Things that make you go "Hmmmm…"

[kladner]

https://readersupportednews.org/opin...ng-his-empties

In a bid to end the government shutdown, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said on Thursday that he would recycle his empties to pay for a wall with Mexico.

[Dr Sardonicus]

The latest casualty of the California wildfires would seem to be shareholders in Pacific Gas & Electric: PG&E Will File for Bankruptcy.

I wonder if the "suits" at PG&E unloaded their stock before making the announcement

[kladner]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

The latest casualty of the California wildfires would seem to be shareholders in Pacific Gas & Electric: PG&E Will File for Bankruptcy.

I wonder if the "suits" at PG&E unloaded their stock before making the announcement

I wonder if this means that PG&E unloads the decommissioning of the Diablo Canyon nukes on the tax payers. Of course, that seems to be who gets stuck with a lot of such cleanups, anyway.

In June 2016, PG&E announced that it plans to close the two Diablo Canyon reactors in 2024 and 2025.[12] Full decommissioning of the plant is estimated to take decades and cost nearly 4 billion dollars.[13]

One supposes that the real cost will be several times $4B. Such estimates are always aspirational, to say the least.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by kladner

One supposes that the real cost will be several times $4B. Such estimates are always aspirational, to say the least.

Several Sagans in other words.

[kladner]

Originally Posted by xilman

Several Sagans in other words.

LOL! Exactly (more or less.)

[Batalov]

https://www.pbs.org/video/decoding-watson-ua6jjx/

Another interview, another scandal. Hmmmm....

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by Batalov

https://www.pbs.org/video/decoding-watson-ua6jjx/

Another interview, another scandal. Hmmmm....

Meanwhile, the Republicans are desperately pretending to be shocked -- shocked! that Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) wonders,

White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization – how did that language become offensive?

And well he may wonder. The Republican party became the unofficial home of opposition to civil rights in 1964 when Strom Thurmond joined the party and the "solid South" (solidly Democratic) voted for the Republican Barry Goldwater, and became the official home of American racism in 1968, with Nixon's "Southern strategy." It has remained so ever since. Rep. King, James Watson, et al might be well advised to ponder the wisdom of the Good Book:

Mark 7 (KJV)

14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

[ewmayer]

Re. wisdom of the Good Book, much depends on which parts of said book one is reading. we really need some kind of ranking system for level of bloodthirst by book, a sort of biblical smite-o-meter.

[Batalov]

Ecclesiastes. (Starts on page 666 of the Russian edition.)
Never gets old.
'That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.'
'And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.'
'Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.'

[Dr Sardonicus]

I just bought a new electric shaver.

Except, when I pulled it out of the box, I quickly learned it wasn't exactly new. The shave head popped off. It was broken, and wouldn't stay reattached when put in the right position. And, it had been used. There was hair and dander in the area under the shave head, which had been exposed when the head popped off. Yuck.

It was apparent upon closer scrutiny that someone had peeled back some of the tape that held the box shut. Obviously they'd then taken the razor out of the box. My guess is, they'd gone to the restroom to shave, somehow managed to break the shaver, returned it to the box, then closed the box and resealed the tape.

The store will take it back, no problem.

I am flailing for adjectives to describe someone who would do something like that. I am also somewhat at a loss to name a fitting punishment. I am open to suggestions on either count.

[Batalov]

I had once driven back to the store to get the right oil filter (as the first car was already bled and I reached for the filter and opened the box... isn't it good to have two cars?). There was a cheap wrong filter in the sealed box. I suspect just as much as you did above.

Of course they replaced it, but oh the humanity... Not to mention that my ride to the store and back and the time it took was way more expensive than the damned filter.