100% with you. You end up having what we call the ‘keys to the kingdom’.
Years ago an IT guy got pulled over for a DUI. He threatened the cop saying that if he got a ticket, he would delete all of the cops data on our system (he could have). The next day he did not find a computer on his desk, but an empty box. And of course all our pwd’s had to be changed for IT.
Idiot.
They were banned from the tournament because of the Alabama incident last year in which the girls team beat the boys team in the finals but were denied the trophy, for reasons that might actually be legitimate (they were kind of in a higher quality regimen). Kentucky banned the girls from the tournament because, at least in part, they did not want the same bad optics. (my inference)
Thanks for the background
So instead they got different bad optics.
I really wish “bad optics” meaning “it presents a bad or misleading spectacle” would just go away. As an Optical Engineer, it seems to me that all the optical parts associated with this are working just fine.
I imagine that third-rate actors struggling for whatever parts they can get feel the same way when people say that needlessly poor outcomes are the result of “Bad Actors”.
On another site, I see this ad which makes my head hurt,
I mean, yes, people do eat during Ramadan, but come on. It just looks so wrong.
Is the need for food in Gaza a matter of insufficient funds, for which donating would help? I was under the impression that the issue was getting the food to the people which is why the US is air-dropping it and building a pier.
I don’t understand. Why does it look wrong? The fasting is during daylight hours. Each night, there’s a meal to break that fast. Of course, the big celebration is the breaking of he fast after the last day of Ramadan. Also, I fully understand how someone could want to try to preserve some sense of normalcy during this war.
And in all of the many religions that have a season of fasting, there’s an emphasis on almsgiving during that time, too. Spend some of the money you’d be spending on whatever you’re giving up, to help the less fortunate.
Now, whether that particular aid organization is legitimate, and even if it’s legitimate, whether it’s effective, those are valid questions. But it’s still a straightforward appeal.
Also, not to police the observance of a religion I don’t belong to, but people whose health would be endangered by fasting are exempt. People in Gaza are literally starving, and if it’s possible for them to find food, they should eat.
A new court filing shows that convicted scumbag Sam Bankman-Fried had a list of “random probably bad ideas” to stay out of jail, which included going on “Tucker Carlsen” (sic) to “come out as a republican”.
This could easily go in the Stupid Gun News thread as well.
Austin St. John, the actor best known to '90s kids as the original Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, is launching a line of t-shirts with Hitler quotes on them.
As the article says “So, while it’s true that St. John announced he would be launching a range of clothing inspired by quotes written in different languages from famous “warriors,” including Hitler, those items were not available as of this writing.” So hopefully someone slapped some sense into him.
If only they’d done so before he got indicted for PPP fraud in 2022.
And in the category of yet another “news” outfit goes with the wrong Black person’s photo:
Fox News host Laura Ingraham apologized Friday night for a graphic that erroneously identified attorney Terrence Bradley as Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor who just left Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ team. Both men are Black and involved in the controversy surrounding Willis’ handling of the election interference case against Donald Trump.
The graphic shown during Ingraham’s opening monologue depicted Willis and Bradley on two sides of a broken heart, with the judge in the case, Scott McAfee, in the middle.
But, hey, Ingraham apologized:
“Now a note about a graphic we showed at the top of the show: It was supposed to be of Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, but accidentally we broadcast Terrence Bradley,” the host of The Ingraham Angle said. “That was obviously not intentional. We made a mistake and we are sorry for that.”
At what point will they just say, “To Hell with it” and just go with stick figure drawings?
It’s real hard to make stick figures that the audience will recognize as black and therefore Evil and Scary.
Once Fox figures out how to solve that, it’ll be all stick figures all the time.
Seriously, this mind-numbing event could go in the evil mofo thread also.
A student persuaded by his friend to get his legs amputated for a $1.3 million insurance scam wound up getting only $7,200 that he now has to return: prosecutors
A university student in Taiwan who had his legs amputated in hopes of receiving a $1.3 million insurance payout has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, local prosecutors say.
The 23-year-old, identified only by his last name, Zhang, plunged his feet in a bucket of dry ice for more than 10 hours to get them so badly frostbitten that he would need a double amputation, the Taiwan Criminal Investigation Bureau said in a Thursday release.
The bureau said a friend of Zhang’s from high school, identified only as Liao, persuaded him to carry out the insurance scam.
But, alas, the evil mofo an the stupid mof forgot something important about Taiwan.
The weather on the night of January 26 was also nowhere close to below freezing, with its coldest temperature at about 42 degrees Fahrenheit, prosecutors added.
“As Taiwan is a subtropical region, cases of severe frostbite requiring amputation are unheard of due to natural climatic conditions,” the bureau said in its statement.
At least the mistake didn’t cost him an arm and a leg.
As a child, aged probably 10 or 11, I held a piece of dry ice against my left forearm for less than a minute.
I still have the scar today. Instant 3rd degree burn, just a small area, though
I mean, it was indeed stupid, but I was a kid. 10 hours?