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[thirtymilesout]

The Driveway on the Upper Green

near Pinedale, Wyoming

[winterphile]

Oh, that makes sense now.

[baygeethefirst]

☕️ BUGS ☙ Wednesday, June 3, 2026 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Hires Project 2025 Author; Pulte Takes Over ODNI Intelligence; NIH Scientists Caught Smuggling Monkeypox; more.

[winterphile]

The new head of the private banking club hired someone from the Hoover Institute, which is Stanford's version of conservative thought and frequently opposed to Trump, and a guy who worked on the Project 2025, which was designed to be inflammatory and edited and published by people who endorsed Hillary, Biden, and Harris rather than Trump. So look forward to the "Federal Reserve Board" continuing to do what it has always done; mislead people and devalue the dollar.

[beardedmrbean]

Need to figure out some kind of exchange program where we swap people like this with sane people from Afghanistan or somewhere like that.

Or maybe we could set up some sort of gladitorial combat between fuentes acolytes and piker acolytes

[generallemarc]

This is, sadly, not a new phenomenon. "The Jews masterminded the Holocaust" has been a fringe belief for at least a couple decades; there's several variants, but they all agree that it was a conspiracy by the global Jewish elite to sacrifice some amount(they usually deny the actual figures but for some reason still say that some level of killings did take place) of their own people to somehow gain power. I say "somehow" because all the explanations I've seen were so nonsensical that I've forgotten them for the same reasons I forget the vague, half-formed thoughts I have right before I fall asleep.

[winterphile]

Same as most of the people saying there's a genocide in Gaza.

[sawbuckplus]

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Says the guy who thought the internet was a passing fad

[winterphile]

I think it was him that wrote an editorial in the late 90's explaining that the free trade deals hadn't worked as planned, that future generations would have to make do with fewer and less opportunities for economic advancement, that wages would continue to decline compared to inflation, but that it was ok since they all already had jobs and houses. Meaning the Babyboom Generation.

[skippyisntfunny]

[superioronion]

[winterphile]

Ok, but in Clarkson and Hammond's defense he was the last one to wake up and they had just discovered that when they had pitched their campsite in the dark of night they had made camp in the middle of a road and people wanted to get by!

[beardedmrbean]

Short answer is because it's a natural waterway not one that had to be constructed and then maintained.

[maybeasunflower]

Plus, those waterways run *through* the relevant countries (not international waters) and there exists an alternative route (unlike for this strait).

[tuulikki]

Also worth mentioning that Iran is only one country along the Strait of Hormuz.

[beardedmrbean]

Be like charging people to go through the Strait of Gibraltar, got Morocco, Spain, and the UK to contend with.

Only natural waterway like that where anyone charges a fee is in Turkey, but their territory is on both sides of the whole thing and they don't call it a toll for using the waterway, some other kind of administrative fee for it though.

[winterphile]

Additionally; 1) they have always charged for passage 2) if you refuse to pay they won't open the gates 3) the Panama and Suez Canals are not threatening to murder the crew or sink the ship.

[penny-anna]

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection

The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

OH MY GOD??

[penny-anna]

oh my god i talk a lot of shit about getting back more of daleks master plan but its actually happening there's a clip on the article and everything. oh my god it's 1am. i have work in the morning.

[penny-anna]

and two?? TWO????? im on the fucking floor

[swordlet]

Peter Purves, who played the Doctor's assistant Steven Taylor, was invited to the Phoenix Cinema in Leicester on Wednesday under false pretenses to view the two episodes, and he said: "My flabber has never been so gasted."

My flabber has never been so gasted.

[penny-anna]

Daleks Master Plan was broadcast once in the UK in 1965/66 and then never again bcos it was never picked up for overseas broadcast. there were 2 copies known to exist total. this is genuinely incredible news I knew we were getting a missing episode return but I can't believe it's actually DMP oh my god

[i-am-a-fish]

no more dichotomies. I would like to introduce you to my friends Both, Neither, and Something else entirely

[i-am-a-fish]

also my friend Sneither, who also cannot be organized into any single category

[winterphile]

@i-am-a-fish remember that there are only 2 types of people in the world; those who can easily be put in one of two groups, and those who can't.

[does-truth-matter]

[winterphile]

Trillions for a pipe dream that at best will be a nescience until it fades into obsolescence like the Tamagotchi and at worst will be used to cause us harm every day? No thank you.

[darth-puma-vader]

[winterphile]

If the current Iranian regime catches them they will be executed. That's a major difference between the BLM/antifa rioters here and the protestors there.

[funbearer]

[winterphile]

Yes, because of Rush Limbaugh using it to mock Ross Perot

[sawbuckplus]

[remanence-of-love]

[spacenoirdetective]

ENHANCE...

ENHANCE

Hmmm.

Charles Moll, cover art for "Twistaplot #14: Instant Millionaire" by RL Stine (before he became an instant millionaire from Goosebumps), 1984

What would YOU do with a million dollars? Apparently, you'd get yourself an entourage of two headed, four armed pink lizard men, that's what you'd do.

[winterphile]

I remember having this one as a kid, the aliens were one of the endings where you lose all the money by trying to hard to keep it, aliens show up and eat all the money.

[jardinssteve]

[winterphile]

If she's telling the truth then she doesn't care about him, if she's lying then she's a liar.

[coolcomicbookcovers]

[winterphile]

Jack Kirby's Silver Star?

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

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[nelc]

Only 12 days left.

[triflesandparsnips]

It’s Saturday, May 30, 3:18 PM EDT

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We’re almost 258,000 notes short of the Committment To The Bit Tumblr Curse goal, or what I am choosing to call:

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You know what to do.