Dr. Pete Meyers

Also pretty big news that Toyota thinks they can meet their emissions targets (or at least come close to them).

Tesla loses Toyota and Stellantis from its EU CO2 pool, taking billions with them Toyota and Stellantis are withdrawing from Tesla's European CO2 emissions pool for 2026, removing two of its largest paying members as regulatory credit revenue shrinks globally.

Toyota and Stellantis pulling out of EU CO2 pool. This general topic doesn't get a lot of MSM coverage but is a substantial piece of Tesla's profit margins (across the US and EU):
electrek.co/2026/03/03/t...

It's way more to do with hitting the right topics at the right time than being "interesting", IMO.

Anyone feel like Bluesky is getting much more algorithmic (for lack of a better word)? Twice in the past week I've had posts take off, which hasn't really happened before. A "popular" post in the past for me on Bluesky might be 50 likes (not 1K). Seeming more like Threads (not in a good way).

Our international policy revolves around whichever world leader or cabinet member kissed his ass most recently.

Israel Advances in Lebanon and Seizes More Land, as Hezbollah Fight Escalates

I know these aren't US troops, but Israel has boots on the ground in Lebanon. The illusion/delusion that this is going to be some kind of 3-day air campaign that doesn't spill over is already shattered:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

Lying about either Clinton's testimony a couple of days before video was released seems profoundly stupid, but I guess when you've got FOX and NewsMax to just pick up the lies and run with them, it doesn't matter.

At least toss Marisa a Signal chat or two, cowards!

Between these six deaths and the three F15s Kuwait shot down (thankfully, those soldiers survived), it's starting to look like Trump did fuck-all coordination with our regional allies.

Don't worry -- I'm sure we'll be throroughly questioning Hillary Clinton about how she allowed this to happen.

Isn't that GPITHOOC?

... and Kuwait shot down three of our F15s -- just top-notch communication with our regional allies.

It's wild how often I have to enter my mobile phone number twice on forms.

"I'd like the linguine alfredo with chicken, but without alfredo or chicken, and bring that out as my appetizer."

evergreen

"We have no plan and no idea how long this will take and know idea what we're doing, but Joe Biden didn't even know what he was doing!"

US says Kuwait mistakenly downed 3 American jets during Iranian attacks The U.S. military says Kuwaiti air defenses mistakenly shot down three American fighter jets during an Iranian air assault.

Kuwait shot down 3 US F-15Es in "friendly fire":
apnews.com/article/us-j...

I'd like to thank @duckworth.senate.gov for speaking out against Hegseth from the very beginning, even when she had little support. He's uniquely unfit to lead and a danger to both soldiers and civilians.

The full clip is so much worse. Basically, we'll just keep killing Iranian leaders until something happens we like. Begrudging credit to Welker for "Is hope the plan?"

I'm not going to be saying much about this insanity over the next few days -- not for lack of caring, but for my own sanity and because disinformation is flying right now.

Yeah, I'm sure "DON'T RETALIATE, BRO!!" is going to work really well. Glad to have a President with such a keen grasp of Middle East history.

Timeless advice, to be sure.

I'd rather lick a carpet from the beginning of one of those viral carpet-cleaning videos.

So, funny thing, but I was actually look for a bag for my bos/staffs, Amazon thought I meant "bow", and it turned out that the longbow bags were better and had more options. So I bought a bow bag for my bos.

You remember when they had those human-powered answering services like KGB and ChaCha? I used to go on them and ask stuff like "What was the movie with the one guy and that other guy who was in that film with that lady?" Ah, the good old days before LLMs.

Got a longbow case. Now, if only I owned a longbow.

Came here to say this, whether it's correct or not.

I guess we're gonna do some space extortion.

"Instead, the mission has been redesigned as a high-stakes
'shakedown' in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)" -- maybe this is a Chicago thing, but I apparently have a different definition of "high-stakes shakedown" than NASA.