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Here’s your daily open thread, live from Wyoming.
Today a woman said to me, with a straight face, that before January 6th gas was $2.
There are 500,000 people in the whole state. My county has twice as many people in 507 mi² then Wyoming does in 97,914 mi². Seems fair that these dummies get two Senators.
Having a normal one in Ohio, as usual
Can we just not?
Newly identified Langya virus tracked after China reports dozens of cases
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/10/newly-identified-langya-virus-tracked-after-china-reports-dozens-of-cases
Ukraine news:
Ukraine air force claims up to a dozen Russian jets destroyed in Crimea raid
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/10/ukraine-air-force-claims-russian-jets-destroyed-crimea-raid
In DMV news, this is a sad story
She wanted a career investigating crime. Then she was fatally shot.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/10/maurica-manyan-library-officer-shot/
Sprots! This is adorable.
This looks fun!
Have a great day!
Today a woman said to me, with a straight face, that before January 6th gas was $2.
i love it when americans bitch about gas prices
thats per gallon right?
yous dont know how good you have it
its about$ 2,20 per liter here
(the euro being about evens with the dollar i didnt bother doing the math)
That makes it roughly $8 and change per gallon.
it was about a tenner per gallon back when the euro was worth its weight
money is fucking wierd
…it’s mostly tax, I think…could be it’s out of date now but a few years back it was true (in the UK & I think a good bit of europe) that if you removed the tax component you paid more for a litre of bottled/mineral water than for a litre of petrol
…but there’s a reason german (& indeed french) cars have much better gas mileage than your average ford pickup/SUV/whatever…the running costs on that sort of fuel efficiency would be ruinous even if the things would fit in a parking space
…mind you…some of those expensive italian cars are thirsty enough to come with a second gas tank & a switch to pick which one to draw from…horses for courses, I guess?
its just a switch to make you look like you understand what its like to be a pleb
if you can afford a ferrari or a bugatti new…fuel prices dont bother you
Speaking of the relative cost of things, when I lived in Germany a liter of beer cost less than a liter of mineral water, and beer was sold everywhere, including out of vending machines. And it was good stuff, Spaten, Paulaner, all kinds of brands. I bet that’s changed, since this new health puritanism seems to have swept the globe. Liquor, on the other hand, was horrendously expensive, and all the glasses had the centiliter markings, so you got not a drop more nor less than what was advertised. There was no such thing as a generous pour, unless you were in a private setting.
Wyoming! You do get around. Will you be door knocking for Liz Cheney? And who, a decade ago, could have predicted they, or I at least, would be rooting for a Cheney?
FBI raids Trump, right wing go ape shit and declare war against the FBI, gunman attempts to attack FBI and CBS doesn’t even try to make even the slightest connection.
Make anything make any moral, or whatever sense….
Fuuuuuuuuuuudge.
I’m astonished one of these MAGA fuckwits actually tried it. I mean, seems like a complicated way to commit suicide to me.
Here’s a New Yorker keeping busy in his golden years:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nyc-man-indicted-after-stockpile-of-firearms-drugs-found-in-his-apartment-da/3821373/
66! I guess 66 is the new 26 in his line of “work.”
weee!
ive just panicked the missus by telling her she needs to find income asap
dont think im going to be around to pay the bills forever
ive already got chest pains and the other day i coughed so hard i gave myself pins and needles in my hands and feet
shits not good i guess
cant afford the hospital at mo…you know,…gas prices and shitty insurance
its like living in the states…without the accent
…damn…I don’t know much about navigating the dutch healthcare system…but…I’d strenuously endorse finding some route to getting that checked out if at all possible
…call it a self-serving desire to keep seeing your contribution(s) popping up in these parts…but I am staunchly pro-farscy-preservation…for the record
…either way…sincerely…best of luck with all of that
no worries mate
apreciate the concern
i;m not overly bothered….its not like im going to miss out on humanity reaching new heights
whatever…thanks mate 🙂
I’m with @SplinterRIP I like having you around. Take care of yourself!
the anoying thing about our healthcare is that its free to get checked out….gtting treated..not so much
its only gonna cost me 380 over the year…but its 380 i dont have
paycheck to paycheck here
Not for nothing, but I love it when people in Europe bitch about healthcare costs.
The copay on one dental procedure for my daughter is going to be $380. And that’s on the low side compared to a lot of plans.
under 18 dental is free here
im not under 18 and need work…couple grand at least,,,,once its done i can get dental insurance,,,as i wont need it
@Farscythe I look forward to seeing you here. I am with SplinterRIP and Hannibal, take care of yourself!!!
