Welcome to the Weekend! [DOT 3/6/23]

3/6/23 MegMegMcGee 41

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Oh no

At least 207 dead, more than 900 injured in India train crash
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/02/india-train-crash-derailment/

NOW who’s gonna eat their food?

How Chick-fil-A became a target for going ‘woke’
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/business/chick-fil-a-fake-controversy/index.html

Stonks!

Dow leaps 700 points on hot jobs report, Nasdaq notches sixth straight winning week: Live updates
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

Sprots!

FA Cup final: how local rivalry turned into global battle for brand supremacy
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jun/02/fa-cup-final-how-local-rivalry-turned-into-global-battle-for-brand-supremacy

OMG

LOL

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41 Comments

  1. The sight of Jeff Bezos’s new yacht, the Koru, immediately put me in mind of the early 80s movie classic Das Boot and also Erik Larson’s Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. I love Erik Larson and I think I have, and have read, all of his books.

    I myself have taken a schooner trip or half dozen but the schooners weren’t nearly that grand and I didn’t own the schooners. There’s a great comment in that thread that goes something like, “The difference between who Jeff Bezos is and who he thinks he is is breathtaking.”

    • no need to worry….i dont think we are going to have many more generations after generation self obsessed

      anyways and more importantly….i now have a theme tune

  4. I was reading a book last evening which stated that one person, alone, will do the right thing, or at least not do the wrong thing. But the minute that there are two people (let alone a group, crowd, or mob) the probability for bad actions increases due to the “hey, they figure it is okay/they figure we can get away with it” attitude toward misdeeds. I image that social media exponentially increases that phenomenon. Regarding the bison 🦬. 

    • …apparently it also goes for things like calling 911 at an emergency when there’s a crowd…everyone assumes someone else has/will

      …so one of the tips they give people is to point at a particular person & say “hey, you [insert identifying feature] – call for an ambulance & tell them [what/where/how many casualties]” before trying first aid

      • I can attest to that. I was at the Montreal car show the year a teen fell a couple of stories from sitting on the escalator railings. He landed on top of exit door’s roof platform. This was a hugely crowded event. I was the only one calling 911, as far as I could tell. I also shouted at some workers to bring their ladder to the platform and climb up to see if he was breathing and comfort him but not to move him. He sadly did not survive.

  6. Chick-fil-A went ‘woke,’ conservatives may starve

    Quote:

    Chick-fil-A—yes, that Chick-fil-A—is under attack from conservatives after somebody realized the company has an executive position overseeing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in the company. Even worse, the executive in that position isn’t even white! The fact that he’s seemingly had the job since 2021 and nobody eating Chick-fil-A has turned into a communist is clearly astonishing. But, like Target and Bud Light before it, calls for a Chick-fil-A boycott have spread across the web.

      • The grieving woman could learn to cook for herself. I don’t mean to indulge in gross stereotypes about grieving anti-woke Chik-Fil-A patrons, but without reading the article I bet she’s not too far removed from family members who raised and hand-strangled their own chickens to provide meals. She could look into that.

          • Again, without indulging in gross stereotypes, I bet the grieving Christian former patron of Chik-fil-A wouldn’t feel very comfortable at a Popeye’s, not even in a drive-thru, because I happen to love Popeye’s and went to my first one almost 40 years ago, as a college student. My memories of the clientele are that they were more likely to be related to Better Half and less to Cousin Mattie. Unfortunately, I bet the grieving Christian woman is much more likely to be related to me, but who knows. BH is related to a few absolute grifting fundie nutjobs, including his own sister and (latest) brother-in-law.

            Maybe I should just read the article and not go by the headline?

            • I will say that the last time I went to the local Popeye’s it was the usual, very crowded and boisterous, a couple of “houseless” (as AOC terms them; she grew up in a house, in Yorktown Heights, in Westchester, daughter of an architect) people occupying the few tables, but I showed up with my cane and I was treated like royalty. I was ushered up to the front of the line, which was chaotic, and called “Pops,” and I gave my order in but the cashier, the guy behind her who was going to scoop the fast food for me, and a couple of customers crowded around the counter, said, “Oh, no, you don’t want that. Much too spicy.”

              I said, “Oh yes I do, I cook for myself usually. You should see what I can do with a tiny slice of a habanero pepper.”

              Much respect. That Popeye’s doesn’t deliver though, unfortunately, and you can’t really eat in because of the “houseless,” so these interactions are much rarer and briefer than I would like.

    • The NY Times is incredibly lucky that this story of their screwups on their idiotic Elizabeth Holmes smokescreen was overwelmed by the Licht story.

      https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/elizabeth-holmes-new-york-times

      One bit that’s drawn fire is reporter Amy Chozick’s angry denial that she fell for a PR pitch, saying the story idea and fact that Holmes would cooperate with her came from “a mutual friend/acquaintence.”

      Is a NY Times reporter (someone Carolyn Ryan recruited for her horrible 2016 election coverage) really so naive? Does she really believe PR types don’t use networking exactly this way to avoid the taint of a direct pitch from a PR rep the reporter doesn’t know?

      • I never understood why the NYT tried to rehab Holmes as she committed the worst possible crime in the NYT bubble, stealing from rich people.

        Her two kids, Get Out Of Jail Free and Home Detention are going to wonder why mommy treats them badly.

      • “A mutual friend/acquaintance”? What else is new? I’ve been quoted in the Times three times, in the ’90s, and the brief was, “I need a gay man who lives in Chelsea. He can make up a name, or I’ll just use his first one, whatever.” Fluff pieces, all of them, but I gave good quote as a favor to my long-suffering friends who worked, emphasis on worked, there.

  7. I’m still up in Chicago and yesterday was my birthday and my friends made a big fuss and today I can go back to enjoying myself in peace thank god.

    And I did not get arrested for exposing myself in the merch tent at the Taylor Swift concert at Soldier Field despite what you may have heard.

  8. neighbours are having a barbeque……my backyard now sounds like this

    im okay with it tbh…but they could chuck me a burger as an offer of peace?

     

    you know…. farscykind is notoriously vicious when deprived of meat for prolonged amounts of time…..

    just throw a burger over the fence ferfuckssake!

    • …they should absolutely offer you a burger

      …it’s clearly in their interests to keep their neighbours sweet

      …but maybe it would help reassure them that you have beer & are just short the burger?

    • Do you live among a bunch of displaced Bavarians? Also, dieses Lied war wirklich wunderschön, and the fact that wunderschön is used in the lyrics, and the whole general prosperous/tech-forward/agricultural theme, makes me think that this group is from Bayern. [Googled. I knew it, they’re from Kirchaich, which is in Unterfranken, part of Bavaria.]

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