So here's an idea, and another.

(I suspect Titania is the artist formerly known as Godfrey Elfwick. Or has that been formally established or denied?)

Not yet concerned for either suggestion, but I have the sense that between the smothering idiocy of the Trump presidency and the electric thrills of social media, stupid people are especially enthused about participation in public life. Now.

It was better before. When they weren't.

Diddenknow this. I mean, see the previous comment. Who knows what craziness is being released into the wild.

The goal of young left-wing writers is to obtain power and suppress conservative ideas.

The goal of too many young conservative writers is to simply be liked by liberals.

https://twitter.com/ScottMGreer/status/1032661919524638720

California Democratic Rep. Tony Cardenas — who has been accused of allegedly molesting a teenage girl in 2007 — has set up a legal defense fund to cover lawyers’ bills stemming from the case, according to newly filed documents.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/20/tony-cardenas-democrats-legal-defense-fund-789685

Facebook censored my column — and I still can’t find out why

https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/facebook-censored-my-column-and-i-still-cant-find-out-why/

"People feel like there are no rules in politics anymore. No standards. No morals. So they just don’t care when their guy has failings."

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1032681338644692993

Time to be afraid of stuff, Snoopy, and —by your essentially illiterate disjunctions— to make sure others are afraid too.

Or as you call it, "morning."

How did I not know about this?

Apparently, if you value your privacy and have an android phone, you might want to ditch the Chrome browser.

https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-collection-research/

Self-absorption is really just activism -

"it appears that women could actually be unconsciously using their sexuality as a strategy against income inequality"

https://www.sciencealert.com/sexy-selfies-on-social-media-are-more-common-when-there-s-income-inequality

> Time to be afraid of stuff, Snoopy

Nah, just Making America Great Again

Glamour model claims to have the UK's biggest breasts after spending £40,000 to get them to a 34NN - and says she wants to make them even BIGGER

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6089815/Glamour-model-claims-UKs-biggest-breasts-size-34NN.html

When you put it like that, I think I'm going to start identifying as a woman.

As the conference speakers discussed, men and boys are falling behind in educational attainment and, subsequently, lag behind their female counterparts in the job market. Men are nearly four times more likely than women to commit suicide; are far more likely to be homeless; are far more likely to die or be seriously injured on the job; are far more likely to lose contact with their children after divorce (and to experience bankruptcy and mental illness as a result); and are far more likely to be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted for the same crimes as women – and to receive 60% higher criminal sentences than women do.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/mens_advocates_and_the_journalists_who_hate_them.html

...stupid people are especially enthused about participation in public life. Now.

It was better before. When they weren't.

~ Crid at August 24, 2018 1:15 AM

And when was this idyllic age when stupid people were somehow not enamored of their own stupidity?

Stupid people have always been enthused about their participation in public life. Hollywood is built on that conceit.

says she wants to make them even BIGGER

Nothing says unsexy like having two basketballs glued to your chest, baby girl. But it can be hard to get to the place where you like yourself, warts and all. Hopefully you get there before your back problems force you to spend even more money removing said basketballs.

Another day, another dead in a hot car.

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2018/08/23/police-dog-was-left-in-hot-car-for-six-hours-and-died-from-the-heat/

> And when was this idyllic
> age when stupid people were
> somehow not enamored of
> their own stupidity?

I never described any such thing. I said Trump & SM have made dim bulbs enthused about being heard, as if every ugg-expression deserves respectful hearing.

To the extent I understand the activities described from the top here, bad outcomes are foretold.

Iterative improvement of Candy Cluster Birdfuck games ≠ Automotive safety.

The Tune is not my song.

You guys remember that song?

#TimesUp, Asia.

https://reason.com/archives/2018/08/24/asia-argentos-time-is-up

Sedition, anyone?

https://pjmedia.com/trending/l-a-antifa-group-calls-for-revolutionary-violence-against-the-enemies-of-the-people/

I never described any such thing. I said Trump & SM have made dim bulbs enthused about being heard, as if every ugg-expression deserves respectful hearing. ~ Crid at August 24, 2018 9:59 AM

Okay. I took "It was better before. When they weren't." as a longing for a better, vanished time.

To the extent I understand the activities described from the top here, bad outcomes are foretold. ~ Crid at August 24, 2018 10:05 AM

Love the font on the Atomic Thumbs page.

