@AkomoCombine Well, they do taste like they contain lacquer and paper pulp.

So, they're accused of telling a Whopper whopper?

I'll see myself out.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/burger-king-must-face-lawsuit-claiming-whoppers-are-small-rcna102528

@SentinelOfTruth NB that Judge Howell directly called out his "play to the base" games.

@SentinelOfTruth Meh. They're preaching to the converted with that crap. The ones who'll buy it were going down with the MAGA ship no matter what.

Well, Rudy's stall tactics have collapsed. His refusal to turn over discovery materials and then his "I admit I was wrong but not really so the case is moot but I don't have to pay any damages" filings have worn out the judge. She's ruled that he is de facto liable and that the jury will only determine damages.

She added that he can still reverse this and get a normal trial if he complies with all the orders - but he's not going to do that.

#Politics

@AskTheDevil I sympathize. I look at news sites more to see what line is being pushed to the voters than for information as such (though there are often exceptions when quality stories get through).

@AskTheDevil There isn't and never has been a "liberal media." There is openly right-wing media. The rest plays games for attention and profits... though quality journalism sometimes makes it through. (Once upon a time even Fox occasionally did real work. Not in recent years, though.)

@AskTheDevil Enough to do damage? Yes. The media loves a "cloud over a D" insinuation game.

@AskTheDevil Often, yes.

@phase2 I'm unfamiliar with that effect. The argument, I take it, being that it weakens variations in depth and temperature?

@LiberalLibrarian And of course any scene from that saccharine film then brings to mind Shatner in Airplane II: "Get me a complete file on anyone who's seen The Sound of Music more than four times!"

@LiberalLibrarian Well, of course. Its main association *is* with Austrian anti-Nazis (such as there were).

I've noticed many times that hurricanes often make landfall slightly weaker than the predictions said.

With Idalia it was the opposite. Not only were the dire Cat 3 predictions accurate, it was *barely* short of Cat 4 when it made landfall (125 mph; Cat 4 starts at 130).

That's what happens when a storm moves over bathwater-temperature Gulf waters.

While Fox hosts sneer "If there were climate change, storms would be getting WORSE!"

@LiberalLibrarian Their major response was to vow to "punish" Ukraine - for daring to defend itself against an invasion. Like a mugger sobbing that he's being assaulted if the victim gets a punch in.

And why Edelweiss? Are they trying to play-act "resistance to Nazi invasion" BS again?

@AskTheDevil Actually, their chief goal is to goad the wider media into treating their conspiracy theories as legitimate.

In recent years, they've usually failed, but not always.

@AskTheDevil Well, good.

@LiberalLibrarian In fact Ukraine already hit Pskov in May. And they recently hit St Petersburg, which is farther than Pskov.

@LiberalLibrarian Although Pskov isn't really much further from Ukraine than Moscow is, so Ukraine might have launched this from its own territory.

It might even be a special forces raid that Russia prefers to blame on drones.

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