Morally Bankrupt

Deadly bird flu found in California elephant seals for the first time Researchers at UC Davis say news they've dreaded since 2023 has come to pass: California's elephant seals have been infected with H5N1 bird flu.

The H5N1 bird flu virus has been confirmed in northern elephant seals on the California coast. Just a few years ago, the virus decimated southern elephant seal populations in South America. @susrust.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...

the recent jerryrigged review was the first time that a car review video has made me lust after a car i have no business owning

2024 Volvo V60 Recharge First Test: A Civilized Sleeper Sledgehammer Powerful yet controlled, the V60 Recharge plug-in hybrid is a combination of personalities.

2024 volvo v60 recharge polestar PHEV for me www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024...

fwiw i actually think scrapping it all might be just as big of a mistake. hybrids and EVs will absolutely be winners and the loss of momentum was rate-driven. watch luxe auto (inc rivian) sales skyrocket as soon as cashout refi starts flowing again with the top half of mortgsge-borrower wage earners

none.. i’ve just been thinking about discworld and remembered the quote after seeing SOTU posts but i guess it works for all of those

no, frances ontiere, you failed to get the joke

one of the big global banks used to put out an annual report on zombie funds, PE and VC funds that still had assets (usually down quite a lot) but just stopped returning capital so as to not have to crystallize the loss. stopped publishing about 10y ago i think. it was more frequent than one expects

It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell them a lie, and then when you don't need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth

ok maybe the joke there was not as obvious as i thought

wait how is it even possible that every single woman in both teams is hot? yeah yeah young and +4sd athletic whatever but thats not this, those are all top tercile face cards. how do none or them have weird noses or crooked teeth or an unfortunate haircut like men so often seem to?

33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

today i introduced the (almost) 5yo to animaniacs and then we had hot dogs and some italian orange soda. 10/10 afternoon

this is just a modern-day play on an old scheme where undocumented immigrants “rent” SSNs and the employer facilitates it. the worker has extra money withheld and the SSN’s owner gets the SS credits and the tax refund

wait DASH broke the tax-snitch model and doesn’t verify SSN/TINs? Is this just like “common knowledge” or do we have documentation?

yup. bad gamblers are all the same. they want to make it back the same way they lost it, they double down, they worsen their outcome distribution to bet on a long-shot that allows them to save face, they bleed (npi) to hold on to skew, they think they can just raise the stakes until opponents fold

yes. people use “skill” but the only real measurements we have are wages and prestige, and the latter is quite fuzzy. when you actually want to be serious instead of just spit takes on the internet the correct nomenclature is low- and high-prerequisite employment, because that is how hiring works.

The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing."

They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.

Never mind the jobs you had. Tell me five classes you took in college:
History of the Soviet Secret Police
Feminist Film Theory
Morphology
Stochastic Processes
Programming Languages

the capitalization is all wrong on this. its a poor imitation with bad cadence

the online chuds are wildly underestimating how many first-time protesters are showing up to things and how fucking pissed off they are and how radicalized they become after being on the receiving side of the tear gas and police brutality. the fascists are sowing the seeds of their own demise

Weird how some drug dealers get pardons while others are subjected to extrajudicial murder just on suspicion of it.

i think about this every time i look at the latest Overdrive or Hoopla or Kanopy invoice. unless prices or demand stabilize, our budget and thus our library will soon be describable as “lessee of digital content with a legacy dead-tree side concern.” 📚

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.

If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

how is an offer that is written out, responded to with acceptance, and then replied to with confirmation that it was their intent to make that offer not a binding offer? you can just renege on stuff like this????

god knows we do not allow Ms Rachel in my house (I'm sorry, I like her politics, but the show's format is not for me) but this content is the polar opposite of slop. i thought these dorks were the "word mean things!" people?

tune back in in three weeks or three months when I have new updates and feel free to drop some recs in here that are not 30 book series, don't involve wars or battles or medieval settings, and are not written before 1970 or full of Britishisms. She knows a lot of words, but she's still just 4.5yo...

Honestly, I can't believe these books are so popular because they are... not great? Like some solid concepts for sure but really lacking in the execution. I feel like you could vastly improve them in any grad-level writers' workshop at a university. I guess Men Could Just Do Things Back Then, huh?

HOWEVER: it was all kind of worth-it when she pieced together how this book relates to the other one before the narrator spelled it out. The excitement at connecting those dots was so cool (but also not conducive to going to sleep). FWIW I've never read these books and I didn't know much about them

Once again, I am here to complain about The Way Things Were, How People Talked, and That Weird Island Dialect and Even Weirder Culture. I swear I spend 10 minutes explaining for every 5 minutes I spend reading, so we are averaging like 1 chapter a night and it takes like 40 minutes to get through it

This was all to lead to The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia) which we are reading because we read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe last year and when she found out there were more "narnia books" she wanted to read them, and this seemed like a natural, totally age inappropriate follow-up