2022/10/28

Friday, October 28, 2022 (#301)

Thursday Friday Saturday 2022-10-27 @Scott_Helme on Twitter (h/t) «We had a tow bar fitted to our @Tesla Model Y by a reputable company but apparently the car needs a software update to tow. Tesla are refusing to enable "Trailer Mode" because they didn't fit the tow bar.» (thread) Kanye West's school closes: 2022-10-27 Kanye West's Christian school abruptly closes for the entire year: report (h/t) 2022-10-27 Kanye West’s school Donda Academy closes as controversy grows (via, h/t) 2022-10-26 This North Carolina congressional district has a rare competitive midterm race (h/t): Bo Hines (R-MAGA) vs. Wiley Nickel (D) 2022-10-28 Not a great start (via) «You know, all the rich sociopaths have to buy their own social media site to make sure no one can talk about how awful they are. Facebook, Parler, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, now all absorbed by greedy rich people trying to build cozy little nests for their abhorrent views. Well, Elon Musk now owns Twitter.» We had a record-breaking influx of new users on TootCat last night, some of whom explicitly cited this event as their reason for joining. 2022-10-28 Mark Cuban says he's looking forward to Twitter's Elon Musk era: 'he will flex his independence to show everyone who's in charge' (h/t via): Just who does Cuban imagine is oppressing Elon Musk? 2022-10-28 Nancy Pelosi's husband 'violently assaulted' at San Francisco home, suspect in custody 2022-10-28 Russia to ban sharing LGBT 'propaganda' with adults as well as children: What's Russian for "woke"? 2022-10-28 US midterms: Abortion, guns and crime shape Texas governor's race: Democrat Beto O'Rourke vs. Sith-aligned provincial Governor Greg Abbott 2022-10-27 Svalbard: The race to save the fastest-warming place on Earth: global warming/effects in Svalbard 2022-04-06 EXCLUSIVE: Koch group says U.S. should deliver partial "victory" to Russia in Ukraine There's this huge narrative on the right that we need to be scared of Russia for some reason. And, like, we're not even at war with them. They invaded Ukraine (which is unequivocally bad, and not something that should be rewarded), and we're finding ways to help Ukraine from the sidelines -- but we are not part of the war. ...which Russia lost only a few weeks after they started it. Putin is just stalling to see what PR victories he can pull out of the ashes. I can only think that the Right just wants to help authoritarian dictators wherever they can. (Won't someone please think of the poor authoritarian dictators.... and those horribly oppressed billionaires who get unfairly cancelled from their paid speaking engagements...)