Tuesday Cafe

Snowy night in Tokyo
by @Omicram_Box

The creepiest of all dance moves.

Cute little puppy sneaks in for a bashful kiss.

Dog makes friends with some donkeys.

Big cat combat crawl.

Cat brings her kitten to snuggle with her human.

Watchcat on duty.

Sneaky single mother cat tricked a poor dog into thinking he's the father.

Attention-seeker.

Ping pong rope-a-dope.

Aw: Senior dog needs a little help to play fetch, and the younger dog supplies it.

The younger dog lays toys for the older dog so it can also play fetch..🐕🐾🐶😍 pic.twitter.com/ogLgllfo1u
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) January 20, 2026

The deaf dog who loves fireworks. pic.twitter.com/DBwNODXbBt
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) January 20, 2026

Pupper living the best life..🐕🐾⛷️😍

📹mayamoogoIden pic.twitter.com/SoJu7c9hIB
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) January 18, 2026

What a beautiful scene. pic.twitter.com/Bw4qjhBfxe
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) January 20, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 07:10 PM

Comments

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1 Is that the ASUS factory?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2026 07:12 PM (pkeXY)

2 Snowy!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 20, 2026 07:12 PM (Cjt/F)

3 How come that one woman is wearing pants?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2026 07:13 PM (pkeXY)

4 That last vid looks like my backyard

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 07:13 PM (ZcsJV)

5 Like to see an AI sort out that rats' nest of overhead cables

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 07:13 PM (/lPRQ)

6 Love the nighttime Tokyo pics.

Posted by: Tuna at January 20, 2026 07:14 PM (lJ0H4)

7 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2026 07:15 PM (Ia/+0)

8 Snowy night in Tokyo

I'll help them warm up a little.

Posted by: James Doolittle at January 20, 2026 07:15 PM (se8lQ)

9 Tokyo gets snow?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 20, 2026 07:15 PM (snZF9)

10 Neo some time ago had a video of those 'floating' dancers
Its a bit creepy

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2026 07:16 PM (Ia/+0)

11 It's always a sad moment when the "Cafe" is posted, and the day's breaking-news hilarious repartee is shut down for the night. Sigh.

Posted by: zombie at January 20, 2026 07:16 PM (se8lQ)

12 Worst willow of my life.

Trump's methods are clumsy and embarrassing, but there is a serious concern behind them.
Posted by: John Lawrence

Here's my take from watching Trump. He has masterfully prepped the battlefield. He puts out the most outrageous demands and gets the response he wanted.

Now, he'll come back and offer a 100 year lease. The Euros can save a little face while we now can invest knowing regardless of what government may come, we have what we want from Greenland. We can invest in infrastructure for mining, etc. and finalize the missing piece of the Golden Dome. The Danes can probably wet their beak on the mining.

Also, the current residents can remain subjects of the Danish crown which has done so much for them. I assume they're all on the dole, so we won't have that expense. They said they wanted to remain subjects, so go and may God have mercy on your mercenary souls.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 20, 2026 07:16 PM (cxFcK)

13 As if pit bulls weren't wonderful enough already, now they have an XL bully

Posted by: Oglebay at January 20, 2026 07:17 PM (GPa4z)

14 Is 2026 going to be a year without GAINZ?

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 07:18 PM (ZcsJV)

15 Strip Live Theatre
With Information and five pictures.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 07:18 PM (/lPRQ)

16 >>>Sneaky single mother cat tricked a poor dog into thinking he's the father.

This, too, is the story of Obama.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 20, 2026 07:19 PM (dK+Kv)

17 Ever see those monkeys in Japan who go into a hot spring in the winter?

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2026 07:20 PM (Ia/+0)

18 Still bat-free in '26! A breath of fresh air!

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at January 20, 2026 07:20 PM (oftw2)

19 Love the nighttime Tokyo pics.

A lot of seventies and eighties science fiction assumed that Japanese culture would take over in the United States. There are parts of it where that would be better than what we actually got.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 07:21 PM (4ZQ4g)

20
*runs finger over tabletop*

*shakes head at dust*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2026 07:22 PM (tgvbd)

21 How come that one woman is wearing pants?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Does kind of ruin the illusion, but it's nice to see what the steps actually look like.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 20, 2026 07:22 PM (a+4eV)

22 A lot of seventies and eighties science fiction assumed that Japanese culture would take over in the United States. There are parts of it where that would be better than what we actually got.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 07:21 PM (4ZQ4g)

Out of all the wonderful possibilities, Minneapolis chose…. Somalia.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 07:23 PM (8YGuO)

23 Cyberpunk dystopia as portrayed in '80s and '90s science fiction was better than the cyberpunk dystopia that emerged in reality.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at January 20, 2026 07:24 PM (8uLfZ)

24 Just saw this on X:
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Democrats have been in power in Virginia for ~48 hours and they’ve already introduced a bill to ban the hand-counting of election ballots…

"Prohibits such ballots from being counted by hand for any reason…"
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Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2026 07:25 PM (krQz2)

25 Out of all the wonderful possibilities, Minneapolis chose…. Somalia.

That and California are among the main examples I was thinking of.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 07:25 PM (4ZQ4g)

26 The overworked AoSHQ janitorial staff has labored overtime to remove the mephitic residues from the recent penguinicity, and have succeeded, by and large.

Great job, folks! Thank you!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 20, 2026 07:26 PM (0sNs1)

27 Out of all the wonderful possibilities, Minneapolis chose…. Somalia.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 07:23 PM (8YGuO)

That is the flip side of cyberpunk. The whole anarcho-tyranny requires the top end corporate elite and the bottom end slums, and cyberpunk genre is surfing the atomizing structure in between

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 07:26 PM (rbvCR)

28 >>Democrats have been in power in Virginia for ~48 hours and they’ve already introduced a bill to ban the hand-counting of election ballots…

They are also going to pass a Wealth / Asset Tax of 3.8% on any equity holder with 1 mil in assets.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 07:26 PM (ZcsJV)

29 Just saw this on X:
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Democrats have been in power in Virginia for ~48 hours and they’ve already introduced a bill to ban the hand-counting of election ballots…

"Prohibits such ballots from being counted by hand for any reason…"
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Posted by: Axeman

Once they ban the teaching of counting in school they will have total control.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 07:26 PM (/lPRQ)

30
"Prohibits such ballots from being counted by hand for any reason…"
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Posted by: Axeman

Breathtaking. "So, we're cheating and telling you we are and there's nothing you can do about it, 'cause democracy."

Posted by: Auspex at January 20, 2026 07:27 PM (Y8DZL)

31 The creepiest of all dance moves.

__________________________

Stand the f*ck back.

Posted by: Elaine Bennis at January 20, 2026 07:28 PM (dIske)

32 From Comer's X account.

Facing contempt of Congress, the Clintons’ lawyers made an untenable offer: that I travel to New York for a conversation with President Clinton only. No official transcript would be recorded and other Members of Congress would be barred from participating.

He turned this wonderful offer down.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 20, 2026 07:29 PM (cxFcK)

33 We’re getting reindeer this weekend in Georgia. 60% chance of polar bears too.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 20, 2026 07:29 PM (qLtZW)

34 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 07:30 PM (77rzZ)

35 They are also going to pass a Wealth / Asset Tax of 3.8% on any equity holder with 1 mil in assets.
Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 07:26 PM (ZcsJV)

That is all the rage these days. The yoots think it's great cuz no one needs that much money.

