She began the call by insisting on her need to get to the river, asks the police to follow her to the river, so, naturally, after running the last red light before the river, the Police proceed to BLOCK HER FROM ACCESSING THE RIVER.
As a child, I considered a career in law enforcement, and as an adult oppose both George Floyd and "defund the police," yet Behan's observation "I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse." seems to be true more often than not.
While the police were within their legal authority and more grounded than a hysterical woman having a smartphone-induced panic attack (neither of which is a particularly high bar), there was nothing to be gained by stopping her AFTER she had crossed the final intersection before the river, and much to lose by escalating.
The cop touches a hysterical women and is shocked to find out she'll hit you. Anyone who has ever dealt with a hysterical woman has probably been assaulted by her. I'm sure my wife at some point has angrily hit me. I have 100 lbs on her. It's not real. Like when my kids hit me.
It looks like the charges were plead down and the case was sealed which is probably why she is having another hissy fit it's being released to the public. I actually think releasing peoples worst moments to the public under the guise of "public information" 2-3 years later when you just want clicks is a giant dick move
Growing up, I loved exploring all sides of myself. I did every sport and activity, enjoyed different friend circles and always gravitated towards creative things. My versatility has always been an assent to me, being able to relate and appreciate all types of people. I deeply believe we all have such unique gifts to share with the world.”
Did Hong lose or was the fix in. Lived in Wisconsin most of my life and don't remember ever hearing about five bad drives that held up the election. I am guessing they did her like Biden.
The SS suffered from the same problem as the 04-06 GTO: it looks like shit. Anodyne, meek, and unassuming, it could run 10’s out of the box and no one would care.
GM spent approximately $12 US marketing them, and then they showed up to dealers who had no idea what to do with them where they would sit forever because they looked strikingly like the Malibu going for 50% of its MSRP sitting next to it.
I am quite taken by them, and I’ve always wanted one, but the fact that they go for well above sticker these days will keep me far, far away. I like how subtle they are. I like that they have four doors, a V8, and three pedals.
As things generally continue to cost more and more across the board in Trump’s America, I don’t really think I’ll be able to afford anything at all with a V8 again anyway, let alone a boutique decade old sedan. So it goes
I would kill for the powertrain out of one, and I can't afford anything with an 8 made in the last 15 years. So I stick with my B-Bodies. My latest wagon is a heck of cruiser: Highway gears and a very mild camshaft. It's marred only by my inability to properly install an oil pan gasket, so I have to replace the seals with a half can of brake cleaner every now and then.
I am pretty much sold on replacing my dumb Abarth with a Crown Vic Variant next year if I can still afford a second beater car by then. If for no other reason than it is quite literally the only remaining V8, RWD vehicle I can buy in OK shape for less than $10k.
My uncle had a G8 GT for a while. They lived in highly populated southern states, so it was very useful for pulling out into traffic from their neighborhood.
In a final, yes, but I think polls can have a major influence on crowded primaries when it's not initially clear who the "serious candidates" (likely winners) are.
The goal of polls, politically, has always been to make people think that the other side is going to win by so large of a margin, that they can stay home. That's why most political polls are rigged.
"The difference between “slicks” and “R-comps” usually boils down to the internal belt package, which has to be heavier and stiffer in a street-legal tire for purposes of preventing intrustion"
I'm only gonna be a spelling Nazi about this because I actually looked up "intrustion," assuming I was going to learn a new word today.
W.R.T. the Mustang GTD: I don't recall giving much of a damn about it when it was released, but it's clearly fast as hell and I'm impressed by it. Cool car.
W.R.T. Toyota and the Clarkson Diagnostic Procedure: thank you to the reader who broke this down, and if you don't mind outing yourself by responding--some guy is swinging this hammer, right? How does he strike with precisely the same amount of force every time? If he doesn't, why doesn't it matter?
W.R.T. the Chevrolet SS: I do not want to own a vehicle which requires NLA parts shipped from a source on another continent, but I'd dearly like to drive an SS. Just once. I never forgave Chevy for not making an equivalent powertrain available in the Impala.
Edit: of course, I meant the Malibu, not the Impala.
