Chet Breakfast

Pink Cigarette by Mr. Bungle

Biden tried to turn everything back to boring old normal and the media was *not* thrilled about that.

WI lad to TX lad at South Padre spring break: I'm sure you can chug one beer faster than me, but I think it would be more fun to see who can drink five faster.

WI lad to TX lad at South Padre Spring Break: I'm sure you can chug one beer faster than me, but who can chug five faster?

He's an incredible athlete but I'm starting to get very bad vibes from him. His long program features his own exceptionally cringy spoken word.

easiest way to traverse from confusingly sober to alarmingly stizzoned in 90 seconds

tactical nukes, bootcamp-killer AI, increasingly assertive improv bois--too many threats!

is this about the metaverse?

a 25 mph corner where everyone drives 15 mph because of the four way stop and all the pedestrians.

arguably the bougiest, most pedestrian dense corner in all of Saint Paul, if this doesn't light a fire I'm not sure what will

Corner of Western and Selby, which has maybe the most pedestrian traffic of any place in Saint Paul.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Fun fact: The divorce scene in the Kid Rock show was an actual divorce showing a wife leaving her conservative husband.

Interesting pipe dream: we draft some of these Presbyterian/Episcopalian/Unitarian ministers to primary the members of Congress who don't know what time it is. They have the basic skillset!

YouTube video by Kannoli Село і Люди - It's My Life (Selo and Ludy)

I suspect you may be someone who'd appreciate Selo and Ludy.
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When it's been below zero for a week, 5 with no wind can feel nice. My friends who lived in deep Alaska assure me the phenomenon continues further down the thermometer, believe it or not.

also they would need to stay visibly posted at each station for hours, with dozens of observers around at all times. this is.....far from how they've been operating up to this point

hopefully decent engineers can get away with using the LLM to generate scads of redundant test coverage code

transform the iron fist by putting a velvet glove on it

I last at least 30 sec before I demand another pellet so I think we're good

combination pizza hut and taco bell

The headlines on official trade announcements are always fun to see what teams come up with. This one might be an all-timer.

obviously the dems room is something else

it's literally negotiation 101: open with the most aggressive position that won't get you laughed out of the room (the room in this case being the court of public opinion)

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SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Klobuchar all of a sudden drops off the list now that she's running for governor of an incensed Minnesota electorate.

ChatGPT for governor

Doing Well by Doing Good: Dump Your American Stocks Trump’s erratic Davos speech has intensified fears of a global flight from dollar assets and US markets.

I've moved my meager 401K savings out of US stocks and into international investment funds (i.e. VTIAX), both as a political statement and as protection from Trump and AI economic fallout. Economist Dean Baker, who predicted the housing bubble in 2006, agrees with me: cepr.net/publications...