Billionaires Club:

11/12/2024 - Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy named to head Department of Government Efficiency

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy

11/12/2024 - Steven Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Witkoff

11/19/2024 - Linda McMahon nominated Education Secretary (voted “Most likely to have a dalmatian skin coat”.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_McMahon

11/19/2024 - Howard Lutnick nominated for Secretary of Commerce

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Lutnick

11/22/2024 - Scott Bessent nominated Secretary of the Treasury

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent

11/30/2024 - Charles Kushner (Jared’s dad) nominated ambassador to France

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner

12/02/2024 - Warren Stephens nominated ambassador to the United Kingdom

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Stephens

12/04/2024 - Frank Bisignano selected to head the Social Security Administration

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bisignano

12/05/2024 - David Sacks named “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks

12/10/2024 - Tom Barrack nominated ambassador to Turkey

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barrack

12/11/2024 - Leandro Rizzuto Jr. nominated ambassador to the Organization of American States

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leandro_Rizzuto_Jr.

12/16/2024 - Jared Isaacman nominated for NASA Administrator

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Isaacman

Also up there:

11/14/2024 - Doug Burgum nominated Secretary of the Interior - $100 million

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Burgum

11/19/2024 - Dr. Mehmet Oz nominated Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - $100 million

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Oz

12/04/2024 - Kelly Loeffler selected to lead the Small Business Administration - $800 million

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Loeffler

Yet another made up position? Like DOGE and “White House AI and crypto czar”.

Voight is huge in right wing circles.

Gibson last seen here:

https://startrek.website/post/15899690

As most of the events are going to be happening inside the US, it makes sense to use the US date format, but I have no objection to that date format. I’ll update the sidebar.

And those turtles became so famous, that centuries later Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello would be named in their honor.

A radioactive container fell out of the back of the carriage, striking the boy in the head, blinding him, but oddly increasing his other senses, which is how we get Daredevil…

I don’t want you to digitize my handwriting, I want you to convert my handwriting to text.

Just got a replacement credit card yesterday, they don’t even put signature blocks on the back anymore.

To be fair, TikTok is not banned yet. There is no enforcement action against them. They are choosing to do this now to make a point.

Well, that’s great for you! Definitely not the norm though!

Continuing to work for the same company will only provide +2% to +4% per year regardless of knowledge gained. You aren’t paid for how much you know.

To get the large gains in income, you have to re-set your salary by changing jobs, at which point you get one big bump, then go back to +2% to +4% per year.

Self posts are not allowed. Also, this is US politics only. Similarly World does not allow self posts either.

Films can have the same problem.

Notably the 4th film in the “Divergent” series was never made, although we got the first 3. The 3rd was a rushed failure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_(film)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divergent_Series:_Insurgent
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divergent_Series:_Allegiant

Similarly, the film adaptation of the “His Dark Materials” series sputtered out after one film, Golden Compass:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Compass_(film)

It would take TWELVE YEARS to reboot the franchise as series television for HBO.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians was another notable failure which somehow got 2 films out of a 7 book series:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson_%26_the_Olympians:_The_Lightning_Thief

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson:_Sea_of_Monsters

It also would see a streaming reboot, this time 10 years later on Disney+

Even the perennial classic Narnia books had trouble in the film space, getting quite good adaptations of the first three books of seven before vanishing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia:_The_Lion,_the_Witch_and_the_Wardrobe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia:_Prince_Caspian

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia:_The_Voyage_of_the_Dawn_Treader

We have mint too. Every time I think I’ve uprooted it all, it grows back.

Definitely getting into uncharted territory because the 38th state didn’t ratify until after a) the deadline had long since passed and b) 5 states had already “de-ratified”.

So, yes, 38 states have ratified the amendment, but only 33 currently.

Yeah, just a tragic story and even more fucked up than it appears superficially. The Doctor needed to have his license revoked at best and at worst, criminal charges.

Documentary is split into 5 parts on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/9LQBcAVghu4

I mean, this has been a known issue since the 70s and the case of David Reimer:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

Born in '65, he lost his penis in a circumcision error. Parents and doctors were like “Oh, just remove it, he’s too young to know the difference, raise him as a girl, it will be fine…”

Kid grew up with major mental health issues “knowing” they were “really” a boy. Took decades of therapy to work out. He ended up killing himself at the age of 38.

Need to prune the roses real quick too…

It would look like a standard Xbox or Playstation controller, only instead of a right analog stick, there would be a trackball.