Who wouldn’t want to play baseball here?
The Oakland A’s should move out of that city, now’s their chance. The stadium is a dump and there’s no way in hell to build a privately-owned stadium there with the local governments not completely screwing you over. Brett Favre needs to pay Mississippi some money back. ManUre sandbagged a game in order to punish their biggest rivals. And the NBA is actually still playing games even though nobody gives a shit. And that’s sports.
The greatest of all-time
Wartime nurse Florence Nightingale was born on this day. She shares it with actress Katherine Hepburn, man executed for espionage Julius Rosenberg, cosmetics magnate Mary Kay Ash, HOF catcher, manager, and quipper Yogi Berra, musician Burt Bacharach, comedic great George Carlin, musicians Steve Winwood and Billy Squier who made the most career-ending video of all time (no, this doesn’t count as the music link), infielder Lou Whitaker, actor Ving Rhames, “the Mighty Duck Man himself” Emilio Estevez, skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, most likely the greatest rugby player of all time (but he still never scored a try against the Springboks) Jonah Lomu, pie-fucker Jason Biggs, football player STEVE SMITH, and soccer player Frenkie de Jong.
That was a pretty solid list. And now on to…the links!
“Here, kitty, kitty, kitty!”
A tiger is still on the loose in Houston. The man who was fleeing in his car with the cat got double-crossed by the cops and has been arrested. But he says the cat isn’t his. And then his lawyer said he could lead them to the real owner but his client feels betrayed. Lol, this is the kind of news we all need right now.
I’m trying to see the point in this. It’s so silly that I’m willing to bet our federal (and a few states’) government will be placing a series of orders. If they haven’t already.
“Is this America? I thought this was America.” Oh wait, it’s Oklahoma. Also, I wonder how many people tried to catch Pikachu that day?
Cycloptic freak Jeff Bezos
This headline is garbage. The tech conference and AI event didn’t woo anything. That lazy-eyed freak’s billions did.
I’m sure this will make everybody happy. And by “everybody”, I mean nobody.
That’s it. I’m not going back into the ocean. I fear this is the first level of Pacific Rim. And I know that the levels will get progressively harder.
Looks like the NRA is gone ahave to explain some of their goings-on. Good. Organizations shouldn’t be able to fast-track BK proceedings simply to avoid scrutiny.
Hope my lighter mood for the links today helped, friends. And I hope this song makes you tap your toes. And for at least a few of you to recall a moment from your misspent youth.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
I for one welcome the first level of pacific rim, giant robots punching monsters would certainly make for some good entertainment.
But in the modern day, they’d have to be wind or solar powered instead of nuclear.
“Oh no! The sun is setting! Who could have foreseen this?”
“Tell the citizens of Portland that their Jaeger went into hibernation mode, was wrecked, raped, and then sold for parts, with the head being used to make a cock ring, and that the Kaiju is now coming for BLM!”
What’s wrong with that?
“I was just borrowing the tiger, honest!”
I prefer to buy my lions and lease my tigers.
For tax reasons, of course.
What’s your position on cougars?
They should be complementary.
Missionary
I prefer under.
It would be even better if she turned into a pepperoni pizza at midnight!
Or owned a boat and liquor store.
“The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria“…
Never pay for pussy.
A pimp’s love is different than a square’s love.
You pay them so they’ll go away.
When you buy your lions, you don’t have to worry about the repo man towing them.
boooo.
Oh come on, that has to be her porn name, right?
Another news fail: I see the woman. I see her legs. but I cannot tell how small those shorts are.
There was a Nolan Breedlove who challenged poll taxes all the way to the Supreme Court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breedlove_v._Suttles
YOU LEAVE BILLY ALONE!
??Words his agent should have said to the producer of that video.??
The choreographer should have been defenestrated.
Thats sounds perfectly cromulent.
That cat will get hungry. We should stake out some PETA people smeared with blood from an abbatoir, armed with feathery kitty toys.
No no no! Give them a laser pointer. I want to test a theory.
Work something about covid in there and apply for grant money.
Sean knows how to grift big…
It works, I’ve seen videos.
Tiger and laser pointer
Well, now we know why they call them “amusement parks!”
“I was just borrowing the tiger, honest!”
“We’re just friends. It’s not like he’s my slave.”
That’s some SugarFree level of nature there.
The original beta males.
Death by SnuSnu.
?
This is news to you?
Sexual Parasites would be an awesome band name
https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/two-fin-whales-found-dead-under-hull-of-australian-ship-at-naval-base-san-diego
In a statement, the U.S. Navy says, “It takes marine mammal safety seriously and is disheartened this incident occurred.”