It will, of course, have catastrophic results but that'll be the fault of wreckers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2026 07:30 PM (ExV1e)

36 Ryan Seacrest is only 51 but he looks like a 65 year old who’s had plastic surgery to look younger.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 20, 2026 07:32 PM (XV/Pl)

37 Maybe some of our Virginia Horde would consider a new Texas location

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 07:32 PM (0KSrI)

38 Clinton's know nothing will happen to them, protected by the Democrats Propaganda Ministry and Democrats

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

39 Good for Indiana. I’m gonna start following my son’s Alma mater Virginia Tech. They’ve just hired that Penn State guy.

Posted by: Bulg at January 20, 2026 07:33 PM (77rzZ)

40 The creepiest of all dance moves.

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So the idea is to not bust a move.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 20, 2026 07:34 PM (L/fGl)

41 12 Worst willow of my life.

Trump's methods are clumsy and embarrassing, but there is a serious concern behind them.
Posted by: John Lawrence

Here's my take from watching Trump. He has masterfully prepped the battlefield. He puts out the most outrageous demands and gets the response he wanted.

...
...
...
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 20, 2026 07:16 PM (cxFcK)
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When he negotiates he's going in a straight line but he puts out so much flak that he may be negotiating something entirely different that what he's talking about.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 20, 2026 07:34 PM (HAlvi)

42 Good for Indiana. I’m gonna start following my son’s Alma mater Virginia Tech. They’ve just hired that Penn State guy.
Posted by: Bulg

Now that everybody can pay players, suddenly the SEC doesn't seem so dominate.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 20, 2026 07:35 PM (cxFcK)

43 37 Maybe some of our Virginia Horde would consider a new Texas location
Posted by: Ben Had

They'll turn down the offer because of the Thai food at 3 AM thing.

Posted by: Nice Gulag They Live In at January 20, 2026 07:35 PM (oftw2)

44 Cyberpunk dystopia as portrayed in '80s and '90s science fiction was better than the cyberpunk dystopia that emerged in reality.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at January 20, 2026 07:24 PM (8uLfZ)
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The Powers That Be in this world consciously chose to use those dystopias as a blueprint for remaking society.

Unfortunately, they are incompetent, so the reality is so much worse.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2026 07:35 PM (ESVrU)

45 Personally I think Macron showing up at WEF wearing the shades is tres Frances. He looks like he should be smoking a Gauloises with a MAB modele C in his waistband and the solid knowledge that a couple of his boys have MAS-38s folded up in the trunk of the Citroen to back up his threats.

Probably just that his security were unable to drag Brigitte off of him fast enough on the plane and he is hiding a shiner, but still, what class, what panache.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 07:36 PM (rbvCR)

46 The paucity of penguin pics promotes preposterous penguinaphobia.

Posted by: Paco at January 20, 2026 07:37 PM (2L+MU)

47 Indiana's football championship is pretty good but I still think Indiana State's basketball run to the championship game is a better story. Still disappointed after all these years that they lost.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 07:39 PM (KDPiq)

48 Personally I think Macron showing up at WEF wearing the shades is tres Frances.
Posted by: Kindltot

I read he bumped into his wife's penis.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 20, 2026 07:39 PM (cxFcK)

49 38 Clinton's know nothing will happen to them, protected by the Democrats Propaganda Ministry and Democrats
Posted by: Skip
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We can't send them to prison.
We can't convict them.
But we can disturb them, greatly.
Bondi's not doing it.
No one is doing it.
Travesty
Shame

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 20, 2026 07:39 PM (HAlvi)

50 Juan Williams says all those proposals in Virginia are just that i.e. proposals We shouldn't worry about them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2026 07:40 PM (pkeXY)

51 I want to think that a wealth tax is unconstitutional, but perhaps a state can get away with it. Pretty effective way to drive all the true wealth out real fast.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 07:40 PM (8YGuO)

52 Howard Lutnick is a savage. LMAO...he did the equivalent of waltzing into the opposing team's dugout just to tell them they suck, and they already lost.

Posted by: Orson at January 20, 2026 07:41 PM (dIske)

53 40 The creepiest of all dance moves.

-
So the idea is to not bust a move.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 20, 2026 07:34 PM

I was impressed that the busts (of which there appeared to be a number with sufficient mass) did not exhibit any oscillations, which, of course, are beautifully described by third-order differential equations.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 20, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1)

54 They'll turn down the offer because of the Thai food at 3 AM thing.

Austin used to have great 3am Thai, but it gets expensive to stay open late when blue cities prioritize chaos and criminals. Also just plain high taxes and red tape.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 07:41 PM (gucgM)

55 >>> 37 Maybe some of our Virginia Horde would consider a new Texas location
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 07:32 PM (0KSrI)

I will help anyone who wants to leave.

Also, I would LMAO if the western counties of VA were able to merge with WV.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2026 07:42 PM (ULPxl)

56 >>I want to think that a wealth tax is unconstitutional, but perhaps a state can get away with it. Pretty effective way to drive all the true wealth out real fast.

I don't know that I can think of a more effective way to lose the most productive of your Citizens?

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 07:42 PM (ZcsJV)

57 Juan Williams says all those proposals in Virginia are just that i.e. proposals We shouldn't worry about them.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

Juan Williams puts the idiot in useful idiot

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 20, 2026 07:43 PM (eoX/z)

58 Penguin Pong was a short-lived fad, similar to Pickleball, but with penguins. The Big Penguin popularized program was dominated by one player in particular, the come-from-unknown "Paco", who seemed to have a particular affinity for the sport, and reportedly raked in millions from the mephitic merchandising.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at January 20, 2026 07:44 PM (vFG9F)

59 Starting Saturday just an hour north of Houston we're going to have 4days where we will get down into the 20's.

That always sucks since we aren't built for that.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 07:44 PM (KDPiq)

60 It seems difficult to believe that a wealth tax is unchanged but a property tax is not. They should be, but I don’t think they are.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 07:45 PM (12gEb)

61 The Model C was a design based on the John Browning-designed FN Model 1910.
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Of course it is.
They all are.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 20, 2026 07:45 PM (HAlvi)

62 Unchanged should be unconstitutional. Autocorrect should have left it unchanged.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 07:45 PM (12gEb)

63 Most retail places are closed by 8, some grocery and pharmacy are open later. Nothing is 24 hours anymore.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2026 07:45 PM (RIvkX)

64 Nothing can ever bring down even a fairly low-voltage Democrat operative. Ruling class does what ruling class wants.

The idea that the Clintons would be held to account for something is ridiculous, which I've been saying for a decade, ever since Trump first threw out that red meat.

This story isn't even worth discussion.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 07:46 PM (BI5O2)

65 >>> 59 Starting Saturday just an hour north of Houston we're going to have 4days where we will get down into the 20's.

That always sucks since we aren't built for that.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 07:44 PM (KDPiq)

Looks like that storm system is going to fck with most of the SE, although not nearly as bad as Snowmaggedon '21. Hope all you Morons are ready.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2026 07:46 PM (ULPxl)

66 56 >>I want to think that a wealth tax is unconstitutional, but perhaps a state can get away with it. Pretty effective way to drive all the true wealth out real fast.

I don't know that I can think of a more effective way to lose the most productive of your Citizens?
Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 07:42 PM (ZcsJV)
_______________________

What's absolutely mind boggling is that all those taxes (projected assets, inheritence, capital gains, wealth tax)..they are obviously created (some from thin air and creativity) to accomodate State's & Federal shortfalls, that might have been manageable had the fraud been addressed, negating the need for such taxes.

