    March 12, 2024 at 7:17 am

    @sab: 7:15 here in eastern Massachusetts, and it’s gotten light out, so the really rough patch was only a bit earlier.

    I think DST is better suited to us, further east in EST, which is another way of saying we might be better off in the Atlantic Time Zone.

  122. 122.

    MomSense

    March 12, 2024 at 7:23 am

    @Matt McIrvin:

    Over the years it is commonly referred to as Daylight Savings with time dropped off.  Count me as someone who would prefer to switch to Atlantic Time and stay with it all year.

  123. 123.

    Geminid

    March 12, 2024 at 7:30 am

    This morning’s Politico Playbook reports that Trump endorsed former Congressman Mike Rogers in his Michigan race for Senate. Rogers is thought to be leading a field that includes two other former Congressmen Justin Amash and Peter Peter Meijer.

    Representative Elissa Slotkin is expected to win the Democratic nomination. Slotkin was one of 40 Democrats who flipped Republican seats in 2018.

  124. 124.

    lowtechcyclist

    March 12, 2024 at 8:07 am

    @Matt McIrvin:

    I think that in the original phrase, “saving” is a modifier for “time”, but in US English we’re much more likely to use “savings” as a noun, especially in advertising. Not even necessarily a plural noun.

    That’s definitely true, but my main point is that language evolves, and there comes a point when yesterday’s incorrect usage is today’s correct usage because how people used the words overwhelmed the previous rules.

    “By Grabthar’s hammer… what a savings.”

    <g>

  125. 125.

    Grumpy Old Railroader

    March 12, 2024 at 5:07 pm

    I tell you what, this fucking Daylight Savings Time is kicking my ass.

    Hmmm. I thought Arizona abolished DST in 1968. Everybody knows that standard time was because railroads couldn’t adjust their clocks to every podunk town that wanted to be 30 minutes different than the neighboring town right? So because of railroads, time zones were created and then later along came daylight savings time because we all know it is easier to make everybody change their clocks than to change what time kids go to school. So Arizona is a special place for railroads. Because trains traverse large distances they try to standardize their own clocks and in Arizona the railroads do use DST. This creates problems for railroaders cuz the railroad time is an hour off of Arizona’s Mountain Standard Time. So the conversation goes like this: “Hey lets go bowling on our day off at 11:00am. Wait you mean 11 railroad time or 11 city time?“

  126. 126.

    Geminid

    March 12, 2024 at 5:17 pm

    https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-03-01/ty-article/.premium/gallant-succeeded-where-hamas-failed-he-jeopardized-the-future-of-netanyahus-coalition/0000018d-f6bf-dd0a-afcf-ffff71ab0000

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