Someone's suggestion on the copied thread that Tesla could sell batteries is probably dead on. I'd bet that, with the battery factory Tesla is establishing in Nevada, that is the intent. BMW and Mercedes have the infrastructure in place to outdo Tesla in selling luxury electric cars while GM can certainly outdo Tesla in the middle market.

However, they'll all need batteries and I believe Musk is attempting to position Tesla to survive when it can no longer effectively compete in the selling of automobiles, but can excel in the efficient production of batteries. Not to mention, he's bought a few patents and companies toward that end.

Another socialist IT girl...woman...person, oh FFS.

https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1032982827980218368

The Furry NASA saga continues:

https://twitter.com/AvalonVaako/status/1033068659764289536

Shady pet store

https://twitter.com/Sinatra_Says/status/1033035156699918336

"I said Trump & SM have made dim bulbs enthused about being heard, as if every ugg-expression deserves respectful hearing."

And everyone imagines that they are not among the dim. You have posted more than I on the topic; you're often so upset as to abandon your superior prose. Sadness for us all.

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"However, they'll all need batteries and I believe Musk is attempting to position Tesla to survive when it can no longer effectively compete in the selling of automobiles, but can excel in the efficient production of batteries."

To my amazement, Volkswagen has produced an ad promoting electric cars... featuring a Chevrolet!

> You have posted more
> than I on the topic

Dude, I will never forget your defensive comments when he was even mildly criticized in early days... The twitching, capitalized exclamations(!!!) of ill-informed, willfully-oblivious trust. I mean, you voted for Donald Trump. For President. That's not a metaphor or anything, you really did that... None need fear your passion for "the topic" could be bested.

> Sadness for us all.

For many years you've resented my comments as one would resent cancer in the family. I've asked you not to read them, but you can't turn away.

In teen narratives, where brittle young egos conceal unflattering neediness in a fog of disavowal and faux-irony, such torment is often called A Desperate Cry for Help.

"For many years you've resented my comments as one would resent cancer in the family."

Good morning!

Ah, the claim of the millennial hardly flatters you, an older man.

Your prose is excellent, even as the use to which it is put may, er, stain things on occasion (not usually). I was and am not kidding: if you write a book, I will buy it. Patrick is repelled by this.

But in this case, as before, it's as if when you start talking, you can't hear anything else.

Your effective choice in the last Presidential election was between an obvious and unrepentant liar and a dilettante. One had been fired from her first significant job in a law office of national import for lying and now shows no sign of caring for the truth or her own personal responsibility; her supporters physically abused opponents in her own party as well as others, and the power mechanism used to subdue Bernie Sanders buttressed her explicit contempt for both due process and individual rights, such contempt available on record in her own words. The dilettante, however removed from truth himself, had no machine to pervert the Constitution without consequences, and understood that the race and gender wars were NOT the most important things in the world except to the hustlers.

The choice was clear, except, perhaps to those who continually confused speech with actions. Donald Trump might be mean to gays because of his speech? Hillary Clinton took money from those who publicly executed them.

Which candidate called half the country "deplorable" and urged the people to think about what they could gain? Which candidate called for people to make the country great?

I will be pleased to learn that you voted Libertarian. Your support, no doubt, put fuel in his (her?) Gremlin, until they could afford the proper hybrid to signal virtue.

> Ah, the claim of the millennial
> hardly flatters you, an older
> man

Simple, comprehensible words, conveying: Huh?

> Your effective choice...

Annnnnnd they're off!

Hatred of Hillary is all you fuckers got. You don't care about virtue or principle or safety the Constitution or dignity or a dollar well-spent. It's not because she's corrupt and loathsome and conniving and repellent— Trump is all of those things too. We can point out the the logical collapse of your argument year after year after year. We can show you slides, charts, books, video and Colorforms... But at the end of every seminar, no matter how well-documented & dispositive, you'll look up —from a puddle of your own urine— and mutter 'Ugg. Hillary.'

You're a needy little guy, but I'll always be here for you.

"Hatred of Hillary is all you fuckers got."

Because that is all that was needed. There were only two realistic choices. Trump was the better one.

"We can point out the the logical collapse of your argument year after year after year."

Actually, you haven't. Honestly if you would use a logical argument or point out relevant facts that would be wonderful. But as you point out all you've got is 'ugg, Trump'. Gets kinda boring after a while.

"I will be pleased to learn that you voted Libertarian."

Notice Rad, Crid still can't admit that is what he wanted.