I think that translates to Bazinga or Bajinga? I'm a little rusty.

Ford CEO drives a Xiaomi EV instead of a Ford and loves it. That article was from last year but he's still impressed in this article from a few days ago.

4! Is a factorial which means it's 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24

I ate crickets a few times in traditional Mexican restaurants. They were great dry roasted like seasoned peanuts, but I liked them less braised or streamed. I really needed them to have the crunch to be palatable. I'd try other bugs, for sure.

Now this is a true blast from the past for me. I grew up listening to Bone Thugs.

Soccer diehards team up with Argentine retirees to protest pension reform (2025)

I guess we'll have this to look forward to when they eventually gut the whole thing.

Adding on to that: Filled with a bunch of fearful America hating traitors. Afraid of slavery being abolished and hating America for even considering not expanding slavery to the territories in process of becoming states.

Here's some fun history: In Maryland and Virginia, reparations were paid by the federal government... to former slave owner for loss of their "property." "Property" being freed slaves. Those recently freed people got exactly what you think they got. Nothing.

If only. That comes out to nearly all Republicans and around a third of Democrats. I could totally see 30% of Democrats being in favor of mass deportations.

First line of the article

Most U.S. adults (9 in 10 Republicans and close to half of Democrats) say they support mass deportations of immigrants living in the country illegally

You gotta remember that the "They're taking our jobs" and "They're getting our tax money" propaganda has been pervasive in America for decades. And they don't, actively or passively, want to know about the realities of the lives of undocumented immigrants in the US. They don't want to read the studies or know the data. Feelings don't care about the facts.

That's exactly what I'm expecting. They'll just make a whole lotta new things illegal and jailable then apply the laws in a specific way such that only "particular peoples" are incarcerated and used as prison slaves. We saw this in post-Reconstruction South, during Jim Crow, and over the course of the War on Drugs. My favorite was suddenly people just standing on sidewalks being arrested, charged, and convicted as vagrants then being forced to do legally allowed slave labor for the state under threat of punishment (beatings, torture, solitary confinement). America said "We're banning slavery (except for this one case)" then immediately said "Let's increase the number of people who can be exceptions." This is a re-run. Or better yet, a remake of an old movie or show.

I'm fleeing Texas in the next couple of months because of this and possibly getting caught up in mass deportations even though I'm a citizen. I'm Hispanic, my wife is white. I'm leaving my wife behind because she doesn't want to go. All I can think is 'Thank goodness we don't have kids.' I'm so lucky I've got friends and family in freedom loving states and I feel for those who don't.

Just you wait, they'll follow a playbook that has been used for a long time. First they're gonna say that the official death toll, around 46,000 identified people, is incorrect. 'Many of them were Hamas' or 'Hamas is inflating the death count.'

Once they realize the evidence overwhelmingly shows that the official death toll is an undercount, they're going to say it's not more than the official death toll, it can't be more than the identified deaths. 'It can't be more than 46,000, there's no evidence that it's more than those already counted' or 'I won't believe a higher number without a name and a body.'

Then, once they can't away from the higher estimate, they'll switch to exclusively justifying it. 'It doesn't matter, they all deserved it for supporting Hamas.'

and reinstated it soon after

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State senator Kevin Sparks called the district’s Bible ban “misguided” in a 19 December post on Instagram. “The Bible is not educationally unsuitable, sexually explicit, or pervasively vulgar, making its removal legally and morally indefensible. At a time when students seek guidance, the Bible provides a vital moral framework.”

Well that's a Texas sized load of horse shit if I ever saw one. It's a book that prominently features child murder, sexual assault, incest, misogyny, mutilation and torture, genocide, and on and on and on. If the rules were properly and equally enforced, there'd only be math, chemistry, and physics books.

Although, it'd be absolutely hilarious if someone were to drop in some leftist writings and they were forced to keep books on unionizing and its benefits, unifying against the rich and collective action, and critiques of capitalism for not fitting the criteria of books that should be banned. Ahhh well, I'm sure they'd say such books are obscene and inappropriate and promptly ban them.

Here's a fucked up article about study done in states with abortion restrictions. Around 64,000 babies born from SA in states with abortion restrictions. And somehow we're the extremists for not wanting that, for wanting all women to have a choice.

They're banking masks now because only 'criminal antifa' use masks. Some of the bans have exceptions for health reasons, a lot don't. So, screw people with compromised immune systems, I guess.

Mr. Zwonitzer [Republican] was critical of the Freedom Caucus’s focus on social issues like sex, books and bathrooms.

“A lot of us who’ve been in the last four years — it’s not fun,” he said. “If the Freedom Caucus is in power for four years and we don’t get the right governor elected, the effects will show up in four to five years, and then it’ll be a decade for us to pull ourselves back.”

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Chief among the concerns for Senator Chris Rothfuss, a Democrat who represents Laramie, home of the University of Wyoming, was safeguarding the state’s $30 billion sovereign wealth fund, more than a third of which comes from taxes on oil, gas and natural resources. Interest income from the fund has been crucial in funding schools and the state’s annual budget, but Freedom Caucus leaders, determined to shrink government, are contemplating giving some of that money back to residents.

I hope the residents of Wyoming get everything they voted for. Now, I'm gonna sit back and enjoy the shitshow.

And here's a little reminder of what happens when a state is controlled by extremist conservatives. As Trump Proposes Tax Cuts, Kansas Deals With Aftermath Of Experiment (NPR). It turns out lowering taxes and implementing spending cuts don't improve the economy. In fact, it slowed and weakened and Kansas fell behind relative to its neighboring states.

We both know there's gonna be separate standards for the in group (them) and the out group (all the rest of us). Hell, here's an in group member who got 10 weekends in jail for that exact crime earlier this year. But, they'll arrest us for providing food to people who need it. (Dayton 2024) (Houston 2023) The laws are already there in some cities, why not make it federal law and make the punishment severe.

Goddamnit! They're trying to monopolize mayonnaise now?! They can take my more delicious Mexican and Japanese mayonnaises when they pry 'em from my cold dead hands!