Blowout
We need some sugar and spice today. Well, I guess technically speaking, I always bring the spice. Kinda like American tennis player Sofia Kenin brought to the Australian Open today as she swept aside #1 seed Ashleigh Barty on her way to the final. She’ll face Garbine Mugaruza, who dispatched Simona Halep. On the man’s side, Djoker demolished Roger Federer, who showed his age the last few matches. He awaits his finals opponent, who will be determined tomorrow.
Blowout
Man United got a win against their crosstown rivals, but it was all for naught, as they lost their League Cup semifinal on aggregate. And Liverpool, inevitably, won handily as their march to the title continued apace. Back on our side of the world, your hockey winners were Nashville, Toronto, Calgary, Anaheim, Tampa, and Vancouver.
Socialist buffoon Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on this day. So were radical rules writer Saul Alinsky, computer mouse designer Douglas Engelbart, acting great Gene Hackman, chess grand master Boris Spassky, the lovely Vanessa Redgrave, war enthusiast Dick Cheney, drummer-singer-genius Phil Collins, golfing great Payne Stewart, Spanish king (didn’t know they had one) Felipe VI, actor Christian Bale, Lurch-like soccer player Peter Crouch, and hockey’s Chris Simon.
And with that out of the way, I bring you…the links!
Yeah, this is the real fear. No wait, it isn’t. Maybe it’s, you know, people really being concerned with being infected.
Cool gnome. Now pay me.
Now she can cash in on her grift. I’m seriously surprised she hadn’t done this already. Her parents and handlers really dropped the ball for the last couple of years on this one.
The impeachment trial of the president is nearing the end of the beginning. And if the GOP leaders get their way, it will also be the end of the end. But I believe they’ll ultimately vote to have witnesses. And that includes having all the witnesses the defense deems necessary to their case. And that will cause heads to explode on the left, who claim they want a fair trial but really don’t.
What an idiot. You’re supposed to steal cash from suspects, not use your state-issued credit card. At least that’s what I suspect the arresting officers told the judge.
This woman deserves better service than she’s been getting.
This is pure comedy gold. I guess all her tweets about Trump being afraid to stand witness were more hypocrisy on her part. Which pretty much sums up her professional life full of hypocrisy.
I’m shocked! Shocked to see corruption in the San Francisco government. Now somebody hand me m winnings.
Tomorrow is the day for Britain! But there were some early fireworks in Brussels as the head of the departing delegation had the temerity to show a little national pride. I guess all those “debunked” stories about national flags being banned at the EU parliament were true after all.
I really love this song. I hope you enjoy it at least a little bit.
Now go have a great day, friends.
COMMENT!
Soooooo lame
You’re just peanut butter and JELLLYYYYY!!!
Just because you can’t take criticism doesn’t mean anyone is jealous.
Ouch.
Hahaaa!
That woman is hot.
Nobody puts baby in the corner
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-roberts-blocks-sen-paul-from-naming-whistleblower-source-says-and-paul-may-force-the-issue
Cuntes, the lot of them. Fucking Calvinball.
^^^THIS^^^
Fuck that.
If we’re impeaching a President, nobody gets to hide behind the intelligence community’s skirt. Let’s air it all out, all of it for the public to see.
The Senate gets to have the final say, not Roberts, so they can overrule him if they want to.
Fuck Schumer has been going on about why the Republicans don’t want the facts to come out, but apparently the name of Eric Ciaramella is not one of those facts he wants to have come out.
Maybe because when people know it was this asshat, they can go back and verify this Ciaramella has attempted, not once, but twice, to start a different rumor that they hoped could be used to go after orange man? Every time you get details about whatever the latest attempt to take down orange man is, you find out that it is the exact same of insiders that are somehow behind it, and it all leads back to Obama, the Clinton campaign, and George Soros. But we are supposed to believe that the team blue cuntes accusing orange man of the things they are doing, is them wanting to fix things. Yeah…
Relevant…
It’s the same people trying desperately to get rid of orange man so they can hide how corrupt and criminal they were under the Obama admin’s own directives.
He might be tied to the Bidens and Burisma.
I’d love to see the lot of them arrested on conspiracy charges. Now that would be a fun trial.
Beat ya to it by 14 mins brah! See above.
I’m quite convinced that somebody owns Roberts, and he can be counted on to play ball when the stakes are high.
I think this pretty much proves it. There is zero legal basis for not using Ciamarella’s name, as the whistleblower statute does not say anything about anonymity. It also does absolutely zero to prevent a whistleblower from being questioned by Congress or in any court. It only protects the whistleblower against retaliation by the employing agency. This was a purely political/partisan action by Roberts. The Repubs shouldn’t have even allowed the “compromise” on not using Ciamarella’s name.
He may have done the Repubs a favor. I don’t see how this obvious pro-Dem bias, stepping on the prerogatives of Senators, will be ignored by the Repub squishes on the fence about witnesses. If this is how questioning of the impeachment managers is going to be handled, they have to be wary of actually calling witnesses. Assuming, of course, that they aren’t completely sold out to the Dems that this is about nothing other than causing political damage to Trump.
Aww, I was going to mention to San Fransisco corruption story.
Ah well, at least it’s now on-topic.
Yeah, I am sure there are other corruption stories we just don’t know about yet. When team blue is involved corruption is the way of the land.
Wise women of color running airports?
That was a great win for Kenin.
Joker was after my bedtime but I’ll do a happy-dance anyway.
Oh boy, these new MLB hats are all kinds of problematic, from honoring shitlord slave owners, to othering vegans and culinarily atypicals with steaks and clam chowduh. Fainting couch, please. I only made it past the first two hats!
Correction, that is not clam chow-deeerr. It’s definitely offensive, though.
Addendum to correction: is it a lobster roll?
Addendum to the dead end-um: if it’s a Fenway Frank, where’s the frank?
Frank should be in prison for the criminal shit he was involved with, but I hear the dude is still out there making everyone’s lives more miserable.
Yuck. Flat brim and goofy. Give me my unconstructed old English D hat that is so old it’s more grey than blue.
New Era hats suck.
Those are pathetic. Especially now that we have needle and shit emojis available for SF.
The Astros hat should have a buzzer on it.
A bat and a trashcan.
And a pic of the championship ring.
That’s right. Who cares if they’re cheaters. Go team!
Where have I heard this before?
Boston?
And a pic of the championship ring.
With an asterisk?
It should also have the Jetson’s dog on it instead of a space shuttle.
So, does that mean we can bring back Chief Wahoo?
No, that offends white people
Tommy “Wildfire” Rich hardest hit
It’s a fucking slideshow list!
So I wasn’t wrong, the site is broken.
I was expecting to see the Oriole bird with a bullet wound, but it looks like they skipped Baltimore.
As coronavirus spreads, so does concern over xenophobia
“More panic, more temptation to blame the outsider … the other,” a Columbia professor of sociomedical sciences said.
*rolls eyes*
They have to beat the same drums over and over. They only know a couple songs.
“sociomedical sciences”
I think I found the problem.
Let me guess, Whitey engineered the virus to make people afraid of asians again
Also, viruses spread faster due to climate change.
All the viruses originating in China is a symptom of white supremacy.
The “socio” cancels the rest out.
Looks around at Chinese and Taiwanese American coworkers. Ponders my Taiwanese next door neighbors.
Points out that coming home from my Japanese class last night I sat next to a person on the train reading simplified Chinese on his phone.
Been nice knowing you all.
YOU GONNA DIE, HOMEY!
Two Chinese people sat next to me when I got lunch yesterday. Q: Am I going to die now?
You’ve got a coronavirus deathmatch going on in your lungs between SARS and Wuhan now.
Good thing I’m scheduled to go to a whisk(e)y tasting party at a friend’s house tomorrow. That should cure me right up, I’ll just need to grind up some rhino horn or something into it first.
Or nail clippings. Same stuff.
“I’ll just need to grind up some rhino horn or something…”
Time for the medicine!
Neph, I looked for one of the scenes where the characters were talking about powdered deer horn but did not find any.
If your are a Team Blue supporter your wokeness will provide immunity and/or the public health officials will prevent it. That assumes that the public health officials can pry themselves away from studying sudden urgent health issues like guns and obesity.
Studying obesity is just body shaming. It’s Lesbian obesity they’re studying.
The good thing about Chinese virus’ is that you are always well again in a couple hours.
Hah, sure…
At least these don’t love ya long time…
It’s a script. After a terrorist attack, we all get lectures about Islamophobia.
It’s not exactly an irrational fear when the primary source all comes from a particular ideology.
Beware the Amishman.
It’s a shorter trip for them to get medeival on someone.
Next time they give you that shit, give them this to do.
For you history nerds. Dan Carlin has a new episode out. 3 1/2 hours on Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great.
Sounds boring
I didn’t know she did oil exploration.
*tumbleweed*
*shrug*
Not every joke is a winner.
Ha. Well played.
Queued up. Gonna mess up my podcast listening schedule but it’s Dan.
I’m halfway through. Only thing that convinced me not to sleep through my cardio this morning.
Great song selection Sloop!
Agreed! Haven’t heard that in decades.