This is the most powerful navy in the world… *sigh*
These are the fucking morons that have had several ship collisions because the crew was too busy being indoctrinated with PC bullshit to actually learn to sail & fight the ship. Learn Mandarin, people.
With all the emphasis on woke rather than operational competence, I’m not sure how they do in a serious fight these days.
Against stone-age religious zealots, they can hold their own. Against any kind of foe approach peer status…
I suspect they would reshuffle the deck after some serious losses in a real fight, but who knows.
There will be no time to reshuffle the deck in the age of hypersonic, nuclear, bio, and chemical weapons where your ability to produce more war materiel has atrophied to the point your entire system now depends on the very same peer enemies you will find yourself at war with.
If there is a war now, we can still (for now) end the world and make sure that everyone loses, but that will be an act of desperation. This military can’t win anything. Even if they start the fight and do it by a cowardly sneak attack. They are that compromised and inept.
That has historically been true of Army, but I wouldn’t count on that. For one thing, the Army nows believes all future fights will go like GulfWar II (which was a big exception to the rule of getting their asses handed to them in the first battle of a new war). The second reason is how badly the Army is warping the officer corps – they start off pretty good, but to get past O-4 they have to fully embrace the system and that will ruin them. The system is not something just of recent vintage, it is the product of the Cold War and post-CW eras.
“For one thing, the Army nows believes all future fights will go like GulfWar II”
Um…wut? Where do you get this?
“The second reason is how badly the Army is warping the officer corps – they start off pretty good, but to get past O-4 they have to fully embrace the system and that will ruin them. The system is not something just of recent vintage, it is the product of the Cold War and post-CW eras.”
Funny…I didn’t embrace anything other than getting the job done. I was an O-5 and offered the War College to go to O-6 before I retired.
O-5 is where the non-conformists get out. Sure you may have been offered, but you didn’t. The ranks above O-5 end up being filled by people who really don’t care about truth, just as long as they keep moving up.
Actually my experience (eighties and nineties) mirrors Swiss, although I didn’t climb as far up the chain. In the senior office corps there were political suck-ups and there were serious warriors, proportions varied from place to place but they were there.
In 1996, when I was on the staff of the Command Surgeon, US Army Europe, I once saw a two-star general, in front of a bunch of officers ranging from captains to bird colonels, refer to the then-POTUS as “…that draft-dodging, womanizing son of a bitch.” That’s not the act of a political suck-up.
There are still warriors in the ranks.
I will grant, my experience with senior officer corps is not at the operational level, and I hope to god they are better than their peers in the institutional side of the Army.
“but to get past O-4 they have to fully embrace the system”
“O-5 is where the non-conformists get out. ”
Got to make up your mind where those goalposts are.
I left, not because I was some nonconformist who was struggling against the system, but had already had one civilian career derailed by three deployments, and was looking at that happening again – and I had two kids who sort of had not had Dad around a fair bit.
As a reserve officer (04) I was invited to leave at 22. Worked for me, young teenagers that needed some stability and I wanted to go to school. I was happy to leave. I was bitter after VN (and still am).
I learned a lot about military politics on my second tour so the decision was easy.
Somehow I can’t quite equate squirrels or possums with whales, but roadkill be roadkill.
L.A. is completely fouled by bike lanes. It’s not like we had any traffic problems before they did that or anything. Now, they’ve taken away lanes that the grown ups use to drive their big people cars to work with and the super arrogant bike people seem to get real joy in maximizing their intrusive blockage of traffic. I really don’t care if you want to ride a bike around, but we can’t just fuck up all commuters to facilitate it.
It should be legal to run over bicycles in traffic lanes
when bike lanes have been provided.Enough drivers already believe that.
I think my accident yesterday was karmic retribution for almost beaning a bicyclist on a sidewalk going the wrong direction. So I’m sitting at a stop sign looking left, waiting for traffic to clear. There is a concrete median, so I can’t turn left. I went to go, and a cyclist nearly runs into me. I didn’t see him until he’d slammed on his brakes. Oh, he cursed a blue streak. I was embarrassed, so I sped away. Didn’t hit him, but that’s the second time I’ve done that. I forget to look for pedestrians there because a) the sidewalk is new and b) there never are any pedestrians on that sidewalk and c) I’m busy looking left for cars.
I thought about you and said, “Sorry, Neph.”
Maybe the bicyclist should GTF off the sidewalk.
Yep. Cyclists should be in the street (few things irritate me as much as ones who will bounce between sidewalk/trail/road to their benefit).
