CITIZEN OPEN THREAD.

From the Stack:
Loose wire caused bridge collapse ~

Morning, everybody. Still on first cup of coffee.

Morn’n from Colorado

You all have a GREAT day!!

Bill Clinton, testifying under oath:

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Wait, what? Epstein? Sorry, I nodded off, I thought you were asking about Hillary. No, I didn’t have sexual relations with Jeffrey Epstein either.”

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Cloudflare in court over “helping” tech pirates.
“Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered U.S. information technology company Cloudflare Inc. to pay about 500 million yen in damages for assisting copyrights violations by pirated manga websites.
https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2025111900153/tokyo-court-orders-u-s-it-firm-to-pay-damages-over-pirated-manga.html

“Images of Japan official appearing to bow before China counterpart go viral”
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251119/p2g/00m/0in/023000c

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/nestle-may-continue-to-sell-perrier-mineral-in-france-2970059.html
“In an urgent application, a consumer protection organization wanted to prohibit Nestlé from continuing to sell Perrier as natural mineral water due to allegedly unlawful treatment processes.”

Apple’s 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should’ve stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick ‘almost too crazy to be true’ miraculously made it work
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/apples-1991-macintosh-shipped-with-a-bug-that-shouldve-stopped-it-from-booting-but-no-one-ever-knew-because-an-undocumented-cpu-trick-almost-too-crazy-to-be-true-miraculously-made-it-work/

Morning CFP Patriots! Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Morning CFP ☕️

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“Amazing Grace” – Dan Vasc

SCOTUS Update…
Duncan v Bonta [California’s Magazine Capacity Limit/Ban] is now “DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025”

Trust the ____.
“New study upends erosion narrative for much of California’s shoreline
Good news for SF and Venice, bad news for Oceanside and San Clemente”
https://www.sfgate.com/california/article/new-calif-study-reveals-beaches-winners-losers-21193485.php

And because the bird flu isn’t enough, now they are trying to obfuscate the cancer caused by the vaxxes by blaming it on all drugs that everyone takes.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15302429/medications-gut-microbiome-health-bacteria-antibiotics-colorectal-cancer.html

-‘Eighth graders want to take algebra. SF hasn’t honored a pledge to bring it back’-
“When SFUSD removed Algebra 1 from public middle and K-8 schools in 2014, the goal was to eliminate the “tracking” of students into high or low math tiers in hopes of alleviating racial disparities. But it didn’t work.”
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/18/8th-graders-want-algebra-sfusd/

Colombian tinpot should change his name concerned about gasoline.
“The news prompted an immediate response from President Gustavo Petro on social media. Petro posted “Welcome to Colombia, Tesla” on his X account and framed the arrival as an opportunity not only for cleaner mobility but for industrial policy: He suggested Colombia could become a regional center for the manufacture and export of electric vehicles, and argued that internal combustion vehicles should face higher tariffs to accelerate the transition.”
https://colombiaone.com/2025/11/18/colombia-tesla-arrival-petro-welcome-production-ambitions/

https://www.city-journal.org/article/national-environmental-policy-act-federal-review

Map and pictures. Who would have thunk it? Debt?
https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2025/11/china-influence-laos/index.html
“Known as Lima Site 6, it was used during the Vietnam War to support bombing secretly carried out by the United States against the communist group Pathet Lao.

So the symbolism was unmistakable when local authorities announced in 2018 that the 300m-long disused airstrip would be taken over by Chinese investors and redeveloped into a site with five-star hotels, a cultural theatre and other tourist attractions.”

AI, or Am I?, being “overused” in elementary schools.
“As major universities grapple with cheating scandals linked to artificial intelligence, concerns are now spreading to the very start of the country’s education system: elementary schools, where students are increasingly outsourcing thinking and assignments to AI tools.”
http://koreabizwire.com/ask-chatgpt-first-elementary-classrooms-struggle-with-early-ai-overuse/337983

AHA! The reason it went down. 😂😂

Binance / Blockchain
‘Binance Linked to North Korea’s Billion-Dollar Crypto Laundering’
https://www.arirang.com/news/view?id=289461&lang=en

“While everyone was busy trying to figure out what had happened, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the founder of Binance and one of the most notable figures in the crypto space, saw a “blessing in disguise,” stating in his latest X post that “blockchain kept working.”
https://u.today/binance-founder-reveals-real-truth-about-blockchain-amid-cloudflare-crash

This is for TC if he is still out there. We miss your posts and humor. Hope you are ok and doing well.

META: how to tell the world you absolutely hate Trump without words, despite all of your previous backpedaling that all of the previous Trump-hating actions were “misinterpretations”.

Trump should go ahead and launch a narco boat strike on Zuck the next time he’s out water skiing.

House organ writer describes it all.
-‘Pyongyang residents take to streets to celebrate U-17 woman’s football team, two days after World Cup victory’-
“The ruling party’s newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, described jubilant scenes across the capital: “Even young mothers scolded their children to walk faster and stopped in front of the screens, holding them tight as they watched the match,” it said. “The area around Pyongyang Station became a sea of ecstasy.”
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10614510

Trouble for ‘The Party’?
“Emphasising the CPC’s central, unifying leadership as the political guarantee for stability and long‑term development, Xi underscored that the will of the people must be fully reflected through sound institutions, orderly participation and effective supervision, ensuring that governance aligns with public interests and national rejuvenation goals. ”
https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/xi-jinping-calls-for-unified-party-leadership-and-law%E2%80%91based-governance-to-propel-rule%E2%80%91of%E2%80%91law-advancement/

“Poland has identified two people responsible for sabotage on its railway, Prime Minister Donald Tusk told lawmakers on Tuesday, adding they are Ukrainians who collaborated with Russian intelligence and who have fled to Belarus.”
https://tvpworld.com/90077918/ukrainians-collaborating-with-russia-behind-railway-explosion-tusk

Morning CFP. ☕️

Good morning, Patriots. Up and at ‘em early, off and running! Have a great Tuesday

The White House is considering offering political asylum to British “thought criminals” …

Trump’s administration is exploring the possibility of extending refugee status to free speech activists who have been prosecuted for their words …

(There are 30+ arrests per day in the UK for online posts.)

https://archive.is/F8a6s