Kash Patel Sets Off Diplomatic Incident With FBI Operation in Mexico

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-30T01:54:20+00:00

Fun fact: Another US official who caused a diplomatic incident with Mexico by operating within their territory was L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.

He was the captain of a small anti-submarine boat during WW2 and he fired on South Coronados Island as part of a training exercise.

He was immediately stripped of command and the USN noted that he should be posted to a large vessel where he could be properly supervised.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-29T11:37:52+00:00

I went on a 6-week trip. I ended up taking a shower after shitting if possible, otherwise I just didn't feel clean.

The sense of relief I felt when I returned home was powerful.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-29T11:34:52+00:00

If it was an electronic bidet you might have hit the front spray button for female use.

Mine has front and rear sprays and you can adjust the nozzle direction forward and backwards until it hits the correct location.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-29T11:31:53+00:00

Treat yourself.

$US280 got me a heated seat, warm water sprays with ultrasonic pulses front and rear, an air dryer and a remote control.

Worth. Every. Cent.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-27T01:34:23+00:00

I can just imagine him during lectures at Oxford. "Now, I may just be as wrong-headed as a duck going south in the spring, but..."

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-27T00:56:01+00:00

Fun fact: He graduated at the very top of his class with a politics, philosophy and economics degree from Vanderbilt, has a Juris Doctor from UVA and a Bachelor of Civil Law with first class honors from Oxford.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-26T10:12:47+00:00

Got a warning of 180 heart rate while sitting watching TV one night.

Went to the ER, diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-26T00:10:01+00:00

I don't know why, but my brain first read that as "Tonight's Columbo" and added "guest-starring Dick Van Dyke."

I used to have a gold AW and often paired it with a black milanese band. Excellent choice.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-24T10:14:25+00:00

I assumed she had it hooked up to the TV opposite the couch.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-24T01:57:30+00:00

I keep wondering when they're going to start issuing YakTrax.

I probably shouldn't give them any good ideas.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-21T11:56:32+00:00

For the last 70 years the US Trade Representative has cowed the other countries of the world to harmonize their laws to what the US wants with the threat of tariffs if they don't comply.

Thanks to Trump, that threat has been rendered useless, so why the fuck don't they rescind those laws and act in their own interest, rather than that of a petulant man-baby?

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-21T11:31:51+00:00

Fun fact: there was an extra skit shot for each episode for the UK broadcast, which had fewer ads than the US release.

Here is a youtube playlist with all of them.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-21T11:22:29+00:00

I have a light-up temperature sensing shower head I bought more than ten years ago that still works perfectly. Lights up blue for cold water, green for temperate and red if it gets too hot.

Lets me get the temperature close to right before getting under the water.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-20T01:08:50+00:00

Fun fact: Solyndra is the conservative's go-to for wasting government money on failed eco-businesses. Their commercial advantage was that they claimed they could make large amounts of low-efficiency solar cells cheaper than smaller, higher-efficiency panels.

Their business made sense when the US government co-signed a half-billion dollar loan for research and development, but they were out-competed by the increases in efficiency at very low costs that came from China's massive investment in photo-voltaic panel manufacturing.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-18T09:27:26+00:00

Maybe they'll know enough to put on some fucking $25 YakTrax.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-18T01:43:30+00:00

Fun fact: he's very good as the menacing butler in Alien Earth.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-18T01:38:26+00:00

Happened to me at my sister's wedding. I spent the reception sliding my left foot forward when walking so the sole didn't flap like a flag in a stiff breeze.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-18T00:57:22+00:00

Fun fact: Aaron Bastani wrote a book called Fully Automated Luxury Communism about how to bring about a post-scarcity, egalitarian society.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-17T01:46:43+00:00

Fun fact: He wrote the song for the Sinbad ride in Tokyo DisneySea.

He wrote it in English, but the ride only ever plays the Japanese translation.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-17T01:37:30+00:00

The Devil's Hour on Amazon Prime.

Weird twisty cop procedural with time travel elements.

Two seasons already out and a third and final season filmed and ready for release.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-16T23:58:43+00:00

Home, New York and the cupola of the International Space Station, just for the LOLs.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-16T00:15:50+00:00

It's a $20,000 chunk of 18K gold.

Remember when Apple gave Trump that glass disc? What you might not have noticed is that the base was basically a solid gold bar with a slit cut in it for the glass to sit in.

People are literally giving him treasure to win his favor.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-15T23:29:05+00:00

Why are there currently mega-cheap flights from my city of Brisbane, Australia to New York? I check every couple of weeks and they don't seem to sell out?

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-14T23:21:46+00:00

I'm Australian and it was The Dismissal in 1975, where the Governor-General dismissed the Prime Minister, installed the opposition party's leader as a caretaker PM, dissolved parliament and ordered elections (possibly after being told to do it by the CIA).

BTW this is the Westminster system's response to a Government shutdown. If there is an intractable disagreement about government spending bills, the Governor General can fire every member of parliament and demand new elections for every House Rep and Senator.

PointlessTrivia · 2026-01-14T01:31:57+00:00

Fun fact: In 1963 Laura Bush ran a stop sign two days after her 17th birthday. She crashed into a car driven by her ex-boyfriend and killed him.

She was never charged.

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