DooDiligence

Pretty sure this is how it'll wind up for one or both of these ass clowns.

https://www.nokings.org

The art of the deal sure is turning out to be a weak hand. https://www.latintimes.com/white-house-mocked-after-admitting-they-sent-letters-remind-countries-about-trade-deal-584307

Who knew tacos would catch on in China? https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/trump-says-extremely-hard-to-make-a-deal-with-china-president-xi-.html

I just watched this last night. The parallels are undeniable to anyone who's not soaked in KoolAid.

Don't forget Mnuchin.

On related note: https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-pardon-3fcebb0a3820cecb205656f2dc3f6764 The pardon of Milton, who was sentenced to four years in prison for exaggerating the potential of his technology, could wipe out hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution that prosecutors were seeking for defrauded investors. Milton, 42, and his wife donated more than $1.8 million to a Trump re-election campaign fund less than a month before the November election, according to the Federal Election Commission. At Milton’s trial, prosecutors say a company video of a prototype truck appearing to be driven down a desert highway was actually a video of a nonfunctioning Nikola that had been rolled down a hill. === https://www.lawyeroyer.com

This is a ruse to try and win back customers he's lost.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota-industries-accept-toyota-groups-42-billion-offer-nikkei-reports-2025-06-02/ Toyota Industries is essentially the original company from which Toyota Motors was spun off, and makes things like looms, forklifts, industrial machinery, engines, and even some cars for Toyota Motors. They're basically the same company and have always operated that way, it's just through an odd twist of history that they never formally merged. Toyota is fixing that now. There are three relevant entities here — Toyota Group, Toyota Motors, and Toyota Industries: Toyota Group is a Keiretsu, meaning a collection of different companies which operate in alignment — think of a flock of birds or a school of fish all going in the same direction. One does steel, one does glass, one does strategic investment, one does marine shipping.. but they all co-operate to achieve same-results. Toyota Motors is one of those group companies and the one that makes cars. That's the Toyota you probably think of when you think 'Toyota'. Toyota Industries is another company in the group, and makes parts of cars (engines, doors, dashboards) and a bunch of industrial things to support the making of cars — robots, forklifts, looms, metal stamping machines. A significant portion of this goes to Toyota Motors, but a lot of it goes to other companies too. You can buy a Toyota Industries Forklift yourself. Toyota Motors is now buying Toyota Industries, and that's about it. Toyota Group is still Toyota Group, Toyota Motors is just absorbing Toyota Industries, which previously operated like a separate company because it was technically a separate company. HT to: https://www.reddit.com/user/Recoil42/

A quick search of "correlation between compassion and organizational longevity" returns a lot of writings on extended human longevity and improved health resulting from compassion, altruism and kindness. There are a few scattered TL;DR's that kind of look at this in organizations. I've never understood why people choose to tear others down rather than building them up. My belief is that we all do better, when we all do better. But I'm just an idiot.

Cued up. The title alone sounds like something I might need.

Every time I try to read him I get frustrated with the writing style and switch to Shane Parrish. https://fs.blog/mental-models/

OK. Let me know if you change your mind It'd be funny, I promise.

More like the art of the steal. “This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship” It good to see more of the press growing a pair.

The tires on the wings helped immensely Happy June 1st Pooty. === How to tighten up a leaky faucet. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5327835-trump-ukraine-attack-russia/

https://rapaport.com/magazine-article/the-2024-diamond-crisis-an-industry-at-its-breaking-point/ https://www.jewellermagazine.com/Article/13805/Tensions-mounting-for-De-Beers-as-industry-navigates-downturn === In separate but related news: Signet acquired BlueNile from Bain in 2022, among other strategic acquisitions. https://nationaljeweler.com/articles/11200-what-signet-s-blue-nile-acquisition-could-mean-for-the-jewelry-industry https://nationaljeweler.com/articles/10253-signet-to-acquire-diamonds-direct-in-490m-deal Signet acquires Service Jewelry & Repair (formerly owned by Service Merchandise) Apparently BlueNile still offers consumers the best deals in high quality diamond engagement jewelry. Can't speak to current customer satisfaction but $2500 +/- for a 1 carat ideal princess cut VS2 H still looks like a great deal. When I was working in Brasil I bought a number of BlueNile engagement rings for coworkers (or rather, for their namoradas). I always charged them the actual cost. I also used to deliver a lot of cellphones and laptops, and would make a token profit, which I'd pour into beer for our Sunday churrasco's, as well as other crew benefits. I'm terrible at capitalism but not a half bad socialist, but I digress. The biggest drawback of buying from BlueNile has been that you couldn't go into a store once or twice a year to have a jeweler examine prongs and make sure your diamond was secure. BlueNile still offers a lifetime warrantee where you can send your piece in for an inspection and tightening, but that's not particularly convenient. This service gives a bricks and mortar jeweler the opportunity to make another sale or at the least gather a referral. Not sure why Signet doesn't tie BlueNile sales in with service at their B & M stores but it's might be due to pricing differences vs online. Savvy local jewelers train sales staff to deal with prospects who come in with BlueNile engagement ring / diamond printouts. I'd be shocked if Signet owned stores weren't incentivized to convert online shoppers so both could receive the benefits of local service. Either way, the diamond industry is hurting and it couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch. https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/tag/de-beers/

Will do. Thank you for the gentle rebuke. I'm just trying to post headlines that might not be getting seen, or at the least are being reframed on fox and whatever else people are flocking to. May I have permission to start an Onion thread? There would be no running commentary by me. The thread would only contain images from and links to the latest and greatest from the Onion. I'd also go so far as to request that people only respond with LOL's and creative variations of LOL's. Obviously the thread would be labeled POLITICS. I completely understand if the answer is no.

Sahil Lavingia — an engineer, tech startup founder and CEO of Gumroad, an e-commerce platform for content creators — wrote in a recent personal blog that he “got the boot” from DOGE without warning the day after Fast Company published an interview in which he spoke about finding less inefficiencies than he expected in the government during his DOGE assignment as senior advisor to the chief of staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs. https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/05/va-based-doge-associate-gets-boot-after-publicly-discussing-his-work/405641/ === Nero fiddled while Rome burnt. What's this asshole gonna do? Golf more than likely.

This man spews a firehose of lies (day after day) and here he eventually gets to the part where he displays an absolutely breathtaking level of stupidity, AGAIN. “$8 million for making mice transgender. So they spent $8 million on making mice transgender, and those are better than many of the others. I could sit here all day and read things just like that. We have other things to do,” Trump said, wrapping up the by-the-numbers part of his remarks. The mice were transGENIC. Their genome was modified for research purposes. We are doomed and the nation just goes on chewing their cud and mooing their approval. https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-praises-musks-doge-for-ending-studies-on-making-mice-transgender-which-were-actually-asthma-and-cancer-research/

Trump wants NPR to go away because they report on his crimes and hypocrisy. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5415939/trump-pardons-drug-kingpins-even-as-he-escalates-the-u-s-drug-war If you support Trump, you support dangerous criminals, traitors and terrorists.

You get a god, and you get a god, and you get a god... and they all have the same sized dick. Now get along with each other.

If Costco touches those hot dogs there's gonna be big trouble. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/trump-tariffs-here-are-the-retailers-raising-prices.html

Inter got absolutely spanked. Henri is almost as fun to watch as a commentator as he was as a player. He wore a jacket with a Fendi graphic on the back at one point in the pre-match show. Can't find any licensing deals.