THE MORNING RANT: Dramatic Solar Panel Fire Causes Clean and Renewable Evacuation of a Maternity Hospital

THE MORNING RANT: Dramatic Solar Panel Fire Causes Clean and Renewable Evacuation of a Maternity Hospital - Women and Children Hit Hardest

This story actually qualifies for the famous media headline, “Women and children hit hardest.”

A massive fire atop a maternity hospital in Bristol, England was caused by faulty solar panels. Terrified women, some pregnant, some cradling their newborns, were forced to evacuate from the burning building.

Is this the “clean” part of green energy, or is it the “renewable” part? It certainly doesn’t look very “sustainable.”

“Faulty Solar Panel Blamed for Maternity Hospital Fire; Pregnant women and babies were evacuated from St Michael’s Hospital in Bristol on Thursday afternoon” [The Telegraph – 5/23/2025]

Pregnant women and babies were evacuated from St Michael’s Hospital, on Southwell Street in the city centre on Thursday afternoon. Footage shared on social media showed women cradling babies being escorted past fire engines and under police tape to buildings opposite as smoke billowed above.
The roof of the hospital has one of Bristol city centre’s largest solar panel installations, unveiled in 2014 and delivered in partnership with the council. On Thursday, Ian Fergusson , a BBC forecaster, shared a still image from a skycam showing the scorched remains of the hospital’s rooftop solar panels. He said there was “virtually nothing left of the rooftop solar panel array after this fire”, adding: “A very worrying and scary event for folks at the maternity hospital.”

Per a BBC report about the solar-induced hospital fire:

Avon Fire and Rescue Service station manager Ben Thorpe confirmed the cause was "accidental" and "due to a fault in the solar panels". Mr Thorpe said there had been an increase in fires caused by solar panels. "I think the statistics are showing that they are on the increase although of course solar panel installations are on the increase," he explained.

A commenter here at Ace once offered up a statement that summarizes the view of those “green” elites who, in service to their net zero agenda, are willing to deny energy, food, fertilizer, and shelter to the rest of us: ”Some of you will have to die, and that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.” Killing off pregnant women and babies with “green” energy is an effective way of furthering the left’s anti-humanist agenda.

*****

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— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) May 31, 2025

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 first?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at June 02, 2025 11:00 AM (v6XNT)

2 woohoo

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at June 02, 2025 11:00 AM (v6XNT)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 02, 2025 11:00 AM (GYt5+)

4 Not first.

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

5 corgis called

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at June 02, 2025 11:01 AM (v6XNT)

6 Have solar panels always been a fire risk? I do not remember it from back in the day.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 02, 2025 11:02 AM (bss/y)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

8 You can bet one baby in five was named Mohammed.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2025 11:03 AM (W/lyH)

9 I still blame islhamic terrorism.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

10
"That's only because of DEI hires, H8R!

Oh, wait ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:03 AM (HI/Zw)

11 No Nukes!! 💀

Posted by: Enviro Nazi at June 02, 2025 11:03 AM (Q4IgG)

12 Have solar panels always been a fire risk? I do not remember it from back in the day.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 02, 2025 11:02 AM (bss/y)

Well, the installers were Mohammed, Mohammed, and Mustafa.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2025 11:04 AM (W/lyH)

13 Dangit. Read the content.

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 02, 2025 11:04 AM (7V7Hl)

14 We need common sense flamethrower/Molotov cocktail control!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at June 02, 2025 11:04 AM (L/fGl)

15 Dramatic Solar Panel Fire Causes Clean and Renewable Evacuation....

Now do EV's. 😃😃😃😃

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at June 02, 2025 11:05 AM (poNS8)

16 Michigan is attempting to re-fire The Palisades nuke plant. They're currently cleaning and testing the cooling system, however, there's a battle going on with the Pipefitters Union that already has the project stalled and behind schedule. The project started last Tuesday.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

17 Have solar panels always been a fire risk? I do not remember it from back in the day.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 02, 2025 11:02 AM (bss/y)

Pretty much anything which has electricity running through it is a fire risk. It'd be interesting to learn if the fire started in the panels or the associated wiring. Unlikely to be determined at this point but it'd be interesting.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

18 How well does solar work in Britain? They can go for weeks without seeing the sun.

Posted by: Pasty, Pale, Penelope at June 02, 2025 11:06 AM (G5+As)

19 You can bet one baby in five was named Mohammed.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2025 11:03 AM (W/lyH)

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And another fifth with the alternative spelling "Muhammad."

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:06 AM (rU3O3)

20 "Women and children hit hardest."

At least they weren't Gazan

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

21 Holy shit.
So everyone with panels has a potential raging inferno on their roof? And there is mysterious code and hardware in them.

I see no issue with any of this.

Posted by: Reforger at June 02, 2025 11:06 AM (xcIvR)

22 Well, I'm off to assist the grandson of Diogenes with scholarship applications and nominations to the Service Academies.
Later gang.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2025 11:06 AM (W/lyH)

23 Have solar panels always been a fire risk? I do not remember it from back in the day.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 02, 2025 11:02 AM (bss/y)

When you have one or two, no.

When you have 50, the heat generated grows exponentially.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

24 exactly right, Buck!

”Some of you will have to die, and that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.” sums it up perfectly, though one might add " ... and the more of you who die, the better!"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 02, 2025 11:07 AM (/Ghsb)

25 Is this the “clean” part of green energy, or is it the “renewable” part? It certainly doesn’t look very “sustainable.”

The graft sustains us.

Posted by: The Deep State at June 02, 2025 11:07 AM (69i/G)

26 Thx Buck, scary post.
Speaking of greenies , if Saint Greta dies on her way to Gaza that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 02, 2025 11:07 AM (Qrxbh)

27 I have no problem with researching alternate power sources but as with anything I don't want it mandated or subsidized. It should stand on its own.

Solar tech is getting better and has its uses. Wind power is a huge fail imo though it can also have its uses for individual off grid projects.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 11:08 AM (VofaG)

28 It'd be interesting to learn if the fire started in the panels or the associated wiring. Unlikely to be determined at this point but it'd be interesting.

This is not how things are done now. Facts are irrelevant. The appropriate response is to run around screeching that the sky is falling and immolating your hair. Please report to your nearest camp for reeducation.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:08 AM (s8j++)

29 How well does solar work in Britain? They can go for weeks without seeing the sun.
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The left doesn't care about *results*.

Posted by: Crusader at June 02, 2025 11:09 AM (TN0g+)

30 "Pregnant women and babies"

Well, being born pregnant would be a time saver...
Or did they just leave the non pregnant persons inside?

Posted by: Man at June 02, 2025 11:09 AM (tubbA)

31 The Boulder fire attack was not the only terror attack.

Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
NEW: Chuck Todd claims someone slashed his tires after Trump called him out
"There was direct correlation, right? He'd call your name out — you'd get, you know, weird phone calls, you'd get weird death threats. I got my tires slashed in front of my house."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at June 02, 2025 11:09 AM (L/fGl)

32 NEW: Chuck Todd claims someone slashed his tires after Trump called him out
"There was direct correlation, right? He'd call your name out — you'd get, you know, weird phone calls, you'd get weird death threats. I got my tires slashed in front of my house."

Sure, Todd.

Because you're just that important.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:10 AM (s8j++)

33 t'd be interesting to learn if the fire started in the panels or the associated wiring. Unlikely to be determined at this point but it'd be interesting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Where it started would make a difference in how they would extinguish it, no?

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

34 19 You can bet one baby in five was named Mohammed.

Posted by: Diogenes
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@LauraLoomer 9h

Mohammed is the most dangerous name in the world.

It’s also now one of the most popular names in the West. That should terrify everyone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:11 AM (jTU7t)

35 Have solar panels always been a fire risk? I do not remember it from back in the day.

Where were the panels manufactured back in the day?

Where are they manufactured now?

Posted by: Chuck C at June 02, 2025 11:11 AM (D0HYP)

36 How in the world would solar panels catch fire?

Oh, I watched the video. All that smoke. Must have had high current thru faulty wiring that set the asphalt on fire.

Posted by: t-bird at June 02, 2025 11:11 AM (STfYR)

37 It's always sunny in Bristol.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2025 11:11 AM (63Dwl)

38 When the Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant in Forked River, NJ shut down in 2018, property taxes shot up dramatically. The plant had been subsidizing the surrounding towns for more than 40 years. Hundreds of properties sold for fire sale prices. Greenies are dangerous-and expensive.

Posted by: All Along The Cooling Tower at June 02, 2025 11:12 AM (G5+As)

39 Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
NEW: Chuck Todd claims someone slashed his tires after Trump called him out
"There was direct correlation, right? He'd call your name out — you'd get, you know, weird phone calls, you'd get weird death threats. I got my tires slashed in front of my house."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at June 02, 2025 11:09 AM (L/fGl)

Lying sacks of shit should be left on the front porch and lit on fire.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

40 Hey Chuck Todd did they leave graffiti saying "this is MAGA country"
If not didn't happen

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 02, 2025 11:12 AM (Qrxbh)

41 Have solar panels always been a fire risk? I do not remember it from back in the day.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Generally, no. Because hobbyist panels were never meant to carry that kind of juice. When you start getting up into panel sizes that imitate electrical switching yards, I don't think they are built sturdy enough. They are all built to one standard, but then they are connected to each other in crazy amounts.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:13 AM (ipqug)

42 You just know that Chuck Todd has no idea what a lug wrench is.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:13 AM (s8j++)

43 I bet the Toddster slashed his own tires.

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

44 34
‘ It’s also now one of the most popular names in the West. That should terrify everyone.’

Maybe it should but mainly it makes me angry.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 02, 2025 11:13 AM (jbnUc)

45 Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
NEW: Chuck Todd claims someone slashed his tires after Trump called him out
"There was direct correlation, right? He'd call your name out — you'd get, you know, weird phone calls, you'd get weird death threats. I got my tires slashed in front of my house."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Now go play softball.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:13 AM (ipqug)

46 Solar tech is getting better and has its uses. Wind power is a huge fail imo though it can also have its uses for individual off grid projects.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 11:08 AM (VofaG)

It requires massive battery storage, which isn't very green, but that doesn't matter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

47 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at June 02, 2025 11:09 AM (L/fGl)

The Left's fake hate crimes equal the about the same actual hate crimes against the Right.