Greta Thunberg applies to trademark her name
It is important to maintain international merchandising rights.
How dare you!
Giving someone a Greta doll could ruin a lot of friendships or bond all the women that show up for the Iowa caucus.
*pulls string*
“You Monster!”
“Greta, show us on this anatomically correct doll of yourself where your handlers touched you.”
Is the greta pocket pussy in the works ?
The greta solar-powered fleshlight prototype has gone for rigorous testing at a secret facility.
I’m assuming it will be the butthole version. An angry, angry butthole.
Angry Angry Buttholes™ from Milton Bradley®
Panzer Leader Junior
I can’t believe product testing went well. How do you sell a sex toy that automatically screams “HOW DARE YOU!!!” when you touch it?
Mailings to the sex offender registry?
Rule 34 dude.
Is the Greta-mobile a trademark infringement?
Nice:) lol
Can public figures actually trademark their names? I know that politicians often get pilloried with goofy nick-knacks that mention them by name, which are surely unlicensed, so I’m guessing that in the US at least this is not possible. Although if not, then one would think that off-brand sports games would be a thing, if they could use athletes names without license. Can any lawyers weigh in on this?
Google says:
Are celebrity names trademarked?
Personal names can only be registered as trademarks if they have acquired what the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refers to as “secondary meaning.” … Celebrities can successfully seek trademark protection of their names to protect the financial integrity of their name as a brand.
info.legalzoom.com › can-celebrities-trademark-names-23526
To me “Greta Thunberg” means stupid kid being used by marxist movement. Maybe she has a case?
Roberts carrying water for the Dems again. Christ, what a weak little man.
Can only carry a half pint at a time?
He has principles
He can’t help it. TO get him to go along with Obamacare, they drugged him up and took pictures of him being fucked by a donkey. Every time he gets out of line they remind him those pics can go viral…
Shiff told me so.
Schiff knows things man! As the designated donkey fluffer he knows things.
He sure as hell seems to know a lot of shit that isn’t so….
Dunne said their process server first attempted to effect service at the Clinton’s house in Chappaqua Tuesday afternoon — but was turned away by Secret Service agents.
“No one is above the law.”
Why do these assholes still get Secret Service protection?
In case someone assassinates a has-been ex-president.
You do know that Hillary got the popular vote and is the rightful president in absentia. One day …
One day her parkinsons will make the charade impossible to continue.
So what do we call the American Jacobites who believe Hillary is the rightful queen?
Cuntes?
I can understand protecting the president, but once you’re out of government, you shouldn’t get any more protection.
Seems like a case where service by public notice would be acceptable.
No; she needs to be humiliated at a public appearance just like any regular non-connected defendant would be.
I’m slightly jealous of Britain. Now they can ignore all the stupid EU product rules. As a resident of the US, I am eventually subject to most of the idiotic product rules of California despite not living in the state.
No jealousy here. They’re still going full steam ahead with the authoritative surveillance state, EU or not.
When I see a garden gnome my mind sees Nadler. Or is it the other way ? Spooky to go into the garden section at Home Depot.
Is this a chicken or the egg question?
Look, the egg as a reproduction mechanism predates chickens. The first egg that hatched into a chicken was laid by a non-chicken just on the other side of whatever characteristic or genetic threshold you want to set as the outer bound of the definition of ‘chicken’.
This sounds like you are chocking some chicken brah..
You don’t need to chock them – they don’t have wheels.
choking then homes…
‘Put your flags away’: Mairead McGuinness tells off Brexit Party MEPs for waving Union Flags
It is ironic that the Irish no longer seek sovereignty.
Don’t judge the irish by the EU officials from Ireland.
Remember, the first referendum said “No” to the EU. They were then forced to vote again.
That’s how democracy works – you keep voting until the peasants get it right – then never again.
Well they are more enlightened than back in the day.
Ireland before alcohol.
She doesn’t fit the image of moralizing scold at all.
Socialist buffoon Franklin Delano Roosevelt – I though he was mostly fascist?
Socialist, Fascist, same diff.
Facialist? ???
…eeeeeewwww!!!…
‘Take it easy I’m in pre-law man’
‘I thought you were pre-med?’
‘What’s the difference?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROxvT8KKdFw
A passing grade in Organic chem.
🙁 I only took College Chem.
Stupid Physics/Calculus synergies
We’re still paying for that assholes fuck ups.
Bug, feature, whatever. The cripple commie didn’t care.
Look at what he was married to. Any number of presidents may have turned out better if the their First Ladies looked and behaved more like the current First Lady.
Get ready to eat bugs if you want to live beyond 2050
Beef won’t be what’s for dinner much longer.
https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/28/crickets-algae-lab-grown-meat-future-of-protein/
Something something living in a pod and eating bugs
Old people will reminisce about taking the family to McD’s after church
I have been hearing that since the 1970s….any day now one of these Ehrlichian Doomsayers will be right!
The Malthusian track record isn’t known for its many successful predictions.
Time will tell I suppose
But if they keep making the same predictions at some point they’ll come true!
Browns superbowl next year!
The predictions were so prescient they are still describing the future!!!
Even if they have to use government force to make themselves right, right Swiss?
The Doomsday Argument
May be a bit heavy for early in the morning.
Not covered in this video is that the same technique was used to accurately estimate Nazi materiel production from battlefield scrap because of the Teutonic orderliness fetish. The allies deliberately fubar’ed their serial numbering to avoid this.
“Zese numbers don’t even contain ze zame number ov digits!”
While the price of a lab-grown burger dropped to around $11 by 2015, growing meat at scale is still an expensive proposition. “Traditionally, a lot of the media sources [that cells live and feed on] tend to be really expensive for a few different reasons,” Krueger explained. “They usually either contain a fraction of fetal cow blood, which would make products not vegan and is also fairly expensive, or they would contain recombinant proteins: proteins that you would make in different cell lines in a largely expensive process.”
I’d be fine with lab grown beef, but not at $40/lb. Also, not sure why it needs to be vegan pure.
I could be fine with lab grown meats depending on taste and texture.
As for vegan I can see two camp – the “It’s meat and thus unacceptable” camp and “No animals were harmed in the making of this meat, so it’s ethical” camp. I suspect they’re trying to entice the second group to buy when they hit the market.
A large part of the folks on the supply side on lab-grown-meat are vegan and are engaging in public-interest engineering to make vegan options so cheap and easy that meat eaters will not notice they are going vegan.
But is labmeat vegan?
Yes. Depending on who you ask, you’ll get a few different definitions of vegan. But I don’t know of any that are opposed to meat qua meat. Its the “is murder” they have a problem with, and labmeat can be made without the “is murder” part.
My meat is vegan too. At least that is what I tell the ladies….
No.
any second now cheaper and more abundant meat over every year of my life is gonna reverse course
Who wants cake?
https://twitter.com/Notorious__BLT/status/1222642008474488839
Benny
Who ever made these obviously have a load of talent but there’s something unsettling about cake that looks like savoury food to me.
A boot is savory food to him?
Looks who’s too good to eat a boot… Back in my day if you boil it enough…
Boil?! You had water?? We had to leave it out in the sun to warm up…
/resume whittling
You had boots to eat?
Lucky. We had to make-believe we were that well off.
Make-believe? When we were kids our parents forced us into schools every day to destroy all sense of wonder and imagination.
Kids today…
You are all peasants! Back in my day we had it so good the commies ran Russia and China, and The US and Europe were market economies!
Probably also eats bugs unironically.
The real problem with that cake is the way black fondant discolors the inside of the mouth.
They back the blue.
Those are pretty cool.
“Spanish king (didn’t know they had one) Felipe VI”
You can call him Rey.
Who narrowly gazes at the narrowed gaze?
Doctor Glarehatten
The flies at the cow’s rectum?
Mirror time.
Nadless, you mendacious cunte.
House impeachment manager Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) repeatedly told the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Wednesday night that the House case was “proven beyond any doubt at all.” …
Republicans have asked that if Democrats are so confident in their case — confident enough to impeach a president for only the third time in American history — then they should allow that case to stand or fall based on the evidence collected in the House, not by adding new evidence.
Nadler added, at one point, that simply because the House Democrats had, in his view, proven their case beyond all doubt, that was not a reason to stop adding more evidence. It “doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have more proof if it comes forward,” he told the Senate.
Related.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tried to convince the Senate on Wednesday that it had to subpoena more witnesses and documents because it could not “rely on what was investigated in the House.”
Schiff’s odd argument appeared to admit that the House investigation was insufficient, even as fellow House impeachment manager Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) claimed that the impeachment case had already been “proven beyond any doubt at all.”
Schiff claimed that it would be unprecedented to hold a Senate trial without witnesses. However, he denied all Republican requests for new witnesses in the House Intelligence Committee, which he chairs — which was also unprecedented.
Schiff claimed that it would be unprecedented to hold a Senate trial without witnesses.
Could the same be said about holding a trial where the accused is not allowed to cross-examine his accuser? Huh, fucko?
It must be fucking really horrible to be this idiot.