Posted by: Orson at January 20, 2026 07:47 PM (dIske)

67 I wonder if PDT's shout-out to the Hells Angels at his press briefing today was a suggestion.

Posted by: old chick at January 20, 2026 07:47 PM (F3Dlr)

68 >>> 67 I wonder if PDT's shout-out to the Hells Angels at his press briefing today was a suggestion.
Posted by: old chick at January 20, 2026 07:47 PM (F3Dlr)

Heh. What did he say?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2026 07:48 PM (ULPxl)

69 This story isn't even worth discussion.

I’m torn on this. Yes, nothing will happen to the Clintons. On the other hand make them say it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 07:48 PM (12gEb)

70 I don't know that I can think of a more effective way to lose the most productive of your Citizens?
Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 07:42 PM (ZcsJV)

California has been testing that theory for past five years.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 07:49 PM (KDPiq)

71 59 Starting Saturday just an hour north of Houston we're going to have 4days where we will get down into the 20's.

That always sucks since we aren't built for that.

Posted by: Opinion fact

Put on your big boy pants and a hat. You’ll be fine.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2026 07:50 PM (HCL3E)

72 I better call it a night
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2026 07:50 PM (Ia/+0)

73 Most retail places are closed by 8, some grocery and pharmacy are open later. Nothing is 24 hours anymore.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

That's a return to how it used to be, and probably a reasonable course of action for most stores.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 20, 2026 07:52 PM (a+4eV)

74 Rainy Night in Georgia > Snowy Night in Tokyo.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2026 07:52 PM (wVcYX)

75 I don't know that I can think of a more effective way to lose the most productive of your Citizens?
Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 07:42 PM (ZcsJV)

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck”.
Robert Heinlein

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 07:52 PM (8YGuO)

76 On the other hand make them say it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 07:48 PM (12gEb)

They won't be made to say a word. They'll defy Congress, and they'll get away with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 07:52 PM (BI5O2)

77 I wonder if PDT's shout-out to the Hells Angels at his press briefing today was a suggestion.
Posted by: old chick at January 20, 2026 07:47 PM (F3Dlr)

Sounded more like a thank you for some unplanned outer perimeter backup. That probably freaked the SS.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 07:52 PM (rbvCR)

78 That always sucks since we aren't built for that.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Thurs and Fri our daytime air temp will be -17 and the overnight low -29. Once you add the windchill even our pipes will beg for mercy.

Posted by: old chick at January 20, 2026 07:52 PM (F3Dlr)

79 >>> 71
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Put on your big boy pants and a hat. You’ll be fine.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2026 07:50 PM (HCL3E)

Hey! It's going to be below 60 degrees!

Forecast says freezing rain Saturday and three nights of below 15. My goats will NOT be happy.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2026 07:53 PM (ULPxl)

80 Maybe some of our Virginia Horde would consider a new Texas location
Posted by: Ben Had

They'll turn down the offer because of the Thai food at 3 AM thing.
Posted by: Nice Gulag They Live In at January 20, 2026 07:35 PM (oftw2)

There's Virginia folk who've made the pilgrimage to Texas. Some more than once.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2026 07:53 PM (ExV1e)

81 That always sucks since we aren't built for that.

Posted by: Opinion fact
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Eat more bacon with steak, eggs, and cheese.
White toast with lots of Falfurrias butter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 20, 2026 07:53 PM (HAlvi)

82 >>> 59 Starting Saturday just an hour north of Houston we're going to have 4days where we will get down into the 20's.

That always sucks since we aren't built for that.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 07:44 PM (KDPiq)

Looks like that storm system is going to fck with most of the SE, although not nearly as bad as Snowmaggedon '21. Hope all you Morons are ready.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2026 07:46 PM (ULPxl)

It's like Mr. Freeze is detonating a freeze bomb in our AO. We need Batman now more than ever.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2026 07:54 PM (wVcYX)

83 That was historically one thing that made America great. Money always goes where it’s treated best. A sound currency.

Property rights, Rule of Law. Presumption of Innocence. Equal rights under the Law. Right to face one’s accuser.

Business and capital investment depends on certainty. Reasonable certainty anyhow. Planning ten years out, one could reasonably predict interest rates would be in historical ranges. There wouldn’t have been a military coups and currency revaluation and sovereign debt default and all that bullshit.

As a consequence of all these things, and more, America drew top talent and money from around the globe. It ain’t rocket science. But government has become infested with cretins and idiots, and indeed rapacious financial entities “too big to fail” have achieved regulatory capture. The currency has turned to confetti.

Something new in the U.S.A. that the rest of the world has had long bitter experience with. Life is cheap in America.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2026 07:54 PM (SH3As)

84 >>>They'll turn down the offer because of the Thai food at 3 AM thing.
Posted by: Nice Gulag They Live In at January 20, 2026 07:35 PM (oftw2)
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Good for them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 20, 2026 07:54 PM (HAlvi)

85 68 (from FOX)
President Donald Trump said criminal illegal aliens being removed from the U.S. are so violent, they "make the Hells Angels look like the sweetest people on Earth," arguing tougher border enforcement is now driving what he called "reverse migration."

He added that the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club members are now considered "nice, high-quality person," noting that he likes them because they voted for and protected him.

Posted by: old chick at January 20, 2026 07:55 PM (F3Dlr)

86 Starting Saturday just an hour north of Houston we're going to have 4days where we will get down into the 20's.
That always sucks since we aren't built for that.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Open the cabinets under your sinks, let the water dribble while it is cold out, put a space heater in the attic where the water heater is, and make sure to swathe your outside faucets with towels for insulation.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 07:55 PM (rbvCR)

87 This continues to escape me. What exactly are these massive AI data centers going to do?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2026 07:30 PM (XeU6L)

It's surveillance. What other "massive data" is there?

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2026 07:55 PM (E0p3T)

88 We need Batman now more than ever.

I thought Mr. Freeze was a Flash villain?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 07:56 PM (B1V5i)

89 We bought my wife's kid a woodstove, she is delighted about it.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 07:56 PM (rbvCR)

90 Is that the ASUS factory?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

* golf clap *

.....it's a ramen restaurant named たちひら , Tachihira.

Posted by: mikeski at January 20, 2026 07:56 PM (VHUov)

91 There's Virginia folk who've made the pilgrimage to Texas"

Sam Houston?

Posted by: man at January 20, 2026 07:56 PM (XuXeR)

92 although not nearly as bad as Snowmaggedon '21
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Pfft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2026 07:56 PM (XeU6L)

93 Below freezing and rain predicted here starting Friday night. Haven't had an ice event in a long time.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 07:57 PM (0KSrI)

94 Maybe some of our Virginia Horde would consider a new Texas location
Posted by: Ben Had

They'll turn down the offer because of the Thai food at 3 AM thing.
Posted by: Nice Gulag They Live In at January 20, 2026 07:35 PM (oftw2)

There's Virginia folk who've made the pilgrimage to Texas. Some more than once.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2026 07:53 PM (ExV1e)

Some of us traded the Sweet Virginia Breeze for Texas BBQ, Nolan Ryan and Earl Campbell, and sunshine most of the time.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Born in D.C., raised in MD, learnt in VA, living the life in TX at January 20, 2026 07:57 PM (wVcYX)

95 I thought Mr. Freeze was a Flash villain?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 07:56 PM (B1V5i)

I remember him from Batman 1966 TV show.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2026 07:58 PM (wVcYX)

96 They are also going to pass a Wealth / Asset Tax of 3.8% on any equity holder with 1 mil in assets.
Posted by: garrett

Sounds like an Obama Tax - penalize middle class people who worked a lifetime to hold a nestegg to retire on. They say $1-2M should be the size of it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 07:58 PM (/lPRQ)

97 Good for Indiana. I’m gonna start following my son’s Alma mater Virginia Tech. They’ve just hired that Penn State guy.
Posted by: Bulg

I like that the championship stays in the Big Ten. I'm an OSU alum. Wish I could follow my son's Alma Mater, USC(South Carolina) but I don't think they will ever be anything.

