I still remember a Burger King with smoking and non-smoking seating areas. As if anything ever kept the smoke on the smoking side of the room.

We need to stop arming the Sea Peoples. They fucked up the Mediterranean once. They’ll do it again.

Too long; didn’t read.

They are all in medical or medical-adjacent careers: nursing, radiology, pharmaceutical R&D, medical device R&D, etc. These fields seem to attract empathetic people who want to do good.

Good photo.

I know a guy who worked at Cray in the 90’s. He said they would sometimes add meaningless blinkenlights to machines just to make particular customers happy. The blinking lights must mean the big, expensive machine is working hard, right?

If I spent my days carefully copying manuscripts by hand, you bet your ass there would be some doodles in there.

The top 10% of the population holds ~67% of the national wealth.

The bottom 50% of the population holds ~3%.

It makes sense that the people with money will be the ones spending money.

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AFAIK, UT Austin has not officially accepted, but I read that they expressed early interest. I do not know the specifics though. Maybe they will be swayed by the other schools’ actions. I’m sure a targeted demonstration would be a good idea.

Good on Arizona. Now we only need Vanderbilt and UT Austin to speak up.
Vanderbilt has been wishy-washy about their position.
Texas, of course, expressed almost immediate interest in signing up. Bastards.

As an aside, does anyone know why the administration chose these 9 particular colleges to begin with? I don’t see an obvious theme here. They easily could have chosen schools in more conservative areas, or schools which receive more federal research money.

Brown University
Dartmouth College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Arizona
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University

I mean all the bullet holes in the sound baffles and beams.

It always amazes me how rough the ceiling looks at every indoor range.

Superbdog

Don’t let Java try hallucinogens. It will get lost in the public static void.

This shirt is dry-clean only. That means… it’s dirty.

Mitch Hedberg

News today that the Trump admin is seeking private funding to sweeten the deal to $40B:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-argentina-financing-economy-milei-billion-peso-fd38553ae03f4c33ce1288999469f7fb

There’s also this eye-catcher in the article:

At a White House meeting Tuesday with Milei, Republican President Donald Trump said his administration wanted to help “our neighbors” with the aid package, but he also suggested that the money could be pulled if Milei’s party did not prevail in the Oct. 26 midterm elections.

“If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina,” Trump said.

So this “bailout” is a bribe for the voters in Argentina to support Milei.

Sure, there is room for reasonable doubt. It may have been a staffer who put it up, or even a visitor to the office who pinned it up as a grim prank or to frame the congressman. But this guy’s party is currently championing mass arrest, imprisonment, and deportation of thousands of people with no due process, so my willingness to give him any benefit of the doubt is long gone.

A picture of the flag, from Politico:

It wasn’t exactly hidden.