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art by Tatsuya Tanaka
Piccolo one confused me at first because I was certain I have seen it before but with spaghetti.
13 was my favorite! Extra good since I’ve had Z going in the background all day today…
Why's that guy shitting with the door open
The stalls were open like that at my high school. The vice principal was always in there cranking one out, trying to talk to us. It was so fucking weird.
I thought "cranking one out" meant jacking off... Surely that's not what you meant 😅
You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
WTF. Someone should check that guy's devices. That is incredibly creepy.
it's amazing how i could predict both top comments.. "bet its dragonball and the guy shitting" and here we are.
Chun-Li mushroom leg was not expected, but welcome.
The pencil skirt one is really clever!
Oh my god i didn't notice that it was a pun, too!! A pencil skirt... smacking myself now for missing that one haha i just thought it was a cool fabrication
its creative and nice to see that creators imagination
There's a(n ironically) big museum in Tokyo devoted to miniatures and it is amazing. Well worth the trip: https://smallworlds.jp/en/
President Donald Trump has caved on his latest threat against Iran, abandoning yet another deadline as his ultimatums lose their teeth.
The 79-year-old president had threatened to wipe out a “whole civilization” and bomb Iranian bridges and power plants if Tehran didn’t “fully open, without threat” the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m.
Constantly making threats like these causes them to lose all meaning, and eventually no one will take any of them seriously anymore. Like an abuser, he has to keep escalating them to ridiculous proportions just to elicit the same fear. But there's really nowhere else to go after threatening genocide.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me thrice to infinity, shame on Citizens United.
Still needs to be removed from office for making such a threat in the first place.
Yes absolutely, if any other president had made that threat we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
If any other president threatened to do 1% of what Trump has already done, they would've been impeached.
The diddler is in over his head and has no idea how to escape this self inflicted mess.
This is going to end with Iran getting official control over the straight, all/most sanctions dropped, and a sanctioned nuclear enrichment program.
What a massive step down from the nuclear deal we had in place before his first term.
you just dont understand business and negotiations. some of us are experts like trump. its like when i was buying a new car recently, the dealer wanted $20,000. But after some clever negotiations i managed to end up paying $40,000 on the condition that i would also sodomise myself with a cactus.
Because Trump unilaterally ended our part of the deal, everything that has happened with Iran is directly his fault. I don’t care if Obama’s deal with Iran was weak or wouldn’t have worked, we will never know.
Iran has enriched Uranium now, which they didn’t when Trump took office. Iran now has strength demonstrated on the Strait. What else could Trump screw up? Oh yeah, he removed the sanctions on their oil.
His whole life has been based on bullying people. Whether it is raping children and women, doing shady business, not paying what he owes to contractors, etc. He got away with it in the US because of the wealth he inherited, and the MAGA congress/SCOTUS that went along with it.
Bullying doesnt work in geopolitics. Not when you are a solo aggressor. Its why he keeps losing economically and now militarily. Its not a blunder on his part, he is literally incapable of negotiation/influence because those are skills he never learned in life.
Not only does his bullying not work, it's made him look like a coward (TACO) and it's burned a lot of bridges. He tries this brinkmanship over and over and it never really works out. China, Canada, Greenland, Panama... What have we really gotten out of all that? Token gestures and massive decreases in exports.
insider trading his way out of it lol? he's old and untouchable at the moment. i'm convinced it's all a ruse to for money.
He sat all day trying to concoct a story to get himself out of the mess he created. Most critical thinkers can see through this charade (two weeks?) I bet anything Iran knows nothing about the deal they just made.
Happy TACO Tuesday everyone. Thank goodness he didn’t do something really stupid - yet. We just got a reprieve. The Iranian embassy Twitter accounts are about to shitpost like it’s an Olympic sport.
The LEGO videos will have a field day with the Easter tweet, let alone this one.
The 10 point proposal Trump is speaking about in his tweet is weeks old.
That’s the proposal where Iran demands reparations and say it’s keeping the Strait for themselves.
Not much has changed at all.
I'm not celebrating yet, Iran could simply tweet "fuck off" and the bombing could happen anyway. Once 8pm EST comes and goes ill pour a drink for the world not being over
How much taxpayer money was wasted on this empty threat? Preparing the military, staging planes and artillery, etc. Was this just another stock market manipulation???
How much of your taxpayer money has been spent on this so far? I bet the total is staggering, not including tallying up the costs of equipment and facilities that have been destroyed or damaged. And yeah, it was probably another stock market stunt.
$500 million to over $1 billion per day, with some estimates of a burn rate closer to $2 billion daily during the first week.
And yet no healthcare for us (also no social safety nets, debt relief, etc)
Remember that this started back on March 21st when Trump issued his first 48 hour ultimatum.
Then he issued a five day pause on that ultimatum which he eventually extended to a ten day pause.
This was followed by another 48 hour ultimatum on April 4th, which was extended to today, Tuesday, April 7th at 8pm.
During this time, Trump couldn't make up his mind about the U.S. military's "objectives," his messaging was erratic and his claims about the ongoing situation in Iran were wildly inconsistent to say the least.
He was also insulting allies and threatening Iran with war crimes and its wholesale destruction. Of course, this did nothing but escalate tensions with other countries and cause chaos around the world.
And now this latest announcement comes on the precipice of his "final deadline." A ceasefire that is contingent on Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz and keeping it open—whatever that amounts to—and a proposal no doubt inspired by Trump's infamous "two week" delay tactic.
The ceasefire plan also includes allowing both Iran and Oman to impose a toll on ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, which wasn't the case before, and the Farsi version of the agreement includes the stipulation "acceptance of enrichment" for Iran's nuclear program. Also, Netanyahu has excluded Israel and Hezbollah from the ceasefire agreement.
If all of this is the case, then what's the damn point?
Well, Trump's primary concerns throughout this whole fiasco have been with how the war is affecting his ratings and the global markets, and with how surging oil prices are bad publicity for him. It's also been a huge blow to his ego. Everything else is immaterial.
For Trump, the real purpose of this agreement is damage control, mostly damages to his pride, and also to disguise it as some kind of brilliant achievement. But in reality, with each passing day, Trump was becoming more desperate and more distressed. So this ceasefire does more to alleviate his insecurities, soothe his fragile ego, and keep him from spiraling out of control more than anything else.
Also expect his followers to claim that this was all part of his "master plan."
Yeah, he's a real war time genius...
Global trade disruptions and market shocks, sharply rising oil prices, a massive price tag for taxpayers, rifts with allies, expanding conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, dead US soldiers, millions displaced, thousands of civilian casualties, including CHILDREN...
Indiscriminate bombings of schools, hospitals, residential areas and heritage sites, massive energy infrastructure damaged or destroyed, Persian Gulf allies shutting in their wells and taking the brunt of Iran's counter-attacks, NATO partners dealing with the economic and security blowback of the war...
No "regime change," no new deals, no freedom for the Iranian people...
And all the while, Iran has gained significant leverage over matters of their sovereignty, their control over the Strait of Hormuz, and even the future of their nuclear weapons program.
So what the fuck have we actually accomplished?
stock market manipulation
People having fun
So wholesome. It’s a nice (and maybe necessary) break from the News tab on here.
NO every subredditt needs to be about US politics. I was banned from one that had nothing to do with politics today cause i pointed out that it should not be there.
I love firefighters. They’re always so chill.
The Urban guys are pretty chill; the forestry guys? Not so much.
Probably a reason people love firefighters and hate cops.
I mean nobody ever wrote a song called fuck the firefighters
But there are a LOTTA romance books that do that!
This made me laugh so hard I injured myself. Thank You
That and the burning house thing.
His homies left him behind
Poland is the best.
"His profane and sacrilegious Easter Sunday and subsequent threats, including 'a whole civilisation will die' and 'open the Strait…or you'll be living in hell' not only foreshadow war crimes, but put our security at risk."
Trump's Iran deadline looms large
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><A prominent Democratic congressman has filed articles of impeachment against Donald Trump over his actions against Iran.
"Donald Trump has blown past every requirement to be removed from office. And it's getting worse," Larson said in a statement.
"His illegal war in Iran is not only driving up prices for American families — it has cost American lives."
The 77-year-old Connecticut Democrat said the president is becoming "more unhinged".
"He's becoming more unstable by the day," he said.
"His profane and sacrilegious Easter Sunday and subsequent threats, including 'a whole civilisation will die' and 'open the Strait…or you'll be living in hell' not only foreshadow war crimes, but put our security at risk."
Impeachment is a complex procedure to remove a president (or other public official) from power.
If the impeachment articles pass a simple majority in the House of Representatives, it would take a two-thirds vote in the Senate to remove Trump from power.
Republicans control both chambers in Congress, making removal highly unlikely.
Meanwhile other Democrats are talking about invoking the 25th Amendment, which would lead to an immediate removal of Trump from office.
"If Trump's cabinet had one shred of integrity left, they'd immediately invoke the 25th amendment and take the nuclear codes away from the madman sitting in the Oval Office," Congressman Jim McGovern said.
"Donald Trump is unstable, dangerous, and unable to function as Commander in Chief. His illegal war in Iran needs to end and he must be removed immediately. It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment," said Congresswoman Lauren Underwood.
The 25th Amendment would require the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to determine the president is not able to do his job.
Congress would then have 48 hours to vote in support. It would take a two-thirds vote in both chambers to remove Trump.
Unlike impeachment, the 25th Amendment does not require proof of "high crimes and misdemeanours" to remove a president.
Democrats were specifically outraged by Trump's comments overnight warning that "a whole civilisation will die tonight".
US forces struck two bridges and a train station in Iran, as well as the valuable oil hub Kharg Island.
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He deserved every impeachment possible.
And a Senate conviction!
And a stint in a supermax.
We shouldn't be in a state where we refer to a president, sitting or otherwise, having more than one impeachment, yet here we are--our current president within reach of earning his third one.
Damning still that I can't say that "it'll likely be his last"...
We should not have a president who is a felon and adjudicated rapist.
Just imagine if Mitch McConnell had any balls after January 6. We could have avoided all of this.
Wow! I hadn’t thought of him since the last time he fell. Almost thought he was dead…
Almost
Republicans don’t have the courage to do the right thing
After watching the massacre in Wisconsin and seeing the terms of surrender we just agreed to with Iran, some of them may see impeachment as an opportunity to keep their jobs in 2026.
I suspect Trump (or his handlers) have a lot of shit on a lot of Republicans. Remember that the RNC and DNC email servers were compromised some time back, and only the DNC emails were leaked. The RNC ones were not.
Keeping their jobs may be the least of their concerns. Staying out of prison may be a higher priority. Were I to speculate, that is.
I fully expect at least one 2028 hopeful will stick a dagger in Trump’s back if his approval continues to sink.
they're not afraid, they're complicit
What a world. Articles of Impeachment filed today and we didn't even hear about it because we were worried our country was going to commit genocide because oil prices were high.
*high because of our own reckless actions in the first place during which the United States committed a variety of war crimes all because elected officials lack the spine to carry out their sworn duties and reign in the feckless commander in chief..
Also, (I am willing to bet) because he has claimed Venezuela's oil for himself, after he also invaded THAT country with out taxpayer dollars.
He has had articles of impeachment filed quite a few times. Sadly, it's purely performative because Republicans control the House. If the Democrats take the House in the midterms, then there is a chance that filing articles of impeachment might actually mean something.
To be clear, I support the authors for filing, even if it won't accomplish anything. If the Republicans had any decency, they'd allow it to go to vote and vote to impeach.
We’ve had two, yes, but what about third impeachment?
Johnson will kill the bill. He hasn’t read anything recently and doesn’t know what all the fuss is about. He’ll go back to monitoring his kids porn habit.
Unfortunately this. Will never get past Johnson
Before people dismiss this.
We got to keep the pedo baby busy. Otherwise he’ll continue digging this hole for America.
Fine by me, keep him tied up in hearings.
A community of honest people.
Sadly the venn diagram of trump supporters and people who can read is two separate circles.
exactly what I was thinking
Thought you meant the kids that got raped at first😭
Pretty wild to think the president does that and all you get are signs like this sometimes and nothing happens
They have normalized it :-(
Maybe because there is barely any evidence to suggest this is true and it's pretty much a conspiracy theory.
Trump has done a lot of terrible horrible things, he is a felon, he is a sexual assaulter, he is obviously guilty of so many terrible things, but this isn't one of them. Pretty much all we have is one accusation that was later dropped due to fear of retaliation by supporters. Is that enough to call him guilty? Personally I don't think so.
Release ALL the Trumpstein files
Trump also murdered kids
Chris Taylor, a Democratic-backed candidate, secured victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, further solidifying and expanding the liberal majority. This win, the fourth consecutive for liberal court candidates since 2020, guarantees a liberal majority until at least 2030, with the potential to reach a 6-1 advantage next year due to another conservative justice's impending retirement.
Taylor's campaign prominently featured abortion rights, directly challenging her Republican-backed opponent, Maria Lazar, who had expressed support for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Taylor, who previously worked for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and served as a Democratic state Assembly representative, also benefited from a significant fundraising advantage, outspending Lazar nine-fold on television ads.
The liberal-controlled court is positioned to critically influence hot-button issues in the perennial battleground state, including congressional redistricting, union rights, and future election-related rulings. Since gaining control in 2023, the court has already reversed election-related rulings, struck down a state abortion ban, and ordered new legislative maps. This shift marks a stark contrast from 2020, when the conservative court narrowly avoided siding with former President Trump's attempt to invalidate votes.
Unlike previous elections that set national spending records for control of the court, this year's race saw dramatically lower expenditures and national attention, as the liberal majority had already been established in 2023.
"Once again, Wisconsin showed the entire nation that we believe that the people should be at the center of government and the priority of our judiciary, not the billionaires, not the most powerful and privileged, but the people." — Chris Taylor, upon her victory
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, growing the liberal majority on the court as cases affecting congressional redistricting, union rights and other hot button issues await in the perennial battleground state.
Taylor, who focused her campaign on abortion rights, handily defeated Republican-backed Maria Lazar in the fourth straight victory for liberal court candidates dating back to 2020. Liberals are now guaranteed to hold a majority on the court until at least 2030.
“Once again, Wisconsin showed the entire nation that we believe that the people should be at the center of government and the priority of our judiciary, not the billionaires, not the most powerful and privileged, but the people,” Taylor said in her victory speech.
Wisconsin Republican Party Chair Brian Schimming, in the wake of Lazar’s double-digit defeat, called for Republicans to “stay united and continue fighting for our conservative values.”
Democrats tightened their control of the court just months before a November election in which they seek to keep the governor’s office and flip the state Legislature, where Republicans have held the majority since 2011. Democrats aspire to undo a host of Republican-enacted laws that made Wisconsin a focal point for the nation’s conservative movement in the 2010s.
This year’s Supreme Court election stands in stark contrast to the swing state’s previous two, where national spending records were set in battles over majority control. Spending and national attention was down dramatically this year without control of the court at stake.
Liberals took control of the state’s top court in 2023, ending 15 years under a conservative majority. They held onto their majority with last year’s victory in a race that drew involvement from President Donald Trump and billionaires George Soros and Elon Musk, who personally handed out $1 million checks to voters in the state.
Liberals argued that democracy was at stake in the 2025 election, noting that when the court was controlled by conservative justices in 2020 it came just one vote shy of siding with Trump in his attempt to invalidate enough votes to overturn his loss in that year’s presidential election.
The court under liberal control has reversed several election-related rulings, including one that overturned a ban on absentee ballot drop boxes, and it is poised to once again be in the spotlight around the 2028 presidential election.
Races for the court are officially nonpartisan, but support for candidates breaks down mostly along partisan lines. The seat was open due to the retirement of a conservative justice.
Taylor, who is a state Appeals Court judge and previously worked for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, focused much of her campaign on abortion rights. One of her TV ads argued that “abortion is on the ballot.” In another ad, she criticized Lazar for calling the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 “very wise.”
Lazar, who is also a state Appeals Court judge and was supported by anti-abortion groups in her run for that court, tried to brand Taylor as nothing more than a politician who will push a partisan agenda on the high court.
They sparred over each other’s partisanship during the campaign’s sole debate last week.
Lazar accused Taylor of being a “radical, extreme legislator” and a “judicial activist.” Taylor said that Lazar would bring “an extreme, right-wing political agenda to the bench.”
But she had a much harder time getting her message out. Taylor had a large fundraising advantage and spent about nine times as much as Lazar on television ads, based on a tally by the Brennan Center for Justice.
The liberal-controlled court has already struck down a state abortion ban law and ordered new legislative maps since taking control of the court, fueling Democrats’ hopes of capturing a majority this November.
Taylor has been a judge since 2020 and before that spent 10 years as a Democrat representing the liberal capital city of Madison in the state Assembly.
Lazar, a judge since 2015, previously worked four years under a Republican attorney general in the state Department of Justice. In that role, she defended a law enacted under former Republican Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.
A circuit court judge ruled in December that the law is unconstitutional, a decision expected to ultimately land before the state Supreme Court.
Lazar also defended laws passed by Republicans and signed by Walker implementing a voter ID requirement and restricting abortion access.
Democrats had been optimistic given the past two Supreme Court elections, which saw candidates they backed winning by double digits.
Another conservative justice is retiring next year, giving liberals a chance to take 6-1 control of the court thanks to Taylor’s victory.
Woohoo!
Sometimes this state isn’t that bad.
You guys are doing great. But could you do all of us a huge favor and vote out RON FUCKING JOHNSON? We despise that asshole!
Fuck Ron Johnson
Trust me there's no way you hate him more than we do. I mean, some of us. He's up in 28 so hopefully if we still have real elections we can ditch him finally.
Obligatory fuck Ron Johnson
Fun fact: if you google "RON FUCKING JOHNSON" the search engine knows the EXACTLY correct "RON FUCKING JOHNSON" and one of the top search results is "Ron Johnson is such a fucking scumbag".
high five
How much money did Elon lose on this race?
Think they all gave up after last year.
Can this lead to the gerrymandering of Wisconsin to be overturned?
The maps have already been redrawn. This race was to further expand the democratic state Supreme Court majority, theyve had a majority for a few years now
They already un gerrymandered the state legislature (even tho they could have gone farther) but ya the federal delegation there badly needs it too, was hoping for this cycle but seems like wouldn’t happen till 2028. This election doesn’t make much difference in that since they already had a majority.
He only cared last year because there was a chance to flip court for conservatives while Tesla is suing the state to overturn the law that doesn't let the company run their own dealerships there.
People should remember this when bad actors trying to suppress the vote (and the people that fall for them) bring up the idea that Elon somehow magically rigged the election in 2024. Why do it then and not do it again when he had money on the line again?
Republicans use all kinds of dirty tricks, but they can't straight up control the vote. That's why they try so hard to keep people from voting.
but I made $100 doing it. This year I voted with the satisfaction that I was making sure Republicans know I still have a giant middle finger to put in their face, and we're not going anywhere
None. They got bored after the court wasn't in the balance.
Excellent, excellent news. WI is taking it's time through the democratic process to fix the Scott Walker damage, but year by year more progress is made!
And this time, we know the other side always acts in bad faith, so if we get enough momentum back, let's close all those loopholes and stop it from happening again!
FSW, always and forever. FSW so much!
Crazy how suddenly the country is leaning deeper into blue than ever before because of one group lead by one pedo war criminal.
Get the f out and keep voting! Don't assume you're winning from just some good news. It needs to be overwhelming.
Polls closed an hour and a half ago
It wasn't even close
I find it funny that the USA votes in judges by which party they are
Technically it’s a nonpartisan race. She was endorsed by all the left leaning orgs
Depends on the state. We don't vote for judges in Connecticut. They are appointed.
The race is officially nonpartisan. At this point, I'm not sure how you would have an election for a justice with enough experience on the bench to know that they're qualified without some idea of their political lean based on rulings they've issued.
President Donald Trump issued a "genocidal threat" against Iran via Truth Social, explicitly stating that "a whole civilization will die tonight," ahead of planned strikes. He threatened attacks on critical infrastructure such as power and water, actions widely condemned as potential war crimes by international law experts, human rights organizations like Amnesty International, and UN officials.
In response, Senate Democratic leaders, including Chuck Schumer and Jeanne Shaheen, along with committee leaders Chris Coons, Jack Reed, and Brian Schatz, released a joint statement. While condemning Trump's threat as a war crime, a betrayal of national values, and a danger to U.S. safety and diplomacy, the statement notably omitted any commitment to take legislative action against the President, such as impeachment or a 25th Amendment challenge.
This lack of a vow to act drew swift and widespread criticism, contrasting sharply with immediate demands from dozens of other Democratic lawmakers, including Senator Ed Markey, who called for Trump's removal from office. The perceived inaction by Democratic leadership against Trump's continued "war waging" reflects growing public resentment and contributes to the Democratic Party's declining approval ratings.
“25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization.” — Sen. Ed Markey (D–Massachusetts)
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As calls for Donald Trump to be impeached flooded social media after his genocidal threats toward Iran on Tuesday, the Senate’s Democratic leaders put out a statement late in the day that merely condemned Trump’s comment without any vow to take action.
In a joint statement on Tuesday afternoon, Democratic leaders Senators Chuck Schumer (New York) and Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), as well as committee leaders Chris Coons (Delaware), Jack Reed (Rhode Island), and Brian Schatz (Hawaii), said they speak with “one purpose: to condemn President Trump’s threat to extinguish an entire civilization.”
Throwing in a dig at the Iranian government, the group said that attacking basic infrastructure like power, water, and bridges “would constitute a war crime, a betrayal of the values this nation was founded on, and a moral failure.”
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“President Trump’s reckless threat makes Americans less safe, further destabilizes our nation and economy, and puts at greater risk U.S. service members. It only serves to push us further away from the only viable solution to this war: a diplomatic one. The president must not follow through on this threat,” the statement concludes.
The statement was put out in response to the president’s Truth Social post this morning threatening that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” ahead of his planned strikes on Iran at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
The statement spurred swift reaction from a slew of sources, many of whom called the statement genocidal. This includes dozens of Democratic lawmakers who called for Trump to be impeached and removed from office, including a handful of senators. It also included statements from UN officials, prominent human rights groups like Amnesty International, and numerous other experts in international law.
“25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office,” said Sen. Ed Markey (D–Massachusetts). “We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.”
Democratic leaders’ statement stands in sharp contrast to the strong and immediate calls from many members, as it makes no mention of taking any form of action, whether whipping votes for a war powers vote or an impeachment push.
The statement comes amid growing resentment toward Democratic leaders for their refusal to take action as Trump has waged his war. Only 28 percent of Americans say they have a favorable view of the Democratic Party, CNN found in a poll released last week, while Schumer — the most powerful Democrat in Congress — has seen his approval ratings tumble, hitting 38 percent in March, according to Siena University.
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Articles of Impeachment today. https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres1155/BILLS-119hres1155ih.pdf
Mike “I-saw-nothing” Johnson is the only one who can, procedurally, move this process forward
There are ways around Johnson, but leadership has to whip the votes for a discharge petition.
And even if the House impeaches (it won’t), it would take 2/3rds of the Senate to convict and remove him. They couldn’t get to 2/3rds even when the child rapist organized and unleashed a terrorist attack on our capitol. You think they’ll do it for Iran?!
We need more!
Section 4 Impeachment The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
The House impeaches, not the Senate. And Schumer would vote for impeachment. Will any GOP? Why haven't they removed him already?
He can “call” for impeachment without being able to vote in it
According to Schumer his job is “to Fight for Aid to Israel” so he’s doing his job
The article is very poorly written
He can vote to convict. He can’t vote for impeachment, that’s the house.
Haven’t we been through this enough recently?
Alternate headline: Majority of republicans completely fine with this batshit insane behavior
Wtf do these columnists think Democrats can do about this? Republicans are using Trump as a shield, allowing him to wreak havoc, and the media is like “well dems?!? What are you going to do about this?!”
Edit: Hot takes to reassign blame for why Trump is still President deflects from the abject failure of the Republican Party and the support apparatus (like Fox News) to vote in leaders who can effectively govern on behalf of the people.
Republicans are why Trump is still President. Republicans have failed America.
Majority? It's every single one.
there’s that one guy Massie that might not protect the pedophile.
that’s the one guy who the op said almost all to “cover”.
“Each Republican who refuses to join us in voting against this wanton war of choice owns every consequence of whatever the hell this is"
-Chuck Schumer.
"The president of the United States is ranting like an unhinged madman on social media … He’s threatening possible war crimes and alienating allies. This is who he is, but this is not who we are. Our country deserves so much better."
-Also Chuck Schumer.
I am not a fan of Chuck Schumer. I want him replaced as Senate Minority Leader. I am not a fan of his support of Netanyahu. I am impressed by how sold out to big corporations he is. I think what he pushes is not a future where most Americans would flourish, nor would there be wider peace abroad.
But, Chuck Schumer is in the Senate and the House is responsible for Articles of Impeachment. Chuck Schumer I am sure would vote to convict if those reached the Senate. He voted for it both times in the past, I am would guess he'd be consistent here.
Chuck Schumer will not push the business of the House which he thinks is not in his purview overall. I don't like it. But, also, I know where the man stands when it comes to Trump.
There is not an action for Schumer to take, and this I really wonder whether OPs post is honest or just an attempt to divide the opposition on something where there really isn't a division. I hope it is just a hate of Chuck Schumer that has gone beyond reasonable.
Because the Senate can’t impeach people. Who writes shit like this?
It just goes to show that if the voting populace was generally better educated about how the government is structured - and the various authorities distributed - then people wouldn't be able to fall for this sort of disinformation.
As we are, there are so many interests out there playing all sides against each other and themselves.
What kind of maga propaganda is this article? What is the minority leader supposed to do? This article should be about Mike Johnson and John Thune!
Republicans control everything and are failing in their constitutional duty. Let’s write an article blaming the democrats
The trump punisher sticker is INSANE
He's a spoon fed spoiled rich kid NY elite...WHO DODGED THE DRAFT. Genuinely who do they think this guy is 😂
Stalin's propaganda was more believable than what these people think about Trump.
"no it wasn't"
-Trump propaganda department-
I would believe Kim Jong un had a perfect 18 hole in one game before I would believe trump telling me what he had for breakfast
Trump would play Fourtnate Son at his rallies. Apparently he & his followers have zero media literacy.
They think he’s a rich alpha male who is owning the libs.
And the fact that Trump has touched so many kids.
I'd wager twenty bucks that person has never read the constitution
I’d wager thirty that he’s never read at all.
He might have an Archie & Jughead comic on the back of the shitter
Or a Punisher comic. Frank Castle would hate these cunts.
I’d also wager that this person would somehow blame Biden for the high gas prices currently.
Approximately 21% of U.S. adults—roughly 43 million people—are considered illiterate. Trump approval rating 21%. Coincidence ?
21% being illiterate is actually surprising to me ngl.
A little scary to be honest
I believe it. A lot of people are just kind of coasting through life, putting as little effort into it as possible. Zero curiosity.
It's 21% of American adults are functionally illiterate; it's not that they literally cannot read (that number is <1%).
The 21% number is also a bit outdated. It comes from the periodic PIAAC survey, which addresses adult functional skills in a few areas, including literacy. Being at level 1 or below is considered "functionally illiterate". In the most recent iteration (2023), this number has actually gone up to almost 30%. For the previous number, I've seen between 21% and in the latest comparison with 2023, 19%. I'm guessing slightly different statistical methods, but more or less, it's gone from ~20% in 2017 to ~30% in 2023, and that's fucking terrifying still, even if they're not literally illiterate.
You can find the level descriptions here https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/measure.asp but,
Here's the description of level 1, which, again, ~30% of American adults are at or below:
Adults at level 1 are able to locate information on a text page, find a relevant link from a website, and identify relevant text among multiple options when the relevant information is explicitly cued. They can understand the meaning of short texts, as well as the organization of lists or multiple sections within a single page. The texts at level 1 may be continuous, noncontinuous, or mixed and pertain to printed or digital environments. They typically include a single page with up to a few hundred words and little or no distracting information. Noncontinuous texts may have a list structure (such as a web search engine results page) or include a small number of independent sections, possibly with pictorial illustrations or simple diagrams. Tasks at Level 1 involve simple questions providing some guidance as to what needs to be done and a single processing step. There is a direct, fairly obvious match between the question and target information in the text, although some tasks may require the examination of more than one piece of information.
And below level 1
Most adults at Below Level 1 are able to process meaning at the sentence level. Given a series of sentences that increase in complexity, they can tell if a sentence does or does not make sense either in terms of plausibility in the real world (i.e., sentences describing events that can vs. cannot happen), or in terms of the internal logic of the sentence (i.e., sentences that are meaningful vs. not). Most adults at this level are also able to read short, simple paragraphs and, at certain points in text, tell which word among two makes the sentence meaningful and consistent with the rest of the passage. Finally, they can access single words or numbers in very short texts in order to answer simple and explicit questions. The texts at Below Level 1 are very short and include no or just a few familiar structuring devices such as titles or paragraph headers. They do not include any distracting information nor navigation devices specific to digital texts (e.g., menus, links or tabs). Tasks Below Level 1 are simple and very explicit regarding what to do and how to do it. These tasks only require understanding at the sentence level or across two simple adjacent sentences. When the text involves more than one sentence, the task merely requires dealing with target information in the form of a single word or phrase.
The characteristic "one-way street" political dynamic of the Trump era—where the former president's norm-defying actions face no consequences while criticism of him is swiftly retaliated against—has now extended globally, fundamentally eroding America's long-standing alliances.
Trump consistently undermined transatlantic relations by mocking allies, falsely claiming they would not defend the U.S. (despite NATO's Article 5 invocation after 9/11 and significant allied casualties in Afghanistan), and even making serious threats, such as demanding Greenland from Denmark or suggesting Canada become the 51st state. Economically, his administration abrogated trade deals and imposed massive tariffs, pushing allies to pursue agreements with China and creating significant instability.
Militarily, Trump cut direct aid to Ukraine while rhetorically supporting Russia, and launched a surprise war on Iran without consulting allies. He then publicly mocked offers of assistance from leaders like the British Prime Minister, further demonstrating a disdain for traditional burden-sharing and alliance protocols, even as he accepted emoluments from foreign nations.
The result is a widespread refusal from allied nations to provide military support or air access. Trump's dismal approval ratings across Europe (e.g., 4% in Denmark, 16% in the U.K.) make it politically untenable for their leaders to assist. The article criticizes this European reluctance but primarily lambastes Trump and his supporters for their "maddening" failure to grasp why allies, like Trump himself, are unwilling to take a devastating political hit for a leader who has consistently shown them contempt.
"Trump would never dream of taking a devastating political hit for an ally. But he and his defenders cannot fathom why allies feel the same way about him."
It is among the most familiar patterns of the Trump era.
First, the president says or does something weird, rude or otherwise norm-defying. Some elected Republicans object, and the response from Trump and his minions is to shoot the messenger. The dynamic holds constant whether it’s big (Jan. 6 pardons) or small (tweeting “covfefe” just after midnight).
The essence of this low-road-for-me-high-road-for-thee dynamic rests on the belief that Trumpism is a one-way road. Insulting Trump, deservedly or not, is forbidden, while Trump’s antics should be celebrated when possible, defended when necessary, or ignored when neither of those responses is possible. But he should never, ever face consequences for his own actions.
This was the week Trump’s routine went global.
A number of longtime defenders of the transatlantic alliance are very angry at our allies.
NATO members have refused to allow American jets to launch from, or even fly over, their territory. They won’t help secure the Strait of Hormuz. French President Emmanuel Macron has even called for a coalition to “stand up” against both the United States and China.
I think these are serious strategic mistakes, especially Macron’s posturing to go out like a modern-day De Gaulle instead of as a lame duck. But politically, they are hardly shocking.
Let’s review how we got here.
Trump has routinely mocked our allies. For efficiency’s sake, let’s forgive all of the petty jabs from the first term ostensibly intended to get them to spend more on defense. In Trump’s second term, he claimed our NATO allies would never fight on our behalf, despite the fact that the only time NATO invoked Article 5 — an attack on one is an attack on all — was in the wake of 9/11.
Back in January, in Davos, Switzerland, Trump revised this false claim, admitting that some did fight in Afghanistan, but that “they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.” This infuriated not just allied leaders, but their voters. Indeed, Trump is even unpopular with the populist right across most of Europe.
On a per capita basis, Denmark, not America, had the most casualties in Afghanistan.
Speaking of Denmark, Trump threatened to go to war with the Danes to take possession of Greenland. The threats, public and private, were so relentless and serious, Denmark had to actually plan for a war against the U.S.
Trump didn’t go as far with Canada, but he poisoned that alliance with his repeated insistence that Canada should become America’s 51st state.
Trump also cut off most direct military aid to Ukraine, opting instead to strong-arm Europe into buying American weapons to boost our defense industry. And all while lending rhetorical aid and comfort to Russian President Vladimir Putin as Trump’s “peace envoy” talked up business deals with Russia.
Trump abrogated trade agreements with our allies to levy massive tariffs on nearly all of them, forcing many countries to pursue trade agreements with China. His erratic shifting of policies and rates sent allied economies scrambling. Trump’s American defenders may roll their eyes at his openness to emoluments — a plane from Qatar, a gold bar and Rolex from Switzerland, a crown from South Korea — but just imagine how this stuff is viewed by the broader public in allied countries. Trump mocks notions of shared values, but if you bring him a trinket, he’ll talk.
Then Trump launched a surprise war on Iran without consulting our allies. When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer suggested sending aircraft carriers to help, Trump mocked him.
“That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”
Trump has since changed his tune, telling reporters aboard Air Force One last month, “I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory.”
Trump’s one-way-street antics work domestically, because of his support within the GOP base. But he can’t incite a primary challenge to elected allied leaders, not when he’s loathed. In January his approval rating in the U.K. was 16% (and in Denmark just 4%). One in five Europeans see America as a greater threat than China or North Korea.
Again, I think it would be good for Europe — which has seen energy prices skyrocket because of the war and still needs the U.S. for its security — to swallow some of the humiliation and help. But the refusal of Trump and his defenders to acknowledge why it’s politically hard at this point is maddening.
Trump would never dream of taking a devastating political hit for an ally. But he and his defenders cannot fathom why allies feel the same way about him.
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The Trump administration has fundamentally damaged America’s relationships with longtime allied nations through a pattern of mockery, false statements, and disrespectful rhetoric toward European leaders and NATO institutions.
Trump has repeatedly spread misinformation about NATO allies’ commitment to collective defense, falsely claiming they would never fight on America’s behalf despite the historical fact that NATO invoked Article 5 only once—in response to the 9/11 attacks—and subsequently fought alongside the United States in Afghanistan for two decades[1].
The administration’s threats toward Denmark over Greenland were so serious and persistent that the country had to actively plan for potential military conflict with the United States, demonstrating how Trump’s rhetoric has escalated beyond typical diplomatic posturing.
Trump has weaponized trade policy against allies by abrogating trade agreements and imposing massive tariffs, forcing allied nations to pursue alternative trade relationships with China rather than maintain economic ties with the United States.
The president’s erratic policy shifts and inconsistent messaging have created economic instability for allied countries while appearing willing to accept personal gifts and benefits from various nations, behavior that undermines claims of shared democratic values.
Trump’s unilateral decision to launch military operations against Iran without consulting allies, followed by public mockery of the British Prime Minister’s offer to assist, has demonstrated contempt for traditional burden-sharing arrangements within the Western alliance.
Allied nations are now refusing to provide military support and access to their airspace because Trump’s low approval ratings in these countries make it politically impossible for their leaders to assist without facing domestic backlash, yet Trump and his supporters refuse to acknowledge responsibility for this deterioration.
Trump’s approach represents a necessary recalibration of American foreign policy prioritizing direct national interests rather than maintaining alliances that the administration argues have not adequately contributed to shared security obligations.
The administration’s firm stance on Iran, including threats to target infrastructure, reflects a willingness to take decisive military action to protect American interests and regional security, with Trump stating “the entire country can be taken out in one night” if Iran does not comply with demands to open the Strait of Hormuz[1][2].
Trump’s pressure on allies to increase defense spending and contribute more substantially to NATO obligations represents a legitimate demand for greater burden-sharing, though this perspective does not address the specific diplomatic methods employed or their consequences for alliance cohesion.
Well, MAGA was right about one thing. Trump runs the country like he runs his businesses.... straight into the fucking ground.
“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed… and we will deserve it” - Lindsey ‘Nostradamus’ Graham
I will never understand what changed his mind. WTF happened there? And with so many others, Vance included?
As Putin intended. As Heritage Foundation intended. As oligarchs intended. As AIPAC - well - they just don't care as long as Iran is getting bombed.