The piezo pad measures the force and from that you can calculate everything else. If you had a machine that always swung the hammer with the same force, you wouldn't need the piezo pad.
Yes: "Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials—such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA, and various proteins—in response to applied mechanical stress." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity
You can get really similar input levels once you get a feel for it.
But mathematically it doesn’t matter because you’re measuring the input force and an output acceleration. So three hits at different levels should give you the same result if the system is linear.
Years ago I pulled up at a light next to a car like that. It's got the racing livery all over it and it sounds mean and there's all sorts of stuff on the side to try and prove that it's fast.
I was on my ZZR1200 and he decided to race me.
It wasn't even close, and I never got out of second gear I left him so far behind.
This is why I am a limited government person in every way. You give any human the chance to abuse power and a large percentage of them will do it. Small government that can’t reach out and touch/photograph you will have to leave you alone.
“Could we tolerate a national system in which certain people on the basis of a biomarker are segregated?” Ramaswamy asked on the podcast, according to Contra. He answered his own question: “I personally think that it is better than the status quo if we can send 10 or 20 percent of the people back on the basis of having immunity.”
A discussion draft obtained by Contra showed Ramaswamy proposing a “public-private partnership” featuring an entity he called “Organization X” — described as “a division of government, a private company, or a nonprofit organization” — that would maintain “the registry of individuals who are immune and individuals who should be prioritized for testing.”
Five days after the Rockefeller podcast appearance, The Wall Street Journal reported that Datavant was “spearheading” an effort to create a national COVID-19 patient registry by pooling medical records. By November 2020, Datavant had entered into a partnership with the National COVID Cohort Collaborative — a program funded by the National Institutes of Health, according to the company’s own press release at the time.
The legal / political world is maddeningly retarded about this sort of thing. You simply cannot give large numbers of people access to data and say "they're not supposed to abuse it," any more than you would leave a Ferrari unlocked and running outside of a Compton 7-11 because "auto theft is a felony."
LOL, no, not on that level. There are 17,985 AGENCIES in the US, and about 1.2 million LEOs in 2008[1]. Many of those 1.2 million are "gypsy cops" who have recently resigned in disgrace in a different jurisdiction[2]. Even a small percentage of "bad apples" can do a lot of damage, and the technology allows even one bad actor to do significant damage nationwide.
It's a bit like how the Naked Mile began in the 1980s as a risque college prank, where exposure was limited to whomever happened to be around at the moment, but by the turn of the century included 10,000 spectators, TV news crews, and Internet pornographers. The latter who intended to memorialize the exposure worldwide in perpetuity.
Also, would you "trust cops" to wiretap all of your communications? Why not, since you have nothing to hide, and the cops are the good guys?
(There are broader constitutional / civil liberties questions about whether the government tracking EVERY citizen's EVERY MOVE, NATIONWIDE, FOREVER is consistent with the Bill of Rights.)
I ended up picking up one of the watch dives aquanauts a few months ago on a whim as a beater for work. Much like jacks initial thoughts, I never got the appeal of the patek sports watches at any price much less what they go for. Since getting it, it hasn’t left my wrist and I wear it to almost anything. Something about it just clicks in person
I'd been wondering what your take was on Liam Lawson regularly being recognized as one of the standout drivers of the season so far. I guess you haven't been moved.
I'm glad I'm not responsible for modeling election outcomes these days. Have we reached the stage where an academic can quote Stalin's insight on who really counts in elections?
My county apparently had a very difficult time counting the votes for the primary. Is this a public thread? I probably shouldn't say too much else then.
The Hong polls and the GTD reporting are potentially the same story- the media wants something to be true, and doesn’t see it as poor journalism to effectively promote something they think is better, because normal Americans are to stupid to really understand, or something like that, or the reporter legitimately doesn’t understand how their bias shines though their work for all to see.
I hadn’t thought about the prediction site angle, that is interesting to consider, and would really be interesting to know if anyone was all-in on her (Hong) losing, and who those people are. I assume we can’t know that level of detail, for one reason or another. I realize some or many of you will find this naive and that there has to be a more sinister plot behind the scenes in the media, and maybe there is, but I often fall back to the belief that goes something like “be careful suspecting ill intent from someone when basic stupidity is a possible alternative” and I, for the most part, think your average media hack is not intelligent at all. Jack may give his thoughts on what he has seen, but I find zero intelligence in a lot of what I read, especially when I know the subject material.