Dual MG42s
https://twitter.com/SergePaiu/status/1222846806901567490
dual guns is only impressive when it’s unsupported. Firing two mounted weapons at once just isn’t that impressive. It’s like they’re not even trying
It’s like they don’t even Schwarzenegger.
Krautmower
Lol
Hi Sloopy!
And good morning, everyone.
Chris Simon was a shithead. He was a stain on the beautiful game.
Hilary is a punk.
Tired of Greta. This will be the last time I acknowledge her existence.
On a brighter note, Farage is awesome and that Faces song kicks ass!
Thanks for the lynx and have a rockin’ good day!
I guess I will cancel the strippers in Greta masks that I had ordered for your birthday.
“You haft stollen my fut-ture!” they all slurred together.
Gah!
*retches*
“Lets us havt the sus-tainible sex now,” she said, her father nodding in approval.
Oh gawd….
*claws at eyes*
“I shall grind un yous now whish my sallow body which is devoids of hoppe and sheckundairy seshual charactoristicks. I ANGRY GRIND!”
$10,000. Cash. In the ass.
Buying jailbait with cash from the prison wallet is a baller move!
she’s 17
AZ is 18.
Chilling video by Rebel News. Background: Ezra Levant published a book called the ‘Libranos’ showing the corruption of Trudeau. Two other books with a favourable view of Trudeau were also published at the same time. But he’s being singled out and investigated by some chick named Louise Panneton and the RCMP for publishing the book during the campaign which can be illegal.
This is called…..anyone?
Also. This is the same fricken RCMP who refuse to investigate Trudeau for crimes committed as per the Ethics Commissioner and the SNC-Lavalin affair. Bunch of clowns.
You want corruption here it is in your damn face:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V__GmSk24qw
I heard that he would love to meet with the ethics commissioner.
Bermuda Triangle shipwreck discovered nearly 100 years after it vanishe
https://nypost.com/2020/01/30/bermuda-triangle-shipwreck-discovered-nearly-100-years-after-it-vanished/
On the moon, right?
With Elvis and JFK.
and a Whale…
That headline is so wrong. It was discovered 35 years ago. Only recently was it identified.
You fools, you’ve killed us all!
Energy remains a major challenge in robotics: It takes a lot of power to run a robot’s sensors and get its limbs or propellers to move. That means bulky batteries, which add weight. And in turn, weight means it takes more power to get the thing moving. Animals, on the other hand, are inherently energy efficient—natural selection favors individuals that have surplus energy to mate and pass their genes down to the next generation.
Jellyfish happen to be not only extremely efficient swimmers, but are also devoid of a brain and pain receptors, making them ideal subjects for this research. “That’s important because it allows us to manipulate their swimming in ways that might be ethically questionable in other organisms,” says mechanical engineer John Dabiri of Stanford University and Caltech, coauthor on the paper. But might the jellies be stressed? Unlikely, since jellyfish should secrete a mucus in response to stress, and these test subjects did no such thing. “In addition, it’s reversible, so we can take out our device and the animals return to their normal functioning,” Dabiri says.
Interestingly, while the human-made pacemaker makes the jellyfish swim three times as fast, the animals only used twice as much energy to do it. So if they’re capable of moving faster, and are more efficient that way, why don’t jellyfish just swim that fast naturally? Because that hypnotic pulsing of their bell does more than propel the animal: Dabiri’s previous research has found that a jellyfish’s methodical movements create vortices that suck in prey. Muck with a jellyfish’s speed and you might muck with its ability to eat.
I, for one, look forward to our new gelatinous overlords.
What? I thought they were already here, wearing the cloak of DMV
There is always room for jello.
What else has Cosby taught you?
Roofies may work, but there will be a reckoning?
Sooo, just like a Tesla?
Dunne said their process server first attempted to effect service at Clinton’s house in Chappaqua on Tuesday afternoon — but was turned away by Secret Service agents.
The agents directed the server to Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, who on Wednesday claimed at his Washington, DC, firm, Williams & Connolly, that he was unable to accept service on Clinton’s behalf, said Dunne.
Laws are for little people.
And- why in the everloving fuck are there SS agents “protecting” that cunt?
To my understanding, Secret Service is tasked with physically protecting her. Preventing service is way outside that scope, and the agent should be charged.
Anyone near Hillary too long basically is Hillary. She eats.
Is eat even the correct verb?
By that definition, spiders and baleen whales don’t eat (no chewing)
So they suck?
Spiders suck, Baleen whales filter and swallow.
So like the swallow is the bird of true love, Baleens are the whales of true love?
She feeds.
Hillary abides.
The Douche abides?
“Eat” is a verb your human mind can comprehend.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Hillary R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
That, Sir or Madam, is an insult to Cthulhu.
The Little Sisters of The Poor could not be reached for comment.
Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330)
@JoeBiden
We need a president who respects religious freedom.
Uffda. Local man loses his NAACP card for straying off the reservation.
Comments are totes depressing.
Comments read like they’re teacher union members doing what they do.
I think I know your problem…
Another Minnpost piece brought to you by the right-wing billionaires trying to destroy public education. No, lets not do vouchers and other failed nonsense just because the Wal-mart heirs are paying for a bunch of astroturf groups to push them.
If it ain’t working why not try something different? //rhetorical
What is so awesome is that the Minnpost site is a vanity project by a bunch of local progressive journalos who felt that MPR was too right wing and needed to be balanced out.
For a little context, the author was the founder of the St Paul chapter of Black Lives Matter, and ran for office as a DFL (state version of Dems) on a platform that included a plank to raise the minimum wage.
There is absolutely a fissure under the surface between White Progressive Suburban Right Thinkers and black families stuck in shitty schools. And this is another glimpse at it.
LOLOLOL
From a comment:
I love it. “To begin with, my widgets don’t fail. There are no low-performing widgets. There ARE customers with numerous, sometime far too many, low-performing bridges that use my widgets.”
“To begin with, tax returns don’t fail. There are no low-performing tax returns. There ARE tax returns with numerous, sometimes far to numerous, low-performing entries.”
Why can’t it be both?
100 bucks says he’s from Highland Park.
Relevant
Comments are totes depressing.
But not at all surprising for a proggie shithole.
While that’s a worthy goal
It’s actually not, even if well intentioned. Any credential that can be earned by 100% of people is of no value, so seeking a 100% graduation rate is really seeking to devalue the degree to worthlessness.
It’s very progressive to fight against change.
“Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday released a plan to fight disinformation and to hold tech companies accountable for their actions in light of the 2016 election.
“Disinformation and online foreign interference erode our democracy, and Donald Trump has invited both,” Warren said in a Tweet Wednesday. “Anyone who seeks to challenge and defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election must be fully prepared to take this on – and I’ve got a plan to do it.”
Warren proposed to combat disinformation by holding big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google responsible for spreading misinformation designed to suppress voters from turning out.
“I will push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties for knowingly disseminating this kind of information, which has the explicit purpose of undermining the basic right to vote,” Warren said in a release.
Warren, who has been an advocate for breaking up big tech companies like Amazon and Facebook, has said that she wants to make “big structural changes to the tech sector to promote more competition.” It’s part of a broader policy to stop disinformation, requiring tech companies and the government to come together to solve the problem.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/29/warren-proposes-criminal-penalties-for-spreading-disinformation-online.html
What could possibly go wrong?
Straight-up totalitarian. The government determines the narrative and you will not stray from it.
Can’t have the unwashed masses get facts and make up their own minds dude. That’s gonna make selling the collectivist totalitarian state these evil fucks peddle nearly impossible.
Good thing I refreshed. Was about to post this.
She want to control your speech (and every other facet of your life) but Bad Orange Man is a fascist.
They’re not fascist, they’re socialists, completely different. One only wants to control the corporations, the other wants to control the people. Can’t you understand how different that is!
Socialist, sociopath…a distinction without a difference.
Only voter suppression disinformation bigots. Ha libertarians admit they practice disinformation thats why they oppose a ban. I we eliminate disinformation we can have Tru Democracy.
Well if it works, DU will generate enough fines to pay off the national debt all by itself.
Wait, what? You are saying that Democratic Underground won’t be held to these standards? Why not? If it was a law, everyone would have to abide by it, right?
Thunberg said trademark protection is needed because her name and that of the movement “are constantly being used for commercial purposes without any consent whatsoever.”
“It happens, for instance, in marketing, selling of products and people collecting money in my and the movement’s name,” she wrote.
——-
“Fridays For Future is a global movement founded by me,” Thunberg said. “It belongs to anyone taking part in it, above all the young people. It can – and must — not be used for individual or commercial purposes.”
Radical individualist capitalism is verboten.
Step 1: say some pretty heinous shit
Step 2: “oh look I triggered some snowflakes”
Step 3: “look at all these misogynists determined to silence me because I’m a woman”
This is an absolute classic Twitter move which must be effective since people never get sick of trying it
https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1222823615327899649
our Intellectual Betters continue to be indistinguishable from 12 year olds. Its why Trumps 12 year old style of insults works so well.
I don’t know who any of those people are or what any of that means.
I tell ya, Klo-mentum is real! Special K now has her very own problem with black activists just like any other top tier campaign.
