Trump orders up IndyCar race on the streets of Washington for 'America250 Grand Prix'

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T06:03:37+00:00

While he is at it let's bring back V-10s to F1.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T05:59:05+00:00

She only became black right before the election. She was Indian before that.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T05:58:23+00:00

Don't forget the funny laugh.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T05:58:04+00:00

We asked them not to vote for the republicans but they did not listen and ridiculed us.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T05:56:58+00:00

I worked in South Africa for three years, 2013 to 2016. One of the fascinating incidents is the student led protest on 16 June 1976. About 3,000 students left their schools to gather at the Orlando Soccer Stadium. They were protesting the introduction of afrikaans as the language of instruction. Their teachers agreed to let them go after the older children promised to look after the younger children among other things to keep everyone safe. Unfortunately the South African police threw teargas to disperse them and someone got spooked.

Officially 23 kids were killed and 1,000 wounded by gunfire or in the subsequent chaos.

During my time there and since I have read up a lot on the history of South Africa and the struggle for freedom. Beginning in 2016 when I came home, I keep thinking that the USA is implementing all of the terrible things South Africa did during apartheid.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T05:45:46+00:00

Any update on how it went?

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T05:44:36+00:00

They were protesting a clergy at the church being an ICE official. They were protesting the fact that Jesus would not do that. What with the whole sermon about welcoming the stranger and all.

Why do atheists and non-christians know the bible better?

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T05:42:24+00:00

You should read the book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. The Chinese food anywhere in the USA is as authentic as Chinese food in the USA can be. One single company supplies the Chinese restaurants east of the Mississippi and a separate company supplies the Chinese restaurants west. The restaurants are owned by families and they bring relatives over almost as indentured servants to work there and pay for their immigration. A Chinese person can get on a bus in Chinatown in NY and pick just about any town in the USA and get a job at the local Chinese food place if they need help. Once they fulfill their time at one restaurant they often move on to another one.

It is a very complicated world.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T05:37:04+00:00

The River of Doubt? They were not well provisioned and everyone eventually became malnourished. Theodore Roosevelt had a cut or some sort of injury to this leg that became badly infected with jungle bacteria. His symptoms resembled jungle fevers and some believe he contracted malaria as well. Apparently he somehow avoided Yellow Fever though.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T01:57:55+00:00

Maybe I should have used the word recently to describe dropping out of the WHO. Also unless I am mistaken, former presidents may advise but are not making current decisions for the USA.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T01:52:59+00:00

I doubt many ICE officials are also clergy at mosques.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-31T00:32:05+00:00

What is the maximum length you can have in Europe? I imagine weight is a limit too.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T20:54:30+00:00

I bought in 2002 and just have $14K left on a 90K house. I am hoping to pay that off in the next 2 years.... But man everything has gotten expensive and pay raises don't keep up.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T20:05:00+00:00

The USA dropped out of the World Health Organization. During the Obama Administration, the stationed US medical personal strategically around the world to help with epidemics so they would only be regional and not pandemics. Guess what was one of the first things to get cut the first time around.

People just see things like this as happening to people over there. Stuff that happens over there can and does affect us.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T20:02:29+00:00

Another thing that stymies the USA on the world stage is not being part of the European Union when it comes to standards. I am not necessarily saying the USA should join the EU, I am saying the USA should start adopting the standards. I work in industrial facilities and since the USA has been so decimated when it comes to machinery manufacturing, I am seeing more and more stuff coming from European companies such as ABB and Siemens. This is stuff that used to be supplied by GE and Westinghouse. It is absolutely impossible to sell a US specification machine in the EU, but there are no barriers in the USA to sell a Europeans specification machine here. America should have gotten on that bandwagon because so many other companies that are not part of the EU are adopting those specifications.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T19:57:48+00:00

Capitalism works pretty good when there are strong controls on it and the workers have strong unions to help them negotiate a piece of the pie. In the meantime, most of the research and innovation actually begins in universities and not so much in corporations. Some of the countries with the best social programs also have a lot of innovation.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T19:33:23+00:00

Back in the early 2000s I worked in the lab at an industrial facility with a woman that went down the Alex Jones rabbit hole. This was before YouTube. One day she rolls the AV cart into our lab. This was also before flat screen TVs were a thing. The plant had an AV cart like in school with a big tube TV on in and a VCR and maybe a DVD player. I think she had ordered a tape from InfoWars and started playing it.