Again, I think it would be good for Europe — which has seen energy prices skyrocket because of the war and still needs the U.S. for its security — to swallow some of the humiliation and help.
Jonah Goldberg utterly, utterly, utterly misses the point.
U.S. allies are, by staying the fuck out of this stupid war, doing the best possible thing they can for themselves. Nobody with any sense would trust Trump, the U.S. , Netanyahu, or Israel further than they can be thrown. When the U.S. stops bombing people, somebody is going to have to pick up the pieces and be involved in securing the resulting armistice.
And that somebody needs to not be anyone involved in the war. The European states would like a seat at that table, and by joining the American war, they're basically ceding it all to Russia, China, India, and Pakistan.
Brit here. There's nothing I want less than for us to be involved in any fucking way.
Good on you! It's the only smart move left, at least until the dust settles.
I don't think Americans realize how hated Trump is outside of the US right now -and in his wake, the USA.
The last bit is crucial to get: it's not just Trump.
Something that really shocked the congressional delegation in Munich last year: allies are rapidly losing trust in the American system of government. The message of "just survive until the midterms" didn't get them anywhere. Trump is demented and we all know it, but the observation that all the vaunted checks and balances of the US constitution don't mean much in foreign policy is a real gamechanger - because that means the US will continually be one election away from going rogue again.
That's right. It's an unstable system because a large chunk of our population is mentally unstable.
Even more, it's not that Trump got reelected, it's that the whole Republican party is behind him. Trump dies, leaves office, etc., the Hertiage Foundation and tech billionairies are still there. They may soften their stance, but it'll only be a matter of time before they latch onto another demagogue and repeat.
Yup. "Just survive until the midterms" might have worked the first time Trump was elected, however the guy was voted in twice and clearly has no issue pushing for an illegal 3rd term. Even if by some miracle he goes away there is nothing to say someone like him won't just appear.
Some of us are well aware. The rest believe whatever fox is saying.
Trust me, the ones without our heads planted firmly in our own asses hate him just as much.
I used to think how much I disliked America (as a country and philosophy) when Bush and Blair was in. Feels quaint now.
zero cards left
Unfortunately, that isn't the case. When Trump has destroyed every diplomatic or political solution, only the military remains. That will be the only card left, and it will be played again and again.
The USA will simply go from incursion after incursion, bombing after bombing, war after war, ..., until it either bankrupts itself or escalates its forever war into a nuclear war and destroys itself (and the rest of the world). Unless this is stopped from within, this will destroy you.
Best case, Iran is the quagmire that sinks Trump and his government. If it doesn't, and he retains control over the USA military, he'll start more wars, likely with former USA allies. What else can he do? His every instinct is towards violence.
Trump is insane. What he is doing can't be undone. Trump's threat to Iran can never be justified. This is what can be expected for the next 3 years unless the GOP grows a pair and uses the 25th Amendment. Unless he is held responsible now, his actions and words today will be like Groundhog Day.
He's in a state of severe and rapid cognitive decline.
Every single time he hits a new low of sanity, that pretty much becomes his new baseline.
He isn't getting any more rational tomorrow. It's just downhill.
That bead is smoother than my handwriting on a good day oddly satisfying and mildly humbling at the same time.
The urethane bead—perfectly consistent, a seamless ribbon of intent—reveals a discipline most men will never understand. There’s a quiet arrogance in that line, an almost surgical confidence, as if the craftsman knew this would never fail. I can’t help but admire it… the precision, the restraint—it’s not just adhesion, it’s control.
10/10 camera work.
didn't pan to a single bush while missing all of the major content <wipes tear> r/PraiseTheCameraMan
Isn't it backwards? Usually it's sent info the cavity then the windshield goes on I thought?
Idk I'm not a doctor
I'm not sure, I focused more on transmission repair when I was in med school.
I did a short stint for Autoglass and it can depend. There is no hard n fast rule. Each window is different and sometimes where the screen dives into the bodywork it is practical to bond on the screen. Simply because you can't get the farking gun into the moronically designed by idiots bits of the car they signed off on, on a Friday at 3pm!
Actually, that black bead around the edge is used to mitigate compression from airflow and inevitable build up if dead insects. Coroprime 457 is the primary active chemical and if you touch it, it’s highly corrosive against organic material, but extremely adhesive against glass, stone, metal, etc. Once applied, you can just stop reading this because I made it up.
No, no. I think you're on to something.
What did he do at the end though with the overlap
Probably to keep the ends of the bead from squishing apart and leaving a gap.
Popsicle like stick and seam the two pieces together. I was taught to essentially run it into the end of the start with the tip then seam it together. Then less chance of a leak.
I am an engineer that designs windshields. In a factory setting this is almost always done by robot, but in-field service is done like this. A lot of times I design a “path” for this guy to follow with his dispenser, but appears this guy is free handing it, probably using work instructions of some kind for the areas that aren’t obvious.
The service techs that do these replacements are quite skilled! Newer cars have front facing cameras and other safety and quality of life devices attached to the windshield that all have to be disassembled and reassembled properly.
Sorry for my ignorance but what areas aren't obvious here? Seems like he is just following the border.
So, the edge on most modern windshields will have a black band with dots that grow smaller towards the center. This is called the "frit", and it is designed to help with heat dispersion throughtout the glass, as well as give technicians an indicator as to where they will run their adhesive.
In our shop, we clean the frit with glass cleaner and magic sponges before applying a primer to both the windshield opening on the vehicle and the windshield itself. This ensures that our urethane forms a strong bond.
Edit: Sorry, to answer your initial question, Yes! We do typically follow the border of the windshield or other automotive glass. Urethane is an extremely strong adhesive, but it will also make an incredible mess if you don't know what you're doing. You have to ensure that where you are glueing on the glass will match up with where it's supposed to go on the car. Some vehicles, we'll glue the body instead of the glass to ensure we hit our prime bands. shrug
Some vehicles come equipped with rain sensors, lane departure cameras, heads-up display options, or a mixture of the aforementioned varying by vehicle trim level. These elements typically require ADAS calibration upon windshield replacement, despite being the same parts as what went in the vehicle at the factory!
From an installer \o/
I'm always amazed at the shit I didn't realize I didn't know.
Trump is becoming more insane by the day and it's getting even harder to hide. He is completely surrounded by unqualified cowards. Child rape didn't stop him, but now gas prices are higher and his following is getting mad.
The entire world just needs a few of the self-serving MAGA trash congressmen to find their balls.
And every single person needs to vote.
Narrator: "And you guessed it... Nothing happened."
They all lick his boots and praise their golden god. Republicans are a joke now.
Damn dude you literally copied and pasted mine
Narrator: "And you guessed it... Nothing happened."
Again
or they replace him with an even more degenerate yes man and it's even worse.
Impeach anyone and everyone in his cabniet, they all need to go
It’s completely disheartening that the American Justice system is going hard after traffic tickets and civil citations but is just completely ignoring the human trafficking, murder, and war crimes of the elites.
We are such a broken society.
Sadly, while the system is absolutely broken, it is so by design.
Because the rich assholes can get away with murder on account of their money but more importantly their connections.
It's fuckin' insane, and definitely needs to change. CONSEQUENCES FOR EVERYONE!
The Republicans have no spine so it’s performative at best but honestly better than nothing
Yes, if all they can do is perform then I want them on stage all the time every single day.
I'd honestly be surprised if Hegseth doesn't just get straight shitcanned. This is like the ICE fuckups - a head needs to roll and his is the only one. No way they get anyone extreme enough for Trump confirmed after the midterm red wedding.
I'm announcing that I'm introducing articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth as well.
Both filings have exactly the same chance of amounting to anything remotely consequential.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war.
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Does this mean Iran can now sell their oil without sanctions? That + the 2 million dollar toll (split with Oman), might actually work out quite well for them in the long term
Nothing about Iranian nuclear capabilities mentioned in the 10 point plan. I’m actually laughing.
Except the line where they get to keep enriching uranium.
What the fuck was the point of any of this?
Insider trading.
If what Trump tweeted is true, that Iran’s 10 point proposal is workable, that means he gave them control of the strait and will lift sanctions amongst other US concessions.
That would be literally insane.
So...Iran wins?
If Iran gets all those things and more, then yes.
It’s also especially egregious considering the rhetoric about the JCPOA by Trump, Israel etc. Because this would be a markedly worse agreement for the US and better for Iran by any rational measure.
One of the things in the 10 point proposal was allowing more enrichment. It's basically a wishlist of Iran's biggest dreams.
The fact that Trump called this plan "workable" in his post shows just how badly he painted himself into a corner here.
Iran is saying that the US agreed "in principle" to its 10 point plan;
Commitment to non-aggression
Continuation of Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz
Acceptance of uranium enrichment
Lifting of all primary sanctions
Lifting of all secondary sanctions
Termination of all UN Security Council resolutions
Termination of all Board of Governors resolutions
Payment of compensation to Iran
Withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from the region
Cessation of war on all fronts, including against Hezbollah in Lebanon
Talks to resume on April 10th in Islamabad.
According to Iranian officials, Pakistan has conveyed that the U.S. has accepted these principles as a basis for negotiations despite its public posture. Based on this, Iran agreed to a two-week negotiation period in Islamabad.
It is emphasized that this does not mean the war has ended, and Iran will only accept a full end to the conflict once all terms of its proposal are finalized.
Iran rejected all opposing proposals and instead presented its own 10-point plan via Pakistan. Key demands include: controlled passage through the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian coordination; an end to military actions against allied groups; withdrawal of U.S. forces from the region; establishment of a security protocol in the Strait of Hormuz affirming Iran’s role; full compensation for damages; removal of all sanctions and international resolutions; release of frozen Iranian assets; and formal approval of these terms in a binding UN Security Council resolution.
Trump just acknowledged the 10 point plan on TS;
TRUMP: OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF IRAN: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116366072136989268
Statement of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on the Two-Week Ceasefire and Negotiation Conditions
The enemy, in its unjust, illegal, and criminal war against the Iranian nation, has suffered an undeniable, historic, and crushing defeat. Thanks to the sacrifice of the martyred leader of the Islamic Revolution, Grand Ayatollah Imam Khamenei, the leadership of the Supreme Leader and Commander-in-Chief, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, the courage of fighters on the frontlines, and the historic and heroic presence of the Iranian people from the very beginning of the war, Iran has achieved a great victory and forced the United States to accept its 10-point plan.
Under this plan, the United States has in principle committed to guaranteeing non-aggression, recognizing Iran’s continued control over the Strait of Hormuz, accepting uranium enrichment, lifting all primary and secondary sanctions, ending all UN Security Council and IAEA resolutions, compensating Iran for damages, withdrawing U.S. combat forces from the region, and halting war across all fronts, including against the resistance in Lebanon.
We congratulate the Iranian people on this victory and emphasize that finalizing its details still requires perseverance, prudent leadership, and unity.
Over the past 40 days, Iran and resistance forces in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and the Palestinian territories have dealt blows to the enemy that will never be forgotten. Iran and the resistance axis, as representatives of honor and humanity against the most brutal enemies, have delivered a historic lesson—crushing the enemy’s forces, infrastructure, and political, economic, technological, and military assets to the point of collapse, leaving them with no option but submission.
At the start of the war, the enemy believed it could quickly dominate Iran militarily and force surrender through instability. They assumed Iran’s missile and drone capabilities would be neutralized and did not expect such a powerful regional response.
They believed this war would end Iran, allowing them to act freely, divide the country, seize its resources, and plunge it into long-term chaos.
Despite the loss of their leader, Iran’s fighters and their allies, relying on faith and inspired by Imam Hussein, resolved to deliver a decisive lesson—avenging past actions and ensuring the enemy abandons any thought of future aggression and is forced into humiliation before the Iranian nation.
With this strategy, and relying on unprecedented political and social unity, Iran and the resistance launched one of the heaviest hybrid wars in history against the United States and Israel, achieving all their planned objectives.
Iran and the resistance claim to have largely destroyed the U.S. military infrastructure in the region, inflicted heavy losses, and delivered severe blows to enemy forces, infrastructure, and assets both regionally and inside Israeli-controlled territory. The pressure became so intense that none of the enemy’s primary objectives were achieved, and within about ten days, it realized it could not win. It then began seeking contact with Iran through various channels to request a ceasefire.
Iranian officials state that for over a month, the enemy has been requesting a halt to hostilities, but these requests were rejected as the war was intended to continue until key goals were met, including weakening the enemy and removing long-term threats. Iran also rejected multiple ultimatums from the U.S., emphasizing it does not recognize such deadlines.
Authorities now claim that most war objectives have been achieved and that the enemy has been pushed into a historic defeat. Iran’s stated position is to continue the conflict as long as necessary to consolidate these gains and establish new regional security and political realities based on its power and influence.
In this context, and following approval by the Supreme Leader and the Supreme National Security Council, it was decided—given Iran’s position on the battlefield and the enemy’s inability to enforce its threats—to proceed with negotiations in Islamabad to finalize details within a maximum of 15 days.
Wait, they can still enrich uranium? Wasn’t that one of the ever changing reasons why the war was started to begin with??
Am I stupid or do they basically just get everything they want out of this? 😭
As dumb as this has all been, I’m glad Trump didn’t do something even dumber like using nukes or heavy missile barrages to “wipe out a civilization”.
Trump folding is legitimately the best outcome that could have happened given the recent escalations. Here’s hoping his ego is soothed enough, and that we won’t be reading more cataclysmic tweets in a few days.
A big part of the 10-point Iranian proposal that Trump is talking about is a dual Iranian-Omani tolling of the strait’s commercial transit until all war damages have been paid for and Iran has been made whole.
So I assume “subject to Iranian opening of the strait” is in fact the latest taco seasoning on the menu lol
Don’t get me wrong, I would love for all hostilities to end. I just believe it’s very rich for him to call the Obama era deal “the worst deal in history” because Obama literally gave back Iran’s own frozen asset money back to them while his deal is essentially making Iran and China the direct beneficiaries of 1/4 of the entire world’s oil transit in addition to massive geopolitical concessions.
If Iran walks away with a Hormuz toll then the big winner here is China because the toll would be paid in Yuan.
Also, once you have a toll, why would you ever get rid of it?
lol Iran have accepted under the conditions that
“lifting of all sanctions — placed on Iran by every American administration since the George W. Bush administration” and “Iran’s control of Strait of Hormuz and financial reparations”
No way has Trump agreed to this, unless the US is genuinely surrendering.
Source: actually the NYT.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/07/world/iran-war-trump-news.
Edit: lol apparently the US agreed to using Iran’s 10 point “maximalist” plan as a basis for negotiations. We don’t have a clear picture of the 10 point plan, but it sounds like it involves payment for reconstruction, lifting of sanctions, a permanent end to the war (whatever that looks like), and ending of hostilities in other regions like Lebanon, control of the Straight. Lmfao, Jesus Christ.
If this holds Iran has actually won the war. Huge win to China and neutral countries like India.
This follows what Trump did with the Houthis. He got bored real quick, and when they told him that they would stop firing on American ships if they stopped bombing the Houthis, Trump went “oh, it’s that easy?” Not realizing that the Houthis main objective was to continue harrying Israeli shipping and not American.
He doesn’t really give a fuck about this stuff, and his TV brain got sick of this episode, so he’s flipping the channel to another show any way he can.
Only Trump could simultaneously piss off the pro-war and anti-war people.
That would be insane. Iran’s regime will stay in power another 50 years I guess. Might even repair relations with the Gulf if this is true
I was waiting on this one
What’s with the $500,000 or a date with (insert celebrity) trend? I’m not giving up half a mil for anybody even if sex is involved
I'd give up the money if the sex was gonna make me even more money, otherwise I'm with you.
She’s got that “stab you in the eye with a screwdriver” look.
Spoken like a man constantly on the lookout for screwdrivers.
Once you’ve failed to lookout constantly for screwdrivers in the critical moment you should’ve been looking out for screwdrivers you won’t make that mistake a second time.
I've never even heard of her. I'll take the money, I'd still take it if I knew who she was too.
There used to be this beautiful woman I’d see at the gym multiple times a week. We exchanged glances and nods, then graduated to small talk. I was so scared to talk to her because she was so beautiful. But one day I worked up the courage to ask her out - worst she can say is no…
She looked genuinely disgusted when I asked her. She made up some excuse, started stumbling on her words. Completely changed her gym schedule. Only saw her once after that because I went in the morning instead of at night - that’s how I figured out she changed her schedule after I asked her out. Fucking brutal.
I mean worst she could say is no, right?
I’ve had a woman go “ew”
The famous last words of anyone who has asked and gotten shot down
"just 3 minutes of humiliation"
Hey, you had the balls to ask. Respect.
Hey man, don't have any advice, but just wanted to say I had a very similar experience. Introduced myself to my gym crush and she completely changed her gym schedule. I felt really guilty that I made someone so uncomfortable.
and what percentage of gen z girls have never asked a guy out in real life?
99%
Asked four ladies out this year, got rejected four different ways. Gonna keep trying but it gets discouraging real fast
4 different ways
Polite no thankyou
Rude no thankyou
Slapped you across the face
Just walked away in silence
Put of 4 how many I get right?
Laughing hysterically and walking away
Ewww no and walking away
Nervous laughter and asking to be friends
Freezing and dagger staring into your soul till you retract it
That's so sweet of you but I have a boyfriend
No thanks I'm lesbian
SEXUAL HARRASMENT, HELP!
I'm flattered but I think of you as a friend/brother
HARD PASS
Ive done it probably only 7 times and every time they have a boyfriend. I think hitting on someone in their workplace is out of pocket which cuts down on most interactions. I also don’t drink/go to bars
If asking out cashiers/waitresses is bothering someone doing their job, asking out in the gym/public is being a creep, asking out a friend is ruining the friendship, then I can see why.
Yeah theres never a great time, except like a tight window between friendship and meeting someone
It's almost as if even the most uninformed people are slowly figuring out that the "conservative" agenda and policies don't work for non-billionaires.
I really wish those bumpkins in Northwest Georgia had the spine to stand up against the fascist in Chief. I'll take this though, this is a good win.
I saw a post on Bluesky saying that the special election was a 20 point swing in favor of the Democrats. It sucks that the Republican won, but it was significantly closer than in the past.
And that was without Leon Musk waving around giant million dollar checks and pissing off Wisconsinites. Trump has done a good enough job pissing them off all on his own.
Projected to be a Dem blowout of 18+ percentage points, marking at least the largest liberal/Dem-aligned win in a contested Wisconsin Supreme Court race since Shirley Abrahamson in 2009
I voted today for her.
You, me, and my husband
Wisconsin knows how to celebrate!
You all, me and my husband
me too!
Me too
The adults are coming back into the room.
Politicized courts are bad for the country. But when one party is no longer very interested in the constitution or rule of law, some bads are worse than others.
They are officially non-political but we all know who is who
I’d say they’re apolitical in name only, as has been the case for my at least my entire adult life. Academic consensus varies on how real that ever truly was.
Southern part of the Milky Way. Starting in the lower left is the star Beta Centauri, then the Coal sack dark Nebula, The Southern Cross, the Eta carinae nebula in the center. Alpha Centauri is just out of view in the lower left, Omega centauri is out of view on the left center. In the lower right is the Large Magellanic cloud, one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies
Thank you.
Thank you for this! Man it’s crazy how far away they all are
Funnily enough I captured the same part in Maldives few months ago. So happy I identified it too.
I actually live in that part of the galaxy as well. I'm pretty sure we have the same neighbor stars to one another. Small world!
God damn we are so fucking insignificant. And here we are, constantly trying to kill each other.
To be fair, we are not insignificant on our own plane of existence. The thing is, there are other beings that could very well live on much larger planes of reality.
Even worse when many of the deaths are because people think their magic wizard who created humans is the only "right" one.
This sentiment has always seemed like a double edged sword to me. I feel like I could easily say “the universe is so vast and we are so insignificant so what’s so bad about killing each other? It doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.”
Pessimistic vs optimistic nihilism. Theres no point, darn vs theres no point, yay!
I feel like it can also be "there is so much out there and we are a tiny part" kind of insignificance too. It doesn't make me feel small in a worthless way. It makes me feel full of how fucking vast reality is.
With what? An iPhone? If they see this view looking out the window just imagine what they were feeling.
Can't even fathom how that must feel.
It's been edited (not like, adding things but lighting and shit), they don't see it like this out the window unfortunately
.edit: maybe long exposure, sorry team I am so unfamiliar with cameras, but what I meant was that this is not what the astronauts see
Not edited probably just long exposure
I would do ANYTHING to see even a fraction of this in the night sky
Dark sky in the southern hemisphere for you then
It's crazy to think that in a future far beyond what we can imagine, all of those bright spots will be gone and nothing but darkness remains.
It's only when you see something like this or get to a truly dark sky area that you can understand why the stars were such a big part of life in ancient times.
JD Vance has railed against the EU, accusing it of blatantly interfering in Hungary’s upcoming elections, even as the US vice-president said he had travelled to Budapest to “help” Viktor Orbán win Sunday’s vote.
Speaking to reporters shortly after landing in Budapest on Tuesday, Vance’s tone was combative as he alleged that the EU was responsible for “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference” he had ever seen.
“The bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary,” he said. Gesturing to Orbán, he added: “They have tried to make Hungary less energy-independent. They have tried to drive up costs for Hungarian consumers. And they’ve done it all because they hate this guy.”
Vance, however, made no effort to conceal the reason he had arrived in the country five days before a heated election in which Orbán is facing the possibility of being ousted after 16 years in power. “Of course, I want to help, as much as I possibly can, the prime minister as he faces this election season,” said Vance.
Later, at a campaign rally with Orbán, Vance dialled up Donald Trump, putting his phone’s speaker to the on-stage microphone as the US president offered a glowing endorsement of the Hungarian prime minister. “I love Hungary and I love that Viktor,” Trump told the cheering crowd. “He’s done a fantastic job.”
Hungarians are on Sunday due to cast their votes in a pivotal parliamentary election, in which Orbán is facing an unprecedented challenge from Péter Magyar, a former top member of the ruling Fidesz party.
The election has pitted two distinct versions of Hungary’s future against each other, as Orbán and Fidesz seek to convince voters that the war in Ukraine poses a deep threat to the country and that Orbán is best placed to handle this risk, while Magyar and his Tisza party have urged voters to focus on domestic issues such as economic stagnation, fraying social services and corruption.
Tuesday’s press conference saw Vance drawn into Orbán’s efforts to paint Ukraine as the country’s top threat, with Vance telling reporters that he was aware of Ukrainian intelligence services trying to “put the thumb” on the scale of American elections.
“This is just what they do,” said Vance. He singled out “people in the Ukrainian system” who had campaigned alongside Democrats before the 2024 US presidential election. Hours later, Orbán posted a video to social media in which Vance could be heard praising the Hungarian leader for keeping Europe “strong and prosperous”. Orbán, said Vance, was “one of the only true statesmen in Europe”.
The adulation comes as Orbán’s relationship with the EU has plummeted to new lows, amid clashes on migration, LGBTQ+ rights and, most recently, Orbán’s refusal to sign off on a €90bn loan to Ukraine.
At the evening rally – called a “Day of Friendship” event – Vance delivered further attacks on the EU. “I’m not telling you exactly who to vote for, but what I am telling you is that the bureaucrats in Brussels, those people, should not be listened to,” he said. “Listen to your hearts, listen to your souls, and listen to the sovereignty of the Hungarian people.”
He added: “I see that those who hate Europe the most, who hate its borders, its energy independence, the people who hate its Christian heritage, they hate one man above all others and his name is Viktor Orbán. And if they hate him, it means he’s on your side.”
Vance’s attack on Brussels came amid mounting scrutiny over Budapest’s ties to the Kremlin. On Tuesday – after previous allegations that Russian intelligence agencies, along with disinformation networks with links to Russia, were working to sway the election in Orbán’s favour – it was reported that Orbán had told Vladimir Putin: “I am at your service” in an October call.
On Tuesday, Bloomberg News said it had obtained a Hungarian government transcript of a call that took place between Orbán and Putin on 17 October, in which Orbán reportedly compared the relationship to that of a “mouse” standing ready to help the Russian “lion” as needed.
“Yesterday our friendship rose to such a high level that I can help in any way,” Orbán reportedly told Putin in the call. “In any matter where I can be of assistance, I am at your service.”
Orbán has long been the EU’s most Moscow-friendly leader, maintaining Hungary’s heavy reliance on Russian oil and gas while his foreign minister reportedly regularly updated his Russian counterpart with details of confidential EU meetings and worked to amend the EU sanctions list to Moscow’s liking.
Vance praised Orbán for being a “great example” in Europe on energy security and independence, in what appeared to be a reference to Hungary’s continued reliance on the imports of Russian oil and gas.
Vance said European leaders, in contrast, had made a “huge mistake” in cutting off oil and natural gas from the “east”. A report last month showed that Hungary’s reliance on Russia had increased since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with Russia now accounting for 93% of the country’s crude oil imports compared with 61% in 2021.
Vance’s remarks seemingly contradicted US efforts to push its allies to break with Russian energy, with Trump excoriating other EU countries for moving to cease their imports of Russian fossil fuels in response to the war.
The EU, meanwhile, hit back at the claims. “Going back to importing from Russia – a greatly unreliable supplier that is waging an atrocious war against Ukraine – would be a strategic mistake,” said a spokesperson.
In the transcript of the October call revealed on Tuesday, Putin reportedly praised Hungary’s “independent and flexible” stance on his war against Ukraine. “It is incomprehensible to us that such a balanced, middle-ground position only generates counterarguments,” said the Russian president, according to the transcript.
Hungary – which has broken with most EU countries by refusing to help Ukraine with financial assistance or weapons – was also praised by Vance. “Your leadership has been a far, far more important and constructive partner for peace than almost anyone, anywhere else in the world,” the US vice-president told Orbán.
He lauded Orbán – whose “illiberal democracy” has caused the country to plunge in press freedom rankings, face accusations of no longer being a full democracy and become the most corrupt in the EU – as an ally to Trump in the defence of western civilisation.
When asked whether the US administration would be willing to work with another Hungarian government if Orbán failed to win another term, Vance said yes, but that he did not expect a change in government. “Viktor Orbán is going to win the next election in Hungary, so I feel very confident about that and about our continued positive relationship,” he said.
As Orbán and Fidesz lag in the polls, rightwing leaders from around the world have sought to rally behind him, catapulting the election in this central European country of about 9.5 million people on to the global stage as it becomes a wider symbol of the resilience of far-right movements.
On Tuesday, Magyar, whose Tisza party is leading in most polls, directly addressed Vance’s visit to Budapest. “No foreign country may interfere in Hungarian elections,” he said on social media. “This is our country. Hungarian history is not written in Washington, Moscow or Brussels – it is written in Hungarian streets and squares.”
so, what are you doing, unpleasant guy?
Same as he did with the pope I'm assuming?
He's going to kill Orban? I'm not going to be too upset.
When the EU enforced its own laws against Elon Musk, his response wasn’t compliance, it was calling for the EU to be destroyed.
Read that again.
Every empire, every concentration of power, wants the EU gone. Not because it’s weak, but because it isn’t. Because it sets rules, enforces them, and can’t be pushed around as easily as a single state.
That’s why Brexit was celebrated by Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein, on record, in the files. Not for sovereignty, but for what it represented: a return to tribalism.
Divide and conquer has always been the strategy. Break the EU into pieces and each country becomes isolated, negotiable, and easy pickings.
All of the worst people in the world want the EU gone, which alone is enough for me to be ride or die for Brussels
trump sending healthcare missiles to iran at the behest of israel
vance actually campaigning in another country's elections
america first amirite
Can't stop being raging god awful hypocrites for half a god damned second.
Its only BAD when "the other side" does it.
Hypocrisy is a core value in the Conservative worldview of "might makes right".
They get off on it. They delight in being bastards, exactly like the Russians.
The audacity is almost architectural. Vance standing there accusing the EU of "one of the worst examples of foreign election interference" he's ever seen while literally campaigning for a foreign candidate in a foreign election on foreign soil five days before the vote. The projection is so dense it has its own event horizon.
Why the fuck is he trying to help some guy get elected in Hungary and why would he out of all people appeal to their people? He is the biggest fucking douche and I will laugh my ass off of they trot him out as the next presidential candidate.
Putin.
because it's the same political group. A group that comprises Vox in Spain, FPO in Austria, Fico, the Czech president, Bolsonaro and his family, etc.
They present the same political template where they use immigration, create issues via media pushes and then try getting into power, where they try to:
Enrich themselves by plain corruption.
Enrich themselves by cashing in favours for the wealthy.
Selling policy to the wealthy (support for lobbies, Israel, other political members of the group).
Destroy institutions (so the wealthy have more power and corruption is less prosecuted).
Manipulate the stock market with erratic policy to cash in millions.
This is happening and it's planned, look how they support each other and the flows of cash.
The US is in a not-war and the US government is partially shutdown (again)
And the VP is off interfering in another sovereign nation's election
The US leadership is an embarrassment.
democracy died on Jan 6, 2021 when we failed to try and convict a known child molester and adjudicated 34 felon count rapist
Democracy died on Jan 6 when McConnell failed to convene the senate to bring impeachment charges against trump
The biggest disgrace of all, Merrick Garland, a federalist society member, who also has deep ties to lawyers from Amazon and Bp, namely Jamie Gorelick, was appointed by Biden, failed to act on the damning evidence and dragged his feet on bringing charges against trump due to the optics it may caused
These are not serious people, they DO NOT care about you. They only care about protecting their own….the Epstein child molesting class
It’s also cute that he believes his presence will help Orban. My understanding is every other party is banding together to oppose Orban because he is hated and I doubt they love trump and would be swayed by Americans coming to interfere. Especially given Americas current behavior. If they do love Trump, I don’t think Vance is really bringing anything. I think we are about to see trump’s administration embarrass themselves backing a loser.
"Always Accuse Your Enemies of Your Own Sins"
Piss off Couch Fucker, no one wants you here in Europe. Except your Temu Putin from the image.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot and hospitalized Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez during a vehicle stop in Patterson, California. ICE Director Todd Lyons stated Hernandez, identified as an 18th Street gang member wanted for murder questioning in El Salvador, "weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over," leading agents to fire defensively. Lyons did not provide evidence for the alleged gang ties or murder warrant.
Dashcam footage of the incident, which has no audio, depicts Hernandez's black sedan pinned between two police vehicles. The car is seen reversing with an open passenger door, colliding with the vehicle behind it, then staggering forward towards the agents before turning left, crossing the median, and disappearing from view. Agents appeared to have weapons drawn as the car reversed.
The FBI's Sacramento office has launched an investigation into the shooting, while the Stanislaus County Sheriff's office confirmed no local law enforcement was involved. California Governor Gavin Newsom has been briefed and expects federal agencies to "appropriately collaborate with state and local law enforcement" during the investigation.
This event takes place amid "fierce scrutiny" of ICE, with the Trump administration's increased immigration raids and arrests, particularly in regions like California's Central Valley where arrests surged by 58% last year, drawing protests and accusations of excessive force against agents.
"As is established practice, we expect our federal law enforcement partners to appropriately collaborate with state and local law enforcement as this matter is investigated."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot a man in a vehicle in northern California on Tuesday.
ICE agents conducted a vehicle stop in Patterson, a rural agricultural town in California’s Central Valley about 80 miles east of San Jose, to arrest Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, ICE director Todd Lyons said in a statement.
Lyons described Hernandez as a member of the Los Angeles 18th Street gang and said he was wanted for questioning in El Salvador related to a murder. Lyons did not provide evidence of that allegation. The details of that investigation remain unclear.
Hernandez was hospitalized after the shooting. A spokesperson for the Stanislaus county sheriff’s office, which has jurisdiction over Patterson, declined to comment on Hernandez’s condition.
According to Lyons, as agents approached the car, Hernandez “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over”.
In response, the officers “fired defensive shots to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and the public”, Lyons said. It is unclear how many shots were fired.
KCRA-TV, an NBC affiliate in Sacramento, obtained dashcam footage showing the Tuesday incident.
In a video with no audio, three ICE agents were seen flanking a black sedan.
The black sedan was pinned between two other vehicles – respectively at its front and back – with flashing police lights.
As the officers appeared to reach into the vehicle, the black sedan reversed with its right passenger door open. That door collided with the car behind it.
The agents appeared to have their weapons drawn as the car reversed.
The black sedan then staggered forward in the direction of the officers, before taking a left turn to cross the median into the opposite side of traffic and disappearing from view in the clip.
The sheriff’s office wrote in a Tuesday post to Facebook that no local law enforcement officers were involved in the shooting. The local FBI office in Sacramento, which could not be reached for comment by phone, shared on social media that an investigation into the shooting was under way.
California governor Gavin Newsom’s office wrote on social media that he had been briefed on the incident. “As is established practice, we expect our federal law enforcement partners to appropriately collaborate with state and local law enforcement as this matter is investigated,” his office said.
The Patterson incident comes during a period of fierce scrutiny for ICE.
Over the past year, the Trump administration has ramped up raids and arrests targeting undocumented immigrants, as the president seeks to fulfill a campaign promise to secure the US-Mexico border.
The deployment of federal immigration agents across the nation has spurred many protests. ICE agents have faced condemnation over violent clashes with demonstrators and have been accused by critics of displaying excessive use of force against those they have sought to detain.
At least eight people have been shot by ICE agents in 2026.
Patterson is home to many Hispanic and Latino residents and is located in California’s Central Valley, a farming hub. The region has seen a surge in ICE arrests – up by 58% after Trump returned to office between 1 January and 31 July of last year, according to the Fresno Bee.
Patterson mayor Michael Clauzel did not immediately respond to a phone call for comment.
According to Lyons, as agents approached the car, Hernandez “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over”.
In response, the officers “fired defensive shots to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and the public”, Lyons said. It is unclear how many shots were fired.
Hmm where have I heard this before?
They need a new move
Why? Clearly this one works and they get zero consequences
We need the body cam footage.
Cops proved years ago this is an easy way to kill and stay free
It happened on video, with white victims, they still didn't get convicted
Maybe if people had paid attention then and done more, we wouldn't be where we are now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_6GD8Y1RWI Dashcam video
yea, a whole bunch of goons rolled up without any ID of any kind and tried to carjack this guy. Thats what I saw.
Wow, the comments on that video are...something.
ICE has been doing this same move for decades
In 2014, a memo circulated around homeland security that ICE agents were "deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers"
dozens of Americans have been killed this way
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-killings-20140227-story.html#axzz2uY0W5Do8
They purposefully stand in front of cars, so they can do this.
At this point ICE has no credibility, so we will need more than a nice story from them. When real evidence is presented we can all make our judgements, but without proof otherwise I will assume ICE was trying to kill him because they have no training.
Just want to add that besides ICE/DHS lying in public they are also entering fraudulent evidence in court and destroying evidence. In the first 9 months of this regime, the DoJ has been caught entering fraudulent evidence in 35 separate court cases while in the past decade there may have been one singular case.
The DoJ besides the incompetence, is systematically lying to the courts to get the outcome they desire. Thats what authoritarian governments do before they just say fuck it and become judge, jury and executioner on the spot (tbh I guess ICE is already doing that).
go look at the dash cam video. a whole bunch of unmarked/unbadged armed goons surround this guys car, and they are surprised he tried to get away?
Lyons described Hernandez as a member of the Los Angeles 18th Street gang and said he was wanted for questioning in El Salvador related to a murder. Lyons did not provide evidence of that allegation.
They’ve already got the Fox News justification ready to spin.
Justification #1 (flatly untrue): he tried to hit us so we shot him.
Justification #2: Even if we lied about him trying to hit us, he’s an LA gang member (that just happened to be on vacation in the Central Valley) so he deserved it.
I miss the days when Federal law enforcement at least made an attempt at honesty.
They have an issue with people driving in cars not doing shit but they make "jokes" about running over protestors with their cars, which has already happened several times.
Clearly he was trying to drive away from the traffic stop, not trying to hit anyone.
From dash cam video released.
It’s like ICE is following a handbook of instructions for what NOT to do. The incompetence is staggering and infuriating.
Close. They're following instructions on how to murder people and get away with it.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot a man in a vehicle in northern California on Tuesday.
ICE agents conducted a vehicle stop in Patterson, a rural agricultural town in California’s Central Valley about 80 miles east of San Jose, to arrest Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, ICE director Todd Lyons said in a statement.
Lyons described Hernandez as a member of the Los Angeles 18th Street gang and said he was wanted for questioning in El Salvador related to a murder. Lyons did not provide evidence of that allegation. The details of that investigation remain unclear.
