don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
08.03.2026 03:12
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don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
I watched it because Marc Maron wouldn't shut up about how Andrea Riseborough was robbed and I was forced to agree
To Leslie is a terrific movie and everybody should watch it
One of my favorite parts of DS9 is when Kai Wynn comes *this* close to a moment of clarity and doubles down as soon as Kira suggests she give up power. It's not subtle but that's because the character is incapable of subtlety.
I meant more like 4 cities can run maybe 1 route each or something, but it'll be more than anybody else
biodiesels get the last laugh?
um @albertburneko.bsky.social did you know the shield look like that when you wrote "I guess they didn't have any openings at present on the Paw Patrol"?
About 100 million people live in the countries belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — all now under Iranian attack. Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE are, for all practical purposes, completely dependent on the desalination plants, particularly for metropolises such as Dubai. Saudi Arabia, and especially its capital, Riyadh, also relies heavily on them. Water Desalination in the Middle East Saudi Arabia is home to most of the water desalination plants in the region, where they are key to supply the capital, Riyadh 3 5 7 9M cubic meters per day Sources: Bloomberg Opinion and Nature Under international law, the desalination plants are protected. But I have seen enough Middle Eastern wars to know the weight of the Geneva Conventions when missiles and bombs start flying. And they are: Iran has attacked a power station in Fujairah, UAE that keeps one of the world’s largest desalination plants running. In Kuwait, debris from a drone interception caused a fire in one of the country’s plants. The risk is enormous. Take the Jubail desalination plant, located on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia. It supplies Riyadh, via a roughly 500-kilometer-long pipeline system, with more than 90% of its drinking water. “Riyadh would have to evacuate within a week if the plant, its pipelines, or associated power infrastructure were seriously damaged or destroyed,” according to a 2008 memo from the US embassy in the kingdom released by Wikileaks. “The current structure of the Saudi government could not exist without the Jubail desalinization plant,” the memo stated. Since the cable became public, the Saudis have reinforced their water network. Other countries have also built up redundancy. Still, all the water plants are equally vulnerable — and all of them are within range of the Iranian missiles. The good news is that water is so strategic — and so human — that any Iranian direct attack on them would be consider…
For those who can't bypass the paywall, the Obama administration, CIA determined that a single strike on a single Saudi water desalination plant would require evacuation of Riyadh and collapse its government.
The Saudis have beefed up their infrastructure since, but I would rather not find out.
ISHMAEL REED'S PARANOIA AGENT
if you’re not on TikTok (or insta probably) just letting you know that Courtney Cox mostly posts videos of herself playing the drums
White House: We want to take all of Iran's oil
Israel a few hours later: We are blowing up Iran's oil
Not sure these guys are on the same page
what a delightfully contagious intrusive thought to share, thank you Judah, that's going to haunt me all weekend and possibly forever
Colonel Tick-Tock himself?
Guys, Sharon and Tanner are on the same page about something, which defcon is that
BUY DIANE DUANE A COFFEE!? It would be an honor to us all who enjoyed the cream of the crop Star Treks book back in the day (💗My Enemy My Ally💗) and better wizard books than ole JK. ko-fi.com/dianeduane
wait where was he?
MONEY PLANE (2020) predicted polymarkets and kalshi
For sale: sex airplane, barely flown
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
I am wondering about timing for that and elections. Oklahoma primary is 6/16, filing deadlines are beginning of April. Congress is starting an 11 day break...
This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem
jfc
Headline of a Q&A in New Yorker formatting Headline: A panicked middle-aged man refuses to tell me directions to the bathroom. Subhed: Please, I just have to pee. I'm in a hurry. By Isaac Chotiner March 4, 2026
Excuse me. Oh, God. Oh, no. Holy shit. Get away from me. I was wondering if you knew where the bathrooms are. Look, I'm ... it's not a crime to scroll through your high school girlfriend's Instagram account. We remained friends after high school! I was at her wedding! It's only natural to see how she's doing.
I'm in a bit of a hurry, and I'm afraid that if I choose the wrong corridor, I'll be late for my train. I think they're down that way, but I'm actually from out of town. Please stop talking to me.
Real quick, though. I agree that it's natural to be interested in an old friend, but aren't you afraid about the message you might be sending by liking a picture of her at the beach from 2015? If that did happen, and I'm only going off your word, it was probably an accident. They put the ... scroll bars or whatever ... close to the thumbs up button. People have been complaining about that for years. I've been complaining about that for years.
Office automation all carcinizes to the great Excel and VBA machine. Run from it, hide from it, it comes all the same for small to medium size enterprises around the world.
this sounds like a prequel to Marshal Goldman's The Piratization of Russia
quoting the Borg with real torment nexus flavor here
Please don't tell me I have to get Peacock?
let's keep going, give them a health plan with the same in-network and copays as the prison system