Posted by: Tuna at January 20, 2026 07:59 PM (lJ0H4)

98

Here in SW Wyoming we are having a mild winter. No snow and we need it to refill our reservoir so we will have drinking water.

Posted by: four seasons at January 20, 2026 07:59 PM (3ek7K)

99 California has been testing that theory for past five years.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 07:49 PM (KDPiq)

_____________________________________

I was just reading about the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB), which operates like a terrorist organization. Their latest little endeavor is to adjust for people who work from home, which has escalated. A lot of the people who left California moved just over the border to Nevada which has no State Income Tax. As they are working from home it would make sense to do so. California is still making them pay State Income Tax if they have the least little connection to California in the company they work for despite all their wages being paid to them in a separate state.

Posted by: Orson at January 20, 2026 07:59 PM (dIske)

100
Yeah, the weather guys are talking dirty. Really nasty. I'm pulling for the GFS vs the Euro model runs for us. GFS has the moisture hitting later, meaning more snow/sleet, while the Euro has a big ice event. Don't want that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2026 07:59 PM (w6EFb)

101 Eat more bacon with steak, eggs, and cheese.
White toast with lots of Falfurrias butter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 20, 2026 07:53 PM (HAlvi)

Sounds like a plan!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2026 07:59 PM (wVcYX)

102 When political parties start fucking things up, when the Socialists seize control, forget it. There won’t be any long term capital investments, factories, none of it. Too risky.

They change their mind at the drop of a hat. Not worth the uncertainty. The “Biden” administration canceled the Keystone pipeline on day 1; they are at war against the people via energy if you really think about it. “Green” energy is just a cover story, in my opinion.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2026 08:00 PM (SH3As)

103 This continues to escape me. What exactly are these massive AI data centers going to do?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2026 07:30 PM (XeU6L)

It's surveillance. What other "massive data" is there?
Posted by: ...
-------

Yeah, I realize that the question answers itself. It is the sacrifice of security to convenience.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2026 08:00 PM (XeU6L)

104 Open the cabinets under your sinks, let the water dribble while it is cold out, put a space heater in the attic where the water heater is, and make sure to swathe your outside faucets with towels for insulation.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 07:55 PM (rbvCR)

Also a solid plan!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2026 08:01 PM (wVcYX)

105 >>> 101 Eat more bacon with steak, eggs, and cheese.
White toast with lots of Falfurrias butter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 20, 2026 07:53 PM (HAlvi)

Sounds like a plan!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2026 07:59 PM (wVcYX)

Hmm, I should check my pantry for French Toast ingredients. I know I have eggs...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2026 08:01 PM (ULPxl)

106 >>Here in SW Wyoming we are having a mild winter. No snow and we need it to refill our reservoir so we will have drinking water.

Have you not been getting rain?

We haven't had dick for valley snow, but we have had a lot of rain and mountain snow.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 08:01 PM (ZcsJV)

107 Braenyard, Falfurrias is my butter of choice.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 08:01 PM (0KSrI)

108

garrett,

No rain for months and no snow.

Posted by: four seasons at January 20, 2026 08:01 PM (3ek7K)

109 Do y'all know why ducks have tails?

It's to cover their duck cracks.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 20, 2026 08:01 PM (0sNs1)

110 Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 07:58 PM (/lPRQ)

I hate the fact that they still tax savings and CD interest much less a wealth tax.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 20, 2026 08:02 PM (KDPiq)

111 "What exactly are these massive AI data centers going to do?"

Make cat videos without using actual cats.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at January 20, 2026 08:02 PM (vFG9F)

112 Hmm, I should check my pantry for French Toast ingredients. I know I have eggs...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2026 08:01 PM

Don't forget the Grade B pure maple syrup.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 20, 2026 08:03 PM (0sNs1)

113

Wildfire season will be really bad this year.

Posted by: four seasons at January 20, 2026 08:03 PM (3ek7K)

114 Yeah, I realize that the question answers itself. It is the sacrifice of security to convenience.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2026 08:00

It's not, really. You might notice that most normies are not excited for AI, certainly not like they were for the internet.

But voters and consumers aren't being consulted.

This is a top-down push for AI, BAMN.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 08:03 PM (BI5O2)

115 Good for Indiana. I’m gonna start following my son’s Alma mater Virginia Tech. They’ve just hired that Penn State guy.
Posted by: Bulg

Son of a Hokie grad here. Iffen they get good, will have to give them a follow.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2026 08:04 PM (wVcYX)

116 > This continues to escape me. What exactly are these massive AI data centers going to do?
------
Line local politicians pockets.

Increase water and electricity rates.

Make land ownership in affected areas unaffordable.

Rob you and your family of ever having a possible future without it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2026 08:05 PM (U2OZr)

117 Yeah, the weather guys are talking dirty. Really nasty. I'm pulling for the GFS vs the Euro model runs for us. GFS has the moisture hitting later, meaning more snow/sleet, while the Euro has a big ice event. Don't want that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2026 07:59 PM (w6EFb)

Our WVLT meteorologist for the Knoxville area's concerned about just where that ice line is going to end up.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 20, 2026 08:06 PM (/HDaX)

118 >>Wildfire season will be really bad this year.

It always depends on Spring Rain here. If we get the rains in May/June, we are ok.
Without those, we burn. Regardless of snowpack.
Mostly due to the lack of soil here.
Snowpack is great and all, but not without something to impound runoff.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 08:07 PM (ZcsJV)

119 Sounds like an Obama Tax - penalize middle class people who worked a lifetime to hold a nestegg to retire on. They say $1-2M should be the size of it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 07:58 PM (/lPRQ)

They do not want anyone to have a nest egg. Money is freedom and freedom is anathema to them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2026 08:08 PM (ExV1e)

120 Egg, salad, egg custard, bacon/ eggs, steak/eggs, ham/ eggs, scrambled eggs, hollandaise sauce and fried egg sammiches.
A friend brought me 108 eggs.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 08:09 PM (0KSrI)

121 Below freezing temps continuously from 7pm Saturday through 11am Monday, 40 hours by my ciphering.

What say you, ERCOT?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2026 08:09 PM (wVcYX)

122 Same thing here, no rain or snow . It seems to go around us. We might get a little snow from this

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 20, 2026 08:09 PM (+mUZM)

123 I remember him from Batman 1966 TV show.

Now that you mention it, I think he was in one of the movies, too. Probably he was slumming in the comic I read.

He teamed up with some heat-ray-using villain and ended up curing Flash’s broken leg, which was counterproductive to their purpose.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 08:10 PM (CSK7p)

124 I like the Hell’s Angels.
They voted for me.
They protected me, actually.
Believe it or not.
_President Donald J. Trump

I'd like to know the circumstances of that event.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 20, 2026 08:11 PM (HAlvi)

125 Yeah, I realize that the question answers itself. It is the sacrifice of security to convenience.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2026 08:00 PM (XeU6L)

No I think it's genuinely surveillance on such a scale no one can imagine it but them. That's why they're "all in". And that's why it's being done under the guise of "AI".

This is one of those things I warn about that in five years when it's totally obvious, I tell everyone I was saying it...

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2026 08:11 PM (E0p3T)

126 Is that the ASUS factory?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

* golf clap *
.....it's a ramen restaurant named たちひら , Tachihira.
Posted by: mikeski

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 08:11 PM (/lPRQ)

127 >>Same thing here, no rain or snow . It seems to go around us. We might get a little snow from this

The Swing years, between El Nino and La Nina usually do this to the Intermountain West.

The good snow is east and south (of me) in those years.

