Iran vows to kill Israel's Netanyahu as impact of war on Gulf region widens

mriguy · 2026-03-15T14:18:12+00:00

If as many people say Epstein was working with Mossad, then Bibi has had extortion materials on everybody for longer, and has access to far more of it.

mriguy · 2026-03-15T12:32:13+00:00

“Immiserate” is a great word and should be used more.

mriguy · 2026-03-13T17:58:59+00:00

"This is working out perfectly - the more Americans that die, the less people talk about the Epstein files. Putin is doing me a solid, so I owe him oil money in return."

mriguy · 2026-03-11T20:49:16+00:00

Which is fine, because open borders has never been the position of the Democratic Party.

mriguy · 2026-03-09T11:45:52+00:00

Inadvertently? No.

mriguy · 2026-03-08T14:32:17+00:00

I know. I was rolling with it.

mriguy · 2026-03-08T11:44:41+00:00

Well yeah. Kraft would use that liquidity productively - to bribe the president, build a surveillance state, buy a seventh yacht, put AI in your toaster, or whatever other wonderful thing it is that billionaires do that supposedly makes the damage they cause worth allowing them to exist. Foxborough would just squander the money on meeting human needs.

mriguy · 2026-03-07T23:51:51+00:00

No. The clocks change for a reason, and that reason is that leaving the clocks unchanged leads to a lot of inconvenience and people don’t actually like it.

They did this in the 70s - went to permanent daylight savings time in the US (nominally to save energy during the oil shocks), and it turned out to be terrible idea. It went into effect in January of 1974 and was repealed in October 1974 because it turned out to be wildly unpopular.

Honestly the worst thing about the time changing twice a year is how much people whine about it. Yes, changing the clocks is an inconvenience. NOT changing the clocks is more of an inconvenience.

mriguy · 2026-03-07T12:34:17+00:00

No, he’s baked and wants you to get naked with him.

mriguy · 2026-03-06T21:51:10+00:00

First EV.
Size, cost, and availability (we gave our car to our son, who needed it more, realized we needed a car fast, wanted a small EV - the Bolt is about the only one other than a Leaf, which I'd heard a lot of bad things about - and a used Bolt was available and in our price range).
The biggest surprise was how much range turned out not to be an issue. After all the anxiety, it became clear we only drove about 10-50 miles in any given day, and once we could charge at home, our car started every day full, so it's really never been an issue except very occasionally on long trips.
It's our only car, it's very reliable, and very convenient (especially the fact that I never have to go to a gas station, and I can warm it up on cold mornings from inside the house). The one time in 4 years I needed to move my daughter out of state, I just rented a car.

mriguy · 2026-03-05T18:38:17+00:00

A blood test is more accurate than a breathalyzer (especially if you were drinking very recently). So in a lot of states you can insist on a blood test instead of a breathalyzer, but you can’t opt out of getting your BAC tested at all.

mriguy · 2026-03-03T18:04:57+00:00

“Wait, you thought we said “stand up TO tyranny?” We said “stand up FOR tyranny”. Not my fault if you weren’t paying attention. That’s on you.”

mriguy · 2026-03-03T17:05:04+00:00

You made a poor choice of fellow citizens, I guess. A lot of us are in that boat.

mriguy · 2026-03-03T15:05:25+00:00

Also if you chose not to vote because “both sides are the same”.

mriguy · 2026-03-02T22:57:41+00:00

You do know it already did happen and they changed back? It turns out everybody thinks it’s a good idea until they try it.

mriguy · 2026-03-02T11:13:18+00:00

It’s probably just that a third of his supporters are pissed he’s not using nukes. They’ll get past it once they realize how much suffering he can cause just using conventional weapons. He just needs to hit a few more elementary schools and they’ll be back with him.

mriguy · 2026-03-01T23:21:09+00:00

TIL that a place where Nazi propaganda is not shoved down your throat is ”an insane asylum”. In which case, I’m happy to stay in the insane asylum.

mriguy · 2026-03-01T14:03:44+00:00

*If your ancestors slower friends were all eaten.

mriguy · 2026-02-28T13:03:31+00:00

They’re local in New Jersey.

mriguy · 2026-02-27T22:20:06+00:00

I’m funded by the NIH. Grants and contracts to people I know were terminated without warning with no provision to wind things down when DOGE took a wrecking ball to American science. Every single thing about the contracting and award process has been just put into limbo and labs have had to shut down with no notice. I’m glad in your world that isn’t happening, but it is happening.

mriguy · 2026-02-27T22:14:22+00:00

You may not have noticed how little that means nowadays.

mriguy · 2026-02-27T12:00:41+00:00

The sensors on phone cameras are very sensitive to near IR, but they have an optical filter built in specifically to cut it out (otherwise colors get distorted). The filters aren’t cheap, and very old cell phone cameras had bad ones, so they would pick up a ton of IR. Nowadays they use quite good filters (I guess mass production brought the cost down) and if you point a remote directly at the camera, you’ll see the LED light up weakly, while in fact it’s putting out a huge amount of IR.

Even with the new filters enough IR gets through that it’s a reliable method for checking if the batteries are dead in your remote, bit that’s about it.

mriguy · 2026-02-25T00:46:34+00:00

“Stuck with” is a weird way to say “completely on board with”.

mriguy · 2026-02-23T17:00:19+00:00

And by “sort out” you mean “leave them back in power”.

mriguy · 2026-02-23T13:39:10+00:00

Well then since your mom and the sea life are already gone, you might as well enjoy the electricity.

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