¡Buenos tardes, Gliberinos! Today is opening day for my son’s little league team. Somehow I got suckered into helping coach so that’s another 3 hours per week I could be spend fucking off. That’s not the aggravating part. That was spending half a Saturday replacing my son’s aluminum bat. Turns out it only good for curveballs now…
The links!
Say it with me now…Who…built…the…cages…Joe—wait, what?
I’m sure this new wave of migrants is sure to make up for the drop in homicides. On the other hand, who is being murdered leaves me thinking it can’t be that bad.
He may be an ass, but he’s still not wrong.
I didn’t realize surfing was an olympic sport.
Fun case study in whether funding schools will make them any better.
Further details, including whether the money could be used to buy things including computers or face masks, were not immediately available. Officials with Puerto Rico’s education department did not return a message for comment.
My bet is on “not at all”.
A dam suspect in the dam killing if a dam activist in Honduras killed.
Should bee plenty for one afternoon. Here’s one with a bass riff that’s been stuck in my head since Sunday.
Speaking of hotel rooms….
Some real gems in the replies
“How are troops supposed to guard the Capitol if they’re in fucking hotel rooms?
These are not even equivalent situations.”
Why are those soldiers still at the capitol anyway?
No idea…right now they’re talking about keeping them there till sometime in May last I saw.
Because they need to keep up the narrative of insurrection and whatever made up date that 4chan is pushing with their trolling?
The capitol rotunda was a designated rest area for troops. They work 12 hour shifts and the shift is split up as two on and two off. Every soldier has had their own hotel room (Covid magic). They have since the beginning. At the height of the mission it was 26000 individual hotel rooms.
They’ll spend some on booze, fast cars, and women. The rest they’ll just squander.
“They’ll spend some on booze, fast cars, and women. The rest they’ll just squander”
I know I do….
Ted Cruz Dons All-White Suit To Cry Outside Biden’s Detention Centers
The Texas senator then posted the photos on social media so the world could share in his righteous indignation. Unfortunately, Twitter and Facebook suspended his account for taking unauthorized photos of a federal facility.
I so wanted that to be real.
That ‘shop is brutal.
BTW, not sure if I missed this one being posted earlier (or yesterday): https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article250129029.html
Absolutely no mention of this one anywhere on twitter that I’ve seen…..
DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Sadly being in uniform does take away a lot of your rights. Recall that even when our Guardsmen are “armed”, half the time they’re only allowed unloaded weapons for domestic missions – at the border, after Katrina, etc. Or carrying 1 mag…
*googles Larry Lee Harris*
Somebody forgot to take his meds.
And it’s always including the middle name with these guys.
“Teenager was fined for reporting stalker to police five times before he murdered her
Shana Grice, a 19-year-old receptionist from Brighton, had begged Sussex Police to take action against Michael Lane five times over a period of six months in 2016 before he slit her throat”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenager-fined-reporting-stalker-police-23775721
The proper response would be to slit the throat of the officer who fined her.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9392643/Demi-Rose-sizzles-series-barely-bikinis-answers-fans-burning-questions.html
Something is definitely burning when she walks.
not Calories…
Nope. Famously plump pout.
Aluminum Bat?
Wodden bats are traditional, and one of the few things still made in the US.
Yeah, but they’re not used in Little League.
Bah!
Whoever made that rule needs to be bludgeoned with a whiffle bat.
Be sure to beat up the NCAA officials that allow aluminum bats.
Not a rule.
Just not really pragmatic.
Can be, just discouraged.
Or in the NCAA. You hear the distinct “clink” when watching a college game.
HS and college baseball use a bat standard called BBCOR, which is meant to give the equivalent performance of a wood bat. Hot bats are just too dangerous.
I used one, almost hit one out too.
I think I remember hearing that MLB hitters + Aluminum bats = body count
It would be.
Right now the fastest speed ever recorded off the bat has been 124mph. A ground ball by Stanton, fielded by a SS.