Yeah @Farscythe , don’t make me the craziest one around here! That is your job!
@elliecoo
not suicidal….just tired and dramatic
but roger wilco
@loveshaq you know im gonna be my goodiest two shoeist now,,,just to make you the crazy one
Um, pretty sure it is you guys that have the accents.
pretty sure we invented the language and its yous what fucked it up
Handsy Cuomo decided to celebrate the anniversary of him being hounded out of office by suing the state for his very expensive legal bills. He and fellow Queens native Trump are really two birds of a feather:
It appears Cuomo’s been paying his legal bills out of the millions of dollars remaining in his campaign account, but doesn’t want to anymore. [His lawyer Rita] Glavin [who’s possibly as wretched a human being as he is] said the state should do it because the charges occurred while Cuomo was governor.
James’ office isn’t having it, and fired back that becoming governor doesn’t just give someone a four-year pass for free lawyers to commit any sort of offense they like. Sexual harassment is not part of the job description, a spokesperson for the office said.
“Taxpayers should not have to pony up for legal bills that could reach millions of dollars so Mr. Cuomo’s lawyer can attack survivors of his abuse.”
I find this curious.
Trump says he won’t oppose Mar-a-Lago search warrant release
Of course, Captain Combover immediately begins braying “Release the documents now!” from his spittle-flecked maw covered in Big Mac crumbs.
Dear Donald: Release it yourself. You’re not required to wait. I’m sure there’s someone around you who can scan a few sheets of paper for you. Ask Barron. He’s good with the cyber.
…I think there’s maybe several things going on at once with that?
…garland backed them into a sort of corner by making it on them to say not to release it, which would play badly…so they seem to be going for our-lot-won’t-do-homework & plan to just like big, early & often about it all
…but my understanding is that the worst stuff still would be things not disclosed in detail for explicit reasons pertaining to national security…& the release doesn’t extend to the affidavit that persuaded the judge to sign off the warrant…so the big guns, so to speak, are still on the horizon rather than on the field…which may allow for a lot more shit-talking on the wrong side of this
…on the other hand…in terms of where the judicial vultures might be circling something hung out to dry I’d imagine that there are some pretty specific lines to read between that would make what garland had to say & the implications of the stuff they’ve begun proceedings to release a good deal more pointed that it might read to us?
…a propos of nothing…didn’t jared & his father-in-law recently get paid a couple billion dollars by the saudis under the banner of some boondoggle golf tourney thing
…can’t imagine what brought that to mind?
I’m waiting for later today when he says, “my lawyers won’t let me release it, I wanted to but …”
He’s saying this to sow confusion and turn himself into a victim. The press refusing to call this out makes them complicit in his efforts to spin this and potentially get people killed.
They have to stop treating him as acting in good faith. They have to stop pretending his backers in the GOP are too.
There is no way to bothsides this, create a wishy-washy headline only hinting at wrongdoing, or act like some 14th paragraph “however” clause is sufficient to offset unfiltered repetition of his talking points.
Articles which fall short of clear, direct accounts focused on his failings are only helping him.
This irritates me.
Drug prices could give Democrats a midterms lifeline
No, fool, abortion is going to be the lifeline. I know it’s popular for the media to pretend that Democrats are doomed, but I assure you, drug prices are not bringing women to the polls in November.
It might bring the senior citizens though. There’s one drug, isn’t it insulin? that only got capped for those on Medicare. Both of Better Half’s parents were on an astonishing variety of pills toward the end of their lives but they had gold-plated public sector pensions so drug prices weren’t a concern for them. One of my sister’s in-laws, on the other hand, the guy owned his own business and his wife was his bookkeeper/office manager, and no conversation with them was complete without at least a mention of how high drug prices are, if not a full-on tirade.
I think it’s the faux-objective presentation that bothers me the most, and I sacrificed my actual point for the sake of being glib. I just don’t see a lot of old people crossing the aisle regardless of drug prices. Maybe some, but not a lot. I do think a wave of younger women are registering and planning to vote based on abortion, and I do think that is an issue that could bring moderates across the aisle.
I’m basically in blue dogcollar territory here, but I see at trend across all media to assume that the Democrats have already lost. It seems almost calculated, and pieces like this that attempt to elevate a marginal issue and claim it’s a deciding factor bother me. It just resembles the Republican stance of “No, nobody cares about abortion — the voters want ZERO INFLATION.” Except here they’re replacing inflation with CHEAP INSULIN.
