Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen
Just one example (bear with me):
Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.
The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows
But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered
Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle
There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).
If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.
Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).
Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed
So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef
Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers
To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.
Neighbors have put mattresses and plexiglass up in their windows to block the noise from this data center in Virginia.
It's a high pitched whine from the natural gas turbines that power it.
The noise never stops 24/7.
🪨 ¡SURREALISTA! Una PIEDRA apagó el Audi de Hulkenberg, lo que le obligó a retirarse:
Hulkenberg: "Me encontré con algo de grava después de que Lawson se saliera de la pista. Una piedra golpeó el interruptor de apagado del ERS y el coche se apagó. Se acabó la carrera".
"¡Increíble!"
#F1 #BarcelonaGP 🇪🇸
"Right of rule accessible by happenstance" is a wild statement to make in this argument. Sounds like they just knew the rules and handled it better? This whole thing seems pretty clear cut but all these Formula nerds think they know better.
Yeah, the FIA opened up a whole can and a half of worms with this decision.
Was it an incorrect call they made on the penalties? Yes.
Should they have tried to remedy it for the only one who had right of rule accessible by happenstance, and leave the others out of luck? No.
It’s almost as if this was predictable. Now we have Red Bull, McLaren, and Mercedes protesting the race result. 😅
here's the full clip of Rep. Emilia Sykes's brilliant line of questioning that made Chris Wright squirm by confronting him with the completely unhinged comments Trump just made in the Oval Office about inflation and the war in Iran
I think the part of this that burns me the most is that one little fucktwat saying "It's a shame" because a Ranger isn't "one of the boys."
What a fucking imbecile.
Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview
Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying.
Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating.
Welker: Do you have evidence?
Trump: All I have to do is look.
Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow
Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.
"What was your biggest impact on the internet?"
I found the actual physical remains of a NASCAR track that had been erroneously listed in the NASCAR record books as Greenville Pickens Speedway, when in fact it was Airbase Speedway in Greenville, SC.
The discrepancy was found by Speed Sport magazine in 2014, 63 years after the race was held, but I actually located where the track was and visited what was left of the back stretch tucked away in the woods behind an industrial site. Good times. 🫡
Limey fucking bastard stood there without a care in the world.
At least the female officer said "hey we have to check him right?" Then that twat sniffer just stood there and couldn't give two shits and pretty much indicated they didn't need to worry about someone dying.
In his final moments, Henry Nowak told police officers nine times “I can’t breathe” and four times that he had been stabbed.
In response police officer dragged him across the gravel, handcuffed and read him his rights.
It was the last thing Henry heard before he died.
Hassett: "People are spending more on gas, but they're also spending more on everything else -- not just groceries, but restaurants and so on. I think that's a sign you see when people are optimistic about the future."
Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the Trump administration’s plans for a new $250 bill featuring Donald Trump:
“At present, no living person can be on U.S. currency…So right now, there’s proposed legislation in front of the house, in front of the senate, to change the first requirement so that a living person, Donald J. Trump, could be on the $250 bill. So it’s all in the hands of, it’s all up on Capitol Hill. So, at treasury, we prepare things in advance”
Trump: "You take a look. The Lincoln Memorial -- it was built, I guess, a little after the Lincoln Memorial. It's embarrassing. It was so horrible. It was filthy dirty. It was Biden."
Trump says the Presidential Medal of Freedom is “much better” than the Congressional Medal of Honor because the Medal of Honor is for people who are “in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they're dead” while the Medal of Freedom is for “healthy, beautiful” people