No mention of motivation. I don’t understand why anyone would choose a random person to just utterly destroy like that. Like even though he’s been found innocent can you imagine the horror of being told you were accused of that?

Anyone read more elsewhere?

valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion

Look, I’ve been to the states a good 7 or 8 times and I’m really very fond of the place and the people generally. That includes the, hands down, best summer of my life on a college visa.

I will not be going back there until shit calms down. I just can’t gamble on the notion of spending weeks in a cold, overly bright shithole cell on the whim of anyone on the way through just for a holiday when I can spin over to any country in Europe and just get a smile and a “Welcome” from the border security on my way in.

It just wouldn’t be a rational choice.

edit: I just want to add in that the EU pumps an enormous amount of money on the Erasmus scheme. If you’re not in the know the idea is to get kids in college in one country to do a year of the course in another country in Europe. The only real goal of this is to make people realise that they’re just like everyone else in Europe so we never have an internal war again and it is (along with a few other bits) the best money the EU spends IMO.

And she sounds pissed.

“They have no idea who they picked a f—king fight with,”

Open casket funerals are kind of weird if you think about it anyway.

They’re the done thing where I live, but only for the wake (night before the funeral mass).

“Ah he looks great” and “Ah sure they did a great job, didn’t they?” etc. always gets trotted out.

It’s kinda nice to see someone for the last time who you may not have seen recently. But I can definitely understand the opposing view (sometimes they look bloody awful). The body is stored the night before either in a funeral home or at the house and you’re not in any way obliged to go into the room with the deceased if it’s not your thing.

Funerals here are done very quickly. Wake would typically be two days following death, mass and burial the following morning. Casket is always closed here at the actual funeral.

In my father’s case we had his body in our home (my mum’s choice) and everyone did their little visit. After everyone had finished and gone we all went to the pub and had pints and told fun stories until all hours. The pub served us well past closing.

My hangover the next day was unholy (pun intended) but it was a great night and a really nice send off.

That’s the thing; They don’t consider them human.

pinky winky promise me not to do that again

Best I can do is “no”.

Perfect summary. Harris did a superb job of instantly uniting them under her banner the second it became obvious Biden was fucked. This navel gazing from Pelosi is utter nonsense.

North of 10M voters who turned out for Biden didn’t show up for Harris. She was a great candidate but the democrats message didn’t resonate after the years of inflation.

My eggs are more expensive too. So are everyone elses in the world. I just blame Putin for destabilising and the stores for blatant price gouging the second they felt they could.

Excoriate was a new one for me so for anyone else: In this context if means to censure scathingly.

Sgt Schultz also collected data on US fighter aircraft, military tactics, and the US military’s defence strategy for Taiwan, based on what it learned from Russia’s war in Ukraine.

42 grand to sell out your country and fellow soldiers like that?!?! Fuck. Me. I am utterly shocked at how cheap that is.

499,999,990. Could be worse.

Edit: oh I see someone else beat me to it

Oh ol’ honest Jim, you leave those kids alone now darlin’. You know it ain’t good for your blood pressure.

Hahaha.

"Tally-ho chaps. Sincerest apologies for the chaos. Chin up.

rockSlayer"

Bet you slept like a log.

What in the holy fucking shit. Is there any indication that the cop was high? That is such a crazy story.

Edit: body camera footage being released Monday. I find stuff like that very difficult to look at but might make an exception in this instance.

Kinda surprised tbh. We had one of the highest COVID vaccination rates in Europe and I’ve personally never met or even heard of an anti vaxxer. I’m clearly living in a bubble because 68 cases in the republic in such a short timespan is a whole load.

Also fuck those people.

Sending this to my English brother in law in 3…2…1…

Oh that’s a great spot. Didn’t notice it initially.

has she an iota of empathy

Absolutely not. That is the fundamental issue.

Perfect. Thank you!

You’ll have to excuse my ignorance here but my understanding was that Democrats could force something through the senate with the VP as the deciding vote? Has something changed in the meantime or am I recalling incorrectly?