If he were to have hit with an aluminum bat, that ball would have been closer to 140. If that goes at a P, he would have no shot.
I coached both my kids in multiple sports, Señor. It was some of the best time we ever spent together. Enjoy!
(And thanks for the LOC!)
BTW Ozy that was a really solid article (as usual) earlier. That just reminded me that I want to promote this webcomic one more time – great read and great art (and family friendly) – on the dangers (as if we don’t already know it – great to share though) on social credit systems.
http://hummingfluff.com/lovelypeoplecomic.html
Thanks, Fishy!
Great comics, too.
The take home message from that for me is why the destruction of the family is so important to Leftists. Family bonds are the strongest, and oftentimes last, obstacle to total State control.
That is a great observation.
/scribbles notes on next article
Orwell dealt with that in 1984, Smith’s neighbor, the guy with all the kids, was turned in by his own children but came to rationalize it.
“The family that squeals is the family that heals.”
Brave New World described destroying the family as essential to getting a population to be compliant as well, on the kids never knew their parents.
Toots lol. Great comic.
He’s right Ozy, well done!
That’s a really good comic. Bookmarking that.
the money could be used to buy things including computers or face masks
Don’t they cost like a penny per mask?
The mask supply and distribution contract is worth at least a thousand a mask, maybe more if you donate to the right people.
Indigenous activist killed in Honduras, led fight against construction of a dam
“It is not conceivable, it is not right, that they criminalize people, persecute people and later kill them for defending the land,” said environmental activist Betty Vásquez.
Murder as a tactic doesn’t really hold water.
But it does constrict the flow of future activist.
“Indigenous activist”
Not just an activist, an “indigenous” activist. Needs that extra cred.
Some places have to import activists.
Swissy is going to be electrified by these comments.
By the time the narrow gazes flow through, this will be down river.
I hope they find the culprits, should have enough damming evidence.
*Narrows gaze*
In this case wouldn’t that be more a finger in the…
Titty Tuesday bounces into your life.
https://archive.is/cxdt6
Not a fan of her, but 30 is her best outfit.
Too much ink for me, dang.
Air Force One Now Equipped With Handicap Parking Pass
Jen Psaki Plays Morning Round Of Dodgeball To Prepare For Press Conference
I liked this one:
Mexico Installs Stairs to Keep Biden Out
This one is for Trashy
Heh. Nice! That photoshop job is great too!
From the sidebar of one of the Mirror links:
Dating expert: Hey guys, about them single moms? Recreational use only.
Predictably, Hoes mad.
Well if the kid isn’t the most important thing in her life then she has a bit of a problem with priorities doesn’t she?
So… single moms do anal?
How’s that different than any other situation? My wife will prioritize our kids over me every day and twice on Sunday.
“Today is opening day for my son’s little league team.”
*looks at forecast for 5-7 inches of snow*
That’s about a month away here…
The high school and junior college teams have been playing inside for a few weeks though. A nearby town has the sports field so they can play even when all the regular fields are too soggy.
Its “too hot” to play outside here by the beginning of June here. Pick your poison.
I’ve been to Phoenix several times. Only twice in summer. I was not amused.
I’ve been to Phoenix in the summer. I’ve also been to Arkansas in the summer. I prefer Phoenix. Summers in the South suck.
I’d rather Phoenix than Miami so I tend to agree
110 and 5% Humidity > 94 and 90% Humidity
So, it turns out the Boulder shooter was a Syrian incel who was already known to the FBI and hated Trump. Given how little this fits the narrative, I’m guessing it goes down the memory hole. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9393669/Gunman-21-charged-murder-shooting-killing-10-people.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR3NyOgvuS8QKK-ds1oC9HUyYX3Ta15vqzsA6IVdVrt-k2dLbpf5sfgeCmo
Or it will be spun as ‘radicalized by Trump’s white supremacist dog whistles”
He was bullied.
https://breaking911.com/ahmad-al-issa-identified-as-suspect-in-colorado-grocery-mass-shooting/
Oh, Barry and Michelle are grieving. That’s comforting.
