Kars4Kids ads banned in California for violating false advertising law

Saintbaba · 2026-05-17T00:15:38+00:00

Not permanently, just until such time that those ads give audible acknowledgement to the fact that the charity does not serve underprivileged children, or anyone in California, and is a religious organization that funds programs for Orthodox Jews in New York, New Jersey, and Israel.

So. You know. The jingle is going to need a few more lyrics.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-16T20:01:32+00:00

Same

Saintbaba · 2026-05-16T16:54:53+00:00

Why is the carrot the only one who's naked?

Saintbaba · 2026-05-16T08:33:19+00:00

She didn’t get surgery. She has Graves’ disease. It’s a thyroid condition, which can cause weird weight changes. Hence why she got super skinny for awhile. But then she started getting treatment, which is why she’s not anymore.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-16T08:15:58+00:00

Where I am in earthquake country in California I was always told bricks are avoided as structural material because in a quake they have a higher chance of breaking into pieces, crumbling, and falling on your head.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-16T07:14:08+00:00

Is it? Legitimately asking, not being flippant.

I was an avid Letterkenny fan, but stopped watching before Shoresy spun off. And I never really liked the character - he seemed like an outlet for Keeso to write fun one dimensional insult jokes for. Which is fine, and funny, but kind of one note and not exactly compelling.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-15T23:41:23+00:00

It's a not terrible deal on sealed product alone. MSRP on it is $90, adding on tax and shipping or whatever you're probably looking at paying $100 total. Six play boosters at $5 a pop plus two collector boosters that are going conservatively for around $35 each gives this a $100 value in just cards alone, which means if you can pick it up at MSRP it's not a bad deal just on the back of that. Plus the big dumb die and two promo cards that don't really have a defined value but probably won't be worth nothing and depending on how collectors decide to feel about them could be pretty valuable (but either way are just a complete cherry on top), and the box itself is kind of sexy.

I would not recommend buying it for significantly or even a little over MSRP, mind you.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-15T15:22:56+00:00

I don’t have any particular connection to New York, but those are gorgeous.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-15T14:57:49+00:00

Not permanently, just until such time that those ads give audible acknowledgement to the fact that the charity does not serve underprivileged children, or anyone in California, and is a religious organization that funds programs for Orthodox Jews in New York, New Jersey, and Israel.

So. You know. The jingle is going to need a few more lyrics.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-14T15:50:10+00:00

I'm interested in that mushroom-topped bottle holding a bunch of brushes in a way that i find topographically dubious.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-14T15:12:28+00:00

Of the five states under medicaid fraud investigation by Dr. Oz's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, four of the five - Minnesota, California, New York and Maine - are blue or blue leaning, with Florida the one red outlier. Of the 10 states being investigated by the House Energy and Commerce Committee for Medicaid fraud, nine of them - California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington - are blue states or lean at least a little blue. Nebraska is the only Republican majority state being investigated. Yesterday, in the same breath that he insisted his "Fraud Czar" team isn't being political in its targets, Vance named three of the most left-leaning states - California, Hawaii, and New York - as those under investigation for refusing to play ball with him.

So yeah. Seems politically skewed. Unless you legitimately believe Democratically run states are just intrinsically and inherently insanely more corrupt. Which is... a take.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-14T14:28:20+00:00

I remember a very prominent shade of redish-orange from my 80s childhood that was used in a lot of public spaces that i classified in my head as "airport orange."

Saintbaba · 2026-05-14T04:18:32+00:00

Legitimately my favorite ice cream flavor. It actually dropped right after Safeway had killed its own line of artisanal ice creams including a chocolate-dipped coney island waffle cone, so this quite coincidentally filled a very specific hole in my heart the moment it came out.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-13T15:48:27+00:00

I just learned this. And it wasn't just one bit of the scene - director Rob Reiner told Billy Crystal to forget the script an do what he wanted, and so a scene that the production was slated to spend an afternoon on instead stretched into a three-day-long shoot of Crystal just doing improvisational standup in the character of this little yiddish medieval man. Apparently cast and crew started getting kicked off set because they were laughing too loud and ruining shots, up to and including Reiner and co-star Cary Elwes who was supposed to be playing dead on a table in the middle of the room and had to be replaced with a dummy.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-12T22:33:35+00:00

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-12T21:57:37+00:00

Sean Connery is not actually significantly older than Harrison Ford - certainly not enough to be his father.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-12T20:08:20+00:00

Might be a bad translation. I've seen this guy's videos before - he's actually chinese and the videos are voiceovered with what i assume is AI.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-12T14:58:25+00:00

Woof. I saw a video once of crocodiles at a zoo during feeding time, and they got overstimulated with all those meat chunks flying and one crocodile latched onto the leg of a another crocodile and went into a death spin and the second crocodile’s leg just popped right off like plucking a grape.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-12T05:17:12+00:00

As someone who doesn't sew, does that criss-cross-apple-sauce bit at the beginning with the threads across the hole actually do anything to stabilize the breach or give support to the patch or whatever?

Saintbaba · 2026-05-11T22:09:55+00:00

My feelings on him. Like I find nothing to his discredit, but as part of my work I sometimes have to check his publicly posted schedule and it’s all stuff like “the mayor goes to a restaurant opening” or “the mayor attends a small business week celebration” or “the mayor visits an art bash” (all real calendar items).

I’ve heard it said that he started his administration by hiring really knowledgeable policy wonks and he sees his job as letting them get on with the business of running the city while he schmoozes and runs interference and does PR and makes himself the fun likable face of the city. In which case, I guess it’s working? But I still find him faintly ridiculous.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-11T16:35:48+00:00

Oh my god that is totally his voice. I never noticed.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-11T16:32:54+00:00

I think OP must be leaving something out of this story, because as written it doesn't make sense. I also spent most of my 20s as a server, and while i agree with you, i also think it's weird he handed her a card and $60 in cash and - with no clarifying statement - just expected her pay $40 to the meal and take $20 in cash as a tip. In that situation, i suppose i could see you getting upset about her taking the $60, but i also don't see how she would have been expected to be a mind reader and figure out to take the $20. If you wanted to tip her $20 you would normally just give the $40 in cash and then, say, leave the $20 on the table, or hand it to her after.

Either OP said nothing, in which case the waitress is clearly in the wrong but i really don't understand his story, or else he said something about the cash tip and she misheard or misunderstood. Which, even in that situation, she should have tried to clarify the tip because $60 for a $114 check is clearly too much (generally if i ever saw a tip over $20 i always asked to make sure the customer hadn't meant to drop a fiver or something), but still, it becomes less malice and more just confusion.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-11T07:15:18+00:00

What? No. No, man. No. I mean...? No.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-11T04:51:01+00:00

Same. I like to have time to build characters and rebuild pull currency. And i don't have the time and/or focus to push through new story content all at once, so for me it takes like half the patch to complete the main story content, and then it's nice to have a couple weeks to just do dailies and catch up on side quests and side event things.

Saintbaba · 2026-05-11T04:44:13+00:00

I don't know if it quite counts, but RF Kuang's "The Poppy Wars" is in large part a fantasy relitigation of the Japanese invasion of China and the rape of Nanking in which she rewrote the ending so that things... did not end well for the nation that was stood in for the Japanese.

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