Looks like a self-propelled gun.

Remember the good old days when we got to choose between a giant douche and a turd sandwich?

has cool stories to tell

Biden has a history of telling crazy stories even before he went senile.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/politics/fact-check-biden-amtrak-grandfather-pittsburgh-bridge-debt/index.html

And then spent the next several cycles systematically forcing anyone who supported him out of the party.

Good essay. I don’t know if you remember after Obama won in 2008 a bunch of democratic party apparatchiks came up with this idea of “the coalition of the ascendant” and that they pretty much had the government locked in for a generation, due to support that would never waver for them amongst immigrants, yuppies, tech bros, etc. They didn’t need the working class anymore and the Republicans would be the minority party for many years.

Two years later the democrats were wiped out in the midterms.

Libs in 2016: I love Bernie, it’s just too bad about his age

Libs in 2020: Biden has a stutter. Don’t be ageist.

Libs in 2024: We had no idea!

Clearly they should have pumped him full of unicorn blood and stem cells.

When the character that’s “driving” keeps moving the wheel back and forth just a tiny bit at a time.

He’s trying to keep the “hands on the wheel” warning from going off.

As a friend once said “benzene is what anti-nuclear people think nuclear waste is.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ

Their new CEO is a McKinsey consultant so this is pretty much guaranteed.

Last recall was also a real recall: to rivet the slipping gas pedal cover down.

The problem with this is that if billionaires just sat on their fortunes like a dragon sitting on treasure it would be much better than the way it is now, where they pump their billions into “nonprofits” that try to manipulate society to make it even better for them and worse for normal people.

The one big law about lending out digital copies of books you own is that you only lend out as many as you physically own.

That is not what the lawsuit is about, and that was not what the plaintiffs or the judge argued. Their argument is that if you can not take a physical copy and digitize it.

If you want a digital copy to lend, you must beg the publisher to allow you to have a digital copy to lend and you must accept their terms. If they don’t want to provide you with a digital lending option as a library, then you can not lend it. If they want to make you use their DRM software you must use it even if it spies on your patrons and charges you per-lending fees, or even “expires” the book after so many loans, or “blacks out” or “embargoes” lending of titles you are supposed to have in your catalog (these are all features of publisher-backed digital lending schemes).

This is depressing as hell and a statement about the time we live in and the corporate overlords who control our lives.

Jimmy McGee made a great video about it last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJoGm8c523M

Ok but why a raccoon?

Still not as bad as the pink fracking drill bit “for the cure.”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fracking-for-a-cure/

baby murdering killers

As opposed to Israel?

Yeah they were attempts to either fool the Javelin’s sensor and make it fly too high or serve as improvised spaced armor to reduce the effectiveness of its HEAT round. FPV drones have much smaller HEAT rounds and a lot less kinetic energy so improvised spaced armor may be more effective.

“Cope cages” to describe improvised armor was always propaganda though. US soldiers in Iraq put improvised armor on their humvees to protect against IEDs. In WWII solders piled sandbags and spare tracks on their tanks (you can see many pictures of tanks like this). Field improvised armor is as old as warfare. Often it was not effective. For instance, tank designers in WWII thought that improvised armor reduced the chance of a ricochet, which was a serious problem with the era’s AP rounds that saved a lot of tankers. Improvised armor gave the AP round something to “grab ahold of” and aid penetration.

“Self driving cars will make the roads safer. They won’t be drunk or tired or make a mistake.”

Self driving cars start killing people.

“Yeah but how do they compare to the average human driver?”

Goal post moving.