Since Biden's Admin had all the same files on Epstein as the Trump admin has, I'm going to say there probably isn't enough REAL evidence to do anything with, otherwise why didn't Biden's DOJ use it? Believe me, I would LOVE to see all those rich and powerful go down for their crimes, but Epstein has been dead since August of 2019...It's April of 2026, nearly 7 entire years later and we still don't have all the information.

I suspect Trump listened to his advisors on Iran, as well as pressure from Gulf State allies, to do exactly what he is doing. The fact that his inner circle is very likely insider trading based around Trump's announcements makes it even worse, but we can't strictly prove that.

Regarding comedians. They are there for entertainment and that's what I use them for. If they do say something interesting, I'm inclined to read up about it on a real news source. I recommend BBC. Seems to be one of the more balanced, less opinionated new sources.

I tend to get most of my news by reading it online. The primary websites I use are BBC, Yahoo! and Slashdot. BBC is by far the best source I've found that seems to just tell you what's happening without trying to tell you have to feel about it.

Some of Yahoo!'s articles are decent as well, but there is a lot of slop there. AP and NPR seem to have half way decent reporting. Outside of those places, I try to avoid CNN, Fox, MSN, Newsmax (wtf is this shit...). The idea of using tiktok or just watching comedians doesn't even occur to me. Sure, I've seen the late night shows and they are entertaining but hardly where I'm trying to get my news from.

Sounds like an easy side hustle if you set aside enough hours to get it going. This could be your winning lottery ticket idea and no one of importance would be defrauded. I promise I'll side with you if you ever have to answer to the court system. Nope, he's innocent.

This is ridiculous. To stop ticket scalping, just make a law that requires ticket holders either be present (say up to 2 tickets), or release the tickets back to the venue for a full refund. The venue can maintain a standby list of users who want the tickets and can notify them that seats have been released if someone bought them and no longer wants to go. Original purchaser must show up, and provide 1/2 the names of everyone in their party. If you dont show up, tickets can be refunded and resold at the venue's discretion.

This comment did not deserve a downmod. It's a valid point.

A huge chunk of the world population depends on shipped food, which gets transported by large trucks, trains and ships that run almost totally on diesel and heavy fuel oil. That universe is not electrified yet and the changeover can't be done with a snap of your fingers.

Electrification can still help, though. If other parts of the economy switch to renewables and EVs, that frees up hydrocarbons to be used in places where it takes extra time to shift. Big shipping will be the LAST to electrify.

My hybrid car gets 50mpg and gas cost me $4.99 per gallon last fill up. Electricity costs (which I can't charge at home anyway...) around about $0.40 a Kwh. I have prior post that do all the math, but suffice to say, that so long as electricity cost that much (southern California, it will actually go up again soon), it's cheaper to drive my hybrid until about $7 a gallon.

In some states, electricity is a 1/3rd the cost is compared to Southern California. In that scenario, yes, absolutely would love an EV.

And there are those of us that cannot charge at home because the option simply is not available. Therefore, I don't have the opportunity to take advantage of cheaper overnight rates for charging, otherwise I'd already have an EV.

The Netflix DVD service was remarkable in its time. You could get movies and shows that were so obscure it was nearly impossible to buy a copy, or find them for rent locally. I wish that they had had some way of licensing some of those older films for streaming availability. Losing that format lost a huge chunk of my interest in Netflix. Watching them slowly turn to self-created content that, frankly, sucks horribly 90-95% of the time with only the odd win here or there was painful. The best thing they have today is access to foreign created shows that you can't really access in other ways. Not that I've had my subscription for a while, as you can catch up on what they have that's worth watching in about a month of access every two years or so these days.

With a C suite departure, I expect to see what little quality is left to disappear over the next year or two. Ads in all tiers will be first. Then expect a flurry of self-made programming that's all extra low-budget, zero effort, tick the boxes trash to start flooding the interface every time you open it.

"Yo, man, I found this vulnerability. Recall may be locked down, but the delivery mechanism for the user is essentially broadcasting everything they look at to anybody that might be interested."

Microsoft response: "Yup. It's working exactly as intended. We see zero problems with this behavior."

Could we, maybe, get some regulatory scrutiny on shit like this? Too much of the world still runs on Windows for it to just be a "*shrug* oh well" situation. And too many HR departments are going to demand this shitty feature be on at all times so they have the option of snooping everybody's workday to just shrug it off. Even if it's an opt-in feature, corporations salivate at the idea of an always available trace like this to ignore it. If it's going to exist it needs to be secure.

Or we can just wait for the inevitable, "Oh shit, financial records for $large_corporation_too_big_to_fail were leaked through Recall" story that will ultimately end in some massive government handout to keep the doors open.

Yeah, there’s so much smoke and noise that it’s hard to dig for the reality. Here’s the reality:

1. It’s not quite this simple, but to a fairly good approximation, the US-Iran war has frozen or knocked offline around 20 percent of the worlds oil and gas. If the war gets bad, the number could climb to 40 percent.

2. The US-Iran war isn’t ending anytime soon. Ignore the reality show messaging from our political leaders. The people who control Iran are dug in like ticks and the US is gearing up for a land war. This will *not* be over anytime soon, no matter how many made-for-social-media “negotiations” take place.

3. There is literally no way for other parts of the world can quickly replace the lost 20-40 percent oil and gas supply.

Therefore, after exhausting the reserves stashed in various places, the world WILL USE/BURN 20-40 PERCENT LESS OIL AND GAS. One way or another. This is not negotiable. Not optional. No amount of prayer, good thoughts, hard work or social media spin will change this. For every barrel of oil we had last year, this year we will have 0.8 barrels or less. You can’t burn fuel that you physically don’t have.

The smart people have already been prepping for this. The rest of the world is making a surprised-pikachu-face. This situation is gonna last for a solid 6-12 months, no matter what. After that, various forms of adaptation will start to mitigate the problem. But not before then.

I seem to remember the Iraq-area wars that the US was involved in going on far longer and less of an oil crisis happening this fast.

That would be because even during those wars and conflicts, we didn't have an orange-painted pedophilic retard with delusions of grandeur causing a weekslong blockage of the major shipping lane through which ~35% of the world's crude oil trade flows.

The closest we've seen recently was when the Ever Given got stuck in the Suez during 2021, and even that only lasted for 6 days. Plus, it wasn't as big a deal because less oil was being used worldwide during pandemic countermeasures.

The closest in the past 100 years is when Treasonous Klanbitch Ronny Reagan betrayed the USA and convinced the Iranian Ayatollah to cut off shipping to hurt Carter in the 1980 election, in trade for guns and other military supplies that the Treasonshit Republicans paid out later during Reagan's terms.

Technically that was one of the orange turd's "advisors," but this administration also employs someone who thinks getting blackout drunk and waking up at Waffle House means he teleported, so, you know, confusing which of them said what is completely understandable.

Not that I think it ever should have been crippled. But this is dumb as hell. It's going to be leaked in three seconds.

Taking a solid blow to the head can often induce a brilliant sensation of a flash in the eyes. Something I'd be happy to provide these researchers, should they be interested in experiencing the sensation.

As a Southern California driver, this is why my hybrid is still more affordable to drive then a full EV would be. Electricity cost are just to high and that's even true with today's gas prices.