March 21, 2025

THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T WORKED OUT AS I HAD HOPED: DoorDash, Klarna sign deal for deferred, installment food delivery payments.

DoorDash and Klarna, a company that offers “buy now, pay later” programs, have come together on a deal for deferred and installment food delivery payments.

“In the coming months, DoorDash customers will be able to enjoy Klarna’s seamless range of payment options when purchasing groceries, retail, and even DashPass Annual Plan – on DoorDash.com or through the DoorDash app,” according to a webpage on the deal on Klarna’s website.

Klarna is set to be shown as a way to pay when DoorDash customers are checking out, with customers given options to either pay for their whole purchase, pay via four installments or pay at a time that works better for them, according to the webpage.

“Our partnership with DoorDash marks an important milestone in Klarna’s expansion into everyday spending categories,” Klarna’s Chief Commercial Officer David Sykes said on the page.

“By offering smarter, more flexible payment solutions for groceries, takeout, and retail essentials, we’re making convenience even more accessible for millions of Americans,” Sykes added.

In accordance with the prophecy:

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

GAVIN NEWSOM LIES, FILM AT 11 — AND AT EVERY OTHER HOUR:

Posted at 1:48 pm by Stephen Green

DOGE, THE EARLY YEARS, CONTINUED: It’s Mark Cuban Approved!

It’s also Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi approved as well. Meanwhile, seen on Facebook, a reminder that the left can’t meme:

Why are you comparing Elon’s product to that of the King of England, when both Elon and the Founding Fathers wanted a lean efficient government that would leave most citizens alone? Not to mention turning on a dime against electric cars:

Conversely, just like that, the founding of America in 1776 is a good thing once again, rather than its dark, New York Times-approved 1619 Mirror Universe origin story.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

BILL WHITTLE’S HOT MIC: Why Autopen Matters.

Good stuff from Bill, as always.

Posted at 1:34 pm by Stephen Green

HOW COOL IS THAT?

Posted at 1:28 pm by Stephen Green

TANNED, RESTED, AND READY FOR MORE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden aides, more Democrats pile on ex-prez’s offer to boost party fundraising after 2024 disaster: ‘This is an SNL skit.’

“Joe Biden should enjoy retirement at the beach in Rehoboth,” a third Biden alum added. “No voter wants to hear from him. He is delusional and arrogant to think that he can be a value add to the Democratic Party. We need to move on from the era of Joe Biden and embrace new, younger leadership.”

The ridicule extended to congressional Democrats, who control neither chamber of Congress following the Nov. 5 wipeout loss by then-Vice President Kamala Harris, who was thrust into the race after Biden announced July 21 he would not seek a second term.

“Why the f–k would anyone listen to what Joe Biden has to say?” gasped one congressional Democratic source. “He should stay in retirement with his pardoned family and keep his mouth shut.”

“The best thing Biden could do for the DNC is offer [DNC vice chair] David Hogg a high-paying role at his foundation,” a congressional Democratic aide snarked.

“Is this serious?” a former Democratic aide asked. “I mean, it has to be a joke. This is an ‘SNL’ skit.”

Except it isn’t, since SNL treated Biden with kid gloves, like it treated all Democratic presidents, going back to Jimmy Carter, in its role as the Democrats’ palace guard media.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT REALLY IS SPACEX VS. THE WORLD:

SpaceX last year performed about the same number of launches as everybody else around the world, but those launches accounted for approximately 84% of the total mass to orbit.

CLARIFICATION: Those SpaceX launches accounted for the 84%.

Posted at 12:46 pm by Stephen Green

LONDON’S HEATHROW AIRPORT CLOSES FOR THE DAY AFTER WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGE.

UPDATE: Flight chaos across the world with hundreds of planes forced to divert or turn around as huge fireball shuts London’s Heathrow Airport… and disruptions could last days.

UPDATE (12:30 PM): Counter-terror police investigating Heathrow fire. “Counter-terror officers from the Metropolitan Police are leading the investigation into a major fire that has closed Heathrow Airport. The force said there was ‘currently no indication of foul play’ but officers were retaining an ‘open mind at this time’ into the cause of the blaze.”

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

WELL, YEAH:

If Newsweek’s Evan Thomas was right that media support (back when they still had something of a reputation) might lift a Democrat contender by 15 points, you have to wonder how much of the public’s support for progressive politics is an illusion created by all those siphoned tax dollars.

Posted at 12:28 pm by Stephen Green

A MODEST PROPOSAL FROM THE BOSTON GLOBE:

Here’s the actual article: Trans girls playing girls’ sports? How about a more radical idea: Abolish the gender divide in athletics altogether.

Bekker, a health professor at the University of Bath, and Mumford, a philosophy professor at Durham University, both in England, offer up a radical remedy for this inequality: Abolish the gender divide at all levels of sports.

Sound outlandish? They make a more compelling case than you might imagine.

As they point out, the argument for a separate category of women’s sports usually revolves around issues of fairness and safety. But if those are our chief concerns, then why do we divvy up athletes by gender? After all, there can be big disparities in size and strength and skill within gender. Why not separate based on those attributes instead?

We already do a version of this in youth sports. An exceptional 13-year-old soccer player competing in the under-14 division is allowed to move up to the under-17 division in search of stiffer competition.

Women, the authors contend, should be given the same opportunity.

After Lindsey Vonn proved herself one of the greatest skiers of all time, male or female, she asked to race against men — and was denied.

Does that make any sense?

What could possibly go wrong?

(AP Photo/John Locher.)
Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Space Force General: Chinese Satellites ‘Dogfighting’ in Orbit.

The vice chief of the U.S. Space Force said Chinese satellites have been observed rehearsing “dogfighting” maneuvers in low Earth orbit, a display of the communist nation’s ability to perform complex maneuvers in orbit.

The maneuvers, referred to as rendezvous and proximity operations, involve not only navigating around other objects but also inspecting them, the Air Force Times reported Tuesday.

“With our commercial assets, we have observed five different objects in space maneuvering in and out and around each other in synchronicity and in control,” Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein said Tuesday at the McAleese Defense Programs Conference in Washington, D.C.

“That’s what we call dogfighting in space. They are practicing tactics, techniques, and procedures to do on-orbit space operations from one satellite to another.”

Things are getting real interesting up there.

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green