Dark_Cloud_Overhead

Geez, 6 months?! He was at it for that long, and they all reacted the same damn way. What assholes, all of them. Guess they don't have the hippocratic oath in that world.

Baby 5, yeah he needs you. Needs you for your wallet. LOL

Tears of a Clown? I love that song. What exactly makes this guy a clown anyway? Just that he's got some face makeup on?

"So no party?" LOL Is it really the finale next week? This season went by too fast.

Kay. Best just hope none of the kids in your neighborhood get the sudden urge to have a snowball fight.

I hate to say it, but I kind of actually agree with him for once on this one. I've tried drinking through a paper straw before and it's just yuck. When I'm having my iced matcha, I want it to taste like matcha, not an old newspaper. He needs to stop with the executive orders already, seriously. It's beyond ridiculous at this point.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/02/05/eggs-stolden-pennsylvania/78244304007/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us Okay, fess up. Which one of you did it. Whoever it is, all I got to say is they must really like their eggs poached.

Been listening and thinking about what Musk is really after in getting access to the payment system, and the thing that I've heard that makes the most sense to me is kind of the most obvious I think. He's looking to monetize it, but not by doing something as obviously illegal as messing with people's bank accounts or anything like that. I think that idea is pretty farfetched. Not so much that it would be impossible for him to do it necessarily, but just it would make no sense that he would ever try something like that when there's a much more attractive and safer alternative for him. Just the data itself is worth its weight in gold. Okay, so it doesn't have any actual weight cuz it's data, but you know what I mean. https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2025/02/blog-what-will-elon-musk-and-his-tech-bros-do-with-your-personal-data/ Since Musk acquired X, he has promoted turning the social media platform into a financial services “everything app” including banking services and virtual payment platform that would encompass your “entire financial life.” This business model is not unlike the massive and dominant financial services payment apps in China like WeChat and AliPay that blur the lines between banking and commerce. Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra, whom Trump fired on Saturday, has warned that these apps have become state surveillance tools that closely monitor the lives of Chinese people. Musk has developed this plan for years, acquiring money service transmitter licenses in multiple states. And, just a week a ago, X signed a deal to partner with Visa to provide peer-to-peer payments for tasks like splitting bills with friends or buying a coffee by connecting to people’s debit cards and bank accounts, which represents the first step in actually creating Musk’s long-sought, Chinese-inspired platform. And what might give Musk’s newly muscular social media-payments platform a critical edge in a market filled with other powerful banks and financial services companies? Well, access to the federal payment data and sensitive personal information of tens of millions of Americans just might do the trick. Combining that data with what X already extracts and Musk’s Starlink satellite internet usage data would then create a powerful, textured, database of private information on all of us. They've been trying to assuage people's fears saying he was only give read-only access, but that's all he really needs. He is the exact type of person this information is supposed to be kept away from at all costs and why all this really should be scaring the shit out of people. With every story the last couple weeks, I keep hearing one thing echoing over an over again in my mind: "Big Brother is watching you." Trump may be something of a buffoon, who's mostly just concerned with always being the center of attention, but he's the perfect smokescreen for a guy like Musk whose ambitions appear far grander and much more dangerous. He is exactly the type of would-be tyrant Orwell was warning us about.

Just two questions... Who's working on building the Snowpiercer, and how soon can I get my ticket for it?

C.I.A. Sends White House an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees "The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force." Incompetence at its finest. They had no way of apparently sending the list in a classified manner to the office of personal management, so they had no recourse but to do it this way in order to comply with Trump's executive order. Geez louise. What insanity.

Guy's just a gutless wonder. Love's swinging his big tariff club around, making a big show of what a tough guy he is, but the second shit gets real he looks for nearest exit. Mexico and Canada repositioning some troops inside their country is nothing but an empty gesture that lets him save face. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/politics/us-canada-trade-fentanyl-fact-check/index.html If this was really about drugs or illegal border crossings he wouldn't be lumping Canada into this anyway.

Better watch out if you try that. I don't think he's been potty trained.

They're both just playing patty cake at this point. Crazy.

If feeling sorry for yourself was a sport, Bulma would be the undisputed champion.

He speaks? Cuz of the D name. What is with the D name? Apparently it doesn't mix well with Celestial Dragons it would seem. Can't think of why else he would bring it up. Man I want double One Piece back so bad!

You think they're prescription or just sunglasses? I'm pretty sure he's taken them off for at least a moment or two, but maybe I'm misremembering.

Now they air the correct Mash promo. Oh boy, can't wait to see how he's gonna get out of that situation.

Dad at least was a decent guy, and who knows if his son hadn't kept acting like such a little douchebag his hope to live a normal life among the people might have worked out.

LOL Yeah. They can try all they want, but nothing they show me is gonna make me feel sorry for Doflamingo.

LMAO He made a throne. My God!

Divine Visionary? What the heck is this guy doing there. LOL Love defected.

I had stuff cooking on the stove. <---- My excuse. LOL Nyaaaaa, what's up Dot?

When you got right-wing billionaires taking over media organizations and twisting their coverage like this, who needs to actually cheat. A lot easier to just buy up all the microphones so people only hear what they want us to hear. This is the real danger to me and the last true line of defense. When they start going full force after journalists and trying to shut down what's left of the free press, it's over.

Back to Doom Patrol, I'm just about done with season 2, and wow. I didn't think it was possible for the show to get any more insane, but I clearly had no damn clue.