California governor Gavin Newsom’s office wrote on social media that he had been briefed on the incident. “As is established practice, we expect our federal law enforcement partners to appropriately collaborate with state and local law enforcement as this matter is investigated,” his office said.
Lyons described Hernandez as a member of the Los Angeles 18th Street gang and said he was wanted for questioning in El Salvador related to a murder. Lyons did not provide evidence of that allegation.
Incompetence and Nazis go hand in hand.
Ties to a gang over 5 hours away from him
Ties = He once bought a sandwich at a Bodega where a gang member once stopped to use the restroom at
The Ladies doing so much for my mental without knowing.
B-but sex with w-women is GAY!! 🥴
Source: the writer's ass.
Wrong, AI has no ass, unless it's their logo
Where can I get a prescription?
I don't care, I am using it as an excuse.
Need a booty therapy clinic to open up by me
They're called strip clubs.
Imagine making such cientific statement without the proper references?
For anyone wondering, roberryc on Instagram.
Aah.
I see you have already been deep in your study of this subject matter.
Common W from Mark Ruffalo.
We all need to just sit with how insane things have gotten.
I know we are all numb because it keeps getting more and more insane but still.
It's time for the 25th. It's not a debate anymore - It's blatantly obvious.
It's also time we realize as a world the working class and most vulnerable only have each other.
That all the rights and benefits we have is from coming together in solidarity.
Enough is enough of these dark - dystopian bad predatory actors.
Also after all this is done we need people held accountable. There has to be real punishments. Not just people retiring into the sunset.
Oh, my American cousins... if only your congress and senate had the courage to do their actual jobs.... thoughts and prayers, I guess?
It’s crazy that he’s just stating facts.
You mean stating the truth
Yeah dudes been really stepping up with everything even more then he was before. It's nice when the rich people actually try to use their privilege for good and also tell the government to tax them more lol
Why did he use that font?
he’s gen x. they love their fun fonts
Because Gen X is just Boomer Lite. Bless him though.
I assume it was either the font he defaults to or that it worked best with the spacing but… I dunno. I feel like there should be little hearts over the i’s.
It’s not a huge hurdle (because he’s correct) but it’s not a non-hurdle, y’know?
Okay, I very much agree with what he's saying and very much disagree with that font.
Trump should be impeached. The fact their aren't articles of impeachment right now shows America once a "shining city on hill" is now morally in disrepair. We may never get our country back.
There are articles introduced today but Mike Johnson is blocking/ignoring them
Mike Johnson’s another one that needs to go
So many distractions
A former FedEx driver pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing a 7-year-old girl after delivering a Christmas gift to her Texas home, where he told authorities he accidentally struck her with his van and then strangled her in a fit of panic.
Tanner Horner faces either the death penalty or life in prison in the 2022 killing of Athena Strand, whose body was found two days after she was reported missing in the rural town of Paradise, near Fort Worth. Jurors will now decide Horner’s punishment.
“The only truthful thing that Tanner Horner told law enforcement was that he killed her,” Wise County District Attorney James Stainton said during opening statements. “The pattern and web of lies that he put together, it’s going to be hard for ya’ll to keep up with. It is lie upon lie upon lie upon lie.”
As Athena’s stepmother testified, the jury was shown an image of Athena taken from a video inside the delivery truck. She was still alive and sitting on her knees behind the driver’s seat.
Stainton said the scenario that Horner told authorities — that he hit her with his vehicle and panicked — is an “absolute lie.” He said she was uninjured when Horner put her into the vehicle.
“The first thing Tanner Horner says to Athena when he picks her up and puts her in that truck, he leans down and he says: ‘Don’t scream or I’ll hurt you.’ He says that twice,” Stainton said.
Stainton told jurors that the evidence in the case is “rough,” and they will watch video and then hear audio after the camera has been covered up.
“You are going to hear what a 250-pound man can do to a 67-pound child,” Stainton said. “And when I say it’s horrible, I mean it.”
He said Athena fought Horner, and his DNA was found under her fingernails. He also said Horner’s DNA was found “in places where you shouldn’t find DNA on a 7-year-old girl.”
According to an arrest warrant, Horner told authorities that he strangled Athena after accidentally hitting her with his van while making a delivery. Horner told investigators that Athena wasn’t seriously hurt after he hit her while backing up, but he panicked and put her in his van.
Horner said he didn’t want her to tell her father what happened, so he first tried to break the girl’s neck and when that didn’t work, he strangled her with his hands in the back of the van, the warrant said. The warrant said Horner took investigators to where he’d left Athena’s body.
In opening statements, Horner’s attorney Steven Goble told jurors: “When someone’s brain is what’s injured, you don’t see it.”
While acknowledging that the evidence against Horner was “overwhelming” and “terrible,” he told jurors that Horner’s mother drank while she was pregnant, that he has autism and suffered from “various mental illnesses throughout his life” in addition to being exposed to a “massive amount of lead.”
Goble asked jurors to sentence him to life in prison.
Ashley Strand, Athena’s stepmother, told jurors that the package Horner had dropped off was a Christmas present for Athena — a box of “You Can Be Anything” Barbies. Strand, who has since divorced Athena’s father, said Athena enjoyed living out on their land in the country, where she got to “run wild and free.”
The trial was moved from rural Wise County to Fort Worth after Horner’s attorneys argued that he would not have received a fair trial.
Article summary:
A former FedEx driver accused of killing a 7-year-old girl after he said he accidentally struck her with his van while delivering a Christmas gift to her Texas home, and then strangled her during a fit of panic, pleaded guilty to capital murder just after his trial began Tuesday.
Tanner Horner faces either the death penalty or life in prison in the December 2022 killing of Athena Strand, whose body was found two days after she was reported missing in the rural town of Paradise, near Fort Worth.
Jurors, who will decide Horner's punishment, began hearing testimony after the plea. As Athena’s stepmother testified about the search for the girl, the jury was shown an image of Athena taken from a video inside the delivery truck. She was still alive and sitting on her knees behind the driver’s seat.
According to an arrest warrant, Horner told authorities that he strangled Athena after accidentally hitting her with his van while making a delivery. Horner told investigators that Athena wasn’t seriously hurt after he hit her while backing up, but he panicked and put her in his van.
Horner said he didn’t want her to tell her father what happened, so he first tried to break the girl’s neck and when that didn’t work, he strangled her with his hands in the back of the van, the warrant said. The warrant said Horner took investigators to where he’d left Athena’s body.
Her family said the package Horner had dropped off was a Christmas present for Athena — a box of “You Can Be Anything” Barbies.
The trial was moved from rural Wise County to Fort Worth after Horner's attorneys argued that he would not have received a fair trial.
ETA: I believe the article either updated after I made this comment or my copy/paste glitched. My apologies.
What an awful human being. Who in the hell's first instinct after hitting someone with a vehicle is, "Oh she's still alive! Better kill her to make sure no one knows I hit her!" What the hell man....
A liar, that’s who. That’s why the story made no sense.
He didn’t hit the little girl. That was a made up story. He was a child predator who molested little girls.
"strangled her in a fit of panic" I just cannot imagine in my brain how the instinctual way to panic to to strangle the dying child. What the fuck
Edit: holy shit, I didn't read enough, the kid was fine when he killed her. Wtf is wrong with humans. "Oh no can't let anyone know I be bumped this kid, let me brake her neck, oh that didn't work, strangle it is"
"He also said Horner’s DNA was found “in places where you shouldn’t find DNA on a 7-year-old girl."
The article was apparently updated with even worse details. It seems he didn't even hit the kid with his car at all. From the article:
Stainton said the scenario that Horner told authorities — that he hit her with his vehicle and panicked — is an “absolute lie.” He said she was uninjured when Horner put her into the vehicle.
“The first thing Tanner Horner says to Athena when he picks her up and puts her in that truck, he leans down and he says: ‘Don’t scream or I’ll hurt you.’ He says that twice,” Stainton said.
Stainton told jurors that the evidence in the case is “rough,” and they will watch video and then hear audio after the camera has been covered up.
“You are going to hear what a 250-pound man can do to a 67-pound child,” Stainton said. “And when I say it’s horrible, I mean it.”
He said Athena fought Horner, and his DNA was found under her fingernails. He also said Horner’s DNA was found “in places where you shouldn’t find DNA on a 7-year-old girl.”
It... really doesn't seem like he hit her with the truck at all.
Seriously. First I was thinking, "OK, he hit her and seriously injured her, so he killed her to try to avoid being in trouble for hitting her." Still fucking bonkers, but at least understandable abstractly; I can see what he was thinking even if it was completely evil and fucked up. But then I read that she was fine and he had her in his truck?? Nah. This prick was trying to kidnap/assault her and is just lying. Either that or he's seriously mentally ill. But that's not the actual reason.
"While acknowledging that the evidence against Horner was 'overwhelming' and 'terrible,' he told jurors that Horner’s mother drank while she was pregnant, that he has autism and suffered from 'various mental illnesses throughout his life' in addition to being exposed to a 'massive amount of lead.'" Oh, what a fucking load.
Oh god that’s absolutely disgusting. Poor baby girl.
Yeah, time to go to bed. Holy shit.
I can’t even comprehend crimes like this. I know humans are capable of terrible things, but stories of this magnitude are fucking terrifying. We walk around every day alongside people who are capable of unimaginable harm. I’m not a religious person, but “evil” feels like the only word that fits this kind of crime. It’s just so unfathomable.
I don’t think you need to be religious to realize that there is evil in the world
Shit, reading through this article the story just becomes more vile with every turn.
I don't know what to say that hasn't already been said about this. The fact is often repeated that strangers and 'grabbers' like this guy are rarer than adversity in the home, which makes it all the more horrifying when these things actually happen.
The fuck is wrong with people.
Absolute monster
Why are these guy's that have already assaulted children always somehow running around free to do stuff like this? I don't care what anybody says. I've seen way too many cases like this in the news to ever believe pedophilia is curable. This guy panicked and escalated because he knew he'd get caught this time.
The priorities of our society are out of order.
Because instead of choosing to ruthlessly pursue and imprison sex offenders, we focused on drugs for decades to no avail.
Valid point.
Don’t forget publicly shaming those that try to come out, seek justice, and name their attackers.
He just wanted to kill her, period. It’s nut cases like this that make me hide from any stranger delivering anything to my door. I don’t know you and you may murder me.
Read it. He didn't just want to kill her. Despicable human.
Yeah no, he previously sexually assaulted a child before this? He was definitely covering his ass up. This sex offender shouldnt have been anywhere close to a fedex
Aw the first one is cute haha
Atom Mother Cow
my first thought exactly
Lol, it looks like one of IBM's electron microscope microsculptures.
Can we just go back to the cute pixel cows?
First one is peak
Is the first one being hunted by a Predator?
Can we go back
To the good old days?
when our mamas sang us to sleep
(but now we're stressed out)
the first one didn't try to steal your job
President Donald Trump abruptly announced a ceasefire with Iran, averting an escalating standoff just hours before a White House deadline. Immediately following this, Trump publicly attacked CNN, accusing the network of reporting a "FRAUD" related to the ceasefire details. A headline on CNN's live blog claimed, "Iran claims victory, says it forced US to accept 10-point plan," detailing concessions such as the lifting of US sanctions, withdrawal of US combat forces from the region, recognition of Iran's nuclear enrichment, and its continued control over the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump vehemently disputed this, asserting that CNN's report was false, potentially sourced from a "Fake News site (from Nigeria)," and demanded its immediate removal and a full apology. He presented an official Iranian statement, attributed to Minister of Foreign Affairs Seyed Abbas Araghchi, which offered a starkly different account: a cessation of defensive operations if attacks halted, and safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz for a two-week period via coordination with Iran's Armed Forces.
In response, CNN stated its report was based on information obtained from "specific official Iranian spokespeople who are known to us" and corroborated by "multiple Iranian state media outlets." The White House Rapid Response team and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr echoed Trump's condemnation, with Carr calling for "change at CNN" over what he termed a "hoax headline" in a sensitive national security moment. Trump indicated an investigation into the matter would have its results announced "in the near future."
"This alleged statement by 'Iran' is a FRAUD! Correct immediately!"
President Donald Trump said that CNN made a false statement in the moments following the announcement of the ceasefire Tuesday night.
In a post to X, the White House said that a headline on the CNN live blog reading, "Iran claims victory, says it forced US to accept 10-point plan," was false.
"This alleged statement by 'Iran' is a FRAUD! Correct immediately!" the White House Rapid Response account said.
A CNN spokesperson told Newsweek in an email Tuesday night, "The statement in question was obtained by CNN from Iranian officials and reported on multiple Iranian state media outlets. We received the statement from specific official Iranian spokespeople who are known to us."
Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran just hours before a White House‑imposed deadline was set to expire, abruptly halting a standoff that had pushed global markets and foreign capitals to the brink.
Trump set a Tuesday 8 p.m. EDT deadline for Iran to allow traffic through the Hormuz Strait and warned Iran could be “taken out” in one night, adding that “every bridge” and “every power plant” in Iran would be destroyed if Tehran refused.
Within hours of the ceasefire announcement, Trump posted on Truth Social that CNN had reported a false statement.
"The alleged Statement put out by CNN World News is a FRAUD, as CNN well knows," Trump said his post, adding, "The false Statement was linked to a Fake News site (from Nigeria) and, of course, immediately picked up by CNN, and blared out as a 'legitimate' headline.
"Authorities are looking to determine whether or not a crime was committed on the issuance of the Fake CNN World Statement," the president continued, noting the question, "or was it a sick rogue player?"
Brendan Carr, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) appointed by Trump, reacted to the CNN report on X by calling for "change at CNN."
Trump also called for immediate removal of the report and an apology.
In an earlier post to his account, Trump posted a copy of the full official statement from Iran, attributed to Seyed Abbas Araghchi, minister of foreign affairs.
The statement read in part, "If attacks against Iran are halted, our Powerful Armed Forces will cease their defensive operations. For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran's Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations."
Upon announcement of the ceasefire, a post to CNN's live blog was titled, "Iran claims victory, says it forced US to accept 10-point plan."
In the post, CNN reported that the statement from Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said officials "achieved a great victory and forced the United States to accept its 10-point plan."
"As part of the plan, the US has in principle agreed to lift all primary and secondary sanctions against Iran and to withdraw US combat forces from all bases in the region, the council said," per the CNN report, which added, "It has also agreed to accept Iran’s nuclear enrichment and recognize its continued control over the Strait of Hormuz, according to the council."
Trump, also in his post to Truth Social Tuesday: "CNN is being ordered to immediately withdraw this Statement with full apologies for their, as usual, terrible 'reporting.' Results of the investigation will be announced in the near future. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
The White House Rapid Response X account on Tuesday night: "ATTENTION @cnni: As @POTUS just said, Iran’s official statement is linked in his TRUTH below AND posted by the Iranian foreign minister. This alleged statement by “Iran” is a FRAUD! Correct immediately!"
A CNN spokesperson told Newsweek in an email Tuesday night: "The statement in question was obtained by CNN from Iranian officials and reported on multiple Iranian state media outlets. We received the statement from specific official Iranian spokespeople who are known to us."
Brendan Carr, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) appointed by Trump: "More outrageous conduct from CNN. Fake news is bad enough for the country, but pushing out a hoax headline in such a sensitive national security moment as this requires accountability. Iran put out an official statement that simply cannot be squared with the one CNN's false headline attributes to them. Time for change at CNN."
Trump said the outcome of the investigation would be "announced in the near future."
Update 4/7/26, 9:10 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with more information.
Update 4/7/26, 9:46 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with more information.
From the article:
In a post to X, the White House said that a headline on the CNN live blog reading, "Iran claims victory, says it forced US to accept 10-point plan," was false.
Trump really is a deeply dumb fucker who cannot even understand words like "claims".
His investigation should lead to a first grade classroom so he can learn the meaning of basic words.
Please, put his followers back in school, too.
That would make the children unsafe...
Turmp and his sheep dont read.
CNN should've used a simpler, more direct headline: TRUMP SURRENDERS.
So he started a war, TACO’d, and now his biggest concern is CNN when the price of gas has nearly doubled? WTH 🤦🏽♂️
Republicans, this is your god emperor? A whiny baby with a dirty diaper.
He’s not just their emperor. He’s also their identity. If they turn on him, they have nothing interesting about themselves.
Is he serious?? This should be the least of his worries right now
Iran is totally vindicated in their posture that they can just sit tight and wait for Trump to change his stance. Of course Trump was going to throw a fit publicly to try to save face. I’d be surprised if he wasn’t doing this.
When the pro-regime propaganda isn't pro-regime enough
This grifter is launching an investigation into CNN for what, lying? Are they still eating the cats and the dogs?
Trump doesn’t like that he’s being informed of the situation by CNN. Thats what it sounds like this is about. That’s how lost he is.
I can’t even lmfao what is this timeline???
I'm sick and tired of reading news about this idiot. Waiting for that single piece of news that will put my mind at rest.
Waiting on that big beautiful headline
It’s quite ethereal. Nice recycle.
It,was also used by his daughter and daughter in law.
Family heirloom.
In 1944, Claude Hensinger, an American serviceman, jumped out of his burning aircraft over war-torn Japan, deployed his parachute and eventually found his way to safety. After the war, his fiancée used material from the parachute to make her wedding gown.
Why did he carry the parachute with him?
The "getting to safety in 1944 Japan" part also needs elaboration
In some war films it's mentioned - due to rationing and war shortages, it was widely available, high quality and lots of material, so they'd gather it up and try to get it home.
More details and pictures:
So it wasn't silk, it was nylon.
Women in Europe used to harbor and shelter downed airmen in the hope that they'd leave the parachute with them upon rescue and recovery.
Good deal all around, tbh.
Yes, I saw a parachute silk wedding dress in the Netherlands last year which was made from a parachute of an American pilot hidden at the farm of the bride. Because textile was hard to get Dutch women got very creative during and shortly after the war with their wedding dresses.
What a beautiful way to turn a war relic into a symbol of love.
I believe this was quite common. In Band of Brothers Lieutenant Harry Welsh mentions he's still got his 'chute because it'll make a good wedding dress for Kitty.
Arnold traded his parachute for a truck.
In highschool, a man who had been a kid during WWII Britian told us that people would make underwear out of used parachutes
Two pilots from the famous all women 46th Taman Guards light night bomber regiment dismantled some parachute flares to use the parachutes to make underwear, and were only saved from a court martial for sabotage by their divisional command by personal intervention by their regimental political officer, Yevdokya Rachkevich.
better know as Nachthexen
the 588th night bomber regiment
along with the 586th and 587th
re:legion - Nachthexen
Sabaton - night witches
That’s love
Good news
The bankruptcy is for his media company only. His personal wealth is still multi hundred million.
It it’s still a huge loss for him.
Not enough of a loss. We really need to eat the rich. They gotta go.
Oprah is two for two now
"You conned people out of their money...you shouldn't con people out of their money"
-Dr. Phil, probalby
“You conned people out of their money… why didn’t you tell me I wasn’t busy”
-Dr Phil, actually
Trump will prob bail his dumbass out. Dr. Phil NFT incoming
Trump doesn't give anyone money.
Please let this be true! I haven’t followed his story… thought he had bank, so why bankruptcy? How did he lose his $$? Or, is it Just a financial protection move?
Legal eagle has a nice video summarizing it. Dude is a persistent conman. https://youtu.be/F1Il7IVkIm8
Safer than most band saw videos I have seen
just one mistake away from getting this video into the gore category...
I’m picturing the guy on the far side catching the severed hand and passing it back across and the one-handed guy sending it through again. 😳
Well, a severed hand isn't that scary compared to if he suddenly feels dizzy or trips over something...
This is probably a really safe way to do it, relatively. Band saws are super dangerous anyway, but having one to push and one to pull means neither of them have to get super close
As a woodworker, this looks very safe to me. Most accidents happen on a table saw due to pieces getting launch at you, or the blade pulling the piece and your hands into it. Band saws don’t do any of that, and these guys aren’t even getting close with this method.
Not gonna say it’s not dangerous, but that’s the reality for many jobs. And is it more dangerous than being a chef using a very sharp knife almost touching your skin for 12 hrs a day?
Yes? A large powered bandsaw is absolutely more dangerous than a small handheld knife.
Lol, that guy's face.
That's a privacy blur
Dude is getting the DLSS5 treatment.
Yeah wtf is going on there? Is this ai or something? Straight horror shit with his face.
Blurred privacy filter. First time I've noticed one like this
A bandsaw is not a tool I would use while in a hurry.
It's look like video is a loop
Researchers are exploring an unconventional cancer treatment that uses engineered bacteria to target the unique, oxygen-free environments inside tumors.
A research team led by the University of Waterloo is developing a new way to treat cancer by engineering bacteria that can consume tumors from the inside.
“Bacteria spores enter the tumor, finding an environment where there are lots of nutrients and no oxygen, which this organism prefers, and so it starts eating those nutrients and growing in size,” said Dr. Marc Aucoin, a chemical engineering professor at Waterloo. “So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor.”
The approach relies on Clostridium sporogenes, a bacterium commonly found in soil that can grow only in completely oxygen-free conditions.
The center of a solid cancerous tumor is made up of dead cells and lacks oxygen, creating an ideal environment for this bacterium to thrive and multiply.
However, there is a key limitation. As the bacteria spread toward the outer layers of tumors, they encounter small amounts of oxygen. This exposure causes them to die before they can fully eliminate the tumor.
To overcome this challenge, researchers introduced a gene from a related bacterium that is better able to tolerate oxygen. This change allows the engineered bacteria to survive longer near the tumor’s outer regions.
The team also developed a way to activate the oxygen-tolerance gene only when needed, which helps prevent the bacteria from growing in oxygen-rich areas such as the bloodstream. They achieved this using a natural process called quorum sensing.
Quorum sensing involves chemical signals released by bacteria. When enough bacteria accumulate inside a tumor, the signal becomes strong enough to switch on the oxygen-tolerance gene, ensuring it is not activated too early.
In one study, researchers showed that Clostridium sporogenes can be modified to tolerate oxygen. In a follow-up study, they tested the quorum-sensing system by engineering the bacteria to produce a green fluorescent protein.
“Using synthetic biology, we built something like an electrical circuit, but instead of wires we used pieces of DNA,” said Dr. Brian Ingalls, a professor of applied mathematics at Waterloo. “Each piece has its job. When assembled correctly, they form a system that works in a predictable way.”
Researchers now plan to combine the oxygen-tolerance gene with the quorum-sensing control system in a single bacterium and test it on tumors in preclinical trials.
Reference: “Construction and Functional Characterization of a Heterologous Quorum Sensing Circuit in Clostridium sporogenes” by Sara Sadr, Bahram Zargar, Marc G. Aucoin and Brian Ingalls, 8 December 2025, ACS Synthetic Biology.
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5c00628
The promising project grew out of work by PhD student Bahram Zargar, who was supervised by Ingalls and Dr. Pu Chen, a retired professor of chemical engineering at Waterloo.
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I did a video on a similar finding with bacteria found in frog guts on cancer: https://youtu.be/NYxA7NkigbY
Also I have a degree in cellular and molecular biology if anyone has questions...
So do you think this ligitimately has a chance at replacing chemo? Would things like cost, ease of growing cultures, transportation, storage etc prevent this?
What happens when the bacteria run out of cancer to eat?
Questions? Why the fuck is this not in every cancer center in the world?
W-O-W.
Legitimately expected this to be a rickroll. Cool! Can’t wait to watch in full.
Hope you enjoy it. I am just glad people are actually viewing it cause you would think a cancer cure would get more views. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or other topics you would like to see!
If I eat enough frogs will it cure my cancer?
They aren't eaten, their gut bacteria is injected intravenously like heroin.
See you all in 10 years when they announce this again and we, once again, get nowhere
there are always amazing breakthroughs in medical research but almost all of them we'll never see it reported anymore. so I wouldn't put any hope on this one either.
First there’s the getting through test phases before finally reach the public (even then it’s multiple stages and may not involve ppl till later)
Then there’s whether the government will approve such treatment
Finally, cost. Whose gonna pay, how much is it gonna be for the people
I understand that there’s a lot of hype-bait articles published around scientific breakthroughs and things. But cancer treatment has legitimately advanced an incredible amount over the last 20 years. It’s been incremental yes, but it also seems to be accelerating. So I think there’s actually a lot of room for optimism and excitement in this field (even if this particular breakthrough doesn’t go anywhere).
While it’s easy upvotes to post stuff like this while having no idea about what actually goes on, the reality is there’s a shit ton of testing and development that needs to be done to ensure human safety and proving it can actually treat the cancer effectively. Much less making sure the body doesn’t destroy the bacteria outright because it’s… bacteria.
There isn't ever going to be one solution to cancers but:
All cancers mortality rates have decreased by almost a quarter (23%) in the UK since the early 1970s, and rates have decreased by around a tenth (11%) in the last decade (2022-2024).
Research has chipped away at cancer mortality rates and will keep doing so.
First, this is amazing. Second, please think of efforts like this when you read a headline about government waste like “scientists spent $xxM teaching bacteria to fart peptides” looking to cut project funding. We’ve already likely caused irreparable harm to scientific progress benefiting all humanity, let’s not double down
Isn’t this how I am Legend starts?
Exactly. Oh gosh, plz let life be more mundane.
I mean, it's not great right now, a little bit of mutants might at least spice things up.
Good. Gimme
some of the people in r/welding suggested i post this here. weld was done by me.
Next time put a NSFW tag
Indeed, tré sex-ay.
TIG Biddies
Penetration this deep must be against the rules.
I know nothing about welding and I would be geeked to get this from a professional. Attaboy. Looks good.
thank you! i’m not going to lie, i actually failed a pre-employment weld test 3 years ago. i sent out a random app for a job that less pay than my current, but WAY closer to home so i figured why not. scored the interview, went to take the weld test and was told i couldn’t change any of the settings “you weld how we set them and don’t touch them”
i had never welded with anything even remotely close to how slow that spool was turning. i just couldn’t get it right, and in the end i didn’t get the job. i must say im actually glad i didn’t get that job, i probably wouldn’t have opened a maintenance contracting company if i had gotten that job.
Failing is not what matters, it's whether we learn from failure and strive to improve. - probably just some kind of platitude, but it really does hold true here.
Very well done.
That’s the best weld I have ever seen.
pretty sure there's no mens rea
Intent is hard to prove when they’re this small… but the destruction speaks for itself!
The destruction squeaks for itself!
Only ‘urea’
They're innocent!!
Ohhhh, I see… so you must be their lawyer, defending the tiny ringleaders of chaos! 😹⚖️
Exactly. I move to dismiss these accusations or we will sue for a boatload of snacks!
Here can only be one ringleader....and it's definitely the orange one.
Ginger kitten is having s great time
Yeah, look at him go! That little ginger ringleader has the whole crew under his paw. 🍊👑😹
Just wants to play, doesn't care the location
I’m loving the combo of attack & play, plus general flopping around, and in the end rubbing our cheek against the litter.
Standup orange behavior, truly.
I love how the others are all focused on escape, meanwhile in a signature orange cat fashion, lil doofus here is just like "Hey lets play!!! GUYS! Let's play! I'm biting your taaail! Oh woah did you see they have a litter box in here?! Guys? Guys? Wanna play? What are we doing? I'm biting butts!!"
Criminals! 🤣
Repeat offenders, no remorse, highly dangerous!
I'm part of the kitten innocence project and I see no evidence of this supposed crime. I will have every news station and protestors a hundred deep if they aren't freed!
News stations, protestors, court hearings… all in favor of immediate release say "aye"! 😼✊😹
Look at her nose!! I like how cute these little kittens nose look like
Isn’t she just precious? 🥹🤭
I saw your profile and Daisy looks super cute . How old is she
Little nosey 💕
Hahaha 😝 it is cute
Boop!🐱 love her
Ohhhh so cuteee
Omg! This is just too adorable. It has completely melted my heart!
Your new BOSS!!!🥰
Oh, yeah and I already have another girl that supervises everything I do! 🙄
Has Iran agreed to actually open the strait?
nope but TACO agreed to a ceasefire lol
Lol, no. But I'm having 🐔 TACOs.
Good for you. Those look amazing.
Why are you capitalizing the “t”? I feel like a smaller t is more appropriate here.
Doesn't matter, Trumps bluster shows he's all hot air. Why should they take him seriously?
yes they did. 2 weeks. strait will be open.
Wow this is the most Taco Tuesday of all time
The plate says 3 tacos for $14.99
3 tacos and a beer for $12.
That's what taco go for in my neck of the woods.
Woo! I had flautas today.
We're getting taco shells from the grocery store And ground beef from the grocery store (Ha) And shredded cheese from the grocery store And Ortega sauce from the grocery store
🎶White people taco night🎶
Thank fuck. Share the ingredients cause ima just drinking til I feel better. Hah
Thank goodness he’s protected from the fire by the… asbestos.
Edit: Just wanted to confirm that he didn’t die at a young age and was glad to find that he did not. Good on ya Tom.
Asbestos is actually a wonderful material, unless you're a living thing... but it does take a lot of exposure to fuck you up.
Legend has it that Charlemagne had an asbestos tablecloth and after dinner he would impress guests by throwing it into the fire to clean it. On an unrelated note he died of a lung condition called pleurisy.
Firefighters still have asbestos in their protective gear. It is about as hard to burn as anything that isnt solid metal, so it has its uses. Where people end up getting killed by asbestos is from mining it or breaking it down and breathing it in, like if you rip out old insulation from a house.
Should we use it all the time everywhere? Hell no. Does it make sense to use it in some circumstances? Hell yes
They did asbestos they could
🥇
While it bears much less of a resemblance to the short story, and can feel a bit talky in parts, the slow burn is really effective.
One of my favorite quiet scenes is when Dr. Carrington brings the other scientists in to see the little Things he's growing in his lab. He asks one of the doctor's if he'd like to listen to them with a stethoscope. After listening, the other doctor slowly turns away from the camera and Dr. Carrington asks him to describe the sound. The doctor says: "It's like the wail of a newborn child that's hungry."
CHILLS!
While it bears much less of a resemblance to the short story, and can feel a bit talky in parts, the slow burn is really effective.
That the Carpenter film is better than this film is more because of how fucking awesome the Carpenter film is, not any judgment on this film.
Well said. For years I just assumed it was remade because the original wasn’t any good but it’s really well made and holds up. There were some surprisingly progressive ideas in it too.
I won't say it's better because it's not trying to be the same kind of story. I love, Love, LOVE Carpenter's version, but I also love, Love, LOVE this version as well.
My favorite was always “close the door!”
Cool stunts for sure, but watch it for the machine-gun, crisp dialogue. Love this movie.
So good. The tracker with the bright blinking light added a ton of suspense.
I wonder if it helped inspire the motion tracker from Alien.
Agreed. The script was deliberately written for several characters to be speaking excitedly at the same time. Try that these dumbed down days when a camera pans down the line from person to person.
Yeah! It's very much a proto-Altman movie with people talking over each other in a way that real people do all the time, but you almost never see in movies.
Fun fact; This stunt is referenced in basically every "The Thing" property made after this, including John Carpenter's legendary movie!
The sound of the screams as well.
This movie is far scarier than it has any right to be.
My parents became friends with the director of this movie, Howard Hawks. He was retired and in his 70's by then and I was kind of afraid of him - he was gruff and kind of a curmudgeon by then. It was pretty cool to look around his house at his many awards and mementos though!
The glow-up is REAL😭: from “please love me” to “this is my house now” 🐶
My two little ones are so confident and happy now. Love is all they want, and they give so much back.
cute
super cute. so happy it worked out for you
What a beautiful story ☀️
We are so stacked that if everyone was healthy, we could be 2 teams
Dodgers Team A vs Team B would be a game I'd pay extra to watch
2026 World Series matchup confirmed. Dodgers vs Dodgers
He was a gold glover at SS and 2B in the KBO.
yeah we know the glove is amazing, Dodgers just been waiting for his ABs to be consistent but he's showing improvement there too
Sir, his abs are fine
He must behaving an I got nothing to lose mindset because he knows he’s gunna be sent back down.
Awesome throw he’s really been showing up at every opportunity.
That was an unbelievable move
Why did it look so intentional?! Like he knew the goalie would come all the way out and that his pass was just going to make it through all those Panther players he just blew past to one of his teammates, who were behind all those Panther players?! That’s stupid!
When will EA patch these obvious glitches
If you had ANY doubt, you haven't watched a lot of Habs games this season!
COLE FUCKIN CAUFIELD
The last few weeks calmed me into a false sense of security. The last three games have snapped me back to reality.
Suzuki looks absolutely disgusted by Hutson's move 😂
... Ok that was kinda nutty
Was that Sami Zayn in the crowd??
Sami and KO are pretty much fixtures of the Bell Centre
That is a lil cutie, and she will make a great companion!
Thanks... She is Tiny but full of personality already😹
You are going to make quite the duo, I can tell!
Such an expressive face.
Hello cosmo. My cosmo says hi
Wow seems like cosmo's adult version
OMG, Cosmo is absolutely precious! 😍 It looks like there are stars in its eyes.
Yesss the sparkling ones..the moment I reached out to her, she came running straight to me with those little eyes....like she already knew me😫♥️
Lookin guilty!
Bcz she knows she is a little trouble maker....running all over the house like a boss
So pretty 🥰
Yessss
He has human eyes and it's freaking me out.
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Another glorious day for mice.
News for mice
We have cured every known disease known to mouse.
Wait till it mutates to not only eat tumors
That's when they inject bacteria that's designed to eat the tumor eating bacteria.
antibiotics
There was an old woman who swallowed some bacteria, to eat the bacteria, to eat the bacteria, to eat the bacteria, to eat the bacteria...
"No, that's the beautiful part. When winter time rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."
That’s why the mrna approach to cancer is superior and already saving lives right now.
Nuke it with antibiotics if that happens? I'm no biologist but even if it has a preference to tumor cells, it sounds useful because it would take out more tumor cells than healthy ones.
I think the real problem is that the immune system might take one look at the bacteria and decide it's a pathogen worth destroying.
That's still potentially good as more than likely bringing immune cells to the area damages the tumour too given how "rip and tear" the system is usually.
“Welcome to Umbrella Corp!”
Yay another breakthrough that will never see the light of day :D
We spent decades bombing tumors with radiation and chemo…… turns out the real play was sending in bacteria that treat cancer like an all-you-can-eat buffet.
I've lost count of how many articles I've read in my life about "scientists find cure for cancer that has 95% effectiveness!" Only to never hear about it ever again.
Try writing it down and setting a reminder to email the researchers in 5 years.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1217/
You don't hear about because there's usually a catch you don't see. Often times these treatments have serious negative effects or issues with delivery or only effect a very small subset of a subset of cancers making it effectively useless.
Sometimes though, they do work, just often less you first read about. After which they go into clinical testing which can take years in a best case to decades. At the end point, it's just a treatment option on a shelf somewhere.
I was cynical too about revolutionary scientific discovery because, well, they did not exactly materialize in reality.
Until 5 years ago, in october 2021, when my 61 years-old mother developed a stage 4 triple-negative breast cancer. The cancer was incredibly fast, and had metastasized to her lungs and some of her bones, including her backbone.
Her oncologist made a grim prognostic: she would be dead before Christmas.
Our only hope was taking part in a trial research on immunotherapy. My mother being who she is decided to jump in, if not to save her life, but to dedicate what was left of her life to science.
Well in her incredible bad luck, she stumbled into a bit of good luck: of the different phases of the trials (8 in total), she got the only one that actually worked.
The trial worked and what was experimental became available to more and more types of cancer.
My mother was able to receive treatment until she had an auto-immune reaction in 2024 that lead to the end of her immunotherapy sessions, which she received every three weeks.
Despite almost two years passing by since, it appears her cancer has not progressed. I just had brunch with her and my family last monday.
I do not know what the future holds, but at the very least, I owe to research and breakthrough discoveries the last five years of moments I got to spend with my mother.
I am not a religious person, on the contrary. Science saved my mother. But I have never felt closer to experiencing a small miracle.
The more I learn about the impact of every discoveries, whether a treatment works or it does not, the more I understand how it saves lives, and how it could have saved lives of people who died 10 years ago of a type of cancer that is now treatable with a large degree of success.
If only a tenth of a percent of breakthrough researches produce results, then every research is justified, necessary and useful. Because every failure rapproches us to success. Because it saves lives and we are never more human than when ww aspire to save or help other people’s lives. Because it allowed me to hug my mother everytime I saw her the last five years.
Not until they can patent it and make it expensive af
Sadly 8 years too late 😞
If this is in reference to a lost loved one, I'm sorry for your loss.
Brought to you by Umbrella Corporation
Reminder that bleach kills cancer in a lab. The trick is safely getting it into the body and only the desired area.