And she hit 10% in one poll in Iowa! 10%!!!!!!!!
There are people that really feel this sort of shit is totes cool man.
At this point she’s running for VP.
Biden may be interested. On the plus side, Biden would probably avoid groping her if she was VP (unlike VP Kamala Harris).
Given her reputation, he’d probably lose a hand.
And the race is over! Special K woos Iowegians with hot dish.
Let me tell you. Nothing makes me prouder to be a Minnesodan than to have the NYT patiently explain what hotdish is. It is like having Don Lemon give you a shout out on CNN.
BTW, is taconite another word that is known by every Minnesodan, but no one else? I had assumed that everyone knew what it was, but if the NYT has to explain it, maybe the rest of you rubes don’t?
You fuckers do meat raffles man. I am not sure what insanity infects y’all.
Tread lightly Alex. Meat raffles are sacred thing and are not to be mocked.
*buys ticket*
That sounds like a good idea if the ticket price is low enough.
Better chances than the Powerball.
All the same dumb thinking that goes into the Powerball lottery is displayed at the micro level during a meat raffle. Tickets are usually pretty cheap, but there are lots of them. And the people in the bar buying them aren’t using the best judgement.
Usually you buy at least a couple just to keep the peace. You don’t want to be the cheap jerk who didn’t chip in. Especially if you are a stranger in the bar.
There is always some yahoo who buys a ton of tickets thinking he’s going to win all the meat and it will be a terrific investment. That guy usually is about 10 beers into it though.
Even so, if there are 5-10 prizes and say 300 tickets, that’s better odds than the lotto.
Hillary’s chances of becoming president are better than the odds of winning the lotto.
I was picturing a casserole with sour cream on top and nacho chips sticking out of it.
She puts rocks in her tater tots?
I was willing to consider it when I thought she was using a folksy “kuntry” spelling of “Taco Night” indicating she put chili powder in it, but I don’t feel like damaging my teeth.
Taconite pellets used to dribble from rail hopper cars in my neighborhood in Penna. and they made the best slingshot missiles ever.
I’ve never heard of it and I suffered through a rock fetish all through high school.
Taconite pellets are awesome. As a kid, I would walk the railroad and pick them up. Excellent sling shot ammo.
Your favorite horror director gets to remake a Disney film. Go.
https://twitter.com/salemhorrorfest/status/1222169976540401664
Eli Roth
@eliroth
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Jan 29
Replying to
@salemhorrorfest
I already remake Pinocchio. I just called it Hostel.
Disney films are already horror movies. Why remake them?
John Carpenter’s The Parent Trap
David Cronenberg’s Tron
Wes Craven’s Holes
Little Mermaid as well for Cronenberg. Gynecological Tools For Mermaid Women.
They seem better suited for porn.
Jordan Peele’s the Song of the South.
That might actually be really interesting, or at least mind-bendingly weird.
Dario Argento’s Beauty & the Beast
/semi-serious answer
Crash remade as a Cars sequel.
I figured you would go for something like Little Mermaid as a Human Centipede sequel.
One of the ineffable mysteries of the Progressive Church is how you square your demand to make sure elections aren’t being tampered with (by Russians) with your claim that requiring voter ID is racist.
Writer for local rag goes on and on about how Voter ID was voted down 7 years ago and how dare the GOP try to bring it back up again. And of course they use the fact that there were only 11 convictions for voter fraud so you needn’t worry about it.
Election tampering happens. That’s how team blue wins. And they then decided the best way to take down an opponent was to accuse THEM of doing it. See everything they have accused orange man of doing. It is one of them doing that shit.
It’s easy to say there’s no fraud when you’re not looking for it. From my experience in investigations whenever we find something that has been overlooked you open a can of worms when you start digging into it.
Voter ID would likely mean an end to having swathes of dead people and non-citizens mysteriously registered and voting D?
Also would stop lots of progressive college students from Wisconsin voting for Al Franken while they attend The U of M. Pretty good evidence that that alone gave Franken the edge in his Senate race.
I might stop voting for Democrats in California elections (left there in 1994).
“It’s racist to think black or Hispanic people have the same individual ability to procure a state-issued ID. We know they’re not smart enough to take care of that simple step.”
-space between the lines of DNC platform
deliberately puts more one more hurdle between poor people and the ballot box. Low-income folks, people of color, and the elderly are all statistically less likely to have current IDs, and getting one
This argument is horseshit when applied to voting. Interestingly it is quite apt when applied to firearms regulation, which hurts poor/minorities the most.
Can’t even buy real decongestants without a license or ID.
Voter ID might deter some fraud, but anyone can go on to a Chinese website and purchase a working ID for any state of their choosing.
“There are very few rape convictions, therefore rape is very rare.”
Learn to think, idiots.
A Faces gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZfJIC_ACl4
That’s going to buy a lot of meth!
Winning $396.9 million Powerball ticket sold in Florida
*sigh*
You couldn’t have waited until I found out I lost again when I checked?
Guess my retirement is still postponed.
I did buy mine at a 7/11 in Florida, but other side of the state. 🙁
Enough with the Kobe nonsense! Let’s talk about Chris Doleman. I realize brain cancer isn’t as sexy as a helicopter crash, but Doleman was every bit the jerk onfield that Kobe was.
What was funny (in a Viking fan way) was that for years we had to watch Doleman play for his individual stats only. I can’t tell you how many times teams gashed the Vikes for big gains by running a sweep Doleman’s way because they knew he’d be crashing in hoping to get a sack. Just as he was finally learning how to play team defense the Vikes go ahead and trade him.
I do have to say there was a year or two when Doleman and Keith Millard were insanely good playing next to each other.
A combined 39 sacks is pretty damn good.
Just the ad you want to see during the big game.
Michael Bloomberg released his :60 Super Bowl ad on Thursday morning, and the spot focuses on his gun control efforts as the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety.
The ad, titled “George,” talks about 20-year old George Kemp, Jr. who was shot and killed in Texas in 2013. Kemp’s mother, Calandrian Simpson Kemp, describes the pain of losing her child, before the ad transitions to pictures of Bloomberg at a Mayors Against Illegal Guns podium as Kemp says that Bloomberg “heard mothers crying, so he started fighting.”
Kemp goes on to say that Bloomberg isn’t “afraid of the gun lobby… they’re afraid of him,” portraying the fight as one between the valiant billionaire and some amorphous “gun lobby,” as opposed to Bloomberg’s billions versus the millions of law-abiding gun owners he wants to turn into felons or unarmed subjects. If Bloomberg is really serious about tackling “gun violence,” you’d think he’d want criminals to be afraid of him, not the nation’s legal gun owners.
Are Mike’s armed bodyguards visible around him when he’s at the podium bloviating about how we don’t need firearms?
So, who here thinks that this request will somehow make anyone change their minds about the fact that the shitshow in the senate is simply a sham to hide the corruption of team blue that happened during Obama’s tenure?
I don’t get it. These megajumbo lottery prizes, that is. I won’t pretend I don’t know they just want to separate the unwashed ignorati from their welfare checks, but why not have 400 one million dollar prizes instead of a single 400 million dollar winner? It’s not like a measly million bucks isn’t enough to effectively destroy the lives of the winner and its family and bring ruination and despair upon them.
I could manage to squeak by on a million dollar pot for a year or two.
While both values are an extraordinary amount of money for the average player, you don’t draw people to buying more tickets with small prizes. The one really big number gets more funds in the coffers than having a lot of little pots. So you wouldn’t be able to fund a lot of little pots without cutting into the profits.
Psychology of the mob, man.
“but why not have 400 one million dollar prizes instead of a single 400 million dollar winner?”
They sell those too.
BAZINGA!
As one would expect, the comments are retarded.
gun control activist that hoaxed a death threat on January 25th used clipart that’s been on his wife’s Amazon wish list since January 20th.
https://apelbaum.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/joseph-sakran-the-arab-gun-control-activis-4.jpg
and Post Milennial contacted the Fairfax County PD who said nope, he didn’t file the threat with us. nor did we tell him to delete his tweets like he’s claiming.
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/did-an-anti-gun-activist-stage-a-death-threat-for-twitter/
Law enforcement playbook says to NOT go public when you get a death threat. So basically, any social media announcements of threats is a hoax, or known to not be a serious threat.
Are you surprised it was another faked incident?
^sister, not wife
Not mutually exclusive in this case.
Maybe his wife wants him dead.
It’s easy to say there’s no fraud when you’re not looking for it. From my experience in investigations whenever we find something that has been overlooked you open a can of worms when you start digging into it.
“Don’t look under the rug.”
While both values are an extraordinary amount of money for the average player, you don’t draw people to buying more tickets with small prizes. The one really big number gets more funds in the coffers than having a lot of little pots. So you wouldn’t be able to fund a lot of little pots without cutting into the profits.
I’m not convinced that’s true. Maybe it is. The news coverage and hype are certainly bigger. Most lottery players seem to be doing it as mechanically as Bf Skinner’s pigeons, and the (infinitesimal) odds of winning a good-sized pot are higher.