Well clearly, since the FBI has been overloaded with chasing down white supremacists trying to overthrow our democracy, i think it would be fair to place the blame for these deaths at the feet of those Insurrectionists, since they kept the FBI from stopping this guy.
A spur to the story should ask why did the FBI know of him? Just because he is from Syria? I know we don’t have a media that would look into it though.
Another story would be if the guy was being set up for entrapment by the FBI.
I’ll take off my tinfoil hat now.
Maybe him and Stephen Paddock exchanged notes?
Who?
Exactly.
They (Dems/leftists/etc.) still need the bodies to walk on. They will just not mention anything about the shooter.
Meh, the’ll just pivot from “white supremacist violence” to “gun control”.
They are already calling for moar gun control.
Mr Bolsonaro, who was 66 on Sunday, has consistently opposed quarantine measures, arguing that the collateral damage to the economy would be worse than the effects of the virus itself.
He’s right. Of course in the side bar is an article about how Iceland clamped down.
Puerto Rico’s government on Monday was granted access to more than $900 million in federal education funds less than two weeks after reopening dozens of public and private schools for the first time since the pandemic began.
More than $900 million? That’s not even real money.
This asshole is still talking?
A once-in-a-century pandemic cannot be the only thing that slows mass shootings in this country. It’s time for leaders everywhere to listen to the American people when they say enough is enough.
Except people control remains unpopular and there are more guns than people in this country. Good luck.
Celebrities continue to be commie, anti-constitution retards that know dick about guns and history.
I have so many friends in the military and the vast majority of them think that AR’s and guns of the sort have no place in society. You know cause they are ……..weapons of war.
Common Sense #GunReformNow
I am going to call bullshit because you are…….a lying, fascistic, asshole.
People who live in fortified houses and have security guards see no reason for other people to have guns.
People who live in fortified houses
On a complete tangent, that reminds me of about 8 years ago when I talked with a rep about upgrading to ballistic windows.
Windows World Rep: Long sales spiel… we can even install bullet-proof windows!
Me: Oh yea? That sounds great. How much extra does that run?
WW Rep looking completely confused: Uhhh, I don’t know sir. I never actually had a customer request that before. Let me call in and find out.
Turns out that option triples the cost of the each window so I passed. No sense in paying that kind of money when someone could just cut in through the siding… if I had brick then maybe. I can’t believe I’m the only person who thought ballistic windows were worth further inquiry.
Never let a tragedy go to waste.
It’s like the rich who complains about tax cuts and how the rich aren’t paying their fair share but will take every tax deduction their accountant finds instead of paying the full amount.
Some people can only do the right thing if someone is pointing a gun at their head.
Is it a weapon of war because it looks bad, or are All rifles off limits?
Probably wants to ban the weapons of insurrection too: bear spray, fire extinguishers, and sharp horny hats.
You have friends in the military, like I have a girlfriend in Canada.
For those in NH: Reopen NH has a new petition for passing HCR 2 to end the state of emergency.
Has anyone seen HM lately?
I’ve seen him on the forums.
I see him at TPTB HQ, daily.
Bro, you threw off my
groovenarrative.A 21-year-old Syrian-born man was identified Tuesday as the alleged Colorado supermarket shooter who killed 10 people including a police officer — with records revealing that he had posted online about “Islamophobia” and once cold-cocked a high school bully.
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa of Arvada, Colo., now faces 10 counts of first-degree murder for the rifle rampage he allegedly unleashed Monday afternoon in a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo., where some shoppers were out getting COVID-19 vaccines, officials said at a Tuesday briefing.
“We will hold the evildoer responsible to the full extent of the law for his actions,” said Democratic Gov. Jared Polis. “And we will always remember the victims of the King Soopers shooting.”
Alissa’s now-deleted Facebook page said he was “born in Syria in 1999 came to the USA in 2002,” the Daily Beast reported.
What sort of weapon did this fellow use?
