Captainant

We have this stroller and a Doona (THANK YOU, extremely generous extended family!!!), and they're both great. Definitely invest in the $40 add-on to click your car seat onto the stroller (they've got accessories for all the major car seat brands), it's been great for us. It collapses down to be pretty small and can fit in the footwell between the back seat and my front seat if I wedge it in a little.

Not only that - it's a very real source of inflation. If elmo is able to secure loans against his paper valuation and then he spends that money, he's spending money that didn't exist in circulation before. It drives up asking prices for products because there's more fluid cash available

Nevermind that depending on your income bracket the "economy" could mean either your local shithole town, or the NASDAQ. So when one is doing great and the other is languishing, it only intensifies the alienation and frustration and feelings of being left behind. Reality is what you make of it these days, facts are for socialist libtards.

and yet, we allow our billionaires to take tax-free loans against those paper (and bullshit) asset valuations. Just because it's a buch of nonsense doesn't mean it can't still completely fuck up our society with a flood of extra free speech money that nobody else has access to.

I mean, it helped RFK Jr! It could help you too!

Notably, russias state disinformation efforts towards the US were primarily aimed at ramping up voter apathy and the feeling of being unable to affect any change. Along with many messages of the US constantly being under threat of outside invaders seeking to destroy our way of life - one of the main mobilization messages we hear out of russia nowadays. It's gonna be something else we have a bit more time separating historians and anthropologists from the active measures by russia, and we really get a full idea of the depth and breadth of their fuckeries

Pretty cool TEXAS FIGHT stadium chant with the flashlights going 20240921_215311.mp4

Fuck these fucking refs

Hide ya kids, hide ya wives, and hide ya dog too. ERRYBODY GETTING SWATTED

Real ugly football so far

20240921_185012.mp4 Apache flyover was pretty fuckin cool

Cards Against Humanity is sueing SpaceX for trasspassing and illegal dumping on their land in Brownsville https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/cards-against-humanity-sues-spacex-alleges-invasion-of-land-on-us-mexico-border/ Before (2017): After (2024)

Kevin Hart, come on down! https://insidenewshub.com/kevin-hart-caught-on-camera-in-diddy-freak-off-video/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push Kevin Hart is currently receiving major criticism after being caught on camera at a controversial party hosted by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. The video, which surfaced online, shows Hart engaged in questionable behavior at one of Diddy’s infamous “freak off” parties. The comedian can be seen holding a microphone next to a bathtub, surrounded by scantily clad women. In one disturbing incident, a female partygoer’s hair caught fire as a result of candles placed near the bathtub.

I have noticed while walking my dog that there's fewer trump signs in yards than there were a couple months ago, at least in my part of Spring Branch

Seems bad for Elmo... https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/tech/sec-sanctions-elon-musk-testimony-twitter-probe/index.html The Securities and Exchange Commission intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk over his failure to appear for testimony in an investigation related to his takeover of Twitter, now called X, the regulator said in a court filing Friday. Earlier this year, a federal judge ordered Musk to testify as part of the SEC’s probe of the billionaire’s $44 billion acquisition. The agency is examining whether Musk followed the law when disclosing his purchases of Twitter stock and whether his statements in relation to the deal were misleading ... The SEC asked the court to impose “meaningful conditional relief” if Musk does not appear at the new October testimony date. The SEC also said it intends to file a sanctions motion against Musk to recoup its travel costs for the cancelled testimony and for other relief.

LMAO Raskin cheesin' at the "are we doing Walz next week?"

FTC going to work on more artificial cost inflation https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/20/ftc-sues-drug-middlemen-for-allegedly-inflating-insulin-prices.html Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) sit at the center of the drug supply chain in the U.S. They negotiate rebates with drug manufacturers on behalf of insurers, large employers and federal health plans. They also create lists of medications, or formularies, that are covered by insurance and reimburse pharmacies for prescriptions. The FTC has been investigating PBMs since 2022. The agency’s suit argues that the three PBMs have created a “perverse” drug rebate system that prioritizes high rebates from drugmakers, which leads to “artificially inflated insulin list prices.” It also alleges that PBMs favor those high-list-price insulins even when more affordable insulins with lower list prices become available. The FTC is filing its complaint through its so-called administrative process, which initiates a proceeding before an administrative judge who would hear the case. “Millions of Americans with diabetes need insulin to survive, yet for many of these vulnerable patients, their insulin drug costs have skyrocketed over the past decade thanks in part to powerful PBMs and their greed,” Rahul Rao, deputy director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, said in a statement. “The FTC’s administrative action seeks to put an end to the Big Three PBMs’ exploitative conduct and marks an important step in fixing a broken system—a fix that could ripple beyond the insulin market and restore healthy competition to drive down drug prices for consumers,” Rao continued. Roughly 8 million Americans with diabetes rely on insulin to survive, and many have been forced to ration the treatment due to high prices, according to the FTC.

The aftermath of HPD's illegal raid of the Tuttles continues to unfold with (former) officer goines' murder trial: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2024/09/19/500305/texas-ranger-questioned-about-timeline-of-harding-street-raid-as-gerald-goines-murder-trial-continues/

It worked so well to curb his self-dealing during his first term lol...

https://jalopnik.com/cybertruck-owner-s-manual-says-its-hitch-is-only-design-1851653010?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=jalopnik_reddit Huh WD may have kicked an anthill for the cybertruck. He finally got around to looking in the owner's manual (lulz) and found that it says the factory-installed trailer hitch is only rated for 160 pounds of vertical load! How the hell did this thing pass DOT and NTHSB certification?

I'm sorry about that, I got Rex'd. It's too bad he wouldn't ever engage with the discussion about the disaster itself

Anyone seen anything yet on the nature of the criminal investigation? I wonder who is the target of the investigation

Been banging this drum for a while, but here's some reporting and a full report on how deeply and constantly tracked we are online across websites, wether we like it or not. Lotta kids knowingly being used as test subjects by adtech https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/social-media-companies-engaged-vast-surveillance-ftc-finds-calling-sta-rcna171814 https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Social-Media-6b-Report-9-11-2024.pdf The report, which stretches more than 100 pages, details the data, advertising and recommendation-system efforts by these companies, and how they rely on information about users to sell ads. Users also “lacked any meaningful control over how personal information was used for AI-fueled systems” on the companies’ platforms, according to the report. “While lucrative for the companies, these surveillance practices can endanger people’s privacy, threaten their freedoms, and expose them to a host of harms, from identify theft to stalking,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a press release. The report includes staff recommendations calling for federal privacy legislation, as well as more efforts from companies to prioritize privacy in their data collection and recommendation systems. It also said parents should have more control over what information is collected from children and teenagers. "Protecting users – especially children and teens – requires clear baseline protections that apply across the board," the FTC said in the report.

Derailed, if you will