The people who are always buying are not going to change their behaviour, so you can ignore them for the purposes of figuring out which payout schmema to use. It’s the people who buy when the prize “gets big” that flock in. One big prize draws more people than just the skinner birds.
It’s the people who buy when the prize “gets big” that flock in.
This. I personally know some people who will only buy a lotto ticket when the prize closes in on $1B.
Me for one. The lottery is a scam, the payouts do not match the odds, hell, even the the massive front page news payouts don’t usually hit parity with the odds when you factor in the brutal taxes you’ll pay, but when the after tax cash payout gets into the hundreds of millions I usually throw in my $10 just for a couple days of fantasizing about the 9 figure lifestyle.
Does anyone know how to force the desktop version of a website on a desktop? I just keep finding articles on how to force a desktop version on a phone.
Remove “m.” from the URL if present.
Thanks, but that’s not it. I tried a couple of different browsers, so it’s not the user agent either.
Then it sounds like the site was coded wrong.
Or it could be checking if scripts can be run. I’ve had a couple sites default to mobile if NoScript is active.
That’s backwards. They should be defaulting the to desktop site.
/anti-mobile browsing activist
Most of the older mobile browsers couldn’t run scripting at all, so rather then serve them a site that was unusable, it would send a mobile site in case scripts couldn’t run.
/anti requiring scripts for a site to have basic functionality.
For Pie:
Romanian health care is terrible and kills everyone
Bonus chart seeming to suggest that lack of spending and not, you know, the corruption mentioned in the headline is somehow responsible.
The answer is always “MOAR MONEY!” with these people…
I should have RTFA before posting. It isn’t just the chart, they explicitly say it’s lack of funding. In the same breath, they say what money that has been allocated is wasted through corruption & graft.
So let me make sure I follow: when we spend money it gets wasted because our bureaucrats are all somehow more corrupt and immoral than the bureaucrats in other Euro healthcare systems, therefore we should spend more money.
It looks like the fucking Obama people that were tasked with exacting revenge on Flynn – for daring to tell the truth about how corrupt and stupid the Obama deal with Iran was, and how it would provide neither security nor prevent Iran from getting a nuke – now feel that they are no longer able to hide that going after Flynn is all political revenge and the charges are fabricated, and it is time to run for cover…
offering him no jail time to just go away.
“somebody doesn’t want discovery”
Flynn *should* fight this to the death to clear his name. but will he?
Unfortunately he is paying for his own defense and broke. Someone should start a gofund me for him to go after these fucks.
his former legal team will cover the cost:
https://twitter.com/_Gabbers_/status/1222704694503641088/photo/1
Speaking of websites, who thought this was good?
https://knewz.com/
I prefer this one…
That’s not nearly as ugly.
Waddabout this one
Still not as bad.
I find Mike Bloomberg’s campaign strategy wonderfully baffling. Mmm… Big Gay ice cream is the best!
How do you make ice cream gay? Or should I be asking how you make gay ice cream? HEPL!
I just assumed it was B&J’s
The flavors like “Double Nut Cream Explosion!” You’ll eat it so fast, you’ll have nuts on your chin!
It’s really very good ice cream. I’d love a franchise here. The Salty Pimp cone is delicious.
Is a pimp’s cone the same as a straight’s?
Of course not.
But I do want you to know, Jimbo, that you will always be my bottom bitch.
*struts around preening*
Methings that your holiness didn’t get that this made you erm…
Never mind.
Who’s been hit by more balls on the chin?
Yogi Bera or Rock Hudson?
Two scoops and turn the cone upside down.
It’s Chinese. Ice Cream of Sumyunguy.
How do you make ice cream gay?
1) Chocolate only
2) Served out of a Twinks ass instead of a traditional soft serve machine
Tutti Frutti is much gayer than chocolate. And don’t even get started with Rainbow Sherbet.
You figure out how to keep the tutti frutti coming out of some dude’s ass the right color and I’m happy to switch over.
Is this close enough for you? (SFW) It’s a unicorn, not a dude, but it still works IMO.
So was Bolton lying then or now? Or both?
The last one.
Could it be that Bolton and his publisher think that a timely leak will get a ton of lefties to buy his book? People who would never buy anything from Bolton?
Study: Global Warming Will Cause 180,000 More Rapes by 2099
Steve Smith likes it hot?
More rapefugees.
The UN is involved?
Over 90 years. What a fucking joke. Even if you assume, and you would have to be brain-damaged to do so, that this projection has some validity, the annual increase is decimal dust.
Ai, caramba
Flatiron Books, publisher of the controversial new novel American Dirt, has cancelled the remainder of author Jeanine Cummins’ book tour after what it called “specific threats to booksellers and the author.” This follows several individual event cancellations.
Cummins received a hefty advance and a big promotional push for American Dirt, which follows a Mexican mother and son fleeing drug cartel violence. Oprah Winfrey picked it for her book club, and prominent authors showered it with praise. But critics have called the book inaccurate and full of harmful stereotypes, and questioned whether Cummins was the right person to tell that story. (Despite the controversy — or because of it — the book is selling well; it’s currently #1 on Amazon’s charts.)
In a statement, Bob Miller, the president of Flatiron Books, said the publisher is proud to have published American Dirt, and was “therefore surprised by the anger that has emerged from members of the Latinx and publishing communities.”
But, he added, “the fact that we were surprised is indicative of a problem, which is that in positioning this novel, we failed to acknowledge our own limits. The discussion around this book has exposed deep inadequacies in how we at Flatiron Books address issues of representation, both in the books we publish and in the teams that work on them.”
Slumping off into decay and despair.
Timidity and self-loathing; it’s what’s for dinner.
Why… why would the author agree to this?
“You’re contracted to make whatever publicity stops we organize. Do it or you’re in breach of contract”
Marshawn Lynch was subject to the same kind of clauses…
Because she desperately needs the affirmation of her peer group and doesn’t have the moral spine to realize that she shouldn’t.
Yeah, this is the real fear. No wait, it isn’t. Maybe it’s, you know, people really being concerned with being infected.
The article is concerned with xenophobia because a lot of people are staying away from China town Chinese New Year celebrations, but while there could be a tinge of that it’s also not an unreasonable move, considering that there is a large overlap between the people most likely to visit China and the people most likely to attend such an event in the states, so those celebrations probably will be the greatest source of infection in the US, considering people can have the virus asymptomatically.
is this a new revelation? is it even real? it’s not surprising but it’s a leaked email from Flynn’s former legal team that was wholly inadequate and possibly quite corrupt.
https://twitter.com/PaulGavigan4/status/1222696164274900998/photo/1
Miller said “we wish to listen, learn and do better,” but called for “a two-way dialogue characterized by respect,” saying that “while there are valid criticisms around our promotion of this book that is no excuse for the fact that in some cases there have been threats of physical violence. We join with those in the Latinx community and others who have spoken out against such violence.”
Flatiron will replace the remainder of the book tour with a series of town halls where Cummins will meet with critics of the book.
Will he arrive at those town halls naked, crawling on his hands and knees while being pelted with horse apples and cobblestones?
Will there be a grand finale, at which he is burned at the stake as punishment for his heresies?
SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
I am loooooving the fact that the EU can’t stand that Brexit is finally happening. They want to pretend “We Eurosnobs didn’t ever need you island mutts to begin with” but they’re actually quaking in their boots.
I recall seeing a commercial when I was in Sweden that showed a bunch of executives at a conference table looking at a flipchart that a lady was pointing to, showing a couple of strawberries. The first strawberry was one of those big multilobed ones that is just as tasty as any other, but she whacked it with her pointer and shook her head in an emphatic NO. Then she pointed to a “normal” ideal strawberry shape with only one lobe and smiled and nodded approvingly. I remarked to my fellow watcher, a member of an EU nation, that it was a hilarious exaggeration of EU regulations, and he said, no, sadly, that is the actual rule. So if you have non-ideal shaped fruit (the curve of the banana is regulated–I shit you not), you can’t sell to the rest of the EU. Thus tons (tonnes?) of produce are destroyed every year in Britain.
I can’t wait for Brexit to show the world we don’t have to live in a One World Government. Unfortunately, there are going to be both overt and covert attempts to sink Britain for the crime of breaking up with their toxic girlfriend, the EU.
But, I like the comically oversized multilobed strawberries.
They make the best evah chocolate dipped ones too!
Ze peasant will eat what ze overlord decrees or ze peasant will not eat!
Now the EU is going to have a far harder time keeping the Poles, Hungarians, and Czechs in line.
Time for an Exit Pole, Czechout and…. umm… I need to come up with one for Hungary.
Hungrymoval.
Hunger-strike?
Hungry for Freedom
If the Czech Republic applied for statehood, I’d write to my congressweasels to support it.
Seconded.
The Czechs are OK on guns.
They’re already soliciting the Albanians and Macedonians in an effort to shore up their membership.
It’s laughable.
The EU is toast. They just don’t know it yet.
The sick man of Europe is Europe.
At least they can slather the toast in UK original fig preserves spread instead of having to use the bland, seed-free, chemical laden EU blessed stuff.
When I saw that the cost of pork tenderloin that was EU sanctioned in Sweden was roughly twice that of the identical looking and (IMHO) better tasting imports from the Baltic States, I always bought Estonian/Latvian pork thereafter.
