Sundae Overnight Open Thread (6/25/23)

Quote I

“I believe the Bible, which says our God is a God of life. I know where I was, and I truly believe God would rather me be alive today. Could I be wrong? Of course. But so could anybody. We are all flawed people trying to understand God. I try to rest on that.” 'Natalie' Drew

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"Until they guarantee all deposits, which they will have to do at some point, institutional investors are looking at a big block of uninsured deposits. With cash, it’s the possibility of losing money you’re trying to avoid.” Peter Crane,president of money-fund tracking firm Crane Data LLC

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“Since I have such respect for ‘The View,’ a news program with a heart, it was there that I felt comfortable enough to draw attention to the ongoing WGA strike for fair wages and working hours.

“As I find it incredibly important to continue to support the union.” Hollywood star Dermot Mulroney

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“The guys that come on my adventures ultimately want to suffer a little bit—that’s how they feel alive. Otherwise, they’d be staying at a Four Seasons five-star resort somewhere.” Garret Madison owner of Madison Mountaineering.

Will the shareholders say, "Enough shit. We want good movies and we want good returns."?

The Walt Disney Co. is estimated to have lost a stunning $890 million on its last eight studio releases, including The Little Mermaid and Elemental, according to a box office analyst.

Disney could see even more red ink since these titles are all destined for the Disney+ streaming service instead of other streamers, like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, where they could generate additional revenue.

Speaking of blockbuster movies....................

It's only fitting after a fun, informational and tasty Food Thread I should share the following news with you. Everything you wanted to know about "lab grown chicken" but were afraid to ask or taste.

The world’s first lab-grown burger was completed in 2013 after five years of research and development and with a price tag of $330,000. Since then, the cultured meat industry has slowly but surely advanced—gaining funding, diversifying the types of meat produced, building factories for large-scale production, going on the market in Singapore and Israel, and gaining preliminary FDA approval in the US. Now the industry has reached one of its biggest milestones yet, with the US Department of Agriculture ruling on Wednesday that cultured chicken is not only safe to eat, but legal to sell.

Don't care for the "lab grown chicken"? That's OK, have some "lab grown beef" from Spain.

This past December, Israeli cultured meat company Believer Meats started construction on what it says will be the biggest cultured meat factory in the world. Its 200,000-square-foot facility is being built near Raleigh, North Carolina. Cultured meat’s viability has been called into question recently, but that doesn’t seem to be slowing the industry down too much. A Brazilian meatpacking company called JBS announced last week that its subsidiary BioTech Foods is building a commercial-scale cultured meat plant in Spain.

Cultured meat starts with the extraction of cells from an animal’s tissue, be it a pig, cow, chicken, fish, or any other animal we consume. The cell extraction doesn’t kill or even harm the animal. The cells are mixed with a cocktail of nutrients, oxygen, and moisture inside large bioreactors. Mimicking the environment inside an animal’s body, the bioreactors are kept at a warm temperature, and the cells inside divide, multiply, and mature. Waste products are regularly removed to keep the environment pure.

The world is not a perfect place. There are evil people who walk among us. From a leftist site, "The Tragedy of the Unabomber" - Ted Kaczynski’s criticisms of environmental destruction and out-of-control technology were incisive. But, disdaining leftists and being unwilling to join with others in a social movement, he resorted to abhorrent terroristic methods that had no chance of solving any of the problems he perceived.

This, then, is the tragedy of the Unabomber. By conventional measures, Ted Kaczynski was a brilliant man, even a genius—but he fundamentally misunderstood the nature of power, and the possibilities for effecting real societal change. If he’d been serious about opposing the ills he saw in the modern world, the thing to do was to remain in society—to actually try to convince people, rather than blowing them up, and to build bonds of solidarity with his fellow human beings. There’s no telling how many allies he might have gained, and what they might have accomplished together. But instead, he took a selfish and small-minded path. He killed not only three innocent people, but an entire alternate self—Ted Kaczynski as he should have been, Ted Kaczynski the world-renowned activist and advocate. We are left with only Ted Kaczynski the murderer, and he leaves only pointless misery in his wake.

Honolulu, state of Hawaii coughs up six figures to sailor forced to give up his guns over mental health counseling

Santucci was an active duty member of the Navy in 2021 when he sought a permit to possess a firearm in the home. After acknowledging that he had recently received mental health counseling, his application was rejected by the Honolulu PD on the grounds that he’d allegedly admitted to a significant mental health disorder. Not only was his permit denied, but the firearms he had previously lawfully purchased were seized by the Honolulu police.