I am also biased in my own ways- I find that the ability to write, even well, to be nothing special, because when (potentially) good writing has poor analysis you end up with garbage. It would make sense to me that you can’t get a journalism bachelor’s degree- you should have to get a degree in anything else first (well, science, engineering, come one learn something!), so you actually learn something. Make journalism a masters level activity once someone has a degree in science or engineering and understands basic concepts of the real world. In 2026, you can read an article written by someone who is 22 years old and has done nothing but grow up in Greenwich or San Francisco, attend J-school, and is now qualified to tell you what to think. This is why the media is failing/has been failing and will not recover, they cannot perform the simplest of tasks- to just report the facts.
I owned a 1973 Alpha Romeo GTV 2000 which suffered from occasional fuel pump failure. My Italian mechanic showed me how to restore it to service. He selected the lug wrench from the trunk, got down on the ground, reached underneath my car and wacked the reluctant pump with the wrench.
OT for those who missed it: Phones, Psychotherapy, & Police in Perrysburg: A Microcosm of Modern Mores: https://youtu.be/iMWESKCWKtw
DON'T SHARE LOCATIONS
I'm not watching all of that. That was enough.
On second thought and fast forwarding, this is her parents fault for naming her kristin with two i's.
that covers "Phones."
She began the call by insisting on her need to get to the river, asks the police to follow her to the river, so, naturally, after running the last red light before the river, the Police proceed to BLOCK HER FROM ACCESSING THE RIVER.
In just 2 short minutes, the Psychotherapist really elevates this from banal to classic: https://youtu.be/iMWESKCWKtw?t=742s
Felony charges for this are ridiculous. Cops should've backhanded her
https://www.facebook.com/lonilove/videos/in-a-1965-interview-with-playboy-sean-connery-said-i-dont-think-theres-anything-/10157305218855843/
As a child, I considered a career in law enforcement, and as an adult oppose both George Floyd and "defund the police," yet Behan's observation "I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse." seems to be true more often than not.
While the police were within their legal authority and more grounded than a hysterical woman having a smartphone-induced panic attack (neither of which is a particularly high bar), there was nothing to be gained by stopping her AFTER she had crossed the final intersection before the river, and much to lose by escalating.
The cop touches a hysterical women and is shocked to find out she'll hit you. Anyone who has ever dealt with a hysterical woman has probably been assaulted by her. I'm sure my wife at some point has angrily hit me. I have 100 lbs on her. It's not real. Like when my kids hit me.
There's no situation that can't be made worse by the police.
It looks like the charges were plead down and the case was sealed which is probably why she is having another hissy fit it's being released to the public. I actually think releasing peoples worst moments to the public under the guise of "public information" 2-3 years later when you just want clicks is a giant dick move
https://voyageohio.com/interview/hidden-gems-meet-kristin-winovich-of-koobville/
That can't be her. There isn't a single F-bomb in the whole interview.
The Oxford English Dictionary credits the origin of the term "F-bomb" to Gary "the Kid" Carter.
“ What were you like growing up?
Growing up, I loved exploring all sides of myself. I did every sport and activity, enjoyed different friend circles and always gravitated towards creative things. My versatility has always been an assent to me, being able to relate and appreciate all types of people. I deeply believe we all have such unique gifts to share with the world.”
Like felony assault of a police officer.
Yes, and: https://www.avoidablecontact.com/p/wednesday-ort-yuki-returns-fake-poll/comment/318304055
The entire video is AWFL.
Did Hong lose or was the fix in. Lived in Wisconsin most of my life and don't remember ever hearing about five bad drives that held up the election. I am guessing they did her like Biden.
It was rigged. The Democrat Establishment is very much turning on the DSA.
I've also heard a rumor that the RNC has funded DSA candidates in primaries, as they are much softer opponents in general elections.
Possible, but I'm sure China and a lot of other foreign countries are more than happy to give the DSA money.
