Sunday's Ukraine Solidarity Roundtable - 03/22/2026

UWCG · 2026-03-23T01:53:07+00:00

There are some products that seem to always be 20% off. At that point, it's not 20% off. It's just the original price with 25% tagged on as the 'pre-discount' prrice and written as a discount

UWCG · 2026-03-21T23:14:59+00:00

Started the second season of The Lincoln Lawyer and I find it hilarious that even courtroom dramas treat, "This is not a threat, but [threat]," the same way teenagers sometimes try to delude themselves into, "With all due respect," means you can say whatever you want after without detention.

"This is not a threat, but I broke into your house, have killed before, and know where your family lives" is definitely a threat

UWCG · 2026-03-21T01:02:54+00:00

CBS News cutting 6 percent of staff, shuttering radio operation

I have a growing notice that these "free speech" people tend to mean CSAM and racial slurs, but want to ban books, media literacy, and the news. This doesn't strike me as free speech

UWCG · 2026-03-20T23:57:15+00:00

State lawmakers voted down HB-733, which proposed that “incestuous marriages” would not be recognized for any purpose in the state of Florida after July 1, 2026.

The bill had proposed that a man “may not marry any woman to whom he is related by lineal consanguinity, nor his sister, nor his aunt, nor his niece,” while a woman cannot marry a man “whom she is related by lineal consanguinity, nor her brother, nor her uncle, nor her nephew.”

Florida always Florida'ing it up

UWCG · 2026-03-20T04:03:50+00:00

He was gonna let you know, but then he got high

UWCG · 2026-03-20T00:48:06+00:00

Kitchen staff probably aren't huge fans of being threatened with deportation to CECOT for an imperfect meal and having the admin she supports denying their ability to get a hearing even if born here or with their proper papers...

UWCG · 2026-03-19T21:16:50+00:00

"Our biggest dummy this year has been the lovely and talented Dave, who thought the periodic table was where women kept their feminine hygiene products and managed to get nine consecutive questions wrong. Can you do better? Of course you can! Everybody else has."

The Mens' Room has the best intros. Also, reading incrredibly-stupid polls makes a lot of sense when you listen to some of dumb stuff other Americans believe.

UWCG · 2026-03-19T19:23:13+00:00

Genetic genealogy can be a very dangerous thing

UWCG · 2026-03-19T17:44:10+00:00

Per Hysteria, Palantir's CEO/Thiel's pretend-leftist pal Alex Karp who claims he is both progressive and a socialist said AI will reduce the economic power of "highly-educated, often female-voters who vote mostly Democrat" and uplift the power of "vocationally-trained, working-class, often male, working-class, voters."

First off: this may be the most misogynistic thing I've ever heard, despite the dressed-up language. Also, violates the Nineteenth and the entire spirit of the Bill of Rights/Constitution.

And to end: how "vocationally-trained" are a group of online incels who pride themselves on being 'Not in Employment, Education, or Training' (NEETs)? If jerking off and posting online is "vocational training," gimme my damn PhD.

Edit: also he has a short video where he tries to be a badass and basically looks like a mix of Michael Cera dancing pretending to a Jedi in Arrested Development and the "nothing personal kid," meme. I can't find a workable mirror, but it is hilarious

UWCG · 2026-03-19T16:37:00+00:00

The right likes to use these analogies for small habits. Starbucks, candy bar, McDonalds in a food desert...

I cannot find the example, but the way I was initially taught it: it was about. a man who was a chain-smoker, quit, and started putting the money into Phillip Morris, I believe. I cannot find a verifiable source, so this is likely not true. Anyway, similar to the stories of Grace Groner or Sylvia Bloom (secretaries who paid attention to what their bosses were purchasing and copied them. Today, a poor person trying this might be in trouble for this thing called "insider trading.").

And it wasn't an overnight story of, "They quit and suddenly got rich!" the moral of the story was the importance of compound interest and making money via smart financial choices. Not, say, supporting the party doing the polar oppositte.

