I’m surprised it’s that low.

world leaders were telling me in quiet asides that the meeting with Trump had gone brilliantly, that he had been very happy, that he had listened — actually listened — to every leader in the big closed-door confab and had left in a good mood.

Hang on, was this the same Donald Trump who had been berating partners only hours earlier?

Yes, apparently so.

I would say Trump was playing them, or playing the markets for his own financial ends. But he’s not that smart.

Such sudden and extreme changes in attitude and demeanor are a symptom of dementia. Or of bipolar or some other mental disorders.

Of all the decisions he lost with the court, this is the one he wants them to rehear? This one has I’ve of the weakest legal arguments to begin with.

He’s gonna move on the Supreme Court like a bitch, and grab them by the judgement.

Why did I think he had died? Probably getting him mixed up with Scott Adams.

I agree with you, it’s a typical example of a Garrison cartoon. It’s so boringly obvious on a surface level that you can’t help but assume there’s some idiotic alt-right subtext.

That poor kid.

Imagine all of the Belgium delegation coming in wearing their national team shirts and crowing “rescind this!” at Trump.

While everyone else runs around like headless chickens.

Honestly, that would have been fucking hilarious.

This is excellent insight, and I think you’re correct.

Okay, what’s he trying to distract everyone from now?

The midterms? The reflection pool? The Iran War? The Albania scandal? The Epstein files? ICE round-up? ICE concentration camps? Mitch McConnell being dead or nearly dead? The World Cup scandal? Something new we haven’t heard about yet?

There are so many fuck-ups to choose from!

I loved the tagline for the 5th book in the series. It was something like:

“The fifth in the increasingly inaccurate Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy”

Get with the times, grandpa!

(jk, jk)

ETA: It’s kind of an interesting throwback. Bill Bryson has pointed out that in the colonial period culture in North America (Eastern seaboard really) was still heavily dependent on trends from Britain (and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Europe). But because it took a while for be slang and terms to make it over the Atlantic and propagate across the colonies, they were usually a few decades behind (I think he actually said about 50 years behind). This meant that colonialists in America were using terms in daily life that were considered pretty antiquated by Brits. And could lead to bewilderment and mocking if the team into Brits.

The use of ‘soccer’ / ‘football’ in North America compared to the UK could be seen as an echo of that old dynamic.

It’s the dancing crab / rave crab meme.

But your guess works just as well.

I’m with you. I try to avoid Amazon as much as possible. But it’s usually not very cheap or affordable. And like you say, there’s a breaking point.

Most of the time when I go directly to the company’s website either their e-commerce section is at had it’s basically not functional, or they charge a fortune for shipping. And any discount codes funny make that big of a difference.

Now, when I find I’ve that doesn’t fall into those categories I will bookmark them and they will become my default site for that product. But unfortunately that’s usually not the case.

And I’ve had a few bad experiences on eBay (about 5-10% of my purchases there), which makes me wary of them.

This the same Russia that’s running out of troops and getting their production and distribution facilities blown up by drones?

Probably because Netflix has a habit of often cancelling shows after a season or two. Why should viewers get invested in a shot if there’s a good chance they will be cancelled?

Also, too many Netflix shows are pretty shit these days.

They are obsessed with some conspiracy theory that people can’t drown in canals that are under a certain depth. They were spamming this shit incessantly a while ago. Looks like they’ve created a new account to keep their stupid theory going.

Not to mention it’s unnecessarily tarnished Team USA’s reputation at this world cup. Which is a huge shame because they’ve been playing great football and generally been getting impressive results.

An easy way? I guess the term ‘easy’ depends on your expertise with networking, firewalls, etc. Sounds like you and I are at about the same level there. In which case the answer is: no, there’s no easy way from what I can tell. I’ve looked into it and it’s a lot more involved than, say, Plex (because Plex does a bunch of the routing and stuff for you, but at a cost).

And here’s that article without the paywall.

I don’t know. My cat acts like that but the bowl is pretty shallow but has a good amount of food still in it. I think most of the time it’s just cats catting.