A Biden aide said that it was “not an ideal start” for the president at the beginning of the debate, but that there was “no mass panic” at the campaign headquarters in Delaware.

Makes me think: this could be turned into a profitable new “sport”. I’m imaging something like a boxing ring, where a Boeing whistleblower and a Boeing MBA fight it out in public. Could be pitched as quasi-legit, like boxing, or maybe something along the lines of “professional” wrestling. Tag teams, outrageous costumes, stories of insult (“the MBA shot my teamie in his pickup truck!”, “this 'blower reduced dividends by $0.50/share!”) and revenge. I don’t follow fighting sports so maybe you guys could figure out something that would sell well in 2024+. You’d want betting of course, not sure if you could legally do that in IL or WA, might need to move Boeing HQ to Las Vegas. All profits would go to buying Boeing a new management and towards class-action lawsuit costs.

My guess would be that the Idaho statesman web server doesn’t like your IP address. Are you using a VPN or Tor? I can still access the article.

Maybe they should be hunting for truffles

For that they’d have to be trained though.

Oh, where? And how are you (I’m assuming US citizen?) going to get permanent resident status in these places. I (US citizen) would have moved to Germany or Canada decades ago if they were just letting us in, and even formally applied to the latter but got shot down by the authorities there.

I agree that such arrests are just a fear-inducing (i.e. “state terror”) tactic. It sounds like the final decision to pursue/not-pursue charges was up to a judge, at least in this case. It would be interesting to know if the cops knew or cared about what (and what quality) evidence they had or didn’t have.

Police arrested 57 people for criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor akin to loitering. Travis County Attorney Delia Garza’s office said Friday all those charges have been dismissed after a county judge found insufficient evidence to proceed.

Oh, it’s legit all right, and yes these people are (evil) morons. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/apr/23/washington-state-republican-party-endorses-6-candi/

Sue Kuehl Pederson picked up 86% of the convention votes and secured the party’s nomination for commissioner of public lands.

Kuehl Pederson wants to make logging a more prominent part of the state’s economy.

“Unfortunately, our timber industry, which was the backbone of our economy for at least a century … it went down the tubes,” Kuehl Pederson said in a speech Friday.

Kuel Pederson, a former senior environmental analyst at Seattle City Light, said the state needs to get its power from a mix of resources. She said the state will experience power blackouts if it transitions completely away from hydroelectric power produced by dams.

“You know, wind and solar are fine,” she said. “They make you feel good about, you know, clean air, but you can’t live off of it.”

Fucking neckbeard. Sounds like Traumatic Brain Injury for the poor girl, she could be affected (seizures &other neurological problems) for the rest of her life.

I live right under the approach/departure path for the main runway at our airport, a couple of miles away. Probably around 100 flights/day total in/out, many of them B737s, flying around 2000’ overhead. I’m wondering if I should expect to find pieces of Boeing’s Finest in the back yard or coming through the ceiling soon. So far there’s been no “blue ice” but there has also been no door plugs or tires, so could just be a matter of time. Fortunately the busiest carrier uses Embraers for many if not most of their traffic so that’s probably a good thing for me.

Key phrase: “Boeing-made”

Northern ID is a cultural shit-hole. The original home of the American Nazi, now occupied by racists, Jew-haters, Xian nationalists, and other hate-cults, and of course by American Nazis still. Oh and it’s been discovered by the wealthy elite and sold to them as a get-away where they can sit by the lake, recuperate from their hard labors of screwing the masses, network, and write checks to the Fascist orgs that exist to serve them (ex. Trump cult). N. ID can’t even keep their local state colleges functioning and accredited, but don’t worry, the CdA-area airports are in good shape and bustling with corpo jets, you’ll have no problems landing yours there.

This is what he’ll be trying to put together this year, inspired by his historical hero, Benito:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshirts

I doubt he’ll be able to find many Trump Intellectuals to lead it all, but maybe Vlad will lend a hand.

