Nobody Cares: PRS

[Dakota Tebaldi]

If I'm putting the chili on a hot dog, no beans.

Just in a bowl with some shredded cheddar and maybe a few oyster crackers? Definitely with.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Always pick the bear.

Am I the only one thinking this guy should consider that maybe he's battin' for the wrong team?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

There's a couple of doctors I see once in a while at the city hospital and they both have MeTV playing all the time in their waiting rooms, so whenever I have a midweek appointment it's usually an episode of like Gunsmoke or The Rifleman or Bonanza or whatnot. And I don't know much about old TV westerns outside of their reputations and popular cliches, and I guess most of the episodes are kind of expected fare like outlaws or troublemakers or cattle rustlers having to be dealt with. But every once in a while I get blown away by an episode with a real banger of a message, like "racists are losers and being different isn't bad" or "capitalists are evil bastards and shouldn't be trusted in general" or "over-policing causes more problems than it solves" or "groups of religious people are too easy to rile up into actual witch hunts".

I'd always wondered how, say, someone could watch and enjoy a show like "Star Trek the Next Generation" and then complain about woke messaging in newer Star Trek shows when it's literally the same stuff. But whenever I see one of these really old shows dropping an absolutely based episode back in 1958 or something, it occurs to me that so many of these angry, angry people really grew up being taught the right things all along and were influenced later to reject them.

 

[Essence Lumin]

And I don't know much about old TV westerns outside of their reputations and popular cliches, and I guess most of the episodes are kind of expected fare like outlaws or troublemakers or cattle rustlers having to be dealt with. But every once in a while I get blown away by an episode with a real banger of a message, like "racists are losers and being different isn't bad" or "capitalists are evil bastards and shouldn't be trusted in general" or "over-policing causes more problems than it solves" or "groups of religious people are too easy to rile up into actual witch hunts".

Here is one for you. Track down. A western from the late 50's. In this episode a conman named Trump comes into town and wants to build a wall.

 

[Noodles]

I'd always wondered how, say, someone could watch and enjoy a show like "Star Trek the Next Generation" and then complain about woke messaging in newer Star Trek shows when it's literally the same stuff. But whenever I see one of these really old shows dropping an absolutely based episode back in 1958 or something, it occurs to me that so many of these angry, angry people really grew up being taught the right things all along and were influenced later to reject them.

The Star Trek thing is easy.

But with possibly two angles, one annoying, one bad.

They are not connecting the dots that things like, in TOS, A Black Woman on the Bridge, or An Asian Man on the Bridge, or Rand is more than just a glorified Space secretary, have helped lead to present day acceptance of people.

So they question when Discovery has a non binary character, and a gay doctors couple, or a Trill character who is effectively a big trans metaphor. Even though it's basically the same thing as Uhura, Sulu, and Rand, for the modern day.

Or bad.

They see that in the old series, and maliciously do not WANT that for "other/modern" marginalized groups.

 

[Free]

I just don't know where to post anything any more. Anyhow, more proof this administration doesn't have a fucking clue.

JFK Files Land With a Thud and a Dox

No amount of government paperwork will give you the answers you seek or heal a 62 year old festering psychic wound.

gizmodo.com

The National Archive has begun to upload the last remaining government files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy onto the internet. The files represent thousands of ancient pages of government documents, some now indecipherable due to age, that historians and conspiracists have wanted to view for decades.

And in typical Trump fashion, the release has been chaotic and slipshod. The files aren’t organized, summarized, or labeled in a way that makes sense. It’s just raw PDFs with a long numeric string uploaded onto a website. Click the PDF and see what you get. And, according to one lawyer going through them, they include the sensitive personal information of living people.

“The Trump Administration dox’d countless people who served on the staff of the House Select Committee on Assassinations back in 1977-79 by releasing their SSNs in full,” Mark Zaid, an attorney who works on National Security issues, said on Bluesky. “Some of these people are alive. I know them. “This was totally unnecessary & contributed nothing to understanding 11/22/63.”

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

There's a couple of doctors I see once in a while at the city hospital and they both have MeTV playing all the time in their waiting rooms, so whenever I have a midweek appointment it's usually an episode of like Gunsmoke or The Rifleman or Bonanza or whatnot. And I don't know much about old TV westerns outside of their reputations and popular cliches, and I guess most of the episodes are kind of expected fare like outlaws or troublemakers or cattle rustlers having to be dealt with. But every once in a while I get blown away by an episode with a real banger of a message, like "racists are losers and being different isn't bad" or "capitalists are evil bastards and shouldn't be trusted in general" or "over-policing causes more problems than it solves" or "groups of religious people are too easy to rile up into actual witch hunts".

I'd always wondered how, say, someone could watch and enjoy a show like "Star Trek the Next Generation" and then complain about woke messaging in newer Star Trek shows when it's literally the same stuff. But whenever I see one of these really old shows dropping an absolutely based episode back in 1958 or something, it occurs to me that so many of these angry, angry people really grew up being taught the right things all along and were influenced later to reject them.

