2026-07-17

Horseshit

Q-Day is coming, and it might break the internet
Neanderthals, modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey
Mystery bidder buys T. rex nicknamed 'Gus' for a record $50M
Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise

what has happened is that previous generations were able to take advantage of highly valuable and productive social capital as well as their exploding financial capital to move through each of these life stages in a fiscally efficient manner. Our current young, lacking access to this social capital, must engage in enormous outlays of purely financial capital in order to achieve the same levels of stability and accomplishment — capital that they do not have.

an American family in 1975 could send their children to public school on the assumption that the vast majority of other children would belong to intact families, communities like their own, and would speak English as a first language. Now, realistically, many parents must turn to private schooling for the same reassurances.

My argument is that previous generations received an enormous stock of social capital: trusted neighbors, functional public schools, a productive courtship culture, predictable career arcs, and a public square in which children could roam and adults could be relied upon.
42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support
Young Drivers Are Going 'Psycho' on the Road–and Filming It

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

What happened to our climate extinction?

Since approximately 2023, a significant portion of the climate activist ecosystem – particularly the more radical end, the extinction-or-bust crowd – has shifted its visible focus toward Palestinian solidarity. The road-blockers, the headline-grabbers, the people who threw tomato soup at various paintings, who insisted that climate change was the singular civilizational issue of our time, are now at pro-Palestine marches, posting about Gaza, organizing around a very different and very local emergency. Nobody in this space wants to talk about this openly, because doing so feels like a trap – you’re either attacking Palestinian rights or defending climate inaction.

Musk

Electric / Self Driving cars

Lucid dismisses report that it is weighing filing for bankruptcy or going private after shares plunge.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

Voyager 1 Has Traveled Through Space at 38,000 Mph Since 1977 And Still Hasn’t Reached 1 Light-Day.

On 18 November 2026 at 2:16 AM PST, Voyager 1 will reach a distance of 25.9 billion kilometers from its home planet. That's the same distance that light travels in a single day… and for Voyager 1, it will have taken the spacecraft more than 49 years.
Meteorite that crashed into a NJ home contains 'extraterrestrial' amino acids
U.S. approval of giant 'space mirror' satellite alarms astronomers
- The FCC Just Approved One Space Mirror. The Real Plan Is 50,000.
- Any means of delivering energy from orbit that is concentrated enough to be useful is a weapon of dire potential.
Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode
- GOES-19 Goes Down, NOAA Investigating
Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

Daylight Savings Time

On 15 DEC 1973 President Richard Nixon signed the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act into law. It was, by any metric, a dismal failure. Originally intended to run from 06 JAN 1974 to 07 APR 1975, it enjoyed a 79% approval rate from the American public when it was announced in 1973. By February of 1974 — about a month after it went into effect — the approval rating had collapsed to a whopping 42%. On 27 OCT 1974 — six months prior to the official end of the trial run — under heavy voter pressure Congress voted to revoke the law.
- US House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent
- Why standard time is better for your health than daylight saving time
Senate GOP poised for largest turnover of the millennium due to Trump primaries, retirements.

Trump

Secret Service missed 102 urgent messages before Trump Butler rally shooting
JD Vance accuses Israel of plot against him and drops Mossad-Epstein bombshell

JD Vance has claimed he is the target of an Israeli-funded propaganda campaign over his Iran peace push, and that Jeffrey Epstein had ties to the 'highest levels' of Mossad. The vice president made the explosive allegations during a nearly three-hour sit-down with podcaster Joe Rogan. Vance pointed to a Time magazine report he said proved American influencers were being paid to attack the Iran deal. The report notes that money has flowed through a former Trump campaign operative and is bankrolled by elements of the Israeli government.

Vance then shifted to the administration's handling of the Epstein scandal, revealing that the disgraced financier 'clearly had connections to the highest levels of American intelligence' and 'Israeli intelligence.' When Rogan noted that most people believe Epstein was working for Mossad, the vice president did not dispute it. Vance noted that it was Mossad 'or CIA or some other deep state, whether in America or Israel or another country or both.'
- JD Vance: Jeffrey Epstein had clear connection to Mossad
Trump Expected To Accuse China Of Helping Joe Biden Win 2020 Election

Citing an unnamed administration source who had reportedly reviewed a draft of Trump's speech, Sperry claimed the evidence includes allegations that Chinese actors penetrated state voter-registration databases and obtained information concerning tens of thousands of voters. According to Sperry, officials believe the stolen information may have been intended for use in manufacturing fraudulent mail-in ballots supporting Joe Biden. He also claimed that CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Kash Patel would appear with Trump or otherwise certify the evidence presented by the administration.

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioned whether the administration could possess significant new intelligence that had not previously been provided to congressional overseers. Warner told the Epoch Times; "having been deeply involved with the intelligence community for the last decade plus, I would be shocked if there was some major new piece of intelligence that never was shared." He also warned against using questionable or selectively presented intelligence as the basis for government action affecting elections.
Seizing the Day

One could even argue that widespread, decisive election fraud is itself effectively an insurrection, justifying action on that basis. (Probably the best argument against invoking the clause is that many in the press will — deliberately or out of actual ignorance — confuse the small-r “republican form of government” with the Republican Party because of course.)