I feel like “forcing me to bear a rapist’s child” =/= “cheap insulin” and trying to equate the two and place the entirety of Democrats’ chances on a fringe issue is a way of minimizing the much, much larger issue. It doesn’t help that the piece literally shuns any reference to abortion as a voting factor, which makes it look ill-considered at best, and slanted at worst.
It’s really an outgrowth of both-siderism, where an actual issue (vaccine efficacy, for example, or climate change) is minimized by saying “some people don’t believe it in.” Well, some people are morons and don’t deserve to have their opinions elevated to the level of national debate. But the media rushes to present them as equal and opposite.
Ah, I see, I didn’t read the article, I thought it was more like, “In addition to the horrendous Dobbs decision drug prices could provide [an implied additional] lifeline.” Every little bit helps.
Also sprots. Plus, dang.
Bought for $50,000, mint Mantle card drawing bids in excess of $6 million
WY, ND SD ID and Montana: combined population is less than NJ. And yet, they control 10% of the Senate.
But hey, at least we have some representation…*wink wink*
People get killed for things nuclear. My dad, a nuclear engineer, was recruited by South Korea in the mid 70s to help on a “special” project which he suspected was their rumored nuclear bomb project. He said no.
Soon after the leader of the project disappeared. Apparently he was killed by the CIA as a message to the then military government to stop their program or swim with the fishes.
Right, if this is at all connected to knowledge for other countries it’s another level of crazy that he had this stuff in a box.
Of course nothing of any sort regarding nuclear secrets should be in a box.
OK, I’m going to say this again: please stop with the bitching about two Senators for every state. We wouldn’t have a Constitution without it, and there is zero chance that low population states run by Democrats (of which there are 8 below the halfway mark) would go for changing it. Not to mention the fact that the following Republican/swing right states would get a major boost in their Senate representation:
#2: Texas
#3: Florida
#5: Pennsylvania
#8: Georgia
#9: North Carolina
For damned sure, if the Senate were likewise determined by population, you can bet those elections would be by district, rather than by statewide vote.
So, once again, please stop. If you want a better solution, then make Puerto Rico and DC states.
Agree. The solution is to expand the number of states. Just like the solution to the Supreme Court is to increase the size of the court, so that each judge doesn’t have an outsized impact on decisions. There’s no reason a single person should be responsible for 11% of a decision that affects the whole country.
I agree with you, although it’s not a popular opinion on the left, and the problem does go all the way back to the writing of the Constitution itself. Then, everyone was concerned that without a Senate the way it was Virginia would essentially run the new country, with occasional input from populous MA, NY, and maybe PA. They weren’t wrong. Four of the first five Presidents of the US were from Virginia and six of the first 10 were. That brings us up to 1845. Of the first 10, two more were from MA and one was from New York. Only Jackson, from TN, was the outlier. Several VPs were also from VA, MA, or NY.
And let’s not forget, teensy Delaware has two Senators, and one of them, for decades, was Joe Biden.
As far left as I am, I am continually amazed at my (small c) comrades’ total fucking ignorance on so many issues. We’re supposed to be the educated people.
Ngl, my DREAM is to see Puerto Rico, DC, Guam, and all the *other* inhabited US territories made into states!😉😁💖
Because, frankly, that “paying taxes but NOT having representation” thing is something that i find 100% unacceptable.
especially with that recent USSC ruling that said folks ARE eligible for… was it Medicare? benefits while living in a different state, but ineligible if they decide to move back home for support while they need help…
Hmmmm, what could this mean?
Damn, Fox not even trying to act like news anymore…
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/08/fox-news-smears-trump-warrant-judge-0
Some mornings you just need a good back scratch from a friend…
Friday is always a big chores day for me. It’s 12:19pm, I’m about 3/4 done, and I’ve come in to refill my coffee mug and see what’s happening. Oh, and to send out my love to you all.
I’ve also come in to pee. I know, it’s a very big farm with trees and everything, but I still get shy trying to pee with a sheep looking at me.
Sheep don’t tell.
Just don’t pee around mountain goats, they will fuck you up to get that yummy pee salt!
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/mountain-goat-kills-man-in-olympic-national-park/
Just sitting in the waiting room waiting for my annual doctor visit. I arrived 20 minutes early and of course they’re overbooked and running behind schedule.