It would have been fun to print "Honkies for Hong!" T-shirts.
The SS suffered from the same problem as the 04-06 GTO: it looks like shit. Anodyne, meek, and unassuming, it could run 10’s out of the box and no one would care.
Yeah
GM spent approximately $12 US marketing them, and then they showed up to dealers who had no idea what to do with them where they would sit forever because they looked strikingly like the Malibu going for 50% of its MSRP sitting next to it.
I am quite taken by them, and I’ve always wanted one, but the fact that they go for well above sticker these days will keep me far, far away. I like how subtle they are. I like that they have four doors, a V8, and three pedals.
As things generally continue to cost more and more across the board in Trump’s America, I don’t really think I’ll be able to afford anything at all with a V8 again anyway, let alone a boutique decade old sedan. So it goes
I would kill for the powertrain out of one, and I can't afford anything with an 8 made in the last 15 years. So I stick with my B-Bodies. My latest wagon is a heck of cruiser: Highway gears and a very mild camshaft. It's marred only by my inability to properly install an oil pan gasket, so I have to replace the seals with a half can of brake cleaner every now and then.
I am pretty much sold on replacing my dumb Abarth with a Crown Vic Variant next year if I can still afford a second beater car by then. If for no other reason than it is quite literally the only remaining V8, RWD vehicle I can buy in OK shape for less than $10k.
I really wanted to buy a new G8 GT, but a) all the dealers had $5-$10k ADM on them, b) it only came in black interiors. Big NOPE to both.
My uncle had a G8 GT for a while. They lived in highly populated southern states, so it was very useful for pulling out into traffic from their neighborhood.
I just assume all polls are bullcrap. It saves time.
I always assume polls are just paid to give a certain result
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks
There's only one poll that counts: The one on election day.
In a final, yes, but I think polls can have a major influence on crowded primaries when it's not initially clear who the "serious candidates" (likely winners) are.
The goal of polls, politically, has always been to make people think that the other side is going to win by so large of a margin, that they can stay home. That's why most political polls are rigged.
"The difference between “slicks” and “R-comps” usually boils down to the internal belt package, which has to be heavier and stiffer in a street-legal tire for purposes of preventing intrustion"
I'm only gonna be a spelling Nazi about this because I actually looked up "intrustion," assuming I was going to learn a new word today.
W.R.T. the Mustang GTD: I don't recall giving much of a damn about it when it was released, but it's clearly fast as hell and I'm impressed by it. Cool car.
W.R.T. Toyota and the Clarkson Diagnostic Procedure: thank you to the reader who broke this down, and if you don't mind outing yourself by responding--some guy is swinging this hammer, right? How does he strike with precisely the same amount of force every time? If he doesn't, why doesn't it matter?
W.R.T. the Chevrolet SS: I do not want to own a vehicle which requires NLA parts shipped from a source on another continent, but I'd dearly like to drive an SS. Just once. I never forgave Chevy for not making an equivalent powertrain available in the Impala.
Edit: of course, I meant the Malibu, not the Impala.
Now I can't even go back and fix it!!!! THANKS FOR NOTHING!!!!!
Hammer time: I was thinking the same thing. Wouldn't you want a device that reliably struck with the same force each time?
The piezo pad measures the force and from that you can calculate everything else. If you had a machine that always swung the hammer with the same force, you wouldn't need the piezo pad.
Yes: "Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials—such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA, and various proteins—in response to applied mechanical stress." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity
More layman-friendly information here: https://hub.yamaha.com/drums/d-electronic/how-do-electronic-drums-work/
You can get really similar input levels once you get a feel for it.
But mathematically it doesn’t matter because you’re measuring the input force and an output acceleration. So three hits at different levels should give you the same result if the system is linear.
Some mothers of have a generous amount of "intrustion" about their adult children's lives.
43k for that is bonkers!
Still, I hope the new owner enjoys it
did you see the link that I posted this weekend to the '74 Pinto that someone wants $24k for?
Years ago I pulled up at a light next to a car like that. It's got the racing livery all over it and it sounds mean and there's all sorts of stuff on the side to try and prove that it's fast.
I was on my ZZR1200 and he decided to race me.