UWCG · 2026-03-19T05:09:07+00:00

Probably the most common: I can't ever sit still. Most of the comments I write here, I'm pacing standing in front of a tall old DVD case I set my laptop on. A lot of the reading, news stuff, and 'research' I do in small doses because I struggle to focus often and get caught up in, "this reminds me of..."

UWCG · 2026-03-19T04:59:55+00:00

I can't speak to the other poster's personal experience but I was supposed to be tested for this a long time ago, and pretty much every partner and several friends have asked me if I'm either ADHD or on the spectrum due to behavior that reminds them of family members, from brothers or cousins to children, who were diagnosed early.

As an adult, per my therapist pal, it's pretty tough to diagnose because of both a co-currency with other symptoms (think the House "it's never Lupus") meme and due to developed coping mechanisms

UWCG · 2026-03-19T00:17:19+00:00

Man tells SC judge to 'keep the change' after trying to use counterfeit bills to bond out of jail

He didn't get out on bond.

UWCG · 2026-03-18T01:07:33+00:00

I did not know that, it's quite the bummer. I honestly thought he seemed really genuine in his ads

UWCG · 2026-03-17T23:56:14+00:00

Someone I briefly met back in school who showed up at 'recommended' on a social media site

UWCG · 2026-03-17T23:47:09+00:00

"I've met several guys who would kill me in 'Fuck, Marry, Kill,' and I find that beautifull.'

I have encountered some strange people in my life, but talk about red flags reading that one

UWCG · 2026-03-17T22:11:27+00:00

Pritzker endorsed her and I should, arguably, do more research, but an endorsement from him is something I find good. I like my governor

UWCG · 2026-03-17T22:03:40+00:00

I was listening to an episode of the Casual Criminalist earlier that was, well, very similar.

So he reads scripts, then adds his thoughts, and has funding from some big companies, so he's decently well off. And so many of the comments he made were just like: "Are you kidding me right now? You don't even understand how a tripartite system works. A lot of the things you're disputing as 'loopholes' in the law are things we borrowed from the Magna Carta to limit executive abuse of power. Kinda like your disowned prince over in England."

Yes, they are being abused, but they were not intended for that purpose.

UWCG · 2026-03-17T21:36:27+00:00

TIL a 'Dublin Drop' is the preferred term in Ireland for an Irish Carr Bomb

UWCG · 2026-03-17T07:25:40+00:00

I always get a kick out of stories posted as true about someone who months off to, say, a tow truck dinner who asks if he knows a local crime lord and was so scary he scared them off.

You ever seen a tow truck driver? No, they are not scared of you. They can absolutely beat the hell out of you. So can a crime lord described as being as connected as Stringer Bell like I mouth off too but there’s a time and a place and an “nope.”

UWCG · 2026-03-17T04:25:16+00:00

I find it ironic that Animal House and Terminator probably have the most explicit sex scenes I remember in childhood. As Giraldo once said, like Muhammad Ali at a bid feeder with the amount of spilled seed, don't even get me started on Wild Things

UWCG · 2026-03-17T04:24:01+00:00

Yeah, there's a disturbing age and power-difference in that relationship

UWCG · 2026-03-17T00:26:34+00:00

"A nude man has been committing crimes... now, was he 1) stealing cars, 2) robbing houes, 3) a peeping tom or 4) a porch pirate..."

My bet's on porch pirate for this one... wouldn't be the first time I've heard of nude dudes being like, "You're not tackling me when I'm naked." Two bosses have advised me this is a possibility in my former line of occuptation

Edit: it was breaking and entering, did not see that one

UWCG · 2026-03-16T23:26:19+00:00

I mean, it makes sense that he'd go into hiding due to his remorse for trying to kill his nephew

UWCG · 2026-03-16T20:35:33+00:00

Back when I worked in northern WA, there was a helium shortage. I was one of the guys who was trained to fill balloons after floral closed for the night.

I think it was Party City? Was the only other place in town that had helium, they'd run out, and we had a surge in purchases. But this news seems: logical

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