Charlie Sweatpants

These are just buzzwords that dumb people use to make themselves feel more important

I obviously have no idea where our adventure in Iran is going, but I do remember 2006 when Bush Jr fired Rumsfeld like a week after the catastrophic midterms . . . and Whiskey Pete has never had Rummy's cozy relationship with non-right press.

This was a great read for any of us hoopleheads on here:

"He is unquestionably Deadwood’s villain; but there is also something correct, if not quite “right,” about George Hearst. His desire to impose order on this motley rabble is not attractive. But it is understandable."

I think that's the book with the anecdote about two Raiders sitting on the bench while the offense was on the field. Older Raider says to the newer Raider, "watch this, dawg, we're going deep".

New guy says, "how do you know?"

Vet guy says, "the phone just rang from upstairs".

We should have put Bush and Cheney in chains.

[February 27th, 1986] Circuit boards in the Boston Fire Department's 70-year-old fire alarm system for pinpointing fire sites and dispatching appropriate units are pictured at the alarm building

Have fun!

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Doozy

(boo this default dictionary)

In an antitrust context there is a clear template for a challenge that fits the current merger guidelines and won four years ago: the Simon & Schuster/Penguin Random House challenge, which said that consolidation would affect author advances. Here it's producer fees.
Other angles, but this just won.

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

I was at Yorktown once and they have a house an Allied cannonball went through and was found in like 1910, but none of the structure itself was original anymore.

It drives me up the fucking wall that the tech press goes along with this stuff because it’s been normalized. A basic function of a computer is that it does what I tell it to do. We have mentally accepted these closed ecosystems.

Don't recall a number, but there are almost no pre-Revolution buildings left in the South, almost all the 'colonial' stuff is either from after Revolutionary period or a later rebuild.

First rule of tech support: make sure it's plugged in.

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illegitimizing

(if it can go one way, it can go both)

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nerdish

(trying to cover up my leanings, Lisa Simpson style)

Screenshot from linked article: The authors tested the samples using immunoassay test strips similar to those used to measure alcohol levels in humans. The result: most of the urine samples (16 out of 20) contained significant levels of ethyl glucuronide, a byproduct of alcohol—above the 500 ng/ml that is roughly equivalent to one or two drinks for humans. And that is a conservative estimate. Once again, the most likely source is the fermented fruit the chimps consume in such large quantities.

Good morning everyone, drink like a chimp today: arstechnica.com/science/2026...

(Click through if you want to see how they collected the urine, and I know you do.)

lol

Ergo: All Roddy 3s are Heat Checks?

We has preturned the favor a few possessions earlier

Gonna win, but this is a very "guess we learned not to do that again" game.

I just checked, both my credit card sites use 'in' and so does UMCU.

(One 'In' is a 'sign' not a 'log')

12-2 run feels *much* better. Thanks, LJ!

Not sure about formal/informal, but I think we landed in the same place

Just caught up to live on the game. Dusty talking about being 'vincible' is resonating (derogatory)

In - to a private system (bank, porn, etc.)

On - to a public system (here, streaming, anywhere people can see you)

Fun out of context research quote:

"I gave my Lord Shelburne an account of this erection at the time it was made."

Yes, but it's a new *kind* of pain, so that's fun.

Screen shot from spinal tap: "I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation."

ESPN hires (generally) very good announcers and makes them discuss sports drama and hot takes for at least two possessions per half. Woof