We do usually get late snow into March/April on those years, though. So, there is still a bit of hope.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 08:11 PM (ZcsJV)

128 The weather forecasters keep changing the forecast for Sat. And Sun, for the Nashville area. Right now it looks like a wintery mix on Sat. And snow on Sun.

Posted by: Tuna at January 20, 2026 08:11 PM (lJ0H4)

129 Egg, salad, egg custard, bacon/ eggs, steak/eggs, ham/ eggs, scrambled eggs, hollandaise sauce and fried egg sammiches.
A friend brought me 108 eggs.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 08:09 PM

Make some quiche-like things, and you can freeze them.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 20, 2026 08:12 PM (0sNs1)

130 You can rest assured of one thing. This is an iron law.

It doesn't matter if it's AI, or whatever. America's corrupt institutions hate its people, and anything they are in favor of will be used to harm you. Nothing they do will ever benefit you; if it would, they would be against it.

This goes for everything.

If you hear these people doing a full-court press for the Free Puppies Act, those puppies will turn out to be fast-growing genetically engineered maneaters who go into ravening mode as soon as they reach adulthood in six months.

There's always an attack on you built into every one of their plans.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 08:12 PM (BI5O2)

131 A friend brought me 108 eggs.
Posted by: Ben Had

That's almost gross.

Posted by: mikeski at January 20, 2026 08:12 PM (VHUov)

132 Egg, salad, egg custard, bacon/ eggs, steak/eggs, ham/ eggs, scrambled eggs, hollandaise sauce and fried egg sammiches.
A friend brought me 108 eggs.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 08:09 PM (0KSrI)

They're the fruit of the barnyard.

Posted by: Bubba at January 20, 2026 08:12 PM (wVcYX)

133
New Waifu Amelia:

https://x.com/martianwyrdlord/status/2013717354

589430206?s=20

These are a lot of fun. I hope they're making a difference.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 20, 2026 08:12 PM (iJfKG)

134 Duncanthrax. Thank you for that.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 08:12 PM (0KSrI)

135 Is that the ASUS factory?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

* golf clap *
.....it's a ramen restaurant named たちひら , Tachihira.
Posted by: mikeski

Ok,
The one just to the right, looks like it says,
"Strip Live Theater" and has pics of what could be... women.

What that say?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 08:13 PM (/lPRQ)

136 >>A friend brought me 108 eggs.

I'd be making a lot of Frozen Custards.

Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2026 08:13 PM (ZcsJV)

137 It doesn't matter if it's AI, or whatever. America's corrupt institutions hate its people, and anything they are in favor of will be used to harm you. Nothing they do will ever benefit you; if it would, they would be against it.

This goes for everything.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I don't get it.

.....

* spit take *

I couldn't keep a straight face. Sorry.

Posted by: A. Fauci at January 20, 2026 08:14 PM (VHUov)

138 A friend brought me 108 eggs.

Ice cream. Chocolate creme. Meringue. Torrone. Divinity.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 08:15 PM (CSK7p)

139 garrett, unfortunately my freezer is full up with black walnut ice cream and pistachio gelato.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 08:15 PM (0KSrI)

140 Ice cream. Chocolate creme. Meringue. Torrone. Divinity.

Moron, why do these words sound so nasty?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 08:15 PM (CSK7p)

141 A friend brought me 108 eggs.

Ice cream. Chocolate creme. Meringue. Torrone. Divinity.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Might be enough for a couple gallons of pickled eggs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 08:16 PM (/lPRQ)

142 Itinerate Alley, Yes, thank you. I even have a big enough glass jar.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 08:17 PM (0KSrI)

143 If you need any help eating those eggs Ben Had, just give me a call.

Posted by: Cool Hand Luke at January 20, 2026 08:18 PM (wVcYX)

144 たちひら , Tachihira
-

Eat at, Tachihira go home with tachycardia.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 20, 2026 08:18 PM (HAlvi)

145 Helena, you know, you can just bring those goats inside.
No problem.

Posted by: RI Red at January 20, 2026 08:18 PM (30Gj0)

146 There's Virginia folk who've made the pilgrimage to Texas. Some more than once.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Sure, and then they go home to Spanbergerland.

Posted by: Ilse, She-Wolf Of The SS at January 20, 2026 08:19 PM (oftw2)

147 Last fall had to deep clean some eggs out of the fridge. They floated in water.

Posted by: Adriane the Lack of Vacuum Critic. . . at January 20, 2026 08:19 PM (H71ll)

148 130 You can rest assured of one thing. This is an iron law.

It doesn't matter if it's AI, or whatever. America's corrupt institutions hate its people, and anything they are in favor of will be used to harm you. Nothing they do will ever benefit you; if it would, they would be against it.

This goes for everything.

If you hear these people doing a full-court press for the Free Puppies Act, those puppies will turn out to be fast-growing genetically engineered maneaters who go into ravening mode as soon as they reach adulthood in six months.

There's always an attack on you built into every one of their plans.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 08:12 PM (BI5O2)

Right.

If the government gave you 108 eggs, it would only because the USDA was going to issue regulations requiring you to put 108 eggs in your ass.

Posted by: guy who fears the wggs at January 20, 2026 08:19 PM (9CF8Y)

149 I will repeat myself, AI is the 21st century version of the Skyscraper Curse.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 08:19 PM (rbvCR)

150 We are in the area for "significant" snow later in the week. I dunno. It's been bitterly cold here over the last couple days/nights. Like single digits. Not the wind chill.

With the ground being cold, frozen, anything that falls will stick.

Tomorrow will be "storm prep" day. Just in case.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2026 08:20 PM (U2OZr)

151 113

Wildfire season will be really bad this year.

Posted by: four seasons at January 20, 2026 08:03 PM (3ek7K)

Probably not up here. We have had good snow pack, so that should help. But there are always plenty of fires near Fairbanks and that whole area burns off about once every 10 years. You couldn't pay me to live up there with all the smoke and dust in the summer and minus 60 in the winter.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 20, 2026 08:21 PM (6Bc88)

152 There's always an attack on you built into every one of their plans.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 08:12 PM

The world is beginning to awaken to Big Penguin's pernicious and perverted perfidy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 20, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)

153 Might be enough for a couple gallons of pickled eggs.

Does any place ever need more than one jar of them?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 08:21 PM (CSK7p)

154 I ate some eggs over the weekend that I had to have bought in early December.

They were fine.

Posted by: Trajan Optimus at January 20, 2026 08:21 PM (zZu0s)

155 The TV show Person of Interest was a sci fi action hero story about AI surveillance, not an instruction manual.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2026 08:22 PM (wVcYX)

156 142 Itinerate Alley, Yes, thank you. I even have a big enough glass jar.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 08:17 PM (0KSrI)

You can also just break 'em and freeze 'em. They thaw out and work just as good as fresh.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 20, 2026 08:22 PM (6Bc88)

157 4 That last vid looks like my backyard
Posted by: garrett

I love this for you. How amazing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2026 08:23 PM (IhIKR)

158

President Donald Trump signed an executive order mobilizing the federal government to fight state limits on the fast-growing artificial intelligence industry.

The order drew overwhelming praise from the tech industry but a fast rebuke from critics, including lawmakers in both parties who say the federal government is not doing enough to address the dangers that AI poses.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2026 08:23 PM (pkeXY)

159 HA has a darkly amusing piece up about Cuba right now. Looks like the Cuban government is mobilizing for war and getting everyone whipped up about an American invasion - except no one the American side is planning any such thing. There’s no need, Cuba gets another step closer to collapse every day, without us doing anything at all.

