As Spock would say: Fascinating

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/10/i-was-americas-first-non-binary-person-it-was-all-a-sham/

This was an amazing animated movie. Chock full of double entendre and risqué content that in this overly sanitized decade we will never see at all.

https://twitter.com/MoviesContext/status/1116293137624858631

Rule Number Five: Never fly into your own gunfire.

The Wall Street Journal has made an interesting choice regarding user comments. It appears there are only five or so stories users will be permitted to comment on each day. And those appear to have both full human and machine censoring for the comments. The machine censoring has many odd choices. For example 'Hello' has been banned. Damned if I can tell why. There is also a 'featured' comment section, which appears to be the censors' favorite comments. If there is some other criteria they've not made it clear. Some featured comments have lots of likes, some lots of responses, but some have zero likes and zero responses. Why they were selected is beyond me.

So congrats to Amy for her policy of benign comment neglect.

Limiting climate change could save the US a ton of money (or so they say)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/limiting-climate-change-could-save-the-us-a-ton-of-money/

The claim is $500 billion could be saved by the end of the century. Notice no costs were considered, only savings. And to get a number that sounds big they had to save up over a very long time. They are talking about roughly $5 billion per year, which can sound like a lot. But the US economy is currently $19.4 trillion. And that will grow over 100 years. So you are talking about under 0.025%. And that is with inflated numbers to try and prove a point. Real savings are probably under 0.001%. Assuming a median wage you get a median personal savings under $13/year. Not exactly a ton of money.

Correction, I only skimmed the Ars story, it is ~$200 billion/year in 2090. Assuming average GDP growth rate of 6% the current number would be ~$3 billion/year. Or for the average person ~$8/year costs or less. Probably much less.

As one commenter said "Hopefully this wins over a few more people who might still care about fiscal responsibility." Clearly they aren't that skilled with finances.

Again apologies for not reading in depth.

You're Heisenlink?

If you need another reason to prefer Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, here's a good one.

If you've ever wondered which handgun caliber to buy for self-defense, consider this:

The .44 Magnum creates explosive flame-farts in clear ballistics testing gel.

I don't know who these people are, but check out that mandible.

It looks like some kind of kitchen utensil.

Aha! Call Mueller! All is not lost.

...but check out that mandible. ~ Crid at April 12, 2019 5:41 PM

From that angle and lighting, that jaw looks like she could unhinge it and swallow him whole, but the heroin-chic emaciation belies that - unless, like the apocryphal stories about pythons measuring their owners, she's been starving herself in anticipation of a large meal..