Manjushri

Money, orgies, and pedoohelia? Why does that sound familiar?

Embattled Republican leader Matt Gaetz who will become the attorney general if cleared by the Senate, which is unlikely, has now been accused of attending at least 10 sex parties between 2017 and 2018 when he was serving his first term in Congress.

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Lawyer Joel Leppard representing two women who already testified before the House Ethics Committee said his clients informed the probe panel that drugs were consumed at those sex parties. One of the women claimed to have seen Gaetz having sex with an underage friend up against a games table.

No reasonable company would send their citizens to work in the USA when there is every possibility that they could be indefinitely detained or “deported” to some third world gulag at the whim of the Trump administration.

Just had the same thought. I don’t think I’ve watched it since I was a kid and saw it in the theater. When I stumble on an old movie like this, I always like to check who was in it. It’s fun to see who was in old stuff who really hit it big.

Wizards came out in February 1977. Three months before Star Wars: A New Hope came out. Mark Hamill actually voiced one of the fairies in Wizards! I’m kind of geeking out a little bit.

The link works fine for me. Might be some kind of geo-blocking issue.

Here’s an Archive link to the article.

I actually find it kind of fascinating. There are loads of people in this thread defending this guy and saying that he’s being victimized by a corrupt system, all the while not noticing that he is a retired cop who spent his career as part of that corrupt system and who almost certainly sent more than a few people to jail for a couple of months on charges as bogus as these seem to be. That sounds like it might be karmic payback to me.

Personally, I’m just keeping an open mind and suspecting that there is more to the story based on the rather large bail.

No way it’s just the meme for that kind of bond. The judge must have considered him some kind of risk to the community. My guess is that the investigators found some evidence suggesting that he meant for it to be interpreted as a threat.

We don’t know that for certain. I mean, the guy actually did go before a judge who decided that he was enough of a threat to warrant a $2 million dollar bail. My assumption is that the judge saw more evidence than was included in this article.

At first glance it doesn’t seem like much but there are factors that might cause him some real trouble.

He posted the meme(s) in the Perry county (Tennessee) community FB group. The meme references the Perry high school mass shooting. The Perry high school shooting happened in Iowa but this knucklehead posted it in a group where it could easily be taken to mean the local Perry high school as a threat. Further, the meme has the added tag of “This seems relevant today” so it was taken as a threat to shoot up the local school. The judge seems to think it was a legit threat too since the bond was set at $2,000,000 dollars.

Personally, unless there is more too it, I think he’ll get off in the end. His posts don’t sound much worse than many things I’ve seen posted and it doesn’t seem to me like a direct threat. But then, I don’t live by a Perry High School

Still, sucks to be him since he’s stuck in jail until at least December. Then again, he’s a former cop, so I have to wonder how many other people lives he ruined by getting them locked up for months on some bullshit charge. Maybe this is just karma.

The assessment found that PFNA interferes with human development by causing lower birth weights and, based on animal evidence, likely causes damage to the liver and to male reproductive systems, including reductions in testosterone levels, sperm production and the size of reproductive organs.

Likely causes reductions in the size of reproductive organs. You would think that this at least would get the attention of these people. I know they don’t care about much, but I’m shocked that they are not panicked over the likelihood that their sons are all going to have tiny dicks like Trump.

“‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky social media. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’”

I confess that I know nothing about cancelling reservations like this, but who exactly has the power to cancel a reservation after you’ve gone through security, picked up your boarding passes, and checked your bags? Could some rando have called the airline and done it at that point? I would think that the computer would flag the customer service person that the traveler was already checked in and ready to board. But then, maybe I’m giving their systems too much credit.

Yes, this is basically the Riddle of Epicurus.

If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able, He is not omnipotent. If He is able, but not willing, He is malevolent. If He is both able and willing, then whence comes evil? If He is neither able nor willing, why call Him God?

I like to put it this way: Omniscient, Omnipotent, Benevolent - Choose any two. The evidence around us is ample proof that God cannot have all three properties.