I imagine the breaking point will be when the electricity grid for the entire island goes down (again), but this time doesn’t come back up. At all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 08:23 PM (8YGuO)

160 Might be enough for a couple gallons of pickled eggs.

Does any place ever need more than one jar of them?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 08:21 PM (CSK7p)

I've seen "Dances with Wolves", the Sioux will attack before you can finish the first jar.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2026 08:23 PM (ExV1e)

161 Some Portuguese politician texted Trump basically saying "Hey we love you guys. You can depend on us. Do you want to buy the Azores?"

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 20, 2026 08:24 PM (cxFcK)

162 With the ground being cold, frozen, anything that falls will stick.

Tomorrow will be "storm prep" day. Just in case.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2026 08:20 PM (U2OZr)

I suppose people call us preppers, but we are realists. One missed barge and a stretch of bad weather, and the shelves will be mostly bare. We don't wait until the storm. We are always ready. Not to last a year or anything, but certainly well enough to last a month.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 20, 2026 08:24 PM (6Bc88)

163 And then another business there has a sign that looks like, spelled vertically, "GOGO" and a picture of Barrack's mom.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 08:25 PM (/lPRQ)

164 tcn, wow, I had no idea. Thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2026 08:25 PM (0KSrI)

165 I imagine the breaking point will be when the electricity grid for the entire island goes down (again), but this time doesn’t come back up. At all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 08:23 PM (8YGuO)

And the citizen militia will be convinced it is the prelude to an American invasion, and they will respond accordingly, some by setting up checkpoints, some by denouncing neighbors so they don't get denounced themselves, some by looting stores, some by burning state offices, and it will keep getting worse.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 08:26 PM (rbvCR)

166 * golf clap *
.....it's a ramen restaurant named たちひら , Tachihira.
Posted by: mikeski

Ok,
The one just to the right, looks like it says,
"Strip Live Theater" and has pics of what could be... women.
What that say?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

I can fight my way through hiragana and katakana, but kanji is hard.

But there aren't many places called "tachihira," so that was easy to find. Here's google street view looking at the place that you think is a gentlemen's club:

https://is.gd/T8clRw

It..... seems to be a gentlemen's club.

Sign out front has some English on it, "shibuya dotonbori gekijo." Which is enough to DDG it and plan a visit.

Posted by: mikeski at January 20, 2026 08:29 PM (VHUov)

167 You know.

Life is too short to hate where you live. Whether it’s the weather or the people or the politics or the potholes. Be happy.

I take power outages and storms and cold and heat as a challenge. It’s different. Work for it. Shit. We are such pussies compared to folks 200 years ago.

Suck it up. Put on a hat. Grab a shovel. And a chainsaw. And the campstove. Help your neighbor.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2026 08:29 PM (IhIKR)

168 They are also going to pass a Wealth / Asset Tax of 3.8% on any equity holder with 1 mil in assets.
Posted by: garrett

Given that 4% is a common retirement withdrawal rate, the state will get to retire while you keep fucking working comrade.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 20, 2026 08:29 PM (HCQX9)

169 Cuba should go with solar panels and windmills.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2026 08:29 PM (pkeXY)

170 New Waifu Amelia:

https://x.com/martianwyrdlord/status/2013717354

589430206?s=20

These are a lot of fun. I hope they're making a difference.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 20, 2026 08:12 PM (iJfKG)

She manages to make purple hair look good. Which is quite a trick unto itself.

Well, if you manage to notice her hair at all, that is.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 20, 2026 08:29 PM (hOOi9)

171 Also, the majority of Cuba's power is made from "thermal" generators that burn Venezuelan bunker fuel. Which isn't arriving.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 08:29 PM (rbvCR)

172 My measure for 'winter' is the lake nearby. If it is frozen over, then it is winter. Currently just skim ice. When the feeder streams are froven over then, it is cold.

I have mil-issue wear for use above the artcic circle, that is when I break it out.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2026 08:30 PM (XeU6L)

173 All that advertising and no Coca Cola sign?

Posted by: Case at January 20, 2026 08:33 PM (4rWc3)

174
169 Cuba should go with solar panels and windmills.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2026 08:29 PM (pkeXY)

Funny thing is, they tried to get their Good Communist Friend China to help them set up a solar system to replace their antiquated Soviet oil burning generators.
And Good Friend China said “you no payee the bills, you no get no solar panels.”

You can always count on the Chinese - they never let ideology stand in the way of their own greed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 08:34 PM (8YGuO)

175 Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck”.
Robert Heinlein
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 07:52 PM (8YGuO)

Reminds me of the story of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. After fully half of the colonists starved, the governor came up with the idea of using, essentially, capitalism to organize their society, instead of what was essentially Socialism. It was fabulously successful - abundance was the result. So they thanked ... God. Essentially calling it "good luck".

Hundreds of years later, the lesson still hasn't been learned.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 20, 2026 08:36 PM (hOOi9)

176 Funny thing is, they tried to get their Good Communist Friend China to help them set up a solar system to replace their antiquated Soviet oil burning generators.
And Good Friend China said “you no payee the bills, you no get no solar panels.”

You can always count on the Chinese - they never let ideology stand in the way of their own greed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2026 08:34 PM (8YGuO)

China would have been happy to float a loan for Cuba in order to gain more control over the island but they probably realized that even a Democrat President wouldn't be able to ignore that.

Ignoring ideology in an endeavor almost certain to fail is easier than just ignoring it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2026 08:37 PM (ExV1e)

177 I think Big Mike needs to calm down about White Owned clothing companies. Most of the clothes are actually made in the third world after all.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 08:37 PM (rbvCR)

178 RI Red, did you happen to see CBD's morning art?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2026 08:39 PM (viF8m)

179 171 Also, the majority of Cuba's power is made from "thermal" generators that burn Venezuelan bunker fuel. Which isn't arriving.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 08:29 PM (rbvCR)

I don't understand this, but it does remind me of something I read about Iceland recently.

I guess most, if not all the power in Iceland is "renewable". That sounded ridiculous to me - the idea of solar power that far north, but that wasn't what they were talking about. It was about hydroelectric, and ... geothermal. Being of volcanic origin, maybe it's a pretty ideal place for doing geothermal. Sounds great to me.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 20, 2026 08:41 PM (hOOi9)

180 Weeeee! Just went outside. -3 F. That's almost pants weather.

Posted by: Orson at January 20, 2026 08:41 PM (dIske)

181 https://is.gd/T8clRw

It..... seems to be a gentlemen's club.

Sign out front has some English on it, "shibuya dotonbori gekijo." Which is enough to DDG it and plan a visit.
Posted by: mikeski

That is putting some effort into...

At first glance I thought the pic was AI, but signs look real and too weird for AI.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 08:41 PM (/lPRQ)

182 88 We need Batman now more than ever.

I thought Mr. Freeze was a Flash villain?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 07:56 PM (B1V5i)

That's Captain Cold, IIRC.

But yes, 1966 Batman had 3 Mr. Freezes.

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at January 20, 2026 08:42 PM (wr21C)

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Your favorite justification seemed to be on the internet the easiest thing to be aware of.

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they just don't know about. You managed to hit the nail upon the top as well as defined out the whole thing without having side effect ,
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Posted by: Belmont auto glass at January 20, 2026 08:43 PM (UYVRC)

184 Next time you see some chick with purple hair, give her thumbs-up and say "YEAH! BASED"

Posted by: gKWVE at January 20, 2026 08:43 PM (gKWVE)

185 ICE to meet you!
-Mr Freeze

Posted by: Trajan Optimus at January 20, 2026 08:44 PM (zZu0s)

186 -3 F. That's almost pants weather.
Posted by: Orson

Uh, sir, I found this dick and pair of balls. I don't want to presume, but . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at January 20, 2026 08:44 PM (gKWVE)

187 That's some crazy gibberish even by spammer standards.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 08:44 PM (BI5O2)

188 Its like an AI troll comment.

Posted by: Trajan Optimus at January 20, 2026 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

189 https://is.gd/T8clRw

It..... seems to be a gentlemen's club.