They have to keep it balanced. They are trying to figure out how to do fake assassination attempts but can't get any volunteers.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 11:14 AM (VofaG)

48 NEW: Chuck Todd claims someone slashed his tires after Trump called him out
"There was direct correlation, right?

Gee, Chuck, who ever could have done that? Hey, that's a cool pocket knife you have...

Posted by: t-bird at June 02, 2025 11:14 AM (AJ8yr)

49
Now go play softball.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:13 AM (ipqug)

Texas Tech wins against Oklahoma in their first game tonight, they go to their first ever World Series final.

They lose game 1, they won't win game 2.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

50 Cuomo shut down Indian Point Nuclear plant early in order to please greenies. Also stopped new gas pipelines and banned fracking in the Southern Tier. No plan to increase energy production except off shore windmills and a couple of solar farms. Solar farms aren't that great in the winter here

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 02, 2025 11:15 AM (Qrxbh)

51 I really have a hunch (based on nothing but itself) that this fire was caused by half-assed wiring. Somebody bonded neutral in a subpanel, shoddy rooftop/enclosure penetration, or something like that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 11:15 AM (VoAdT)

52 Texas Tech wins against Oklahoma in their first game tonight, they go to their first ever World Series final.

They lose game 1, they won't win game 2.
Posted by: Sponge

Go Tech!
Nephew graduated from Tech. Mechanical engineering.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:16 AM (ipqug)

53 It requires massive battery storage, which isn't very green, but that doesn't matter.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 11:16 AM (VofaG)

54 Leftists are really pissed that the Senate has killed CA's special treatment that allowed them to ban all but hybrid and EVs.

The Pencil-Neck loser was really whining, doom-casting a litany of horrors that makes Revelations look like a mild summer Sunday afternoon.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 02, 2025 11:16 AM (OjReL)

55 I really have a hunch (based on nothing but itself) that this fire was caused by half-assed wiring. Somebody bonded neutral in a subpanel, shoddy rooftop/enclosure penetration, or something like that.

We have no idea what this gibberish means. You're just making stuff up.
*returns to reading cracks on charred turtle shells*

Posted by: High Priests of Woke at June 02, 2025 11:17 AM (s8j++)

56 I read an article several weeks ago about the way the Chinese, who build a lot of the solar panels we use, have put all sorts of malware into the software that runs them.

We know it there. But the industrial software the commercial panels utilize at scale cannot be "unhacked" to remove this malware. Malware that permits the Chinese to shut off or otherwise render the panels useless.

The same industrial software that runs many power plants, traffic systems, water treatment facilities, etc. is also infected with this malware. And for whatever reasons, it can't be removed without rendering the software unusable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2025 11:17 AM (Q4IgG)

57 no one cares about Chuck Todd

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 02, 2025 11:17 AM (Pv3Rg)

58 How well does solar work in Britain? They can go for weeks without seeing the sun.
Posted by: Pasty, Pale, Penelope at June 02, 2025 11:06 AM (G5+As)

You generate some power even with cloud cover. Still, the UK is on the same latitude as Canada so, in winter, the utility is pretty questionable.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:17 AM (ExV1e)

59 New rules! To mitigate the risk of fire, solar panels may now only operate at night.

Posted by: UK Ministry of Power (and Funny Walks) at June 02, 2025 11:17 AM (AJ8yr)

60 Malware that permits the Chinese to shut off or otherwise render the panels useless.
....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2025 11:17 AM (Q4IgG)

"Halt and Catch Fire"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 11:17 AM (VoAdT)

61 How well does solar work in Britain? They can go for weeks without seeing the sun.

That's why all their years of testing never showed a problem.

Posted by: t-bird at June 02, 2025 11:18 AM (b+qgU)

62 I worked with a bunch of green-energy frootloops who wanted to install solar panels on the roof of our facility. They were crunching ROI numbers and puffing their little chests about how fucking smart and woke they were.

When I reminded them that the facility was structured to be a plain and simple warehouse and was not structurally designed to bear the load of all of those glass panels and converters, they got pissy with me and I was ejected from the team.

Ultimately, they didn't reinforce the roof or install the project as planned.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 02, 2025 11:18 AM (qHYlB)

63 To mitigate the risk of fire, solar panels may now only operate at night.
Posted by: UK Ministry of Power (and Funny Walks)

Heh. That's Bee-worthy.

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)

64 no one cares about Chuck Todd

And that torments him.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:19 AM (s8j++)

65 SCOTT IS THE BEST!!!
Takes only 18 seconds to explain how things are to Margaret the inquisitor.

https://tinyurl.com/7bd7f3p2

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:19 AM (jTU7t)

66 The obvious solution is to install even more solar panels, and then enclose the roof with a water jacket and generate steam to drive a turbine to generate some super duper green energy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 11:19 AM (VoAdT)

67 60
Great reason to not automate/computerize everything and connect it to internet.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 02, 2025 11:19 AM (VIG9d)

68 These are the British we are talking about.

Their unique take on electricity and how it functions have always been suspect.

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2025 11:19 AM (hJb7m)

69
Hey Chuck Todd did they leave graffiti saying "this is MAGA country"
If not didn't happen
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Cable Noose Network

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2025 11:19 AM (63Dwl)

70 NEW: Chuck Todd claims someone slashed his tires after Trump called him out

"There was direct correlation, right?

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Their "stochastic terrorism" has come home to noosed.

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:20 AM (Yrpv2)

71 Takes only 18 seconds to explain how things are to Margaret the inquisitor.

https://tinyurl.com/7bd7f3p2
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:19 AM (jTU7t)

Torquemargaret?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 11:20 AM (VoAdT)

72 Go Tech!
Nephew graduated from Tech. Mechanical engineering.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:16 AM (ipqug)

They shocked the world with the signing of NiJaree Canady, making her the first $1m female college athlete. She's keeping her end of the deal making Tech top level, but she's all they've got in the pitching rotation.

I went to Tech for a year. LOVED the school. Hated Lubbock.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

73 Cable Noose Network

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2025 11:19 AM (63Dwl)

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Damn, that's some serious horde mind right there!

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:21 AM (Yrpv2)

74 SCOTT IS THE BEST!!!
Takes only 18 seconds to explain how things are to Margaret the inquisitor.

https://tinyurl.com/7bd7f3p2

I would pay big money for that to be true, just once.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:21 AM (s8j++)

75 Solar tech is getting better and has its uses. Wind power is a huge fail imo though it can also have its uses for individual off grid projects.
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 11:08 AM (VofaG)

Solar, and possibly wind, can have value for small, fairly constant demands. You can power a house with either - assuming sufficient sunshine and/or wind coupled with enough battery capacity to get you through downtime.

Industrial demand, however, isn't going to be met with either source unless you significantly reduce the amount of demand that industry needs... but that would require killing off a significant portion of the human population.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:21 AM (ExV1e)

76 These are the British we are talking about.

Their unique take on electricity and how it functions have always been suspect.
Posted by: garrett

Michael Faraday would like a word.

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

77 65
‘ SCOTT IS THE BEST!!!
Takes only 18 seconds to explain how things are to Margaret the inquisitor.’’

Hahahaha!!! I wish this really happened.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 02, 2025 11:22 AM (jbnUc)

78 MTG lays it out plain and clear. It should be on the front page.

https://tinyurl.com/2r94u4ps

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:23 AM (jTU7t)

79 Michael Faraday would like a word.

Pffffft.

Posted by: James Clerk Maxwell at June 02, 2025 11:23 AM (s8j++)

80
Industrial demand, however, isn't going to be met with either source unless you significantly reduce the amount of demand that industry needs... but that would require killing off a significant portion of the human population.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:21 AM (ExV1e)

Less than 20% of the energy generated by 'green' sources makes it to the grid because it's incredibly unreliable.

But they keep f*cking that chicken. How's that working out for Spain?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

81 I'd be great to live the life of an environmentalist.

The travel on private jets to 'conferences' to save Gaia, the multiple houses, the slush money and the feeling of moral superiority.

Posted by: Stateless.. 10% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 02, 2025 11:24 AM (jvJvP)

82 We need more power plants.

They ought to be nuclear.

We're unlikely to get either.

At least some of the people on the left are waking up to the nightmare they will be held accountable for if they keep destroying power generation.

Even the wretched Whitmer could see the writing on the wall and has been pushing for the recommissioning of nuclear plants in Michigan.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 02, 2025 11:24 AM (N1tpc)

83 They shocked the world with the signing of NiJaree Canady, making her the first $1m female college athlete.

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I would have guessed that the first $1m "female" college athlete was a dude.

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:24 AM (2b8ey)

84 Where it started would make a difference in how they would extinguish it, no?
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

Not really. Either way you'd cut the connection to the grid so new power, not coming from the array, could not enter it and then it pretty much just a standard "flammable shit" fire. If the array is still producing electricity it could be a concern to people using water to try and extinguish it but that's the case regardless of where the fire started.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:25 AM (ExV1e)

85 Can we blame solar panels for this, or shitty Chinese solar panels? I’m guessing it’s the latter more than the former.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 02, 2025 11:25 AM (VYKOS)

86 Their unique take on electricity and how it functions have always been suspect.
Posted by: garrett

Yeah, and they don't even have those cool, red phone booths (kiosks) any more.

Posted by: Keeping Up Appearances at June 02, 2025 11:26 AM (G5+As)

87

Mr. Trump told associates he had learned from allies that Mr. Isaacman had donated to Democrats, including Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona and former Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania
Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2025 09:58 AM (RHGPo)

Nomination withdrawn? It's like Hitler himself has come back from the grave.

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2025 11:26 AM (EZ80O)

88 I would have solar panels, but my roof is going to need to be replaced within the next 5 years or so.

I'll get them then. They save a shedload of money.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 11:27 AM (dGCAG)

89 We need more power plants.

They ought to be nuclear.

We're unlikely to get either.

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The "Climate Change" GloboHomo Oligarchs are now suddenly all-in on nuclear energy ... to power the development and implementation of our future "AI" overlords.

