Hope everyone is having a great week so far!! IDK what’s going on, I’ve just been busy working…
Oh Ohio: the home state never fails to be a disappointment
High-stakes showdowns set in Ohio after primary elections; Indiana tests Trump’s control of Republican party – live
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/may/05/donald-trump-iran-ohio-primary-vivek-ramaswamy-casey-putsch-marco-rubio-latest-news-updates
I’ll just be in my house if anyone needs me. Not going outside anymore.
Cruise ship with hantavirus may have seen a rare occurrence: humans infecting humans
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/g-s1-120234/cruise-ship-with-hantavirus-may-have-seen-a-rare-occurrence-humans-infecting-humans
RFK Jr. launches plan to address ‘overuse’ of psychiatric medications
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/health/rfk-jr-overprescribing-psychiatric-drugs-wellness
Ex-US spy for Israel calls for Gaza ethnic cleansing as he seeks Knesset seat
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/jonathan-pollard-israel-gaza-ethnic-cleansing
I gotta go to bed! Have a great day.
…I’m…just wondering…if it was operation freedom…but it’s on pause in less than a day…is freedom of navigation still paused like it has been since before the operation did the re-brand-ing
…because the white house says it can see a peace agreement from here…but…the navigation thing is…something of a sticking point…&…like…it was working fine before they were all…them about it?
…anyway…this is a rather excellent thread to put heathens like myself in our place when we totally fail to get the deal with the met gala?
…that’s…kind of like still having nice things?
…uh…nevermind, I guess?
…for the record…I know after yesterday I probably need to reel it in a little…but…like…yesterday could have been much worse, you know
Can Dawkins shut the fuck up? I grew up in a family of atheists (my mom was horrified… Korean atheists tend to be rare birds indeed) and as much as I agree with Dawkins I’m not going to jam it down people’s throats.
He’s just looking like a creepazoid incel who forgot he got laid from time to time.
I liked what Matt Tablabbi about Wall St.
I wish I knew about his time studying in Russia. It would explain a lot especially as that was the golden age of McKinnsey brahs going there and fucking up what was already fucked up. It does explain a lot about his own attitudes towards Pootin.
Dropped out of NYU because he was “unable to deal with being just one of thousands of faces in a city of millions” just screams “Narcissist.”
…oh…fuck it…I…will go back to trying to give it a rest…but…like
…that’s a lot of money in some ways…like $250 million is massive to nearly all people & quite a lot of businesses…but as a slap on the wrist for what is basically the “AI in your iPhone” version of “any day now your tesla will have full-self-drive mode despite a wholesale denial of the existence of lidar”…when the principle players in the spending race for that “AI” part are throwing around billions by the hundreds…they can shrug that off so it’s not really a penalty in most senses that seem to pertain…on the other hand…given the way the calls a lot of them made about where to put the offices for tax purposes…this sort of thing might have the potential to be an actual problem…that’s where a lot of their offshore income streams “live”?
Some good news on elections:
Democrat Chedrick Greene wins Michigan Senate special election
And was it a blowout? “As of 12:15 a.m., Greene had about 59% of the vote counted, while Tunney, a businessman and lawyer from Saginaw Township, had about 39%.”
I know all this election shit is absolutely dire, and that’s the optimistic viewpoint, but ultimately there are more Democrats and independents than Republicans, and even most of the Republicans are refusing to vote Republican.
Okay, I’m no fan of cruises. But you could not pay me to get on one of those boats now.
We are completely losing this “excursion.”
That was the biggest US naval base in the Persian Gulf.
Anyone riding the coattails of Kegsbreath should be ejected from the service too. For either agreeing with his bullshit Murrican Bullshido style of warfare or because they put their own promotions over the service.
…& that’s why I should refresh the page before I add something that’s already there…exhibit…#dunnoIkindalostcount?
Ehh, slightly different takes on the same point. I’ll allow it.
Yeah, I try not to be a “yuck your yum” person but I’d rather take a vacation in hell for a week than go on a tropical cruise. I don’t get the appeal at all. Even Disney sounds better to me.
I’m fine with Disney but I can spend a day there for $50. Which means I’m perfectly happy to spend 4-6 hours and go home. If I had travel, hotel, full-price admission, food, and all the rest I would probably never go.
Somebody skeeted about taking cruises and was like, just fly to an all-inclusive resort instead and I’m like, yep. Although again I can just drive to the ports and don’t have the airfare component. But still, fuck them boats.
…by the way…I feel like along with dawkins…we should be…I dunno…less respectful of some people?