Ok, the Critical Mass people irritate me more, but they’re assholes.
The only time I’ll roll over to the sidewalk is to push the button to trigger the crosswalk on triggered lights. Then I roll back into the street (generally to watch a car roll up behind me before the light changes).
I was shocked when I saw a couple pushing their bikes on a crosswalk. I stopped for them.
We don’t have bike lanes, so cyclists ride in the vehicle lane, even on two-lane, no-shoulder roads with high speed limits. The government supports the behavior. They have even labeled part of US-17 as US Bike Route 1 on a stretch that is 55 mph, no shoulder and has a significant incline for a bridge. They love the scenery along our country roads. I am sure they enjoy it better than getting stuck behind some jogger on a trail.
I avoid those roads any time I find a route hitting them. If the vehicle speed limit is over 35 mph, I’m not comfortable riding there. And if it’s 35 mph, there had better be at least three lanes (one each and a turning lane) to allow for easy passing for the cars.
35 mph shouldnt* exist. 25 and less or 55 and more.
*there are a few minor exceptions.
You like being wrong.
There are roads, which are designed to get you from A to B as fast as possible, should be 55+ in most cases.
There are streets, which have destinations, houses, offices, stores, etc. They are going to be mixed traffic, with cars, and pedestrians, and bikes and should be slow speed for lots of reasons. You don’t need to be speeding thru residential neighborhoods and slow moving cars are good for business.
What is the case for a 35/45 speed road? It is awful for everything. And, in many cases, moves even slower on average than 25 mph streets, due to traffic lights.
You’ve spilled our your incorrect rationale before, and you clearly have poorly timed traffic lights.
Which part is wrong? And what is the purpose of a 35 mph zone?
That is the standard residential zone.
25 is too slow for any purpose.
35 is too fast to dodge stickball games in the street (tried to Newyorkify it so you would understand).
As a kid we knew to get out of the street ASAP when a car was coming. The drivers did not give way to brats.
There’s no point in defying (un)natural selection
It’s 25 in NYC, recently lowered from 30, which is the standard residential speed in NYS.
What is the case for a 35/45 speed road?
Getting through residential/retail areas quickly enough to not bother cutting through neighborhoods, but slowly enough that road noise doesn’t disrupt the neighborhoods you’re passing by and that people can get out of their neighborhoods safely without putting a traffic light at every cut in the curb.
windy, narrow, and/or otherwise unsuitable for high-speed roads?
windy, narrow, and/or otherwise unsuitable for high-speed roads?
I think I covered that:
*there are a few minor exceptions.
Getting through residential/retail areas quickly enough to not bother cutting through neighborhoods, but slowly enough that road noise doesn’t disrupt the neighborhoods you’re passing by and that people can get out of their neighborhoods safely without putting a traffic light at every cut in the curb.
In a properly non-designed area (if you let a planner anywhere near the process, you are going to want what you suggest), that won’t be necessary.
I guess they are minor from an urban planning POV. When I was driving through VT I found that apparently the entire state has low-speed roads that are legitimate low speed roads. But most places aren’t built in the mountains.
But rural conditions vary widely. Some places are wide-open and straight (OK) and some roads are just paved-over cart trails (TX). The only time I’ve slid sideways off the road has been in the rural areas outside of Houston.
We have many two-lane roads winding through wooded hills. They are normally posted in the 35-45 range.
UnCivilServant on May 12, 2021 at 8:10 am (Edit)
You’ve spilled our your incorrect rationale before, and you clearly have poorly timed traffic lights.
This sterling example of politeness and good faith argument was brought to you by Glibertarians.com
I think Vermont always qualifies as a minor exception.
25 for residential. Or was until this 20 thing started due to the Zero Vision campaign. The big problem is over the last ten years, rather than blaming pedestrians for jaywalking or wearing dark clothing at night or bikes refusing to follow traffic laws, they now lower the speed limit for sections of the road so it’s a mishmash of constantly changing speeds with poor signage.
On rural highways, a very few have been raised to 65 (also without adequate signage) and they keep fiddling with the limits so many drivers don’t know what speed they’re supposed to go. Speeds through rural communities range from 55, 50, 45, 40, 35. It’s insane. And once lowered, the speed limits are never increased.
two lanes, no shoulder, 55 and posted as US Bike Route 1
“part of”
It only follows US-17 for 1 mile (to use the bridge to cross a CSX railroad). It turns onto two-lane, no-shoulder roads with speed limits between 35 and 45. They could have routed them along the old road alignment which would take them through a tunnel under the tracks that is blocked to vehicle traffic.
