This guy filling in for Kimmel this week, Anthony Anderson- he has no inside voice. So shouty. When I adjust the volume for him, I can’t hear anyone else.

Does anyone know this guy, and can tell him to take it down a few hundred decibels?

Having read and listened to a fair amount about the attempted assassination, I’ve decided it’s a con. I don’t believe the story as told.

#politics

I’m on the road and seeing ads on the TV, where I normally don’t. Funny how all the fast food places are advertising their foods by price now. Multiple places have $5 meals, and sit down places are ~$10.

Not a word about how hard they’ve been fucking us with their greedflation.

I’m sure it’s a challenge to figure what lunacy moved 45’s shooter, but imagine for a moment that they hadn’t caught/killed him.

Can you imagine the endless possibilities of compiling a list of those with motive?

Any of his rape victims/family/etc. Any Epstein connections. Any woman denied reproductive care. Anyone affected by limits to their voting right. Anyone offended by Project 2025. Anyone connected to the immigrant children he put in cages. Anyone who has yet to be paid for goods or services provided to him. Anyone he had take a fall for him. Spurned VP contenders. Deutsche Bank. Ted Cruz.

I mean it’s endless. About the only one you could say *wasn’t* likely involved was ole Pootey Poot.

#politics

I don’t know anything about it, but I bet it’d drive 45 crazy to say “someone tried to kill you? Hey- you’re just like Obama!”

What’s being reported is just nuts.

My grad school will be ending email accounts for alumni in January. I’m not bothered as such- I don’t really need it. I’m curious about their motivation though. They said “This change will align us with industry best practices and improve email security.” Huh?

What best practices? I get that it lightens the load regarding security, but what’s the “best practice” argument beyond that? Are people getting un-entitled discounts somewhere with .edu addresses?

Only those weirdo morning people are surprised.

Night owls’ cognitive function ‘superior’ to early risers, study suggests

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/11/night-owls-cognitive-function-superior-to-early-risers-study-suggests

Lewd vocabulary in erotic fiction.

Are we counting “Chonson” as “Johnson”? Like in, “zen vee cut off your Chonson”.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jUlzLj5l7dZYer5uMUF6oD1sJ7cQ8elJ/view

So my girlie emigrated here from one of the smaller EU nations, and I safely guessed she’d never had Pop Rocks candies, so I bought some a month or two ago. We tried them, and I dunno- maybe she had cotton mouth or something, but she was entirely underwhelmed. Then she saw the remaining pouches full last night and asked about them, so we tried again.

NOW she gets it. :)

For the 3D Printing peeps…

Oh come ONNNNNN…. Fools and their money, I guess.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jul/09/the-150000-dog-meet-the-svalinn-the-gentle-beast-who-can-rip-out-an-attackers-throat

Any DIY #HiFi peeps here?

Funny how the media was willing to go ape shit over the 1619 Project, but can’t be bothered to the same outrage by Project 2025.

I gotta think all the Dems NOT wanting Biden to make way for someone else are clearly remembering LBJ. I get it. LBJ had strong reason to believe he wouldn’t survive another 4 years (and was correct), and didn’t want to go out like that. The net effect of course was Nixon. Oof.

On the other hand, where’s the humanity for Biden? Let the old guy go eat ice cream and drive his Corvette at 10 MPH.

This sort of decision should have been made well before now, but it’s still a good stretch until November.

#politics #ageism

On behalf of all the dogs/cats/etc. who can’t escape these sounds and freak the fuck out all week, “Aww, that’s too bad. Now, what’s for dinner?”

Witnesses say a 45-year-old man was lighting "mortar style fireworks" in a Redmond parking lot when one hit him in the back of his head and killed him early Friday morning.

https://tinyurl.com/4rf62dyb

Nothing could go wrong here, and surely it’s not a problem of culture…

Vending machines selling bullets at grocery stores

https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2024/07/vending-machines-selling-bullets-at-grocery-stores.html

(Not from wildfires)

I haven’t paid attention to movies in aeons, especially superhero movies, so imagine my surprise to see “The Incredible Hulk” wearing a cardigan and typing on a computer like some day trader.

I don’t think I’m missing out.

I tried Wikipedia in the new “dark mode”. I dunno…

#SomeSay he can immediately summon an Ice Cream Truck (and only the good ones- you know- with the legit Bomb Pops, not those toothpicky bullshit imposters) in any weather, and that his fireworks shows don’t frighten dogs, but we simply refer to him as @th3j35t3r

Also: he made Chuck Norris cry “Uncle!” at summer camp.

[unrelated amusement- my phone corrected “Chuck Norris” to “Fuck Norris”. Never have I felt more connected to my phone]