Does it matter?
Yes
I meant does it matter to the anti-gun people?
well. I mean I’m curious how this narrative is gonna be coming at me .
Buy more mags today.
Gunmagwarehouse.com
It would matter because if it’s a rifle that could be why it’s getting National media attention.
The actual weapon won’t matter – you’re question is what narrative will the media be using regardless of all facts on the ground.
Conservative Spreads Dangerous Misinformation About A Chicken Crossing The Road
https://www.saf.org/california-forced-to-comply-in-sharp-v-becerra-rifle-registration-case/
Good work, you grifting asshole. Victory is another opportunity to comply with California’s unconstitutional laws.
Wait… this cat actually sued to get permission to register long-guns rather than to abolish the registry in its entirety? Thanks a lot Alan; you fukkin’ dickhead.
Yeah. Peak conservative?
He’s the “founder and Executive Vice President”. You guys need new managment.
SAF, like most/all gun rights and really advocacy groups in general, exists primarily to enrich the guy running it. What good they do is secondary or by happenstance.
Errr…wut
Would you have preferred nothing? Because that’s what was on the table.
“We want to obey!” vs “This law is unconstitutional on its face and should be struck down”?
California courts are still more or less receptive to legal technicalities. Making a 2A constitutional argument in the same court? Why would you even bother?
At some point, the technicalities may matter because god knows the actual fucking text of the Constitution won’t.
Because there are a lot of times where you can’t make a new argument on appeal. So if you’re stuck in california and want the 2nd amendment argument available at SCOTUS, you make the constitutional argument, even though you know the judges are against it.
Don’t blame Tuskegee, when we all know it’s Trump’s fault
It’s the health inequities of today that Maxine Toler, 72, hears about when she asks her friends and neighbors in LA what they think about the vaccine. Toler is president of her city’s senior advocacy council and her neighborhood block club. She says she and most of the other Black seniors she talks with want the vaccine, but are having trouble getting it. And that alone is sowing mistrust, she says.
Toler says the Black people she knows who don’t want the vaccine have very modern reasons for not wanting it. They talk about religious beliefs, safety concerns or distrust for former U.S. president Donald Trump and his contentious relationship to science. Only a handful mention Tuskegee, she says, and when they do, they’re fuzzy on the details of what happened during the 40-year study.
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v”If you say Tuskegee, then you don’t have to acknowledge things like pharmacy deserts, things like poverty and unemployment,” she says. “You can just say, ‘That happened then…and there’s nothing we can do about it.’ ”
She says the contemporary failures of the health care system are more pressing and causing more distrust than the events of the past.
“It’s what happened to me yesterday,” she says. “Not what happened in the 50s or 60s, when Tuskegee was actually active.”
The seniors she works with complain to her all the time about doctors dismissing their concerns, talking down to them, or nurses answering the hospital call buttons for their white roommates more often than for them.
It’s racism, all the way down.
You’re Saying DT was a skeptic? I hear they make the best scientists…
Never change, NPR.
Money printer goes brrrrrrrr. From Michigan’s best and brightest.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/03/23/rashida-tlaib-covid-payments/6967951002/
Why limit it to just citizens?
I was going to say earlier, in a discussion about the IRS and stimulus checks, that isn’t it just really perverse that the one Service that is supposed to be a net positive on the balance sheet, is going to be contributing to the deficit and debt this year.
Mint about 30 more of those coins and we would be debt free.
I… can’t believe that’s real.
Hell, mint one for every American. No more poverty, no more pearl-clutching about asset inequality gaps. Hell, don’t even go to the trouble of minting coins – just tell everyone to take their marker and add 12 zeroes to the amount shown on their currency.
/Stares, rubs eyes, blinks again
What in the ever-living fuck…???
/Mumbles and wanders away shaking head
That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.
No it isn’t
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa of Arvada, Colo., now faces 10 counts of first-degree murder for the rifle rampage he allegedly unleashed Monday afternoon in a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo., where some shoppers were out getting COVID-19 vaccines, officials said at a Tuesday briefing.