These breakthroughs are great and important, and eventually, one of them is going to be the one, but there's a reason you read 3 or 4 of these headlines a year.
Let's dial back the humor by 15%
Knock knock
Hello.
TARS take the yappin down 20%
Should have had it walk up and start looking at itself better in the mirror.
Can we please ask for the AI companies to stop with the “uh, hm” on every model?
I know it humanizes them and gives them time to think but it’s so grating, can you directly ask for them to stop that? (Just realized I never actually tried to ask them to NOT do that)
Where do you think they got the idea? TARS from Interstellar over a decade ago. ... and the associated jokes
Interstellar did NOT come out over a decade ago, it just came out in...oh. Oh no.
I should honestly rewatch interstellar…
I will vouch for the anecdotal evidence
Very analytical of you
I think its 10 out of 9 professionals
Lesbians and straight women approved.
12 out of 9 now approve
actually no professionals needed in this study
Sir Mix A Lot was ahead of the curve
Forget big butts. It's tight butts all the way for me.
I grew up in the right era. And they definitely relive my stress and lift my spirits.
You and I were born in the wrong era. Back in the 70s 80s and 90s, tight butts were the thing.
theme music for the study
Boobs too
Boobs are magical little stress balls too
Some aren’t even little!
Umm so is this an ongoing study? Would like to participate
She's gonna fall in love with a K-Drama actor, and that's how both Koreas are gonna reunify.
Calling it, right now! Save this comment.
!remindme 10 years
!remindme 18 years
Imagine having Kim Kong Un as your father in law
You can bond over a playstation and basketball
!remindme 8years
OP has never been married
Lmfoaos
Ive been married for 6 years....
COVID marriage, you've already done a life sentence since the nuptials
He is talking about OOP. You just stole someone else’s stolen post.
For every dollar a male authoritarian dictator gets, the women only get .75 cents.
Some of the worst authoritarian dictators have been women.
Wu Zetian, Catherine the Great, Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary), Queen Ranavalona, Isabella of Castile…
I mean, it goes both sides. Doesn’t matter. Either can be a sadistic fuck
Her name sounds like a dish at a Korean restaurant.
Yes that's Kim ju ai with snow peas and two egg rolls
Funny enough some dishes are named as revenge or angry against people or professions, but ending up being delicious and keeping the name centuries even losing the meaning yet still being popular specially in bakery but also restaurants.
Like imambayildi? I still can't get over how funny it translates.
Love not stressing going into the 9th with only a 3 run lead.
It IS a very un-Dodger like feeling 😝
I can get used to it😌
Dodgers fans will have low blood pressure this year
I’m always stressed lol. Especially with runners on base and tying or winning run at the plate lol
THE UNTUCK OF VICTORY!!!
Dodgers additions this season of Tucker and the Untucker.
Dunno if I've seen a crowd behind the plate so defeated looking. None of them even start to get up after the last out. Jays are in a bad way right now
Seen it on Nov 1st last year
lol fair assumption. The camera panned away from the crowd to follow the play, but I have to think some of them might've like thrown a hat in frustration or something that night. This just looks like the acceptance stage of grief
They’re a great club and a great fan base!
Let’s not forget — one different bounce last year and this scenario could be flipped on its head.
Your honor,
I sentence you to 3 months of benefactory home invasions.
Well why the fuck is she getting arrested?? She did a good deed
She did a horrible job at cleaning the dishes
She didn't flush the toilet.
Didn’t make the sammich
she left the toilet seat up, the owner’s wife got offended
she what
Now their pet don’t let them pet it
Maybe she was just tired of being homeless and wanted to sample someone else's if only for a moment
I would bail her 💯
Wife material, il do the dishes no problem, but dogs deserve more love
I don't wanna fix her
Chris Taylor has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, NBC News projects, expanding liberals’ majority in the key battleground state.
Taylor, a state appeals court judge and former Democratic state legislator, secured a 10-year term on the court over conservative Maria Lazar, an appeals court judge who worked in Republican former Gov. Scott Walker’s administration.
Taylor’s victory in the race for retiring Justice Rebecca Bradley’s seat means liberals will have a 5-2 edge on the swing state’s highest court, putting the majority out of reach for conservatives until at least 2030.
Liberal candidates have won four straight Wisconsin Supreme Court elections, as well as five of the last six. And dating to 2017, Democratic and Democratic-aligned candidates have won 19 of the last 24 statewide races in Wisconsin.
Taylor, who was backed by the state Democratic Party, held massive fundraising and ad spending advantages over Lazar throughout the race. She had put abortion and voting rights at the forefront of her campaign, much like other winning liberal Supreme Court candidates in the state in recent years. Taylor, a former policy director for the state's Planned Parenthood group, also leaned into messaging that targeted President Donald Trump, which has helped turn out Democratic voters in non-presidential elections in Wisconsin and nationally.
This year’s race was far quieter and less expensive than the last two Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin.
In 2023, liberals won a majority on the court for the first time in 15 years. And last year, they maintained that majority after the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history, into which tech billionaire Elon Musk poured millions of dollars for the conservative candidate. But without a court majority on the line this year, fundraising and enthusiasm were lower across the board.
In the 2025 race, groups and candidates spent $85 million on ads, according to the tracking firm AdImpact. This year's race drew $6.5 million in spending on the airwaves, with $4.7 million in support of Taylor and more than $1 million opposing Lazar.
The impact of a liberal majority has already been felt over the past several years in Wisconsin. The court overturned the state’s legislative maps, which heavily favored Republicans, resulting in new district lines' going into effect in 2024. Democrats have their sights set on flipping at least one legislative chamber for the first time in 16 years this fall.
Democrats also hope lawsuits over Wisconsin’s congressional map will make their way before the state Supreme Court. Republicans control six of the state’s eight House seats. They are also eyeing action on the court that could scale back or overturn a raft of other conservative legislation from previous GOP administrations, including a law that eliminated most collective bargaining rights for public workers.
And last year, the court ruled 4-3 to formally strike down a near-total abortion ban from 1849 that had gone into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Liberals will have yet another opportunity to expand their Wisconsin Supreme Court majority next year, with conservative Justice Annette Ziegler declining to run for a third term. After 2027, three other justices are also set to face re-election for 10-year terms from 2028 to 2030.
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Let’s keep this going for HONG later this year!!
Bunch of loose thugs with federal immunity. What a sham of a country we’ve become.
They don't have immunity they'll find that out after trumplethinskin is gone.
At least for any federal charges, I fully expect the Mango Mussolini to pardon everyone he possibly can before he leaves office. States will have to all file every state charge they can, against anyone in the administration, or that performed illegal actions.
Being lead by a wannabe thug president pedo
J6ers
Could've been the same guy. Who fucking knows anymore.
Wow it’s pretty clear they haven’t learned shit
ICE are at their core a bunch of violent, Nazi thugs. This is true even when Democrats are in office. And we should expect this type of behavior to continue until someone dismantled the entire agency and shoves these fuckfaces in prison alongside Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem.
Oh, they have
They learned they can get away with it just fine
They learned.
Jonathan Ross, the murderer of Renee Good won't face any charges. They learned it's open season on unarmed civilians.
WE haven't learned shit.
Make sure the MURDERER isn't taken into protective custody like Pretti's murderer.
The time is nigh
I live close to this. What a trip.
Nobody is coming to save you either, you've been hoisted by your own petard.
Erik Karlsson is literally in the shot too helping
More chairs too, which if Sunday School taught me anything is that Karlsson is getting into heaven sooner
lol wtf I just had a flashback to youth group moving chairs. Why did we do that
"Sid, your such a great guy! I can't believe you'd take time out of your busy schedule to help clean up! Truly one of a kind!"
"Um, I'm here helping too. You know, Erik Karlsson? On defense?"
"That's nice Aaron, but I'm talking to Sid right now."
Deux Légendes
Nah. That's also Sidney Crosby.
Imagine if he had the work ethic of Jonathan Drouin
An older meme sir but it checks out
What is this referencing?
Erik Karlsson is right there
literally don't make them like him anymore though.
except that other dude that already has like 6 chairs he's pushing.
I heard he also tied a kid’s shoe and plunged two toilets. Absolute legend.
Elder abuse.
SO IS KARL
Like a hot knife through butter
Like poop through a diarrhea infected goose
Average McDavid moment
That would be a career highlight for a lot of guys, I'm not sure it would crack McDavid's top 50.
There's probably a 10 minute highlight video somewhere of McDavid doing this over and over.
If I did that in EA NHL I’d save it and post on my Facebook wall that hasn’t had a post in 15 years
This is why I love turning on Oilers games. Occasionally I'll just get to watch McDavid do some crazy shit out of nowhere
Kinda like me randomly turning on a Pittsburgh game and watching Crosby and Malkin hit elite milestones (and the most ethical hat trick)
Legends.
There's for sure someone in that Utah crowd who is watching their first hockey game and wondering if that's normal.
I remember last year when I first started to get obsessed with hockey, I texted my friend that’s a hardcore hockey fan and is like “idk who 97 is, but this guy moves so differently than anyone else on the ice” my friend just replied “that’s McDavid, he does”
Why don’t all the players just go that fast?
This looked like how people describe 80s highlights of Lemieux. “Everyone was just standing there, what did the goalie even do?”
The goalie passed it to Bouch, who passed it to McDavid.
Oh, you mean the Utah goalie. Yeah, he froze.
Two minutes for terrorizing your opponent.
Extend him already
Oh I’m extended
Yeah..he extended me too!
Just came here to say FUCK GEORGE SPRINGER.
I’M WITH YOU, BROTHER!
If I could upvote this 150 billion times I would.
That's my cocaine bear!!!
Big sigh of relief for Yoshi
God damn he is so unlikeable even transportation infrastructures are like “fuck this guy”
That bridge knows whats up
I'm proud of you, Lafayette!
I’d just like to add: fuck trump.
So brave!
No way.....
So lame we knew this back in November
that is seriously insane....
The dream was still alive then.
The last ~10 games, yeah it was over.
You don't say
I am shocked
I’d say we’re beating a dead horse, but the horse should never die.
1-8 Seeding PLEASE
It sucks that one of these teams is going out first round.
1 - 8 was so much better when the elite teams got cannon fodder as a reward for an excellent season, and every few years you had a shocking upset
The good news is it’ll probably be a highly watched series, which means the GDTs will probably be lit af.
GDTs will probably be lit af.
toxic* af
i am in a DORM with no kitchen directly in my dorm so i understand it didn’t look the best. but it tastes amazing. like nutella and marshmallow mix.
girl you're eating insulation
hope it really is tasty haha
I was going to say cat food, but this is accurate too
it literally looks like my cats gravy😭😭
This whole thread is HILARIOUS!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
what?
They’re saying it looks like the insulation you find behind walls in houses
Damn son
is that a good or a bad damn son lol
A good one lol
I don’t care what it looks like. If it tastes good, that’s all I care about.
I love how I just know this shit is hittin!! lol
it was so so rich. too rich for me to take more than a few bites of but i personally don’t love super chocolatey things. next is keylime pie!
posting the recipe bc i think the comment was removed. https://cookiesandcups.com/no-bake-nutella-cheesecake/
Sounds amazing! I never made anything in a dorm so you beat me! Nice job! 😊
we have a full kitchen three floors down from me but this is so so much easier to just do no bake. in our dorm room we have a kitchen counter with a fridge
I feel like prison recipes would work great in a dorm lol
as a college student, I am gonna give this a go!
yes!! super easy! i combined cream cheese, cool whip that chilled in the fridge overnight, a jar of nutella, and just a cup of powdered sugar. i didn’t buy a second stick of cream cheese but the recipe called for it (didn’t see it said that) so definitely use the second stick and lmk how it goes
and then covered and chilled in the fridge for four-five hours. recipe calls for four but i had other things to do
The updated V2 design for an 18-node Ryzen 9 9950X cluster in Kyoto, Japan, incorporates extensive community feedback, resulting in a more refined and robust architecture. Key elements like the 18-node count, 40G networking, and 48V DC microgrid powered by solar and grid charging remain central. However, the physical housing transitioned from a freestanding aluminum rack to a custom wooden chassis integrated into an existing coat closet, leveraging its natural "cold aisle" and "hot aisle" properties but necessitating a bespoke, narrow design.
Significant changes were made to power routing and thermal management. The complex 200V AC to 48V DC conversion now uses a MEAN WELL RSP-2000-48, prioritized after solar and battery power. Crucially, the 48V to 12V ATX step-down is managed by custom-built 60V HDPLEX DC-ATX units, developed specifically for this project after direct consultation with HDPLEX.
Thermal concerns, a major point of feedback, led to a complete redesign. The system now features strict front-to-back airflow with a bank of Noctua industrial fans and custom-bent metal shrouds to force air efficiently over CPUs and NICs, with all 9950Xs in ECO mode. Electrical safety for the high-power 48V busbars was improved by physically separating positive and negative rails with insulators and covering them with polycarbonate.
The builder explicitly addressed common criticisms: justifying the choice of 18 Ryzen nodes over an EPYC server by highlighting superior clockspeeds for burst workloads, a cost-per-core of approximately $470 per CPU, proven three-year stability of a previous DIY cluster, and the benefits of modular maintenance. The project's scale is driven by the desire for a massive 288-core private compute cluster for architectural experimentation without incurring prohibitive cloud costs, supplementing an existing web service.
The builder also clarified reliance on AI for English communication, providing personal proof of being a human. Procurement for Phase 1 (first 6 nodes) is underway, with a full 18-node expansion planned upon successful testing.
"I want a massive, private, blank-canvas compute cluster (with 288 cores!) at home to experiment with new architectures and ideas without worrying about insane AWS bills."
Hey r/homelab!
Last time, I shared my insane plan to build an 18-node Ryzen cluster right here in Kyoto. I got a TON of amazing feedback from you guys... right up until my post got deleted. (More on that later lol).
But seriously, your comments were incredibly helpful. I went back to the drawing board, scrapped a lot of bad ideas, and completely redesigned the architecture based on your advice.
Here is the updated V2 design! Let me walk you through what stayed the same, what changed, and address some of the biggest concerns you guys had.
(Link to the original deleted post in case you missed it): https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1s0omi5/scaling_my_homelab_designing_an_18node_ryzen/
18x Ryzen 9 9950X nodes
40G networking (Mellanox NICs -> Xikestor switches)
48V DC Microgrid: Solar panels + 200V Grid charging a massive battery bank, feeding pure 48V DC directly to the motherboards.
The goal is still to build a highly power-efficient, deeply customized cluster without relying on expensive enterprise pre-builts.
My original plan was a freestanding bare-metal aluminum rack. But then I looked around my house and realized I have a perfectly good, unused coat closet. It’s perfectly situated: the front doors open into my study (which is strictly temperature-controlled/air-conditioned = Cold Aisle). The back opens into a staircase void that acts as a natural chimney moving heat to the upper floors = Hot Aisle. The only catch? The closet is only 435mm (17.1 inches) wide. Standard 19-inch racks literally won't fit. So, full custom DIY wood/metal chassis it is!
Originally, I planned on using Victron MultiPlus-II grid-tie inverters, but getting JP 200V certified models was a nightmare. Instead, I pivoted to a MEAN WELL RSP-2000-48 to handle the 200V AC > 48V DC conversion. The logic is now pure voltage-based control: Solar gets priority (53V+). If the sun goes down, it draws from the battery. If the battery drops below a threshold, the MEAN WELL kicks in and pulls from the grid.
To step down 48V to 12V ATX for the motherboards, I planned to use HDPLEX 500W DC-ATX units. But a redditor pointed out: "Hey, those HDPLEX units only accept up to 50V max!" Panic mode. I emailed Larry at HDPLEX directly. He replied immediately and said, "Yeah, max 50V. But we are actually developing a new 60V version." I explained my crazy 18-node solar cluster project and asked if I could somehow buy a custom 60V batch. He literally said "Sure" and custom-built 6 units for me in 3 weeks. Larry, if you are reading this, YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND. Thank you!!
Yeah... you guys were 100% right. My previous "chimney effect" design with two weak fans at the very top would have absolutely cooked the top nodes. I entirely scrapped that. The new design is a strict Front-to-Back datacenter-style airflow. The intake is passive from the Cold Aisle, and the exhaust is handled by a massive wall of Noctua NF-A14 industrialPPC-2000 PWM fans (3 per tier, controlled by fan hubs). To prevent "short-circuit" airflow, I modified the metal motherboard baseplates (with custom bending) to act as physical air shrouds/baffles (you can see this in the CAD). This forces the high-velocity air strictly through the CPU and 40G NICs instead of bypassing them. I'm also planning to run all 18 of the 9950Xs in ECO mode to keep the fan noise survivable.
Again, fair point. Dropping a screwdriver across two massive copper bars carrying thousands of watts would be a bad day. To fix this, I completely separated the positive and negative busbars, mounting them onto the far opposite side walls of the wooden rack using 20mm insulators. I'm also adding polycarbonate covers over them to prevent accidental contact. It's much, much safer now.
I got this comment a lot. And logically, you are right. But here is my justification for using 18 modular Ryzen nodes instead of a monolithic dual-socket EPYC setup:
Clockspeed: For bursty workloads, consumer/gaming CPUs have significantly higher clock speeds and single-thread performance.
Cost: I'm sourcing these 9950Xs on Aliexpress for around $470 USD (71k JPY) each. The cost-per-core ratio is completely unbeatable at this price point.
Stability: I've actually been running a similar 8-node DIY cluster for 3 years. I originally accepted that I'd sacrifice stability for cost, but surprisingly, they haven't crashed in 3 years. It's proving more robust than expected.
Maintenance: It's insanely modular. I can hot-swap, repair, or upgrade a single node without taking down the entire cluster.
The real reason: Because building this is fun as hell.
I also got asked this a lot. Currently, I run a hybrid Cloud + On-Premise architecture for a web service that already has active users (running on my existing 8-node cluster).
While I could definitely use this new 18-node cluster as a massive capacity expansion for that existing service, the truth is I have an entirely new system concept in mind. I want a massive, private, blank-canvas compute cluster (with 288 cores!) at home to experiment with new architectures and ideas without worrying about insane AWS bills.
This is probably why my last post was reported and deleted. I'll be honest: I live in Japan, and my written English is not great. I rely heavily on AI to translate my thoughts, read your comments, and draft replies. That's why my last post probably sounded weirdly robotic, overly polite, or verbose.
But I promise you, I am a real human being. As proof, I have attached a picture of my actual human feet next to the first batch of PC parts arriving lol.
We don't really have a deep, hardcore homelab community like this in Japan. r/homelab is my main source of global knowledge, and I genuinely wanted to share my vision with you guys and get your expert sanity checks. So I really, really appreciate all the advice you gave me.
The design is finalized enough that I'm pulling the trigger on procurement. Phase 1 is building and testing the first 6 nodes. The PC parts for those 6 are already here, and the solar/power gear is arriving now. If Phase 1 works without catching fire, I'll expand to the full 18 nodes.
Before I send the CAD files to the CNC shop in China to cut the metal baseplates and wood... are there any glaring issues I missed in this V2 design?
Thanks as always!
“I am a real human.” Just what an AI bot would say!
"foot for proof"
Happy cake day
Something about 'in Japan' and 'Larry hooked me up' doesn't sound right.
I mean AI can generate feet pics, don't ask me how I know.
Bro?
We already know.
About your point:
For bursty workloads, consumer/gaming CPUs have significantly higher clock speeds and single-thread performance.
Many Tier 2/3 VPS hosts (including my business) use Ryzen CPUs in VPS nodes for this reason: higher single-thread performance.
Although my homelab uses two Minisforum MS-01s (i9-13900H) and one MS-R1 (CIX CP8180), and my desktop uses a 285K (I don't game, so Intel performs better here).
As a IT professional: you don't know what you are doing. As a former industrial electrician / panel builder: You don't know what you are doing but with a fire hazard for a bonus.
If you really think a proper DC distribution is just slapping a couple of busbars on a rack and hooking them up to bunch of batteries... This is one of those things where you have to have actual experience to even realize in how many ways this can go wrong.
Here's a question: What's the maximum fault current on your inverters and battery bank? I'll wait while you look that up. Then you tell me what you need to properly secure that so it doesn't go up in smoke. And I'm not familiar with the electrical code in Japan but I'm sure the insurance company is going to love this when they find out why the place burned down.
Working with many of those components in the past, if it happens to run safely it is going to run hot. Points for creativity but thermals and potential fire hazards cannot be easily dismissed for this project.
The top issue I see is electrical supply to this cluster.
Still dangerously low cooling, still dangerous power concept, still....
18 x let say only 100W each, will be 1800 with max only CPUs dann be around 230W each. What would be around 4140W. Additional there is 40G cards, the Fans, the disks, the ram the......
So this is a huge huge huge risky project on the electrical side. But more is the cooling solution doomed to fail. Even in a optimized Front to back airflow Design, the big limitation is the air pressure by fins and speed. And cooling 1000W or 4000W is a huge difference. But alone 1000W is quite a thing to keep cool
I suggest you following.
Get 2 or maybe 3 heater with each around 1500W, put them inside the closet, Perforated sheet metal plate in Front for simulation of Mainboards fins and other stuff. Set you Fans infront in the planned distance. And start heating with 1500W. And try cooling.
Or instead heater can use peltier elements connected to your heatsink and test them directly
40G networking (Mellanox NICs -> Xikestor switches)
Any particular reason on why you're going with 40G instead of 56G when the latter can likely be done on the same hardware with firmware/software modifications?
I just looked it up—I actually didn't know you could flash the Mellanox firmware to get 56G! Thanks for letting me know. That is definitely an interesting capability for future expandability.
However, since I already bought the Xikestor 40G switch, I will probably be sticking to the 40G speed for now at least!
What nic are you using? Cx4-Lx are extremely cost effective for 100G.
I’d say that 100G is the most cost-effective option, especially if one were to switch to Infiniband
Didn’t they hire a bunch of H1-Bs to replace the workers they laid off?
That they did.
Sure glad the president's closest corporate lackey is Hiring AMERICA FIRST!
They’ve had layoffs globally for a while haven’t they? Doesn’t make sense to hire H1-Bs that would be cheaper to keep in their own country. No, this is something else, maybe layoffs in anticipation of AI benefits and past overhiring
no see, they can just deport the workers when they're done with them.
Not true. They filed for their h1b before the layoff. Don’t mean that they hired after the layoff. Big difference!
Spent all that payroll to purchase the Trump Network, formerly known as CBS.
Didn't they buy all of Paramount? That's why everything on that channel is blatant oil propaganda made by that Sheridan man.
I was laid off last May due to tariffs. Took me 6 months to find a job. Took a pay cut.
Insanely horrible market.
I got laid off last week and this is my nightmare.
Taking a pay cut is your nightmare?
Idk what to tell ya with that one.
What sector?
Gotta afford the data center they lost to Iran.
Oracle is laying off 20,000-30,000 employees worldwide: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/04/06/oracles-massive-30000-layoff-as-ai-spending-surges/
This is a 5 alarm fire. We should ALL be making an absolute ruckus about this! Is AI going to do anything for YOU?
Trump and Elon love replacing American employees with H1-Bs, wonder why they’re so quiet about that
swiss roll recipe: https://preppykitchen.com/swiss-roll/ just swap the cocoa powder for a 1/2 of mashed strawberries and add an extra 1/2 flour
cream cheese frosting: https://sugarspunrun.com/cream-cheese-frosting/ with pink food colouring added
brownie recipe: https://www.reddit.com/r/Baking/s/A34gDssSBg with oreos added
Wait, are these THE BROWNIES?
i love the roll cake! the piping is so interesting and fun to look at
It reminds me of the Madonna inn in San Luis Obispo
Can I be your friend? 😆 those look amazing
I demand a serving pretty please
Both of these look absolutely DELICIOUS and so beautiful. Wowowowowowwowowowow I wanna make them right now!
still looking for a friend? lol that looks yummy 🤤
Okay Kyle Tucker is very good. Dude is always a part of the rallies and just playing good ball. Hustles, great at-bats, good defense, solid af.
Came here to say the same. Been productive in all aspects. So many RBIs. Loving this signing
We’re just learning Kyle Tucker is good? Dudes been good for a long time lol
I think it’s less to do with learning how good he is and appreciating what he brings to the team every day. Anyone can watch highlights, but a base hit doesn’t often make the highlights but can win you games
I know he’s good but I don’t keep up with the Astros and cubs. Seeing the .266 average and being the only high value available free agent outfielder, I thought maybe he was just more attention because of the free agent situation. Seeing him day in and out you understand his value.
What track star
Crazy that are two utility guys are this fucking fast. Would love to see Freeland and Kim race each other to see who is the fastest around the bases.
Freeland is sneaky with it. Kind of like Muncy.
I am naming my first born daughter Kyle.
Maybe Kylie or Kyla
Kyucker! 🤔
She can play with my sons Andrew and Friedman
Doomers in the game thread be shitting on Tuck all game and then he does this.
Some of y'all need to calm down.
Sho didn't hit any homers, so I'm sure he's washed and we're wasting his roster spot, amairait /s
his numbers ain’t look great so far but watching the game he’s taking great ABs been clutch as hell and makes all the plays in RF that no other outfielder in the roaster other than pages would make
I can't believe some dumb fans think he's the next Conforto.
Shitty sickly looking yellow/gold aside, it's just so visually cluttered.
I do, however, like the idea of so many former presidents looking at him. Judging him.
To a reasonable person, it would be a humbling environment.
They should sneak say that portrait of the Vampire Lestat from Interview with the vampire in amongst all of those paintings just to see if Trump would notice. I can picture him telling visitors it’s Madison or something and just making shit up. 😂
And they literally used cheap plastic tchotchkes from fucking Home Depot lol
"Imagine running the free world and still decorating like a broke mobster’s wife in Jersey" This comment nailed it
Wild that Trump would carve the words Resolute Desk right on top there.
That's a label so he knows what it is.
Isn't it a gang tattoo?
There's probably a load of Sharpie stains from where they've bled through the paper.
You may have noticed the two inner doors built into the wall have virtually disappeared behind the large, framed mirrors placed on them. I can't understand the purpose, unless they're two-way mirrors. But even then, why so large? With all the daily traffic through there, you'd think someone would keep knocking them off when closing them.
What daily traffic?
He tends to use the garden door, has little interest in briefings and spends more of his time in Mar a Largo golfing.
However there clearly wasn’t much thought put into the design. It’s just a mess. He won’t care if the staff find it awkward, he probably thinks it’s an advantage to him to make things harder for others entering.
Looks like Liberace moved in
Cuz Trump thinks he's got the Midas touch
Fuckin' Mierdas touch more like
I want to see even more of Ohtani’s homers!
I mean the Yankees and Brewers are looking good, too.
It's really weird. It shows me that this post has been deleted and that the user has been deleted. But if I look at it in an incognito window, I can still see it and the OP. This means they blocked me because I can acknowledge there are other team worth watching in MLB.
And, oddly, the Pirates.
Yankees are hitting and pitching well, but they’re still playing “put the ball in play” defense it seems. Brewers are playing well all around though.
Yankees ,Brewers and Dodgers the only teams looking really good
Everyone else still figuring it out or entering the void .
Rockies are now somehow third in the division too
This is a true post lol. Facts
Enjoy the ride people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have Shohei they don’t
They don’t need him. never forget.
Toronto fans hitting rock bottom after losing the series against the Dodgers (plus getting swept by the white sox). FYI, I think Toronto spent the most in the postseason.
Hi all,
Recently my wife gave me a printer for my birthday, and it’s been incredible, I see this kind of tools as the democratization of manufacturing, something anyone can have in their own house. But I’ve just learned about a piece of legislation in California (AB 2047) that is moving fast, and it has implications that reach far beyond just hobbyists.
First, what is 3D printing? Think of it like a hot glue gun attached to a very precise robot arm. Instead of printing ink on flat paper, it "prints" thin layers of plastic or resin on top of each other to build a physical object. People use them to make everything from custom prosthetic limbs and car parts to toys, jewelry, and tools. It’s basically a mini-factory on your desk.
The Issue: Assembly Bill 2047 California is currently trying to pass a law that would require every 3D printer to have "firearm blocking technology." The goal is to stop people from printing guns. While that sounds like a straightforward safety measure, the way the law is written creates a massive problem for privacy and consumer freedom:
Mandatory Surveillance: To "block" a specific shape (like a gun part), a printer has to know exactly what you are making at all times. This would effectively turn your printer into a surveillance device that monitors your private designs. Because many of these parts are just simple shapes (like a cylinder or a spring), the software would constantly be "guessing" what you're doing.
The "Smart Device" Trap: If this passes, manufacturers will be forced to "lock down" their machines. You wouldn't truly own your printer anymore—you’d only be allowed to use "state-approved" software and firmware. This kills the open-source community that has made this technology affordable for the average person.
It Won't Stay in California: California is one of the world's largest economies. If manufacturers are forced to build "monitored" printers for California, they likely won't make a different version for the rest of the country. Your right to repair and modify your own tech will be stripped away nationwide.
Why Opposing AB 2047 is the Right Path: Regardless of how you feel about the 2nd Amendment, we should all be wary of the government mandating "blocking software" on general-purpose tools. It’s a slippery slope for consumer electronics. If we allow the state to mandate what a printer is "allowed" to make, what’s next for our computers, phones, or CNC machines?
How to help (Deadline is TODAY!): The hearing for this bill is on April 14th in Sacramento.
If you live in California, please take 5 minutes to submit a letter of opposition. Today, April 7th, is the deadline to have your letter included in the official committee analysis.
Go to the California Legislature Advocate Portal.
Search for AB 2047.
Select "Oppose" and upload a quick note (even a few sentences) about why you value tech privacy and consumer rights.
Let’s keep this technology open, private, and in the hands of the people.
This law has as much sanity as demanding that Linux age verifies its users.
There's an active attack on free computing that is underway. IMO - I feel like due to the US/UK being in such a sad state we're gonna be in it for decades.
Mandatory Surveillance: To "block" a specific shape (like a gun part), a printer has to know exactly what you are making at all times. This would effectively turn your printer into a surveillance device that monitors your private designs. Because many of these parts are just simple shapes (like a cylinder or a spring), the software would constantly be "guessing" what you're doing.
ChatGPT unfortunately doesn’t really comprehend the full scope of the problem here. The required technology is literally impossible to implement. If a printer must block gun parts, then it needs to know what a “gun part” is.
Which is one reason why the law would end up doing more harm than good.
If gun Don’t
Basically the average legislators understanding of the complexity here.
Alternately: If I don’t know what I’m identifying, do.
Submitted my opposition. Had been meaning to do this but had not realized the deadline was here. Thanks for making it easy to get to the right place.
“I sympathize with the intention, but as proposed this is not only ineffective but also goes against the very spirit of innovation that has made California what it is today. I have been operating 3D printers at home for 5 years. They are amazing tools and their usefulness will grow until they are both commonplace and essential. However, that innovation and growth will be stymied if this ill-conceived bill passes and 3D printers are effectively “locked down” for us law abiding citizens. In the meantime, criminals will have the resources to operate non-controlled printer to create whatever they want. It is counter to our individual freedom to have printer companies and the state monitoring everything we print and it is counter to innovation to have printers “locked” to only specific software. The relatively minor threat of 3D printed guns is not worth the restrictions this bill would impose and it will do little to nothing to address that threat.”
Is there an epidemic of 3d printed guns killing people in California?
Why not just buy a real gun which is undoubtedly more reliable and not really expensive?
We will never be able to stop custom modifications to weapons but almost 100% of firearm deaths in this country have to be from normal, otherwise legally produced guns right?
Sounds like a boogeyman
And as far as I know, you can't 3D print bullets
Seems like common sense to oppose.
If I have 2A rights don’t I have a right to make my own to defend against facism? Why would CA oppose this?
...and it's AN ABSOLUTE BANGER. My only regret is not watching it sooner
Holy hell, there's so much. To start, the shootout scenes were impeccable pieces of live wire filmmaking, the performers were all in top form. It's one of those movies where you suddenly realize a bunch of other films have ripped it off lol I really like the two opposing forces that respect each other as they violently intertwine in terms of plot
Have absolutely no clue how they're making a prequel or sequel to this lol at least Michael Mann is doing it. The first film by him I saw was as a kid, which was Public Enemies and I think that's actually kind of underrated
I watched for the first time the other day and I thought the same thing! Excellent movie!!
”Holy hell, there’s so much”
That right there is how I’ve always felt about Heat. It’s a “watch it 10 times, and you’ll be 10% of the way to noticing what makes it great” kind of film.
I’m still not at 100%, but I do know that I’m excited to see the following guys in Heat 2:
Leo, Bale, Pacino, Butler, etc…
The California Prohibit Taxes on Retirement Holdings and Personal Savings Amendment (#25-0041) may appear on the ballot in California as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2026.
The initiative would amend the California Constitution to prohibit the enactment of new taxes after January 1, 2026, on ownership or accumulation of retirement holdings, individually-owned assets, and other forms of personal savings. The amendment would also prohibit enacting retroactive taxes that result in a tax liability based on activities that occurred or were present prior to the effective date of the tax.[1][2]
The initiative would amend the California Constitution to prohibit future provisions of the state constitution enacted on or after January 1, 2026, from imposing, enacting, or authorizing taxes on the ownership or control of retirement holdings, individually-owned assets, and other forms of personal savings, whether held directly or indirectly. The initiative would also prohibit retroactive taxes that authorize a tax on conduct, activities, or status that occurred or was present prior to the effective date of the state law or constitution. This would also apply to taxes based on residency.[1]
The amendment would make an exception for taxes enacted by the California State Legislature when one of the following conditions is met:[1]
The amendment defines Retirement holdings, individually-owned assets, and other forms of personal savings to include "pensions; retirement accounts, including but not limited to 401 (k) accounts, 403(b) accounts, and all other individual retirement accounts; mutual funds; and all personal property, whether tangible or intangible, including but not limited to financial assets, investment accounts, business interests, digital assets, intellectual property, personal belongings, and other assets used to produce or collect income or savings for retirement or financial planning."[1]
The initiative contains a competing measures provision stating that, if this initiative receives more votes than the competing measure, it would prevail in its entirety over any other measures on the 2026 ballot related to taxing personal assets.[1]
The ballot title is as follows:[3]
The summary provided for inclusion on signature petition sheets is as follows:[3]
The full text of the measure is available here.
Californians to Protect Retirement and Life Savings, Sponsored by Building a Better California is leading the Yes to Protect Retirement and Life Savings campaign in support of the initiative.[5][6]
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Californians to Protect Retirement and Life Savings registered in support of the initiative. It reported $27.7 million in contributions.[7]
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An initiated constitutional amendment is a citizen-initiated ballot measure that amends a state's constitution. Eighteen (18) states allow citizens to initiate constitutional amendments.
In California, the number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment is equal to 8% of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial election. A simple majority vote is required for voter approval.
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Oh man, I thought they would just leave. Why are they fighting so hard to stay and not pay their fair share?
They don't want the ideas spreading to the other states
Also: they aren’t done milking California for all it’s worth and still got more wealth to transfer up up and away!
All the money they’re pouring into the mayor of San Jose‘s gubernatorial race should be a huge red flag
I still don’t understand why we let that happen. Because it is a choice.
Edit: Obviously the corporations have bought a lot of politicians but even so, everyone wants billionaires to pay more even Republicans in polling really consistently
Because California is objectively pretty great. If it weren't, these dumb fucks would have left over a decade ago.
Lmao, exactly. They have a lot of money but money can't buy a lot of stuff, like weather and class.
That's why Lucille Bluth said, "I rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona."
Because they’d rather use the resources that California has to make themselves incredibly wealthy and then contribute nothing back to society
Why don't the billionaires pay their fair share their dirty pieces of shit and all they do is take take take take take That's not look at the statistics at all and who actually pays taxes because the billionaires in our state pay somewhere in the range of 80% of the California taxes stupid so let's take a second and text them more That's a great idea you know why because they won't move into Nevada who doesn't have that wealth tax and California will be just fine .
Bc they are the true welfare queens
Dawg, please use some punctuation.
Remember, there are more of us then there are of them.
Think of how dumb the average person is. Half of us are dumber than that.
Even if it takes a thousand of us to form a single IQ, I think we can do it.
Here's an article describing what the billionaires are doing in more detail: https://www.governing.com/finance/billionaires-fund-ballot-campaign-to-block-california-wealth-tax
If they are funding an effort to defeat this then we must be doing the right thing.
Anytime billionaires fund something in politics you can automatically know for a fact that normal citizens should want the opposite.
Fuck oligarchs. Eat the rich.