I love bicycling, but the notion of taking away a lane of traffic to give to cyclists is stupid. It assumes that there’s no way to get around on a bike if there isn’t a designated lane, and that a ton of people will start biking if presented with the option. A lot of cities have turned vehicle lanes into bike lanes with the only result being that hundreds of vehicles are now forced to sit in deadlock while spewing exhaust, and maybe a few dozen people a day use the bike lane.
I see Former President Cartoon Villain is in the news again. Destructor of the Republic, beating up on poor old virtuous Liz Chaney, blah blah blah. Those media boys and girls just can’t quit him.
But it’s fun (and so telling) to watch them slurp her dick-stained ass.
Dick-stained ?
I think that what you just did there may have been regarded in an ocular capacity.
Never use a big word when a diminutive synonym will suffice.
Euphemism about small ones?
I saw that MSNBC’s ratings have dropped from 2.7M to 900k since January. They have to talk about what’s interesting, while simultaneously avoid mentioning all the catastrophes occurring on Biden’s watch.
Judging by his recent Gab posts, he is taking on a role of kingmaker. Hopefully he stays in that role and doesn’t run for President in 2024.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Hope my lighter mood for the links today helped, friends.
It does! The short-shorts chick helped a lot, too.
The dopey plane made me laugh.
Supergrass was the icing on the cake.
Thanks, man!
Who loves short shorts? …
I love short-shorts!
For the youngsters.
Dig that crazy chick!
That’s someone’s Great- Grandma.
Easy there, Son. Could also be someone’s lost girlfriend
I was thinking.
Houston tiger’s whereabouts remain a mystery as jailed man says he’s not the owner
I’m pretty sure I have seen this movie.
They better get the tiger back to Mike Tyson before he gets angry and knocks one of them out.
“I can see it coming in the air tonight”….
/does best Tyson impression
“they’re jutht thome big kittiesth”
It went to Detroit.
/feels safer that he’s in Cleveland.
“This headline is garbage. The tech conference and AI event didn’t woo anything. That lazy-eyed freak’s billions did.”
All sex is paid for sex. The transaction might not be in direct dollars, but there is always a cost…
Re the silly plane, see also the Ekranoplan. It figured in William Gibson’s Zero History.
AKA, the Russians already did it. Does the DNC know about this?
The Babylon Bee has Woes.
This new electric aircraft takes off and lands on water the same way a floatplane does, but flies at 180 mph just above the water’s surface.
Pass.
Well, you have to pass it, it’s going too slow.
flies at 180 mph just above the water’s surface
Until you hit a wave. Then it stops. Abruptly.
To be fair, some parts will keep going pretty fast.
HARD pass.
Flying close to the ocean’s surface is a treacherous proposition in the best of circumstances.
Roy Halliday nods from Heaven.
Yeah, that’s not going to end well.
Basically the same flight plan the Fed is using for it’s “soft landing”.
Ground effect really works. Russians built a couple of really big ground effect seaplanes and they worked. Just as long as the seas were calm. If the seas aren’t calm, then the aircraft had to fly too high to be in ground effect and things went bad very quickly.
In my opinion, this is not going to succeed because of that.
“I committed no crime and proceeded to walk to my boyfriend as I am autistic and have a hard time talking to officers,’’ the mom said. ”
God, I want to nail her. And remember to use that excuse, too.
“Im autistic- talking to cops triggers me”
Probably true for me on both parts.
You forgot to use strikethru.
WAS
A fool and other people’s money
California’s governor has proposed a $12bn plan to tackle its homelessness crisis, calling the situation in America’s most populous state “unacceptable”.
Buoyed by a large budget surplus and swimming in federal pandemic recovery money, Gavin Newsom’s proposal includes $8.75bn over two years to create an estimated 46,000 housing units, expanding on a program he launched last year to convert motels and other properties into housing. Nearly half the money would go toward housing in places where people with mental health and other behavioral issues can get services onsite.
Newsom, who faces a recall election this year, also proposed spending $3.5bn on rental subsidies, new housing and shelter with the aim of ending family homelessness within five years. The effort would help families with minors avoid losing their homes in the first place or help them get sheltered without spending days, weeks or months on a waitlist.
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During the pandemic, Newsom launched projects “Roomkey” and “Homekey”, using federal money to house homeless residents in hotels and helping cities, counties and other local entities buy and convert motels and other buildings into housing. Newsom officials said $800m spent on the Homekey program created 6,000 more housing units, providing shelter for 8,200 people.
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If Newsom’s plan wins support from the state legislature, its implementation would depend heavily on the willingness of local governments and communities to go along, which is often a significant barrier.