Self defense. Those people were oppressing him.
The XX tax deduction is taking her maiden voyage in her car alone. She will be driving to work tonight by herself.
*bites nails*
She’ll be fine,
/Crosses fingers behind back.
Phone rings 2 am:
Daughter: We’re OK
kinnath (still half a sleep): Uh, what?
Daugther: long rambling story . . . . deer . . . . wet gravel road . . . . .
kinnath (nearly awake): And?
Daughter: The sheriff says the car is totaled. But we’re not hurt. We’re going to stay at a friend’s house until morning.
kinnath (totally awake): Uh, right. Well . . . . call me in the morning.
kinnath’s wife: What was that all about?
kinnath: Car is totalled. Kids ok. I have no idea how I am getting to work tomorrow. Good night.
I find that I’m more phlegmatic about her driving when I am not in the car with her and can’t see what mistakes she makes.
Hoping that your fears are unfounded.
You’ll get through this.
She’ll be fine.
Thoughts and prayers
Update: She made it just fine.
Yay!
Inconvenient
Another possibility: SARS-CoV-2 is related to several widespread mild coronaviruses, and immune responses to one virus frequently confer some resistance to others. In some studies, more than half of people in Western nations show preexisting immune responses to SARS-CoV-2. Viruses that confer cross-immunity may circulate more strongly in Asia than elsewhere, explaining why not just East Asia but also Indochina—including some nations, such as Cambodia, with weak initial responses—had tiny outbreaks. Similar patterns, with lower death rates near the origin than elsewhere, have occurred in flu pandemics from Asia as well as the misnamed Spanish flu, which started in the United States but had higher mortality in Europe.
Don’t tell Foochy, it would just piss him off.
No, no, no. America’s worser response is because we failed our leaders. SMDH!
But even if masks probably don’t help, one might reasonably ask, what’s the harm in requiring them if they might help a bit?
These harms, it turns out, are severely understudied. The Cochrane review of mask RCTs notes, “Harms were rarely measured and poorly reported”—but some are uncontroversial. The Washington Post reported in May, for instance, that masks could cause persistent face rashes. They can also cause headaches: a small Japanese study testing whether surgical masks could stop the spread of colds among health care workers found that mask wearers were almost four times as likely as controls to report headaches. In a self-selected survey of German schoolchildren, more than half of the participants reported headaches.
Unhygienically used masks can also trap moisture and thus promote bacterial and yeast growth. It’s natural to suspect that this promotes other infections: an article in the New York Post, for example, reported that many dentists had observed an increase in problems such as cavities and gingivitis that they attributed to mask wearing. Finally, there is the unknown health effect of fiber inhalation (not to mention environmental plastic pollution). One paper noted that most surgical masks have loose fibers.
Potential harms to children deserve special mention. Two Italian professors of plastic surgery, for instance, have hypothesized that the pressure of elastic ear straps may give children permanently protruding ears. Some child development researchers also worry that widespread mask-wearing may hamper children’s linguistic and emotional development.
There may even be ways by which masks might worsen Covid-19 itself. The basic reason is simple: germs caught by a mask do not simply disappear. The evidence for these is spotty or speculative but concerning enough to merit attention. In any case, the evidence justifying mask mandates is often equally speculative.
SCIENCE-deniers, just looking for an excuse to spread sickness and death.
My main problem has been stumbling a number of times, and almost walking into things, because my glasses fog up when entering a store or building that requires a mask. I wonder how many extra broken hips there has been in the U.S. due to mask-wearing?
I fold up a tissue and place it on the bridge of my nose before I put the mask on. That seams to prevent my glasses from fogging up.
I only wear masks because in CA, you can’t go shopping anywhere without one.
I think this is more to the point than whether masks cause face rashes.
Now do the rest of clothing
/Naturists
Oh man, that pops a Burning Man memory up – naturists with child vs. law enforcement.