In truth, Santucci was homesick, and simply wanted to talk to a counselor at Tripler Army Medical Center. Santucci ended up suing after his permit was rejected, and last year a federal judge ruled in his favor, declaring that Santucci had not demonstrated any sort of significant mental health disorder that would disqualify him under the Hawaii law while leaving the statute itself untouched.

After the judge’s ruling, the city and state settled with Santucci. The state of Hawaii agreed to fork over some $28,000 for Santucci’s trouble, while the city of Honolulu agreed to a $102,000 figure. Santucci still hasn’t received a check from the city, but it looks like one will soon be cut.

Language shouldn't be confusing. We can't play "Smear the Queer". But we can apply Queer Theory to nuclear weapons policy.

Researchers are calling on leaders around the world to strengthen their national security by applying “queer theory” to their nuclear weapons policy.

A pair of researchers declared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that “queer” ideology as it relates to nuclear issues isn’t about “pushing a social agenda.”

Instead, they insist that it’s about creating a more “effective policy.”

According to the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation’s Louis Reitmann and Sneha Nair of the Stimson Center, “governments cannot afford to lose out on the human capital and innovation potential of queer people” when discussing the “high stakes” topic of nukes.

The Kung Flu prick takes another athlete.

Professional athlete Oscar Cabrera, 28, passed away from a heart attack while undergoing a stress test at a health center in Santo Domingo. Héctor Gómez, a sports commentator from Santo Domingo, shared the announcement of the athlete's death on Instagram on

Just a Gosh Darn minute NCAA. This student athlete identified as an eligible athlete. Isn't that one of the 337 genders out there, eligible athlete?

LSU has vacated all of its football wins from 2012-2015 after a review of violations from the NCAA's Independent Accountability Resolution Panel (IARP).

The Tigers are vacating 37 wins, including two bowl games, because former offensive lineman Vadal Alexander was ineligible for his entire college career.

In all seriousness how does a Division I school miss that?

On this day: 25 Jun 2009
Michael Jackson died at the age of 50, after suffering heart failure at his home in Beverly Hills. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964. Jackson is credited for transforming the music video into an art form and a promotional tool, four of his solo albums are among the world's best-selling records: Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995), while his 1982 Thriller is the world's best-selling record of all time with sales of over 50 million. via thisdayinmusic.com

Born on this day: 25 Jun 1945
Carly Simon, US singer, songwriter, (1973 UK No.3 and US No.1 single 'You're So Vain', 1974 US No.5 single with James Taylor 'Mockingbird'). In 2015, after keeping quiet for more than 40 years, Carly Simon admitted that 'You're So Vain' was about Warren Beatty, but only one verse of it. Simon said the other verses were about two other men. via thisdayinmusic.com

Someone doesn't care for Guns N'Roses.

Mumbling vague approximations of English words as if chronically constipated (if you’ve hit the goat curry hard enough, you’ll feel his intestinal pain), he flips between a lower register that resembles a clogged lawnmower and a higher one that sounds like Barry Gibb suffering the mother of all wedgies.

To hell with those 5' and 6' rollers. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Travis Brady and two of his friends were fishing in the Panama City Marina when the weather took a turn for the worse.

"Within 15 minutes we were in five foot, six foot waves," said Travis.

As they made their way back, their attention was drawn to a house boat that was adrift in the treacherous waters. Moments later the house boat capsized and debris scattered across the water.

That's when a man in another boat jump into action. That man, later identified as Jordan Boyd, jumped into the water without a life jacket, busted out the capsized boat's window and got the people out.

"He is the true hero of this story. Without hesitation he was just in the water helping those people," Travis said.

We need to create a beverage entitled Genius Award Winner.

Drunk And Disorderly Florida Man Was Busted While Drinking "Florida Man" Beer, Cops Report

An inebriated Florida Man was drinking a can of “Florida Man” beer when arrested Tuesday night for disorderly intoxication, police report.

Seth Thomas, 39, allegedly was “yelling at traffic while walking in the roadway in front of traffic and refusing to stop” when he was collared by sheriff’s deputies on a street in Seminole, a city in the Tampa Bay area.

Thomas, cops say, was drinking from a can of “Florida Man” at the time of his arrest. The beer, produced by the Tampa-based Cigar City Brewing, is a Double India Pale Ale that is “brewed with a nearly criminal amount of hops and a moderate bitterness that just about matches Florida Man’s general disposition.”

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