Sign out front has some English on it, "shibuya dotonbori gekijo." Which is enough to DDG it and plan a visit.
Posted by: mikeski

Looking below, it says "Strip Live Theater", which seems... suggestive.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 20, 2026 08:45 PM (/HDaX)

190 That is putting some effort into...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

I only use my powers for good.

Posted by: mikeski at January 20, 2026 08:45 PM (VHUov)

191 Most retail places are closed by 8, some grocery and pharmacy are open later. Nothing is 24 hours anymore.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Safeway at Diamond Hts is open until Midnight. Walgreens at 18th & Castro is open 24 hours. PurpleStar cannabis club on Mission/21st is open until 10. San Fran has never really been a late-night town except for bars and a few restaurants.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 20, 2026 08:47 PM (KAi1n)

192 I miss 24 hour stores. It was nice to go when everything was dead.

Fuck you covid.

Posted by: Trajan Optimus at January 20, 2026 08:48 PM (zZu0s)

193 OpenAI's new Large Gibberish Model at work.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 08:49 PM (BI5O2)

194 Looking below, it says "Strip Live Theater", which seems... suggestive.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

And below and to the left are pics of the of what looks to be the strippers. So I'd say chances are good that it's a strip club.

Posted by: Tuna at January 20, 2026 08:50 PM (lJ0H4)

195 I wonder why I am getting a bunch of Larry Bird videos on ewetub. I think it thinks I am a racist.

Posted by: Trajan Optimus at January 20, 2026 08:50 PM (zZu0s)

196 And below and to the left are pics of the of what looks to be the strippers. So I'd say chances are good that it's a strip club.
Posted by: Tuna at January 20, 2026 08:50 PM (lJ0H4)

There ya go.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 20, 2026 08:51 PM (/HDaX)

197 Evening all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 20, 2026 08:52 PM (eefky)

198 Are we shocked at a strip club in Japan?

Posted by: Trajan Optimus at January 20, 2026 08:53 PM (zZu0s)

199 Are we shocked at a strip club in Japan?
Posted by: Trajan Optimus

Nope

Posted by: Tuna at January 20, 2026 08:54 PM (lJ0H4)

200 Trajan Optimus: you'd think they'd peg you as a Spanish nationalist with that name...
But Bird was awesome. I didn't mind at all getting those recommends on my YT.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 20, 2026 08:55 PM (gKWVE)

201 Are we shocked at a strip club in Japan?
Posted by: Trajan Optimus

No, just the zoning.
They let one between the noodle place and a gogo joint on the right.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 08:55 PM (/lPRQ)

202 Good eye on the Spanish Nationalist for Trajan.

Although, tbf, Trojan wasn't a Spanish nationalist, he was a Roman through and through and one of the few actually good men to be emperor. Also possibly the only one who was not also weak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 08:57 PM (zZu0s)

203 Public Service Announcement

When slurping spicy ramen noodles: close your eyes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2026 08:59 PM (IhIKR)

204 Are we shocked at a strip club in Japan?
Posted by: Trajan Optimus at January 20, 2026 08:53 PM (zZu0s)

How do they pixilate the live dancers?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2026 08:59 PM (wVcYX)

205 How do they pixilate the live dancers?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2026 08:59 PM (wVcYX)

Lol.

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 09:02 PM (zZu0s)

206 >>>That last vid looks like my backyard

Posted by: garrett

>Yep. The herd comes in to harvest the apples and Russian olives and we harvest a few of them because we like wild meat.

Venison; it's what's for breakfast. They hang around and have no fear because we have no dog since the last one passed.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 20, 2026 09:04 PM (oT7pT)

207 Although, tbf, Trajan wasn't a Spanish nationalist, he was a Roman through and through -
Posted by: Aetius451AD

"Ulpius Trajan" means he was Traii, adopted into the Ulpius clan. The Traii were ancestrally Italic and Ulpius also were Umbrian. So, not Roman; just Italian. They'd be extras on the Sopranos.
But yeah, Spaniards love Trajan (and Hadrian). Lotsa "we wuz" among those guys.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 20, 2026 09:05 PM (gKWVE)

208 Chess is Haram in Islam?!

What the actual fuck?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 09:07 PM (zZu0s)

209 Chess is Haram in Islam?!

What the actual fuck?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 09:07 PM (zZu0s)

A woman is the most powerful piece.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2026 09:07 PM (ExV1e)

210 They're saying perhaps 6" of snow here this weekend. Which sucks. Very poorly prepared for snow here (aside from the big military base/research installation).

I predict my neighborhood will be undrivable for a week, with intermittent power for days.

Oh well.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 09:10 PM (BI5O2)

211 Right now my weather app is saying 7 to 11 inches on Saturday. Great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 09:12 PM (zZu0s)

212 Evening, Ace and Cafe patrons! Just got home here in AJ, and picked up my mail, and found some young guy's AZ driver's license and a debit card in my mailbox. Going to drop them off at the cop shop in the morning.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 20, 2026 09:13 PM (8zz6B)

213 But yes, 1966 Batman had 3 Mr. Freezes.
Posted by: Barkingmad59,

To TJM's befuddlement, Otto Preminger was one.

Posted by: George Sanders, Eli Wallach at January 20, 2026 09:14 PM (oftw2)

214 Evening, Ace and Cafe patrons! Just got home here in AJ, and picked up my mail, and found some young guy's AZ driver's license and a debit card in my mailbox.

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Are there any fresh mounds of dirt in the backyard? You might want to check.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 20, 2026 09:15 PM (nWPIJ)

215 204 Are we shocked at a strip club in Japan?
Posted by: Trajan Optimus at January 20, 2026 08:53 PM (zZu0s)

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That's an extra $50.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 20, 2026 09:16 PM (nWPIJ)

216
Here in our little town in SW Wyoming all our power lines are above ground.

Over the years we've lived here we have had lots of strong storms and we have never been without power.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 20, 2026 09:16 PM (3ek7K)

217 RI Red, did you happen to see CBD's morning art?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2026 08:39 PM (viF8m)

Sure did!
Even recognized it. Although the hills looked a bit tall.

Posted by: RI Red at January 20, 2026 09:16 PM (LMRVO)

218 63 Most retail places are closed by 8, some grocery and pharmacy are open later. Nothing is 24 hours anymore.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2026 07:45 PM (RIvkX)

Every place in my area used the COVID lockdowns as an excuse to make 7 the "normal" closing time for businesses, and it still is.

Posted by: XTC at January 20, 2026 09:17 PM (6Uni8)

219 208 Chess is Haram in Islam?!

What the actual fuck?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 09:07 PM (zZu0s)

Everything except murder is Haraam in Islam.

That way, Jihad is the only outlet young men have.

Posted by: XTC at January 20, 2026 09:18 PM (6Uni8)

220 There is no dirt in AZ, only caliche.

Posted by: Boot Hill at January 20, 2026 09:19 PM (oftw2)

221 >211 Right now my weather app is saying 7 to 11 inches on Saturday. Great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 09:12 PM (zZu0s)

12 to 15 in the Western Philly burbs with some gusty wind. Installed a Generac last year. Has already come in handy this winter. I have just about a cord of seasoned firewood, plenty of gas for the snowblower and an unopened bottle of Lavagulin 16. I should fair OK.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 20, 2026 09:20 PM (GTqXr)

222 Chess is Haram in Islam?!

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LOL. So what if it was allowed? Not like Muslims are even smart enough to play checkers.