“Masks turn down the effectiveness of human “technology,” by making it hard for
us to “read” each other and to pick up social cues.”
Uh… I was never all that good at it in the first place. Finally, some
equity for the socially inept. Let’s keep the masks forever, equity
demands it.
what about the severe economic consequences?
I can say for an absolute fact that I’ve been avoiding shopping in person and many are annoyed at other places.
I only shop in person for groceries and liquor. I’ve always preferred shopping online to visiting local stores. Now I would perhaps make an effort to support small local businesses but I don’t patronize them if they yell “do you have a mask?”
Evidence suggests it massively accelerated that. It crushed local small businesses where people like to go and browse.
For me, it has highlighted the difficulties with online shopping. I never tried to buy clothing online until this past year, and I hope I never have to again. Amazon can’t even get undershirts right–there are so many counterfeit offerings out there sold under brand names. I defy you to get an actual Hanes comfortsoft long undershirt on Amazon. Even socks don’t come as advertised.
Hanes has their own website.
Thanks
I bought a set of cheese-cloth type dish towels and then a few weeks later I decided I wanted an additional set. The second set was of noticeably lower quality.
Yeah, it’s frustrating AF.
Lots of not-so-small businesses, too. Especially department stores which were already on the edge.
Yeah. I mean it’s a possible argument that some of these places were doomed, but I hate forcing winners.
There is a small NYC-based chain with an outlet within walking distance here in outer Brooklyn. (It’s the original location mentioned in the link – I did not know that.) Half my kitchen goods and clothes came from there. The location across from the WTC was hugely popular with tourists. They went out of business a couple months ago after making a big deal of re-opening last summer.
Mask ears. ?
But a million ear and face rashes are a reasonable price to pay if it saves even one life. #precautionaryprinciple
worth reposting:
https://spectator.us/topic/american-media-ccp-useful-idiots-vox-asian-hate-crime/
Through this agreement,” he added, “all of the plaintiffs will recover our legal expenses and more importantly, thousands of honest California citizens will be able to comply with the law.
Won’t somebody think of the good
GermansCalifornians?Everyone with a brain that wasn’t absolutely chained to the state has already left. My sympathies to those who can’t hacksaw through the shackles. Those staying for the shekels can fuck themselves.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/officials-gun-in-supermarket-shooting-bought-6-days-earlier/article_7196b76f-5b5c-5c24-b808-12e982c25b46.html
So, will the proposed waiting period be 7 or 10 days?
“days”. You slay me.
Biden is claiming that the previous assault weapons ban reduced mass shootings.
haha, the NFA doesn’t work that way 🙁
https://ugolini.co.th/ugolini/covid-19-vaccine-tested-on-babies-even-as-death-toll-mounts/
1,551 deaths attributed to the vaccine.
According to duck duck go ugolini.co.th is a truffle bar in Bangkok. Is that a reputable source of info?
I dunno. Gf came home talking about and I just posted the first link that came up.
Is it cuz they’re Asian?
Racist!
They are appropriate truffle culture.
appropriating goddamit
https://metv.com/stories/william-shatner-essentially-played-walter-white-three-decades-before-breaking-bad?marketid=267
The Shat turned 90 yesterday.
Barn owners got a new horse – named Denny; I immediately asked Crane?
‘Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL] vows to stall Biden nominees over lack of Asians…
‘Duckworth has the power to single-handedly tank contentious nominees in the evenly divided Senate, though some of Biden’s nominees have passed with significant Republican support.
‘“There’s no AAPI representation in the cabinet. There’s not a single AAPI in a cabinet position. That’s unacceptable,” Duckworth told reporters at the Capitol, using a term for Asian-Americans and Pacific islanders….
‘[Jennifer] Dillon, Biden’s 2020 campaign manager, allegedly suggested to Duckworth that Asian-Americans should be content with Vice President Kamala Harris’ role.”…
‘…”And that’s not something you would say to the black caucus, ‘Well, you have Kamala, we’re not going to put any more African-Americans in the cabinet because you have Kamala.’”’
