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More on the GIV drama from PTP.

Nine teeth removed! And it's all the "fault" of Adam. Why did he have to die and force me (Justin) to spiral and screw up my life?

Also: Send me cash!

Hump Day PTP drop!

Remember, there's just a letter's difference between "short" and "shart".

OMG.

Imagine the lamest, most cringe, objectively not funny remake of "Green Acres". But even worse.

Recommended by PTP.

"Diabetes. D-D-D-Diabetes" OMG

" ... Japan’s preliminary birth total in 2025 (671,236),^(59) for example, was distinctly lower than in 1873 (841,000),^(60) when such data first began to be collected—and this total was almost certainly lower than at any time since the Meiji era began in 1868. Sweden’s 2024 total (approximately 98,000)^(61) was about the same as that tallied two centuries earlier, in 1823. For metropolitan France,^(62) which had far fewer babies in 2025 (610,186)^(63) than in 1806 (916,000),^(64) when Napoleon won the Battle of Jena, ballpark calculations suggest we’d have to go back centuries to find a comparable French birth level to that of 2025. China’s demographic records are much spottier, but it may well have been about three centuries—that is, the first half of the 1700s—since a birth total as low as that in 2025 was registered.^(65)

The most arresting of these harbingers is Italy. In 2025, Italy reported 355,000 births^(66)—barely two-fifths as many as in 1862 (833,000), early in the Risorgimento, amid the unification of modern Italy. We don’t have good birth numbers for Italy before 1862—but based on what we know about general population totals and fertility levels, it is quite possible that today’s Italian territory hasn’t seen so few births since the early 1500s: the days of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

Is this where the rest of the world is eventually heading? We can’t know yet. But we will—soon enough."

Weekend PTP drop! Jacob joins Tenant Jay on the Dolly Grief Grift Train, Cris shows off her interior decorating efforts, and more.

Jacob is such a fatuous, narcissistic, two-faced toad. Blech.

Freak Show, Level 11. OMG

Reporting from Crain's Cleveland Business (no paywall), probably applicable to other places as well. It offers some solutions along with pointing out the current problems.

From the article:

"The Great Lakes region has been touted as a potential refuge from climate extremes and disasters. It’s a notion repeated by leaders — just this month, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb told the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy that he believes the city is a haven — and by media outlets.

But, experts will tell you, Cleveland is not a climate haven. In fairness, no place really is. ​The challenge — and the opportunity — lies in housing. Northeast Ohio’s aging building stock was not designed for the climate it now faces, and state building codes lag behind modern resilience standards. Without significant infrastructure investment, experts say, the region’s advantages won’t translate into meaningful shelter from climate disruption."

“There can be a fair bit of hubris regionally that any Great Lakes city is a climate haven,” said Jenita McGowan, Cuyahoga County’s chief of sustainability and climate. “There are a lot of assumptions that go into that, but we have hazards we can expect to see more frequently and intensely in the future. The shortlist is high heat, extreme weather, including precipitation and high winds, and periods of drought.”

Tenant Jay is transitioning from garden variety dumb to a straight-up ass.

Cris: A Day in the Life. And more!

(American here)

"Thank you very much, indeed" seems to be a common interview response across the BBC guy interviewer cohort. Is this a BBC script thing, a Brit cultural thing, or ...?

Just curious. I have visited the UK several times and heard this only on the BBC. Thanks.

"Federal officials on Friday sharply cut how much water Arizona, California and Nevada can draw from the Colorado River over the next two years in an attempt to stabilize a system on the verge of collapse because of climate change and overuse.

The existing rules governing use of the river and of the nation’s largest reservoirs, Lakes Powell and Mead, were set to expire this year, just as drought constricts the Colorado’s flow and both lakes shrink to record lows. Friday’s announcement by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation reduced the allocation for the three states by about a quarter, in total, reducing Arizona’s share by the most, about a third.

The plan formalized voluntary cuts the states had already offered to accept and settles months of uncertainty over how the water supply will be managed in the coming years. But it does little to solve the underlying crisis: The river’s flow is diminishing and reservoirs are drying up, but communities and farms still use unsustainable amounts of water.

“If the next couple of years are dry, the risk to Colorado River water users is extraordinary,” said Jennifer Pitt, who directs the Colorado River Program at the National Audubon Society. “There is no buffer to rely on anymore.”