Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Oh No Elmo
More trouble in White Paradise.
Exceptions
It was extremist nonsense to suggest that health/life exceptions, as envisioned by all the centrist dipshits, were unworkable in practice. Treating pregnant women (or even "pre-pregnant" women) without fear of running into the law is basically impossible in these states.
WASHINGTON (AP) — One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.And that's treating them at all, not just for pregnancy-related issues.
Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal.
Dipshit Centrism
This is the standard dipshit centrist response to anything they don't think you should care about, though "why don't you care about this thing I just learned about and have never mentioned before" coming from someone who styles themselves as (retired) Tenured Radical is a bit much.
I know the "sly" implication is students - even Jewish ones! - must be motivated by antisemitism, because nothing else could explain it, but you can easily flip this around. Why care about the 10/7 attacks when (spins wheel of tragedies) Tigray (spelled correctly) is happening!!!
Why are people concerned about this thing that is on the front pages of the newspaper every day, that the administration gives multiple press conference about every day, that we spend billions of dollars to support? Why aren't they protesting this other thing I don't care about either???
Potter isn't actually this dumb, so she's pretending to be, as many do, thinking you are stupid enough to be fooled by their pretending to be stupid. I don't know why a prominent (retired) academic thinks it's clever to be stupid, but we all have our kinks.
Learning From Our Mistakes
The "bomb Iran" crowd has been fairly quiet recently, but they're always waiting for their moment. The Kids won't rememember but in the late aughts it was very pressing.
8. Consider the opportunity cost. The problem with dumb war isn't that it's war. The problem is that it costs you the military, economic, and political resources to fight a smart war. Everything Bush wrongly attributed to Iraq turns out to be true of Iran. But we can't confront Iran with the force it probably requires, because we wasted our resources in Iraq. Americans, having been suckered in Iraq, won't accept evidence of Iran's nuclear program. Countries that might have supported us in a strike on Iran won't do so now, since we led them astray. Our coffers have been emptied to pay for the Iraq occupation. Our troops are physically and spiritually exhausted. In the name of strength, Bush has made us weak.
Is That Good
How is the Kushner-Netanyahu-Biden-McGurk peace plan going?
Why are the Iranians so emotional? Is it because they have some strange inscrutable notion of honor?
It might be the case that this retaliation was mostly for show, as Iran's largely was. A choregraphed little dance.
It says a lot about the people who run the world that this actually makes sense to all of them. Oh we have to pretend to try to blow some shit up! I guess people with power all do have inscrutable notions of honor.
Israel has attacked Iran, US official tells CNNI am really hung up on Israeli officials running to the NYT and explaining that they didn't understand that bombing the Iranian embassy in Syria would make Iran mad.
Why are the Iranians so emotional? Is it because they have some strange inscrutable notion of honor?
It might be the case that this retaliation was mostly for show, as Iran's largely was. A choregraphed little dance.
It says a lot about the people who run the world that this actually makes sense to all of them. Oh we have to pretend to try to blow some shit up! I guess people with power all do have inscrutable notions of honor.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Just Buy A Porsche Or Whatever
Why is it that all these prominent weirdos are hitting midlife and deciding to burn the world down instead of just becoming an annoying Updike character?
22 Years Of This Shit
This shit blog, but also this shit. It was boring when Bernie Goldberg wrote his incoherent book, it was boring when Bari Weiss did it, and it's still so damn boring!
There was a time when I would've ENGAGED THE CONVERSATION but, dear readers, anyone who treats MAN CLAIMS MEDIA OUTLET IS LIBERAL as important just gets added to the ignore/point and laugh list.
It's a very very long list.
(I don't mean Scott - linked - for making the effort I can't bring myself to).
There was a time when I would've ENGAGED THE CONVERSATION but, dear readers, anyone who treats MAN CLAIMS MEDIA OUTLET IS LIBERAL as important just gets added to the ignore/point and laugh list.
It's a very very long list.
(I don't mean Scott - linked - for making the effort I can't bring myself to).
All The Private Details Fit To Print
Journalists have been publishing incredibly detailed descriptions of prospective Trump jurors - making them easily identifiable - for reasons they haven't bothered to explain.
Is that a normal mafia trial thing to do?
The Rare Reporter Who Would Notice
Tapper sucks in lots of ways but he won't always play along with the GOP script of the day. That shouldn't be notable.
What Can Biden DOOOOOOOOO
Something.
A special State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units from receiving U.S. aid after reviewing allegations that they committed serious human rights abuses.But Blinken has failed to act on the proposal in the face of growing international criticism of the Israeli military’s conduct in Gaza, according to current and former State Department officials.
NYT Will Print Anything
Didn't think killing your dudes would make you mad.
Why are you being so unreasonble about this?
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
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