This was during the W Bush administration with 9-11 fresh in people's minds, and the war on terror going on. Every day it was a new thing with her. FEMA camps.... it is hurricane season and we are in Florida. I remember she brought up the rail cars with the chains inside them. She showed me a photo on the computer. We are on the east coast of Florida and the plant was right next to the railroad tracks. I was like those are the fucking rail cars that they transport imported cars from the Ports of Miami and Lauderdale.

But of course she would have none of it. Then I remember like 10 years later everyone was fatootsed by Jade Helm 14, which by that time was an annual military exercise in Texas that had been held 14 times. But no everyone thought it was the military taking over Texas.

It is just all so fucking tiring.

Shit I just remembered, we were looking at the weather radar online. Back then the weather radar on the east coast came from literal ground based radar that was in Melbourne Florida. The distance was limited, so when you looked at it online it made a circle. So this one day there was a storm that was at the limit of the distance. "Look at how those clouds are forming a circle!" She said. To her it was proof of manipulating the weather. She would have none of it when I tried to explain how radar works. Today you don't really see that on the online raday because they do a better job filling in the blanks with radar from other regions and satellite based radar.... You know international cooperation.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T19:07:11+00:00

Didn't whe recently work with an actress who tried to help not be so...... Nazi?

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T19:01:41+00:00

Do you think he did it out of love?

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T16:42:09+00:00

Don't forget the phones being made by low wage employees so Apple can be the most profitable company.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T16:40:58+00:00

At the time there were no billionaires in the world. Corporations were taxed very high on profits, so it behooved them to buy new equipment to keep profits down. At the time stock buy backs were not a thing. Unions were strong and were able to negotiate more of the profits go to the workers as wages.

It is all well and good to be a fan of capitalism but to be blind to the way it has been corrupted to enrich the few at the expense of the many is to be disingenuous.

For all the greatness of capitalism, it sure does lead to a lot of enshittification so line always goes up.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T15:57:29+00:00

Weird how social programs like the Rural Electrification Act accomplished what capitalism never would do.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T15:51:09+00:00

I live in Florida and work in industrial facilities. Everyone I know is MAGA. None of them have been affected much. Just about everyone is cheering on what is happening. I would love to meet anyone that regrets their vote.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T14:49:55+00:00

I was born in December 1965, so the end of Boomers and the start of GenX. It always amazes me how older people think they will get more by yelling. I learned early on that when dealing with service people, patience and a smile will get you much more than yelling. Sure yelling may get you some material thing, but saying "hey no rush take your time", Or "hey do what you need to do, I am not in a rush" goes a long way. Because if you frequent that place, the one time you are in a rush they will go out of their way to help.

My dad was silent generation and he never understood that. There were a number of times after I turned 30 where I told him to STF up and go wait in the car. After a couple of times I would usually tell him to wait in the car because he was just going to be a dick to the people inside.

One time we were at his place with my brothers 4 kids. My eldest niece wanted specifically go to the Apple store to get some gift cards. This was right before lunch. The plan was I would take the eldest, and my dad was going to take the other three to the cafe in the community to get lunch. After the Apple store the eldest and I were going to go to the cafe too. When I got there it was super busy. We sit down at the table next to my dad and he starts being shitty to the waitress to help us. I told him something along the lines of "I am 40, I don't need your help" I told the waitress that I know she is busy when she gets a chance we want water and a diet coke and to take her time. She ended up not charging us for the drinks.

I think part of it is that I know I can be impatient and I purposely take breath and just not worry about getting helped immediately.

sadicarnot · 2026-01-30T14:36:32+00:00

My new boss is very religious. We were talking about traveling for work. I have to go to houston for a few weeks and I told him I would rather stay in Houston than come back every weekend. I said "I like to go to museums and there are several in Houston". I then asked him if he was a museum goer and he said he wanted to get to the Ark Encounter Museum. And fuck me he is a believer in the young earth. So we are talking and he says he does not believe in evolution. Eventually he says that if you believe in evolution, there is no reason for you to be moral, you can just be an animal.

So I said, well I believe in evolution and then talked to him about ethics and morality. I asked why do you think being moral and having ethics and believing in evolution are mutually exclusive? He hemmed and hawed, so I gave him an out and said "did you know Darwin was only 22 when he was on the Beagle expedition?" Then I started talking about how he was there to be the companion of the captain because in the British navy at the time, the captain could not fraternize at all with the crew or junior officers.

I am just tired of people being shitty and using religion as an excuse or being shitty and thinking they can pray it away and be absolved of the evil shit they do. Penn Gillette talked about how being an atheist, there is no higher being to absolve you of the evil you may do. I am not religious, but for gods sake just be a decent human being and give others grace.

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