This is like a bunch of cripples banning basketball.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 09:20 PM (BI5O2)

223 Calling for negative double digits up here in the North Country.
Coincidentally, we had 300 g of propane delivered today and 400 g of oil last week.
We’ll probably survive.

Posted by: RI Red at January 20, 2026 09:21 PM (30Gj0)

224
A woman is the most powerful piece.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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They always are.
AWFLS excluded.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 20, 2026 09:21 PM (HAlvi)

225 > They're saying perhaps 6" of snow here this weekend. Which sucks. Very poorly prepared for snow here (aside from the big military base/research installation)
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I think it was back in 2014 or '15 we had a pretty impressive snow storm here in KY.

I had an old Chevy Silverado Z-71 with 4X4. On our way back home after picking up some booze (a requirement) we passed two county snow plows that had gone off the road and tipped over.

Yea.... KY is so prepared for snow.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2026 09:23 PM (U2OZr)

226 Chess is Haram in Islam?!

What the actual fuck?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Pawn jumps queen. Knight jumps queen. Bishop jumps queen. Everybody jumps the queen.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 20, 2026 09:27 PM (eefky)

227 Think it was 2015 that Lexington got socked with about 14" of snow.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 09:28 PM (zZu0s)

228 Chess is Haram in Islam?!
What the actual fuck?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

A woman is the most powerful piece.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They're not very fond of knights and bishops, either.

And the rooks don't look much like minarets.

And the pawns don't explode.

Posted by: mikeski at January 20, 2026 09:29 PM (VHUov)

229 Right now my weather app is saying 7 to 11 inches on Saturday. Great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Obligatory: That's what she said!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 20, 2026 09:29 PM (eefky)

230 We are suppose to get snow this weekend. Low temperatures in the teens. Not use to this in Alabama. Guess most people will stay at home. I know I will.

Posted by: Case at January 20, 2026 09:30 PM (4rWc3)

231 Arctic cold & snow sounds like just the job for rechargeable snow plows! Show us how it’s done.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2026 09:32 PM (Tx+oG)

232 What are the Moslems going to ban next? Art? Literacy? Extrafamilial marriage?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 09:32 PM (BI5O2)

233 Oh I know. They could ban personal hygiene. Or honest work.

Banning shit you're incapable of makes me laugh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 09:33 PM (BI5O2)

234 Sneaky single mother cat tricked a poor dog into thinking he's the father.

That's why we need mandatory paternity testing at birth!

Posted by: Sure NOW she wants to settle down at January 20, 2026 09:34 PM (TbWk/)

235 We are suppose to get snow this weekend. Low temperatures in the teens. Not use to this in Alabama. Guess most people will stay at home. I know I will.
Posted by: Case

I stopped at Sam's today after getting discharged from the hospital. Picked up some steaks, eggs, bread & honey. Have booze. Am ready.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 20, 2026 09:37 PM (eefky)

236 I stopped at Sam's today after getting discharged from the hospital. Picked up some steaks, eggs, bread & honey. Have booze. Am ready.

It should snow more often.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 20, 2026 09:37 PM (CSK7p)

237 Sneaky single mother cat tricked a poor dog into thinking he's the father.

That's why we need mandatory paternity testing at birth!
Posted by: Sure NOW she wants to settle down at January 20, 2026 09:34 PM (TbWk/)

I saw something where they were trying to ban paternity tests. Where was that?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 09:38 PM (zZu0s)

238 It's always a sad moment when the "Cafe" is posted, and the day's breaking-news hilarious repartee is shut down for the night. Sigh.
Posted by: zombie

Yeah. Almost tragic when we have to quit focusing on terrorists and fraudsters and deviants and take a few minutes for puppies and deer and laughing babies that Alternate Universe Ace* selects for us.
😜

(*That's the one where Ace has a goatee, but no agonizer.)

Posted by: mindful webworker lives on an inhabited planet at January 20, 2026 09:39 PM (FMpsC)

239 If Iran should fall, I hope the people they've been tormenting all this time go on the bloodiest slaughter of Muslims since the Sikh uprising. I hope it makes them wish they were Rohingya or Uighurs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2026 09:41 PM (BI5O2)

240 Lululemon suspended online sales of its Get Low leggings collection amid reports that the pants are sheer and "not squat proof."

"The leggings are absolutely see through when you squat or bend over (in every color way )."

Sounds too good to be true lol.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 20, 2026 09:41 PM (y171U)

241 I saw something where they were trying to ban paternity tests. Where was that?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 20, 2026 09:38 PM (zZu0s)

France, I believe.

Posted by: A country infamous for infidelity at January 20, 2026 09:41 PM (TbWk/)

242 go on the bloodiest slaughter of Muslims since the Sikh uprising"

Nope. Wouldn't be prudent...

Posted by: man at January 20, 2026 09:44 PM (XuXeR)

243
But yes, 1966 Batman had 3 Mr. Freezes.
Posted by: Barkingmad59,

To TJM's befuddlement, Otto Preminger was one.
Posted by: George Sanders, Eli Wallach

If you have to freeze, freeze don't talk.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2026 09:44 PM (pkeXY)

244 We are suppose to get snow this weekend. Low temperatures in the teens. Not use to this in Alabama. Guess most people will stay at home. I know I will.
Posted by: Case

I stopped at Sam's today after getting discharged from the hospital. Picked up some steaks, eggs, bread & honey. Have booze. Am ready.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 20, 2026 09:37 PM (eefky)
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Looks like NC is going to get plenty of snow. I've started topping off the big batteries.

Posted by: mrp at January 20, 2026 09:45 PM (rj6Yv)

245 I saw something where they were trying to ban paternity tests. Where was that?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

In Congress?

Posted by: mikeski at January 20, 2026 09:45 PM (VHUov)

246 Think it was 2015 that Lexington got socked with about 14" of snow.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

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I remember doing a campus visit at UK with my Son after that storm. It was surreal. And cold. Damn it was cold.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 20, 2026 09:46 PM (8AONa)

247 I am watching the Bessent Q&A from Davos, and he is just telling a Swedish reporter to calm down.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2026 09:46 PM (rbvCR)

248 Lululemon suspended online sales of its Get Low leggings collection amid reports that the pants are sheer and "not squat proof."
"The leggings are absolutely see through when you squat or bend over (in every color way )."
Posted by: Joemarine

Well, that answers #204.

Posted by: mikeski at January 20, 2026 09:46 PM (VHUov)

249 Oh I know. They could ban personal hygiene. Or honest work.

Banning shit you're incapable of makes me laugh.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Kind of looped back around to the left wanting to ban "hand counting" ballots, which is redundant as the only way to actually count is... actually... counting... by... hand.
Fingers, toes, to marks, tally sticks...
Only way to check machines is the same.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 20, 2026 09:49 PM (/lPRQ)

250 With any luck, the reporter is female. Lie to me if you have to...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at January 20, 2026 09:50 PM (/HDaX)

251 Nood ONT

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 20, 2026 09:51 PM (mkk/2)

252 ========

Looks like NC is going to get plenty of snow. I've started topping off the big batteries.
Posted by: mrp
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Thanks for reminding me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 20, 2026 09:55 PM (HAlvi)

253 Most retail places are closed by 8, some grocery and pharmacy are open later. Nothing is 24 hours anymore.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2026 07:45 PM (RIvkX)

Every place in my area used the COVID lockdowns as an excuse to make 7 the "normal" closing time for businesses, and it still is.

Posted by: XTC at January 20, 2026 09:17 PM (6Uni

Around here we got a few 24 hour gas station/food mart things, a few fast food places, 7-11s, walmart, and a few supermarkets that are all 24 hour.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 20, 2026 09:55 PM (snZF9)

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