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:27 AM (2b8ey)

90 Nomination withdrawn? It's like Hitler himself has come back from the grave.

Isn't everything?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:27 AM (s8j++)

91 They shocked the world with the signing of NiJaree Canady, making her the first $1m female college athlete.

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I would have guessed that the first $1m "female" college athlete was a dude.
Posted by: ShainS

Caitlyn Clark. But she graduated before that became a thing.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:27 AM (ipqug)

92 Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
NEW: Chuck Todd claims someone slashed his tires after Trump called him out
"There was direct correlation, right? He'd call your name out — you'd get, you know, weird phone calls, you'd get weird death threats. I got my tires slashed in front of my house."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at June 02, 2025 11:09 AM (L/fGl)

Should be easy enough to confirm. No doubt there's a police report. Couple white guys in MAGA hats slashing tires and shouting "this is fox news country".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:27 AM (ExV1e)

93 64 no one cares about Chuck Todd

Who ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 02, 2025 11:28 AM (VE6XX)

94 Michael Faraday would like a word.

Pffffft.
Posted by: James Clerk Maxwell

Lucas Electrics, FTW!

Posted by: Pull My Wire! at June 02, 2025 11:28 AM (G5+As)

95 These are the British we are talking about.

Their unique take on electricity and how it functions have always been suspect.

We count on the rain to cool our wires down. Saves on insulation.

Posted by: British EE Society at June 02, 2025 11:28 AM (G7MqD)

96
The "Climate Change" GloboHomo Oligarchs are now suddenly all-in on nuclear energy ... to power the development and implementation of our future "AI" overlords.
Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:27 AM (2b8ey)

Three Mile Island is coming back online solely to power Microsoft's AI.

Screw you if you want affordable energy. Microsoft needs it more.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

97 I worked with some of this so-called "industrial systems software" before. We were trying to get it to automate a building's HVAC system. Spent some big monies on baffles for vents, valves, switches, etc. that were supposed to open, close, turn on/off various fans and things on a schedule and/or as conditions warranted.

Buggy as hell. And the components we had, for the most part, were made in China and debugging the software with the American company that sold the stuff to us, was useless. We'd try to fix something only to render the entire sub-system non-op. By design.

Eventually we gave up and pulled it all out. Took a lot of heat for it but it just wasn't going to work the way the building tenants wanted.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2025 11:29 AM (Q4IgG)

98 90 Nomination withdrawn? It's like Hitler himself has come back from the grave.

Isn't everything?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:27 AM (s8j++)

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Making the executive branch more responsive to the electorate's desires by reducing "independent" agencies is fascism.

Cutting government spending is fascism.

Repudiating "nothing outside the state, everything within the state, nothing against the state," is fascism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:29 AM (cD1dp)

99 When you start getting up into panel sizes that imitate electrical switching yards, I don't think they are built sturdy enough. They are all built to one standard, but then they are connected to each other in crazy amounts.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:13 AM (ipqug)

More to the point... pretty sure that they're mostly made in Chynah, where quality is not job 1, and the hospital probably didn't opt for the theoretically highest quality panels anyway.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:29 AM (ExV1e)

100 96 Three Mile Island is coming back online solely to power Microsoft's AI.

Screw you if you want affordable energy. Microsoft needs it more.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

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Trump signed an EO last week to reduce regulatory burdens on new nuclear plants.

Some plant in Utah is the first to get going, I think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:30 AM (cD1dp)

101 You can blame the cuts to USAID. They even warned us millions would die. There will more, many more.

Posted by: Ripley at June 02, 2025 11:30 AM (GUOwU)

102 These are the British we are talking about.

Their unique take on electricity and how it functions have always been suspect.
Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2025 11:19 AM (hJb7m)

Their serial killers tend to bury their victims in the garden.

In fact, I'm not sure what other purpose gardens in England serve. It's not like they grow veggies or anything.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 11:31 AM (dGCAG)

103 Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
NEW: Chuck Todd claims someone slashed his tires after Trump called him out
"There was direct correlation, right? He'd call your name out — you'd get, you know, weird phone calls, you'd get weird death threats. I got my tires slashed in front of my house."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, You and whose army? at June 02, 2025 11:09 AM (L/fGl)

With all the security cameras around, it should be a simple matter to bring the miscreant to justice.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 02, 2025 11:31 AM (rF2iL)

104 > NEW: Chuck Todd claims someone slashed his tires after Trump called him out
"There was direct correlation, right? He'd call your name out — you'd get, you know, weird phone calls, you'd get weird death threats. I got my tires slashed in front of my house."
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Yawns....

Let me know when you've been swatted and had your dog shot, wife stripped naked and the two of you are frog marched into the police van at 3AM in front of everyone in your hood.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.... Todd

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2025 11:31 AM (Q4IgG)

105 You can blame the cuts to USAID. They even warned us millions would die. There will more, many more.
Posted by: Ripley at June 02, 2025 11:30 AM (GUOwU)

MILLIONS of TONS of food is rotting in Houston because the guy that knows the code to the lock got fired by DOGE.

Posted by: Bono at June 02, 2025 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

106 Eventually we gave up and pulled it all out. Took a lot of heat for it but it just wasn't going to work the way the building tenants wanted.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2025 11:29 AM (Q4IgG)

This is basically what I do for a living.

Not the "buggy as hell" part. The "rip somebody else's overpriced bricks out and put something that actually works in" part.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 11:31 AM (VoAdT)

107 101 You can blame the cuts to USAID. They even warned us millions would die. There will more, many more.
Posted by: Ripley at June 02, 2025 11:30 AM (GUOwU)

========

"I estimate 300,000 people will die because of USAID cuts at some point in the next few years."
-academic

"300,000 people have died because of USAID cuts!"
-The NYT

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:31 AM (cD1dp)

108 The same industrial software that runs many power plants, traffic systems, water treatment facilities, etc. is also infected with this malware. And for whatever reasons, it can't be removed without rendering the software unusable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2025 11:17 AM (Q4IgG)

Not to worry. We're ensuring that boring white guys aren't getting hired out of college so we won't be able to recover. -- Corporate management

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:32 AM (ExV1e)

109 Caitlyn Clark. But she graduated before that became a thing.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:27 AM (ipqug)

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Heh. Well-played, rick.

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:32 AM (2b8ey)

110 Making the executive branch more responsive to the electorate's desires by reducing "independent" agencies is fascism.

Cutting government spending is fascism.

Repudiating "nothing outside the state, everything within the state, nothing against the state," is fascism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Fascism? I thought all that stuff was racism. When did that change?

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

111 In fact, I'm not sure what other purpose gardens in England serve. It's not like they grow veggies or anything.
Posted by: BurtTC

The average British garden is like 4'X8'. You might fit two bodies, tops.

Posted by: The Strangler at June 02, 2025 11:33 AM (G5+As)

112 "300,000 people have died because of USAID cuts!"
-The NYT

*(sotto voce) and old age, but mostly old age*

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:33 AM (s8j++)

113 NRG Buying [18] LS Power Gas-Fired Plants in $12-Billion Deal.

Three mile island sold to new company and is being readied to go online. To power Microsoft (I think)

Other tech AI's like NVDA and other foundries will be commissioning either gas, coal, or nuclear for their projects. These things are necessary for them and they control the media.

Shortly, clean coal, natGas and nuclear will be green ecological remedies for the future.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (jTU7t)

114 110 Fascism? I thought all that stuff was racism. When did that change?
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

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What's the difference?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (cD1dp)

115 Go Tech!
Nephew graduated from Tech. Mechanical engineering.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:16 AM (ipqug)

They shocked the world with the signing of NiJaree Canady, making her the first $1m female college athlete. She's keeping her end of the deal making Tech top level, but she's all they've got in the pitching rotation.

I went to Tech for a year. LOVED the school. Hated Lubbock.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)
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What's with all the Star Wars names?

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

116 The obvious solution is to install even more solar panels, and then enclose the roof with a water jacket and generate steam to drive a turbine to generate some super duper green energy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 11:19 AM (VoAdT)

1. Steam is water vapor.
2. Water vapor is more impactful on global climate than CO2. Supposedly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (ExV1e)

117 Mr. Trump told associates he had learned from allies that Mr. Isaacman had donated to Democrats, including Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona and former Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania
Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2025 09:58 AM (RHGPo)

Nomination withdrawn? It's like Hitler himself has come back from the grave.
Posted by: ... at June 02, 2025 11:26 AM (EZ80O)

He should nominate an expert on space flight, like Katie Perry.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (dGCAG)

118 112 "300,000 people have died because of USAID cuts!"
-The NYT
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Mostly from spilled wet dreams.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:35 AM (jTU7t)

119 Three Mile Island is coming back online solely to power Microsoft's AI.

Screw you if you want affordable energy. Microsoft needs it more.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

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Was not aware of that -- thanks, Sponge.

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:35 AM (OrY6K)

120 116 1. Steam is water vapor.
2. Water vapor is more impactful on global climate than CO2. Supposedly.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (ExV1e)

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From what I understand, the theory is not that CO2 causes global warming but that CO2 increases water vapor which increases global warming.

The increasing CO2 leads to increasing water vapor relationship hasn't been proven, though. Not even in lab conditions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:35 AM (cD1dp)

121 In fact, I'm not sure what other purpose gardens in England serve. It's not like they grow veggies or anything.
Posted by: BurtTC

The average British garden is like 4'X8'. You might fit two bodies, tops.
Posted by: The Strangler at June 02, 2025 11:33 AM (G5+As)

That's why there are always rubbish fires going.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 11:36 AM (dGCAG)

122 You can blame the cuts to USAID. They even warned us millions would die. There will more, many more.
Posted by: Ripley at June 02, 2025 11:30 AM (GUOwU)

MILLIONS of TONS of food is rotting in Houston because the guy that knows the code to the lock got fired by DOGE.
Posted by: Bono

And all the DEI hires weren't smart enough to use bolt cutters.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:36 AM (ipqug)

123 Thank goodness that solar panel SNAFU didn't occur during Pride Month!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 11:36 AM (36PRH)

124 "300,000 people have died because of USAID cuts!
-The NYT"

I wonder if anybody in third world countries (where the money was supposedly going) have even noticed. Or is all just white liberals fainting and and dying?

Posted by: Ripley at June 02, 2025 11:37 AM (GUOwU)

125 111
‘ The average British garden is like 4'X8'. You might fit two bodies, tops.’

Save them up and then stack them.

Posted by: John Christie at June 02, 2025 11:37 AM (jbnUc)

126 There's a closed Catholic high school building about two miles from me. Largely residential area. There is now a proposal for a battery storage facility on the site. I told a friend on the town council, it's just outside my city, that he should look up the he Moss Landing fire before he approves it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 02, 2025 11:38 AM (Qrxbh)

127 112 "300,000 people have died because of USAID cuts!"
-The NYT

*(sotto voce) and old age, but mostly old age*
Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:33 AM (s8j++)
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Were they just parroting Bono's claim?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 11:39 AM (36PRH)

128 The increasing CO2 leads to increasing water vapor relationship hasn't been proven, though. Not even in lab conditions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I supplement my week grow operations with CO2 and my yields are through the roof-literally.

