Notices by Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)

@kristinHenry
I guess if Katy Perry can be an "astronaut"...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-nominee-nasa-administrator-accused-190203014.html

Fun quiz:

Without googling, what do you imagine Isaacman is doing now?

@cdarwin
It's invite only, but also it has a waitlist?

How exactly does that work?

Everything Macron does here is calculated. It's the difference between leaving no tip and leaving a nickel as a tip—the latter is a no-ambiguity message, "This wasn't oversight, it was a deliberate choice"

And it's not just that Macron doesn't shake Trump's hand, it's that his hand moves to Zelenskyy's back after letting Trump hang in midair

The contrast between his admiration for one man and contempt for the other couldn't be clearer

@elizabethtasker
In a previous dwelling, my husband posted an all-caps 40 pt font list of THINGS NOT TO BE OPERATED AT THE SAME TIME

"But before you form another thought, you’re going to want to keep reading this five-hundred-word bumper sticker on my Tesla so you can fully understand why I am not a bad person.

First, you must know that I got this car before Elon went evil billionaire. I recognize that its being a 2023 Tesla Model S does complicate that message, but you must also know that the only thing I hate more than what he’s doing to the American people is me being perceived as the bad guy."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-five-hundred-word-bumper-sticker-on-my-tesla-explains-why-im-not-a-bad-person

Let's see how long it takes to spot Trump in this photo. Imagine how impotent one must feel to have to assert dominance in every second of every day

"My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

@mekkaokereke
Don't racists want it both ways?

She's not white *unless* she checks a box on a college entrance application saying she's not white. In an instant she's now a [pick your pejorative] lying about her race to get preferential treatment

[Don't get bogged down in the detail that the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action. Their addled brains are certain it's still being secretly practiced because they need more excuses for their victimhood narrative]

I turn off my phone to walk the dog

By the time I turn it on again, the FBI is *bragging* about having arrested a sitting judge?

I feel like Wile E. Coyote has already sawed off the edge of the cliff that he's standing on, and now we're collectively holding our breath, waiting for him to fall

Or is this one of those times when the entire mountain crumbles instead?

@bodhipaksa
It's not just that Larry David continues to be funny while Bill Maher stopped being funny more than a decade ago. It's that self-deprecation is Larry's kryptonite. There's a bit in Curb where Larry steals shoes from a Holocaust Memorial. What joke can Bill make at Larry's expense that punches harder than that?

In contrast, Bill's got some of the thinnest skin in the industry

I lost my taste for celebrity nonsense a long time ago, but I'm guilty of wanting to rubberneck this one

When comics shoot themselves in the foot, it's usually because they can't resist crossing an uncrossable line, whether it's with an audience or a subordinate. Transgression and pushing boundaries are in the job description — it's easy to go too far

But beefing publicly with another comic is a whole other level of risk. Normally game recognizes game. But in this instance?

Bill is so far over his skis here, he'll be envious of Drake when Larry's through with him

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the surgery that removed my stage 3 cancer tumor.

Before surgery, I was in constant pain, and was loosing weight every day because I just couldn't eat more than a few bites at a time. I was dying.

But the surgery saved my life!

I lost about a foot of my large intestine.

Recovery was slow. But I was stubborn, and kept working to get stronger every day.

Now? I'm still working to get stronger, and live my life to it's fullest!

And I’m actually feeling properly drunk—kinda a rarity—and this is the time to shoot your shot haha. Let’s just say I’m a happy drunk.

@flexghost
I have no recollection of that episode of M&M but holy toledo what a fantastic pic!

Judge Wilkerson feeling introspective:

"What does it matter? A case but a speck in the recesses of interstellar space and in the four-plus billion years since our solar system’s birth. What does it matter, this case deserted by both space and time?

To be human is to live in the here and now. This small case extracts courageous meaning from the vast impersonality in which it resides. Its immediacy confounds infinity; its passions light the dark."

https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/232211.P.pdf

I see we're back to eggs being down 87% today (an increase from Easter Sunday when they were down 94%).
Anyway, here's my favorite hedge fund joke:

Q: What do you call a stock that's down 90%?

A: A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half

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Aside, I'm not sure what bothers me most:

1. The laughable lie
2. His misuse of "NICE!"
3. That I have been conditioned to believe that this is a misuse of NICE!

[It's definitely 3. The triumph of the most juvenile humor is heartbreaking]

Trump on April 2: "The egg prices came down 50% ..., the egg prices, they were going through the sky. Now ... they're much cheaper, down about 59% now, and they're going down further."

Trump on April 19: "Egg prices are down 87%, but nobody talks about that. If anything prices are getting too low"

Trump today: "As you know, the cost of eggs has come down 93, 94% since we took office"

By next week, Albertson's will be paying me $2/dozen to take the eggs off their hands

Trump may be okay with Elon wearing Dark MAGA hats and t-shirts in the oval, but this is something else

Trump is a vulgarian, but he cares about aesthetics and he cares about how people reflect on him. His taste may be awful, but it's part of his self-image

Tim Pool has neither the social nor financial capital to get away with a beanie and hoodie in the WH. I'll be surprised if Trump puts up with Pool's wardrobe even if Pool is a sycophant on par with Loomer (I almost said suck up, but...)

@kjhealy @atpfm @siracusa
Isn't there a similar study about movie theaters that started charging for infants while also providing "crying rooms", but then removed the crying room while still charging for the infant ticket?

The upshot was that parents who used to be polite about a crying kid (by leaving the screening area) now felt entitled to let the crying kid stay because "they'd paid for the ticket therefore the social contract no longer applied"

Am I misremembering or hallucinating?

@mattblaze
I get that guys like Graham, Rubio, and Cruz probably have humiliation fetishes. And I'm certain that Alito and Thomas love that the DOJ is being utterly contemptuous of the Court -- their allegiance is to their own personal power, not the court's. Barrett? Who knows. Maybe she enjoys the handmaiden role, and I have no take on Kavanaugh

But Roberts? Even if he doesn't mind seeing the remaining tatters of his legacy go up in flames, surely he's still capable of embarrassment, no?