News and notes from around the interweb:
- Capital One is sponsoring Taylor Swift’s tour. It looks like that only came to fruition because Sam Bankman-Fried terminated negotiations to have FTX as main sponsor, because he and Caroline Ellison broke up and she’s a huge Taylor Swift fan? There’s a credit card angle to everything.
- Conspiracy theory: did President Nixon order a United flight blown up 50 years ago to silence a potential Watergate witness? I tend to think it was coincidence that the woman was on the flight, and not an intentional act. (HT: @crucker)
- Dress coded at Disney. This one doesn’t seem so bad to me tbh.
@jordyngraime Disney doesn’t like backs I guess…. #epcot #disneyworld #disney #dresscode #fyp #foryoupage @jessiedipasquale ♬ Castaways – The Backyardigans - Amtrak should stop being stupid
Amtrak released their new vision for passenger rail expansion in the United States, and I don’t really know what to say except that it sucks. They’re proposing incremental expansion of a national network of slow, infrequent trains that I guess will serve the needs of weirdos and hobbyists who want to ride a train from Birmingham to Shreveport or from Athens to Fort Wayne via Columbus but serves no particular transportation purpose.
- Southwest is running more than one pricing system at the same time and that may cause some surprises.
A better conspiracy is that Venezuelans used Italian spy satellites to control Chinese-made thermostats that could alter voting machines . . . the same voting machines that one candidate’s OWN experts illegally opened and proved could not be altered via ANY wireless connection . . . only to have the Venezuelans erase every bit of evidence of their handy work.
Let’s see how many clicks you get on that comment. You’re welcome.
@Lee
Conspiracy that does not have reptiloids or at least Putin in it is not a good conspiracy, may even turn out to be the truth 🙂
Any decent conspirologist knows that Nixon ordered the plane down to cover the tracks of alien overlord race black ops destroying the previous human civilization in the middle of 19 century. Another cover ups were Civil War and Star Trek
Here’s one for the conspiracy theorists. One of the passengers on MU 5735 that crashed in China in March 2022 was Fang Fang, a Chinese agent who had a sexual relationship with Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell. Go for it.