Posted by: Mellow Yellow at June 02, 2025 11:39 AM (G5+As)

129 The average British garden is like 4'X8'. You might fit two bodies, tops.

Oooh, very nice, your majesty. We had a garden measured in millimeters, and it sat atop a nuclear waste dump. We were glad to have it, I can tell you.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:39 AM (s8j++)

130 When the ring of fire heats up as it did last year or so it creates more water vapor. I believe that there was an underwater eruption that put an inordinate amount in the atmosphere.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:40 AM (jTU7t)

131 Largely residential area. There is now a proposal for a battery storage facility on the site.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

In a residential area? Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Doesn't the city have an industrial park they could put it in?

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

132 Were they just parroting Bono's claim?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 11:39 AM (36PRH)

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Likely the reverse: idiot Bono paraphrasing the idiot NYT.

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:41 AM (MtJe1)

133 Out of an abundance of caution, we are issuing asbestos bedding and blankets to all of our customers and patients.

Posted by: Bristol Maternity Hospital at June 02, 2025 11:41 AM (G5+As)

134 Hanging curve right over the plate.

Nope. Not gonna swing. Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 02, 2025 11:41 AM (viF8m)

135 "Pregnant women and babies"

Well, being born pregnant would be a time saver...
Or did they just leave the non pregnant persons inside?
Posted by: Man

Your useless trivia for the day: Aphids can be born pregnant.

Posted by: mikeski at June 02, 2025 11:42 AM (nsh1D)

136
What's with all the Star Wars names?
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

She's from Africa. Star Wars is big in Africa.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

137 I wonder if anybody in third world countries (where the money was supposedly going) have even noticed. Or is all just white liberals fainting and and dying?
Posted by: Ripley at June 02, 2025 11:37 AM (GUOwU)

There was an African guy I saw, not sure who was interviewing him, basically said USAID was a menace, and whatever problem they were supposedly working on would be worse than if they'd just never shown up in the first place.

Given that it was a cover for CIA ops, that would make sense. I don't think you want CIA building your water treatment plant, or leading your vaccination program.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (dGCAG)

138 I think the wrong Bono skied into that tree.

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

139 He should nominate an expert on space flight, like Katie Perry.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (dGCAG)

LOL

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (g8Ew8)

140 The average British garden is like 4'X8'. You might fit two bodies, tops.

But Time Team was finding entire Norman castles in those gardens.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (kTd/k)

141

And all the DEI hires weren't smart enough to use bolt cutters.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:36 AM (ipqug)

Hackers steal billions every year.

They can't open a maglock.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

142 108 The same industrial software that runs many power plants, traffic systems, water treatment facilities, etc. is also infected with this malware. And for whatever reasons, it can't be removed without rendering the software unusable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2025 11:17 AM (Q4IgG)

Not to worry. We're ensuring that boring white guys aren't getting hired out of college so we won't be able to recover. -- Corporate management
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:32 AM (ExV1e)

They'll all get their 6-7 figure bonuses while the product goes to hell and the customers get totally fucked, so it all works out.

Posted by: Shit products + poor wages = C-Suite bonuses at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (TbWk/)

143 What's with all the Star Wars names?
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

She's from Africa. Star Wars is big in Africa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)
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So are the rains.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

144 @131 Bulg, there's an industrial park which is largely empty and is being proposed to turn into "work force housing". It's also in a residential area and on a bluff above the Hudson. The greenies would lose their marbles if it was tried to put such a facility there

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (Qrxbh)

145 I think the wrong Bono skied into that tree.
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

It's all in the pronunciation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

146 137 There was an African guy I saw, not sure who was interviewing him, basically said USAID was a menace, and whatever problem they were supposedly working on would be worse than if they'd just never shown up in the first place.

Given that it was a cover for CIA ops, that would make sense. I don't think you want CIA building your water treatment plant, or leading your vaccination program.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (dGCAG)

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But that $40 billion a year budget bought $100 million of rice every year, and the people who got it will starve and die now.

So, restart the full USAID funding. It's the only way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:44 AM (cD1dp)

147 Doesn't the city have an industrial park they could put it in?
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

They do, but that's where they already put all the houses.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 11:44 AM (VoAdT)

148 Your useless trivia for the day: Aphids can be born pregnant.
Posted by: mikeski

Just like Tribbles!

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

149 Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:27 AM (ipqug)

1. I loathe that colleges pay their sports entertainers. What's next, setting up OF accounts for the cheerleaders?
2. I was today years old when I learned there's professional women's softball in this country so, I guess, shelling out a cool million dollars for a pitcher makes the kind of sense that gets you hired to run a major university.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)

150
Your useless trivia for the day: Aphids can be born pregnant.
Posted by: mikeski at June 02, 2025 11:42 AM (nsh1D)

Well, incest is best.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

151 This is a hilarious video:

This whackadoodle woman, in CA by the looks of it, decided to walk up somebody's driveway, key their Tesla, then pulls out her Glock and shoots the car three times.

The owner saw her on the security cam while she was keying it and called the cops.

Cop pulls up, she lies her ass off for a few minutes, and then tried to run away:

https://tinyurl.com/erubsddk
(Vince Langman on X)

Another AWFL taken down by the boys in blue.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 02, 2025 11:45 AM (6ydKt)

152 Trump has issued some pretty good EO's on getting more power plants, especially nuclear.

But, he's gotta stop with that single-front attack:

He needs to run a pincer with the agency heads also firing out new rules and regs--force the left to fight their inevitable lawsuits on multiple fronts.

Then, open up a third by issuing memos (not an EO, something like "Response to Agency Request for Executive Action") waiving all red tape blocking the new rules and regs.

Then, revoke the EO, move to dismiss that lawsuit, then issue a new EO on the new rules and regs.

Then move to dismiss the rule and reg lawsuit because it's moot due to the new EO.

Just basically spinning the left around in an endless cycle of issue and revoke--while constantly advancing to the objective.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 02, 2025 11:45 AM (OjReL)

153 148 Your useless trivia for the day: Aphids can be born pregnant.
Posted by: mikeski

Just like Tribbles!
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)
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🙄

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 11:45 AM (36PRH)

154 Your useless trivia for the day: Aphids can be born pregnant.

It's aphids all the way down.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:45 AM (s8j++)

155 Women and babies survived? Another failed operation!

Posted by: Greenstapo Agent Tod von Strudel at June 02, 2025 11:45 AM (ftcl+)

156 155 Women and babies survived? Another failed operation!
Posted by: Greenstapo Agent Tod von Strudel at June 02, 2025 11:45 AM (ftcl+)

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Fucking Tod...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:46 AM (cD1dp)

157 Go Tech!
Nephew graduated from Tech. Mechanical engineering.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2025 11:16 AM (ipqug)

Tennessee's coach is a friend of mine.
Go Vols!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2025 11:46 AM (W/lyH)

158 @151 the part where the car is keyed and shot 3 times wasn't very hilarious.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 11:46 AM (36PRH)

159 145 I think the wrong Bono skied into that tree.
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

It's all in the pronunciation.
_-_-_
Thank you for chering....heh...almost had a gag there...joke, that is...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 02, 2025 11:47 AM (VIG9d)

160 Oh come on people it's the New York Times.
Surprised people still read their garbage.
Bias is the word.

Posted by: Case at June 02, 2025 11:47 AM (a1g6Z)

161 What's with all the Star Wars names?
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

She's from Africa. Star Wars is big in Africa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)
_____

I think she was born in Kansas. Like Superman.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

162 So the best way to get pregnant is to take an aphidisiac?

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

163 158 @151 the part where the car is keyed and shot 3 times wasn't very hilarious.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 11:46 AM (36PRH)

I think it's a mildly amusing juxtaposition, for what it's worth.

It's like spitting on someone after you've thrown a turd in their face.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 11:47 AM (VoAdT)

164 150
Your useless trivia for the day: Aphids can be born pregnant.
Posted by: mikeski at June 02, 2025 11:42 AM (nsh1D)

Well, incest is best.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

You dragging my Ozarks into the conversation??

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:48 AM (PCK5/)

165 When the ring of fire heats up as it did last year or so it creates more water vapor. I believe that there was an underwater eruption that put an inordinate amount in the atmosphere.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:40 AM (jTU7t)

Gaia can heal from natural water vapor emissions. It's only when humans add to them that it overwhelms the system. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must take a private jet to a climate conference in the Maldives.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:48 AM (ExV1e)

166 As much as twelve percent of GB power is generated by burning wood, or biomass as they call it. Bunch of it comes from us in the from of wood pellets, etc.

https://tinyurl.com/w698w8cb

Posted by: javems at June 02, 2025 11:48 AM (8I4hW)

167 161 I think she was born in Kansas. Like Superman.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

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I love how stories of immigrants who adore the countries they've immigrated to are used to prop up open borders immigration without assimilation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:48 AM (cD1dp)

168 161 What's with all the Star Wars names?
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

She's from Africa. Star Wars is big in Africa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)
_____

I think she was born in Kansas. Like Superman.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

Well Kansas IS the name of the Star….

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:49 AM (PCK5/)

169 I have an entirely irrelevant Lord of the Rings question flung out of left field.
Could a Nazgul, tired of endless slavery to Sauron, commit suicide.
I ask because the HQ is the Amazon of opinions. You can find opinions about anything here.
You want an opinion you can get one here.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 02, 2025 11:49 AM (kTd/k)

170 England is now officially a 3rd world shithole. They should rename the place Northern Bangladesh.

Posted by: Jitendra Chatterjee at June 02, 2025 11:49 AM (PxmHT)

171 169 I have an entirely irrelevant Lord of the Rings question flung out of left field.
Could a Nazgul, tired of endless slavery to Sauron, commit suicide.
I ask because the HQ is the Amazon of opinions. You can find opinions about anything here.
You want an opinion you can get one here.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 02, 2025 11:49 AM (kTd/k)

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Slaves to Sauron's will, I believe the Nazgul have nothing like free will anymore. Also, they're not really living anymore, so death isn't an option. Their situation is eternal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:50 AM (cD1dp)

172
https://tinyurl.com/erubsddk
(Vince Langman on X)

Another AWFL taken down by the boys in blue.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 02, 2025 11:45 AM (6ydKt)

Broke. en.