Don’t forget to publicly insult the judges and prosecutors while you’re on there. Class act.

blood-letting and incantations

Won’t work for me. My illnesses are always due to possession by evil demons. Isn’t this true for all patients? I read, today I think, that the UK royals subscribe to some kind of “chemo” nonsense to banish the cancer demons. I guess we know who didn’t have the benefit of an Indiana college education.

Also, imagine you’re

• an American history prof who, assuming you’re allowed to teach about slavery at all, has to give class time to “diverse” opinions as to whether slavery was actually a Good Thing for the slaves, that slaves were actually a happy, healthy, grateful bunch.
• a physics or astronomy prof who has to teach “diverse” theories about how the universe was magic’d into existence just a few thousand years ago.
• a chemistry, geology, ecology, or atmospheric science prof who has to give credence, in class or via grades, to “diverse” viewpoints denying any connection between burning fossil fuels and anthropogenic global warming, not that the latter is a Real Thing, of course, I diversely protest!

I do wonder if Indiana religion-aligned “higher-ed” (either schools teaching religion only, or teaching a general curriculum and just aligned with some particular religious sect) faculty will have to welcome students who present “diverse” viewpoints regarding religious truths - viewpoints like atheism or (gasp) satanism or Native spiritualities or “Christian Science” or occultism or ancient Greek/Roman beliefs, to name a few. Probably not, eh?

Archived version: https://archive.is/3QRjZ

Divine rage.

I worked a breakfast grill at a restaurant as a teen and got pretty good at it. I’ll make that kid the most perfect breakfast omelette they’ve ever eaten. And I’ll bring the ingredients if we’re short.

Also worked @a food pantry not long ago, warehouse work mostly but I got to see some of the parents and kids who showed up, long lines out into the northern cold, every day we were open, just to get a day or two’s worth of something to eat.

Anyone who would means-test a kid out of a free school meal, or deny them altogether, is some kind of sociopath monster.

corporate lobbying, campaign finances, …guns

And the military-industrial-complex, which is sort of all-of-the-above, yeah. It’s got waste, corruption, criminality (see Boeing), and “bad finance” (meaning public debt finance of any sort) from top to bottom, through and through, yet Republicans can’t get enough of it. Starving a kid is fighting “socialism”, but starving a socialized military or a defense offense contractor of a penny … now that can’t be tolerated.

That was a great read. The Onion meets the New Yorker. But how was it free to read? Did Society pay?

Related: Trump’s ‘Lost Cause’ mythmaking.

Just learn to code

Those who can code, these days, are increasingly fearful about their own job prospects. Between large-scale layoffs at tech employers and the rapidly-increasing scope of tech work that “AI” can do (or at least assist with), coding, it’s becoming clear, is just another type of labor that’s about to be automated into a niche occupation. And tech companies are gleeful at the prospects … got 1000 programmers paid $200K/yr+benefits? We can do something about that - just buy our Developer As A Service plan, with low, low usage-based pricing! You can cut headcount down to just 100 programmers, or only 50 on the DAAS Pro plan. Slash your labor costs, taxes, and compliance expenses; call today!

Software tech is just the first (white collar) sector to feel the pain of automation. It’s already been commodified by “outsourcing” of work to low-cost countries, and automation, AI-based or otherwise, is just the next step to increasing shareholder profits and management bonuses. Ironically, it’s developers themselves, so used to jumping on every latest hype-train, who are eagerly facilitating their own demise, trying to appease employers and appear more personally “productive” by integrating the latest “AI” this-or-that into their work. So many of these folks live in very high COL locations, like SF, Seattle, NY and Boston, have property in those areas, and have an identity to a great extent formed from the illusion of having “made it” in their land of tech giants. To go from being the envy of their peers and family, the “winner” with the million-dollar (or much more) house (and accompanying mortgage), private schools, and a garage full of the latest tech-on-wheels, to having no income, no other skills and experience, fading job prospects, little social support, and nowhere to go … I think it’s going to be ugly, for a class of people who aren’t used to hardship and who’ve been sold the “upward mobility” bill-of-goods for many decades now. Suicide will be one way out of it all, likely an increasingly appealing way.