‘…[The Thai-born] “Duckworth said, “I will vote for racial minorities and I will vote for LGBTQ, but anybody else I’m not voting for.”’
https://nypost.com/2021/03/23/sen-tammy-duckworth-vows-to-stall-biden-nominees-over-lack-of-asians/
I like how there are attempts at posturing Kamala as an Asian, who is down with the asian community, after her whole career of her trying to appeal to the African American community.
A woman, an asian and a black person walk into a bar.
“Hi, Kamala, the usual?” the bartender asks.
Duckworth is a woke idiot. She’s doesn’t give a shit about governance, just appearance.
“I will vote for racial minorities and I will vote for LGBTQ, but anybody else I’m not voting for.”
Good to see Ol’ Senator Way-Over-Her-Head has some mighty fine principles there…
She could’ve been mayor of Rock Ridge.
Shut up, racist.
Fuck.
Is it my imagination or did the AAPI acronym just pop up out of nowhere?
I don’t remember hearing it before.
How about the best qualified person for….nevermind.
I’m amazed the google newz algorithm let that City Journal mask article through.
He may be an ass, but he’s still not wrong.
That may as well have been his campaign slogan. From what I’ve read, his opponents hit him hard on his asssholishness and bigotry, he never apologized or walked it back, and he got elected anyway because he pointed out that the ruling class was corrupt and the people were like, yeah, they totally are, screw them.
Now do the rest of clothing
/Naturists
Seriously. How will she know how much i like her if i have to wear pants on our first date?
How would she know it’s because of her?
Relying on people’s narcissism isn’t usually a recipe for failure.
Justice tax
A change in the way Uncle Sam taxes the wealth, capital gains and estates of the super wealthy may be on the table, according to tax experts.
The White House and congressional Democrats have eyed higher taxes to raise trillions of dollars in additional revenue to, for example, improve the country’s infrastructure and combat climate change.
President Joe Biden and his advisors are considering up to $3 trillion in new spending for such endeavors, The New York Times reported Monday.
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The Biden tax plan would up the capital gains tax for millionaires to 39.6% — the same rate at which the president would tax job income for high earners.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the Senate in January that this change to capital gains taxes was a long-term goal of the Biden administration.
“We recognize that our tax system cannot be tilted toward corporate interests and the wealthy, while those that are sustained predominately by wages bear an unequal burden,” she said in written testimony during her confirmation hearing.
The capital gains policy could stretch beyond the consistently rich, though.
Eggs will be broken. Omelettes will be made. Just as long as the sinners suffer in the lake of fire.
LOL sure why not? That will totally happen.
Nobody will change behavior at all! Never have, never will.
This would make the United States the second highest capital gains tax on Earth.
I stand corrected. Denmark reduced theirs. It would make us the highest.
If corporate taxes were zero, I’d have no problem treating capital gains as ordinary income.
Isn’t there a point where they actually are treated as ordinary income?
I am not a tax accountant, but I think long term capital gains (>1 year) have a lower rate than ordinary income. The justification is that capital gains are basically double taxed because the corporation already paid taxes on the money earned and also because inflation means that the basis price in current dollars is higher than in nominal dollars.
And to more directly answer your question, I think short term capital gains are taxed as ordinary income.
Any gains in a 401k are taxed as ordinary income, didn’t realize the significance of that until recently.
In order to pay for it — and get around rules regarding how congressional analysts calculate the nation’s debt — the legislation calls for the U.S. Mint to create two trillion-dollar coins that would then be purchased by the Federal Reserve, which helps manage the nation’s money supply.
I hope they mint them out of lead, or maybe tin.
Or just find a couple of old-timey metal junction box knock-outs.
So they’re taking hints from Simpson’s episodes now?
Here is an interesting alternative to Li ion battery storage.
https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2021/february-2021/hydrogen-powered-drives-for-e-scooters.html
Hydrogen fuel in a paste made of Mg hydrate. It can be pumped and stored safely compared to H2 as a high pressure liquid.