Get the toxicology report.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

173 169 I have an entirely irrelevant Lord of the Rings question flung out of left field.
Could a Nazgul, tired of endless slavery to Sauron, commit suicide.
I ask because the HQ is the Amazon of opinions. You can find opinions about anything here.
You want an opinion you can get one here.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 02, 2025 11:49 AM (kTd/k)

Yes. By jumping into the fires of Mount Doom…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:50 AM (PCK5/)

174 151
‘ Another AWFL taken down by the boys in blue.’

Mouthy bitch. They need to give her a Freddy Gray ride in a police van.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 02, 2025 11:50 AM (jbnUc)

175 They'll all get their 6-7 figure bonuses while the product goes to hell and the customers get totally fucked, so it all works out.
Posted by: Shit products + poor wages = C-Suite bonuses at June 02, 2025 11:43 AM (TbWk/)

On the plus side, I'm 121 days from giving them the good news that I won't be here next year.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:50 AM (ExV1e)

176 Oooh, very nice, your majesty. We had a garden measured in millimeters, and it sat atop a nuclear waste dump. We were glad to have it, I can tell you.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:39 AM

You had nuclear waste? Luxury!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2025 11:50 AM (dPfyF)

177 156 Doing my part to get Greenstapo into full circulation. The death cult's anti-Gospel deserves maximum mockery.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (ftcl+)

178 176 Oooh, very nice, your majesty. We had a garden measured in millimeters, and it sat atop a nuclear waste dump. We were glad to have it, I can tell you.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:39 AM

You had nuclear waste? Luxury!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2025 11:50 AM (dPfyF)

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Keeps you warm in those cold, English winters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (cD1dp)

179 Paul Hewson is a tosser.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, trying out an Irish accent at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (PiwSw)

180 166 As much as twelve percent of GB power is generated by burning wood, or biomass as they call it. Bunch of it comes from us in the from of wood pellets, etc.

https://tinyurl.com/w698w8cb
Posted by: javems
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We mercenary Americans make a business of our forests and replant after we cut. Perpetual forests.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (jTU7t)

181 This is a hilarious video:

This whackadoodle woman, in CA by the looks of it, decided to walk up somebody's driveway, key their Tesla, then pulls out her Glock and shoots the car three times.

The best part is that she tries to defend carrying a gun by saying "This is America". Yes, yes it is, no thanks to loons like you.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (s8j++)

182 But that $40 billion a year budget bought $100 million of rice every year, and the people who got it will starve and die now.

So, restart the full USAID funding. It's the only way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:44 AM (cD1dp)

They were buying rice? Why would the US Agency for International Development be buying rice?

That sounds like a job for an aid agency.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (dGCAG)

183 179 Paul Hewson is a tosser.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, trying out an Irish accent at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (PiwSw)

But not a wanker??

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (PCK5/)

184 180 166 As much as twelve percent of GB power is generated by burning wood, or biomass as they call it. Bunch of it comes from us in the from of wood pellets, etc.

https://tinyurl.com/w698w8cb
Posted by: javems
------------------------

We mercenary Americans make a business of our forests and replant after we cut. Perpetual forests.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (jTU7t)

The vastness of the Pulp Forests…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:52 AM (PCK5/)

185 @151 the part where the car is keyed and shot 3 times wasn't very hilarious.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 11:46 AM (36PRH)

The part where she says "what you got nothing better to do than pick on an old lady?" after he handcuffed her and read her her rights certainly was.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 02, 2025 11:52 AM (6ydKt)

186 The Nazgul could commit suicide by watching the Rings of Power

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 02, 2025 11:52 AM (Qrxbh)

187 182 They were buying rice? Why would the US Agency for International Development be buying rice?

That sounds like a job for an aid agency.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (dGCAG)

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I do know that food shipments were their "we'll kill the puppy" defense.

Amazing how many rice bowls you can upset when you don't fall for it and tell them to kill the puppy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:52 AM (cD1dp)

188 161 What's with all the Star Wars names?
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

She's from Africa. Star Wars is big in Africa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

I saw the first Star Wars in an auditorium in Lagos, Nigeria late seventies. Couldn't make out any of the dialogue but it looked great

Posted by: javems at June 02, 2025 11:52 AM (8I4hW)

189 If solar panels were as durable as Cher's vulva, we'd have sustainable green energy for generations.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 02, 2025 11:53 AM (qHYlB)

190
I think she was born in Kansas. Like Superman.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

Wiki says she was born in 2003 or 2004, so I'm guessing not born in America. She did go to a Kansas high school, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

191 This is a hilarious video:

This whackadoodle woman, in CA by the looks of it, decided to walk up somebody's driveway, key their Tesla, then pulls out her Glock and shoots the car three times.

The best part is that she tries to defend carrying a gun by saying "This is America". Yes, yes it is, no thanks to loons like you.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (s8j++)

I think in Texas you are allowed to shoot her for trying to kill your horse , I mean your car.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 11:53 AM (VofaG)

192 One flamethrower a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Your neighborhood Karen at June 02, 2025 11:53 AM (1Bqlg)

193 Another AWFL taken down by the boys in blue.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 02, 2025 11:45 AM (6ydKt)

at least the felony charge will now get her gun registration pulled

stoopid biatch

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2025 11:53 AM (dCxaZ)

194
Keeps you warm in those cold, English winters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (cD1dp)

Also helps provide your own glow to light the way when street lamps are out.

Posted by: Piper at June 02, 2025 11:54 AM (pZEOD)

195 That thick black smoke looks very environmentally friendly. If the whole city caught on fire, it would sustainable for that much longer.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:54 AM (uTq2e)

196 19 You can bet one baby in five was named Mohammed.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2025 11:03 AM (W/lyH)

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And another fifth with the alternative spelling "Muhammad."

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:06 AM (rU3O3)
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Then there's that Leno favorite alternative Ahmed.

Posted by: Ciampino - Achmed at June 02, 2025 11:55 AM (sPQoU)

197 I think in Texas you are allowed to shoot her for trying to kill your horse , I mean your car.
_--_-_
Years since I looked at it, but deadly force justified in the prevention of a felony?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 02, 2025 11:55 AM (VIG9d)

198 195 That thick black smoke looks very environmentally friendly. If the whole city caught on fire, it would sustainable for that much longer.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:54 AM (uTq2e)

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This is what happens when conclave goes on too long.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:55 AM (cD1dp)

199 190

Wiki says she was born in 2003 or 2004, so I'm guessing not born in America. She did go to a Kansas high school, tho.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

Sponge, I was a bit short with you in the MR on a matter… apologies..

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:55 AM (PCK5/)

200 If solar panels were as durable as Cher's vulva, we'd have sustainable green energy for generations.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 02, 2025 11:53 AM (qHYlB)

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Imagine the amount of thermal energy that could be stored in there are radiated using Gwyneth Paltrow's pebbles?

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 11:55 AM (jqetr)

201
Sponge, I was a bit short with you in the MR on a matter… apologies..
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:55 AM (PCK5/)

Really? No biggie as I didn't notice.

All is well. But, apology accepted.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

202 This is a hilarious video:

This whackadoodle woman, in CA by the looks of it, decided to walk up somebody's driveway, key their Tesla, then pulls out her Glock and shoots the car three times.

The best part is that she tries to defend carrying a gun by saying "This is America". Yes, yes it is, no thanks to loons like you.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:51 AM (s8j++)
______

Something odd about that video. I think it's fake and staged. Lady shoots -- shoots! -- out the windows, but I see no glass shatter. Cops arrive in the time it takes for her to walk down the driveway? Video instantly goes to cops' perspective. Seems sketchy to me. But who knows? There are nuts out there.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

203 That thick black smoke looks very environmentally friendly. If the whole city caught on fire, it would sustainable for that much longer.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:54 AM (uTq2e)

The UK government has okayed a project to spray something into the air to block sunlight so as to defeat global warmening. This hospital is just doing their part.

Clap for the NHS!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 11:56 AM (ExV1e)

204 201
Sponge, I was a bit short with you in the MR on a matter… apologies..
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:55 AM (PCK5/)

Really? No biggie as I didn't notice.

All is well. But, apology accepted.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

Cool… apologies go well with everything…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:57 AM (PCK5/)

205 Gentlemen, there's no apologizing in here!

This is the Rant Room!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 11:57 AM (VoAdT)

206 189 If solar panels were as durable as Cher's vulva, we'd have sustainable green energy for generations.
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Once we have High Speed Trains things will be better.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 02, 2025 11:57 AM (FmapG)

207 I think in Texas you are allowed to shoot her for trying to kill your horse , I mean your car.
_--_-_
Years since I looked at it, but deadly force justified in the prevention of a felony?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 02, 2025 11:55 AM (VIG9d)

She's on private property......she brandished a weapon and fired it. She should be room temp.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

208 I just let my grumpy asshole out…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:58 AM (PCK5/)

209 Something odd about that video. I think it's fake and staged. Lady shoots -- shoots! -- out the windows, but I see no glass shatter.

I believe you can see the 3 bullet holes when the camera pans over the car. None are near the windows.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:58 AM (s8j++)

210
Cool… apologies go well with everything…
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:57 AM (PCK5/)

Never apologize. It's a sign of weakness.

Posted by: Leroy Jethro Gibbs at June 02, 2025 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

211 You can blame the cuts to USAID. They even warned us millions would die. There will more, many more.
Posted by: Ripley at June 02, 2025 11:30 AM (GUOwU)

Cool! Can I have their stuff?

Posted by: Guy who asks for people's stuff at June 02, 2025 11:59 AM (5xuJ/)

212
Cool… apologies go well with everything…
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:57 AM (PCK5/)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

213 I think in Texas you are allowed to shoot her for trying to kill your horse , I mean your car.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 11:53 AM (VofaG)

Terrible muzzle control as well.

She almost knocked herself in the head three times with the pistol recoiling.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 02, 2025 11:59 AM (6ydKt)

214 I have an entirely irrelevant Lord of the Rings question flung out of left field.
Could a Nazgul, tired of endless slavery to Sauron, commit suicide.
I ask because the HQ is the Amazon of opinions. You can find opinions about anything here.
You want an opinion you can get one here.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 02, 2025 11:49 AM (kTd/k)

Tolkien denied any of his stuff was allegorical, but I find it hard to believe they were not essentially the ghosts of kings past, who are suffering the consequence of their sins. Sometimes the sins were mainly that of hubris and selfish accumulation of wealth and power.

