Adorable. Reminds me of our cat, Ozzy. This was him a a little over a year ago, still a bit kittenish. He fell asleep in my lap while I was trimming his claws:

I think you ascribe more intent to his statements than actually exists. “Lying” implies that he has an actual intent to mislead. The reality is that he doesn’t care one way or the other. He will do or say whatever he thinks will get him the most support at any given time, regardless of what he has said or done in the past.

Yet again, the people who keep getting caught trying to commit election fraud are the very people who claim to be most concerned that election fraud is going on.

Nah, those guys are cool as cucumbers. It was a super-dangerous maneuver by the SU-35 pilot, but I assure you the F-16 pilot knew exactly what was going on the whole time.

Immigration

Which makes zero sense. What authority does anyone think she has in making any decisions about immigration policy? He’s the one that convinced his allies in congress to tank the border security bill that had bipartisan support, in order to intentionally create a “crisis”.

There is no legally defined basis for “who gets credit.” An artist is not a tool that you used to produce art. The artist produced the artwork. They own the artwork and copyrights (that is, the right to make and distribute copies) unless there is some legal arrangement that says otherwise. The fact that you paid them and told them what to do, by itself, means nothing in a legal context. That’s why, if you’re paying an artist to do creative work, or if you’re an artist being paid to do creative work, you should always have a contract that defines, among other things, what everyone’s rights are with regard to the final product.

She clearly lied and wasted everyone’s time.

That is false reporting. The problem is then you have to prove that she knowingly lied, and the police/DA are rarely interested in taking the time to do that. It doesn’t “get criminals off the street.”

With that many cats, you’d really just have a black cat hole.

Normally, if you’re commissioning a piece of art for commercial purposes, you would have some sort of contract with the artist that gives you the copyrights. Otherwise, the copyright belongs to the artist that produced the work, even if you buy the product.

I love my state. We have been 100% mail-in ballots since 2011. There are multiple drop boxes in every district. Same day voter registration. You can even register online.

The old weirdo doesn’t have time for a second debate because he’s too busy playing golf and hawking overpriced collectables.

I’d like to say that companies will just make this the standard for everyone, like they did with California emissions standards for cars, but the reality is that it will be very difficult to take action against a company that doesn’t have their headquarters in California. This isn’t like GDPR where a large federal government will fine you into oblivion if you fail to comply while doing business in their jurisdiction. A lot of companies will probably just ignore this.

Presented with the details re: how CNN determined the comments came from him, Robinson responded: “I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.”

Sure, buddy. Somebody in 2008 spent 4 years writing posts on an obscure web forum using an account registered to your email address, just so they could have a “gotcha!” moment when you decided to run for governor over a decade later.

The closest approach is about 600,000 Km away. That’s more than twice the distance to the moon. At that distance, to be (just barely) visible to the naked eye, it would have to be about 170km across, which would put it among the largest asteroids in the solar system. In fact, 2024 PT5 is only about 11m across (~36ft). You would need quite a powerful telescope, indeed, to see an object that small at that distance.

I’m going to file a police report claiming JD Vance murdered and cannibalized a family of Haitian immigrants. That’s proof it actually happened, right?

Here’s what happened at my daughter’s school last week:

• Child 1 made a sarcastic remark to child 2, suggesting that child 3 might bring a gun to school the next day.
• Child 4 overheard the remark and reported it.
• Police showed up, in full force, at child 3’s home. Child 3 had made no such threat, did not own a gun, and had no idea what was going on.
• The district assured everyone that there was no credible threat.
• Social media blew up with distraught parents wanting to know why the school hadn’t been immediately shut down and everyone notified, kids arrested, etc.

If police made the identities of any of these children public knowledge, their parents would be rightfully pissed off and well within their rights to sue for damages, because I assure you that those kids and their parents would be made social pariahs and would probably have to leave the district, even though the only thing that happened was someone made a very ill-advised joke that someone else overheard and took seriously.

It is, indeed, funny business.

To be completely fair here: the reports are all saying that Trump’s location that day was not public information. So either this guy got real lucky to show up on a day Trump was playing golf, or else he had some information that very few other people had. Okay, granted, Trump plays golf a lot, so it could just be a coincidence. Still, it would be kind of ironic if it turned out someone in his own campaign was leaking info to the crazies.

Didn’t you read it? To their “counties of origin.” Oh, excuse me: “TO THEIR COUNTIES OF ORIGIN.”

There are several options out there, and most of them don’t have a failure mode that could potentially harm your fur babies. They just stop working when something goes wrong. The one in the video has a design that is just inherently dangerous.