OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
June 21, 2024
IS THERE ANYONE WHO ISN’T? Is CBS Suggesting That Biden Will Be Drugged for the Debate With Trump?
Related:
Biden arrives at Camp David for a much needed week of doping before the debate
Just look at him walk here… pic.twitter.com/0NSJYeyxTT
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) June 21, 2024
ALIENS: The Oldest Known Burial Site in The World Wasn’t Created by Our Species.
Well, sort of: “Critically, they also belong to Homo naledi, a primitive species at the crossroads between apes and modern humans, which had brains about the size of oranges and stood about 1.5 meters (five feet) tall. . . . Engravings forming geometrical shapes, including a ‘rough hashtag figure’, were also found on the apparently purposely smoothed surfaces of a cave pillar nearby.”
I wonder if they’re truly a different species or if, as with Neanderthals, Denisovans, etc., more-modern humans could interbreed with them. A quick web search suggests that there’s no evidence that they did, but that evidence could be buried in a cave somewhere.
THIS IS A DUMB TIMELINE, BUT A FUNNY ONE: WATCH: Hamas Simps Show Up at Jake Tapper’s House, What Happens Next Is Hilarious.
To set the scene, the protesters showed up and started shouting into a bullhorn about how Israel bombed the Al-Ahli hospital. As RedState reported in late 2023, the hospital was not bombed. Rather, the parking lot area was hit by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that fell short. While the “Gaza Ministry of Health” initially claimed 500-700 dead, the actual death toll was around 25 people. It was one of the first major hoaxes of the war. Apparently, these protesters didn’t get the memo. More likely, they just don’t care because they lie like they are breathing.
Regardless, amid the protest, something hilarious happened.
If you can’t watch the video, Tapper’s kids come to the window and start blaring the Star Spangled Banner. They then begin laughing and waving, triggering the every-loving mess out of the protesters. . . . They get so mad when you make fun of them, which means making fun of them is absolutely the right choice.
It helps that they’re so ridiculous, too.
COMMERCIAL FUSION POWER IS ONLY 20 YEARS AWAY! Major Fusion Milestone: Princeton Scientists Discover Game-Changer in Reactor Design. We can have endless clean power right now with fission, though, so we can wait. Which is a good thing, since commercial fusion has been only 20 years away for my entire life.
STILL TRUE:
My gas tank bill is starting to look like a grocery bill and my grocery bill is starting to look like a Costco bill and my Costco bill is starting to look like a mortgage payment and I don’t know how people are affording to live right now.
— Meghan 🩷💜💙| The Pursuing Life (@thepursuinglife) June 15, 2022
JULIETTE OCHIENG: The Grudges: Eating popcorn on the sidelines. “It’s fascinating to watch on social media as people and groups worry about their ethnic blood lines dying out or being diluted. Be advised, I’m not talking about ethnic genocides, which are always wrong and always evil. I’m talking about those who are up in arms about interracial/inter-ethnic relationships, intermarriage and integration. Especially confusing are black Americans who go on about those of our number who procreate with non-black persons.”
A SOFT FACE USUALLY NEEDS WEIGHT LOSS: Facial gum is all the rage on TikTok. So does it work?
HMM: Judge dismisses charges in Nevada fake electors case over venue question, attorney general to appeal. “Defense attorneys bluntly declared the case dead, saying that to bring the case now to another grand jury in another venue such as Nevada’s capital city of Carson City would violate a three-year statute of limitations on filing charges that expired in December.”
FEEL LUCKY, PUNK? The .44 Magnum: A Love Story.
SO U.S. V. RAHIMI IS OUT, and the Supreme Court upheld the ban on gun possession by those subject to a domestic violence civil protective order. I was out to a long lunch and just got home, so I’ll have something to say later after I’ve read it, but here’s a summary from SCOTUSblog.
However, if, as the majority says, “firearm laws have included provisions preventing individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms,” then does that call into question bans on gun possession by those convicted of nonviolent felonies? It has long been my position that far fewer crimes should be designated as felonies, and that the due process clause and the Eighth Amendment should set limits on what sorts of crimes can be made felonies. But I’ll read the opinion before I say more.
IT’S NOT ESPECIALLY APPARENT ANYWHERE RIGHT NOW: What IF Ilya is Right and Superintelligence is Near?
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else.”
HALLUCINOGENS ARE OVERRATED: LSD use tied to increased distress in unemployed job-seekers.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Microplastics found in human penises for first time.
I KNOW, CRAZY, RIGHT? In Cargill, SCOTUS Ruled that Words Mean Things and Congress Writes the Laws.
THAT’S UNFAIR. Western nations are showing creativity and ruthlessness — in how they copy the Chinese to suppress dissent in their own countries.
#HongKong #World Not a day goes past without Hong Kong authorities devising new ways to render the lives of their critics miserable and unviable. Why aren’t the governments of democratic countries matching their creativity and ruthlessness in response?https://t.co/auQaIwhKPf
— Domino Theory (@DominoTheoryMag) June 21, 2024
IT’S AS IF OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE RUN BY PEOPLE WHO FUNDAMENTALLY HATE AMERICANS. Med school system displaces Americans in favor of foreigners, report finds.
CONSEQUENCES: 3 in 10 campus ‘pro-Palestine’ protesters had job offer rescinded in past six months: Survey.
Related: Punish students for anti-Israel encampments, 3 in 4 Americans say.
Well, unless you’re Alvin Bragg.
Outrage as Manhattan DA Bragg’s office drops nearly all cases from Columbia University’s anti-Israel protest https://t.co/sq9l6315i7 pic.twitter.com/EATuUnZcEO
— New York Post (@nypost) June 20, 2024
SO MUCH FOR THE EMERGING DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY? Latino Voters Trust Trump on Immigration Over Biden.
IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT?
FBI Firearm Training Facility Replaces Paper Targets With Copies Of The Constitution https://t.co/hNMI1LpR0Q pic.twitter.com/5FDzkiAx9k
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 20, 2024
Probably interspersed with pictures of family dogs.