@JazzCrafter @Museek A decade or two ago there was talk of replacing that racist drunk's face with Harriet Tubman's. Which is actually problematic, but I'd still rather see her face than his.

@Tacitus_Kilgore Someday someone will write a thesis on his use of capitals. There are at least two styles, the simple ALL CAPS to express overwhelming emotion, e.g. "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!"; and the quasi-18th-century style, in which Certain Words are capitalized For Emphasis. I think the Intent is a Certain Stateliness, but One Never Knows, Do One?

Interestingly, the ALL CAPS style never includes the popular "!!!1!1!!" sequence.

@mcfate Well, women should appreciate all the trouble he's gone to just for them. And smile more.

#Donolf deftly snares the youth vote.
#politics

@mcfate @corlin Maybe sealed into the battery? It would make assembly very simple. Make a fairly simple modification to the pager's logic: A preset sequence tells the pager to short out the battery; the battery heats up, detonates the charge.
Airport security people must be petrified. Li-ion batteries were already trouble enough. IDF isn't the only organization that could engineer something like this.

@DavidSalo It never occurs to them they might be the ones enslaved -- or that slavery would be bad no matter who was enslaved. That what happens to one of us happens to all of us.

@tgraph52 @th3j35t3r

"Trump ... did not address the new report that a Republican gubernatorial nominee he has personally boosted, Mark Robinson of North Carolina, once described himself as a 'black Nazi' on an internet pornography forum."

In the immortal words of George Takei, "Oh, my."

(Gift article, no paywall)
https://wapo.st/4ev3owi

@redenigma If you stay together long enough you can call each other on it and have a laugh. "'We,' Kemosabe?" Or "'We' as in 'me,' dear?"
If my spouse were in your shoes she'd be all over me with something like "Maybe I can pay someone to take that stuff to the dump, I asked my husband months ago but he's too busy ... not sure with what ...." delivered in a slow, quiet, thinking-out-loud voice.
I think annoying each other has become one of our love languages.

@DavidSalo Whee....
An interesting effect of WA's top-two open primaries is that the WA GOP could pass up a viable candidate for governor to endorse a more-MAGA clown, and still have a Republican in the general election after the clown got his predictable shellacking in the primary. The guy they passed up survived the primary and is running as a Republican, no hard feelings I guess.
I like top-two primaries in general, but this one seems to have enabled irresponsible behavior.

@Fellixe Washington GOP did something similar: endorsed a Black guy with little experience and striking liabilities (though not in the same league with NC's Guy), passing up a more viable candidate who wasn't quite so MAGA.
Seems when they find a Black MAGAdonian they throw caution to the wind. I can understand their excitement -- it's a rare find -- but you have to vet the exciting ones too.

@th3j35t3r The logical extension of that is the "individual pool": each person negotiates a level of coverage and premium that gives acceptable care at an acceptable cost, with the insurance carrier making only a reasonable profit.
For the average male in his late teens, the coverage would be good and cheap, because those guys are almost indestructible. For the same guy in his 70s, not so good and not cheap at all, but what the hell he ain't got that long anyway.
TL;Dr: bloody stupid idea.

@th3j35t3r Why not make peace with the Haitians and get them to eat Taylor Swift? I'm sure the guy who negotiated our victory in Afghanistan can make that deal happen.

@estherschindler The other replied, "Could be worse, at least it's not a spoiled child."

@mcfate @FreedomATX Seems to me hacking the pager's logic to recognize certain caller ID patterns would be enough.
As for the explosive, it sounds like something more powerful than a Li-ion battery:

The images seen Tuesday showed signs of detonation, said Alex Plitsas, a weapons expert at the Atlantic Council. “A lithium ion battery fire is one thing, but I’ve never seen one explode like that. It looks like a small explosive charge."

Maybe use the battery as a detonator?

@LiberalLibrarian How do you get the explosive pagers into the right people's pockets?
And why bother? The likelihood of taking out anyone important is minuscule, the collateral damage tremendous. It's as if it were designed to engage the enemy without significantly weakening him.

@th3j35t3r Chyron should have read "... failed to protect Trump from one of his deranged fans again."
And when you say "four news channels," do you mean three news channels plus Fox?