Brandon Herrera:

maybe, in the future, what "we", collectively "we", "us", need to do, is to pick a random no-name candidate who's running against our enemy, senators & reps, governor level, and to throw our 2 cents in with the no-name candidate that absolutely has no chance in winning, just so that they get boosted, from the gator-infested swamp backwater 1-2% vote count, to the brackish backwater 10-15% vote count.

Just to send a message.

all these milestones in car complexity:

air bags (gotta watch out for those yellow wires under the dash, good luck troubleshooting your horn button)
electric or power-steering boosted brakes (sudden failure mode)
ABS (master cylinder/ABS module replacement on Toyota $3K)
demise of carburetors (tune with vacuum gauge & tach), advent of EFI (laptop to tune)
catalytic converters and those pesky post-cat O2 sensors
OBD-I (not too bad)
OBD-II  (now you need a scanner)
DEF (diesel)
cylinder deactivation
camshaft phasers
OnStar

not sure when the govt started getting the ability to control your car, late 20-teens?  Yeah, I know, these all have benefits, "it's a small sacrifice to make for the greater good".  Where have we heard that before?  Give 'em an inch, and they'll take a mile.  Try fixing your own car nowadays.

once upon a time, we didn't even have PCV valves, just "road draft tubes".

looks like the NJ anti-gunners will appeal the ruling, so the decision is "stayed", i.e. no celebration just yet, infringements are to remain in place.  It just got punted to the Supreme Court, and pending that outcome.

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2084684418304598370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2084684418304598370%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

Hawaii Democrat congressional candidate Kirill Basin ARRESTED for threatening a man with a knife after he was asked to lower the volume of his music at the beach.

He tried fighting but was immediately knocked out

In his defense, he will state that after-the-fact, he was called a "haole boy".  Does that line-of-defense work here also?

EMS officials said they responded with seven units with multiple paramedics, EMTS and a district chief after an apparent two-vehicle collision involving an  apparent assault.

How ironic this research is aimed at identifying stressors to whales by tagging them with "drones" via a dropped tag with suction cups.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/08/02/uh-researchers-use-drones-tag-humpback-whales/

“It’s a complete game changer,” said Lars Bejder, director of the Marine Mammal Research Program. “We’re putting less pressure on the animals. We don’t have to get close to them.”  You don't have to get close to them if you didn't have the desire to "research" them.

The fieldwork was supported by the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Navy’s Living Marine Resources program, Dolphin Quest, and private donations.

our tax-payer dollars hard at work.  I guess this will help to find those pesky chinese submarines, eh?