And somehow I survived.
That woman scolding Farage and friends for waving their national flag… that was so telling.
“Well, you’re not laughing now.”
Well, the Irish have never been big fans of English sovereignty.
Like I said, the toxic ex-girlfriend.
The first strawberry was one of those big multilobed ones that is just as tasty as any other, but she whacked it with her pointer and shook her head in an emphatic NO.
So what she’s saying is, size matters?
I’ve taken a ration of shit from y’all about my Tesla car. So allow me to gloat about the $645 share price today. I bought $30k worth of TSLA stock at $260 when I bought the car in 2018.
Who’s overvaluing the stock? Because I’ve heard no good news about their production capacity, working conditions, solar installation fires, autopilot crashes, and management churn.
The hopes and dreams of IFLS’ers
Short sellers are losing billions and exaggerating any snafus. Some got caught red-handed making false reports last week of malfunctioning auto-acceleration, etc.
The rise of price came about because the model Y is now in full production, and the Chinese gigafactory is coming online. The German gigafactory has broken ground.
Think about it: Net worth of Tesla is more than the worth of Ford and GM COMBINED! And do you ever see a Tesla commercial? No! Because if you want one, you just go get it.
It ain’t about the environment–it’s about a great driving experience.
I don’t count market cap in net worth of a company. That can evaporate in a blink. The actual nuts, bolts, assets and liabilities numbers are more telling. I don’t see any commercials, so that isn’t a factor. But I also don’t see any TESLAS on the road.
The ability to actually deliver on their production promises has been long lacking, and the gigafactories seem to only tell me that they’re grifting another injection of government cash to keep the books floating. That does not scream “1/3rd amazon share price” to me.
I never see any either, but I can’t wait to see a Model Y with 7 people crammed in on the inside.
I was startled but not surprised to see that Amazon was at $2,200 a share. But that’s only because I have a hard time finding people who don’t do at least some business with them.
I see 2 dozen at LEAST per day, including luxury models. But I live in SoCal where solar charging makes a ton of sense.
I see a bunch of them here in Southeast PA.
I was about to make a joke about them still charging somewhere in Arizona on the migration eastward. But you ruined the timing window.
I see probably 2 or 3 a day in Tucson, but not very often outside the vicinity of the hospital, so at least some of them are owned by docs.
Like I said, a viable niche car, although I don’t think it would be my choice if I was going to buy an electric, but I haven’t researched it since I’m not planning to.
I’d be curious to see an evenhanded assessment of solar charging costs (ex tax subsidy) v. gas costs. Interesting convo with a neighbor about his experience with solar. Roof-top solar is an invitation to having to spend a crap load on your roof if there are any problems at all. And the useful life of (at least somewhat older-tech) solar panels is really around 10 – 12 years. You can replace the backing on them, but that’s not all that much cheaper than just replacing them. His take: probably a savings of around 10 – 20% on electrical costs, with the subsidy, and ignoring the extra cost he incurred for roofing repairs. YM, naturally, MV.
I think solar tech is going to improve to the point where it is a more viable alternative for more people, but we are again faced with a scaling problem for it to be more than single digits of total electrical output, absent something truly revolutionary. In the right environment, with the right subsidies, though, it can make sense on an individual basis. But there are hidden and deferred costs, even with the subsidy. I’ve looked at it (Tucson is a nearly ideal environment), and just can’t get myself there even though I would dearly love to not be grid-dependent.
We already know what happens once solar and electric cars reach a certain point. where middle class people start seriously considering purchases. The grievance mongers will come out of the woodwork and cry about the poor people who live in apartments and can’t take advantage of solar installations and can’t plug their cars in on the street and these people aren’t causing any sprawl and the government must DO SOMETHING about this inequality. Eventually the solar and electric car people will be the enemies of the poor and will get taxed until they bleed rectally.
Friend of the environment today, enemy of the people tomorrow.
It won’t ever get there. If solar/batteries ever becomes economically viable, the ecological damage of its manufacture will suddenly be an issue and it will be attacked from that front.
Friend of the environment today, enemy of the people tomorrow.
Diesels say hi!
But I also don’t see any TESLAS on the road.
Theyre all here. I drive by dozens of them each way on my commute. It’s a luxury toy and demand will dry up as soon as our decadal economic boom comes to a screeching halt.
That said, I’m not anti electric. I personally drive a hybrid because the pure electric doesn’t appeal to me for a primary vehicle.
I’d like to see development in the series hybrid tech field. These parallel hybrids are fine, but I think that series is where you could find better fuel economy (and increased reliability)
I still freak out when my car ‘stalls’ at a red light because it shut off the gas engine due to waiting.
Net worth of Tesla is more than the worth of Ford and GM COMBINED!
Its overvalued. Compare the operating margins of Tesla (which was negative in 2019) to Ford and GM (which were positive). Tesla’s last quarter was positive, but one quarter of actual profits doesn’t really justify a massive market cap. A lesson learned in the tech crash, but since forgotten.
And yes, stocks are supposed to be valued based on projections. But Tesla’s growth has some hard caps, too, in the form of electrical capacity and capability.
I’m not a hater, BTW. I think electric cars have a niche, although I’m not a big fan of Tesla’s single-point-of-failure electronics setup. Hell, I’d be a good candidate for an electric based on my driving patterns, as long as I had a gas car for our periodic long trips.
Congrats on your gains. Probably a good time to sell half and let the rest ride.
Congrats on your gains. Probably a good time to sell half and let the rest ride.
Yes.
Apparently they are ahead of production on the Model Y.
I have my doubts, but it could be true.
Whereas I’m long the car and specifically won’t invest in the stock. I probably should have some kind of short position.
If Tesla folds I have $50k car sized paperweight if I have any problems or need parts or need warranty service. Tesla is mostly not serviceable by any independents.
That said I most certainly want them to succeed. Obviously without subsidy…
OT: Enjoy NJ Taxpayers. You may be paying for a charger for me.
I suggest not shorting anything as long as the Fed is inflating its balance sheet.
BTW, Thomas Massie is a huge Tesla enthusiast and tinkerer. He has taken a few Model S salvage cars and done a bunch of DIY projects you can find on YouTube.
And that lovable congressman also has a “Friend of Coal” license plate on his personally driven Tesla.
Even if Tesla service folds its doors, someone will fill the void.
I wish you well, but that price is ridiculously unsustainable. The Market cap right now is higher than Ford and GM combined and higher than their peak values. If Tesla wins out, becomes profitable and grabs the dominant market share in the auto market it still won’t justify that price.
I don’t expect it to stay above 500 either, but I got in early enough and I’m not retiring for 20 more years so I’m Zen about the whole thing.
Even if it goes bust.
Have you thought about selling some to lock in gains?
eah, kinda. Probably will sell about half if i see a tasty prospect. Or could just park it in a Vanguard fund and wait.
Are you a trader or an investor? One or two of my mutual funds have TSLA so I let them spread the trading risk while I invest in individual stocks
Investor. I took good advice a couple of decades ago: Don’t read all the hype and try to be a “smart” investor to flip stocks for profit. Look around your immediate area: Do you see more of a certain company’s commercial trucks on the roads suddenly? Did you find a product that really appeals to you personally? THAT’s what to buy into. Something you believe in. Invest in something to help it (and your portfolio) grow, not to gamble.
I did that with Iron Mountain (now the number 1 commercial paper shredding/classified document destruction company in the US), Chateau St Michelle winery in Washington State (it’s now EVERYWHERE in hotels, airports, major restaurant chains), and a few others, like La Quinta. Glad I took profit in that one at the right time.
The only “betting” one was with Reynolds tobacco. They got sued for BILLIONS and lost nearly everything overnight in share price. I knew it was panic, so I bought a bunch, and then inevitably, the verdict was changed to a much more reasonable fee, and everyone kept smoking, as I knew they would. Flipped the stock and moved on.
Nice!
uber eats is sending stupid advertising email. Brr on this cold weather order with uber eats. WHAT COLD WEATHER? there aint none. It is expected to be 15 real degrees next week.
Real degrees. What, Kelvin? You’re going to need to wear layers…
He means degrees-Commie. I prefer my measurements in degrees-Freedom.
AMEN!
no one needs 32 degrees for freezing water
Thar’s your problem, you set your thermostat to hydrocentric and not anthropocentric.
the whole Fahrenheit being anthropocentric is horseshit, I assume you people are trolling me with that shit and do not actually believe it.
At zero it feels cold, at one hundred it feels hot, at fifty it’s perfect.
How’s it not anthropocentric?
it is equally arbitrary numbers as any other one. 0 is cold 30 is to warm 20 is perfect.
and aint no way 10 is perfect
The whole topic is fetishism. There is no real advantage to one system over the other; they are all inherently arbitrary.
Ours is better though, because it is not French. The rule on this is simple. Do you eat or drink the thing? No? Then the French version is worse.
I don’t know, I’ve had Michelin tires that were pretty good.
Oh, and 30 is a funky number, not good for the end of a scale.
it is equally arbitrary numbers as any other one.
