It plays a random clip of Walker Texas Ranger.

Dinosaur Jr

Bill Burr: “Why the fuck am I listening to you? Like you’ve done something...”

Chud Fuck: <nothing>

Only source seems to be this Slate article:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/why-drivers-in-china-intentionally-kill-the-pedestrians-they-hit-chinas-laws-have-encouraged-the-hit-to-kill-phenomenon.html

In respect to that specific Slate article, Snopes had some issues with it and labeled the story as “unproven”:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chinese-drivers-kill-pedestrians/

The Snopes article does a nice job of pointing out the Slate article’s issues.

This reminds me of that Chinese law about being personally responsible for all medical debts of a person you run over—incentivizing killing the person, rather than injuring them.

Honestly, good on that local news director and crew for not interrupting or cutting off that guy’s account.

At some point you get so used to the local news just sharing coverage of riot police lines with the sounds of drum beats and incoherent bullhorn noise—sometimes with a short clip of the local police chief and/or campus administrator, but rarely any kind of coherent synopsis of the protestors’ position by a level-headed and reasoned individual.

If anything, those news crews more often run footage of an exasperated, emotionally hijacked protestor who comes across to a passive news audience as “easy to dismiss”, particularly when juxtaposed against the footage of stoic police lines and prepared statements by administrators and officials.

When you see a protestor’s account, like from this guy, I think the passive news audience may actually have enough balanced information to form a thought or opinion beyond “police good, noisy kids bad”.

I’d vote for that guy.

“Satan?”

I feel like this is a monologue Dr. Manhattan would recite apropos of nothing while we are both sitting, waiting for our separate bakery orders to be ready.

I agree with the graphic.

However, I recently completed a straight watch-thru of every Simpsons episode, and while watching the lackluster episodes from seasons _20-30, I have to acknowledge one thing:

Quality of the show and its writing have noticeably improved since around Season 32.

The most recent episodes feel more centered on the family and much less on bizarre cameos and really outrageous situations. It actually feels like a show about the Simpson family and treats the characters more age-appropriately.

I don’t like that they lost/recast established voices of minority characters (Apu, Carl, Dr. Hibbert, etc), I do think the quality and the focus of the show is much better than it has been in almost 2-decades.

Can anyone translate what is being said in the video?

At best, the videographer seems pretty nonplussed.

In context, Jon made it pretty clear that he considered the possibility of a second Trump presidency as an overwhelming threat—he was simply asking if running a man who is (objectively, in the sense he is currently 10-years past the actuary table life expectancy for his demographic) old.

I think it is very reasonable to question a party’s candidate. We operate in a 2-party system. We have never determined the most meritorious candidates from our populace, just the selected candidates from the political parties.

If the Democratic Party genuinely believes a second Trump presidency would be a threat to America, her allies, and interests, then the “selected” party candidate in a 2-party system should be exceptionally qualified—ideally with little question or doubt. Anything less than a “perfect” candidate, when facing a significant national threat, would seem irresponsible.

Joe Biden may, in fact, be the best candidate to run. If nothing else, the two current candidates reveal the problems of allowing political parties to, in effect, select each president with a 50/50 chance of success—in a population of 335 million.

Jon said an 81-year old candidate is old. And he made it quite clear, that yes, for a human he is objectively old. It isn’t an attack on Biden, it is a raised concern for how the Democratic Party approaches a national threat.

Downgrade it to “Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”, that’ll show ‘em…

I think the Mission Impossible franchise is going in a strange direction.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/11/south-africa-icj-hearing-israel-genocide/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/world/middleeast/genocide-case-israel-south-africa.html

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/icj-order-israel-palestinians-genocide-rcna135559

https://africa.businessinsider.com/military-and-defense/germany-leaps-to-the-defense-of-israel-at-the-international-court-of-justice-rejects/n3myccz

https://www.foxnews.com/world/uns-top-court-orders-israel-adhere-genocide-convention-not-cease-attacks-preliminary-ruling

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/01/11/south-africas-support-for-the-palestinian-cause-has-deep-roots

https://abcnews.go.com/International/video/genocide-case-israel-begins-uns-top-court-106297050

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/01/11/middleeast/south-africa-israel-genocide-icj-hague-day-one-intl/index.html

https://nypost.com/2024/01/11/news/israel-faces-genocide-charges-at-world-court-gazans-return-to-wasteland/

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4402611-takeaways-israel-genocide-hearing/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/international-court-justice-gaza-genocide/677257/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/01/05/international-justice-court-israel-fact-check/72107098007/

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/11/1224126552/court-hearings-genocide-charges-israel

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-01-11/south-africa-un-court-israel-committing-genocide-gaza

https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/the-hague-hears-case-against-israel/

https://time.com/6553912/israel-south-africa-icj-genocide/

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/israel-genocide-case-south-africa-palestinians-gaza-un-icj/

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/world-fails-palestinians-in-livestreamed-genocide-world-court-told-201746501839

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-11/south-africa-asks-un-court-to-order-israel-to-end-gaza-strikes

https://www.oann.com/newsroom/israel-govt-to-fight-south-africa-genocide-claim-in-world-court/

Might not have been as inevitable as we resign ourselves to accepting.

It didn’t happen on Clinton’s watch. And he left instructions for the Bush Admin to treat Bin Laden as a major security threat.

Bush didn’t do jack shit to prevent it—he welcomed it. It was an open secret in the run up to the 2000 election that Bush wanted to find “any way” to invade Iraq. Simply not doing anything to prevent an Islamic terrorist attack would be enough justification for him to invade Iraq—entirely independent of Iraq’s culpability for the attack.

♫ Warriors drink prune juice from the jar ♫

I really like Fallout, so why is my primary gripe that this looks “too much” like Fallout?

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f801f39d-ebb0-4db8-ae57-93eefa0cb340