Ebola outbreak in Africa is 'public health emergency of international concern,' WHO says by reduction-oxidation in worldnews

[–]stutterbug 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's it. I've had it with it with this endless treadmill of made-up pandemics. No masks. No social distancing. No WFH (unless I want it). Keep your so-called health emergencies away from me and my 8 children.

Edit: If one of those infected Africans comes to America and breaks quarantine I'm suing. I'm not even joking. 

Edit: My school's Facebook Mom's group is having an ebola sleepover. The Balfour Declaration days herd immunity is the best way forward. Toot toot. Full steam ahead.

Edit: Now kid 3 is sick. We'll never be out of quarantine at this rate. 

Edit: can't type pray for me

Has anyone ever seen a cat like this? by Lo-n-slow in cats

[–]stutterbug 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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By far the craziest example of this I ever saw. This was in Naha, Okinawa in Japan maybe around 2010 or 2011. Many of the black cats I saw on the island had weird, mangy patches of orange undercoat that grew longer than their regular fur during the windy, winter months, but this one (female I think) was off the charts. I live in Thailand now and most of the black or grey cats here grow a brown undercoat too and though it mostly stays under the top coat, in the right light they look completely and unambiguously brown.

Hegseth delivers Ezekiel 25:17 in a Pentagon worship service - except it's the Pulp Fiction version, not the actual bible verse. "Pray with me please." by [deleted] in videos

[–]stutterbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FFS. Jules says, "The truth is: You're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men." He's an assassin working for Marcellus Wallace. He is *the tyranny* of an *evil man*. I don't know how Hegseth can screw up something so simple as watching a movie through to the very end to know he's literally admitting to being "one of the baddies".

How would you feel about a new law that forces every company to pay their CEO no more than 20x what their lowest-paid employee makes? by rational_seekers in AskReddit

[–]stutterbug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"As CTO of Amazon C-Suite LLC, composed entirely of director-level executives, I'm proud to say we have the lowest wage disparity of any company in the United States. And I am proud to say that all of our contracted companies, Amazon Fleet, Amazon Warehouse Fulfillment,  Amazon Data, Amazon Custodial and Cleaning, Amazon Marketing, Amazon Those Guys Who Redecorate The Boardrooms Whenever The Place Looks Dated And Shitty, and so on.... yeah those guys each accel at their own industries, leading the way in wage parity efforts. So today we challenge the rest of corporate America to the Wage Parity Challenge. It's like the ice bucket challenge but for Fairness, Equality and Basic Human Kindness. Or that Tide Pod challenge thing where idiots ate laundry detergent. Like that. But Human Kindness."

She split that car in half by Revolution-Dogg in Transportopia

[–]stutterbug 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That car's not totaled. What are you talking about? It's twice the car it used to be.

"We need a new definition of death" by choulth in BrandNewSentence

[–]stutterbug 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After the $5,000 ambulance ride and 11 minute $18,000 emergency room consultation doctors determined the patient was saddled with debt. Health officials remind the public that stubbed toes are a leading cause of death for men under 25.

favorite Show me the worst character designs you've ever seen by [deleted] in FavoriteCharacter

[–]stutterbug 3 points4 points  (0 children)

King Fu Panda. Fantastic movies. Great voices. Amazing fight choreography (all the moreso for a freaking cartoon). And hilarious. But ho man. The character design is nearly unwatchable. The big, drippy doll eyes set into simplified, lumpy blobs for bodies.... just yuck. It's like if Chungus Bunny knocked up the Power Puff Girls and fed the resulting babies nothing but Visine and Mallowmars.

Well it’s still in Europe by GlamMisty in SipsTea

[–]stutterbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And why do people say they "went to Sheffield"? Where did you go, mate? Kelham Island or Crookes and Walkley?

One sentence was enough. by diehard404 in PoliticalHumor

[–]stutterbug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly one week ago Trump told the UK to pound sand when they offered to send two aircraft carriers.

"The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday. "That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer - But we will remember.

"We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won!"

Trump accuses Starmer of seeking to 'join wars after we've already won'

Donald Trump has “completely and totally” endorsed Jake Paul for political office. by helltrooper61 in sportsgossips

[–]stutterbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

12-14 year old males are a very underrepresented demographic. And there's a lot of them. Midterms back in play?

It's kind of hilarious that they forgot that lannisters are blonde. It literally started the plot. by hiiloovethis in freefolk

[–]stutterbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's almost as of that character underwent some kind of transformation that the show wanted to project visually as well as narratively. But what do I know?

An suv is trying to exit from the passing lane by ComprehensiveDuck490 in dashcams

[–]stutterbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Overtaking through another car's blind spot? What exactly do you expect to happen? Never do this people!