Every measurement system is arbitrary.
Jennifer Rubin – the conservatism is fake, the stupidity is real.
Jesus Christ. That’s a hell of a self-own. What a moron.
OrangeManBad is all you need to know.
A few weeks ago, after the attack on the American embassy in Iraq, she was tweeting about how spineless the Trump Administration is for not responding. Then Soleimani gets whacked and she’s screaming that Trump the reckless madman has just started WW III. All in the span of a day or so.
Thot Thursday has a 1 in 20 chance of colliding with a satellite.
http://archive.is/yqb91
Larry Lessig, chattering class extraordinaire who is a Very Serious Person and Very Concerned About Freedom on the Internet, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the NYT.
You may assume hearty belly laughs are coming from my direction
Constitution, schmonstitution
Now the shoe is often on the other foot. The Trump administration announces a policy that is anathema to Democrats, a liberal litigant files a lawsuit, and a judge somewhere in the country issues a nationwide injunction blocking that policy.
It’s working in Democrats’ favor — for now. But in the long term, nationwide injunctions are likely to be a much bigger thorn in the side of Democratic presidents than they are for Republican presidents. The Supreme Court, after all, is controlled by Republicans. So liberal nationwide injunctions tend to be wiped away quickly, while conservative injunctions may last forever.
It’s also likely that Republican litigants will have a much easier time finding judges willing to block Democratic policies. Trump, after all, has filled the federal court with deeply ideological judges. And a party seeking a nationwide injunction may need to find only a single judge willing to hand down such an order.
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All of which is a long way to say that Republican presidents typically will only face temporary roadblocks from lower court orders. Democratic presidents, meanwhile, could see their entire agenda sabotaged by nationwide injunctions.
Vox wants you to know. Might makes right. The end justifies the means. It’s all about political victories and the social justice agenda, not adherence to the legal framework established at the creation of the national government.
How can we ram our righteous new world order down America’s throat if those dumb old Rethuglitards can just go to court and jam a big stick in our spokes?
Think about it: Net worth of Tesla is more than the worth of Ford and GM COMBINED! And do you ever see a Tesla commercial? No! Because if you want one, you just go get it.
It ain’t about the environment–it’s about a great driving experience.
Last summer, when I was headed to Indianapolis, I was passed on the highway (somewhere around Lodge Grass, Montana) by a Tesla doing about 90mph. Later that same afternoon, I passed that same Tesla in western Wyoming. I was still doing 85 in my Honda, and he was doing about 60. I think his WonderCar might have gone into range recalculation mode. What a great driving experience that must have been.
Or he got nabbed in a speed trap because someone driving an expensive car like that will just pay the fines.
Speed traps are rare in west Wyoming and the limit is 80. It’s a big part of why I take vacations there 🙂
I’ve never managed to get farther west than the Fort Worth-Fargo line. I was throwing out a hypothesis about why the driver might have changed behaviour.
Or the car might have changed drivers, swapping with a passenger. *shrug* Too many unknowns to know.
I won’t try to vouch for the stupidity / cleverness / desire of fast vs. leisurely drive of any other Tesla owner, but mine has never let me down. And my hubby took it out to LA to hang with friends for a weekend and coasted home with only 30 miles left, but no loss in velocity. He did notice a slight loss in acceleration.
It’s an awesome second car and it can be fun to take on a trip because of the novelty and adventure. It requires planning on long trips that most certainly isn’t for everyone.
In a cold climate or states without lots of superchargers I wouldn’t own it as my primary vehicle. And in CA during Thanksgiving the lines at the superchargers reinforce that opinion at least for right now.
That is very true. I would never have considered one in Minnesota. But SoCal is perfect for it, especially if you have solar on the roof. My car payment is the same as my former Ford Expedition gas bill in California.
It’s a common misconception that you can only charge at a Supercharging station. You can charge off any 120V outlet; just takes longer. I have a Tesla charger at home (240V, 48 A) that runs off the solar, but I keep the 120V adaptor and an extension cord in the “frunk” in case I am stuck w/o a faster charger.
California gas prices are a criminal act of excise taxation.
Yup. And after sanctimoniously lecturing Californians to go electric, after a bunch of us did so, they panicked because gas tax revenues dropped.
So my first year tab purchase on the Tesla was about $200, but 2019 renewal was $750. Who knows what it will be in 2020?
One of many reasons that monetary “penalties” are a terrible idea for “correcting” behavior.
Government is the master of bait and switch.
Mileage would be the fairest way, but…
*looks around nervously*
Gotta go!
Would mileage really be the smartest way? Perhaps excise taxes on tires (dependent on wear rating) would be just as fair and shitloads simpler.
California’s gas tax is back to being number one. Either California raised its tax or Pennsylvania lowered its. I’m not sure which and I’m not going to look it up.
Ours sure as shit haven’t gone down, so I’m assuming California raised theirs.
I smile every time I put 2.40$ a gallon gas in my Kia,
I’ll take a Picture of Solar One Nevada, and you can see what a real solar plant looks like,
YUUUGE! and Shiny…
Solar’s fine, where it works,
Below about 10F or so – you can’t warm the pack enough to get it to accept any additional charge at 120V.
OT – I charge my AWD on 240V at 80% of 50A (i.e 40A) rate per NEC in an unheated garage. Each motor is stalled to produce heat and takes almost 13A at 240V. On a really cold day I may have to warm for 20 to 30 minutes before I can begin to get a charge into the pack. I also keep a 120V cord in the car. For this car to be lived with you need a 240V 20A circuit.
Tesla batts, like those we use in the military vehicles, have built-in heating elements.
Model S and X.
Model 3 – and part of the reason I love ’em, saved money, weight and complexity and uses the drive units to heat the pack. It intentionally stalls the motors to generate “waste” heat and puts it into the coolant and into the pack.
They really do think outside the box!
The latest diversity numbers in book publishing were released this morning. Figures show the industry is JUST AS WHITE as it was four years ago. This study includes 153 book publishers & agencies, including The Big 5 publishers, which control nearly 80 % of the market. @LEEandLOW
https://twitter.com/LATBermudez/status/1222194945332613121
Seems to me chicks is overrepresented. Also compared to general society his does not seem off intersectionally speaking.
Yes, publishing is substantially the domain of upper class white women.
If you’d ever tried to read in Ebonics, you’d know why publishing so white.
I find the italics word telling.
Also, it is very sad that these minority authors have no channel to bring their books to a public with a large pent-up demand not being met by sclerotic, legacy publishing houses.
Writers demanded more representation in the book industry
“Y’all motherfuckers need to fire a bunch of white people for being white, and hire a bunch of POCs for being POCs. Oh, and get rid of some the hetero people for being hetero, and hire some QWERTYs for being QWERTY.”
Although I doubt that QWERTYs are underrepresented in publishing.
They be discriminatin against the DVORAKS!
You can’t discriminate against… wait, are Czechs white today?
I think the LGBTQ folk have a cultural appropriation beef. White women who want to fantasize about rape, but keep their metoo cred read and write rapey gay
pornromances.Oh, they can publish independantly, but that takes effort. They want the validation of being picked up by the tradpub gatekeepers without having to schmooze the right women first. (I do not contend there is any merit involved given what they’ve accepted)
A Tesla is a niche product, with a narrow target market. I am reminded of something I heard a long time ago: What happens when everybody who wants a Hummer has one?
As far as market cap goes, Ferrari is probably the most rational comparison.
People are going to buy lottery tickets, and they are going to buy stock in companies like Tesla.
Same happened to Medtronics: when they came out with the ICDU (implantable cardiac defibrillator unit), they sold like hotcakes to all the people who wanted/needed one. Medtronic thought it would go on forever.
But it turned out that everyone who REALLY wanted one got it in the first 3 years or so, and then it leveled out and dropped. Mass layoffs resulted.
I’m not delusional, but having a bit of fun now. Even if I decide to sell at 300 or 400, I have made money.
You’ve done better with TSLA than I have ever done with a stock. The Big Dump of ’08 convinced me I am not wired right to be successful investing in single stocks. Bigly diversified portfolios (and a tax, err, optimization scheme) have me on track to retire in a couple of years
This. I don’t have the time or inclination to play the trader game. I stuck everything into zero expense index funds and have reaped the rewards ever since. Slow and steady contribution since age 19 has already won this race for us. Just need another 20 years of compounding and contributing to get us over the finish line.
What happens when everybody who wants a Hummer has one?
You stop selling them and shut down the standalone dealerships.
Or you go BOLD:
GM Resurrects Hummer As an Electric GMC Pickup With Huge Power Figures
Niche products are fine and dandy, as long as they aren’t foisted upon those who don’t want them.
I think the most interesting thing about Tesla isn’t the car, but the DTC marketing model.
That’s a good observation. The hummers usually stop after the wedding.
“The hummers usually stop after the wedding.”
You’ve chosen…poorly
Fight it out with Mojeaux.
What happens when everybody who wants a
Hhummer has one?Fake news. Nobody ever wants just one hummer.
During the investigation, the sheriff’s office discovered that Wigington took funds from a local nonprofit organization, where he served as treasurer, the post said. He allegedly used those funds to pay off personal debts.
