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Nothing like the the Peace President starting a war. While reading Trump’s take that Iran will run out of missiles before too long it occurred to me that the strategy wasn’t much different than Zapp Brannigan’s tactic for defeating the killbots.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/03/trump-to-politico-iran-is-running-out-of-launchers-00808591
So there are researcher studying flatulence who have built an app and associated device to measure flatulence.
The research study is already full, but there is a wait list to sign up as a future research subject.
Trump donor claims American first and then moves factory to China.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/16/john-paulson-conn-selmer-ohio-factory-china-trump
Remember it’s, “ok when I do it.”
Not sure anybody takes on security work to have shoplifters claim that you’re a scrub and therefore can be ignored on the way out the door.
Shoplifter claims that she thought the security guard was trying to ‘holler’ at her.
Just don’t put them in the toaster.
https://thehustle.co/a-pop-tarts-and-crocs-partnership-exists-because-we-re-all-total-suckers-3/
The American public loses this game.
So all I could think of when I read about the birth rates going up in red states and down in blue states was the scene in Idiocracy about how this wasn’t the right year to start a family.
Including deaths on the job.
It would be nice if not everything was bigger in Texas
In 2021, a worker in the Lone Star State died on the job every 16.5 hours
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-05-09-he-died-helping-build-teslas-gigafactory/
Russian online retailer Wildberries has a security checkpoint to enter work that is bound to make TSA jealous.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/24/putins-version-of-ebay-and-amazon-strip-searches-women-employees/
So it turns out that the song American Pie is a warning about climate change.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/weather/mississippi-river-low-level-drought-climate/index.html