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are you the Nigerian prince

So a few days ago, Ukraine launched a big missile strike that took out the Black Sea Fleet's HQ in Sevastopol. Ukraine announced that they took out 34 Russian officers in the strike, including Admiral Viktor Sokolov, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russian-black-sea-fleet-commander-killed-no-comment-by-moscow-2023-09-25/

https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1706336631383343568?s=20

Menendez not resigning, which is not exactly a surprise. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-bob-menendez-facing-corruption-charges-rebuffs-calls/story?id=103463381

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-09-24/writers-strike-over-wga-studios-reach-deal-actors

the story about the un-green-let series finale is absurd https://www.vice.com/en/article/nn9d9b/nickelodeons-angry-beavers-nearly-ended-by-making-the-main-characters-realize-they-were-going-to-die-922

https://twitter.com/erikka2ks08/status/1705602169431310621?s=20

this is *just* today so far

Fetterman is the first Dem Senator to call for resignation. https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1705662182434734108?s=20

Andy Kim was the first elected to call on him to resign and already announced a primary: https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/andy-kim-will-run-for-u-s-senate/

happy birthday, you quadruplets

https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1705379566871871933

https://twitter.com/macrotargeting/status/1705334588749345216?s=20

NJ Dems lining up to call for his resignation, but he seems defiant. https://newjerseyglobe.com/governor/murphy-tells-menendez-to-resign/

Unofficial so just mentioning it here and not making a formal announcement yet, but we may be doing our big software/security update this weekend. Slight possibility that downtime cuts into toonami hours but not sure yet. If it goes through, we will probably shut down the ASMB anniversary board at that time and revert any lingering changes like mod rank shenanigans. Security update should resolve this horrible botspam we deal with on a daily basis. EDIT: Site Maintenance is tonight (10/6) and the website will be down for a few hours

also just a clarification, it's the feds in NY, not the state

I remember when we learned about interstate commerce, there were a whole string of cases that narratively involved shipping garbage across state lines, and the common denominator was that everyone wanted to send their trash to Jersey

... but then again NJ is kind of a literal cartoon state

this guy is a literal cartoon character, and NJ keeps electing him

happy birthday @CartoonPlanet!

I got the bill put on hold over the summer while it was supposed to be resubmitted properly (billing under the physician instead of the nurse), because I was still getting late bill notices despite it being their job to redo it. So I wasn't supposed to get any further notices until it was resolved. Then a week or two ago I got another notice that my full bill was overdue and needed to be paid by the end of the month. So I finally call back over, the first woman checks the history and says that their internal review (to just change the name on the bill from the nurse to the doctor and resend it to insurance) was never completed and didn't know why the bill was resubmitted. Transferred me to another office. Second woman has to put me on hold to review the extensive notes from months and months of back-and-forths and she tells me that the bill was actually re-denied by the insurance company on the grounds that they took too long to get their shit together and bill them properly. She said that by law if the insurance company isn't obligated to pay because the provider's billing department fucked up, then neither is the patient and the provider is supposed to just eat the cost. So she said I was never supposed to get that last bill and the ultimate resolution is supposed to be my bill being readjusted to $0. So theoretically I'm off the hook, but I still need to wait for it to come out of that central billing purgatory to see that in writing. She said she put another (real this time) hold on the bill, but who is keeping track at this point. Could have been a fuck up, or could have been a last ditch (illegal) attempt to get paid, idk.

CNBC reports a potential deal for writers: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/21/hollywood-studios-writers-near-agreement-to-end-strike-hope-to-finalize-deal-thursday-sources-say.html

Tuberville was going to remove his block on just the Marine Corps commandant nomination, so Chuck Schumer filed cloture on the promotions of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Chief of Staff of the Army, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps to confirm all three tonight. But they still have to go through each nomination individually because of the hold, which means they can't do this for the other like 300+ nominations.

how many congressmembers don't have outside income/wealth and actually rely on their congressional paycheck tho the rich ones would could just hold out against the non-rich ones