Steven Bodzin, yes THAT Steven Bodzin

Video: Opinion | What Are We Fighting For? After launching a war in Iran, President Trump owes the American people a clear explanation of his objectives and possible endgame — something we have yet to receive, argues the Times Opinion writer W...

Crazy that Country Joe died within 2 days of the NY Times running a headline that quoted him.

For those too young to know, Country Joe's most famous song went:

1-2-3
What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me I don't give a damn
Next stop is Vietnam...

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In 10 years Internet Broken Brain will be a recognised condition and you will Be able to use it to claim diminished responsibility in court

This post failed to get traction because Big Coagulated Blood tried to censor it

Will India learn that?

This is why Brazil markets have been crashing

The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a request to the International Criminal Court calling for a criminal investigation based on the US/Israel's systematic attacks against civilians and civilian objects including:

6,668 civilian structures
5,535 homes
14 hospitals
65 schools

Venezuela has a law that all news footage has to be timestamped. State propaganda sometimes ignores that law.

Amazing subway rules in Mumbai. Luckily i forgot my nuclear weapons at the hotel and most of the bones I'm hauling were bleached

U.S. was only country in a worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are bad people A new Pew survey shows that other countries’ citizens tend to look more favorably on their neighbors.

I've been thinking about this Pew survey all week. It's incredibly depressing and makes me wonder what it would be like to live among people who didn't despise one another. washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/03/06/americans-immoral-unethical-survey/?itid=hp_more-top-stories_p002_f006

Complaint – #1 in Nippon Life Insurance Company of America v. OpenAI Foundation (N.D. Ill., 1:26-cv-02448) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT filed by Nippon Life Insurance Company of America; Jury Demand. Filing fee $ 405, receipt number AILNDC-24807068.(Assise, Christopher) (Entered: 03/04/2026)

Insurance company sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT practices law without a license.

According to the complaint, the company has been dealing with a pro se litigant who's filed a bunch of frivolous CGPT-authored docs after CGPT told her to fire her lawyer & try to reopen a settlement.

Complaint here

I get the feeling that you have an answer for us

Price shocks in essentials must be buffered before they ripple through the economy and rip apart our societies. Have governments learned their lesson or will they let the fossil fuel price shock unleash another round of windfall profits and inflation?

Link: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/o...

Class A office buildings today use facial recognition. Lanyards are for plebes

Freedom of the press is in the US Constitution.

These guys claim to be defending the US as they destroy everything that makes it great.

Journalists: Speak out about this!

I didn't know that's what you meant by media thirst. I thought you just meant the press granting attention to people far out of proportion to their constituency

I'm not sure it's totally one-sided. There is massive media appetite for never Trumpers, who are sort of the equivalent of Third Way Democrats?

Can they it fast enough? If they gave a damn they'd require carpooling and buy a bunch of buses and bikes. Instead they are pushing work from home...

China Tells Top Refiners to Suspend Diesel and Gasoline Exports China’s government has told the country’s largest oil refiners to suspend exports of diesel and gasoline as an escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf disrupts the arrival of crude from one of the wor...

Looks like a lot of places are about to speed-run a rapid shift to electric vehicles.

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Thanks, so it goes. I read the long article. Fascinating and cute

Links are allowed here! I met a Canada jay in BC, as it followed me biking up a hill for 10 or 20 minutes. It was very cute.

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

The most important elements of writing are not grammar or vocabulary, but clear thinking and a moral sensibility. Machines cannot think and do not have morality.

I have to do Career Day at my kids' school, what's a good way to teach them about science? I was thinking of giving them a fun activity and then making them fill out a lot of paperwork before abruptly canceling it

the CIA helped globalize rock and roll

Is AIPAC money in politics bad? Yes. But the Christian Right's money, power, and influence is far bigger, and they just can't wait to get Armageddon going

I was talking about US elections

In white collar crime investigations I've found that there really are good guys and bad guys. 90% of investigations quickly fall into overwhelmingly positive recommendations or a litany of horrors.

This criminological insight gives me an idea. Don't give bad guys nuclear weapons.

Lots of Americans think they can just "exit" if things get bad, not realizing that their home grown xenophobiab has metastasized around the world. There is a fast decreasing number of places to go.

Only giving him 3 stars, he wouldn't even bring the burritos down to the bomb shelter