AudibleNod
AudibleNod OP t1_j08gxj0 wrote
Reply to Feds file lawsuit against Arizona over border wall made of shipping containers by AudibleNod
>"Arizona has unlawfully and without authority failed to remove the shipping containers from lands owned by the United States or over which the United States holds easements, thereby damaging the United States," the complaint reads.
They don't care about laws anymore do they? At some point they gave up wordsmithing, equivocating and even pretending to care about laws.
AudibleNod t1_iz4va2g wrote
Reply to TIL of Portable Soup, also known as pocket soup or veal glue. A precursor of meat extract, bouillon cubes, and of industrially dehydrated and instant food, it is essentially a partially dehydrated broth and a solid counterpart of meat glaze. by IPeeFreely01
Pocket soup, hard tack and IPA. Breakfast of champions.
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Reply to comment by apjoca in TIL Nolan Bushnell, the inventor of Pong and founder of Atari, also founded another company: Chuck E. Cheese by PresidentWeevil
He realized that once a video game was released the real money was in arcades.
AudibleNod t1_iy8m9bb wrote
Reply to comment by dhork in Rainbow flag pitch invader released but banned from rest of World Cup by 420ipblood
Fair enough.
AudibleNod t1_iy8ilz3 wrote
Reply to comment by MagicMushroomFungi in TIL the small Pacific island of Niue uses legal tender coins which depict characters from Disney, Pokémon, Peanuts, Star Wars, and more. by CeasarYouLater
Stamp collecting is no joke in North Korea.
AudibleNod t1_iy8h8j0 wrote
Why's he an invader in the title?
Is that the word the Qatari government used? He seems more like a disruptor or protestor. Invader implies he's there to stay or he's somehow going to make the place his own. I don't believe that's the case.
AudibleNod t1_iy8gmdm wrote
Reply to TIL the small Pacific island of Niue uses legal tender coins which depict characters from Disney, Pokémon, Peanuts, Star Wars, and more. by CeasarYouLater
Small countries have used this trick for ages. You can get Clint Eastwood stamps from Maldives. Gorillas in the Mist stamps from Lesotho. And Bermuda has a coin from the character of Netflix's The Queen.
AudibleNod t1_iy89zp4 wrote
Reply to TIL That M*A*S*H episode ''Lend A Hand'' (Season 8, Episode 20) starred not only the main character Alan Alda, but also his father Robert Alda and his brother Anthony Alda with the three of them sharing the screen at the same time. by greatminds1
Season 8, Episode 20 is 2.39 Korean Wars from Season 1, Episode 1.
AudibleNod t1_iy55d3g wrote
Reply to comment by TuesdayShuffle in World Health Organization to rename monkeypox as mpox -CNBC by wander9077
Dang it, Bobby.
AudibleNod t1_iy54cyh wrote
Reply to comment by thefugue in World Health Organization to rename monkeypox as mpox -CNBC by wander9077
Lets move away from Greek letters. Just come up with a variant standard Like COVID-19-1122A for the first Covid variant discovered in Nov 2022. And so on.
AudibleNod t1_iy53mhl wrote
Here's my solution for all this renaming, which doesn't help with public awareness. We do what the World Meteorological Organization does for hurricanes and name diseases in advance. That way places like China, or Ebola or Spain aren't unnecessarily maligned. The WHO can classify flus, respiratory viruses, poxes and other maladies then draw up a list of names not based off of geography and that are vetted so no appearance of stigma is apparent from the name.
AudibleNod OP t1_iy4y47m wrote
Reply to comment by mittenedkittens in Racial discrimination by Veterans Affairs spans decades, lawsuit says by AudibleNod
As was the plan all along.
AudibleNod OP t1_iy4nzbg wrote
Reply to comment by SnapCrackleMom in Racial discrimination by Veterans Affairs spans decades, lawsuit says by AudibleNod
Pick a people group not aligned by political affiliation or physical appearance and you're very likely to find something serious DJT did as president to strip them of a government program or find a way to demean them.
AudibleNod OP t1_iy4loxn wrote
>Brookshire said VA’s leaders have been unwilling to have the “difficult conversation” about racial bias. In 2017, the agency showed interest in assessing links between race and PTSD disability claims, but the effort was shelved due to staff shortages, according to Yale’s assessment of VA records.
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A federal hiring freeze imposed by President Trump on Monday affects thousands of open jobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, despite the half-million veterans still waiting longer than a month for VA appointments.
AudibleNod t1_iy401kl wrote
Reply to TIL that after the battle between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, the captain of the Constitution, Isaac Hull, refused the sword of surrender from the captain of the Guerriere, James Richard Dacre, saying he could not accept it from a man who fought so gallantly by alcapwnage0007
That coward Cornwallis said he was indisposed and couldn't surrender his sword in person at Yorktown.
AudibleNod t1_iy14pq9 wrote
Reply to TIL Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson was attacked four times in the 1980s, including a thrown bottle (followed by three missed shots with a revolver), a would-be gunman (who he neutralized), a drug-addled spectator smashing a car he was in, and nearly being struck with a tire iron. by electricmaster23
I'm not condoning violence or victim blaming, but maybe if he didn't attack the Queen of England that stuff wouldn't've happened.
AudibleNod t1_ixql43i wrote
Reply to comment by Landlubber77 in TIL the year is 2079, in Nepal by TheHiveminder
Every year is 42069, man. Every. Year.
AudibleNod t1_ixodayi wrote
Reply to comment by TheOutbreak in TIL Alice's Restaurant Massacree is mostly a true story by SatansLoLHelper
My house put it on when we were setting all the food out and doing final cooking. Good times.
AudibleNod t1_ixirn2k wrote
Reply to TIL that the country Singapore was named by a Tamil Indian king in the 11th century, and is an amalgam of the words "Singh" and "pura" meaning "Lion City" by GobindDev
They have a merlion as a mascot.
A fukkin merlion!
AudibleNod t1_ixfb0l0 wrote
Reply to Republicans ask Georgia high court to halt Saturday voting in US Senate runoff | CNN Politics by irkli
Seems weird to want to restrict voters to vote for Herschel Walker.
AudibleNod OP t1_ix8ptsz wrote
Reply to comment by TuesdayShuffle in Texas woman arrested after smuggling endangered spider monkey in box she claimed held beer by AudibleNod
They're gonna keep throwing that one out. Lest they be forced to defend their position of 'life begins at conception'. They're basically telling pregnant women to drive in the HOV lane for free.
AudibleNod OP t1_ix8pkm1 wrote
Reply to comment by bermuda__ in Texas woman arrested after smuggling endangered spider monkey in box she claimed held beer by AudibleNod
Peggy's in the news for a different reason.
AudibleNod t1_j0bamdq wrote
Reply to TIL Europe's wine owes its existence to the grafting of vines to American grape root stock that weren't vulnerable to a species of aphid that was destined to wipe the industry out. by salton
I went on some wine tasting tours in north Texas and they loooooove bringing this up.