Doug Holland

Thank you for your service.

No company 1/1000th the size of Disney should be allowed to exist.

Totally bogus. The effect of one person eating a roast beef sandwich and side of chips is so nearly nothing it rounds to nothing. Saying, “If you choose to eat meat, you’re causing loads of climate damage,” is bald-faced misinformation.

This is damned difficult to believe from the Trump administration. My prediction is, it’s pressure to get something out of Google — probably a promise to make search results more MAGA friendly, or finger people making un-Trump-friendly search inquiries. End result, a fine at best. There’s just No Frickin’ Way this administration would actually do something to rein in Google.

No. It’s not 2/3 of climate change caused by wealthy bastards, it’s 100%.

Non-wealthy people don’t own factories spewing heat and trash into the air. Non-wealthy people might own cars, but they don’t design and build those cars to constantly spew dangerous & deadly emissions — wealthy people are responsible for that, and for the lack of a healthier, greener choice for transportation. It’s wealthy bastards who’ve fought against regulations reducing pollution, wealthy bastards who oppose public transit, and wealthy bastards who profit from the climate change that’ll eventually kill the rest of us.

Fuck if I’m causing 1/3 of climate change. Fuck, no.

Wealthy bastards make sure environmental protection is a punchline, and wrap everything in plastic like Laura Palmer. The rich are at the heart of every vile thing that’s being done to the planet. Virtually all of man-made climate change is caused by rich bastards.

I don’t know about the hardware, but I think the software is substantially older than that — dates back to the 1960s. I might be wrong, though, and I’m too stoned right now to Google it.

I’m also an old person who yells, and I agree.

Mostly, though, if we’re going to ‘modernize’ the system (with or without AI), it needs to be done smartly and methodically, and by people who aren’t philosophically opposed to Social Security’s existence.

I tried, but can’t bear to read the “article,” which, being Axios, is merely a collection of blips instead of actual writing and journalism.

As for the headline, I’m pleased to see plenty of common sense in the comments here. Seeing an MD in America is difficult, expensive, time-consuming, often preachy, and frequently not worth the co-pay if you’re lucky enough to have insurance. “Health care providers” have made it such a hoop-jumpy and slow process, that when I’m ill seeing a doctor is about my fourth choice.

What the fuck and why? What’s to be gained from this, for The Atlantic or its editor, Jeffrey Goldberg? Shit-can this dumb idea right here and now, please.

Rebuke away, ya dumb fuck Dems. What the young Mr Hogg is attempting — funding primary challengers to the most empty-suit Democrats — might be futile, might not, but you gotta respect the effort.

“Wake up, wake up,” he shouts at the corpse of the Democratic Party, which will probably wake up only long enough to smack him away, and then go back to sleep.

There are enough genuine outrages in America these days, I was inclined to think nothing much of this one… until Franklin Graham weighed in on the store owner’s side. Nothing more needs to be researched or considered; as much as Donald Trump or Elon Musk, if Franklin Graham is on your side you’re on the wrong side.

Good stuff, thanks.

That’s not a “slip-up” unless there’s an apology and the info is taken down, which hasn’t happened, and won’t. It’s a DHS doxing.

Court orders can be either followed or appealed, but in the entire history of me reading the news, I don’t remember ever seeing a headline about someone “resisting” court orders.

That headline is a masterwork of obfuscation, softening an obvious fact by hiding it behind “fears grow”.

I’ve wondered, too. Is it driven by an obsessive hatred of Arabs and Muslims? The Christian Right’s fetish for armageddon? Oil? Kickbacks?