Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Reportedly CNN will not be releasing the transcripts of the full Kamala Harris / Tim Walz interview. If would be good for someone to do a FOIA request on this. Even if it is denied I'd like CNN's response to be on the record... Oregon citing a failed experiment brings back criminal charges for drug possession starting next week. At least now people can’t say they should decriminalize drugs. Oregon tried that and it was an awful failure… Facts are facts. You deny them - you deny reality... A judge in Brazil ruled that SpaceX must turn off Starlink to around 250,000 subscribers there. Because this internet connection is used by many remote schools and hospitals and in most cases is their only connection to the outside world Elon Musk is forgoing payment but keeping these connections up instead of kowtowing to the judge’s or regimes illegal censorship. This is real free speech in action… Today is the first full day of college football and it’s really just in time. Plan to watch football all day and avoid travel on this busiest of weekends while I also fight off a head cold we all caught last week at the beach… I’m an awful person for laughing at this… How bad was Kamala’s CNN interview the other night? She dropped 5 points in the polls after it. I don’t trust polls to begin with but even they can’t hide that most Americans who saw her interview had more doubt about her viability than support for her cause after seeing the taped performance… Saw the Netflix special Sign Stealer on Connor Stallion and thought it was entertaining. While I think all major programs bend the rules to a degree (“If you find yourself in a fair fight you didn’t prepare enough”) I do find myself biased to Michigan’s case. I have no connection at all to the Maize and Blue but there’s just something about Ohio State that’s off-putting to me… Think most people who saw the CNN interview with their own eyes came to this realization too… Berkshire Hathaway joined the club of companies a $1 trillion dollar market cap. While I don’t find the news earthshaking in itself it does make me wonder if they are also now the company with a $1 trillion market cap with the most cash on hand… And just like that the term “Emotional Support VP” entered the language… Finally made the switch to DuckDuckGo from Google for my browser and search engine. Other that the image search not being as robust - have there been any noticeable changes to my content?…

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