Shawshank Redemption
John Carpenter’s the Thing
Whiplash
Halloween(1978)
Homeward Bound. Shadow surviving and his inner thoughts about Peter.
I just found out the other day that Shadow was voiced by one of the Duke brothers from Trading Places.
That matrix ending with the Rage against the machine music! 👌
At the time, I was really excited for the following films.
But now, I can just watch the first one and think it was plenty. I couldn’t tell you the last time I watched Revolutions or Reloaded. I’ve not even bothered with Resurrections (Although Animatrix was pretty good).
What's in the box?
Alien (1979)
This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
Planet Of The Apes
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
The US and Iran agreed to a two-week conditional ceasefire on Tuesday evening, which included a temporary reopening of the strait of Hormuz, after a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan, canceling an ultimatum from Donald Trump for Iran to surrender or face widespread destruction.
Trump’s announcement of the ceasefire agreement came less than two hours before the US president’s self-imposed 8pm Eastern time deadline to bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges in a move that legal scholars, as well as officials from numerous countries and the pope, had warned could constitute war crimes.
Just hours earlier, Trump had written on Truth Social: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” American B-52 bombers were reported to be en route to Iran before the ceasefire agreement was announced.
But by Tuesday evening, Trump announced that a ceasefire agreement had been mediated through Pakistan, whose prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, had requested the two-week peace in order to “allow diplomacy to run its course”.
Trump wrote in a post that “subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks”.
In a separate post later, the US president called Tuesday “a big day for world peace” on a social media post, claiming that Iran had “had enough”. He said the US would be “helping with the traffic buildup” in the strait of Hormuz and that “big money will be made” as Iran begins reconstruction.
For several hours afterwards, Israel’s position or agreement with the deal was unclear. But just before midnight ET, the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel backed the US ceasefire with Iran but that the deal did not cover fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon. His office said Israel also supported US efforts to ensure Iran no longer posed a nuclear or missile threat.
Pakistan’s prime minister had previously said that the agreed ceasefire covered “everywhere including Lebanon”.
The ceasefire process was clouded in uncertainty after Iran released two different versions of the 10-point plan intended to be the basis for negotiations, and which Trump said was a “workable basis on which to negotiate”.
In the version released in Farsi, Iran included the phrase “acceptance of enrichment” for its nuclear program. But for reasons that remain unclear, that phrase was missing in English versions shared by Iranian diplomats to journalists.
Pakistan has invited the US and Iran to talks in Islamabad on Friday. Tehran said it would attend, but Washington has yet to publicly accept the invitation.
In a telephone call with Agence France-Presse, Trump said he believed China had persuaded Iran to negotiate, and said Tehran’s enriched uranium would be “perfectly taken care of”, without providing more detail.
In the two-week ceasefire, Trump said, he believed the US and Iran could negotiate over the 10-point proposal that would allow an armistice to be “finalized and consummated”.
“This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!” he continued. “The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East.”
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, issued a statement shortly after Trump’s announcement saying Iran had agreed to the ceasefire. “For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordinating with Iran’s Armed Forces,” he wrote.
Oil prices dived, stocks surged and the dollar was knocked back on Wednesday as a two-week Middle East ceasefire sparked a relief rally, fuelled by hopes that oil and gas flows through the strait of Hormuz could resume.
Despite the provisional ceasefire, attacks continued across the region in the hours after Trump’s announcement. Before the deadline, airstrikes hit two bridges and a train station in Iran, and the US hit military infrastructure on Kharg Island, a key hub for Iranian oil production.
The sudden about-face will allow Trump to step back as the US war in Iran has dragged on for five weeks with little sign that Tehran is ready to surrender or release its hold on the strait, a conduit for a fifth of the global energy supply, where traffic has slowed to a trickle.
Trump had earlier rejected the 10-point plan as “not good enough” but the president has set deadlines before and allowed them to pass over the five weeks of the conflict. Yet he insisted on Tuesday the ensuing hours would be “one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World” unless “something revolutionarily wonderful” happened, with “less radicalized minds” in Iran’s leadership.
News of the provisional ceasefire deal was welcomed but with a note of caution elsewhere.
Iraq’s foreign ministry called for “serious and sustainable dialogue” between the US and Iran “to address the root causes of the disputes”, while the German foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, said the deal “must be the crucial first step towards lasting peace, for the consequences of the war continuing would be incalculable”.
In Australia, the government warned that the latest developments would not necessarily mean the fuel crisis is over. Oil prices fell as traders bet that the reopening of the strait of Hormuz would help fuel supply resume, but the energy minister, Chris Bowen, told reporters Australians should “not get ahead of ourselves”.
He said: “People shouldn’t take today’s progress and expect prices to fall. We welcome progress, but I don’t think we can say the [strait of Hormuz is] now open.”
A spokesperson for New Zealand’s foreign minister, Winston Peters, welcomed the “encouraging news” but noted “there remains significant important work to be done to secure a lasting ceasefire”.
Japan said it expected the move to result in a “final agreement” after Washington and Tehran begin talks on Friday. Describing the ceasefire as a “positive move”, the chief cabinet secretary, Minoru Kihara, said Tokyo wanted to see a de-escalation on the ground in the region, adding that the prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, was seeking talks with the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian.
A temporary end to hostilities will come as a relief to Japan, which depends on the Middle East for about 90% of its crude oil imports, most of which is transported through the strait of Hormuz.
South Korea’s ministry of foreign affairs said it hoped “negotiations between the two sides will be successfully concluded and that peace and stability in the Middle East will be restored at an early date”, as well as wishes for “free and safe navigation of all vessels through the strait of Hormuz”.
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But he's still a maniac, so we need to keep focused on doing something about that. Unfortunately, Congress is at home breathing a sigh of relief and thinking it's fine to go on with doing nothing about anything.
This is a bandaid. Actual good news is Trump being removed for terroristic threats.
No, the good news would be that cholesterol finally did its job.
Death is too easy an escape for him. He needs to rot in a cell
It would be a good news, definitely yeah! Imagine threatening an entire civilization, that's crazy!
Oh it was just locker room talk/just Trump being Trump /s
I am really getting sick and tired of having this country run like a television show every episode a climax just a one orange idiot can make a killing on the stock market.
Not just him, the MSM that gets off on spiking our cortisol by milking him for all he’s worth as a cash cow
He's running it like a TV show.
That's why he fired all the professionals and hired TV personalities.
Yeah it's crazy
Here we go. 2 weeks of all the Maga who turned on him now saying he is a genius for everything he's done and would never not trust his every word.
The strait was open before the war, so they achieved nothing, just killing innocent people. Psychopaths
It’s actually worse now. Iran is charging 2 million for every boat to cross the strait. 130 tankers cross every day so we’ve now gifted a theocratic regime that kills its own people 260 million dollars a day. The regime is still in charge, they still have a lot of their missiles, all their drones, and the US basically got nothing. The Art of the fucking Deal.
The US got nothing, that's for sure... the US insider traders got even richer
For those whose library is already in the hundreds (or even 20 or 30), how often or how likely do you guys relisten to the audiobooks you’ve purchased? I’m trying to remember if I ever re-listened to anything, and I can’t recall at all. Lol
I bought more audiobooks during this sale than I anticipated, because I was buying it one at a time, rather than carefully curating a list to purchase altogether. So I completely lost track until I checked my cc. 30+ books already this sale. Im so bad at keeping track, it felt like I only bought 15 or 16... 😅 I’m wondering why I should continue buying more if I don’t relisten to them. That’s all lol
I have a slew of comfort reads that I'll re-listen to over and over again.
Which comfort reads do you listen to?
My most read book by hours is All Systems Red from the Murderbot Diaries. I actually spent a credit on it and despite being a novella its been the best spend per hour listening.
LOL… one of my “comfort reads” is Blood Meridian, or just parts of it sometimes. Another lighter one I have is All the Pretty Horses.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is also good for comfort reading.
Discworld
For me, my comfort listens are books I can listen to while atressed/when I need to focus, so can only offer the book half-attention.
Some examples are:
Harry Potter series.
Theif of Time by Terry Pratchett. Then again maybe I won't by Judy Blume.
The last one to me just reminds me of simpler times, while still being a surprisingly mature book, about a boy whose parents suddenly become rich and everything changes, with a few threads about what does it mean to be a good person, a friend, love, etc. Part is also how he can't control everything. One thing I appreciate is that the protagonist, doesn't end up perfect or right, just okay.
I re-read and re-listen a lot. To the point that when I got my cat, she developed an affinity for male voices with a British accent.
I love to listen to go to sleep, but I can’t do that with books I haven’t read before. I also love close-reading, so I listen and read along at the same time. It’s just a good hobby for me.
This is exactly the same for me. If I'm listening to a new book while laying in bed, I stay up way too late listening.
I also have favorites to listen to at work. My view of them are old comfort books, don't have to be listening very closely since I know what happens in all of them already. Nice for background noise.
When a new book comes out in a series I follow I tend to start at the beginning so I can find more context in preparation for the extended universe I’m soon to delve into.
I did it with the B Sando books I have (and will likely do so again). I will be doing it with the DCC books shortly before book 8 drops.
Can't wait to re listen to the entire cosmere once stormlight 6 comes out lol
I used to have storm light archive on repeat when going to sleep. Now it’s been DCC since I discovered it.
I have 2500 and continue to buy more. But probably 20% of my listens each year are relistens.
Sometimes you want to relive something you really enjoyed. Sometimes you just want something you liked as background noise while you work. Sometimes you want to share a book with passengers in your car on long trips.
Even a few times I want to try a book I didn’t like to see if my opinion has changed.
And, most importantly, sometimes you just want to hang out with old friends…and books make great friends.
I have re-listened to Dungeon Crawler Carl and The Bobiverse twice. Love both series
I never re-read or re-listen to books.... but in anticipation for DCC book 8 I decided to re-listen to all 7 books.
With the 2nd listen, it lost the surprises and excitement. I already knew how and when they would succeed, so there was no tension, but the emotional beats hit even harder. I love the characters, so I definitely teared up more often this time. I did pick up a few bits that I had forgotten about and some of the jokes made me laugh pretty good.
I was pretty sad when I got to the end of book 7 - since I didn't want it to end. I don't know if I will re-listen a 3rd time. I sure hope Matt sticks the landing.
Never! Which makes me wonder why I buy them
I’m trying to wean off paid media and love Libby. I never relisten to books so why am I buying them?
the story
acting
dialogue
pacing
70s talk show set was freaking awesome
the ending.......my mouth was ajar a whole time. I'm a seasoned horror movie vet, but I didn't see that coming
cons: I wish it could have been 30 minutes longer. I wanted more
9.5 / 10
I loved it. Rare to have a unique horror movie nowadays
And to have it come from Shudder no less!
Shudders been stepping up the last couple years honestly the only streaming service im happy to pay for and would be sad to not have lol
Awesome film. Great, authentic vibes for a late night talk show for the time period.
Almost perfect! The edit was the real winner here. Not one wasted second.
A really great horror movie.
Bizarre
Good Bizarre ?
SO IT IS FLAT /s
I knew it!
We live in a world where you had to put the "/s".
I think I ate Earth for breakfast by mistake
Don't worry, it was just Mexico.
Add a little ghee and it'll become a paratha
Is this why my order of chicken Tikka masala is late again
It's the moon
I can see the pita of the earth from that angle 🤌
Fed-up Republicans have called for President Donald Trump’s removal after the “unhinged super villain’s” threat to destroy Iran.
The 79-year-old president started his Tuesday morning by warning that he would wipe out a “whole civilization” if Tehran didn’t open up the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow shipping lane that connects Persian Gulf oil to the rest of the world and a major sticking point to a cessation in the conflict.
Iran has choked the Strait as leverage over the U.S., prompting Trump to set a deadline for its reopening—8 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday. In a last-ditch attempt to force the regime to play ball as the deadline approaches, Trump posted on Truth Social, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”
The bloodthirsty rhetoric has shocked traditional critics and allies alike. “25TH AMENDMENT!!!” declared Trump cheerleader-turned-critic Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The former Georgia congresswoman added, “Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.”
Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist podcaster and Trump devotee, was also among the big names to break from the president. “WAR CRIME ALERT!!” he said in an X post on Tuesday. Repeating Trump’s message, he added: “The definition of genocide is destroying an entire civilization/people! Trump literally sounds like an unhinged super villain from a Marvel comic movie.”
Jones concluded: “This IS NOT WHAT WE VOTED FOR!!!”
Anthony Scaramucci, the financier who served as Trump’s White House communications director for just 10 days in 2017, tagged Senate Majority Leader John Thune in a post on X, asking: “Are you serious right now? Are you not going to denounce this? Are you not going to seek the removal of this crazy person? This is your responsibility that is what Article I of the Constitution is about.”
Article I of the Constitution gives Congress impeachment authority, while the 25th Amendment gives the vice president and majority of the cabinet the power to declare the president unable to fulfill his duties, thereby transferring executive power to the vice president.
“Wake up: he is calling for A NUCLEAR STRIKE. Seek his removal immediately,” he added in a follow-up. He added that the statement should be “denounced by all,” and suggested that the tide is turning for Trump after “losing” Jones and Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host and ally who is now openly critical of Trump’s war.
Bill Kristol, who served as chief of staff to the vice president in the George H. W. Bush administration and was a Republican for 40 years before switching to an independent in 2021, has been fiercely critical of Trump since then. “Impeach Trump,” he wrote in reaction to the president’s latest post.
Conservative podcaster Candace Owens also joined the revolt. “The 25th amendment needs to be invoked. He is a genocidal lunatic. Our Congress and military need to intervene. We are beyond madness,” she wrote.
Infowars host Alex Jones also called for his ouster after a similarly wild threat on Sunday. In that post, Trump raged: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F--kin’ Strait, you crazy b-----ds, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”
“How do we 25th Amendment his a--?” Jones reacted during Monday’s episode of The Alex Jones Show.
2 Republicans ? Maybe 3 ?
Retired or commentators
Repugs who have been on the outside for a while.
Half on one is the most likely
Republicans are only half human to begin with, so that checks out.
He needs to be arrested in an example of as well as the rest of his cabinet. This is gonna be the only good faith start so that we can be trusted around the world again. However, I doubt I’ll see that restored in my lifetime damn that guy.
You are absolutely correct...damn the politics of it all. This sick, abhorrent regime needs to be retired and promptly. Arrests should be conducted by military police, under deputization of a superior court judge, that or deputized Federal marshals. The exercise in authoritarianism and the stupidity fostered, by this corrupt regime and the GOP idiocy that supports it, needs to be shut down ...PERIOD.
What's another impeachment going to do?
He needs to be a responsible leader, and face prison
Until it’s jd Vance, all of this is just useless
Lol. No they aren’t.
MTG who's acting more like a dem than actual dems.
What can a minority party in both chambers, the USSC that doesn’t hold the Oval Office or sway in the most viewed network do exactly? The minority doesn’t get to bring legislation to the floor and most Americans don’t watch CSPAN.
Air and Space museum has a watch party.
Are they really? That’s super cool if true 😊My kids loved that museum when they were little! Fun to make a day of it and picnic on the grass.
The astronauts wouldn't go on the mission unless NASA promised them California burritos from Roberto's.
I was gonna say send em up with a few next time but imagine what that would do to the plumbing up there
It would have fixed their plumbing issue right away with all that hot ass from the salsa.
Fun fact: tortillas are a very common food for astronauts because of how convenient and crumb-free they are.
Uhh don carlos?
It’s landing in the pool at Lafayette Hotel so you can go check it out.
I’m crying
I read that it will be 50 miles off shore so no, we won’t be able to see it from shore.
Navy will have it cordoned off. Probably a NOTAMS, helps and small boats to keep lookie Lou’s away.
At least that’s how it was done in the past.
5:07 PM PDT, given the weather and distance it’s unlikely we’ll see it.
I’m a pretty bad alcoholic. This hurt. So, so much.
Probably Schindler's List
The “I used to be a brother” line was heart breaking.
And the real guy really said it. 😭😭😭
I went into this not knowing the true story, thinking it would be a fun movie about pro wrestling. I was not prepared for the emotional pain I had coming.
What’s messed up is the true story is even worse. I believe there was an additional brother who died they don’t include in the movie
What’s worse is that the real story is even more heart breaking.
the mist en sortant du cinéma personne n'a dis un mot
One of my comfort movies. LOL
My Girl
How many audiobooks did you buy in the sitewide sale?
Only 50 unfinished? I wish I had so few
That makes me feel better :)
Yea more like hundreds.
I've never been so called out before LMFAO
it's about time 😀
I quite literally have 400+ unread in my library & I just bought 30 from the sale. On top of that I'm currently rereading Dungeon Crawler Carl in anticipation of the newest book release in May....
I definitely don't have a problem, no siree bob.
It's okay because I know, if I was locked in a house for years for some reason, I'd have more than enough books to keep my attention. But realistically, I hoard books until I am ready to work on a painting.
That’s true I listen to a book a day basically and the calculations show that it would take 3 years for me to finish my books at that rate
700 unfinished books and I grabbed 20 more.
Ah finally, someone else with a similar sized backlog.
700 wooow
Sitting pretty at 223 not started books and bought 43 during the sale 🤣
223 + 43 = 266 😳
California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell's campaign is actively rebutting social media claims of sexual misconduct involving staffers, labeling them "false, outrageous rumors" orchestrated by "flailing opponents" and "MAGA conspiracy theorists" just weeks before primary ballots are mailed. Communications director Micah Beasley stated that in 13 years, no one in Swalwell's congressional office has ever signed an NDA, nor has a single ethics complaint been lodged.
The allegations originated from "progressive influencers" on social media, with lawyer Cheyenne Hunt, executive director of Gen-Z for Change, asserting she is working with multiple women preparing to disclose stories of "sexual harassment and even alleged abuse" by Swalwell, some allegedly feeling silenced by NDAs. Rival Democratic candidate Rep. Katie Porter described the claims as "very troubling" on CNN, expressing support for the women to come forward when ready, though she hasn't directly spoken to them.
This controversy unfolds within California's unique "top-two" primary system, where a large, fractured field of Democratic candidates for governor has raised party fears of a "doomsday scenario" in which no Democrat advances to the general election. President Trump's endorsement of Republican Steve Hilton, however, likely guarantees a Republican spot, potentially averting this outcome. Swalwell has also faced past scrutiny over his association with Christine Fang, linked to a Chinese intelligence operation, though a House Ethics Committee investigation closed without action in 2023.
The campaign's forceful denial of sexual misconduct allegations highlights a high-stakes political battle intensified by a crowded primary field and past controversies, amidst a crucial election cycle for California Democrats.
The campaign of Rep. Eric Swalwell, the California Democratic candidate for governor, on Tuesday sought to rebut claims made by several people on social media that multiple women plan to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct involving staffers.
“This false, outrageous rumor is being spread 27 days before an election begins by flailing opponents who have sadly teamed up with MAGA conspiracy theorists because they know Eric Swalwell is the frontrunner in this race,” Swalwell campaign communications director Micah Beasley said in a statement.
He also said one prominent claim that women have remained silent because of non-disclosure agreements is false.
“In 13 years, no one in Eric Swalwell’s congressional office has ever been asked to sign an NDA. Ever,” Beasley said. “In 13 years, not a single ethics complaint by any staff in his office or any other office has ever been lodged. Ever.”
The statement comes less than two months before California’s June 2 primary, in which Swalwell and several other prominent Democrats are battling for what’s likely to be just one spot in the November general election. Voters can begin mailing in ballots in less than four weeks.
All parties’ candidates compete in California’s primary, with only the top two finishers regardless of party advancing to the general election — a unique “top-two” system that complicates the state’s crowded field.
Just two major Republicans are competing: Steve Hilton, a British transplant and former Fox News host, and Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff. Republicans are a minority in California, but because the field of Democratic candidates is much larger and more fractured, Democrats have long feared a doomsday scenario in which none of the party’s candidates finish in the top two in the primary to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom.
President Donald Trump this week endorsed Hilton, cementing the likelihood that he will advance, but also helping Democrats avoid the nightmare of being shut out of the general election.
Along with Swalwell, the roster of well-known Democrats in the race includes US Rep. Katie Porter; billionaire activist Tom Steyer; Xavier Becerra, the former state attorney general and Biden administration Health and Human Services secretary; San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan; former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond; and former State Controller Betty Yee. None have emerged as a clear favorite.
Allegations of wrongdoing against Swalwell emerged on social media through accounts of progressive influencers. The Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet, on Monday published a report highlighting claims leveled by Cheyenne Hunt, a lawyer and former congressional candidate who is now the executive director of Gen-Z for Change.
Hunt said in an X post Monday that she is “working with a number of women who are in the process of coming forward and sharing their stories of sexual harassment and even alleged abuse at the hands of Eric Swalwell.”
Hunt did not name any of the women she said are alleging misconduct, and did not share the specifics of their claims. She said those women are working with a lawyer, and that some felt they had to remain silent because of non-disclosure agreements.
Porter, one of Swalwell’s Democratic rivals in the governor’s race, highlighted what she said were “very troubling allegations” Tuesday on CNN.
“With regard to Rep. Swalwell, I have seen allegations coming from women staffers. They are very, very troubling allegations. It’s those women’s stories to tell when they are ready, and I hope they feel safe and supported if they choose to do so,” Porter said.
Porter said she has not spoken to any of the women who social media influencers say plan to come forward with allegations against Swalwell.
“This is about building a politics that works for people, that is focused on living our values, and I believe women. I think that has to be the starting place here,” she said.
Trump and other Republicans have long mocked Swalwell over his association with the woman at the center of a suspected political intelligence operation run by China’s main civilian spy agency between 2011 and 2015, Fang Fang or Christine Fang.
The House Ethics Committee in 2023 closed its investigation into Swalwell without taking action, and he was never accused of wrongdoing. However, The Washington Post reported in March that FBI Director Kash Patel was pushing to release case files from the investigation.
The more someone is attacked ya gotta look hard at who is attacking.
Somehow, and I can’t for the life of me imagine how, lots of franks are saying they think a billionaire might have the best interests of the masses in mind. Curiously, these same people often also attack swalwell. And Porter. And bacerra. And really everyone else. Just not billionaires. They really like billionaires.
I’ll vote for swalwell if push comes to shove in November but I don’t feel we should settle for someone that has the negatives that he has while we still have a chance. He has his own AI company and that alone is enough for me to despise him since it means he’ll never push back against AI the way he should.
A lot of people will tear themselves up over his AIPAC stuff too.
The billionaire has the best policies out of all of them and has the track record to back it up. No one’s perfect, but that’s who I’ll pick if I truly got to pick.
Every option has downsides, I don’t think you should be too harsh on Steyer supporters, use that energy to attack Bianco and Hilton!
Yet, people don't give Katie Porter that level of nuance. She is the best candidate as literally every billionaire is pouring money into stopping her.
Yup. Gotta love the sexist double standards
True. While I plan to vote for her this primary, I'm disappointed at her campaign. She knows the mainstream media will do her no favors, and yet she shoots herself in the foot with alarming regularity in campaigns.
Yea. But he Fang Fang'ed
For someone like Swalwell its probably just a valid criticism
As the frontrunner now, he'll be targeted from the right and left.
Or just people who care about corruption and don’t like AIPAC Eric having an AI startup he pitched to other representatives while trying to run for governor of the state that has Silicon Valley.
No one wants Newsom 2.0
I would want Newsom 2.0, 3.0, 1000.0 over a California trump and if we get top two GOPers that's what we're going to get.
I want Newsom 2.0. The alternative will end up being Trump 2.0. Hell no.
I wish we had ranked choice voting.
Same but Newsom didn’t and vetoed it.
Which is why I warn Swalwell fans that he will be Newsom 2.0 only to have them really want that, as if Newsom didn’t veto a lot of really good shit and brag about it so he had something to say for his slide to the center for a Presidential run.
It's not specifically Newsom. It's the Democratic Party. They currently support neither ranked choice nor open primaries. Although outcomes of ranked-choice voting are more aligned with the desires of the constituents, Democrats tend to lose seats to third-party candidates.
https://dcist.com/story/23/08/07/dc-democrats-sue-to-stop-ranked-choice-voting-initiative/
I saw the Tiktoks, it was so obviously fake lol
If he gets elected - legit nothing will change. LA/SF/SJ will all still be smacked with the houseless crisis. He'll continue to ponder to the DCCC playbook and pander to people with anti-Trump statements which equate to doing nothing to fix our BS legislature and fixing a lot of issues in CA cities. This guy is a deucebag and that's even without the whole CCP BS.
Yawn…
omg I had no idea they were together, what a hot couple. good for them!
Where do I recognize him from? Handsome fellow and I know I’ve seen him in things….
He was in the HBO show Girls, but he’s also been in a lot of horror/thriller movies lately!
Omg he’s my number one crush, and learning that they’re together actually made me say “fair”. Ugh love it.
She's 41. If she wants to have a baby she damn well ought to. Goodness knows the woman deserves some happiness after what she's been through.
She deserves so much happiness, I wish them the best
TLDR:
Aubrey Plaza is pregnant!
A source tells PEOPLE that Plaza is expecting her first child with her partner, Chris Abbott, and is due this fall.
“It was a beautiful surprise after an emotional year,” the source says, adding that “they feel very blessed.”
So happy for her! She deserves to be happy after all she’s been through, she seems like a really nice lady
Holy shit I saw them on Broadway together and they were hot as hell
TIL a hotter version of Kit Harington exists and he’s Aubrey Plaza’s baby daddy. Love you Aubrey 😭
Fingers crossed 🤞
Honestly the odds of two Democrats going through were better before he backed Hilton. The scare headlines were good for clicks, but there was never going to be two Republicans. In all the polls there were at least 16% Undecided and the top 3 Democrats were all within a couple points of Hilton and Bianco and the Republican field had already maxed out its percentages.
I hope
Grousome
Just finished it and holy crap. That was great. The writing is a little odd at points with it being more YA, but it is nowhere near odd enough to ruin the book. That was absolutely amazing and I am super excited to get into the next ones. Just wow.
gory damn*
The only people who call this series YA are people who haven't read past book 1. Its a full on grimdark war novel by book 4 and 5.
I love fantasy so I do this all the time, but I think we need to get past the whole “you won’t like it until you’re 4 books in” excuse.
He is wrong, the next book is imo the best in the series.
I didn't say that. Every book in the series is great. But the Red Rising series changes a ton after book 1 and there is an extremely dramatic change after book 3. It goes from Hunger Games in space, to ASOIAF in space.
Is it possible to go a day without seeing this book posted on here?
Yes, but only because people are busy that day asking what they should read out of First Law, Brandon Sanderson, WoT, and Robin Hobb.
I thought the premise was cool but the writing left a lot to be desired. It eventually got on my nerves
Am I the only person who didnt like this and thought it is too Ya?
i felt exactly the same way OP did my first read through of the series
on second read through i thought a different person read it the first time and just couldn't get into it the same way
No, I'm right there with you. I also found the main character to be a bit of a Gary Stu. But everyone says the rest of the series is more GoT-ish, so I'm conflicted on whether to continue. I probably will at some point.
Nope, it's a terribly overrated book by people with questionable taste.
Darrow is probably the worst protagonist I have ever read, the first person POV made it worse.
It only gets better
One of the best movies ever. Eric Stoltz and Cher were incredible.
Samuel Elliot was friggin awesome as Gar.
He just comes off ass cool as fuck in every movie show etc. kinda guy that u grew up knowing as a foreman or something. Can’t explain it. Just smooth with it…. A bro lol
Agreed. He’s so damn cool. If you haven’t seen Lifeguard, check it out. A real hidden 70’s gem
Top movie names of all-time.
That movie about a person with a horribly deformed face, and her son.
OMG. LMAO. was not expecting this.
Family Guy did it best
So fucking good
I heard Michael J. Fox was the original Rocky Dennis but they replaced him after shooting for 2 or 3 weeks.
I thought it was the other way around for Back to the Future?
Yes, Eric Stoltz was the first Marty McFly
No, you’re thinking of Back to the Future 2, where they replaced Crispin Glover with an upside down dude in makeup.
wyatt trollin
Yeah man. Fox took it to a comedic level.
I often hear people describe war with epic, romanticized slogans—calling it a "celebration of courage" or a "hero’s path." But every time I encounter that mindset, I think of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Whether you read Remarque’s book or watch the recent 2022 adaptation, the message is visceral: War isn't a wedding; it’s a meat grinder.
What strikes me most is the transition from the classroom to the trenches. These kids are fed nationalist "glory" by teachers who will never see a bullet, only to find themselves dying in the mud for inches of land that don't matter. The scene where Paul realizes his "enemy" is just another man with a family and a life is a haunting reminder that war is the failure of humanity, not its peak.
If you want to see the "glory" of war stripped bare until only the cold, terrifying truth remains, this is the one. It doesn’t celebrate the soldier; it mourns the human.
What are your thoughts? Is there any other film that shatters the "war is glory" myth as effectively as this one?
I would argue that Come and See is even more of an antiwar film. Scariest movie I've ever seen.
Come and See is uncomfortable as they come, but in the best way possible. Rape, murder, the very worst of humanity shown without filter. A one and done kind of film as war movies should.
Come and see is horrifying, all quiet on the western front Is horrifying in a different way. It's all awful.
The experience of Flyora in Come and See is not really that of a soldier. While he's conscripted by the partisans, he has no real training and no comrades to rely on. He's basically a largely helpless civilian victim wandering from one scene of atrocity to the next in a sort of walking nightmare. The movie doesn't glamorize war at all, but in doing so, I think it misses a key fact about how soldiers often experience combat.
In his book War, Sebastian Junger put it like this:
War is a lot of things and it’s useless to pretend that exciting isn’t one of them. It’s insanely exciting. The machinery of war and the sound it makes and the urgency of its use and the consequences of almost everything about it are the most exciting things anyone engaged in war will ever know. Soldiers discuss that fact with each other and eventually with their chaplains and their shrinks and maybe even their spouses, but the public will never hear about it. It’s just not something that many people want acknowledged. War is supposed to feel bad because undeniably bad things happen in it, but for a nineteen-year-old at the working end of a .50 cal during a firefight that everyone comes out of okay, war is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. In some ways twenty minutes of combat is more life than you could scrape together in a lifetime of doing something else. Combat isn’t where you might die—though that does happen—it’s where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don’t underestimate the power of that revelation. Don’t underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.
The core psychological experiences of war are so primal and unadulterated, however, that they eclipse subtler feelings, like sorrow or remorse, that can gut you quietly for years.
WWI is primarily remembered for its horrors (and rightly so), but even there, some soldiers found exhilaration, purpose, or a unique, intense experience in combat. A few notable examples include Adrian Carton de Wiart (who wrote "frankly, I had enjoyed the war"), Ernst Jünger, J. B. S. Haldane (“I was well aware that I might die in these flat, featureless fields, and that a huge waste of human values was going on there. Nevertheless, I found the experience enjoyable.”), and Jack Churchill.
(Churchill later went on to enjoy WWII so much that he once joked, "If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years!")
Speaking of WWII, Joseph Heller (author of the famed anti-war story Catch-22) once stated in a letter to an academic assembling a book of essays about his novel, "How did I feel about the war when I was in it? Much differently than Yossarian felt and much differently than I felt when I wrote the novel… In truth I enjoyed it and so did just about everyone else I served with, in training and even in combat. I was young, it was adventurous, there was much hoopla and glamour; in addition, and this too is hard to get across to college students today, for me and for most others, going into the army resulted immediately in a vast improvement in my standard of living."
Come and sebe is what happened to the civilians.
And I can say, IT was very, very similar to reality still in the 1990ies Balkans.
Very.
Similar how occupation of Ukraine and treatment of civilians and war prisoners by Russia is very similar to how the victoms were treated by Servisna army and paramilitary in Balkan wars.
IT is a terrifying fact, realising nothing has changed.
Come and See is, for me, a high point in a movie experience. I’ve never seen anything like it, and I’m not sure I ever will again.
The scariest thing about Come and See for me is not the famous mass execution scene near the end. It’s that it’s the only movie I’ve seen which tries and succeeds in showing how the mind locks itself in in a limbo like state to protect itself. It’s a fever dream mixed with glimpses of reality making Florya physically unable to see his executed parents. That was absolutely the most terrifying thing I’ve seen in a film.
We Were Soldiers, Hacksaw Ridge and Saving Private Ryan do pretty well at showing how horrific war is.
Your commentary about All Quiet on the Western Front reminds me of this poem, The Man He Killed, written by Thomas Hardy after the second Boer war:
Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have set us down to wet Right many a nipperkin!
But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place.
I shot him dead because— Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That's clear enough; although
He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand like—just as I— Was out of work—had sold his traps— No other reason why.
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat, if met where any bar is, Or help to half a crown.
Come and See even more.
Platoon too
I would say not really because most do still present the protagonist as a hero either competent or growing "tough" or growing from the experience. Or propagating heroic sacrifice, feeble to heroic dynamics and so on, which is what pro war movies also like to push.
very few movies manage to break that narrative mold which comes from what we like to see in stories.
I don't like all the changes of the new movie, but it shows how detached the soldiers fate is from those deciding their fate, that their lives are sacrificed with no regards of any value to it, that their abilities are irrelevant. Paul in the end is just an automaton and pretty much suicidal dieing in a most senseless way possible, murdering others on the way.
most of the movies you cite still do the opposite even though superficially portraying the cruelty of war. Mainly because they insist on a traditional narrative arc giving the protagonist's action meaning.
Drone attack footages are the best antidote imho.
Pity that the title and the actual ending doesn't really fit. If you read the book, you'll understand the title.
But I guess modern audiences need hollywood action endings.
Agreed. It's very well crafted. I also love that it's a well known film that was everywhere in the UK but wasn't about Americans or the British. I also really enjoyed teaching my students about Erich Maria Remarque and using the trailer to engage them with the subject.
The 1930s adaptation is way better btw
2022 version looked great but changing then ending changed the whole point of the film
Wow, he is unrecognizable from his playing days
What playing in Anaheim does to an mf
Kershaw would not approve
Talk about a utility player!
Yes, the entire world celebrated his victory on Sunday. ChrisT aylor has risen!
This is like not funny at all . Maybe if it were a unique name like say, Will Smith, then the joke would land.
My cat’s name is Belle. Like Beauty and the Beast. But as a joke, I always call her Taco Belle because of my obsession with the restaurant, Taco Bell 😛 She decided to curl right up on my left over Taco Bell bag I door dashed for a god awful amount of money. So many people found it hilarious, so I thought I’d share!!! 😛 I think she knows her roots!!!
my frodo loves to sit on taco bell drink carriers! not any other carriers. literally only TB. (ignore the duct tape, i made a square on the floor to try proving how cats will sit in any square)
OMG that’s hilarious!! He’s a cutie 😛😛😛
Wait, did the cat sit in the square?!? You can’t just leave us hanging like that
all three! however the duct tape is literally stuck on there now and i have to explain to everyone that comes over, “oh that’s just the dumb mindless baby square”
I love her
She loves you too!!!
Baja blast on my baja blast shirt!
Oh my gosh I’m crine SHES SO CUTE AND PRECIOUS AHHHH IM GLAD IVE SUMMONED ALL THE CAT OWNERS!!!!
Taco cat backwards is taco cat.
she is majestic
Your kitty looks like mine! She also likes to hang out when I have Taco Bell too… her name is Moa 😀
She’s adorable!!! I love herrrrr 🥰😍🥰😍
Donorcycle things
Yes, motorcycle going WAY too fast splitting lanes, but holy hell i hate people who change lanes as traffic is slowing.
In 40 years of driving, 2 accidents both due to changing lanes while traffic was slowing. Never do this.
There was an accident yesterday on the 52w. Traffic was starting to pick up where it merges from 125n and the exit off santee and guy was lane splitting going about maybe about 40 mph. He passed me and I thought about how I would not go that fast because that curve + cars merging/changing lane + cars slowing down etc.
Andddddd sure enough, he was on the side of the road with a bunch of other cars shortly after he passed me lol. Luckily he wasn't going as fast as this idiot in the video and he was walking and I saw him pick his bike up. I don't know what happened but sure is a good lesson on how not to lane split.
why are you lane splitting going 3x the speed of traffic?
Is the person okay?
According to the dash cam driver, yes.
Exactly why you don’t lane split at that speed especially when traffic is slowing down 🤦 no sympathy for riders like this. More sympathy for the car owners they hit.
Army secretary refuses to resign amid pressure
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BREAKING: Army secretary refuses to resign, publicly defying Hegseth pressure campaign
Dan Driscoll’s statement is one line and it says everything. “I have no plans to depart or resign.” That’s not bureaucratic boilerplate — that’s a direct challenge to his own defense secretary.