So they serve the source of evil. They can't repent, they can't turn on their master. They can only be saved (killed) by the act of one who is not a man.

I don't think Tolkien was suggesting his woman warrior was a god, but that she was an instrument of God. Not unlike, for example, Joan of Arc.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 11:59 AM (dGCAG)

215 210
Cool… apologies go well with everything…
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:57 AM (PCK5/)

Never apologize. It's a sign of weakness.
Posted by: Leroy Jethro Gibbs at June 02, 2025 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

He was married HOW MANY times???

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:59 AM (PCK5/)

216 It's comical that cutting down trees in Mississippi with diesel equipment, trucking it to a plant, grinding, chopping, cooking it, making it into pellets, trucking it again, loading the pellets into a ship in the Gulf of America, steaming across the Atlantic, off-loading in GB, trucking it again, then burning it to create power is somehow renewable and green.

Posted by: Green? at June 02, 2025 11:59 AM (G5+As)

217 Once we have High Speed Trains things will be better.
Posted by: pudinhead

Bakersfield to Fresno or bust!

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

218 https://tinyurl.com/erubsddk
(Vince Langman on X)
Another AWFL taken down by the boys in blue.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 02, 2025 11:45 AM (6ydKt)

I am Cat Lady Hear Me Roar!

Posted by: California Cat Lady, Not A Friend Of The Penis at June 02, 2025 12:00 PM (PxmHT)

219
Terrible muzzle control as well.

She almost knocked herself in the head three times with the pistol recoiling.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 02, 2025 11:59 AM (6ydKt)

I'm betting:

1) It's not her weapon.

2) That's the first time she's actually fired it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

220 Deadly force is allowed in protection of your property or your neighbors. Ask Quanell X.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 12:01 PM (jTU7t)

221 I think in Texas you are allowed to shoot her for trying to kill your horse , I mean your car.
_--_-_
Years since I looked at it, but deadly force justified in the prevention of a felony?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 02, 2025 11:55 AM (VIG9d)

used to be pretty clear that you could use deadly force to protect your property but the Lefty lawyers and judges have muddied it up.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 12:01 PM (VofaG)

222 216 It's comical that cutting down trees in Mississippi with diesel equipment, trucking it to a plant, grinding, chopping, cooking it, making it into pellets, trucking it again, loading the pellets into a ship in the Gulf of America, steaming across the Atlantic, off-loading in GB, trucking it again, then burning it to create power is somehow renewable and green.
Posted by: Green? at June 02, 2025 11:59 AM (G5+As)

A variation of the Underpants Gnomes business model…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:01 PM (PCK5/)

223 @209 yeah three in the door.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 12:01 PM (36PRH)

224 Something odd about that video. I think it's fake and staged. Lady shoots -- shoots! -- out the windows, but I see no glass shatter. Cops arrive in the time it takes for her to walk down the driveway? Video instantly goes to cops' perspective. Seems sketchy to me. But who knows? There are nuts out there.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

Nah, it shows in the video from the cop's body cam that she shot through the door.

The cop was already on his way before she walked down the driveway. He told her somebody called about "keying the car".

Not only is she dumb, but she's slow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 02, 2025 12:02 PM (6ydKt)

225
He was married HOW MANY times???
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:59 AM (PCK5/)

I think 3 ex wives, one murdered. Four total.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

226 208 I just let my grumpy asshole out…
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:58 AM (PCK5/)

*perks up*

Posted by: Pete Buttigege at June 02, 2025 12:02 PM (bss/y)

227 214
‘ Tolkien denied any of his stuff was allegorical, but I find it hard to believe they were not essentially the ghosts of kings past, who are suffering the consequence of their sins. Sometimes the sins were mainly that of hubris and selfish accumulation of wealth and power’

Zzzzzz…

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 02, 2025 12:03 PM (jbnUc)

228 do know that food shipments were their "we'll kill the puppy" defense.

Amazing how many rice bowls you can upset when you don't fall for it and tell them to kill the puppy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:52 AM (cD1dp)

Why would the CIA lie to the American people about what they do.

That's just weird.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 12:03 PM (dGCAG)

229 It's comical that cutting down trees in Mississippi with diesel equipment, trucking it to a plant, grinding, chopping, cooking it, making it into pellets, trucking it again, loading the pellets into a ship in the Gulf of America, steaming across the Atlantic, off-loading in GB, trucking it again, then burning it to create power is somehow renewable and green.

https://is.gd/1iyy2g

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 12:03 PM (s8j++)

230 227 214
‘ Tolkien denied any of his stuff was allegorical, but I find it hard to believe they were not essentially the ghosts of kings past, who are suffering the consequence of their sins. Sometimes the sins were mainly that of hubris and selfish accumulation of wealth and power’

Zzzzzz…
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 02, 2025 12:03 PM (jbnUc)

We’ll do Star Wars next….

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)

231 228 Why would the CIA lie to the American people about what they do.

That's just weird.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 12:03 PM (dGCAG)

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But they certainly don't operate on US soil, in violation of their charter. No sireeebob.

Also, the CIA funded Google.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 12:04 PM (cD1dp)

232 216 It's comical that cutting down trees in Mississippi with diesel equipment, trucking it to a plant, grinding, chopping, cooking it, making it into pellets, trucking it again, loading the pellets into a ship in the Gulf of America, steaming across the Atlantic, off-loading in GB, trucking it again, then burning it to create power is somehow renewable and green.
Posted by: Green? at June 02, 2025 11:59 AM (G5+As)
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This seems like a logical thing to source from China, though I wouldn't trust them to not get deadly toxic chemicals in the pellets.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 12:04 PM (36PRH)

233 I think 3 ex wives, one murdered. Four total.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

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And he shared an ex with his best friend!

WTAF?

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 12:04 PM (jqetr)

234 230 227 214
‘ Tolkien denied any of his stuff was allegorical, but I find it hard to believe they were not essentially the ghosts of kings past, who are suffering the consequence of their sins. Sometimes the sins were mainly that of hubris and selfish accumulation of wealth and power’

Zzzzzz…
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 02, 2025 12:03 PM (jbnUc)

We’ll do Star Wars next….
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)

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No!

Star Trek and the warp speed limit!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 12:04 PM (cD1dp)

235 Imagine a meeting of the Nazgul one Monday morning, but one of them schleps in yawning and haggard, looking like a regular old dude in regular old clothes, because he accidentally left his ring on the night stand and forgot to wear it to work that day.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 12:04 PM (VoAdT)

236 Something odd about that video. I think it's fake and staged. Lady shoots -- shoots! -- out the windows, but I see no glass shatter.

I believe you can see the 3 bullet holes when the camera pans over the car. None are near the windows.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 11:58 AM (s8j++)
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There are window-breaking sounds when she shoots. Also you can very distinctively hear her keying the car from that far away. It's like they added the sounds in later. And unless I missed it, there's nothing in the video when the cops arrive that prove they're cops.

I assume if this is real there will be actual news reports about a crazy lady shooting out a guy's car.. Not just a TT video.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

237 Then there's that Leno favorite alternative Ahmed.
Posted by: Ciampino - Achmed at June 02, 2025 11:55 AM

Silence! I keel you!

Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at June 02, 2025 12:05 PM (dPfyF)

238 @231 Oracle.also began as a CIA contract to build a RDBMS platform, I believe. Though a lot of products began as govt contracts before becoming commercial.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 12:06 PM (36PRH)

239 237
‘ Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist’

You know. We need more like you.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 02, 2025 12:07 PM (jbnUc)

240
Since it's Pride Month, it has to be 2LGBTQ+ hardest hit to be newsworthy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2025 12:07 PM (Eznfs)

241 238 @231 Oracle.also began as a CIA contract to build a RDBMS platform, I believe. Though a lot of products began as govt contracts before becoming commercial.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 12:06 PM (36PRH)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume Myspace was an ATF operation.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 12:07 PM (dGCAG)

242 And he shared an ex with his best friend!

WTAF?
Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 12:04 PM (jqetr)

But she's got a cape flying out her ass......

And he's former military, so Hollywood has to make him out to be mentally deranged. It's in the by-laws.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

243 241 238 @231 Oracle.also began as a CIA contract to build a RDBMS platform, I believe. Though a lot of products began as govt contracts before becoming commercial.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 12:06 PM (36PRH)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume Myspace was an ATF operation.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 12:07 PM (dGCAG)

Or NAMBLA…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:08 PM (PCK5/)

244 I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume Myspace was an ATF operation.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 12:07 PM

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2025 12:08 PM (dPfyF)

245 243 I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume Myspace was an ATF operation.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 12:07 PM (dGCAG)

Or NAMBLA…
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:08 PM (PCK5/)

=======

I've never seen that abbreviation for the Department of Education before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 12:09 PM (cD1dp)

246 A Buck column featuring a conflagration always puts me in a good mood.

Posted by: I Like Fireworks! at June 02, 2025 12:09 PM (G5+As)

247 I assume if this is real there will be actual news reports about a crazy lady shooting out a guy's car.. Not just a TT video.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

I recently saw a video where one of the women currently famous-ish for being a spectacular whore, Bonnie Blue, was supposedly arrested for something but people were able to deduce that it was fake presumably because the British cops arresting her were white or something.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 12:09 PM (ExV1e)

248 245 243 I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume Myspace was an ATF operation.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 12:07 PM (dGCAG)

Or NAMBLA…
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:08 PM (PCK5/)

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I've never seen that abbreviation for the Department of Education before.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 12:09 PM (cD1dp)

Soon… if the next election goes wrong..

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:09 PM (PCK5/)

249 Something odd about that video. I think it's fake and staged. Lady shoots -- shoots! -- out the windows, but I see no glass shatter. Cops arrive in the time it takes for her to walk down the driveway? Video instantly goes to cops' perspective. Seems sketchy to me. But who knows? There are nuts out there.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)
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Must be the angle of the video. She takes three shots and there are clearly three bullet holes in the body panel.