20 years ahead of Three’s Company.

 

[Dancien]

Hemp Store Checks ID of Texas Lieutenant Governor

The Happy Cactus team asked Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick for his ID and refused to sell him products containing more than the allowable serving size.

www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com

Dumbass Patrick goes on a crusade and finds out the system is working.

 

[Free]

What did he pick up? Is he more of an edible guy, or does he prefer to smoke?

 

[Dancien]

He didn't buy anything in the end I think. He just wanted to be like "See! They're selling to kids and selling over the legal limit!!"

 

[Free]

Loitering is also a crime.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Greenpeace has been sentenced by a court in North Dakota to pay a $660mn. fine to an oil company. Why? Because 10 years ago Greenpeace protested against building a pipeline.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/20/greenpeace-ordered-to-pay-660-million-over-dakota-access-protests.html

 

[Soen Eber]

Greenpeace has been sentenced by a court in North Dakota to pay a $660mn. fine to an oil company. Why? Because 10 years ago Greenpeace protested against building a pipeline.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/20/greenpeace-ordered-to-pay-660-million-over-dakota-access-protests.html

They should just take a page from standard business practice and hide non-profit funds as personal through salaries and bonuses, declare bankruptcy, and reform under a new name with those "personal funds" as seed capital. Rince and repeat as needed.

 

[Free]

The Trump Party has pretty much become the political equivalent of the Catholic Church.

Big Week for MAGA Influencers & Republicans Accused of Child Sexual Abuse & Soliciting Minors

If I had a nickel for each time a right-wing influencer or Trumpian political figure got busted for child sexual abuse, this week alone, I would have raked in a whopping $0.15. Which is a lot of money when you factor in how the right has oriented its entire brand of politics around framing Democrats and LGBTQ people as “groomers” and child sexual abusers.

The irony, of course, is that not only is sexual abuse overwhelmingly perpetrated by straight, cis men, but often enough, it’s perpetrated by prominent conservatives. This week, a GOP state senator in Minnesota was forced to resign after soliciting sex from a minor; a popular MAGA influencer in California was taken into custody on charges of sexually assaulting a minor and producing child sexual abuse material; and Donald Trump’s former spiritual adviser and the former pastor of a Texas megachurch surrendered to Oklahoma authorities, also on charges of child sexual abuse. (As a little reminder: Trump himself is a legally recognized sexual abuser and serially accused rapist.)

As the piece notes, you won't learn of these stories from far-right media and social platforms while they peddle their lies about people in the LGBTQ+ community and progressives. Got to protect the brand at all costs.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

China has created a compact, deep-sea cable-cutting device and is openly bragging about it. The tool can operate up to 4.000 metres.

Officially it is meant for civilian salvage and seabed mining, but its dual use is clearly evident.

It is also the first time ever a country confirmed its got such a tool at its disposal.

China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable cutter that could reset the world order

Beijing now has the power to disrupt global communications after scientists revealed a device that can sever undersea cables.

www.scmp.com

 

[Soen Eber]

The Trump Party has pretty much become the political equivalent of the Catholic Church.

The difference is, the Catholic Church is hard of hearing.

Trump Republicans have turned their hearing aids off.

 

[Noodles]

China has created a compact, deep-sea cable-cutting device and is openly bragging about it. The tool can operate up to 4.000 metres.

Officially it is meant for civilian salvage and seabed mining, but its dual use is clearly evident.

It is also the first time ever a country confirmed its got such a tool at its disposal.

China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable cutter that could reset the world order

Beijing now has the power to disrupt global communications after scientists revealed a device that can sever undersea cables.

www.scmp.com

I think I know the guy who oversees the deep sea cables group at work, now I want to ask him his thoughts on this.

 

[Free]

Fuck you, Walmart. Fuck. You.

China is turning up pressure on Walmart. That could mean higher prices for US customers

Walmart thought it could use its immense power as America’s biggest retailer to make Chinese suppliers eat the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But Walmart got a response it’s not accustomed to hearing: No.

Trump has slapped 20% tariffs — or taxes on imported goods — on all products coming from China. That’s put the squeeze on retailers like Walmart, which imports a lot of merchandise from China and sells those goods at the lowest price possible to American consumers. Walmart, in turn, has tried to pressure its Chinese suppliers to lower prices. But the Chinese government is having none of it.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Fuck you, Walmart. Fuck. You.

China is turning up pressure on Walmart. That could mean higher prices for US customers

I think the FU was more for Trump. In the unlikely event that he thought it through at all, he might have been counting on WM being able to, basically, negotiate away the pain for US consumers. Instead, count on 20% (!!) price hikes for a retailer who probably serves at least 90% of the MAGAts. They screamed bloody murder over 8% in 2022. Heck, they cried like it was the end of the world over 3% in 2023 and 2024. 20% means a lot of folks are going to be having cereal for dinner.

 

[Free]

I think the FU was more for Trump.

AN FU to Walmart is an FU to the MAGAt backbone.