It wasn't even close, and I never got out of second gear I left him so far behind.
hey I just wanted to get the temperature of what the best and brightest think of this in relation to these 'flock' cameras.
'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database. That’s not what it’s for'
https://www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shiny-thing-cop-explains-why-he-used-license-plate-reader-to-stalk-woman/
if I was writing a comedy cop show I could not come up with a funnier line than that.
Where is Reno 911 when we need it most
they could not come up with dialogue like out of that video
This is why I am a limited government person in every way. You give any human the chance to abuse power and a large percentage of them will do it. Small government that can’t reach out and touch/photograph you will have to leave you alone.
“Could we tolerate a national system in which certain people on the basis of a biomarker are segregated?” Ramaswamy asked on the podcast, according to Contra. He answered his own question: “I personally think that it is better than the status quo if we can send 10 or 20 percent of the people back on the basis of having immunity.”
A discussion draft obtained by Contra showed Ramaswamy proposing a “public-private partnership” featuring an entity he called “Organization X” — described as “a division of government, a private company, or a nonprofit organization” — that would maintain “the registry of individuals who are immune and individuals who should be prioritized for testing.”
Five days after the Rockefeller podcast appearance, The Wall Street Journal reported that Datavant was “spearheading” an effort to create a national COVID-19 patient registry by pooling medical records. By November 2020, Datavant had entered into a partnership with the National COVID Cohort Collaborative — a program funded by the National Institutes of Health, according to the company’s own press release at the time.
https://tiffinohio.net/posts/ramaswamy-backed-covid-segregation-as-firm-got-2-25b/
The legal / political world is maddeningly retarded about this sort of thing. You simply cannot give large numbers of people access to data and say "they're not supposed to abuse it," any more than you would leave a Ferrari unlocked and running outside of a Compton 7-11 because "auto theft is a felony."
you should be able to trust cops, though right?
they are relatively very well paid
they know everything you do on the system is logged
How hot must that chick have been, for the guy to throw his career away, and act like that ?
I think I need to see a picture of her before I condemn him too much
"you should be able to trust cops, though right?"
LOL, no, not on that level. There are 17,985 AGENCIES in the US, and about 1.2 million LEOs in 2008[1]. Many of those 1.2 million are "gypsy cops" who have recently resigned in disgrace in a different jurisdiction[2]. Even a small percentage of "bad apples" can do a lot of damage, and the technology allows even one bad actor to do significant damage nationwide.
It's a bit like how the Naked Mile began in the 1980s as a risque college prank, where exposure was limited to whomever happened to be around at the moment, but by the turn of the century included 10,000 spectators, TV news crews, and Internet pornographers. The latter who intended to memorialize the exposure worldwide in perpetuity.
Also, would you "trust cops" to wiretap all of your communications? Why not, since you have nothing to hide, and the cops are the good guys?
(There are broader constitutional / civil liberties questions about whether the government tracking EVERY citizen's EVERY MOVE, NATIONWIDE, FOREVER is consistent with the Bill of Rights.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_the_United_States#Police_population
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_officer
you should be able to trust cops, though right?
Lol. No. Cops run the gamut of asshole to decent like every other profession.
Like when robert paulson gets shot in the head
"WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN"
This is so predictable. I can just search anyone anywhere at anytime and there's not any sort of system stop to this. Oh no, it was misused.
Q: "Where do you keep your guns?"
A: "In the children's playroom, between the play kitchen and the Matchbox car track."
Q: "What did you do to prevent children from accessing the guns?"
A: "I told them not to."
-----
Q: "What employees had the ability to transfer funds from the pension account?"
A: "Only the CFO."
Q: "What mechanism did the CFO use to transfer funds?"
A: "He logged in to the computer system."
Q: "Did anyone besides the CFO have the ability to log in to the computer system?"
A: "Oh, yes, every employee"
Q: "Every employee? What would employees besides the CFO use the system for?"
A: "All of the hourly employees, like our retail associates, the warehouse guys, janitors; they all needed to log into the system to log their time."
Q: "But they wouldn't have access to transfer funds outside of the pension account?"
A: "They weren't supposed to."
