It’s not officially a world war until every FIFA confederation has a representative.

Australia and Indonesian Papua being in Asia is kind of bullshit but I don’t make the rules.

Ok, so maybe not nice.

People are really overlooking that he’s 69 and nice.

https://youtu.be/cAvXnBgJMdM

Wouldn’t it be caiman-infested in Bolivia and not alligator-infested? It’s South America.

And consenting heterosexuals in the U.S. Blow jobs are also considered sodomy, even amongst consenting adults.

“Sodomy is defined as any sexual act involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another.”

Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/sodomy

The Supreme Court (finally) struck down the remaining anti-sodomy laws in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas but most states had either repealed their laws or had their law struck down by their state’s Supreme Court. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_States

Well that’s embarrassing considering how many of their shows I’ve seen (4). I’ll fix it. Thanks for correcting me.

Edit: I made a joke about the free radicals being a good band name if it wasn’t taken but I was thinking of Anderson Paak and the Free Nationals.

We at this account regret the error and everyone involved has been catapulted as punishment for the faux pas. May we have the strength, fortitude, and cunning to make it back to shore.

I don’t know. I live in New Orleans and they had a Red Lobster in the suburbs and someone is trying to put Chick Fil’A restaurants all over town. (The someone is literally a guy who got rich via owning a garbage truck company.)

Tourists like shitty fast food sometimes. I don’t know why people get the worst fried chicken in the city but people do. Some toddlers throw a fit if their dinner isn’t chicken nuggets.

Oh good. Germany is rearming.

“Itamar Ben-Gvir supporters” are literally called terrorist sympathizers, at best. An Israeli court convicted him of terrorism related offenses. It’s not even controversial. It’s like saying El Chapo wasn’t in a cartel or that Trump never gave $3 hand jobs in an alleyway near the Sbarro in midtown NYC that now sits on West 33rd St.

How do you coax rabbits to breed more? Put 2 in a stadium with lots of food and you’ll have 2^16 in a few months.

Do Masonic lodges have anything else to apologize about? Or just that McConnor McGregor is an ass?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due

I don’t normally read local newspaper comment sections because only insane people post there but I kept scrolling thinking there’d be more text and saw the comments on that article. The NY Post commenters seem uniquely insane in specific ways.

I almost think they’re bots. Most local news sites have people saying random crazy shit like, “It ain’t even safe to go to the Circle K no more!” but there’s no theme. NY Post commenters are still obsessed with Hunter Biden. It’s like Rupert Murdoch had some people set up a bot farm for the election and they all forgot to turn it off when Biden dropped out.

Or maybe Staten Island residents are just like that?

Who gives a shit if Trump is in opposition when they (we, I’m American) are purposely fucking up global trade?

Everyday Americans with little power on our own are stepping up. Republicans are refusing to do town halls in their own districts because even their constituents are showing up and yelling at them. Congressional voice mailboxes are routinely full and people are writing letters and emails. Last Saturday, there were 1300+ protests with like 1,000,000 people taking to the streets. And that was just the first one. There’s a lot more people who support the protests but didn’t hear about them ahead of time or couldn’t make it (for whatever reason; work, disabilities, childcare, etc.).

The problem now isn’t with “Americans” writ large. It’s spineless leadership. And not just “leadership” in the sense of corrupt elected officials and judges. I also mean major university presidents and law firm partners that capitulated rather than fight back. Business leaders not speaking out (anonymous quotes in the Financial Times or Wall Street Journal isn’t speaking out; they’re like $400 a year and most people don’t know how to get around paywalls). Religious leaders — white evangelical Protestant ones, anyway — failing in every possible way. Retired generals (or anyone else who swore an oath to the constitution) should be livid.

Maybe now that he tanked the global economy and is fucking with rich people’s money, there will be more resistance from so-called “elites” but I’m not holding my breath waiting for them to stop being cowards and protecting their own asses. But regular people are doing what we can.

Trump unilaterally declared certain words in research papers would get funding for your research (and even university) revoked.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.1FgL.3feAf1QvdpOb

Gift link to the list of words compiled by The NY Times.

If you have an old enough circuit breaker, you can stick certain coins in it — a penny in the United States — until you can get to the hardware store and buy a proper fuse. It might burn your house down but not really if you don’t do it a lot.

Basically, not ideal and maybe exchanges should have to be the “house” but circuit breakers are there because of awful lessons learned in previous crashes.

I don’t disagree on the principal or fairness but circuit breakers came about the hard way. Sometimes, markets get so many sell orders due to panic selling that they really can’t clear the trades because there’s not enough buy orders to match up. The first level is only a few minutes to give people time to chill out.

Investing is like gambling in a lot of ways, obviously, but there is no “house” to buy whatever you “bet.” Some other person or institution or whatever has to put in a buy order or your trade won’t go through at all. I think of them more that way. If you sell at $100 and no one buys it, you have something worth $0. If the exchange gets a few minutes (the first stop breakers are pretty short: 7 minutes, then 20 minutes, then a day), there will be buyers.