Hegseth wants loyalists, not institutional pushback. Driscoll is a Trump appointee refusing to be pushed out by another Trump appointee. This isn’t civilian-military tension — it’s a power struggle inside the Pentagon’s civilian leadership itself.
The subtext matters. If Hegseth can’t force out a Senate-confirmed Army secretary during an active military operation, it exposes the limits of his authority — and raises the question of who’s actually running defense policy.
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Stacey Greeno Pearsons
Please stay strong. We need people to stand up to these people who are working as hard as they can to destroy our country!
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Fight Hegseth all the way. Good for you.
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That's the spirit!!
Perfect, the Army Secretary is a man of conviction and of a high moral caliber....a true professional soldier!
Notice how they were very careful not to get any hits once the runner got into scoring position. You have to be very cautious or you can spook those runs.
You can spook them and make them run back home and not to home plate. Hate when that happens
gotta flirt with the runs carefully, don't get a hit right away or the runs will think you're some desperate loser
Put it up in the hall
PUT UP THE BANNER
Save the runs for when it counts!! (Spring Training 2027)
Incoming back-to-back-to-back Cactus League Champions
Theirs a very real chance they blow this game
Probably. SF has to score more than one run since their bullpen isn't very good and the Phillies offense is going to eventually come alive. Sanchez is solid and there's still Duran to get through.
Drove by this.
Splish, splash I was taking a bath
Long about a Tuesday night
A rubber dub, just relaxing in the tub🛁🎹
I should call her…
She seems to be doing better without you
I am.
You never made her that wet bro /s
Water bill going up in 3…2…1
What part of santee
Home depot parking lot
Thank you
Don’t they know there’s a drought?!?
Wish that was me tonight 😭😭 but hes busy 🙄🙄
Phuck the Phillies
Okay side note, I genuinely think the giants could end the year with winning like 60 games. It’s honestly kinda surprising me that the Rockies are giving BTA rn😭
Bro, wrong sub for that energy. Also, the Giants have solid bats with Devers, Adames, Arrarez, and Bader. Ray, and Roupp are solid pitchers. People are sleeping on the Giants. Now that I've said all that, excuse me while I vomit.
Feel free to head back to r/NLWestMemeWar and may Dinger have mercy I’m on your soul
12/162 for a reason. Rockies please prepare yourselves for the inevitable.
I’m kinda hoping for the Rockies to end at 4th that would be kinda cool but yeah they probably won’t.
At this point we just don't want to lose 100+ games in for the 4th year in a row. Be patient, we're coming for you in the next 10 years or so lol.
I question how many full seasons of baseball people have watched around here. It’s a marathon. Rockies won’t be close. And 2-4 is entirely fluid.
Good kill. I just can't stand the Phillies.
I watched Grave of the Fireflies tonight. This adult consumes everything the children bring with them and is verbally abusive to them. The children flee her awfulness and this decision ultimately leads to their starvation.
That movie is so sad.
Passive aggressive is very asian culture. In the perfect world they will be good surrogate parents and the kids will be well behaved.
But this movie is more realistic. They are still feeding the kids... they will parent and put them to work according to their values, they would still have survived if the brother 'suck it up' and put up with it. The sister would still be alive if the brother ran away himself.
This movie shows the effects of war, or what happens when calamity affects the nation. Everyone is affected, those that cannot provide for themselves will have the worselt of it.
There's no safety net when the government is torn down, or is corrupt. So think twice before anyone vote for more war, or having less 'social assistance' program. Because like in real life... where and when you're born is just luck.
If you want to eat like a dog... You can live and sleep outside like a dog. If you want to live and sleep like a human. ...pick up those sticks.
Pai mei?
And his cruel tutelage
This movie ruined me
I watched it for the first and only time over five years ago. It certainly was one of those life changing films. It's worth the sadness
Life changing is a good word for it
I don't even really like the movie that much outside of my appreciation for studio Ghibli animation quality. I have a hard time rewatching it because everything is just too raw and depressing. But the fact a movie can make me feel so uncomfortable to the point of not wanting to rewatch it means that it left quite an impression
I saw this movie over 20 years ago (I rented it from a Blockbuster!). I still think about it, and it still hurts to.
Was so fucking mad at her when I watched this for the first time. Still am actually.
I definitely remember watching this movie. It seemed like there were a string of similar movies too…Stand And Deliver and Lean On Me!
NO MORE!
I watched this movie so many times on WPIX Channel 11 as a kid. Shit, this and 3 O'Clock High made me dread eventually going to high school.
I was in high school during this time
Finally I found someone from NY watching channel 11 in the 80’s 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 remember the Wraith , Legend of Billie Jean, Wild Thing?
What a crazy movie
Decent movie.
El Principal
I have a feeling they’re gonna be so soggy and cost 7.99
What happened to the creative stoner that had them dropping iconic items from the 2000s-2017? They needa hire whoever that was back cuz this uninspired bs aint it
I think that bimbo Julie Felss Masino fired all of the good creative people. She didn’t make one single good decision while in charge at Taco Bell.
Sick and tired of all this chicken products
I can honestly say I’ve havent even eaten 5 chicken products from Taco Bell
As a person that doesn’t eat red meat I’m loving it lmao
Get used to it. Chicken costs them WAY less than beef.
It seems like cheese is the next thing they are phasing out, must be to expensive… soon it will all be snack sized chicken in shell with sauce, and maybe beans ….
Don’t be ridiculous… there will also be some form of potato as well
Well at least it isn’t that dry heat lamp “crispy chicken”
can we have an item for the vegetarians? everything is chicken, chicken nuggets, steak… like can we have a new cool item for the vegetarians? they took away the 7 layer, they took away that veggie burrito w black beans and everything is expensive asf. taco bell is so popular among vegetarians but cmon now let’s have something new here
Just wanted to mention, in case you didn't know, here's how you can make a 7 layer for about $4.24.
Cheesy bean and rice burrito minus nacho cheese and jalapeño sauce. Add guacamole, sour cream, lettuce, cheese, tomato.
Aubrey Plaza is pregnant with her first child just over a year after the tragic death of her husband Jeff Baena.
A source confirmed to the Daily Mail that the White Lotus star, 41, is expecting a child with her new partner, Christopher Abbott, 40.
The baby, whose gender has not been revealed, is due in the fall.
'It was a beautiful surprise after an emotional year,' a source told People of the pregnancy news on Tuesday.
Plaza and Abbott, who previously costarred on Broadway before falling in love, are said to be feeling 'very blessed.'
Abbott is best known for playing the on–off boyfriend of Allison Williams's character Marnie on Lena Dunham's influential HBO comedy Girls.
Aubrey Plaza is pregnant with her first child just over a year after the tragic death of her husband Jeff Baena; seen in March 2026
A representative for The White Lotus star, 41, confirmed to the Daily Mail on Tuesday that she is expecting a child with her new partner, Christopher Abbott, 40; the couple seen in 2020
The couple first worked together in 2019 on the indie psychological drama Black Bear, in which both actors played dual roles as actors and directors trying to shoot a film in an eerie, isolated lake house.
The low-budget thriller premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 to critical acclaim, with several reviewers singling it out as one of Plaza's best roles to date.
She worked again with Abbott in 2023 — this time on stage — in the Off Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s play Danny And The Deep Blue Sea, which ran into January 2024.
Plaza and her new partner were last seen together on February 14 when they attended Khaite's Fall/Winter 2026 show as part of New York Fashion Week. The two were pictured sitting side-by-side in the front row alongside stars including Elizabeth Debicki and Gemma Chan.
Prior to revealing her pregnancy, the Parks And Recreation star had managed to keep her relationship with Abbott under the radar.
According to DeuxMoi, a source had spotted Plaza and Abbot looking affectionate at the Chatham Berry Farm, which is a two-and-a-half-hour drive outside of New York City, in June 2025, five months after the death of Plaza's estranged husband.
They claimed that Plaza was spotted speaking to a woman whom they later learned was Abbott's older sister, Christina Abbot, and she went on to post on Instagram in June about a performance at the Chatham Berry Farm.
Abbott is known for a string of acclaimed roles over the past decade and a half, both on television and on the big screen.
Plaza first worked with Abbott on screen in the 2020 psychological drama Black Bear; both are pictured in a still from Black Bear
They collaborated again on stage in 2023 in the Off Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s play Danny And The Deep Blue Sea; pictured together in November 2023 in NYC
Plaza and her new partner were last seen together in February when they attended Khaite's Fall/Winter 2026 show as part of New York Fashion Week; pictured at the show on February 14
Prior to his breakout role on Girls, Abbott had a small supporting role in the well-reviewed psychological drama Martha Marcy May Marlene, which starred Elizabeth Olsen.
After his Girls success, he appeared in films including A Most Violent Year (2014), James White, the Tina Fey–starring Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016), and the psychological horror film It Comes At Night (2017).
In 2018, he appeared with Ryan Gosling as the astronaut Dave Scott in the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man, which was directed by La La Land's filmmaker Damien Chazelle.
Abbott has primarily focused on low-budget independent films, but he has made forays into larger films, including the Emma Stone–starring comedy Poor Things (2023), as well as the DC Comics movie Kraven The Hunter and the Wolf Man reboot (both 2025).
He most recently starred with Amanda Seyfried in the period drama The Testament Of Ann Lee, and he'll be seen in an upcoming Netflix miniseries adaptation of John Steinbeck's East Of Eden, which costars Florence Pugh as his wife.
Plaza's new romance and baby news follow a tragic 2025, in which her estranged husband Jeff Baena died by suicide on January 3.
It was subsequently revealed that the couple had separated four months before his untimely death.
An LA County Medical Examiner's autopsy report obtained by the Daily Mail revealed that the filmmaker and actress had separated back in September of 2024, and she had been living in New York at the time his body was discovered.
Abbott is best known for playing the on–off boyfriend of Allison Williams's character Marnie on Lena Dunham's influential HBO comedy Girls; Williams and Abbott are pictured on Girls in 2012
Plaza had been separated since September from her husband Jeff Baena, an LA County Medical Examiner's autopsy report obtained by DailyMail.com revealed; seen in 2017 in Culver City, Calif.
The report detailed how the Life After Beth director had been 'experiencing marital difficulties' in his final months, and how he had been in therapy.
An investigator noted in the documents that Plaza, whose name was redacted in the final report, said she had spoken with Baena the night before his death.
The report also tragically revealed that Plaza had been concerned for her estranged husband's well-being.
'In October 2024, Baena made concerning remarks to [Plaza] which prompted her to call a friend to perform a welfare check on her husband. Baena had been attending therapy since that event,' the documents stated.
The report determined that Baena did not have drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of his death.
It stated that Plaza 'knew her husband to be alive' as of January 3 because he had sent her a text message that morning.
According to the report, it was a dog walker who discovered Baena's body after hearing loud music emanating from his house, which she said was 'unusual.'
After she called the writer and director and didn't get an answer, she entered the home and discovered his body.
The couple began dating in 2011 and secretly married in 2020. Baena was found dead in their marital home on January 3, 2025, while Plaza had been living in NYC since their September 2024 separation; seen in 2016 in LA
In a statement to the Daily Mail at the time, a representative for the Plaza said: 'This is an unimaginable tragedy. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has offered support. Please respect our privacy during this time.'
Baena, who was known for hosting a popular series of game nights for friends and fellow filmmakers, met Plaza at one of the events in 2011, and the two began dating shortly afterward.
Baena, who got his big break when he co-wrote David O. Russell's 2004 cult comedy I Heart Huckabees, later made his directing debut with the 2014 zombie comedy Life After Beth, which starred Plaza.
They reunited for 2016's Joshy and 2017's The Little Hours, which Plaza also produced, and she had a supporting role in his dark comedy thriller Spin Me Round, which starred Alison Brie, who co-wrote the film with Baena.
In 2018, Plaza told Page Six that the fact that she and Baena mutually 'obsessed' with movies helped them bond and led to their subsequent creative and romantic partnerships.
The couple quietly tied the knot in 2020, and Plaza revealed that they were marrid while promoting Spin Me Round in 2021, when she referred to Baena on Instagram as her 'darling husband.'
Following his death, Plaza made her first public appearance when she introduced musical guests Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard on Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary special in February 2025.
She made a subtle but moving tribute to her late husband by wearing a tie-dye shirt, as they wore matching tie-dye pajamas at their low-key wedding after he picked up tie-dyeing as a hobby in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
The actress made her first public appearance since Baena's death at the SNL 50 special (pictured) in February 2025. She paid tribute to Baena by wearing a tie-dye shirt, as they wore matching tie-dye pajamas at their low-key wedding
She became a star almost overnight after Parks And Recreation debuted on NBC in 2009. She played April Ludgate, the misanthropic assistant to Amy Poehler's bubbly bureaucrat; (L–R) Retta, Aziz Ansari, Plaza and Chris Pratt are pictured on Parks And Recreation
In August of last year, Plaza opened up about the grief she had experienced during a conversation with her former costar, Amy Poehler, on the former SNL star's Good Hang podcast (pictured), which marked her first interview since Baena's death
Plaza began her career working in sketch comedy in the mid-2000s, before she began appearing in short films and online comedy videos later in the decade.
She became a star almost overnight after Parks And Recreation debuted on NBC in 2009. Plaza played April Ludgate, the misanthropic assistant to Amy Poehler's bubbly bureaucrat.
Plaza went on to become an in-demand film star with roles in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (which starred her ex-boyfriend Michael Cera), Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), Ingrid Goes West (2017, The Little Hours (which was directed by Baena), Happiest Season (2020), Emily The Criminal (2022) and My Old A** (2024).
She also appeared as a villain in the X-Men spinoff series Legion (2017–2019), and she was part of the ensemble cast on the hit second season of HBO's The White Lotus in 2022.
In August of last year, Plaza opened up about the grief she had experienced during a conversation with her former costar, Amy Poehler, on the former SNL star's Good Hang podcast, which marked her first interview since Baena's death.
After Poehler referenced the death of her husband and asked how she was doing, Plaza replied, 'Right in this very, very present moment, I feel happy to be with you. Overall, I'm here, and I'm functioning. I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think I'm OK, but it's like a daily struggle.'
She went on: 'This is a really dumb analogy, and it was kind of a joke at a certain point, but I actually mean it. Did you see that movie The Gorge?
'It's like [an] alien movie or something with Miles Teller...' she said, referring to the 2025 Apple TV+ science fiction thriller he costarred in with Anya Taylor-Joy and Sigourney Weaver.
'In the movie, there's like a cliff on one side, and there's a cliff on the other side, then there's a gorge in between, and it's filled with all these, like, monster people that are trying to get them. I swear when I watched it . . . I was, like, that feels like what my grief is like . . . or what grief could be like. At all times there's, like, a giant ocean of awfulness, that's, like, right there, and I can see it...
'Sometimes I just want to dive into it, and just, like, be in it. Then sometimes I just look at it, and sometimes I try to get away from it. But, it's always there.'
Congrats. She deserves all the happiness a first child can bring.
Congratulations! Wishing Aubrey and her family an abundance of joy and love ❤️
It's wonderful news for her after such a rough time recently. Hoping her little one inherits her fabulous fortitude and sense of humour ❤️
Omg she’s with that charlie from girls??? I had no clue! Good for them tho
This first thing I wanted to know… does Marnie know!?!??
Aubrey Plaza is expecting first child with partner one year after husband's death
This is why I hate the media. Why do you need to add anything about her estranged husband’s death when talking about her pregnancy?
Daily Fail failing again.
The last interview I saw her on was 6 months ago where she’s been talking about how devastating it’s been losing her husband to suicide. I don’t know if you’re familiar with how children are made but it would be kinda odd not to at least mention the most recent, widely known thing that happened to her, especially since it relates to her previous intimate partner.
That should make people even more happy for her, and it’s not like this was the title of her announcement. But apparently acknowledging the elephant in the room makes you uncomfortable, so that’s a you problem.
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By 2024, Aubrey and her late husband were already officially separated. Let the woman live.
Don’t even care about her doing this after her husband’s death. She deserves to move on. But isn’t she too old to have a kid? Wishing the best for her child’s health.
Lots of women have babies in their early 40s.
I’m sure. But healthy babies? Isn’t having a baby at 41 high risk?
Hey Guys,
I'm sure many of you saw the big announcement in Variety that Dungeon Crawler Carl is being developed as a live-action TV show. I thought you might also appreciate a quick breakdown of what that actually means, at least in the opinion of someone who spent a decade in Hollywood and actually sold a TV show to that same company once. (Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.)
In order to make a TV show via the traditional system, you need 7 things. They don't have to come in this order, but this is kind of the natural order...
a producer - the company that will actually own the show.
a writer - the person who will write the script
a studio - owns the cameras and lights that will be used to shoot the show (and also puts up the money)
a distributor - the TV channel or streaming platform that will put the show out into the world (can be the same company as the studio, but not always)
a script - usually just for the first episode (the pilot), though that can vary
a cast
an actual, finished pilot episode, which the distributor will then use to decide if they want to order a crap-ton more episodes.
Again, this isn't always how it works, but it's fairly standard.
According to last week's Variety announcement, DCC has made it to step 4. Seth Macfarlane's Fuzzy Door will produce. A very experienced writer named Chris Yost will write the pilot. NBCUniversal will act as both the studio and the distributing via Peacock.
That gets us to step 5, aka "development", which tends to be the most difficult. It's very hard to write a script that satisfies everyone at the studio. A lot of times there will be big, knock-down drag-out fights over tiny, tiny details, and the studio will keep fiddling with things, insisting on change after change after change, until the writer is prepared to jump off a bridge. (Maybe I'm biased.) If the development of the DCC script only takes 6 months, I would say that's pretty good. Development has been known to take years, even decades. (Ender's Game, The Dark Tower.)
Hopefully DCC won't take anywhere near that long, but the next process after development is casting, and I suspect the casting of Carl will be a big, public thing.
So my advice is to take everything you read with a grain of salt, until you see a story about an actor signing to play Carl.
Then go ahead and get excited.
I’ll be honest, I’m not excited. I’m apprehensive. I’d much rather have a complete series, then movies and/or shows.getting sidetracked is a thing.
It does not sound to me like Matt D is going to be involved with writing the pilot, so hopefully that means he can focus on finishing the series.
Definitely would prefer this not turn into a GRRM situation...
I'm more worried about the TV show influencing the source material.
We've seen it, somewhat, with how the MCU influences the look and personalities of the characters in the comics.
DCC is going to need to be toned down a little for the TV screen. I fear that will creep into the writing if the show becomes popular.
Grrm was never finishing the series. Even before the tv show.
Im guessing you missed the past 6 months of this being announced. The only new thing was Peacock signing on as the network.
As the distributor, yes.
So they were previously at step 3, and they just announced they've made it to step 4.
I forget where but it was also announced somewhere (interview maybe?) that Chris had already written a few scripts for the first couple episodes apparently. This was before the news of the streaming platform had broken.
Yost is a killer comic writer. This is actually the thing I’m most excited for.
I've heard that apparently a few scripts have been written, but I may be mixing that up with something else. I'm fairly sure that Matt Dinniman's mentioned something along those lines in an AMA or in a comment recently.
I may have hallucinated this? I feel like I remember someone mentioning Chris Yost has written a few scripts, but I can't find anything, aha.
I hadn't heard that.
The announcement from last week very clearly said "development", which led me to believe that they did not have a pilot yet, or at least not one they are satisfied with. But I certainly could be wrong.
I should probably also say that these press releases are not always timely, as the producer and the studio will tend to negotiate what the release will say down to the word.
I sold my show in August, and I want to say the press release came out in November.
I can't imagine the train world being live action
Ditto.
Filming on train cars and station platforms doesn't seem like a challenge—lots of action movies subway scenes. The big train depot at the center of the Iron Tangle (The Abyss if I'm remembering the name correctly) seems like a problem!
Live action is a mistake. High budget adult animation would have been a much better choice. They just aren't going to be able to do nearly as much with the live action and the whole thing is going to end up looking like people in costumes on sets instead of having Abby immersion.
I have several family members in Hollywood who work sound and stage side of things all the way back to the show Chuck in 2007. I’ve gotten a behind-the-scenes education over the last two decades. (Her husband won a major award for sound - that was quite the journey…) I agree with everything you stated. So far Matt Dinniman seems good at keeping himself compartmentalized. DCC has become its own little content empire recently and we all know what that can do to continued creation of the core content. We need Matt to finish the series. Period. I was VERY worried when Matt started working on Operation Bouncehouse. We started hearing rumblings about a TV show and the kickstarters for side content like the RPG (which my kids have already told me I WILL be running a game for them) around the same time and I grew concerned, but Bouncehouse was pretty good and Matt got right back to it. As long as Mr. Hepafilter doesn’t get pulled down into any rabbit holes and sticks to cranking out the rest of the series, we’ll be good. Hearing the show was going to be live action and not animated worries me. The show will have to be green screened with a huge special effects budget or completely stray from the epic fights and environments from the novels. I think Fuzzy Door is on a short list of those who could pull it off, but we know Seth can do animated and it would allow for the sky to be the limit in translating written word to visual experience.
From a bigger picture, we are approaching the fictional universe singularity for DCC. Either it will spread to the mainstream, continue to grow new fans, and become it’s own sustained universe (I’m thinking more like how Taylor Sheridan has grown the “Sheridan-verse” versus how how Joss Whedon grew the “Buffy-verse”) … or it won’t go mainstream and it will collapse in on itself from over-saturation of the fan base.
But as long as Matt just keeps writing the rest of the series and Jeff Hays continues to bring the audiobooks to life (my god that man should be the next Andy Serkis), the core plot will come to a satisfactory (but almost certainly tragic) ending and the core fans will be happy.
The audiobooks are a fucking masterpiece. If they were to go the animated route, Jeff could still totally do Carl and Donut while the rest of the cast gets picked up by funimation/archer/etc alumns who can help bring the cast to life on a bigger stage.
This has so much potential and I just get the feeling that it's not going to get to go the distance. They need to much CGI to make it work and they aren't going to back it up woth practical effects like they should. I feel like the art direction is going to be too Grimdark and the wrong tone.
I'm imagining the costumes on a set problem to feel like Hook from the 90s, but the tone and color pallet is going to be stuck somewhere between Sin City and 300, and it's going to feel like the worst parts of the Watchmen movie with how stiff it'll be. I don't know if that made sense or not.
Mahatma rice is what we use. And we brown it in Mazola oil.
Verde Valle is good too if you can get it but the key is don’t go too fancy. Even store brand is good.
A lot of those places are just using plain long-grain white rice, often Canilla or Mahatma, plus a little oil and salt. The flavor you’re clocking is usually from the pot aromatics and whatever it sat next to in the steam table, not some secret boutique grain. The brown streaks can just be toasted bits or seasoning from the pot. If you want that exact bodega or hot-bar vibe, rinse the rice, toast it lightly in oil first, and don’t be shy with salt.
Its a special kind of rice variety known as "arroz"
Lmao this reminds me of arrested development when Gob thinks his gf is cheating with someone named "hermano." Turns out she's just talking to her brother and "hermano" means brother
You’re a good guy, mon frere! That means brother in French. I don’t know why I know that - I took 4 years of Spanish!
And for the whole episode, Gob calls his brother “Fratello” and other versions of the word brother in other languages. Great writing
she was falling in love with his brother, with Michael 😂. But he kept looking for “this Hermano guy” instead of looking at his in hermano 🤦🏽
His girlfriend is Marta 2
Haha. I think they're messing with you. That's just the Spanish word for rice. Here's a little about Mexican rice preparations. Long grain white rice is most common:
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Puerto Ricans use Carolina
Here's some good information about common rice preparations in Mexico. Long grain white rice is most common.
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Pushing back against pervasive negativity, the article argues that a deeper analysis of the Kings' performance reveals a fundamentally strong and competitive team. While conventional metrics like regulation wins and goal differential might seem underwhelming, the team boasts a robust +60 expected goal differential, placing them alongside top contenders in the league. This indicates excellent structural play, with their 26 regulation losses—12 of which were one-goal games—underscoring their consistent ability to compete closely against elite opponents.
The core issue isn't poor play, but rather an inability to convert created chances into goals and unfavorable puck luck, alongside a struggling power play. The recent coaching transition to Smith is highlighted as a significant positive, invigorating the team with a more aggressive, offensive, yet defensively responsible style. Despite challenges like the loss of key scorer Fiala and roster miscalculations, the Kings benefit from strategic additions like Panarin, enduring veteran leadership from Kopi and Doughty, and vital contributions from emerging young talent. This blend suggests a tough, battle-ready squad with genuine playoff potential, particularly in a postseason format free from 3v3 overtimes and shootouts.
"Forget the surface-level grumbling: the Kings are a structurally sound, highly competitive team, often just a few finishes away from proving their playoff contender status."
I’m gonna be honest, I’m getting kinda tired of all the negativity in here about the Kings. I don’t know if all team subs are like this, just negative negative negative all the time talking shit about the team, but I’m a fan. I like hockey. I’m excited to root for my team.
I’m not saying they’re cup contenders yet. But acting like this team sucks just doesn’t line up with what we’re actually seeing.
If you just look at regulation wins and goal differential, yeah it doesn’t look great. But dig a little deeper and it’s a different story.
They’ve only lost 26 games in regulation all year. In the West, only Colorado, Dallas, and Vegas have fewer. And 12 of those were one goal games. So most nights they’re right there, just a bounce or two away.
They obviously haven’t been able to score enough, but the underlying numbers are actually pretty strong. They’re sitting around 245 xGF and about 185 xGA, that’s a +60 differential, which is right in line with top teams. Structurally they play good hockey. The issue isn’t that they’re playing bad, it’s that they’re not finishing. They’re creating chances at a rate that matches contenders, they just aren’t converting enough of them.
That’s part puck luck, part finishing. Hockey is weird like that. You can control play for long stretches and get nothing, then a puck hits a skate and ends up in your net. Feels like we’ve been on the wrong side of that more than a few times. And the power play obviously hasn’t helped, which just makes everything look worse than it probably is.
The coaching change was long overdue. Dumping Hiller and bringing in Smith, they’re playing more aggressive, creating more offense, but still staying pretty solid defensively. It actually feels like a step forward, even if the results haven’t fully caught up yet.
Adding Panarin, a true finisher, was huge and it really feels like that could’ve been enough to get them through a playoff round. But then you lose Fiala, and that hurts. He’s one of the few guys who can actually create and finish, and that shows up in these tight games.
Roster-wise yeah, not everything has been perfect. Cody Ceci was a mistake, no way around that. But Dumoulin honestly hasn’t been that bad, and there have been some gems like Scott Laughton who has been great, especially on face-offs.
And honestly it’s pretty amazing they’re in tight games with top teams while relying on younger guys like Helenius, Wright, Ward, and Malott.
And we still have guys like Kopi and Doughty who’ve been the backbone of this team for years, and I still enjoy watching them play.
We can’t win every year. But we we’re tough, we win puck battles, and we’re competitive in games against some of the best teams in the league almost every night.
I’m still really excited to watch this team, and I give them a lot of credit for hanging in there every night, even if they haven’t been able to get over the hump a lot of nights in regulation. And come playoffs, when the gimmicky 3v3 and shootout stuff is gone, I honestly think they could win a round.
Just feels like people need to calm down a bit. It’s not nearly as bad as it’s being made out to be.
19 reg wins in 77 games.
"They've only lost 26 in regulation" is an insane cope when this stat exists.
If they don’t suck, they’re not good
This is exactly it. The definition of lukewarm.
Luuuuc!
For me, there won’t be a day in my life I don’t love this team. I remember coming to games with my parents when I was little.I remember the dark ages in the 2000s drought. I remember the cup runs when I was in middle school. I’ve loved the team through highs and lows.
I don’t mind when we suck. We’ve kinda sucked these last few years. But the part that is disappointing is the front office doesn’t seem to care enough to get better. 4 years of being bounced in the first round is brutal. 4 years of being bounced in the first round by the same team is befuddling.
We fired Todd, instead of going out and bringing a winner to LA, we promote Jim Hiller. We fire Rob Blake, and of all people we bring in Ken Holland. We fire Hiller, and I like DJ, but Cassidy is RIGHT FUCKING THERE! (Yes I know the firings didn’t line up but that’s what interim means). Not to mention, look at what Sturm is doing in Boston.
All in all, I’ll always love this team. But I just want this front office to care as much as we do. We deserve it. The players deserve it. LA deserves it. I’ll always share your optimism though, OP. Y’know, BELIEVE
A minus-25 goal differential doesn’t exactly scream confidence.
They’re sitting around 245 xGF this season, which puts them roughly top 10 in the league, and around the middle to upper half of playoff teams.
So the issue isn’t that they can’t create offense, they clearly can. They’re generating chances at a playoff level, even borderline contender level.
Do you really believe the kings are a borderline contender?
“they’re right there, just a bounce or two away“ this mentality is why nothing has changed. We cannot be doing this!
We’ve also only won 19 and regulation and do you know what playoffs are played as? 5v5….
Outside of Clarke the d core is old and slow annd do not score and it’s locked up so it’s only going to get worse. And Dumo is occasionally serviceable, but to say he’s been good as an overstatement. Some games he’s good but the majority it’s been bad.
We can’t call a coaching change if we just brought up our assistant coach the people are still the same. There needs to be bigger changes. Look at what Vegas and the islands have done with like five games left in the season.
It’s not being doomer it’s being realistic. This team is not a playoff team. We are barely a playoff team in historically the worst division ever.
We should be calling out the team and the management for what they have done to this. There needs to be change
Commenting on your point about regulation games. If the point system were like before, we would’ve ended up with a ton of ties, and never played 3 on 3 in which we suck. Take every overtime loss this year, change it to 5 on 5 with no shootout, and I bet we would’ve won at least half of the games. We really do suck at shootouts and 3 on 3. But I fully expect that going to overtime with real 5 on 5 hockey will be much better for us.
I didn’t say Dumo is good. I said he’s not been bad. He’s not putting up points and he’s not flashy, but he’s steady, blocks shots, plays his role, and doesn’t really hurt you. He’s more of a low-event, stay-at-home guy than someone who’s going to drive play.
We are currently in a playoff position so to say this is not a playoff team is factually incorrect at this point.
You say we should be calling out the team in front office? If you think anyone with the Kngs checks with this subReddit to make decisions about the team, then you are completely delusional. This subReddit is a place for fans to talk about a team that we love to support. That doesn’t mean we can’t criticize the team, but I’m just getting tired of seeing nothing but whiny negative comments constantly.
Glad you’re keeping the faith. They are not good this year compared to prior years. Make the playoffs for Kopi then rebuild. Hopefully we don’t go into a black hole like the Blackhawks.
“You got this dumbass!” 🐱
I just put together my first home network rack. It has a tp-link TL-SG108E 8-port managed switch, GMKtec M5 Ultra NUC, and a Terramaster D4-320 DAS with (x4) Seagate 6TB IronWolf NAS HDDs.
I 3D printed most of the mounting hardware/accessories including the network cable organisers and shrouding for the LED lighting. The lights made assembly easier and it looks nice!
I'm still waiting on an Asus RT-AX86U AX7500 router and (x2) Raspberry Pi 5's (8GB). I definitely went overboard with the Tripp Lite 1300VA 720W BBU.
Laverne DeFazio approves
The dirty baha blast.. blasts.
I fuck up the dirty bajas
In indian cultues they do this drink of 1 quater cola and 3 quarters milk. We just call"milk soda"
Is that still considered doodh soda, or is that only with 7-Up?
Must be a regional thing--only now of using cola/pepsi, not lemon flavored soda
Pilk is big brain funny
So what’s the best one?
Obsessed with this recipe and wanted to share!
- Peel and cut potatoes to shape preferred for roasting
- sprinkle salt, pepper, dried or fresh oregano, lemon zest (some people use minced garlic also but I prefer without) edit: you can also add lemon juice which is usually included but I exclude as I wasn’t a fan. It gave the potato a sour taste for me
- coat in olive oil (I’m pretty generous but you can use as much as you like so long as it’s enough to make it crispy once the stock has evaporated)
- pour chicken stock over the potatoes until they’re covered
- bake at 200 degrees Celsius until all the stock has been absorbed/evaporated and potatoes are crispy (takes a while maybe an hour and 20 minutes but worth the wait!)
You are left with the crispy but also softest, fluffiest potato!
I worked months longer than I needed to at a Greek restaurant, just for their potatoes and the saganaki.
Love it.
If you use water instead of stock, add a shoulder of lamb and a couple of bulbs of garlic, and cook for three hours on slow (keeping it moist) you have kleftiko. Which is food of the gods.
kleftiko is the most delicious thing on earth
Put some chicken in there to roast alongside, serve with feta and yellow mustard!
I was wondering if you do these with a spatchcocked chicken on top. Damnit. Now I’m hungry
How much stock please?
When your heart tells you to stop
I don’t measure unfortunately. Basically i fill an entire baking dish (size depends on how many potatoes you want) and then fill the dish up with stock so the potatoes are covered. You then bake until the stock is gone and the potatoes are crispy from the oil.
Hope that helps!
How much time does it take? Kinda?
“Until they are covered”?
ok wait i’ve never tried pouring stock like that, i usually just roast straight. does it still get super crispy or more soft inside? sounds really good tho might try this next meal prep,,,
Basically the stock boils and absorbs into the potato (also evaporates). Once all the stock is gone you need to let the potatoes roast and crisp up. Like it said it takes a little while but I find the creaminess or the potato paired with the crispiness very satisfying. It’s not crispy like a duck fat potato that’s been par boiled beforehand however. The edges aren’t roughed up etc. You could try roughing the edges up to make it more crispy but I still think it wouldn’t get the level of crunch that duck fat potatoes give you.
Edit; I shouldn’t have said crispiest in the post lol. I should have just said crispy. I will edit
Crispy on the outside and fluffy goodness on the inside works for me. I’m definitely trying this. Thank you
That's exactly how you do confit potatoes. Fancy steak restaurants use beef stock and rosemary tho :)
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Project Name: Amalex Handler
Website: https://amalexhandler.com
Description: Self-hosted file transfer and sync platform. Move, sync, and back up files across local drives, SFTP servers, and SMB/Samba shares from a single web dashboard.
The problem: Managing file transfers across multiple servers with rsync scripts and cron jobs. When something failed silently at 3am, I'd only find out days later. I wanted one tool with a proper UI where I could see what transferred, what failed, and why.
Features:
6 transfer modes: copy, copy-overwrite, move, move-overwrite, sync-mirror, sync-update
Cron-based scheduling with human-readable descriptions
Real-time dashboard with live progress (SSE, no polling)
Per-file error tracking with classified error messages and fix suggestions
AES-encrypted connection credentials, Argon2id password hashing, CSRF protection
Job history — full audit trail of every transfer
Deployment: Single binary, zero dependencies. Download from the website, run it, open your browser. No Docker required, no database to set up (embedded SQLite). Runs on Windows, macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon), and Linux (amd64 + arm64). .deb and .rpm packages available. Documentation and example config included.
Pricing: 14-day free trial, no credit card. Personal license $39 one-time, Team $99 one-time. No subscription. The binary works offline — no license server or phone-home.
Tech stack: Go 1.25, Chi router, HTMX, SQLite (pure Go), Server-Sent Events, Zerolog
AI Involvement: AI was used as a coding assistant during development (architecture decisions, debugging, code review). All code was reviewed, tested, and understood by me. The project design, feature decisions, and product direction are entirely mine.
Happy to answer questions or take feature requests. File filtering, S3 support, and email notifications are next on the roadmap.
Project Name: squarebox
Repo/Website Link: https://github.com/SquareWaveSystems/squarebox
Description: squarebox is my Docker-based dev environment that bundles modern CLI and TUI tools into a portable, persistent workspace. Originally built to run Claude Code from my iPad over SSH.
Key Features:
Modern Stack: Pre-loaded with fzf, lazygit, yazi, starship, zoxide, and more.
Modular Setup: An interactive first-launch script lets you toggle AI assistants (Claude, Gemini, Copilot), editors (Helix, Neovim, Micro), and SDKs.
Smart Persistence: Container state, command history, and tool selections survive exits and rebuilds.
In-place Updates: Includes sqrbx-update to pull the latest tool binaries directly from GitHub releases without needing to rebuild the image.
Deployment: Available on GitHub. It can be deployed as a standard Docker container or used as a VS Code Dev Container / GitHub Codespace.
Quick Start: docker run once to create; docker start -ai squarebox to resume (aliased to squarebox for convenience).
Self-hosting: Run on any machine with docker, e.g. a VPS, or local Linux/macOS/windows environments.
Documentation: The README includes installation steps, volume mount configurations and more explanation.
