Looks a lot like and older Civilization and Sim City had a baby.

The counter to this is why not let the artists cook (hehe) unconstrained from somewhat arbitrary episode lengths. Those lengths were originally created to make a nice cookie cutter TV schedule. HBO used to actually brag about not being confined to set blocks of time and giving shows like the Sopranos the option of running long or short if they needed to.

So in the days of streaming, why does that matter?

Why add 10 minutes of filler to an episode that doesn’t need it? Or cut important plot points that might not work well in different context because you’re at 34 minutes already?

Why not give a show room to grow and evolve (Ted Lasso is a great example)? And The Bear certainly fits this mold.

As for Stranger Things, those are basically just three movies, not your traditional episodes.

Perhaps. Looks like both CNN and NBC News have “stories” on their front pages as well.

Gotta love some hard hitting coverage by Engadget, followed immediately by “Best Amazon Prime Day 2025 deals.”

‘Affordable housing’ is the bullshit reasoning they’ll use to try and get folks to agree, and then actually build more expensive housing (or pillage the land for natural resources like lumber). The good old bait and switch.

From the article there’s a program in Nevada that has built very little affordable housing.

But it’s challenging to build affordable housing on public land for a host of reasons, among them the high cost of infrastructure such as water pipelines and the cumbersome bureaucratic processes involving land agencies.

But a primary obstacle is the price of that land itself: When it’s sold at market rate, it’s extremely difficult for developers to create affordable homes.

There’s just one prominent test case, in Nevada, where a 1998 law enables the sale of federal land at market rate in the Las Vegas Valley and at steeply discounted prices throughout the state if it’s to be used for affordable housing.

Though municipalities can buy BLM land at $100 per acre to create affordable housing, the law has so far created just about 850 affordable units on 30 acres of land. By contrast, the law’s market-value mechanism has enabled the sale of more than 17,000 acres of land at an average of more than $200,000 per acre.

In March, the BLM sold 42 acres for $16.6 million. Meanwhile, according to a recent analysis, rents in Clark and Washoe counties have respectively risen by 56% and 47% since 2018.

Start with the 128 Democrats who voted with Republicans to table an impeachment vote this week.

I do wonder if we’re going to see some websites popping up that kind of hit the reset button on social media and go back to smaller communities of folks with something in common.

I kind of miss the days of actually having online conversations with folks you know are real people (not bots), that aren’t trying to be an influencer, or get famous, or some how many money off your interactions.

I tweaked. Many (most?) don’t.

I look forward to hearing that Fetterman, Schumer and other spinless, feckless Democrats voted to confirm him.

You know what else would help? Annual (or more) blood tests during routine wellness checks with your doctor.

Do you know why most people don’t get those?

Insurance won’t cover them. Many insurance providers won’t cover them.

Maybe start there? Although I’m guessing he has no buddies who would make money from routine blood tests.

That really irks me is we basically have two styles of headlines right now.

The newer sites like Rawstory, Mediaite, New Republic, Daily Beast, and Meidas Touch all use this bullshit style of headline writing.

Meanwhile the traditional media sane washes the man and is equally disconnected from reality, but in the other direction.

At this point I’m wondering if there really was a ceasefire.

Everything this guy says is a lie until proven otherwise.

If I were a betting man, it seems very likely he just made the whole thing up. Perhaps he pitched the idea and was turned down by either Israel or Iran (probably both). Went to social media to proclaim his victory. Leading both countries to attach each other to show the whole thing was bullshit.

Let’s not forget, he claimed he was the lynch pin behind the India and Pakistan ceasefire, only to have both sides say he wasn’t involved at all.

If this election was held in 2023, you have to wonder if the outcome would have been wildly different.

For once, an encouraging sign for sanity and common sense.

This, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with the Democratic Party.

If one of these folks is your rep, CALL their office and ask them why they voted to table the impeachment vote, and let them know you’re thinking seriously about not casting a vote for them the next time you have the opportunity.

Honestly, I feel like Trump and the GOP’s strategy for a while now has been to do so much illegal, evil and heinous shit that the media and public just move onto the next thing.

Any other administration would have been brought to its knees by Signalgate. A few months later and the fucking Secretary of Defense is getting congratulated for not leaking military plans ahead of time.

IMO this is business as usual thinking.

The left needs to push for a vote to get Congress on the record where they stand.

And even if it doesn’t pass, getting some Republicans to vote yes would be a big win and a first step towards checking TACO.

Here’s a link to the two week super cut: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QtkcbjVf2bE

Basically the same tactic as China’s “Final Warning.”

EDIT: And another one from Kaitlan Collins: https://xcancel.com/kaitlancollins/status/1935880319028043795#m

From the link:

Dick Carter, Chair of the Delaware Heritage Commission, states that the name of Murderkill River is taken from the original Dutch for Mother River. Mother is moeder in Middle Dutch, and river is Kille. Later, under British rule, the word “River” was added to the waterway’s name, effectively making it “mother river river.”

The term “kill” is used in areas of Dutch influence in the Netherlands’ former North American colony of New Netherland, primarily the Hudson and Delaware Valleys to describe a creek, river, tidal inlet, strait, or arm of the, sea such as Bronx Kill in New York and Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania.

Delaware’s creeks and rivers are slow-moving and there is deep mud associated with marshy rivers. Dutch “modder” = mud, a false cognate to “mother.” Modder Kill = Muddy Creek or Muddy River. The word is still used in Dutch, such as this Dutch video of a tractor stuck in mud (“vast in de modder”).[12]

Anybody else tried of New Republic, Raw Story and The Daily Beast’s bullshit headlines?

Is this Trump’s equivalent of China’s “Final Warning”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China's_final_warning