Tell your sister she has delicious looking thighs!

I first learned of this shooting via chat, and was lacking some context. I also didn’t know Blackstone INC was a thing.

I got so confused about why someone would target the CEO of a griddle company.

Weirdly they don’t care about all those vacations Clarence Thomas received from Harlan Crow.

“See. This is why I prefer rubber gloves instead of nitrile. That way I can keep doing the exam while they defibrillate, and my fingers don’t go numb!”

It’s a spoonula!

They’re great for all sorts of things in the kitchen. The black ones, however, do not belong in the kitchen.
Not because of the black plastic controversy, but because if you’ve ever thwacked someone/something/yourself with a spoonula, you know that you need one in the bedroom, and if you only use black ones for that purpose, then you never ‘cross the streams.’ A … uh. friend introduced me to that rule over a decade ago, and now I bequeath that knowledge to you all.

It’s either that or a hinge to the back of the skull.

They really made bad choices here.

I would buy that and turn it back into doors.

They didn’t remove the knob’s or even round over the edges. A mediocre woodworker could get 2 doors out of that. A skilled woodworker would get 3 (with some reattachment efforts).
I could probably get one whole door.

That’s part of the gig in many IT roles. You have to be at least partially available for IT help requests.

Whenever I’m in the middle of something and I get a message from someone high up on the org chart.

“Hey, got a moment for a quick question?”

Me, internally: ‘Ah, fuck.’
Externally: “Yeah, totally!”

It is a very broad category!

Unfortunately, RFK has already indicated a desire to put people on antidepressants and adderall into labor camps.

It’s like the worst version of the improv game “yes, and”

Sec. 3. (a) The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall
(ii)   enforce prohibitions on urban camping and loitering […]
(iv)   enforce, and where necessary, adopt, standards that address individuals who are a danger to themselves or others and suffer from serious mental illness or substance use disorder, or who are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves, through assisted outpatient treatment or by moving them into treatment centers or other appropriate facilities via civil commitment or other available means, to the maximum extent permitted by law.
Sec. 3. (b) The attorney general shall
(iii)  assess Federal resources to determine whether they may be directed toward ensuring, to the extent permitted by law, that detainees with serious mental illness are not released into the public because of a lack of forensic bed capacity at appropriate local, State, and Federal jails or hospitals

WaPo missing the fucking point and painting this as anything but what it is. It’s not AND, it’s OR. It’s not mental health facilities, it’s prison.

Here’s who it could impact:

• Anyone with mental health issues that could be deemed dangerous to themselves or others.
  Anyone with depression (~36% of the U.S.) or who has said something off-color online.
• Anyone who uses drugs.
  Does your state have a legal weed program? Do they collect data on who purchases? Are they likely to give that data to the feds? Have you told your doctor/will they or their systems tell the feds?
• Anyone who attends a protest that does not have a permit, or has the permit suspended during the protest, because then they are loitering.

As someone pointed out in a now-deleted post - this comes after Trump has offered Palantir unfettered access to U.S. citizen data. Unless a judge completely kills this, it will be massively abused.

It also includes people who are loitering, a sufficiently broad definition that could be maliciously wielded against protestors.

It also stipulates that if hospitals are unavailable, jails will be used.

So it’s literally an order to allow them to throw anyone they want into prison.

You know, a holster is not an idea that occurred to me, but I sort of like the idea of just having like a magical holster of corn dogs.

Or like, an ankle holster. Imagine explaining that to airport security.
My personal favorite riff on the attached holder idea is one of those old school gas station change dispensers. You pull a little lever and a corn dog pops up out of one of the tubes like a spring-loaded snake. (Would have to be appropriately sized.) Maybe other tubes have condiments?

Well, of course, but the timing is convenient. And including ‘loitering’ without elaboration is going to be used by any sufficiently unscrupulous law enforcement to target protests that do not have permits.

I guess criminalizing homelessness and protest in one fell swoop, while allowing the authorities to throw people into prison labor camps is one way to distract from the Epstein files as well as bring back slavery and keep the corporations going once the economy collapses.

But what are we going to do, peacefully protest loiter?

enforce prohibitions on urban camping and loitering;

Editing to clarify:
If every unpermitted protest is deemed loitering, then it does not matter if people ‘start something’ because they will get scooped up, and thrown into jail for expressing their first amendment rights.
I don’t know how long it will take for the courts to clarify/nuke the clause, but it’ll be enough time that plenty of people will lose their jobs for just trying to express their rights.

Freshly made, slightly warm hummus, with veggies and taboon-style pita bread.

It would be lovely to have something like steak or chicken or a tasty cheesy dish, but I would just wind up in an early grave I went with that.

For some reason the idea of pulling a delicious smelling/looking corndog out of a pocket and handing it to a frazzled/sad random with a genuine “Hey, you don’t have to rawdog life alone — you can corndog it instead.” is like, Jesus-tier miracle shitposting.

People who are always the hero of their own stories are not trustworthy narrators.

I want a phone I can hold comfortably in one hand. I don’t need a larger screen, I need to remember to call the eye doctor.

No. I know. These phones aren’t for me. They’re for people who want to replace their laptop with a phone. The market is moving toward an all inclusive device, and the only way to make that work is dorky VR headsets, awkward projectors, or venti phones.

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