Posted by: WisRich at June 02, 2025 12:10 PM (G0vdT)

250 Or NAMBLA…
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:08 PM

Why would the National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes need their own social media platform?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2025 12:10 PM (dPfyF)

251 227 214
‘ Tolkien denied any of his stuff was allegorical, but I find it hard to believe they were not essentially the ghosts of kings past, who are suffering the consequence of their sins. Sometimes the sins were mainly that of hubris and selfish accumulation of wealth and power’

Zzzzzz…
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 02, 2025 12:03 PM (jbnUc)

----'
"And nine, nine rings were gifted to the Race of Men, who above all else desire power." -- from the sequel to "We Had Rangz" aka Rings of Power.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 12:10 PM (36PRH)

252 I assume if this is real there will be actual news reports about a crazy lady shooting out a guy's car.. Not just a TT video.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

I recently saw a video where one of the women currently famous-ish for being a spectacular whore, Bonnie Blue, was supposedly arrested for something but people were able to deduce that it was fake presumably because the British cops arresting her were white or something.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 12:09 PM (ExV1e)
_________

Yea, I tend to think 90% of TT bullshit is fake, but we'll see. I did a quick google search, and so far TT is the only source for the car shoot-out story.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

253 251 227 214
‘ Tolkien denied any of his stuff was allegorical, but I find it hard to believe they were not essentially the ghosts of kings past, who are suffering the consequence of their sins. Sometimes the sins were mainly that of hubris and selfish accumulation of wealth and power’

Zzzzzz…
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 02, 2025 12:03 PM (jbnUc)

----'
"And nine, nine rings were gifted to the Race of Men, who above all else desire power." -- from the sequel to "We Had Rangz" aka Rings of Power.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 12:10 PM (36PRH)

We are talking about the SC now, yes???

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:11 PM (PCK5/)

254 key their Tesla, then pulls out her Glock and shoots the car three times.

The mindset is fascinating. They think that someone will look at this and say "Hey, maybe this person has a legitimate point and I should not drive this car."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 02, 2025 12:11 PM (BpO1e)

255 250 Or NAMBLA…
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:08 PM

Why would the National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes need their own social media platform?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2025 12:10 PM (dPfyF)

Heh.

NAMBLA is mainstream these days.

Fucking hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 02, 2025 12:11 PM (bss/y)

256 247
‘ people were able to deduce that it was fake presumably because the British cops arresting her were white or something.’

It could be a white woman. I’ve seen several of those police girls in videos where they’re cautioning someone for exercising free speech.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 02, 2025 12:12 PM (jbnUc)

257 I thought Tolkien was restricted to the Sunday book thread?

It's like the Wild West in here, and the outlaws are running free.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 02, 2025 12:12 PM (qHYlB)

258 Good afternoon, I need coffee

Posted by: Skip at June 02, 2025 12:12 PM (+qU29)

259 "Imagine a meeting of the Nazgul one Monday morning..."

The Nazgul were the most worthless group of evil lords ever. They got their asses kicked in every encounter with mortals, elves, women, even a hobbit killed one FFS. No wonder Sauron lost.

Posted by: Ripley at June 02, 2025 12:12 PM (GUOwU)

260 Is it too much to ask that the Tesla owner was a crazy Karen just like the shooter.

Posted by: WisRich at June 02, 2025 12:13 PM (G0vdT)

261 The mindset is fascinating. They think that someone will look at this and say "Hey, maybe this person has a legitimate point and I should not drive this car."

I've spotted where you went wrong.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 02, 2025 12:13 PM (s8j++)

262 259 "Imagine a meeting of the Nazgul one Monday morning..."

The Nazgul were the most worthless group of evil lords ever. They got their asses kicked in every encounter with mortals, elves, women, even a hobbit killed one FFS. No wonder Sauron lost.
Posted by: Ripley at June 02, 2025 12:12 PM (GUOwU)

Vegans, probably…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:13 PM (PCK5/)

263 Good afternoon, I need coffee
Posted by: Skip

Maybe Diogenes finally found some. If Muldoon didn't get to it first.

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

264 @253 Well the Nazgul did wear black robes. 🤔

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 12:14 PM (36PRH)

265
Where did they get the solar panels? Was it those really inexpensive ones from China?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 02, 2025 12:14 PM (iDnLi)

266 NAMBLA is mainstream these days.

Years ago, I was in an Abnormal Psych class where that group got mentioned. The teacher noticed that I knew who they were.

"And your opinion of them?" he asked.

I looked him in the eye and said "They're nothing a bullet to the brain wouldn't cure."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 02, 2025 12:15 PM (BpO1e)

267 I like that Trump is deporting a lot of Aztec street gladiators.

But I might suggest that Arab foreign nationals overstaying visas should perhaps be the very highest priority. I assumed it probably was.

I'm pretty damn disappointed that Trump's DHS and State Department weren't all over this Egyptian Koranimal in Boulder.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2025 12:15 PM (BI5O2)

268 @224- Not only is she dumb, but she's slow.

She is insane.She needs to be put away for a long time. How did she get a gun?

Posted by: Case at June 02, 2025 12:15 PM (a1g6Z)

269

Conservative historian Karol Nawrocki has officially won the presidency of Poland, defeating liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski with 50.89% of the vote to Trzaskowski's 49.11%.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2025 12:15 PM (63Dwl)

270 It's not persuasion, it is just performative. They are performing their emotions- because we have devolved into a competition to see who can emote the most in a performative way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 02, 2025 12:15 PM (bss/y)

271 SC also halted construction and abandoned a nuke plant in 2017 and has been papering over and delaying its $9 billion in bond debt that will eventually be passed on to consumers.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 02, 2025 12:15 PM (wBaIH)

272 264 @253 Well the Nazgul did wear black robes. 🤔
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 12:14 PM (36PRH)

Is one of them really fat and wheezy?

Is another one gobsmackingly stupid, without so much as a rudimentary understanding of what ringwraithing even is?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 12:16 PM (VoAdT)

273 Posted by: NR Pax at June 02, 2025 12:15 PM (BpO1e)

What do you have against the former Southwest Africa?

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

274 Conservative historian Karol Nawrocki has officially won the presidency of Poland

I guess the Poles have gotten tired of the rich tapestry of diversity being forced on them.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 02, 2025 12:16 PM (BpO1e)

275 How did she get a gun?

You kidding? It's easier to get a gun in this country than a book. -- some shit some guy said.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 12:16 PM (ExV1e)

276 60, lol!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 02, 2025 12:16 PM (/Ghsb)

277 Nukes, coal, oil, gas…. we have it all.. there is NO energy problem.

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:16 PM (PCK5/)

278
I am surprised at the intensity of the fire. It looks like the panels were made out of gasoline. Metal frames and supports, silicon cells, wires -- what burned like that?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 02, 2025 12:17 PM (iDnLi)

279 From what I understand, the theory is not that CO2 causes global warming but that CO2 increases water vapor which increases global warming.

The increasing CO2 leads to increasing water vapor relationship hasn't been proven, though. Not even in lab conditions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 11:35 AM (cD1dp)
==
Increased CO2 comes from oceans that are warming to a significant extent. CO2 itself has never been proven to drive warming. Water vapor as you noted has also not been shown to come from increased CO2.

It was all a scam to try and find another thing for government's to tax.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 02, 2025 12:18 PM (GZYu7)

280 Metal frames and supports, silicon cells, wires -- what burned like that?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 02, 2025 12:17 PM (iDnLi)

self healing roof?

(i.e. slightly solidified oil slick)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 12:18 PM (VoAdT)

281 OT:

Aaron Taylor Johnson got a sponsorship with Omega watches. This could mean that he's been cast as Bond because the gig is tied to it. Amazon is moving fast after getting rid of Broccoli (the lady who thought Die Another Day was a good idea) and that lady Amazon producer (who thought Rings of Power was a good idea).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 12:19 PM (cD1dp)

282
It was all a scam to try and find another thing for government's to tax.
Posted by: Black JEM at June 02, 2025 12:18 PM (GZYu7)

The answer to everything that ails is growing government and it taking more of your money.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

283 It’s so crazy how people like Bono buy into the “only one man knows the code” idiocy. Let’s suppose for a second that is true. And this magic man is fired. Couldn’t someone else - you know - ask for the code when the person hands in their badge and shit?

Or even crazier. Call a locksmith.

It defies any and all logic. Yet millions of people are fully in on the stupidity.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 02, 2025 12:19 PM (VYKOS)

284 Plants LOVE CO2, yes? We are greening the planet!

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:19 PM (PCK5/)

285 You kidding? It's easier to get a gun in this country than a book. -- some shit some guy said.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

My boss at a former job used to tell me stories about the time she lived in Alabama. Said she had a harder time getting a library card there than a gun permit.

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

286 Well the Nazgul did wear black robes. 🤔

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2025 12:14 PM (36PRH)

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With no DEI hires among them!

/Second look at the Nazgul for SCOTUS?

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 12:19 PM (jqetr)

287 The Tesla vid allegedly in FL but I couldn't read what PD on the patrol car. It does seem a little off from as he never reports in on the radio nd leaves the backpack from what I could tell unless the vid was edited which it was at the beginning. you could see the cut .

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 12:20 PM (VofaG)

288 My boss at a former job used to tell me stories about the time she lived in Alabama. Said she had a harder time getting a library card there than a gun permit.
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

A little knowledge is a more dangerous thing than a little gun.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2025 12:20 PM (VoAdT)

289 The Nazgul were the most worthless group of evil lords ever. They got their asses kicked in every encounter with mortals, elves, women, even a hobbit killed one FFS. No wonder Sauron lost.
Posted by: Ripley at June 02, 2025 12:12 PM (GUOwU)

Further evidence, regardless of Tolkien's protestations, the Nazzies were just historical figures, who were venerated by a nation that refused to acknowledge its own sins.

