In my opinion, the rightward correction has gotten even worse since the defunding. For a long time now they’ve run a graphic showing their corporate sponsors before each broadcast (Meta and oil companies often show up there). They love to say it’s “viewers like you” that make them possible, but I think the corporate sponsors are a lot more important. It’s been a very long time since the government funding has even been that big a chunk of their income.
I don’t watch PBS News Hour but my parents do and I have to listen to it from time to time. They characterized this issue as one of Grok creating “explicit” AI images and artificially generating pictures of real women (not “girls”) in “bathing suits”. Not exactly an accurate characterization of CSAM.
I was about to say the same thing but then I remembered the UK has North Sea oil, too.
Escort carriers?
“Bored of Peace”
He spent most of his adult life dodging taxes – no surprise that he would be pro-brexit.
FREE CHARLIE KIRK!*
*with purchase of regular-priced Charlie Kirk
The coastal regions are nice … if you can avoid the people.
I was playing disc golf by myself once and fell in with a group of guys with shaved heads who were playing the same course. They seemed nice and it took me a couple of holes to realize that they all had swastika tattoos on the sides of their heads. Fortunately I had rigged up my phone to make the incoming call sound when I double-tapped a side button and I was able to nope the fuck out of there.
My Physics professors literally wore pocket protectors, with pens in them. They were also both ultra-marathoners which is surprisingly common among that species.
Tattoos are so incredibly common now (and have been since the '90s) that it’s hard to imagine even the parents of a 20-year-old not having some themselves.
I didn’t know there was such a thing as a dead Charlie Kirk tree, but I do like the shade.
“Martin, I’da shot ya myself but white folk got better aim.” -Uncle Ruckus
An under-appreciated aspect of the insurance industry is the fact that there is typically a multi-year lag between the collection of premiums and the payout of claims. Insurance companies invest the premiums in the meantime and profit off the returns. This allows them (in some cases) to be profitable even when payouts exceed premiums. As a result, not only are health insurers not troubled by rising costs, they actually benefit from rising costs because the premiums rise at the same time.
during Obama’s first term
Lol this was just about the first thing Clinton tried to get done in 1993. It’s one of the things that led to the creation of Fox News.
Not everybody. Some of us just die instead.
He (King George V) would have done it (in 1911). Asquith (the Prime Minister) told him that his father (King Edward VII) had promised to do it before his death in 1910 and King George assented. Asquith actually prepared lists with hundreds of names on them.
I think in Rush Limbaugh’s case the trick is to make sure he stays dead. Dead Rush Limbaugh is the best sort of Rush Limbaugh.
The British House of Lords used to hold the same sort of power with their ability to veto anything passed by the House of Commons. The House of Commons took this veto power away, but unfortunately they were only able to do this by getting the King to threaten to ennoble hundreds of new people and overwhelm the power of the traditional Lords. Our (US) current King would of course never agree to any such thing.
Crows are complex, though. The ones that live around my house can often be found ganging up and chasing away the red-tailed hawks that like to snack on the squirrels. The squirrels repay the favor by chasing off the crows who come to eat the peanuts I leave out for them (and eating the peanuts themselves). One time the crows flew around above me making a godawful racket until I went to the back yard and freed a baby raccoon that had accidentally gone into the box trap I leave out for groundhogs; they immediately flew off as soon as I let the little guy out.