AI Involvement: Built using Claude code.
Hiya! I made an open-source tool to monitor system performance on Windows PCs, but in the style of a time-series dashboard like Grafana!
https://vaktr.app/ https://github.com/WyrickC/Vaktr
I made this tool because I wanted to see my PC's performance over time, for however long I want, and with a prettier UI that works for my personal tastes.
As to my background, I work in the IT infrastructure world and am very familiar with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and Windows Exporter and have come to really appreciate telemetry displayed in a time-series format. There are definitely some existing awesome tools out there that already solve some of these issues like HWInfo, but I wanted to see it in a sleek, Grafana-style dashboard and have it "just work" out of the box without too much additional setup. I used a combo of claude code, codex, and some of my own knowledge to help me.
The main features:
Grafana-style UI with time-series panels and gauges
Metrics data stored over a configurable amount of time
Optional metrics scrape interval (how often data is recorded and displayed
It's free
It's open source
This tool is not a replacement for enterprise level observability solutions, but it's free and easy to use so try it out and leave any critiques or feedback ya have! Hope to see some other projects in here soon :)
Reach out to me here or on X (@5ollys)
Project Name: hls-restream-proxy
Repo/Website Link: https://github.com/pcruz1905/hls-restream-proxy
Description: Lightweight HLS restream toolkit for self-hosted media servers (Jellyfin, Emby, Plex). Extracts live HLS streams from free sports streaming sites and pipes them into your media server — no ads, no browser needed.
The problem: Free streaming sites bury the actual video behind iframes and ads, m3u8 tokens expire every few hours, and the upstream server blocks requests without the right HTTP headers. Jellyfin gets a 403 and shows "Playback failed."
Features:
detect-headers.sh — Auto-detects which HTTP headers a stream requires by testing every combination on both .m3u8 and .ts requests
hls-proxy.py — Single-file Python reverse proxy that injects User-Agent/Referer and rewrites m3u8 playlists so segments also get proxied
refresh-m3u.sh — Scrapes source pages for fresh m3u8 URLs, outputs a clean M3U with channel logos, groups, and ordering
Systemd timer for automatic token refresh
Deployment: No containers needed. Clone the repo, configure channels.conf, start the proxy with python3 hls-proxy.py, run refresh-m3u.sh to generate the M3U, and add it as a tuner in your media server. Systemd unit files included. Works with Docker-based media servers (bridge network gateway docs included). Requirements: Python 3.8+ (stdlib only, zero pip dependencies) and bash/curl.
AI Involvement: The code was almost entirely written manually. I tried using AI for parts of it but it refused to help with the scraping/restreaming scripts, so I had to figure most of it out myself. AI only helped with some generic Python boilerplate. The Reddit post was drafted with AI assistance xD
Project Name:
Yet Another Rclone Dashboard
Repo/Website Link:
https://github.com/outlook84/yet-another-rclone-dashboard
Description:
A modern Web dashboard for `rclone rcd`.
It supports multiple connection profiles, remote browsing, sorting/filtering, folder creation, file upload/download, copy/sync/move/delete operations, remotes inspection, config import/export, job monitoring, and stopping active jobs. It also includes basic media preview, mobile-friendly UI, multiple built-in themes, and PWA support so it can be installed like a standalone app.
The goal is to provide a cleaner and more modern Web UI for people already using Rclone RC, especially for self-hosters who want a more convenient way to browse storage, manage transfers, and perform common file operations remotely.
Deployment:
The project is released and available through GitHub Releases.
- Serve it directly with `rclone rcd` using `--rc-files`
- Let Rclone fetch the latest Web GUI automatically with `--rc-web-gui` and `--rc-web-fetch-url`
- Serve the extracted build with Nginx or Caddy
- Use an auth gateway + reverse proxy setup for more advanced/self-hosted deployments
AI Involvement:
Codex was used as an AI coding assistant during development.
I wanted to share a small self-hosted project I’ve been working on Haby.
It is a simple habit tracker focused on daily use without unnecessary complexity.
I built it because I couldn’t find any self-hosted alternative that really suited my needs.
Track habits/goals (daily, weekly, monthly)
Visual progress with charts and calendars
No external dependencies (uses SQLite)
This project was built with the help of AI for architecture decisions, debugging and refining code and structure.
All core functionality, testing, and direction were handled manually.
GitHub:
https://github.com/Zvijer1987/haby
Quick start:
https://github.com/Zvijer1987/haby/blob/main/compose.yaml.example
If anyone has feedback, ideas, or wants to contribute, feel free to open an issue or comment.
Thanks!
Let’s go Gaints!!!
You can do it 🧡
I'm pretty sure they can't.
You guys are hurting my feeling.
We deserve this but you gotta flair up
We got our run tonight. You saying we need more???
not if Ramos morphs into Jo Adell
We do not need to see the whole system-wide messages multiple times in your books! Just tell us it repeats and stop trying to up your word count.
We do not need to see the whole system-wide messages multiple times in your books! Just tell us it repeats and stop trying to up your word count.
We do not need to see the whole system-wide messages multiple times in your books! Just tell us it repeats and stop trying to up your word count.
We do not need to see the whole system-wide messages multiple times in your books! Just tell us it repeats and stop trying to up your word count.
SEE?! Annoying, isn't it?
EDIT: I mean the announcements like first clear or other world first announcements that go to everyone repeatedly.
Its the worst in audiobooks. Takes upwards of 4 minutes to listen to a bunch of minutia i don't care about
Relistening to Bog Standard Isekai right now and the stat page is its own half chapter. I can just skip it and not have to hear it again. It's one of the best things an author has done for an audiobook.
Same here. It is one of the reason I very much enjoy BSI
Agreed. The author's a Boss for it. Very easy on the audiobook ears. Can't wait for book 5 to come out!
One of the reasons I dropped hwfwm, the same exact currency or reward announcement after everything he did
That's because it's an older series and was written/recorded before authors really understood how annoying the stat pages and system messages were in audiobooks.
They get better in the later books. There's even an authors note detailing it
I have seen it done well in station core. The author has it set up so you can skip large stat block by going to the next chapter. The stats alone could fill a 8 hour long book so it was needed but still great books
Just finished book 1 of Randidly Ghosthound and I was so sick of this by the end. Besides the dozen full stat screens you also get "Congratulations! Your skill nose picking has increased to level 69" on like every page. Especially annoying in audio
If you are talking about the Randidly Ghosthound books with the main character Randidly Ghosthound aka The Ghosthound. Where Randidly Ghosthound fights all comers at once and the Ghosthound, Randidly Ghosthound has long internal monologues about the inner workings of his skills, Randidly Ghosthound's skills. I think there is another kind of repetition that is more annoying in that book.
Yeah I couldn't get through
Look, I've already taken steps. My MC is as sick of them as everyone else and checks them only at certain, plot convenient times.
In text, I think it's fine because you can just skim right over it, but in audiobook it's particularly annoying though. I think there needs to be an audio book specific Edit for a lot of this kind of stuff.
Amazon has polices where the audible version has to be the same as the written version, so you can't make specific audiobook edits from what I know.
What about multiple level up notifications? Relatively new litrpg writer, I am mostly trying to avoid big stat blocks. So I put stat sheets into their own chapter. But I do show the level notifications.
If you're levelling up multiple times that fast .. it seems to me that the levels are not significant.
What usually happens is notifications off until the end of the fight ?
level up from the mobs a couple times then at least a couple levels from the "boss".
I guess that's more acceptable for the first few levels. But if it's that easy that the character can do it "this morning" it means everyone getting XP is going to have a base level., Why would people get XP? A militia is required to practice andtrain, or: people are not stupid and realise that they must be able to deal with minor things themselves or they die.
I'd rather the characters voice tells us. "5 levels! wow. amazing. go me".
Than 5 consecutive lines saying "level up"
Another way of handling it would be for plucky sickick .. "So what skill are you going for now .. you did level up?"
or the wise mentor "hey kid; blasters are no match for hokey religions. but don't forget to spend those points"
Forgot the book I read where they did it, but instead of repeating it if they level multiple times, just maybe?
Level Up! 1 -> 5
Just first and last, with any revelant increases in skills and/or talents.
I actually don't think I've ever seen this. Multiple different World Messages, sure, but never repeated ones back to back.
You changed "system wide" to "world", and I don't think that's what OP meant. I think they were referring to uncustomed text that is used frequently by the system. (e.g. "Congratulations! Your skills have increased!")
system-wide = used throughout the system's speech
system-wide ≠ sent to everyone with system access
Ahhhh. Read a few stories where "system-wide" basically meant "goes to everyone connected to the system at once" so that's where my mind went.
If we're talking like, a basic template like your example then yeah, that's everywhere. I simply ignore everything but the relevant bits, though I can see it being torture for audiobook listeners.
I meant the second one. Sent to everyone.
Please be kind as I'm just double checking.
Based on my calculations, this power supply should be enough to power 24 hard drives without splitters or a backplane? I'm recycling a Lian-Li PC v2110 that is capable of 18 hard disks using (3) 5.25 to (5) 3.5 converters plus some screw on brackets to make the difference for the 6 hard drives up to a total of 24. No discrete GPU and using standard i5 CPU. HBA is a 9305/6-24i with a fan attached to it etc.
This is the only easily available PSU that still has this many SATA connections on it locally available.
Yes, I have that one for exactly this purpose. If I remember correctly the HX1200i shpuld have even more connectors.
But: you'll need to buy extra sata cables from the manufacturer. None of those PSUs come with enough cables for your purpose.
Also the efficiency will be very bad. PSUs want to be used roughly at about 40% to 80% of their rated power. My server is at ~60W idle (but very high inrush current due to the HDDs), which makes the PSU itself consume about 20-30 additional Watts.
I am planning to switch to a rack mounted enclosure (HakoForge) with power distribution PCBs, because of that problem. Although I'd still need to find a PSU that delivers enough current for the HDD power up spikes...
This also came up on my computations as well. But I don't know how to reach 40% reliably because I don't really want to change components and just recycling mid range consumer stuff I've gathered throughout the years.
Also I think the 1200-1500w only have more pcie power. 6 is the most you get for consumer psus iirc.
Btw, depending on your server enclosure the sata cables might be too short to reach all HDD positions. I have a Fractal Define 7 XL and its not possible to use one cable for the upper 4 HDD slots. One or two of them works, but not all 4. Its simply too short. You'd need extender cables. Or custom ones.
Also cables with more than 4 sata connectors exist :)
Can't you use hdparm to set the disks not to spin up when they get power?
I'd like that, but Unraid doesn't support it (yet). Even if I would modify it, it would probably only work on boot, not when Unraid itself spins up the disks.
i just made my own connectors. you can buy bulk packs of sata power ends. just do the math on load, add some margin and get to crimping.
I'm trying to avoid this because I'm not good at crimping cables and haven't done it in a while.
that would be me too. I'd go so far as to figure out the pinout of the connector on the psu and making my own cables in accordance to the layout of the case with bigger wire than what comes with it. likely using the crimp on wire style for a clean setup.
Yeah, I reused my secondary graphics card output for some of the drives. I have 70 SATA connectors on my power supply right now, I'm using 54 of them
Sorry but is that USB-C? What for?
Telemetry of the PSU. In linux, you can check your PSU stats like current on each voltage rail, voltages, power, temperatures, via the "sensors" command in the shell. Pretty neat, especially when thrown into grafana
that'd be pretty sweet on a server. kinda like the sensors for idrac on dell servers. I wish more psus came with a open-standard sensor thing for monitoring power draw.
iCUE.
Bless you.
I think its just for monitoring stuff because it's a i series psu from Corsair.
1000W is massive overkill. 24 drives pull under 300W at startup. Check that Type 4 cable kit though, most Hx1000i boxes don't include enough SATA leads for 24 drives.
Iirc the type 4 is still easy to buy cables for. The only two brands I could see that have cables that are easily sourced are corsair ones and seasonic. But all the seasonic psus with a lot of sata power connectors are sold out locally
Yeah, just get some Cablemod cables, it’ll be fine.
Powering 24 disks without a backplane isn't a big concern.
Managing them is.
Hope you manage to have fun with this...sincerely hope.
This is my idea of... masochism.
You'll need 6x sata module power connectors that supports 4x sata connectors.
Premium Individually Sleeved SATA Cable, Type 4 (Generation 3) - Black
I might go the cable mod route because from what I've seen this is just as long/short as the ones bundled in the PSU.
This guide presents a practical, cost-effective strategy for creating a 12-week emergency food supply for one adult, explicitly addressing limitations of small living spaces and tight budgets. The author advocates for storing dried staples in sealed Ball jars with oxygen absorbers—preferring them over bulky canned goods due to their compactness, stackability, rodent-proofing, and extended shelf life. The plan's nutritional framework targets approximately 2,750 calories, 92g protein, and 68g fiber daily from basic ingredients, with essential vitamins A and C economically supplemented through daily pills.
A central component is the revised 7-day menu, personally tested for variety to combat palate fatigue. It offers diverse "pioneer-style" meals—such as flatbreads, porridges, stews, and patties—all prepared using only the 15 designated weekly jars. Recipes are designed for low-fuel cooking methods (e.g., camp stove, solar oven) or cold-soaking, ensuring adaptability in grid-down scenarios. The weekly inventory specifies quantities for flour, rice, pinto beans, oats (rolled and steel cut), instant potatoes, and powdered milk, emphasizing a foundational "grains-and-beans" approach. The author currently has 5-6 weeks of food covered, actively rotates older jars first, and regularly tests meals, encouraging others to adopt this simple, expandable system for robust preparedness.
"Commonsense says: Lay in the grains-and-beans basics first (which I’ve already done), then add variety as space and budget allow."
Stockpiling Food for Small Spaces and Small Budgets
- A Common Sense Approach
My 3-Month Ball-Jar Stockpile for One Adult
(15 sealed jars per week – half-gallon and quart Ball jars with oxygen absorbers)
I am currently rotating jars and testing menus right now.
A Common Sense Approach to Stockpiling Food for the Apocalypse (I Mean Grid-Down or Pandemic)
For Those who Live in Small Spaces and Have a Small Budget
This sample plan is designed to give one adult a cheap, ultra-compact way to store a 3-month (12-week) supply of food using only sealed Ball jars. I built it around what I already have on hand in my pantry right now (updated April 2026). The entire 12-week supply fits in a single closet or under a bed.
This plan is:
• Compact: One week = exactly 15 jars. Stack them, label them by week, and rotate oldest first.
• Expandable: Add more weekly “boxes” as budget and space allow.
• Cheap: Right now I’m using only what I’ve already jarred—no new purchases needed.
• Nutritious: Meets roughly 2,750 calories per day, 92 g protein, and 68 g fiber. My vitamin stack fills the gaps for A and C.
I have included a revised 7-day emergency menu with more variety (still using only the same 15 jars). I mixed up the combinations, textures, and prep styles so no two days feel the same—pancakes one day, patties the next, one-pot stews, fried flats, and cold-soak options. These are the exact meals I’ve tested myself.
Footnote
¹ This entire plan is directly based on the original guide Stockpiling Food for Small Spaces and Small Budgets – A Common Sense Approach by “Average Concerned Mom” I kept her table style, question-and-answer format, pioneer-cooking philosophy, and “commonsense says” tone, but updated every number and recipe to my current sealed Ball-jar inventory and 1-adult needs.
What are you talking about? Grid-down or pandemic? Store 12 weeks of food? Why on earth?
I’ll leave the “why” to the experts. This is a how-to guide from someone who is actively doing it right now. The original document points to www.pandemicflu.gov and notes that the US State Department and UN recommend 12 weeks for their own people. That was good enough for me, so I adapted it.
Why store dried foods in jars instead of canned, ready-to-eat?
Canned food is bulky and expensive when you’re trying to fit 12 weeks into a small space. Jars are compact, stackable, rodent-proof, and I can see exactly what I have. I already have the oxygen absorbers and jars, so everything stays good for years.
So how do I store vitamin-rich foods?
I do exactly what the original guide suggests: cheap vitamin supplements. My current Swanson stack (C-1000 powder, Adult 50+ Multi, D3, and Mg) costs almost nothing per day and fits in a shoebox. I still keep an inventory of canned foods for variety, but the bulk of my vitamins come from the pills I already take.
But my household won’t eat plain beans, oats, and flatbread.
I hear you. That’s why I test every menu ahead of time. The recipes below are simple, and I add a little honey or sugar from my stock for morale. Teach yourself (and anyone else in the house) to try eating this way once a week now—there’s no downside even if nothing ever happens.
How will I cook all these foods if we lose power?
I keep a propane camp stove and a small solar oven option. Most meals only need boiling water or a quick fry. If there is literally no heat, many items (oats, instant potatoes, soaked beans) can be cold-soaked. I’ve already practiced the no-heat versions.
What about water?
I store water separately in containers. The dried food in jars can go in places that get cold or might attract rodents.
OK, I’ll try this – but I don’t like to cook. Will it be hard to cook every day, 3 times a day?
You can do this. These are not fancy meals. They are basic pioneer-style cooking: porridge, flatbread, beans and rice, mashed potatoes. I’m not trying to be Martha Stewart of the apocalypse—just keep myself alive and functional. Once you have a few weeks jarred, you’ll never have to run to the store before a storm again.
Nutritional Considerations
I used the same free body calculator the original author mentioned and the exact calorie/protein/fiber targets from my current setup (updated April 2026 matrix).
Daily goals for one adult:
2,750 calories / 92 g protein / 68 g fiber
Weekly goal (15 jars):
19,250 calories / 644 g protein / 476 g fiber
This jar plan gives me the calories, protein, and fiber to stay alive and functional. Vitamins A and C are low from food alone—that’s why I keep the Swanson supplements. I take them daily with breakfast.
Commonsense says: Lay in the grains-and-beans basics first (which I’ve already done), then add variety as space and budget allow. I rotate oldest jars first and test some of the meals every month so I know exactly what it will taste like.
WEEKLY 15-JAR SUPPLY (my current sealed jars – 1 adult, 7 days)
| Item | Jars/Week | Lbs per Week | Calories per Week | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STARCHES | ||||
| Flour | 6 | 8.52 | 14,025 | Flatbreads, porridge, pancakes |
| White Rice | 3 | 5.40 | 8,910 | Boil or soak |
| Pinto Beans | 2 | 6.60 | 4,710 | Soak overnight |
| Rolled Oats | 1 | 1.45 | 2,550 | Breakfast / raw soak |
| Steel Cut Oats | 1 | 1.45 | 2,550 | Breakfast variety |
| Instant Potatoes | 1 | 1.60 | 2,550 | Mash or patties |
| PROTEIN FOODS | ||||
| Powdered Milk | 1 | 1.60 | 2,600 | Reconstitute (30 g = 1 cup) |
| FLAVORINGS | ||||
| Sugar / Honey | from stock | — | 200–400 | Morale sweetener |
| Salt | from stock | — | 0 | Seasoning |
TOTAL per week
19,250+ calories / ~644 g protein / ~476 g fiber
(Goal was: 19,250 calories / 644 g protein / 476 g fiber)
Current sealed jars (as of April 2026):
Flour 28 | Rice 12 | Pinto Beans 8 | Powdered Milk 4 | Rolled Oats 9 | Steel Cut Oats 4 | Instant Potatoes 6
→ That gives me roughly 5–6 weeks fully covered right now. See the full 12-week matrix at the end if you want the exact coverage chart.
Sample Daily Menus for People Who Are Not Used to Cooking
Revised for more variety – I rearranged combos, textures, and prep styles so every day feels different while still using only the same jars. Breakfasts rotate bases, lunches mix proteins and carbs in new ways, dinners use patties, one-pots, or stuffed flats, and snacks alternate sweet/savory. All portions are dry grams for easy scooping. Prep is low-fuel: boil, fry on camp stove, or cold-soak. Reconstitute powdered milk as needed (30 g powder + water = 1 cup). Calories stay ~2,700–2,900/day.
Day 1 (~2,780 cal) – Oat & Rice Focus
Breakfast: Rolled oat porridge – 48 g rolled oats + 30 g powdered milk + 21 g honey + pinch salt (boil 5 min)
Lunch: Rice & bean one-pot – 92 g dry rice + 95 g dry pinto beans (pre-soaked) + salt (boil together 20–30 min)
Dinner: Instant potato mash – 54 g flakes + 64 g flour flatbread (fried) + 30 g milk + salt
Snacks: 48 g steel cut oats (cold-soaked) + 21 g honey; salted rice (~50 g)
Day 2 (~2,760 cal) – Steel Cut & Bean Stew Day
Breakfast: Steel cut oat mush – 96 g steel cut oats + 30 g milk + 24 g sugar + pinch salt (boil into thick porridge)
Lunch: Pinto bean stew with potato – 190 g pinto beans + 27 g instant potatoes (boiled together, mashed) + salt
Dinner: Flour tortilla wraps – 120 g flour dough (fried flats) stuffed with 92 g rice + 21 g honey drizzle
Snacks: 48 g rolled oats (raw) + salted beans (~50 g boiled)
Day 3 (~2,850 cal) – Pancake & Patty Day
Breakfast: Flour pancakes – 120 g flour + 60 g milk + 24 g sugar + 21 g honey + salt (fry small flats)
Lunch: Bean croquettes – 95 g pinto beans mashed + 30 g flour + 54 g instant potato flakes (mixed, fried patties) + salt
Dinner: Rice bowl – 185 g dry rice boiled + 95 g beans + 12 g honey stirred in
Snacks: Flour crepe (60 g flour + 12 g sugar, fried thin); 48 g oats soaked
Day 4 (~2,720 cal) – Potato & Flatbread Focus
Breakfast: Potato-oat porridge – 27 g instant potatoes + 48 g rolled oats + 30 g milk + 24 g sugar + salt (boil together)
Lunch: Flour flatbread with beans – 120 g flour dough (fried) + 95 g boiled beans + 21 g honey topping
Dinner: Rice & bean stew with milk – 92 g rice + 95 g beans + 30 g powdered milk (creamy boil) + salt
Snacks: Honey milk drink (30 g powder + 21 g honey); salted rice (~50 g)
Day 5 (~2,810 cal) – Mixed Stir & Mash Day
Breakfast: Instant potato porridge – 54 g flakes + 48 g steel cut oats + 21 g honey + salt (boil into mush)
Lunch: Rice “stir” – 185 g rice + 95 g beans + 30 g flour bits (fried crisp for texture) + salt
Dinner: Bean mash patties – 95 g pinto beans + 120 g flour (mixed, fried) + 12 g sugar
Snacks: 48 g rolled oats (soaked); 27 g potato flakes (dry with salt)
Day 6 (~2,740 cal) – Oat & Pancake Combo
Breakfast: Large steel cut oatmeal – 96 g steel cut oats + 30 g milk + 24 g sugar/honey + salt
Lunch: Bean & potato one-pot – 190 g pinto beans + 27 g instant potatoes (boiled, mashed stew) + salt
Dinner: Rice with stuffed pancakes – 185 g rice + flour pancakes (120 g flour) filled with honey-sweetened beans (95 g + 21 g honey)
Snacks: Salted oats (48 g rolled); milk with 12 g sugar
Day 7 (~2,790 cal) – Reset with Wraps & Mix
Breakfast: Flour porridge variation – 120 g flour + 30 g milk + 21 g honey + salt (boil into thick mush)
Lunch: Bean tortillas – 120 g flour dough (fried flats) wrapped around 95 g beans + pinch salt
Dinner: Potato-rice-bean bowl – 54 g instant potatoes + 92 g rice + 95 g beans + 12 g sugar (all boiled together)
Snacks: Honey oats (48 g rolled + 21 g honey); salted potato flakes (27 g)
Weekly Summary
Total calories: ~19,500 (gives a little buffer for stress or rationing)
Main flavors: salt for savory, honey/sugar for morale.
No-heat fallback: Soak oats/beans overnight or eat dry potato flakes.
Variety tips I use: Alternate oat types for different textures, fry vs boil the same ingredients, and change the “vehicle” (flatbread one day, patty the next, one-pot the day after).
My Current 12-Week Jar Matrix Coverage
(Only showing filled cells from my latest spreadsheet – last updated April 7, 2026)
| Item | Weeks Fully Covered | Total Sealed Jars | Target for 12 Weeks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 month | 28 | 72 |
| White Rice | 1 month | 12 | 36 |
| Pinto Beans | 1 month 2 weeks | 8 | 24 |
| Powdered Milk | 1 month | 4 | 12 |
| Rolled Oats | 2 months 1 week | 9 | 12 |
| Steel Cut Oats | 1 month | 4 | 12 |
| Instant Potatoes | 1 month 2 weeks | 6 | 12 |
Vitamins I keep on hand (Swanson, purchased March 14, 2026)
Vitamin C powder – 500 days
Adult 50+ Multi – 300 days
Magnesium Citrate – 180 days
Vitamin D3 – 250 days
I take them every day with breakfast.
Closing Thoughts
This is my actual prep right now. I will rotate the oldest jars first, testing one of the meals every week, and keep adding jars as I can. It will feel good the day I know I could handle 12 weeks without leaving the house. The revised menu above keeps things from feeling repetitive while staying 100 % inside my jar limits.
I’d love any suggestions or tweaks from fellow preppers who have tried similar Ball-jar systems. Have you found better flavor combos? Easier no-heat recipes? Ways to stretch the powdered milk further? Drop your ideas below or message me—I’m actively improving this plan and always open to practical advice.
Stay safe, stay stocked, and keep it simple.
— Sara
Did AI write this for you?
100% the formatting screams AI
You can make much more palatable and nutritional survival meals if you'd take the time to learn how to waterbath/pressure can. Get a dehydrator and make some powdered eggs. Food preservation is my current obsession, I have 13 pints of pinto beans in the pressure canner right now.
Shit hits the fan, they're already cooked, no need to heat water to prepare them.
Just a reminder that vacuum sealing ball jars is not safe for ‘canning’ not shelf stable foods. You need to follow proper canning methods for anything potentially perishable. We see way too many people on the various home preserving subs these days that think you can put potatoes in a can and vacuum seal it and that equals canning. It doesn’t. Please be careful. Don’t get botulism.
Very important point, too many times I hear about water-bathing meat or even some hybrid tomatoes are so low in acid they may not be safe prepped this way. Need to also keep in mind that low fat foods are the only ones to store long term. White rice not brown and non-fat milk.. not whole.
I'm curious why you don't account for jars of sugar, when it seems like a decent amount is used each week.
I currently have 6 bags (4 lbs) inside of freezer bags. Sugar should keep just fine for years sealed this way.. I seldom use sugar but want to stock it also for barter.
What will you use for oils and fats?
i intend to purchase powdered butter, I do keep a rotational inventory of canned goods which I have coconut, sesame, avocado and olive oil on hand. Oils and fats have a very short shelf life.. like about 1 year. Do not make my mistake of storing more than you use.
This is a good and simple meal plan for a single person. It could easily be adjusted to fit anyone’s family count or food preferences. Thanks for sharing.
Since 2020 when I got my first Raspberry Pi 4B (8GB) I hosted everything on it. Everything was okay until few months ago, when I found more services I can selfhost, that's when things went down. I installed so many services and planned to install even more (I was using all of them), so I decided it's time to move to proper server, so I bought Dell OptiPlex 3070 with 16GB of RAM, now the homelab runs much smoother. I even made some cable management. My plans for now are to buy NAS for bigger storage and use Raspberry as monitoring device and some testing or small services.
I loved Cradle. I looooved Beware of Chicken. I've found cultivation stories have been tickling my fancy a lot lately, and I'd like more.
what I'm looking for:
Just overall really really good. good prose, good action, likeable characters, good pacing. it can be as serious as cradle or as silly as BoC.
I saw a book recommended on a thread a while back that I now cannot find. it was cultivation (I think) with a lot of auction segments. they were, according to the comment, the highlight of the story. I haven't see many auction arcs, so I'd like whatever gets recommended to include one, although really the first point is more important.
I don't want overly grimdark. I'm not interested in a 3edgy5me protagonist. a harem is a turnoff. teen angst is a turnoff (cradle had angst, but not teen angst)
I'd also really prefer a good audibook narrator. it makes a world of difference
Sky Pride
Jade Phoenix
Fates Parallel
Unexpected Cultivator
Seconded Sky Pride. Good read so far.
Stellar Transformations was one the first xianxia I ever read, back on the translation forums.
The Undying Immortal System
Cultivation System: Elder Edition
All the Elders in My Sect Are My Avatars!
Forge of Destiny
God of Trash
Ave Xia Rem Y
Applied Cultivation
Depthless Hunger
Cultivation is Creation
Cultivation Nerd
An Immortal's Retirement: To Achieve Peace
Arrogant Young Master Template A Variation 4 [ Read it at your own risk. Very good but authors usually dumps chapters every few years ]
Not to be mean but was there no way to narrow this down further? He asked for really really good ones. For me, your comment just goes in one ear and out the other because it’s easy to assume that you just like everything or you simply don’t dislike anything…
Are all your suggestions 9+/10s?
No worries. I do really like a lot of things and if I don't, I usually leave them, but it is also the fact that these days we are blessed with endless high quality content, I would say. I don't think any of them have ratings lower than 4 out out of 5.
For the the Undying Immortal System, I especially like the alchemy system, I don't think I have read another that is as deep.
For the Cultivation System: Elder Edition, it reminds me a bit of Arrogant Young Master Template A Variation 4, though the direction it is going is very different and I am very interesting in the MC himself, especially the titbits we get of his past life.
Forge of Destiny. It is just awesome. The tone is story is distinct and the way Ling Qi is portrayed as an actual genius is very excellent not to mention.
God of Trash. The system is unique, at least the MC. He cultivates using the impurities that are usually the bane of existence in cultivation novel. Though I have to be honest, the chapters have been piling and I have yet to pick it up again. Maybe I will, maybe won't.
Ave Xia Rem Y. This is just excellent. One of the best Xianxia I have read. It is slow but it is excellent and I really enjoy the almost formal tone that seeps out of the prose and dialogue.
Applied Cultivation. I have enjoyed it. Though it has litrpg system, the way it works is intriguing. The story is a bit slow but I have enjoyed reading, especially looking forward to how MC will abuse his bloodline to make himself op.
Depthless Hunger: It has many different power systems but the way Kai is written and the way he helps others and the way we return to his home continent to help them, I really like. This is one for the grips I have with Chinese Xianxia novels. The past is just discarded and the whole charade repeats again.
Cultivation is Creation: I like time loops. This has time loop. Not to mention it is a good story. Currently it is going through the tournament arc and I was thinking, damn, it's the tournament arc, but the way author carried it out, it is very unique. Though it is long.
Cultivation Nerd: The heavens in this are very interesting, also interesting is how Liu Feng changes. I think he almost gets a bit machine like behaviour? But I really like the world that is described outside the sect when he leaves to visit his home and am hoping we are going to get more of that. I think will will get more of that.
An Immortal's Retirement: To Achieve Peace How do I describe this one? It has only one book complete and it's been a while the author updated but I really like the way it carries almost a philosophical tone? Initially the MC just wants to hide in his corner of the world, away from everything while letting the sentient array (the first of its kind) that he has created work out what peace is but slowly he changes and understands and heals himself and understands that just hiding won't change anything but when the big players start to move, if you are powerless, you are not going to be any to do anything.
Arrogant Young Master Template A Variation 4: it's been 2 years since last update. Maybe it's just obsession? But I remember really liking it and the way the story was carried out especially with the MC aware of Cultivation tropes and creating whole ass organization that either stays far away from MC types of totally and repeatedly crushes them to ensure MC's don't survive, it was good.
MoL isn't cultivation but it scratches a similar itch if you liked the structured magic system and the MC methodically getting stronger.
In other words, If you're open to translated works, A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality is peak traditional cultivation. No chosen one nonsense, just a regular guy grinding his way up through a brutal power hierarchy with patience and cunning. It's long but the payoff is worth it.
Reborn as a demonic tree on RR
Hard agree. Super rad story
I ordered two of these; the 16 oz and the 32 Oz. You do need to account for leaving 2" for boiling, so understand that the full advertised capacity is a few ounces less than in real life.
I was impressed by these. It was a 75 degree today in early April in GA. I started it at 1448. At 1511, I realized that I was using it wrong to catch the full rays of the sun and readjusted. I had it set on my driveway while I did yard work . I did not pay it any more attention until my never do well neighbor asked about it. The water was boiling and now I know to do do my preps in the back yard.
I just poured the water out at 2100 for a cup of tea and it was piping hot.
I consider this a win. I have alternative methods of heating water, but this is passive opportunity and can be poured/maintainted into our old steel carafe. Absolute win!
Based on the brand name, I'm gonna assume their products are subpar.
I would never buy anything that has “patriot,” in its name or in the company name. It’s an obvious cash grab and likely some temu grade Chinese shit. At best the product is fine but the company has questionable to no morals and values.
I thought they were fantastic. They worked exactly as advertised.
Saw these at an estate sale but didn't pick them up. Was worried about how well they worked. Glad they work well for you.
Why do you dislike your neighbor so much
Sounds like their neighbor is one who can't mind their business.
I got a new one off someone from fb marketplace but haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. I’ll have to time it this weekend to see how long it takes to get to a boil
Impossible to use Antigravity between 1 to 8 pm UTC...
Servers to busy, please try again later...
So much code got broken cause it keeps crashing mid-work and then I need multiple rounds to fix the broken code...
I have the Ultra 250$ plan and starts to hate AG, atleast during daytime.
At night its a great tool
I gave up and cancelled my Ultra, better to just use cursor with their own model, thanks to their indexing the performance is similar or better than antigravity models anyway.
Same stuff here as well... So sad...
cancelled my ultra too, just waiting 10 more days till it's finished and gonna subscribe to something else. meanwhile trying to finish all non coding work.
Not so close to the window
Don’t have a weak hand
Less cradling after a catch
If you’re playing close D put some pounds on
(not body shaming at all. My lack of weight is one of the reasons coaches switched me to lsm around 8th grade)
Have fun, but take ts seriously. HS lacrosse is a blessing, especially if you’re a part of a good program
yeah, don't hit the window
I'd just say you need to bring the ball in more when you catch, you kinda snap at it a bit. Which works for slow passes, but once you get higher level it becomes harder to time the snap (Ask me how I know lol)
But besides that, footwork drills and lateral movement work is your best friend. Keep it up dude
It looks like you’re snatching a bit, or trying to catch the ball before it meets you. It’s a bad habit. Not only can you miss the ball, but you put yourself out of position to make the quick pass or shot.
Practice quick sticking, or watching the ball come into your pocket and then releasing without a single cradle.
Listen to these two dudes about your catching, OP.
Take away top side
Practice your odd hand
Just for wall ball... Put on some tunes. I try to match the beat with my throwing and catching. Stand further back. Put some mustard on it! Most game passes for defense are 20+ yards. Everything is done with both hands. Usually double reps for your off hand if you want to develop it. Do drills with hands in offense hand position. Do drills will hands at end of the stick in a defense hand position. Catch over the shoulder, throw backhand flips, underhand flips, cross body catches, cross body throws, overhead/stick in front of body throws, throw off ground and catch awkward pass, throw to wall with intention of it hitting the ground so you can practice blocking/picking low/bad passes. Challenge yourself! Have Fun rule #1
Watch highlights or game film. Then go out and practice moves you saw that look useful or fun
Shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behaviour
What’s with “today” today ?
Say no more, mon amour!
This is a game I am working on called, "The Road Behind Us", and I have been making alot of progress on the dismemberment system. I still need to do alot of work in the sound department, but wanted to share the progress to the community.
Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4433450/The_Road_Behind_Us/
Full gameplay clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtG8g6scqVI
The Road Behind Us is an urban survival game about you and your dog. You get to play as your dog, use them to scout, distract, or squeeze into areas you wouldn't be able to alone. You also get to have mobile bases, and build out of a semi truck. I plan on releasing the first phase of play tests in the next couple months, stay tuned!
A question for the players, is too much gore a thing? Would you want their to be a slider to turn of gore, or at lest turn it down? I am wondering if it is a turn off to some people.
Thank you for any feedback!
Looks great! I wishlisted and followed on Steam. I look forward to playing!
I want to play test! Gore and dismemberment are great for this type of game. The grosser the better!
Please make sure there will be blood on the ground when there is blood on hit or when the head explodes. Part of the immersion imo. But it def looks stunnning already!
I want to playtest this because I have a dog and over 5k hours played in zombie games. Cheers 😁
Hi! I'm looking for recommendations for monster evolution stories with a female protagonist where the MC stays a monster throughout the story (either without evolving into a humanoid form, or taking humanoid form only occasionally). I prefer reading sapphic stories, so in terms of romance, I'm down for sapphic romance or minimal/no romance. Thanks!!