Men who wore crowns, but were slaves to a master that only has power over men (mortals), when they give in to temptation.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 12:20 PM (dGCAG)

290 Guns… .45 vs 9 mm… discuss..

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:21 PM (PCK5/)

291 The second part of the video.

In this one the woman rants for 3 minutes in the back of the police vehicle about how Elon is ruining everything.

https://tinyurl.com/kk3wb3h9
(DarnellTheGreek on X)

"Maybe in your eyes I'm a criminal but some people probably think I'm a hero or something like that."

lol

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 02, 2025 12:21 PM (6ydKt)

292 My boss at a former job used to tell me stories about the time she lived in Alabama. Said she had a harder time getting a library card there than a gun permit.
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 12:19 PM

We'll need Piper to confirm this.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2025 12:21 PM (dPfyF)

293 The Tesla vid allegedly in FL but I couldn't read what PD on the patrol car. It does seem a little off from as he never reports in on the radio nd leaves the backpack from what I could tell unless the vid was edited which it was at the beginning. you could see the cut .
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 12:20 PM (VofaG)

It's on the internet, so it must be true.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

294 Also the home owner never came out unless he was not there and reported remotely.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 12:21 PM (VofaG)

295
We'll need Piper to confirm this.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2025 12:21 PM (dPfyF)

I thought she was in Mississippi.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:22 PM (Zz0t1)

296 281 OT:

Aaron Taylor Johnson got a sponsorship with Omega watches. This could mean that he's been cast as Bond because the gig is tied to it. Amazon is moving fast after getting rid of Broccoli (the lady who thought Die Another Day was a good idea) and that lady Amazon producer (who thought Rings of Power was a good idea).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 12:19 PM (cD1dp)

He was one of the sole redeeming parts of the Kraven movie, and that didn't work out, so he is ready for another series...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 02, 2025 12:22 PM (tOcjL)

297 290 Guns… .45 vs 9 mm… discuss..
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What's to discuss? Everyone knows .45 kicks ass, literally.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 02, 2025 12:22 PM (FmapG)

298 OT:

Aaron Taylor Johnson got a sponsorship with Omega watches. This could mean that he's been cast as Bond because the gig is tied to it. Amazon is moving fast after getting rid of Broccoli (the lady who thought Die Another Day was a good idea) and that lady Amazon producer (who thought Rings of Power was a good idea).

It was going to be me until someone sliced my tires.

Posted by: Chuck Todd at June 02, 2025 12:23 PM (s8j++)

299 293

It's on the internet, so it must be true.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

The Holy Pixels…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)

300 285 Why do you need a gun permit? See Bill of Rights.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2025 12:23 PM (gm9Sb)

301 Cool… apologies go well with everything…
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 11:57 AM (PCK5/)

Especially after sex.

Posted by: Rodney at June 02, 2025 12:23 PM (5xuJ/)

302 I thought she was in Mississippi.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:22 PM

Hmm. I thought Alabama. We'll need her to confirm that, too now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2025 12:23 PM (dPfyF)

303 300 285 Why do you need a gun permit? See Bill of Rights.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2025 12:23 PM (gm9Sb)

We don’t here.. judging from your nic, you don’t either..

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:24 PM (PCK5/)

304 I thought she was in Mississippi.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:22 PM

Hmm. I thought Alabama. We'll need her to confirm that, too now.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I believe she's in Mobile. So Alabama.

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 12:24 PM (77rzZ)

305 The Tesla vid allegedly in FL but I couldn't read what PD on the patrol car. It does seem a little off from as he never reports in on the radio nd leaves the backpack from what I could tell unless the vid was edited which it was at the beginning. you could see the cut .
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 12:20 PM (VofaG)

It's on the internet, so it must be true.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)
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See my comments above. There was a lady who shot out a Tesla dealership with a BB gun. That was real and reported by several news sources. But at least so far, I see no reports other than this TT that a lady shot up a guy's car and was arrested.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

306 I really wonder if the Intel Plant near me will be built they keep talking about delays and Microsoft pulled out. I wonder if Intel will do the min requirements and pull out

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 02, 2025 12:25 PM (FCrpy)

307 It was all a scam to try and find another thing for government's to tax.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 02, 2025 12:18 PM (GZYu7)

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... and excuse & rationalization for proactively potentially killing off 90% of the human population, but mostly ...

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 12:25 PM (jqetr)

308 The point of green energy is not to provide current levels of reliable energy to 330 million people in the US.

The point is to make sure that only the "elite" of that group have access to reliable power at that all.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2025 12:25 PM (t0Rmr)

309 306 I really wonder if the Intel Plant near me will be built they keep talking about delays and Microsoft pulled out. I wonder if Intel will do the min requirements and pull out--------------
If you're Micro Soft you were never really in.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 02, 2025 12:26 PM (FmapG)

310 Guns… .45 vs 9 mm… discuss..
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:21 PM (PCK5/)

Both, obviously. When you are diving in slomo, firing at an array of bad guys, it's best to have the 9mm in your non-dominant hand.

That way you're sure to get all the bad guys, except the main one. Who sneaks up behind you when you're out of ammo.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 12:26 PM (dGCAG)

311
I believe she's in Mobile. So Alabama.
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 12:24 PM (77rzZ)

Pure speculation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

312 It was all a scam to try and find another thing for government's to tax.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 02, 2025 12:18 PM (GZYu7)

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... and excuse & rationalization for proactively potentially killing off 90% of the human population, but mostly ...

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 12:25 PM (jqetr)
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That was just a side benefit - like getting a bunch of natural gas for free from fracking.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 02, 2025 12:26 PM (GZYu7)

313 We used to have a commenter who was a big advocate of EVs… can’t remember who…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:26 PM (PCK5/)

314 >>> 269

Conservative historian Karol Nawrocki has officially won the presidency of Poland, defeating liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski with 50.89% of the vote to Trzaskowski's 49.11%.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2025 12:15 PM (63Dwl)

OVERRULED!!!

Posted by: EU Defenders of Our Precious Democracy at June 02, 2025 12:26 PM (QRFVs)

315 Why do you need a gun permit? See Bill of Rights.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

It was a long time ago, so I may not have gotten the story quite right. Whatever bureaucratic process she had to go through to buy a gun was less time and trouble than the process for getting a library card.

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 12:27 PM (77rzZ)

316 Aaron Taylor Johnson got a sponsorship with Omega watches. This could mean that he's been cast as Bond because the gig is tied to it. Amazon is moving fast after getting rid of Broccoli (the lady who thought Die Another Day was a good idea) and that lady Amazon producer (who thought Rings of Power was a good idea).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 02, 2025 12:19 PM (cD1dp)

He was one of the sole redeeming parts of the Kraven movie, and that didn't work out, so he is ready for another series...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 02, 2025 12:22 PM (tOcjL)
________

I thought he was OK in Kraven. Kinda bland. The script was dogshit, though. So maybe part of the blame belongs to the material. Regardless, after 500 years of the charisma black hole named Daniel Craig, I think anyone can play Bond.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

317 Conservative historian Karol Nawrocki has officially won the presidency of Poland, defeating liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski with 50.89% of the vote to Trzaskowski's 49.11%.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2025 12:15

Does Poland have one of those goofy governments where the President takes a back seat to the Prime Minister?

Posted by: Josephistan at June 02, 2025 12:27 PM (LyQ98)

318 I'm old enough to remember when NASCAR had a race where the race winner fired off revolvers in the winner's circle. What happened to that tradition? Did the woke ATF shut that down?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 02, 2025 12:27 PM (qHYlB)

319 I know this is not a popular opinion but I don't think Constitutional Carry should include concealed carry. I don't think that was the intent of the second.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 12:27 PM (VofaG)

320 THE BOSS HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at June 02, 2025 12:27 PM (+qU29)

321 The point is to make sure that only the "elite" of that group have access to reliable power at that all.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2025 12:25 PM (t0Rmr)

Many countries exist where reliable power is just for the elites. Western elites think that they're willing to take the tiny hit to their lifestyle in exchange for a huge hit to ours.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2025 12:27 PM (ExV1e)

322 I believe she's in Mobile. So Alabama.
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 12:24 PM (77rzZ)

Pure speculation.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:26 PM

I know, right? I don't recall her saying she had a Mobile home.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2025 12:27 PM (dPfyF)

323 313 We used to have a commenter who was a big advocate of EVs… can’t remember who…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:26 PM (PCK5/)

Joe Xiden...although was he actually a commenter?

Posted by: Nova Local at June 02, 2025 12:27 PM (tOcjL)

324 We used to have a commenter who was a big advocate of EVs… can’t remember who…
Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2025 12:26 PM (PCK5/)

Joe Xiden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 02, 2025 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)

325 We used to have a commenter who was a big advocate of EVs… can’t remember who…
Posted by: tubal

Joe Xiden?

Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 12:28 PM (77rzZ)

326 Speaking of greenies , if Saint Greta dies on her way to Gaza that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 02, 2025 11:07 AM (Qrxbh)
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With a bit of luck she'll step in front of a bulldozer there.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 02, 2025 12:28 PM (YqDXo)

327 Conservative historian Karol Nawrocki has officially won the presidency of Poland, defeating liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski with 50.89% of the vote to Trzaskowski's 49.11%.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2025 12:15

Does Poland have one of those goofy governments where the President takes a back seat to the Prime Minister?
Posted by: Josephistan at June 02, 2025 12:27 PM (LyQ9

I'm pretty sure it's one of those goofy governments, where the EU comes in and cancels the results of the election, and installs the EUrocrat who lost.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 02, 2025 12:29 PM (dGCAG)

328 303 Heh. Came up with that nic a long time ago around here, maybe back when Andy had the gun thread. Living here in the Natural State I get amused when people talk about stuff like registration and permits. Arkansas is pretty loose, con carry, no registration, the whole deal. Sometimes I think the boys in Little Rock are going to cook up a doozy, like if you're unarmed report to the nearest state armory for issue.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2025 12:30 PM (gm9Sb)

329 South Texas Nuclear Plant has capacity to add two more units to the existing two. Originally funded by Houston Lighting and Power (now CenterPoint), San Antonio and Austin. Now owned by Constellation Energy (44%), City of SA (40%) and City of Austin (16%).

Austin also owns a lignite plant about 60 miles north in Fayette County (La Grange) that they declared they would mothball to save the climate. They make so much money feeding the Texas grid they quietly decided the climate can go to heck...

Posted by: DanMan at June 02, 2025 12:33 PM (8uzBS)

330 Austin also owns a lignite plant about 60 miles north in Fayette County (La Grange) that they declared they would mothball to save the climate. They make so much money feeding the Texas grid they quietly decided the climate can go to heck...
Posted by: DanMan at June 02, 2025 12:33 PM (8uzBS)

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* Searches webz in ignorance *

Lignite is a type of coal, specifically the lowest rank of coal, characterized by its high moisture content and lower energy content compared to other types of coal.

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 02, 2025 12:47 PM (FicER)

331 Who is Chuck Tod?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 02, 2025 01:18 PM (vcPNM)

332 on nick

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at June 02, 2025 02:25 PM (tIWUF)

333 So do the Eco-Freaks support Wind and Solar?

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at June 02, 2025 04:59 PM (wGqjj)

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