Please note the health warning.
The Great Win11 Update Fuckup nuked all the links for today’s Roundup, but somehow I managed to recover almost all of them. You may thank me later.
...never mind the little donut shops; how about Archer-Daniels-Midland and Hormel meat packing operations?
...we don’t need a psychiatrist for this one. Two words: bad boys.
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In similar news:
...and apartheid never existed, either.
In the Hearts Of Stone Dept.:
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And in more news from The Great Cultural Assimilation Project©:
...only because those damn spoilsports at the Fed wouldn’t let us use the place for Air National Guard bombing practice.
....because they just don’t have enough criminals in the country yet. (see below)
...gosh, who could have seen this coming? Oh, all of you, huh?
And still on the topic of crime:
...oh wait, did Diddums think that stabbing someone to death was just a childish game? Welcome to Death Row, choirboy.
#NorthCarolina.
In the Dept. of Health News:
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...which isn’t going to do anything, because the whole service is irretrievably fucked.
In Green Business News:
...but-but-but I was told by all the knowledgeable people that EVs were the future of the automobile industry! Also:
...serves them right for thinking that Aston buyers actually wanted a Duracell version of the DB.
Turning to Entertainment News:
...so what? It’s already a trashy movie series — and has been since From Russia With Love.
And now, the part everybody’s been waiting for — 
And in a hard drive [sic] down 
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...ah yes, young Paige: how we have missed you. For those with short memories, a brief refresher:
Consider yourselves refreshed. Or something.
Starved in 6 days? Far more likely that he dehydrated in 2-3 days, and then was found 3-4 days later. . . .
*clicks in*
Oh would you look at that — cause of death was dehydration, with some signs of malnutrition. Gee… it’s like they used to teach actual science to us back in elementary school or something, unlike the headline writer on that piece.
Beat me to the comment.
Although I partly blame the English language for not having a concise word to describe “dying of not having enough water” the way “starved” conveys the idea of dying from not enough food.
How is the Win 11 recovery going, if you don’t mind saying. (curious)
Amazon & James Bond – it’s always irritating when Hollywood casts some eurotrash to play a yank, and the trash can’t pull off the accent. I’ve long advocated how we could turn the tables by casting Stallone as Bond. Now that it’s Amazon, it wouldn’t surprise me if they go full-on woke and make Bond a tranny, and cast Lizzo in the role.
I don’t smoke, but if I did, Lucky Strike would be my brand because reasons. Specifically one reason: I spent my high school summer vacations deckhanding on fishing boats, and lost my virginity in the focsle of the boat I was employed on one memorable season. The name of that boat? Take a wild guess.
True story.
Was it “Lucky Green”, or “Lucky Red”?