It can be used in a IC engine or fuel cell and refilled like gasoline or diesel.
Not nearly as cheap as fossil fuels I’m sure.
Any idea on energy/mass density?
Wow, reading that article, you *really* don’t want to try to use water to extinguish a fire on a vehicle powered by that stuff. Ever heard of fires on Mg block VW engines? hoo boy, this would be way roastier.
I
couldn’t findwas too lazy to look for the energy requirements for the regeneration reaction Mg(OH)2 —> MgH2 +O2 but it has to be somewhat difficult and energy intensive. Likely a high temperature calcination, possibly with an added reducing agent to improve first pass efficiency.Magnesium powder is combined with hydrogen to form magnesium hydride in a process conducted at 350 °C and five to six times atmospheric pressure. An ester and a metal salt are then added in order to form the finished product.
Looks like a somewhat lower temp reaction than the original process
They are likely using a fine nano powdered Mg to reduce the process temperature.
Yeah, but I’m talking about the regeneration process. Using the paste to generate hydrogen leaves you with a tank of aqueous Mg(OH)2 which has to be discarded or regenerated somehow.
The ball mill nano production is a good way to go–extremely fine milling definitely helps reduce overall energy requirements, but having operated ball mills with coal before, I wonder just how scary it will be to do so with hydrogen gas and magnesium metal involved!
I understand it’s probably a wet ball milling process, but still…that’s a lot of flammables. The damn ball mill would have to be lined with non-sparking material (not hard to do) and the media would be some sort of ceramic–certainly wouldn’t want to use steel in a production mill if there’s much air inleakage to the process. Hydrogen embrittlement might be a problem long term for the mills and other process equipment.
Ok I see. That would need to be a high temp process like calcining.
It seems like it is energy intensive on both ends.
M855 in stock at Natchez $764 / 1000 rd. https://www.natchezss.com/winchester-usa-lake-city-m855-rifle-ammunition-5-56mm-62gr-fmj-1255-fps-1000-ct.html
Remember when you were a little kid, and you would hold a toy plane at arm’s length and make whoosh noises and pretend it was flying?
Florida Man sez “Hold my excavator.”
I don’t think that’s the right link.
Dammit!
I hate it when I do that.
How about the best qualified person for….nevermind.
*guffaws, slaps knee, falls out of rocking chair*
I’m so glad to be in a position where i don’t have to deal with this Idiocracy, it just keeps going, the relentless Destruction of our Culture,
Shut up, racist.
Fuck.
More obsessed with race than Jefferson Davis.
That was spending half a Saturday replacing my son’s aluminum bat. Turns out it only good for curveballs now…
That went over my head, both myself and my kid sucked at baseball.
Have you since figured it out?
Nope.
The bat in the picture is bent. The handle is supposed to be in line with the center axis of the wide portion.
https://twitter.com/Bmac0507/status/1374479144776437768
I’m not an oncologist, but I think this gave me cancer.
Fuck the NAP I want to punch her in the throat.
I…. I…. just…. I can’t…..
*rummages around for revolver*
“Joy Reid claims ANY and ALL gun control measures (so presumably the banning of assault weapons, confiscations, etc.) would be constitutional because the text of #2A “includes the words ‘well regulated’ and it talks about militias” so “it is irrelevant to gun reform””
https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1374500550801125383
CWAA
Well regulated in that context means TO KEEP REGULAR, you petty tyrant idiot!
I ran over a bunny rabbit ?
I’m guessing you didn’t do it on purpose.
Is your car okay?
Anyone see the baker who refused to make a gay wedding cake got sued, and won, and now being sued again for not making a transgender cake? Thoughts?
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-44361162
https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/colorado-baker-once-sued-over-wedding-cake-for-gay-couple-now-sued-over-gender-transition-cake/amp/
(I’m not sure how to actually link straight to the article)
Correction, Apparently it automatically does it.