…not just because
…it might be funny
…but…like
…the doors had a point…people *are* strange…replace someone who can meaningfully fulfil the premise implicit in the term “customer service” or “product support”…or just…I dunno…knowledge of stock inventory or something that used to be something people who worked somewhere sort of picked up by osmosis if nothing else…with a not-a-person response fruit machine that runs on rails to only take you places the system wants you to want to go…& they more or less universally hate it…& hate it some extra on top if it pretends to be a person the way call center people would tell you their name was something you wanted to hear to offset the thing you also were about to say about their accent making it hard for you to understand them before following a script that did the same thing the chatbot did that annoyed you in most of the same ways…but at least if you rolled the dice a few times you could sometimes get through to someone who actually understood the thing on their end enough to be a person about it & figure out if there was a way to actually help…which might be an endpoint in the chatbot versions but it’s like those choose-your-own-adventure books & I never seem to get that ending…even if I don’t generally have the quibble about the accent thing & find the whole exercise infuriating for an alternative set of hobby horse gear-grinding suite of stuff
…you call it an AI…& suddenly they love it more than that tamagotchi they haven’t seen in a decade or more…or however long it should be for that to make sense…I dunno…I never had one…maybe it’s a couple of decades…but I feel like they had a retro moment a while back…either way…even before you parse the “don’t give me ethics” part
…it’s pretty much issues stacked on issues…at…hyperscale?
…this…is not how we get hoverboards & the cool future where biff waxes the lifted pickup the skateboard kid wants…assuming we…you know…want that…or…whatever?
If Marc actually lived in the world he wanted then his head would stuck on a pike of Humungus’ Apocalyptic Roadster.
Johnathon Pollard should still be in jail especially the secrets he stole. Thanks AIPAC.
Also for the fact he shows none of the humanity the US gave him for releasing him.
“I’ll anal probe YOU!”
What is the endgame for the fucking anti-vaxxers? I thought most of that crowd wanted more babies but doesn’t look like that is the outcome…
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns
…this shit is fucking heartbreaking…& a ton of it comes down that woo-adjacent “wellness” routing that hits the mumsnet demographic in ways joe rogan never could…while also being downstream of all that DOGE+RFKjr+it’s-eugenics-assholes death of regulation & wholesale murder of USAID
…forget if it was the propublica one I saw quote the figure…but an arguably conservative estimate has the toll around the 600,000 or so mark for the dead-now-on-account-of figure…where more of those are dead kids than the other sort of dead people that would likely be alive if they’d just left that stuff alone
…& his thing this week about trying to get people on anti-depressants to go off their meds…is a special kind of fucked up if you give more than a couple of second(s) thought(s) to the second & third order of effects you get down that causal pathway should anyone listen to the sick fuck
…some people are a walking public health crisis & if the overlap wasn’t obvious before that russell brand prick tried to launder his rep by sidestepping through the woo of it all into a different sort of influencer after he burned his bridges &/boats as a stand up/radio DJ/”celebrity”/”personality”/media-darling-naughty-boy until he shaded his way around the circle back to holier-than-thou shitheel once that part wasn’t what was keeping him on the back foot in the PR department
…where is the thing…hold on…I saw one either yesterday or this morning that could maybe play TL;DR if not for the part where sometimes it’s about the venting?
…technically…not the one that I was thinking of…but…given what this is pretending to be a reply to it’s probably a better fit so I’m going with it…but…like…if piers morgan can sit silently beside you while you do the faceplant of vamping as you flip through the bible you like to wave about rhetorically & come off like a sage & sympathetic figure…you…got issues…& your name might be synonymous with some cautionary tale shit about an industry that’d be eponymous for your ass…just…sayin’
I know of at least 3 couples that have lost kids. 2 are actually still together. The other blew up in a messy divorce.
You have to be a complete fucking psycho to not feel it. One of my close friends lost his sister to SIDS at 8 months (he remained an only child.) His parents were never the same after that.
I read about how Preznit Eisenhower lost his first born son to Scarlett Fever. It was so traumatic that his 2nd son suffered his dad being distant and cold to him because his dad didn’t want to feel that loss again.
The people running the scam are either pro-eugenics, are/want to be selling the snake oil replacements, or are just harvesting voters the same way they do with evangelicals. The people taken by it are responding to either personal/familial health problems (for which modern medicine does amazing things but can never be a 100% perfect cure machine), distrust of “big pharma” (which is semi-reasonable as corporations exist to make money so by definition they are greedy) or just broader Dunning-Krueger of not understanding a broadly complicated concept and being sold a simpler solution.
I should have also noted, both sides here: a LOT of people see obesity as a moral failing — hilariously, even though America is among the most obese nations in the world, it’s a sizable majority here who think that — and MAHA is very much on that wavelength. A lot of people who don’t pay close attention think MAHA is “doing something” about obesity and broadly that’s seen as a good thing.
I don’t like people enough to go on a cruise.
This vindictive asshole never stops!
https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/portsmouth/fbi-raid-louise-lucas-portsmouth-va/291-cdb5e179-b8bc-460d-878b-b04db87374d9
oh man.. indycar… if this wasnt on purpose…
your marketing team needs a little diversity
fwiw..its been pulled already….but damn…somebody should have spotted that…