Most of them do involve the MC taking human form often. Including several already recommended here. Syl and salvos both have the MC take human form often, and syl is arguably not even a female MC. Bunny girl evolution explicitly has the MC trying to gain human form.
The magpie and the archmage has a female mc that doesn't take human form I think. I can't be sure of that as honestly, I dropped it. It's generally well reviewed though.
Draka, Queen in the mud, Born Different (V Nator)
Man, Draka was so good until it immediately wasnt. Such a shame.
So im a spider so what? is the way to go, however i liked the manga better than the books or anime. Not much romance tho, especially if you go the manga route as it saves the other characters pov for much later in the story.
But OPs request was not to take human form.
Arachne is only half human, in a very classical greek chimera way. Usually i think of human form as full human body with non human ears or a tail, not eight legs ten eyes and a thorax. Also a huge chunk of the story is full spider mode
Useless dragon stars a lesbian who reincarnates as a dragon
Bioshifter by Natalie Maher kind of fits but its more complicated then the main character being a monster the entire time. Light spoliers
The dragon heir is pretty good and sapphic based on the tags though she’s show pretty much no attraction to anyone yet.
What is going on with the luckin coffee- the Chinese based coffee chain? It is a chain that has recently been in the news for taking on Starbucks and are planning on opening lots of stores in the US. Are they geared more towards gen z or drive through?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/nyregion/luckin-coffee-nyc-starbucks.html
Answer: It’s cheap and you can only order via app so it’s ready when you get there and they have some interesting flavors like butter latte etc.
The coffee isn’t good but isn’t bad.
The storefronts I’ve seen are small, maybe just a few seats, so I’m guessing the overheard for rent and expenses is less.
Chagee tea is a business that absolutely SLAMS at least here in singapore, similar business model but higher end tea and milk tea product and premium packaging
The coffee isn’t for coffee connoisseurs, but there’s something about a sugar filled iced yuzu, coconut, mascarpone cheese etc latte that absolutely slaps if you’re in the mood for it.
Higher end options like Costa or Starbucks can never do the flavored sugar bomb lattes quite the same way and always leave me disappointed if that’s what I’m craving.
Source: I live in China
Isnt good but isnt bad is still an improvement over starbucks.
how the hell can you actually buy the company that makes your coffee machines and still produce that burned tasting swill...
Answer: it's the largest chain in China currently in terms of store count, surpassing Starbucks. They outcompeted other chains in China simply by selling at really cheap, and offering tons of discount programs. Similarly everywhere they expand to, they just set their prices cheaper than local chain, and therefore draw customers
newest additions!
Awesome and very interesting freaking list! Have none of them on my wish list but will check them out before the sale is over. I’m a lover of history and this is the reason why I enjoy watching other people’s lists…
Amen brother. All time periods fascinate me so im always up for a good listen, no matter the setting.
If you're interested in military history, the audiobook of The Great Siege: Malta 1565 is the best I've listened to.
Who's that by? Ernle Bradford? Its free right now on audible so I added it to my library as well
The chargers were a tough matchup, but the Colts nearly beat the pats of 07 while they were still dominant, and had won the previous three. Safe to say that they did not fear New England. Add on top of that, the pats nearly lost to mediocre teams like the Eagles led by AJ Feeley and the Ravens led by Kyle Boller. Joseph Addai gave a glimpse on how to beat them in the tight 24-20 loss
Unfortunately the colts underperformed like they often did in the playoffs so we never got to see it
Such flukey stuff happened in that game. Marvin Harrison fumble, and Kenton Keith botching a shovel pass that was intercepted, I think, to name a couple. Colts should have won that game.
05 and 07 we shoulda went further than we did
2005 was the most talented of the Indy-era teams. They should’ve at least won the AFC.
I actually think 2007 was better. The offense was a bit worse but the defense was much better, making it a more balanced team.
We let goddamn Billy Volek march down the field without LT.
Thanks for unlocking that horrendous memory.
Watching the pats get embarrassed by the Giants was a nice consolation prize.
Pats had come back down to Earth by that point, true, but Dwight Freeney was out for the year by then. It wouldn't have been unthinkable but the odds wouldn't have been in our favor.
Eh idk we couldn’t guard Randy in the regular season. He would’ve Mossed us in the playoffs.
They lost a bit of their edge as the season wore on.
Yeah but so did we. Billy fucking Volek, ugh
Looking for NOT sunny trails /park paths to walk the dogs in the afternoons. I use twin oaks now by the golf course, but would like other options? Any suggestions? Thanks north county!
Hosp grove
Hosp Grove is the ultimate in shady, lush, peaceful walking
Where do you park? I see on Google it says there’s east and west entrances.
I like to park by the playground on Jefferson because there’s lagoon views from there, but there are a few places to start
The park is split in 2 sections divided by Monroe. One lot is paved and busier, as it’s the main entrance, and the one off Monroe is dirt but usually less crowded (and occasionally closed if we’ve had rain as it’s on a grade and can wash out). Either option is usually fine though.
Batiquitos Lagoon Trail has lots of trees offering shade.
Elfin Forest/ East Creekside Trail.
A bit closer to Escondido, but a lovely area
This place is great. Super underrated also has a creek year round that I’m sure the dog will love.
Large sections of the Batisquitos Lagoon trail are tree shaded.
Second that Hosp grove is awesome for this - basically 3 miles (or more if you do switchbacks and stuff) of completely shaded trails. People do often have their dogs off leash here but I’ve only ever encountered ones under good control of owners so it’s never been an issue.
Can I ask where you navigate to/park for Twin Oaks? I’ve never been and am always looking for shady options to add to our rotation as well!
I park in the neighborhoods, just north of Twin Oaks golf course. The loop around the golf course and back up to twin oaks is about 4 miles. Or park at the big park right there before Twin Oaks turns into deer Springs.
Would this work for those with strollers or no?
Yeah, I see people all the time with strollers on Twin Oaks. There is a saved path and then also a packed dirt path. Both are equally shaded.
Unfortunately not unless you have a serious all terrain stroller and want a serious workout. Hosp grove is dirt trails, though well travelled and maintained, and almost entirely (pretty steep) hills.
Discovery
I just wanted to come on here and speak on the new ability to define logos for various entries in Plex. I freaking love it.
As one of those weirdos who spends more time "maintaining" their Plex server instead of, you know, using it, defining logos has given me a metric shit-ton of happy work. I've spent the last couple of weeks going through literally every movie, TV show, collection, and playlist I have making sure everything has my preferred logo, creating logos, and of course, tweaking. They really tie the room together, as it were.
One question I have is which devices can actually show the logos. I have a ShieldTV (no joy), Kindle Fire 10 (yes), couple of Samsung phones (yes), and the web interface (no logos). That's really all I have to test with; that being said, the new NostalgiaTV app on the Shield really shines with all the logos, I highly recommend that app.
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of what devices can show logos? And if there is a road map for future implementation for those devices that cannot currently display them? I want my logos everywhere.
I hope you uploaded the ones you created to themoviedb
Roku and mobile were the two I was sure of. I think Amazon Fire devices just had it rolled out. It's basically whatever devices have updated to use the new UX experience that debuted a year ago.
Infuse uses them.
What are the best sources for getting logos? I've generally been impressed with the defaults but there are a few that need improvin. I've usually used theposterdb for my posters.
Fanart.tv usually seems to have them
I usually double-check with themoviedb.org, because I noticed that sometimes the site will have a logo or two that doesn't show up in the Plex UI. After that, I check out the posters there and theposterdb.com and use my graphic design skills to isolate logos off of posters, and clean them up. A google image search will sometimes yield a usable logo.
Anyone know what the preferred dimensions for custom logos are? I’ve uploaded a few and no matter what I do, it doesn’t fill as much of the width of the screen on mobile that the standard TMDB logos do.
Hey y’all, I’m new to Reddit and new to lacrosse. It’s always been a sport that I was interested in, but I played baseball during the spring in high school so I never had an opportunity to play. I’m 19 and looking to start attending college this upcoming year, and every school I’m looking at doesn’t have intramural lacrosse, so my only real option is club because I am not a scholarship level athlete. I was wondering how feasible it is to join a club lacrosse team as someone who has never played the sport. Maybe not right away, but even if I were to buy a stick and practice/train for a year or two before joining. I know the answer probably varies depending on individual athleticism or which college you’re attending, but just as a general baseline I’d like to know what people think. Thank you so much for your help in advance guys!
My college had both a school team and club team. Our club captain didn't start playing until he was in college.
I think it's mostly going to depend on the level of the club. If it's a competitive MCLA team you might have a tough time. If it's a bit more casual it should be easier.
Either way I'd be reaching out to clubs and captains to see what they are like and how they recruit players. Lacrosse is a welcoming community and even with little experience you should still be able to participate and at least practice with a team. Don't be shy and don't hesitate to jump in!
Got it, I’ll start sending some messages soon. I appreciate your advice man!
1,000,000% you can do it. Just make sure that they know that you’re just starting a lot of MCLA teams are good but a lot of them are pretty low level and a brand new player could play there either way it’ll be a great time.
There are people in national teams that started at your age, you can make it happen :)
It would prolly be tough to be a student while also gaining enough stick skills to compete at that level. Anything is possible but those are my first thoughts. It prolly also depends on the team. Gonna be easier to play on a lower level and it seems like the club level varies. Good luck whatever you do man. Hope you love wall ball lol
Yeah, the balance between school and sports might be tough to achieve but I think I have the time management skills to do it. I appreciate your thoughts though bro, I’ll def keep it all in mind
It is possible, but a lot will depend on the club team. Some are super competitive to make the team while others (like my old college team) need warm bodies and will teach you how to play.
Go check out a practice, talk to the coach and see what's up.
You 100% should try. Just keep expectations low. Some club teams are ran like ncaa teams. If anything hookup with the fellas....go to practice see what the vibe is like.
I played a year of baseball and four years of football and then when that was over I still wanted to play a physical sport so at 22 I joined my college’s club team. It obviously depends on your athleticism, but you can be competitive on a club team fairly quickly.
Most LitRPGs have a MC that is massively OP. This is fine if they are the only "player" in the world, but many of these systems follow some sort of MMO pattern and an important aspect of MMOs is balance.
Yeah, a lot of stories handwaved it away - glitch/bug/hack/sentient AI/favor of a god/impossible RNG - but basically there is some way to subvert or exploit the system, and after reading dozens (hundreds?) of books it's starting to feel lazy.
I get it; heroes journey, progression fantasy, etc, but I wouldn't want to play any of these games - one player clearly exploiting the game, never addressed by the game devs. Go on any IRL game forum and see how people complain about hackers or OP builds. Any healthy game addresses these issues or it eventually dies.
One of the fun things about DCC is that the Crawlers have to consider that things might get patched if they are too exploitive - you only get one shot at this broken mechanic. Carl is still the AI's sugar baby, but at least it comes with pros and cons.
I just think there are a lot of fun things you could do that don't involve power imbalance favoring the MC over other players.
Are you including all System type novels in this category of having "Devs" on the backend? Trying to clarify before I attempt to answer/give suggestions!
I have the same question! I'm looking through my tier list, and the only book in the top half that seems to have "bad devs" is Dungeon Crawler Carl, and that's a major part of the plot!
Of course, a system like the one in The Primal Hunter or Bog Standard Isekai has far different goals than someone creating a video game. PH, DOTF and many cultivation novels have systems that exist to push populations to produce individual stars that outdo everyone. Bog Standard Isekai, Threadbare, and Beneath the Dragoneye Moons have systems that account for all type of jobs, so combat focused characters would be broken in a fight-centered video game, but in a "real people living their lives" sense, the best woodworkers or bankers do great.
As Winnie-the-Pooh would say, think, think, think...
I'm currently reading Deadworld Isekai and it's somewhat similar. It's not really a spoiler, but if the MC chose a class that was innately amazing at combat; he'd probably have died in the first 4-5 chapters, due to the setting.
I appreciate when there are MCs that aren't standardized "outdo everyone" type characters, but ever since the Game of Thrones era where subverting expectations became a cliche`, sometimes it's nice to get what's expected.
Writing quality and story trumps everything though!
Syl
The right answer
Prophecy Approved Companion - The main character is an NPC during beta testing of a game. The “Player” is a beta tester who breaks the game logic so much that his NPC companion breaks and becomes self aware. So the devs are dumb, but still abiding by decent practices, identifying this major issue before the game actually ships.
Other than that, I can’t think of any time a dev intruding on a game didn’t diminish it in some way. It’s better for them to be faceless and the game just runs by itself, than for some dev to keep nerfing the MC. Changing his class, or making him have to change builds to a new meta.
I literally dropped Eternal Dominion when 10+ books in a game admin finally showed up, and then they basically just robbed the MC of his quest rewards for beating a quest too early. And then also went and disabled a few of his skills for being too OP. Completely ruined my immersion.
I really liked Prophecy Approved Companion but I don’t think it’s applicable because the game was a testbed for creating AIs and IIRC there was never any mention of the game actually being released on the market.
I do like Travis Bagwell's Awaken Online series for this. It's not his only trick, but the main MC often exploits loopholes in the system rules, which the Dev will allow for that instance but will later patch out if it's too broken.
It's the great way to let the MC do something clever but doesn't reduce them to a 1 trick pony
breaking the system is half the fun for a lot of readers tho, there is a reason its so common
Maybe The King's Avatar or something? Modern litRpg's are pretty far away from MMOs (
In a book hole after binging Quest Academy. Looking for the next book I can't put down. Preferred medium is audible. Bonus points if it has a duel narrator like quest academy is (though that's rare from what i've seen).
Apparently my tastes are mostly LitRPGs but I also dabble in progression and mainstream fantasy.
All tiers are in no particular order within the tier. My S tier, are all books aimed at an adult audience (not smut but not sanitized). Cradle lost points for being too naive / young adult for me as an example. I want characters to have human motivations and flaws.
(Spellmonger has the 1st book image but lets be honest that's the worst book in the series, 1 is cliche and problematic, 2-10 are amazing)
Try 1% life steal it's a great series where bad things actually happen.
Highly recommend
Is it only bad things though? By book 3 or 4 of DCC I just had this existential dread lol because everything went wrong all the time and I was sick of the talking cat.
Not only bad things, but not everything is sunshine and puppies like most of this genre.
Love it.
And no talking animals.
Then yeah might want to stay away from 1% lifesteal. It’s a great series, but it’s dark and the author loves to torment his main characters. In both of his series.
Stitched Worlds
Relict Legacy
Thanks, Looking like Relict Legacy isn't on audible though just kindle unless i'm just missing it.
Edit - LOL at the premise of Stitched Worlds being entering the system while rolling balls. Going to check out the preview.
It's the first link when I google.
If you liked worth the candle check out thresholder.
Worth the Candle is.... hard to describe, its a lot. The plot and the writing hooked me but around book three I had anxiety (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) lol its pretty cerebral. Its been a while since a book surprised me like that.
I'll check out the preview.
The immortal great souls (Bastion…) // Beware of Chicken // The beginning after the end // All the skills
What makes Spellmonger problematic? (I haven't read it, but it's on my shortlist, so would be good to know)
As for recommendations, The Legend of William Oh has multiple narrators, and it's fantastic. But there is only a single book out at the moment.
My other two recommendations are Dreamer's Thrones and the Ends of Magic series.
I finished the first book of Dreamer's Thrones yesterday and it was incredible.
Then I started Ends of Magic yesterday too, it was so engaging before I new it 6 hours had gone by.
I hope you find something soon, good luck! :)
I read the first Spellmonger a while ago, and I enjoyed it, but it definitely felt somewhere in the B- range, so I didn't continue it. Is it really one of those gems that gets better after the first book?
Watching the ducks play the preds tonight in hopes the preds lose and wow, the ducks are playing like ass.
Gonna be a full shutout from the preds this game
I was rooting for the Preds... because the Ducks falling looks like the Kings best chance at avoiding the central blood bath.
All the Kings can do is focus on winning their games.
I feel like we should be able to go 4-1 which should be good enough
Best I can do is 1-1-3
Hopefully. Darcy will need to play better than he has been.
Regardless of what we do it would be really funny if the Ducks just took a total crap and didn’t make it
Kings will pass the Ducks before end of season.
Canucks threw and Oilers Utah went to OT… a little unlucky today
Fucking ducks
The teams the Kings play / have played the last month of the season is the easiest walk I’ve ever seen in sports. If the Kings don’t make the playoffs they don’t deserve us.
Just sharing in case someone wanted the same.
OpenSource available on github https://github.com/x7even/roctop
I wanted a clear gpu monitor for my AI rig in the terminal while running models etc, so I built this (yes the gpu's in the screenshot even game me a hand).
Although I originally built it for my multiGPU AMD setup, it's extended to support nVidia & Integrated gpu's as well - up to 16 gpu's all in the same terminal (even if they're different types).
Included Info, Errors & Logs emitted from GPU's with as many metrics as I could reliably scrape from available surfaces.
Can run in Linux / Linux (WSL), built in go.
Feel free to drop feedback or suggestions - enjoy.
I keep on seeing that everywhere
Answer: it's an acronym of "Trump always chickens out" and is related to his threat of genocide in Iran. IMO it's a good thing he didn't go through with it.
While I agree this is a good thing, he touts the 10 point plan as proposed by iran as one of the basis for the peace plan.
We only have the "summarized" version according to Iran state media of course, but these 10 points are really advantageous to Iran.
You do realize the US attacked Iran completly illegally right? Had no reason nor justification. The peace plan should be all they way good for Iran lol
As far as I'm aware, Trump hasn't agreed to Iran's 10 point plan. Further negotiations are expected on Friday, but that plan will be the basis of the negotiations.
The art of the deal
I personally prefer "Trump announces—chickens out"
Answer: TACO stands for Trump Always Chickens Out, a tounge in cheek acronym coined when he backed down from the independence day tariffs. Yesterday trump made a threat about ending a civilization if Iran didn't open the straight of Hormuz. Iran still exists, hence trump has chickened out. Yesterday was also Tuesday.
Answer:
It is a pejorative regarding Trump's habit of making threats, ultimatums and eventually backing down in pursuit of policy. Trump always chickens out.
The Tuesday aspect is because the FIFA peace prize winner and head of the 'Peace Board' and current belligerent and touted war criminal threatened to annihilate Iran and it's people and civilisation by Tuesday unless they strait of Hormuz was reopened, which has been closed after he decided, another war in the middle east was a great idea, the best, bigly idea.
Being generous, TACO, is a positive way to utilise the perception of USA global power and strength to force policy and manipulate markets. The latter aspect is important as often TACO announcements follow market dips but savvy people and insiders seem to know when dips are coming in the market and make lots of money, when the TACO occurs, and the threat dissipates and the markets rally.
The latest taco where Trump threatened to annihilate an entire civilisation has potentially lead to a ceasefire.
Honestly I was first introduced to this genre because I first encountered web novels under the cover of my bed reading 1000+ chapter badly translated novels under the sheets. Eventually I ended up picking up more English originals as time went on. But ive been recently wondering. Do yall prefer English originals or translated works more.
Weirdly enough ive think ive fallen in love with the charm of a slightly poorly translated cultivation novel. Often times I think western cultivation authors tend to write from a perspective that somewhat undercuts the roots of what makes a cultivation novel a cultivation novel. Sky Pride is one of the few that really feels authentic to me.
Depends on how good the translation is in question, there's a world of difference between a machine translated story and a professionally translated one
Absolutely! Honestly machine translations are the bane of my existence. I owe so much to the translators who spent the time on these novels. I'd love to learn more about how hard it is.
It's very hard providing a good translation of something with it respecting the original intent of the work, I'd recommend checking out the physical releases of ORV, honestly. Great work all around and I can't stop talking about it.
Past me wouldn't care either way. I used to read everything for the concepts and ideas, plot points and character development, not caring about how good the English was.
Present me sticks to the best of the best written prose/dialogue/tone even if they are lacking in substance, because I'm trying to be an author and writing style tends to get affected by what you're reading.
I’m the other way. As someone with excellent command of the language I struggle more with pacing and plotting and find myself coming back to MTL for guidance lol.
Same man. I have issues reading royalroad style novels because you end up with a lot of angst you don’t see much in the majority of translated novels.
Or maybe i’m just used to it
Honestly it may be a cultural difference but it may also be that the more popular a web novels is the more likely it is to be translated. Alot of the really anxty stuff probably isn't brought over.
Ngl I love Royal Road when its good but I agree. Its not that I dont love good anxt. But alot of Royal Road authors are first time authors who love to get into the weeds of the feelings that they particularly feel are important. Unfortunately its just a trap that most authors fall into.
I think this is as well as the fact that Royal Road anxt is anxt thats a bit too familiar with me. While translated anxt usually hits social phenomena that im not too sore about.
No it’s a genre thing. At least most web novels i’ve read over the years are like that. I’ve read a ton using my AI translation tool straight from widen before finding WTR labs that works nearly as well.
Popular recommended novels here make me go mehhhh because of this. Like Imma be a Speedster for example with the angst
My first experience with PF was Solo Leveling, so there will always be a special place in my heart for the original (poorly translated) version I read way back then.
Now though? Reading native English is my preferred medium. That's not to say I wouldn't give a translated story a shot, though.
Solo Leveling was definitely a classic for me.
I unfortunately remember watching the anime. Not being satisfied.
Reading the Manga ( had to read from the beginning for context of differences ) and not being satisfied.
And then going into the light novel and reading it all.
It was a definite journey.
I've enjoyed the anime thus far, but it doesn't quite land the same, I'll admit.
I haven't checked out Sky Pride. Is it worth digging into?
It definitely depends on the story but I often like stoies that read like chinese xuanhuan/scifi webnovels over their english counterparts. There are definitely english webnovels I enjoy too, just recently, ive been reading a lot more translated chinese ones.
I like that it seems like more often in these chinese translated novels the mc exists within an established setting and often the setting doesnt revolve around them from the start. I like it when the mc exists within an established modern to futuristic world (some english novels do this e.g. mech touch, monster integration, path of ascension, shadow slave) but I find the trope of "magic arrived and now technology doesnt work anymore" EXTREMELY TIRED idk if it just came from harry potter or smth and it showed up in one fantasy work so now it has to show up in all of them but fuck i want that trope to die
Honestly it probably says quite a bit about western culture as a whole how the most popular fictions are ones where we take a regular ass man from generic city and put them into a fantastical concept.
Ive noticed at least in some part that this is done because the author wants to really stick to their guns with regards to cultural and ethical norms with regards to classism, power divides, normative family structures, ect. Ect.
And often pose their character as a martyr of morality in a world thats backwards and not quite caught up yet.
This is most likely just one factor but its the one off the top of my head. The Primal Hunter being a prime example.
I’m with you (or possibly the MTL rot has got to my brain). Eastern novels come from a much more adult perspective - cynicism - sarcasm - politics etc that western fantasy just feels childish. Part of this is that western fantasy has always had its roots in writing for YA. Please post recommendations
I scrolled back through all the fiction books in my account and made a tier list. Recommend me something you think I might like before the sale ends?
Discount Dan.
Aka Dollar Store Dungeon Crawler Carl.
I'm actually just about to finish this and while it's not horrible it's also so blatantly ripping off DCC.
While there are definitely similarities, it comes into its own by the end of the first book once the shop is actually open and functioning.
Book 2 is immensely better, and book 3 just released last week.
Sun Eater
Buy all the dungeon crawler Carl boos lol
Gottem! I only put the first book in the series here cause otherwise this list would be stupid long.
The Carl books by Hank Green
-The fox wife
-cinnamon bun (series)
-curse of the cyren queen (series, available as one audiobook)
-prophesy approved companion (series)
-spice and wolf (series)
-forerunner initiative (series)
-fallen lands (series)
Off to be the Wizard - Scott Meyer, think the entire series is on sale but that's book 1.
Hi, we are looking at starting a new rec youth lacrosse league for several towns in our area. There are a lot of software options on the market and we are looking at what the best system might be for a small league just starting. Several of the towns have used Sportsengine and are not impressed with the usability of the software. Some options coming up include:
- Crossbar
- Leagueapps
- SprocketSports
- Teamsnap
Would love to hear more about personal experience with these and any other alternatives, why you liked/didn't like them, what pricing looked like, etc. Looking for something that can manage scheduling, registration/payment processing, team websites, parent communications, etc. Thanks!
We are a rec club boys and girls kindergarten to 12th grade. So not a league, but 11 teams and lots of games and practices and communication needs. They (edit to clarify: software systems) all have limitations and idiosyncrasies but we recently switched from SportsEngine to TeamLinkt and have been fairly happy. It’s free which is a big plus and reasonable credit card fees as a non profit. Our boys youth league also uses TeamLinkt for league management. On my end for the club, this first year there has been extra work because we need to enter all the field locations etc and of course a learning curve with any software, but I think we’ve been successful in implementation and I think next year will be even easier because a lot of the information from the season can be ported over to the next season. I found their customer support to be reasonably responsive and the ads (free version) are not terribly obstructive.
I've used a bunch of them. The final straw with Teamsnap was that families were complaining about how they were constantly barraged with ads. I was already paying $1500+ for Teamsnap for our program - why are they also bugging parents for $60/year to get rid of ads? Hell no.
I wound up moving us to Playmetrics. It's not very common in the lacrosse world, but I met them at Laxcon a number of years back and was impressed. The biggest thing that got me - they run 10,000+ player soccer orgs (which itself was mind boggling), so I figured by 150 player org would be well within their capabilities.
In many ways it's WAY more than most local orgs needs. It's definitely designed around the pyramind/hierarchy structure that soccer clubs run. However, the price was the same as Teamsnap and my parents didn't get bugged with ads. There were also a lot of things that I appreciated as an IT nerd.
Is it perfect? Absolutely not. Certain things are oddly overcomplicated because they have to support huge clubs. But they release almost weekly, and their support has been amazing. How they manage age group teams (i.e. you have a 1st and 2nd grade age group but split into 3 or 4 teams for games) is well done. Registration management is pretty simple, and their mobile app is way better than Teamsnap. I like that when registration for the new season comes up returning families just pop into the app, they see the registration for the new season, and they're done in about 10 minutes. Comms at the program level is also way easier, and you can send email based on whatever filter you want - teams, age, grade. That's come in handy for a lot of reasons from a program leader perspective.
I had some parents complain that all their other teams were on Teamsnap, so another app was annoying to them. However, I found this complaint was almost exclusively from lacrosse only families. Families with baseball players were already using Gamechanger, hockey parents I think write schedules in blood on the wall, and football parents just assume football is every day from August through October. Most didn't care about having Playmetrics installed.
I think it's a solid product and it's worth a call to them. I haven't setup a league in it, but I know the features are there and I'm sure they can talk you through it. The dream I have from a league perspective is having the entire league in one system, so you have the potential of being way ahead there!
What a killer comment
Curious as to what features you think would make the dream software? I’m a developer and I’ve been thinking about making something like this as a side hustle
Heh - a thought that has crossed my mind a million times over :)
The software fits into two segments - sport specific and broad plays. The sport specific apps, like Game Changer (baseball) and Playmetrics (soccer) built their platforms around those sports. They are always trying to break into more sports to increase share, but their primary customers sit in one or maybe two sports. They have really great features specific to that sport, and it makes sense because those markets are massive compared to lacrosse.
The broad plays like Teamsnap and LeagueApps focus on the bare minimum of features so they can hit as many sports as possible. I have a very biased and personal dislike of Teamsnap primarily because of the advertising BS with families. If you're on the free plan, go for it. But when a community program is already paying for software, milking parents just grinds me. It doesn't help that the software is pretty bad. Team management is atrocious. When you have multiple programs using it it's a nightmare to use. Have chat from 3 different teams? You need to bounce around the app to find them and clear them. It's psychosis inducing.
There's also a giant x factor that is the reason I would never go near this. Parents. Looking at u/Environmental_Lie244 's comment, "if parents would get their heads out of their asses and kept their emails up to date it would be better." I would say 80% of parents are fine, but 20%... oof. I've always tried to communicate well, schedules are always up-to-date, locations are clear. I send emails, chats, and yet almost every weekend its, "do we have practice today? What field are we on? What time do we need to arrive." There's only so much you can do to address that. I've had to do quite a bit of support at the program level. I feel sorry for anyone answering parent support calls at the software vendor.
All that being said - the dream software? Honestly, Playmetrics came really darn close for me, which is why I went with it. Like I said before, some of the biggest challenges were the complexities they had to manage the huge programs. Going from tryouts/evals to a rostered team was a bit much, but that's because they have a whole process for doing team invites that is common in the club world. At the rec level I didn't need it, but it caused a few extra hoops for me. Aside from that though, everything else was great. Communications, which is by far the most important feature for parents, is great. Email is simple for a coach or admin, chat in the app is great. Notifications/alerts work really well. Bad weather? Blast every channel (email, text, app alert) to tell parents we're ending early. It works really well.
Teamsnap has been our favorite over league apps, been using it for the club for 5 years. If parents would get their heads out of their asses and kept their emails up to date it would be better, but that is not a teamsnap problem. Solves communications, schedule and registration problems.
Group spot.
Made myself a Dpole out of purple heart timber, happened to break pretty much bang on in the middle, made 2 short sticks from it, only then did I think to weigh it and figured out how heavy it was compared to my stringking pole.
How the heck did you break that thing?
Im looking for something with a vast world like LOTR or Magician by Raymond Fiest.
No smut please, or at least not like unnecessary smut lol.
Thank you wise readers!
Cradle series by Will Wight
Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
Drizzt series by R.A Salvatore? Been reading them since I was a kid, love them. Almost all of them aside from the more recent are 85% off. There are like 30-40 books in the series.
Same with the Dragonlance series. Great stuff.
Impact winter series
Demo: https://youtu.be/0BqrMKWIXkg?si=4VmIEbzJ8R7aSBEi
I've been looking at the YouTube MCP landscape (40+ servers across Zapier, Composio, Playbooks, LobeHub, and community directories) and noticed they all share the same architectural pattern: pull a transcript, pipe it to the LLM, discard. Extract-and-forget.
I wanted to explore a different model — treating YouTube as a persistent local intelligence layer where ingestion compounds across sessions. Sharing what I learned building it, in case others are thinking about similar tradeoffs.
Architecture decisions:
1. Three-tier fallback on every tool. YouTube Data API → yt-dlp → page extraction. Every response carries a provenance field ({sourceTier, fallbackDepth, partial, fetchedAt, sourceNotes}) so you always know which tier served the data. No silent degradation. Quota exhaustion on tier 1 doesn't break the flow — you get a degraded response with clear provenance, not a failure.
2. Persistence model: SQLite + sqlite-vec for local vector storage. Single file, no Docker, no external DB. Embeddings persist across sessions — the tenth query on an indexed playlist is richer and faster than the first. Knowledge accumulates. Contrast with the extract-and-forget pattern where every session starts cold.
3. Embedding provider abstraction. Gemini text-embedding-004 (768d) when a Gemini key is present, falls back to all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (384d) fully offline via local inference. Both handled by the same abstraction, so semantic search works with zero API keys at reduced quality, or upgrades transparently when a key is added.
4. Visual search as a separate index, not transcript reuse. Three independent layers:
Apple Vision VNGenerateImageFeatureVectorRequest — per-frame feature prints for image-to-image similarity
Gemini Vision — natural language scene descriptions per keyframe
Gemini text-embedding-004 — 768d embeddings over OCR text + descriptions for text→visual search
Returns actual frame paths on disk + timestamps + match reasoning. Genuinely separate from the transcript pipeline.
5. Token efficiency via strict output schemas. 75–87% smaller responses than raw YouTube API output. No thumbnails, eTags, or localization bloat. Normalized engagement ratios instead of raw counts. The LLM sees what it needs, nothing more.
Tradeoffs I hit:
Disk usage grows with persistence. Solved with TTL caches per tool category, a mediaStoreHealth diagnostic, and per-collection cleanup tools.
Visual indexing is expensive (keyframe extraction + vision + OCR + embeddings). Made it opt-in per video rather than automatic during import.
Three-tier fallback adds latency when earlier tiers fail. Worth it for reliability — API quota death is a real problem in production, and yt-dlp/page extraction keep things working.
mcpName vs npm name collision risk. MCP registry uses io.github.<user>/<name> while npm is flat. Solved by making them explicit and different.
Apple Vision locks the image-to-image similarity layer to macOS. Accepted tradeoff — the Gemini-based layers work cross-platform.
Happy to go deeper on any of these if people are interested in the design decisions — especially the persistence vs extraction tradeoff, or the visual pipeline.
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the provenance field on every response is a really good pattern. we built something similar for data collection across multiple APIs - when you have fallback tiers, knowing which tier actually served the data changes how much you trust downstream outputs. completely agree that the persistence model is what separates this from the extract-and-forget crowd. we use flat JSON state files instead of SQLite for our agent pipeline but the core idea is identical - the tenth query should be cheaper and richer than the first, not start cold every time. curious about sqlite-vec performance at scale. how many indexed videos before semantic search latency becomes noticeable? and does the embedding dimension mismatch between Gemini 768d and MiniLM 384d cause issues if you switch providers on an existing index?
Just don't understand why the android TV app discontinues the stream. I use dispatcharr fwiw, and on dispatcharr itself everything works perfectly. do have Hardware encoding on as well.
Could be the audio format your IPTV streams are in that Plex doesn't like. In dispatcharr, try using a stream profile that has this in its parameters for ffmpeg.
-hide_banner -loglevel error -i {streamUrl} -c:a libmp3lame -vcodec copy -f mpegts pipe:1
45M new to the area, looking to get set up with medical providers for routine care and also untreated lifelong ADHD.
Considerations are LGBT-friendly, THC-friendly, non-MAGA. I am generally healthy and don't require specialized treatment other than the ADHD.
I'm also looking to understand which healthcare network I should adopt. I have a pretty good health plan through Aetna so I'm not worried about insurance, but I do want to get established in whatever network has the best providers.
Appreciate any suggestions, thank you.
Have graybill myself and it’s been alright. Had some ups and downs and recently has been on an upswing since separating from scrips.
Fiancé has Kaiser and she gets everything in one place which is really nice.
Got diagnosed and treated via graybill up in Temecula
I went and got tested for MDD but then it changed to ADHD but on a milder level. The meds are working well but still testing the waters with it.
I'm with Headlight formerly SokyaHealth. They seem great so far and haven't had any issues.
I'd rather not be on ADHD medication, but here we are 🤷🏻
i'm trying to give romantasy another shot here and i was told this book had a balance of a good romance and interesting worldbuilding.
unfortunately, i recently finished it and wished i would've just dnf'ed it in the beginning 😬 highly underwhelming for me
Is it every night the roadwork is being done or just certain nights? Want to avoid that shit as much as possible lol.
Good luck, the project is scheduled to be completed in 2027
https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-11/current-projects/sr78-projects/sr78-assetmanagement
She doesn't have dementia any signs of it, just that slowing that comes with retirement and older age. I'm looking up programs at the libraries and city rec departments, but if any of you happen to know of something decent, please let me know. She's a little technophobic and wouldn't like things based on Zoom or phone calls, so in-person is essential. Affordable and reputable is another (she'd prefer government-led programs or things associated with large organizations).
I'm like a thousand miles away and am pretty "out of the loop" on how things have changed and what's around lately.
I would advise taking a class - learn something new. And not something easy either, something to get those synapses firing. Ditto with exercise- ck with doc first and then go do something hard; many yoga classes aren’t easy and there are a lot of benefits from doing weights bearing exercises. Challenging work both mentally and physically is key
She was going to get part-time work after she retired just so she could stay busy (like something educational at the Safari Park), but she decided instead to stay home so she can be my father's on-call flashlight holder for when he spends all day playing in the garage.
She's had a double knee replacement which I know has slowed her down a little.
My neighbor is a very active senior (mid 70s). She loves the day tripper tours. She is widowed and has met so many new people and its a safe environment to get out and do stuff.
Alzheimer’s support group meets in San Marcos 2x per month
Check out the Escondido Senior Center. They have exercise classes (free) that can be as challenging or chair that she would need. We have 90 year olds in the class. They have other classes, chair yoga also (free). Everyone is very friendly. There are many other activities there that she can join. Check it out. It’s by Food for Less on Broadway way.
Can anyone recommend me books like mistborn which are fast paced with crazy plot twists? im into books which have something interesting every chapter.
Throne of glass series was also pretty good but i need all the characters to actually do something instead of being there just to show the mc's superiority. I also like books which do not solely rely on magic- there needs to be some mystery or an adventure like the Six of crows. Series less than 3 books are preferred but can go higher if its really good.
Thanks
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"Mr. Piccolo, why didn't you...
DODGE!!!"