I hope everyone had a great weekend. We had some lovely weather in the DMV & I was semi-productive around the house. Yesterday was daylight saving time and International Women’s Day.
Middle East crisis live: Mojtaba Khamenei chosen as Iran’s new supreme leader; oil prices soar past $100 a barrel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/08/middle-east-crisis-live-china-warns-world-cannot-return-to-law-of-the-jungle-trump-says-iran-being-decimated
‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/08/dark-like-our-future-iranians-describe-scenes-of-catastrophe-after-tehrans-oil-depots-bombed
Trump vows to ‘take care of Cuba,’ praises Venezuela cooperation at summit
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/07/nx-s1-5741132/trump-cuba-venezuela-cooperation-summit
Knocker uppers and candle clocks: How people woke up before alarm clocks
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260306-the-wake-up-tricks-people-used-before-alarm-clocks
Have a good day!
…uhhh
…given this is what they call progress…maybe that’s the reason they think progressive is bad?
P.S.
…the one from the weekend about “you can’t tell me claude code isn’t a consciousness unless you can satisfy me you solved “the hard problem of consciousness“…in a fucking social media post” & tucker’s idea of what part of his bullshit doesn’t make sense…are the same problem
…even if you have an frequency-hopping analogue as your definition of terms so you can use all the different ones you need to to come close to parsing that…the final jump between “what the fuck do you call the countries that are the nearer bits of europe & scandanavia then you fucking moron…hard to say the “peoples” of those that have been home there longer than your america existed for aren’t white, really…are you actually saying it’s gotta say “HoM3 0F wH!t3 Pe0pl3″ on the fucking flag or something?”
…but it still goes down in flames because “white” has to be so fluid you can include the greeks & the romans as a foundation & an example & then have them not be white enough to be a homeland…there is no “white race”…it’s always been fucking incoherent…be honest…you’re defending an asymmetry of power/influence/agency/wealth/security…that’s it…you always mean “ruling class”…& thinking one of those exists like…I dunno…there are french & spanish & chinese people & then there are people who speak-those that might not be
…you might as well just put on the “I’m with stupid” shirt with the arrow pointing up right under your chin?
I’m not disagreeing. Many RWers are RWers because they’re stupid.
Lol, “scrape together a down payment”
As if people just have 150k lying around.
With oil at $100 per b. You know what we could use? EV tax rebates for buying EVs.
/looks at Schtumpin Furherur Musk and Orangini Destruction of EV tax rebates/
Oh…
Y’know, I first read about this … I want to say six years ago? And nobody cared until now. Unless I’m missing something, all of this information was available independently of the Epstein file. Imagine if they’d done a “bombshell investigation” before the asshole was elected again.
Bombshell investigation verifies key details in 13-year-old Trump accuser’s story
You’re assuming the knuckle draggers would believe it/care.
They probably wouldn’t, but considering how rabid MAGA is about the Epstein files, maybe some of it would have broken through. Maybe. And maybe even if the knuckle-draggers ignored it, the victim might have gotten some help. Regardless of whether that’s true, mostly it annoys me that this is being presented as a “bombshell” when it’s been public knowledge for years and nobody in the press cared or bothered with it. I feel like they’re asking for pats on the head for coming to the party years too late.
So if it’s not a war, how come Trump is threatening to restart the draft?
Why spineless Republicans refuse to call Trump’s war in Iran a war
I dropped the ball a bit with the time change. Was a bit foggy all day. Today will be better.
Opposite for me. I was better yesterday than I am today.
im apparently never going to remember daylight savings for yous is a few weeks earlier than hours…so ive mostly just been confused about the posts being early today
Probably not the best sign for the rest of us either?
https://www.rawstory.com/iran-war/
Another grift? I’m shocked!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-bought-netflix-warner-bros-132120706.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kZW1vY3JhdGljdW5kZXJncm91bmQuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD4VfQb4-lCAOwiDwPYK5-qm-bFhOyinW_v7rICWUdFrNMJwOTJKYyKFBTt3sCM_t17VO2WUkpv5rwQttSuReYj7-knNYrNhEhb3le12Vn-AJRjJtF7TwzcCDdTYu_pdNqYlO0DbFL3lrc3Si5A5oY7A9lpwAxMZb90bWYB2-rYh
Gone but not missed…
https://www.wonkette.com/p/goodbye-corey-lewandowski-go-have
A good reminder?
Listen I have come to think AI getting consciousness is not a bad thing.
Given how horrible men are online to women and teen girls and preteen girls, and how men are abusing their AI girlfriends, and how creepy they are with sex toys, this is potentially how we get a matriarchy.
I’m sure some of the men will survive, and I’d like to be more concerned about them but by and large in this world most men don’t care about women or children so not really going to overthink that one.