It’s more soul-killing than embarrassing.

This is an epic novel in two parts.

Could stop him or would stop him? SCOTUS has granted him blanket immunity for anything done as an “official act”, without bothering to specify exactly what an official act is. This has opened up a Pandora’s Box, needless to say. They’re literally expanding the power of the President, not limiting it.

Congress, since it is fully GOP-dominated, will neither impeach him nor attempt to override any veto should they pass laws to curtail his activities. Not that they would, of course.

The military has a duty to follow the Constitution and is supposed to disregard any orders to the contrary. But whether the military will act according to Trump or the Constitution is an open question. Remember, Trump has removed a number of senior officers whose loyalty to him was in question. And there are a lot of right-wing extremist types in the lower ranks of the military.

In short, we’re probably FUCKED.

The LD50 of eggnog is a liter, no wonder.

Well, it would make the best volcano at the school Science Fair. And possibly lead to your arrest. So, not ideal.

Working as designed.

Some of them had a “spoon brake” that was controlled from the handlebars. From what I can gather, it was a spoon-shaped piece of metal that applied friction to the wheel. Not a hydraulic disc, but more than just the legs. Her track bike probably didn’t have one, though.

This seems hard to believe at first. Why would anyone keep doing something that harms them? Then you realize that this pattern appears in so many places. People are still smoking and voting for politicians who make their lives worse, despite ample evidence they’re harming themselves. And they’re likely to keep doing it.

Congress does so little now, what’s one less thing? They can stay on recess forever, while still getting paid, of course.

I won’t say how long it took me to get this one.

1. Get sick
2. Take out loan (AKA payment plan) to pay for it
3. Die before loan is paid off

Paid shill for deathmobiles.

This is spot on. For MAGA, it’s not that Trump is on the list, it’s that the Democrats and elites are. He can do what he wants, they can’t. For the rest of us, though, all the names on the list matter.

This is wild. At least she was on a track, which minimized the chances of getting thrown violently forward in a sudden stop. I’ll stick with my safety bicycle, thanks.

Because techbros never consider the downsides or misuses of the technologies they promote, only the profit potential.

TACO

It’s a nice start.

Almost makes up for the glee he had in raping children.

It’s certainly a puzzle.

Dogshit? No. Different? Definitely. The wild yeasts on the skin weren’t cultivated for alcohol tolerance, so ancient wines would tend to have a lower ABV. They might have some sourness from bacteria found on the skin along with the yeast. Whether or not they’d be sweet or dry would depend on the yeasts and the grapes themselves. There would be a lot of variability from year to year. The Romans, for one, preferred sweeter wines and would add grape syrup, defrutum, made from boiling down grape juice, if the wine was dry. Other cultures might do something similar or just grin and bear it. There was a lot of variety across time and place.

It should be noted that the Romans would sometimes use lead vessels for making defrutum. This would add lead acetate to the syrup, which has a sweet taste, and make it even sweeter.