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I’m gonna build a clear house like that to retire in just to make sure nobody buys any lots within viewing distance of my saggy old man balls.

I’m less worried about the closure of offices than Musk thinking he can modernize the SSA administration’s computer systems in 3 months. None of his lackeys have ever worked on anything of this scale/complexity and I’m pretty sure none of them know COBOL since they’re apparently mostly around 25. (And retired COBOL experts likely don’t know more modern languages well enough to translate.)

Don’t get me wrong, the public and private sectors should modernize aging, critical systems that use code written in languages almost no one under 60 has learned, much less mastered. But 3 months probably isn’t even enough time to get through the planning and hiring stage of a project like this. If it were cheap and easy to update those systems, it’d have been done already.

You gotta spend money to lose money.

All the amendments were also weirdly worded on the ballot when I voted today. I do at least a little bit of research before I vote in our elections and they were trying to sneak some power grabs past voters. But no state trusts its politicians less than Louisiana. We have the finest record of both corruption and ignoring laws in North America, if not the hemisphere.

Nola.com has a paywall now but this one should be free: https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/29/louisiana-amendments-3/

And Drake is already dead.

The Aroostook War was in like 1835 over some lumber. No war will be be held because it’s a fever dream of a senile old man and his lackeys.

No one sane in the US is fighting a war against Canada. I live 1,300 miles (2,000+ kilometers) from Toronto. And they seem nice. I live closer to Nicaragua.

It ain’t the size of the dog in the fight. It’s the size of the fight in the dog. I can’t even imagine signing up to fight over some place called Puffin Shit Island(or whatever) just so my country can protect the northwest passage when they can’t even use Signal. I’d probably defect to the Puffins. They seem chill.

Every one can and maybe should downvote me here. I have a bad opinion and she’s almost certainly correct. But she presented it in a way that’s clever and the trombone addition is objectively funny.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2cGLJx2/ I love college sports and I’m an LSU fan but she did roast it. Game recognize game. 🎼 There was child labor at the Harvard Yale game, what the fuck?🎵

And the trombone mix adds to the it all. I love that video.

Well, it’s Yale so they were probably going to do something evil or something that seems smart unless you’ve ever listened to a single human being who has suffered hardship. But it’s still bad for New Haven pizza places or whatever.

I’m not trying to minimize the brain drain but Yale and Harvard definitely are not producing our best and brightest anymore. They mostly produce oblivious rich people’s legacy admits. I’d rather hire anyone’s student from a decent state school than a random Ivy League grad. At least they don’t want to become corporate lawyers who puss out.

American cars are going to go up in price even without profit maximizing (which they’ll obviously also do). It’s a global supply chain. Infotainment screens and other parts aren’t made in America. Foreign manufacturers already produce cars in the U.S.

I’m pretty sure one of the two treaties that handed over control of the Panama Canal Zone specifically allows the U.S. to use military force to defend the neutrality of the Canal and gives the U.S. military access (paying the same tolls as anyone else but they’re not much: wikipedia says $3 million a year).

I mean, not that Trump necessarily cares. But it’s a fully ratified treaty by 2/3 of the Senate (and in Panama by referendum). Even this Calvinball-ass Supreme Court would probably vote 7-2 that a treaty signed by the president and ratified by the Senate isn’t something an executive order can override. Executive orders aren’t even laws, much less ratified treaties.

France is an interesting choice as the first ones to threaten. They might be the country most willing to tell America to fuck off and spend an evening lighting Teslas on fire.

DEI initiatives don’t really exist there like they do in the United States. Their constitution already bans employers from making distinctions based on race, gender, religion, etc. The closest thing France has that I know of is a requirement for corporate boards to be 40% women. They aren’t going to change that law because Trump threw a hissy fit.

Plus, DEI doesn’t even really mean anything specific in the United States anymore. It’s just a dog whistle (like “woke”) Republicans use to signal that they’re racist and sexist and stir up racial animus. They use it when it doesn’t even make sense. Trump blamed “DEI hires” when an ARMY helicopter crashed into a passenger jet even though all the pilots and the air traffic controllers were white men. He blamed the LA wildfires on DEI.

$150 million seems a little small for turning a $40 billion company into a less organized version of 4chan.

Not me. I was born a snake handler and I’ll die a snake handler.

Honestly, I don’t think most people in the U.S. who buy German cars are worried about the price. I have a used 2018 Audi and I love it — it has buttons and knobs instead of a touchscreen and is really fun to drive — but if anything goes wrong, it’s like a thousand dollars to fix. It’s a PHEV and I have solar panels so I basically never have to buy gas. And I got it during the pandemic when the used car prices went insane. I traded in a dented Toyota for more than I bought it for and ended up with an Audi A3 e-tron sportback.

But I’m the exception. I would think 99% of new Mercedes, BMW, Audi, etc. buyers in the US are buying a luxury car and 25% percent is not going to dissuade them.

Kristi Noem kills puppies and I’ll debate with you about whether that makes her a hideous troll who eats Billy goats under a bridge. But Marjorie Taylor Greene is haggard and I feel no remorse when I reduce her to someone who looks like a Family Dollar ass Shrek toy.

You’re right. Possums are the last surviving marsupials in the western hemisphere. Game recognize game. I also survive in the Western hemisphere.