Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

[Caribbean Hen]

Good Parenting is not all about wealth

Just when you start making some strides, you fall off the wagon of common sense again

I didn’t say good parenting is all about wealth either. However wealth creates certain opportunities for youth advancement and learning that working poor don’t get to enjoy.

This is just reality. It’s supported by countless studies and examples. That’s what common sense actually is.

Depends what your definition of “enjoy” actually means

How did Joey rottens wealth work out when he sent a little Hunter to college? All paid for by Daddy

[kalm]

I didn’t say good parenting is all about wealth either. However wealth creates certain opportunities for youth advancement and learning that working poor don’t get to enjoy.

This is just reality. It’s supported by countless studies and examples. That’s what common sense actually is.

Depends what your definition of “enjoy” actually means

How did Joey rottens wealth work out when he sent a little Hunter to college? All paid for by Daddy

Can’t help yourself can you?

One example? That’s all you got?

How did Trump’s dad’s wealth work out? He woukd have flunked out of Penn. Christ he’s only semi literate today.

[BDKJMU]

Celebrating Juneteenth? The opening of the Obama Library?
8 dead, 39 hurt in Chicago weekend shootings during Juneteenth weekend, according to CPD
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ch ... -19-to-22/

[UNI88]

The Least And Most Patriotic States In 2026 May Surprise You

[Caribbean Hen]

The Least And Most Patriotic States In 2026 May Surprise You

Nobody called me

[UNI88]

The Least And Most Patriotic States In 2026 May Surprise You

Nobody called me

Puerto Rico isn't a state.

I don't think they called/polled anyone. If you'd read the article before offering your opinion, you'd know that they used

data from each state to determine rates of military engagement (average enlistment, number of veterans, active-duty and reserve military personnel) and civic engagement (voter turnout, jury participation, volunteer rate and hours logged per resident, AmeriCorps and Peace Corp volunteers, civic life participation and civics education), researchers calculated a 0-100 point score for each state, with 0 being the lowest level of patriotism and 100 being the highest.

[Caribbean Hen]

Nobody called me

Puerto Rico isn't a state.

I don't think they called/polled anyone. If you'd read the article before offering your opinion, you'd know that they used

data from each state to determine rates of military engagement (average enlistment, number of veterans, active-duty and reserve military personnel) and civic engagement (voter turnout, jury participation, volunteer rate and hours logged per resident, AmeriCorps and Peace Corp volunteers, civic life participation and civics education), researchers calculated a 0-100 point score for each state, with 0 being the lowest level of patriotism and 100 being the highest.

Nobody has called me for any of these polls ever

Puerto Rico is full of veterans and active duty military, I would say Guam probably wins for US territories

[UNI88]

Puerto Rico isn't a state.

I don't think they called/polled anyone. If you'd read the article before offering your opinion, you'd know that they used

Nobody has called me for any of these polls ever

Puerto Rico is full of veterans and active duty military, I would say Guam probably wins for US territories

You think Puerto Rico is the most patriotic state?

[Caribbean Hen]

Nobody has called me for any of these polls ever

Puerto Rico is full of veterans and active duty military, I would say Guam probably wins for US territories

You think Puerto Rico is the most patriotic state?

Guam the most patriotic territory…. Geez you’re getting even Dumber

[UNI88]

You think Puerto Rico is the most patriotic state?

Guam the most patriotic territory…. Geez you’re getting even Dumber

Puerto Rico is full of veterans and active duty military ...

[Caribbean Hen]

Guam the most patriotic territory…. Geez you’re getting even Dumber

Puerto Rico is full of veterans and active duty military ...

Ok Mr Christmas

[Caribbean Hen]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked ... d-in-2026/

Finland. Sweeden and Spain unemployment off the charts

Why? Because they are lazy

“Look at most of those utopian Scandinavian countries unemployment rate. Finland at 10.8%. Isn't socialism great. This is a perfect example of what happens when you don't have to go to work because you will still get your goodies. Once people figure out they don't have to put out much effort to exist, they inevitably won't. It's a historic fact. At least until the state becomes authoritarian.”

Well said El Citadel

[BDKJMU]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked ... d-in-2026/

Finland. Sweeden and Spain unemployment off the charts

Why? Because they are lazy

“Look at most of those utopian Scandinavian countries unemployment rate. Finland at 10.8%. Isn't socialism great. This is a perfect example of what happens when you don't have to go to work because you will still get your goodies. Once people figure out they don't have to put out much effort to exist, they inevitably won't. It's a historic fact. At least until the state becomes authoritarian.”

Well said El Citadel

The Japs sure do work.

[UNI88]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked ... d-in-2026/

Finland. Sweeden and Spain unemployment off the charts

Why? Because they are lazy

“Look at most of those utopian Scandinavian countries unemployment rate. Finland at 10.8%. Isn't socialism great. This is a perfect example of what happens when you don't have to go to work because you will still get your goodies. Once people figure out they don't have to put out much effort to exist, they inevitably won't. It's a historic fact. At least until the state becomes authoritarian.”

Well said El Citadel

Are Sweden and Finland socialist or not?

Make up your mind.

[Caribbean Hen]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked ... d-in-2026/

Finland. Sweeden and Spain unemployment off the charts

Why? Because they are lazy

“Look at most of those utopian Scandinavian countries unemployment rate. Finland at 10.8%. Isn't socialism great. This is a perfect example of what happens when you don't have to go to work because you will still get your goodies. Once people figure out they don't have to put out much effort to exist, they inevitably won't. It's a historic fact. At least until the state becomes authoritarian.”

Well said El Citadel

Are Sweden and Finland socialist or not?

Make up your mind.

All I know is the tell you college is free but they tax the living hell out of you…. Inside source

[UNI88]

Are Sweden and Finland socialist or not?

Make up your mind.

All I know is the tell you college is free but they tax the living hell out of you…. Inside source

Ducking and dodging the question as usual ...

Are Sweden and Finland socialist or not?

[Caribbean Hen]

All I know is the tell you college is free but they tax the living hell out of you…. Inside source

Ducking and dodging the question as usual ...

Are Sweden and Finland socialist or not?

The definition of socialism changes every day

all I know is, I’m glad I don’t live there particularly Norway because that’s where my source is

Does socialism make people lazy?

Does it put a cap on too many people’s potential?

[Skjellyfetti]

This past May, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile journey normally takes a half hour, at most.
But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots—and anyone else within hundreds of miles—unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain. There were no survivors.
The accident marked the first time that GPS jamming had contributed to the crash of a civilian plane in the United States. But it was just one of a string of recent disruptions across the world. The skies are more contested than ever, whether it’s civilian drones wandering out of the approved zone or US agencies getting their signals crossed, as happened earlier this year when New Mexico and Texas scared the public by temporarily closing their airspace. (It turned out that US Customs and Border Patrol were using anti-drone lasers in that area.) The GPS jamming exercise that led to this latest crash is not a singular event. In the past year, the US military appeared to have sent out notices for at least 10 such exercises. “As drone warfare and electronic warfare expand, airlines are increasingly encountering navigation disruptions hundreds of miles beyond the actual conflict zone,” says Eliran Almog, CEO of the cybersecurity firm Cyviation.
It's worth taking a closer look at what happened last May. While the Ruidoso crash was the first fatal accident in the US known to be linked to electronic warfare, there’s no reason to think it will be the last.

https://archive.ph/CECav