The people that won were the only bidders.

And they may not even get it.

Federal officials did not immediately say if they would accept the offer. It was the only bid received.

The Fed could end up saying that the bid was too low and may not accept it despite there being no other offers. This is far, far less than they were hoping for, I’m sure. Per the article, the last successful lease in the area was “$793 million, or $1.10 per ton, for 721 million tons of coal in Wyoming.” This bid is $186,000 to lease 167 million tons which comes to something like like $0.001 per ton. The last coal lease was worth 1000 times more than this bid.

Parente also offered to play an agent’s body-camera video that shows the shooting, noting that prosecutors did not show the video that he claimed disputes the government’s version of the shooting.

Parente said the video shows an agent turn a federal vehicle left into Martinez’s vehicle, after which an agent says, “Do something b----.” The agent then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez.

Sure sounds like attempted murder under the color of law to me.

I actually care about all the waste generated by all industries. I’m just particulary concerned with waste that will remain toxic for 1,000s of years. As for storing it all in “solid geological storage”, yeah, good luck with that. That’s been the dream since 1982 when Yucca mountain was chosen as the site for the nation’s nuclear waste. But that wasn’t stopped by nimbies, it was stopped by the state of Utah and many other states. Nobody wants train or truck loads of toxic nuclear waste shipped across their state for some reason. I can’t imagine why…

You may be in luck though. A private company in West Texas, Interim Storage Partners, has agreed to start taking in that waste. Except that the state of Texas has said fuck no to that. Luckily for you, SCOTUS will be hearing the case in October according to this article. Knowing the current SCOTUS, I’m sure that we will all be wondering when and the first train or truck load of nuclear waste will get dumped, because it’s not a matter of if.

Statistically speaking, nuclear energy is relatively safe per kilowatt-hour. But it’s also the only energy source with a non-zero risk of catastrophic failure and waste that stays toxic for thousands of years.

Thanks. I’ll take wind and solar instead. Wake me up when all this is somehow cleaned up.

As of December 2024, there were over 315,000 bundles of spent nuclear fuel rods in the U.S., and over 3,800 dry storage casks in concrete vaults above ground, located at current and former power plants across the country.

Even reactors that have been decommissioned and demolished still have concrete vaults storing radioactive waste, which must be secured and maintained by the power company that owned the nuclear plant.

The Premium section at the front of these planes will have “ergonomically contoured seat cushions, reclining seat backs and a large headrest with four-way adjustment capability.”

The 36 seats between the premium section and the rest of the cabin will, in turn, also have reclining ability, alongside extra legroom and slightly more space than the higher fare class.

There will be first class with all the bells and whistles, then a section for people who want to pay more to have a reclining seat and (allegedly) more leg room.

That will leave me with a regular seat to sit in, without an upcharge, and the asshole in front of me will not be able to recline. I’m good with this.

No. According to an article the IDs were from people who were challenging an age determination. Still bullshit, but you don’t need ID to use Discord as a general rule.

The unauthorized party also accessed a “small number” of images of government IDs from “users who had appealed an age determination.”

Small is, of course, a relative term. I would consider a small number to be 2 or 3. They may feel that 10,000 users is a small number. Who can say?

Did you notice that Trump called them “unlawful combatants” in this article? That phrase may ring a bell.

George W. Bush’s cronies invented the phrase during his reign of terror, or as he called it, his war on terror. He said that there were people who were neither enemy combatants, nor civilians. They were a third category: Unlawful Combatants. The conventions that protect prisoners of war did not apply to such _unlawful _ combatants. Such people could be arrested, indefinitely detained, tortured, or even killed without charge or trial. This was the justification for G. W. Bush’s extraordinary rendition program that had U.S. agencies kidnapping people off the streets of the US and other nations and shipping them to black sites where they could be tortured indefinitely.

The repeated use of the phrases unlawful combatant and narco-terrorist tells me all I need to know about where they plan to go with this.

Laws are to protect the elite, not the common people.