Q: "What prevented them, technically?"
A: "It was against company policy to access subsystems beyond the scope of their duties."
Q: OBJECTION: NONRESPONSIVE
JUDGE: SUSTAINED
Q: "What technical safeguards were there to prevent access to other subsystems?"
A: "We didn't really have subsystems."
Q: "What did you have?"
A: "We ran Quickbooks"
Q: "So everyone logged into Quickbooks?"
A: "Yes; everybody who wanted to get paid!"
Q: "What was the process for 'logging in?'"
A: "There was one computer, but we enabled remote access so people could log in."
Q: "Did it require a username and password?"
A: "Yes, we used 'User' and 'Password'"
Q: "Let me clarify: did each employee have a separate username and password?"
A: "Oh, no, nothing complicated like that. People just logged in and did their business."
Q: "Including transferring funds from the pension account?"
A: "Only if they were the CFO."
Q: "Or anyone with the same username and password as the CFO, which was everyone, right?"
A: "Well, I guess so."
I ended up picking up one of the watch dives aquanauts a few months ago on a whim as a beater for work. Much like jacks initial thoughts, I never got the appeal of the patek sports watches at any price much less what they go for. Since getting it, it hasn’t left my wrist and I wear it to almost anything. Something about it just clicks in person
It cost me $110 to confirm yet again I am not a watch person. I did wear it for 3 weeks longer than the last one.
I'd been wondering what your take was on Liam Lawson regularly being recognized as one of the standout drivers of the season so far. I guess you haven't been moved.
I'm glad I'm not responsible for modeling election outcomes these days. Have we reached the stage where an academic can quote Stalin's insight on who really counts in elections?
My county apparently had a very difficult time counting the votes for the primary. Is this a public thread? I probably shouldn't say too much else then.
How's Tiger Dad?
oh yes, we need an update
Those Opus X cigars with the predominantly black bands and the “13” motif are “Forbidden X” cigars.
Which are generally excellent.
You should smoke them all over the next few days.
and along the lines of our previous discussion of Stutz and Excalibur gems, there is this for your consideration: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1596043622109529/ a lovely Chevette with continental kit!
and seems GM really knows how to motivate its employees: https://phoebewallhoward.substack.com/p/fired-gm-engineer-alleges-job-review
The Hong polls and the GTD reporting are potentially the same story- the media wants something to be true, and doesn’t see it as poor journalism to effectively promote something they think is better, because normal Americans are to stupid to really understand, or something like that, or the reporter legitimately doesn’t understand how their bias shines though their work for all to see.
I hadn’t thought about the prediction site angle, that is interesting to consider, and would really be interesting to know if anyone was all-in on her (Hong) losing, and who those people are. I assume we can’t know that level of detail, for one reason or another. I realize some or many of you will find this naive and that there has to be a more sinister plot behind the scenes in the media, and maybe there is, but I often fall back to the belief that goes something like “be careful suspecting ill intent from someone when basic stupidity is a possible alternative” and I, for the most part, think your average media hack is not intelligent at all. Jack may give his thoughts on what he has seen, but I find zero intelligence in a lot of what I read, especially when I know the subject material.
I am also biased in my own ways- I find that the ability to write, even well, to be nothing special, because when (potentially) good writing has poor analysis you end up with garbage. It would make sense to me that you can’t get a journalism bachelor’s degree- you should have to get a degree in anything else first (well, science, engineering, come one learn something!), so you actually learn something. Make journalism a masters level activity once someone has a degree in science or engineering and understands basic concepts of the real world. In 2026, you can read an article written by someone who is 22 years old and has done nothing but grow up in Greenwich or San Francisco, attend J-school, and is now qualified to tell you what to think. This is why the media is failing/has been failing and will not recover, they cannot perform the simplest of tasks- to just report the facts.
Great great post. This should be published
And excellent idea on journalism only being a possible grad degree
I owned a 1973 Alpha Romeo GTV 2000 which suffered from occasional fuel pump failure. My Italian mechanic showed me how to restore it to service. He selected the lug wrench from the trunk, got down on the ground, reached underneath my car and wacked the reluctant pump with the wrench.
Ecco fatto!!