RichC: what the hell is going on ??
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I'm Richard Cownie, a Boring Englishman in Brookline MA, he/him, writes software, plays fiddle, talks nonsense. I am still not Kid Rock.
I would inevitably forget and end up with a spray of fluorescent paint all the way up my back.
December 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I would inevitably forget and end up with a spray of fluorescent paint all the way up my back.
Goes up to 11
December 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Goes up to 11
Paul was staggering around unable to defend himself. The fight should have been stopped earlier (preferably before it ever started).
December 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Paul was staggering around unable to defend himself. The fight should have been stopped earlier (preferably before it ever started).
Marla Maples seems to be a normal model/actress/golddigger, but not completely amoral and evil. So she didn't stick around long.
December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Marla Maples seems to be a normal model/actress/golddigger, but not completely amoral and evil. So she didn't stick around long.
That's optimistic. Consider that Trumpmerica may be actively hostile, e.g. invading Greenland and Venezuela, and with the CIA funding and supporting neo-fascist movements in Europe, and passing intel to Russia.
December 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
That's optimistic. Consider that Trumpmerica may be actively hostile, e.g. invading Greenland and Venezuela, and with the CIA funding and supporting neo-fascist movements in Europe, and passing intel to Russia.
We'll never know. There's a lot of stuff that happened under Stalin that historians have puzzled over for generations, with estimates varying by 4x. It will be a lot more dead than the official figures, for sure.
December 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We'll never know. There's a lot of stuff that happened under Stalin that historians have puzzled over for generations, with estimates varying by 4x. It will be a lot more dead than the official figures, for sure.
She clearly fails to "keep him in line". It's ranting from Trump all day every day, and it's chaos and dysfunction and crime from the rest of them. Like, WTF does Wiles even *do* ? Definitely not the Chief of Staff job as it has ever existed before.
December 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
She clearly fails to "keep him in line". It's ranting from Trump all day every day, and it's chaos and dysfunction and crime from the rest of them. Like, WTF does Wiles even *do* ? Definitely not the Chief of Staff job as it has ever existed before.
A large town, really. The highest live population was about 60zk. The dead population is now many times greater.
December 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A large town, really. The highest live population was about 60zk. The dead population is now many times greater.
When Kirk was murdered, they interviewed him outside the White House, and he was like "Oh yeah, Charlie Kirk, shame ... look over here is where I'm building the new ballroom for supplicants to come and offer me bribes, how great is that"
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
When Kirk was murdered, they interviewed him outside the White House, and he was like "Oh yeah, Charlie Kirk, shame ... look over here is where I'm building the new ballroom for supplicants to come and offer me bribes, how great is that"
He used to be able to fake it for short periods, but one symptom of his cognitive decline is that now he can't fake it even for 10 seconds.
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
He used to be able to fake it for short periods, but one symptom of his cognitive decline is that now he can't fake it even for 10 seconds.
It's got to be a big leap for most of us, because it isn't in the Indo-European language family.
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It's got to be a big leap for most of us, because it isn't in the Indo-European language family.
A friend of mine had studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic and said the Norse myths were better before Tolkien pilfered them.
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
A friend of mine had studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic and said the Norse myths were better before Tolkien pilfered them.
He is that stupid. But he also sees tariffs as a way to bully people into giving him enormous bribes, and that part of it is working fine. It's only a problem for, like, the other 319,999,999 Americans, and the rest of the world.
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
He is that stupid. But he also sees tariffs as a way to bully people into giving him enormous bribes, and that part of it is working fine. It's only a problem for, like, the other 319,999,999 Americans, and the rest of the world.
Nobody in the USA. IIRC countries like South Korea, Japan, Singapore had really upped their public-health game after SARS and were well-prepared to respond to another crossover respiratory virus. But the pervasive racism implies that the USA is incapable of learning any lessons from anyone else.
December 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Nobody in the USA. IIRC countries like South Korea, Japan, Singapore had really upped their public-health game after SARS and were well-prepared to respond to another crossover respiratory virus. But the pervasive racism implies that the USA is incapable of learning any lessons from anyone else.
Shed a tear for unfortunate people who are committed to selling out but no-one's buying.
December 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Shed a tear for unfortunate people who are committed to selling out but no-one's buying.
So you really think it came from the lab, but then jumped several kilometers across a crowded city to form a cluster of cases close to the wet market, and particularly among people who worked near the live-animal stalls where COVID was found in the cages ? You and your peers are dumbasses.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
So you really think it came from the lab, but then jumped several kilometers across a crowded city to form a cluster of cases close to the wet market, and particularly among people who worked near the live-animal stalls where COVID was found in the cages ? You and your peers are dumbasses.
Further analysis is that you're a bullshitter. Happy now ?
December 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Further analysis is that you're a bullshitter. Happy now ?
Which is totally unsurprising. Zoonotic origin is normal, about 2/3 of human diseases crossed over from animals.
December 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Which is totally unsurprising. Zoonotic origin is normal, about 2/3 of human diseases crossed over from animals.
Should we worry about poor practices at virology labs ? Sure. But THAT WAS NOT THE CAUSE OF COVID-19. It was zoonotic origin at the wet market, done and done.
December 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Should we worry about poor practices at virology labs ? Sure. But THAT WAS NOT THE CAUSE OF COVID-19. It was zoonotic origin at the wet market, done and done.