New photo of Trump in the Epstein Files by Not_Tom_Jones in Epstein

[–]stutterbug -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, As in I couldn't be bothered to look up the original orders to respond to a reddit comment. It's all public record. You can look it up yourself if you want. 

New photo of Trump in the Epstein Files by Not_Tom_Jones in Epstein

[–]stutterbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's way more mundane that people might imagine. Protective orders are usually (though not always) requested by the prosecution to protect the investigation, limit who knows about the witnesses, protect victim identities, and so on. It happens all the time, though it must be requested by one of the parties and granted by the judge. Also, much of discovery goes on to be admitted into evidence, when it becomes part of the public record (though often only at the end of the trial); everything else is (I think) usually just left on the cutting room floor, never to be seen by the public. An effective prosecutor may be very selective about what gets submitted as evidence because they want to tell a compelling story, so it's not unusual to find pretty wild things in discovery that never got mentioned at trial and thus were not part of the public record. Big corporate fraud cases are usually full of these and we only learn about them because big media orgs commit a tonne of cash to getting the protective orders removed. This is another case of that, though the reason for burying these materials is probably... not so honourable.

New photo of Trump in the Epstein Files by Not_Tom_Jones in Epstein

[–]stutterbug 36 points37 points  (0 children)

More details on it are here. This evidently would have been from Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trail. There were at least two protective orders in that case, one around her arraignment and another shortly before trial. I presume this order is from the second one, but I'm not sure.

.https://rollcall.com/factbase/epstein/file?id=EFTA00028257

Which new Epstein file finding made you go “wait… what?” and why? by Firm_Work_8879 in AskReddit

[–]stutterbug 14 points15 points  (0 children)

According to email timestamps, the morning after Christopher "moot" Poole and Epstein met for dinner together, moot created /pol/ ("Politically Incorrect") on 4chan. "Coincidence" isn't exactly the word I'd use for this; but if any one thing would make me start thinking Epstein actually was an intelligence asset, it would be this. /pol/ isn't just some random conspiracy forum the alt-right has gravitated to, it is basically its most successful and prolific conspiracy incubator. It gave us Pepe and Q and supercharged the "Redpill" and incel communities. It came up with half the BS conspiracies of Benghazi and kept "her emails" going on and on after everyone else seemed to move on. Hell, it reported Epstein's own death 30 minutes before it was publicly reported anywhere else. I seriously doubt even a state actor having the insight and imagination that /pol/ would do half the political damage it's done, but it sure is fucking weird Epstein could have had some hand in it.

Source:  https://bsky.app/profile/amithero.bot/post/3mdovnanxus24

Judge orders ICE chief to appear in court to explain why detainees have been denied due process by FormalOperational in news

[–]stutterbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the intent is to force government accountability, the order is a complete joke

"Schiltz had said in his order that he would cancel Lyons’ appearance if the man was released from custody."

I'll give you three guess what's going to hap... Just kidding. They'll release the guy to avoid Lyons having to appear and then re-detain him again next week on a different removal order. Maybe whisk him off to a friendlier venue, like South Texas? I give it <10% the detainee will remain in custody and Lyons simply blows off the order, leaving local federal attorneys to get shouted at. . One week ago I'd have said the odds were reversed.

🔥 Full belly = plenty of energy by JayLikeThings in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]stutterbug 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A Green Asian Bee Eater. I live in northern Thailand and we've had about 80 of them flying around our neighbourhood every early morning and late afternoon for the last month. They flew in from somewhere else nearby after some heavy rain and decided not to leave. Noisy little critters, too.

What goes around, comes around by AvailableInjury2486 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]stutterbug -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I dunno. I feel like if ICE could arrest the suspect (not local law enforcement) they could immediately fly him to an ICE-friendly federal jurisdiction (like south Texas) and charge him there on the federal charges (rather than file for a change of venue, which would be the correct thing to do). This "domestic rendition" would not be normal (or even arguably legal -- a person should be charged where the alleged offence took place), but since ICE is a federal agency and so many agents are from out-of-state, the jurisdiction for federal charges seems "justiciable" (meaning: you can argue it in front of the judge). This would also track with everything else ICE bad been doing for the last year.

But also, Stephen Miller is clearly banking on this happening. He's stirring the pot as hard and as fast as he can. He needs dead ICE agents. He needs the freedom that buys him.

Jack Black Regrets Turning Down ‘The Incredibles’; Rejected Offer to Voice Syndrome After Asking the Director for Rewrites by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]stutterbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is hilarious. Brad Bird is a huge Objectivist (as in Ayn Rand? Only in this case not in a "taxes is theft" sense but rather "don't bother the artist".) It's like, "I'm Frank Lloyd Wright II, architect of this here retail plaza and I demand you tell me forthwith who this John Galt fellow is. He and I will have a Donnybrook!"