Wigington is then accused of taking funds from the county’s magistrate office to reimburse the nonprofit in an attempt to “remedy” his theft.
I see why they cared.
“Dammit, you’re not supposed to steal from us. We covered this in orientation!”
They’re just doing what Bernie wants
Police are searching for three men last seen in a white passenger car with Massachusetts plates and a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker after a reported home invasion Wednesday afternoon.
According to police, a man who lives at the home on Woodhill Hooksett Road went back inside after spending time outdoors and noticed “items out of place” and evidence suggesting someone had forced entry into the home.
“A short time later he was confronted by two armed black males in his bedroom,” Bow police said in a statement.
The man was assaulted, police said, and the two men “are believed to have run to a vehicle in the driveway where a third black male was waiting.”
The man called police, who responded around 1:15 p.m.
According to police, they are looking for a white Chevy Malibu or Cobalt with Massachusetts license plates, black rims and a blue Sanders sticker on the trunk.
So sad. The entire bloc of black voters for Bernie are about to lose their voting rights when they get convicted for felony home invasion.
I got sick. I think the office bug caught up with me. Black tea, honey, and lemon. Maybe some bourbon.
“Maybe”?
Alcohol has well-known anti-viral properties.
The tea is only a buffer agent and may be omitted.
No… no.. no… tea is tasty. Don’t omit it.
Even if I decide to sell at 300 or 400, I have made money.
Good for you (seriously, no snark).
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the
intelligencefinancial acumen of the American public.you don’t go broke selling early either.
And- speaking of making money in the market:
I did something totally out of character for me, recently. I actually sold some stock (DDD). The weird part is I sold it at a profit. In at 8, out at 11. Woohoo!
It didn’t come close to making up for the underwater stuff, but, as one of my friends said, “You’ll never go broke taking profits.”
“Give us time. We are working on that.”
/Bernie and Lizzie
RIGHT??
I am on FB (May GOD have mercy on my soul) and am a member of a page for my local suburb. Some idiot posted that all these unlet apartments and houses have to be opened to the homeless.
Went on and on about access to housing and how the govt is morally wrong to evict non-payers, and how the “capitalists” were taking advantage of the homeless and were criminal and inhumane because there were empty buildings that homeless could move into. They have a RIGHT to a home, and Capitalists have no RIGHT to profit.
I stated that of course they have access to a home. They just can’t pay for it. I asked if it were equally inhumane for a car dealer to have a lot full of cadillacs when there are people with no cars. Should they have to give the cars away? What about clothing stores? Grocers?
That opened the floodgates, and my closeted SoCal free-market advocates went to town with the post.
The moderaters deleted the whole thing.
Super depressed today. Ugh.
I need something to change in my life. I can’t go on like this for the next 30 years.
?
Don’t mind me. I’m just thinking out loud.
I’ve mentioned my issues in here before. They don’t seem to get better. Sometimes there are days where it weighs on me so much that I have trouble getting anything done as a result. This is one of those days.
I’ve been there. Depression and anxiety and crippling inaction in my mid-20’s really disrupted my life. I still have “episodes”. You can get over it. It takes time. Good luck.
That’s me right now, stalled out, no plan, no… nothing
Sorry.
Count your blessings and take a breather. Then do a personal inventory when you can do it as even-handed as possible, think about where you want to be in a few years, and make a plan. Not that you’re asking for advice, but if you are, that’s worked for me when I’ve had some low points in the past. I’ve found that highs and lows are natural and just sort of happen as time passes, but if you’re in a real funk the best medicine is a goal and a plan.
A wannabe dictator says ‘what’.
The Bernie Sanders campaign has outlined dozens of possible executive orders that Sanders might enact upon assuming office, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
“As we continue discussing the early work of your presidency and the progress we can make, below for review is a brief overview of executive actions you could take early in your administration,” read a document reviewed by the Post. “We cannot accept delays from Congress on some of the most pressing issues, especially those like immigration where Trump has governed with racism and for his own corrupt benefit.”
Several of the executive orders would reverse President Trump’s policies on immigration, including an immediate halt of border wall construction, removing a limit on accepting refugees for asylum, and reinstating the Obama-era DACA program.
Other orders include a ban on the exportation of crude oil to combat climate change, and the severing of any federal contracts with companies that pay employees less than $15 an hour.
Hm. My understanding is that executive orders are supposed to direct law enforcement, not go against or change the law.
We cannot accept delays from Congress on some of the most pressing issues
Should be read in the original Russian.
Several of the executive orders would reverse President Trump’s policies on immigration, including an immediate halt of border wall construction,
Remember when refusing to spend funds appropriated by Congress was an impeachable offense?
Pep Talk https://youtu.be/MqYG5FGvKJg
Seriously though, don’t dwell on your depression. Try to get out if that headspace. Listen to music real loud. Bang on a guitar real loud. Go see a real stupid violent or funny movie. Go for a jog. Anything other than sit and dwell on depressing thoughts.
OK, Bella can walk me at the park….
Be well, dude
Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.
That is my stock advise for today. I learned that one that hard way (it was literally a 6 figure mistake). Well, maybe not that large, if I hadn’t got greedy, I probably would have made 40-50k. I still made money on the stock, but its peak and where I sold was over 100k different.
The Bernie Sanders campaign has outlined dozens of possible executive orders that Sanders might enact upon assuming office, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
I told you guys.
De-
NaziTrump -ification is coming.since we’re talking personal portfolios.
i was an employee at a dotcom. was granted 60,000 options at $0.25 that would’ve vested at 1 year. this was ~20 years ago so the exact terms are estimates. i left the company a few months later for a better career position b/c i didn’t see a future for the dotcom. b/c of irrational exuberance, the dotcom stock hit $5 a year later. i missed a $300K windfall. ouch. the company went broke another year or two later.
but no use dwelling on what might have been. no ragrets. the career move was the conservative long-term decision and probably the smarter move. but damn. $300K. *POOF*
Don’t get me started on my unfortunately temporary and unconsummated urge to buy $1,000 of BitCoin when it was $20 each.
As it happens, I bought a few at around $700, and managed to make a few thou when I sold.
that would’ve been lucrative.
Best guess: I would have sold half at $1400, and the let the remaining 25 BTC ride. No idea when I would have sold them, but if I held on until it $10K (which is far from the peak), that would have been a quarter million bucks.
Ah, well. Not fuck-you money, but enough to advance the retirement date by probably a couple of years or so.
I wouldn’t have made the initial buy because even now I can’t figure out what people’s valuation of it is based on. It’s another fiat currency, and the closest analog would be forex markets, which are not known for being kind to investors.
My brother was making $30K a month on stock options (working for Netscape I think). He called the stock options “golden handcuffs”.
The dotcom bust took that away. Then his wife spent all his money, then divorced him.
Mileage would be the fairest way, but…
*looks around nervously*
Gotta go!
Right. Because my Honda and Porsche cause just as much “wear and tear” per mile as a 3/4 ton pickup truck. Or a Tesla (which weighs as much as a Suburban).
*looks around nervously* Maybe no one will notice that a CMax weighs 1 3/4 tons…
*Strolls back in*
Well no, weight would be factored in. I just know every time this has been discussed no one wants the government reading their odometer.
Any time you try to amortize the cost of wear on a public good you’re going to have trouble finding a model that accurately represents real usage. Mileage puts undue burden on lighter vehicles. Fuel taxes give electrics and hybrids a discount on the shoulders of gas/diesel vehicles. GVW is unfair to owners who don’t put a lot of mileage on their vehicles.
Repeating: excise taxes on tires.
Simpler, requires fewer tax-collection transactions, and accelerates development of hovercraft.
Hovercraft put less wear on the roads.
Even with a full load of eels?
Ground pressure is much lower, even at full load, since it’s spread out over the entire surface of the vehicle instead of concentrated at the tires.
But perforated bridges are impassable unless there are supplemental wheels under the skirts.
Right. Because my Honda and Porsche cause just as much “wear and tear” per mile as a 3/4 ton pickup truck.
Actually, yes, but that’s only because personal vehicles as a class cause so little wear and tear they are often ignored when calculating how long a road will last. The lion’s share of wear and tear comes from semis and weather.
https://twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian/status/1222901980479115264
Northam-Trudeau gang of bank robbers on the loose!
I am on FB (May GOD have mercy on my soul) and am a member of a page for my local suburb. Some idiot posted that all these unlet apartments and houses have to be opened to the homeless.
Gavin Newsom is your neighbor?
Well no, weight would be factored in. I just know every time this has been discussed no one wants the government reading their odometer.
Indeed.
The gas tax is quite possibly the least (to me) offensive of all taxes, because it’s a pretty good darn proxy for usage. Smaller lighter vehicles use less fuel. That, of course, presumes the user fees are used for signs and lane painting and roadway maintenance, and not siphoned off into idiotic bullshit like skateboard parks.
It’s not just electric vehicles which have them looking for new ways to get their hands in your pocket. All those awesome new CAFE numbers have an effect on tax receipts, too.
The answer is always, “Raise taxes.”