Bad? Trump’s coin went to $75 for a total value of $14 billion, of which he owns 80%. Melania’s release dropped Trump’s by 50%, so down to only $7 billion… Only $7 billion… briefly. The article states that his coin recovered to $64 or, I’m estimating here, around $12 billion total value. Her coin topped at $13 billion total value which, again, he owns 80% of through his companies. That means off these two scams, he raked in 80% of $25 billion dollars. That’s around $20 billions dollars in value.

This is, in your opinion, a bad thing?

Because, for the last four or five decades, the wealthy in America have used assorted media to foment never ending religious, economic, and racial culture wars between different elements of the middle and lower classes. That constant state of conflict keeps the American people from ever being able to unite and accomplish anything at all.

Good. Wish he’d done it a year ago, or 4 years ago.

Holy shit… this isn’t an Onion article?

The reason is that one is trained to (supposedly) keep the peace and prevent and investigate crimes. The other is trained to kill people. Military methods are incompatible with effective police work.

Up to a year, up to. I’m betting on 1 month of home confinement.

Clearly, such pardons would be intended to tell his followers that if they commit crimes to help him, he will pardon them for those crimes. I don’t see how this could have any other effect than encouraging more violence.

Too autobot-ish.

Member of Parliment.

Following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation announcement on Monday, Trump claimed credit for the decision, saying that people in Canada “love” the idea of becoming a U.S. state. This prompted Ford to make his own comments about acquiring U.S. territories.

…snip…

Canadian MP Charlie Angus rejected the idea outright, pointing to differences in the nations’ laws. Angus stated on X that Canada has rules preventing “sexual abusers” from becoming leaders, a clear reference to allegations against Trump.

I would love to have seen Trump’s face when he heard that rejection.

The department attempted to contain the fallout by quietly adopting a new social media policy in July 2015 that explicitly prohibits discriminatory speech and threatens termination for violations.

Makes sense. We don’t care if you’re racist, just don’t advertise it because it makes the department look bad.

No evidence of that so far has been released. Terrorism is an act or threat of violence to try and force political or cultural change. If this person just killed themself like this without having some sort of manifesto or working with some group trying to force political or social change, then it’s just a dramatic suicide. My money is that it’s terrorism of some sort, though, and the authorities just haven’t released or found the evidence of it yet.

Here’s a situation where I would probably support the use of extraordinary rendition.

From another article…

While some early Tesla models, including the Model S, were prone to spontaneously catch fire if they suffered underbody damage, it’s unlikely the Cybertruck, which has been recalled seven times since it went on sale in November 2023, was released with a similar flaw.

Nah, no chance a cybertruck would have the same flaw. No chance at all, am I right?

Is this an omen for the new year or just a fitting metaphor for it?

I imagine that the hold up was trying to find out who his friends are and what they were preparing for.

The neighbor reported that Mr. Spafford had told him that he and his friends were “preparing for something” that he “would not be able to do alone,” the court papers said.

My suspicion is that he and his friends were planning on taking out Harris (and maybe others) if she won the election. Since Trump won, they are moving now before he and his friends can dispose of evidence.

Right about the :42 mark, the old man pretty much taps the cop in the chest with the back of his fingers. You can also see it in the body cam footage. It was a very slight tap and I very much doubt the cop even felt it through his body armor. This was a massive over reaction from the cop. He should have been charged and the AG is dead wrong here. Frankly, old people do not heal well from falls and breaks. I won’t be surprised if he ends up dying as a result of these injuries.

Never talk to the cops unless you absolutely have to, but if you do, keep your hands completely to yourself, particularly if you are a minority. Use lots of pleases and thank yous and yes, sirs. Otherwise, the cop may just decide to kick your ass and they will get away with it.

Nukes and earthquakes look very different on a seismometer.

Firstly, the waveforms look very different. While an earthquake generates strong S-Waves, the seismograms of underground nuclear test lack most of these waves. Instead, the P- (or primary or pressure) waves dominate the seismogram from the detonation of an atomic bomb below ground (see figure 1).

A second way to distinguish between the origins of the elastic waves is to analyze the data collected by many stations in what is known as a “Moment Tensor Solution.” By performing this computation, seismologists trace the elastic waves back to their origin. That not only pinpoints the precise location of the focus, it also shows the mechanism of the forces initially shaking the rocks. During an earthquake, rock breaks in a shear fracture, which results in the rapid sideways movement of two flanks of a fault. In an explosion, however, the origin is indeed a point, from which elastic pressure waves travel concentrically outward.

If they used a nuke, they would not be able to keep it a secret.

Why were they not already avoiding it? This isn’t the first time that a passenger plane was shot down flying in or near a war zone. Hell, it’s not even the first time Russia shot one down over Ukraine. Commercial flights really should stay away from war zones.

Whether we messed up bringing a ferocious predator with superior physical capabilities all around the world and destroying local fauna (Australia, and such places…)

This is exactly why they belong inside. If you are going to have a pet that is capable of damaging the local environment by killing off native fauna, then you need to keep that pet contained in order to protect the local fauna. Otherwise, the community will start doing things like offering a bounty on cat scalps. If you are going to have a pet, take proper care of it.