“Every community group that you go to demands that you solve the problem of homelessness, and then in the exact same meeting they’ll demand you don’t solve it anywhere near them,” said Nathan Fletcher, a San Diego County supervisor and a fellow Democrat who appeared with Newsom.
The governor’s proposal is part of a $100bn pandemic recovery plan Newsom is rolling out this week, thanks to an astounding $76bn budget surplus and $27bn in new funding from the federal government’s coronavirus spending bill.
So- $100k each to get them off the sidewalk? Annually, I assume. It would probably be cheaper to put them all in jail.
Bring back loitering and ‘no visible means of support’ laws.
/jk
Even in SF the neighbors bitch about the bum-hotels.
So of course the answer is to throw good money after bad.
Sorry, California.
Sorry, California.
No, California deserves this. Everyone who lives there and votes for these meat puppets deserve this. They haven’t even begun to get the full measure of the misery their ignorance and arrogance demand.
I just heard a comedian who moved to Austin, TX say the homeless are bad there, too. It’s like it’s a symptom of lefty politics. (I mean the disproportionate accumulation of homeless in a particular city, not the underlying mental illness or substance abuse or whatever.)
Correlation? Or causation???
The underlying mental illness is likely exacerbated by a number of lefty practices. Convincing people that victimhood = status, that they are helpless to improve their own lives, and that they are entitled to the things they want without any regard for their own role in obtaining those things all seem like ideas that will break a mind.
“I just heard a comedian who moved to Austin, TX say the homeless are bad there, too.”
My son confirms this. The bridges and overpasses are getting star ratings .Some are snow birds and move north as spring arrives.
“swimming in federal pandemic recovery money”
Yeah, sure.
You can’t even walk right, you fucking white supremacist.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/northwestern-journalist-white-people-sidewalk-racism#toggle-gdpr
Somebody should try walking in New York or Shanghai.
There’s racism everywhere!
People look everywhere for racism, and they find it!
Nice of him to identify himself as someone not to hire, ever.
So you’re saying he’s got a non profit gig lined up?
Government employee.. Senior leadership.
Funded by tax dollars
Or, you know, if you want someone to move out of your way you could say “excuse me” to let them know you want to pass.
That’s even more racist of you.
Don’t you know that anti-racist citizens know the exact speed at which to walk to avoid impeding some and overtaking others?
It’s fucking SCIENCE!, dude.
“people … would not move out of our way”
Ah, there it is. It would be more appropriate for Kenny to say that he doesn’t want to get rid of white supremacy, but to install black supremacy.
And if they did move out of his way he’d accuse them of being afraid of a black man.
180mhp a few feet above the water?
Sign me up.
John Denver wants to come along…
And JFK Jr
Roy Halliday says hi.
A Colorado mom says she nearly got arrested at a Six Flags amusement park — when a security guard claimed her shorts were too skimpy.
Looks alright to me…
I wonder how many people tried to catch Pikachu that day?
Speaking of dress code violations, you probably shouldn’t dangle your Poke’ Balls out there for the world to see.
Yeah. Would.
https://twitter.com/newyorkyearzero/status/1391472528871370757?s=19
What is this, b roll from some late 80s movie?
EPL on Tuesday and Thursday… WTF?!
I’m just pretending this shitshow season already over. Because it is.
${Insert derisive soccer comment}
Was Liverpool sandbagging too when they lost to LC 3-1?
Probably. I didn’t watch because it was on “Peacock” which I’m not paying extra for.
We have Peacock because we had WWE Network and Peacock is actually cheaper than WWE.
Apparently ManU really wanted City to win the title as fast as possible?
I don’t understand sloopy when it comes to soccer. He is apparently the one non-owner of Spanish club who supported the Super League. WTF?
He’s not the only one but it is a weird take. Teams need to rotate, especially when their asshole fans protest and get a game cancelled.
The company I work for is supplier to large corporation I will call XX Corp. XX Corp is a well known food company that everyone has heard of and probably buys their products. XX Corp is “requesting” that we contact all our suppliers and have them tell us their “diversity status” which we must send to XX Corp on a quarterly basis. These are the diversity categories we are requested to track:
Minority Owned
Women Owned
LGBT Owned
Disabled Owned
Veteran Owned
What is the Tier 2 Program?
XX Corp supports using diverse suppliers and as part of our supplier diversity program, we encourage our suppliers to increase their use of diverse suppliers for the activities that they perform for XX Corp. In support of this initiative, XX Corp manages a Tier 2 program that requests its key suppliers to report their use of diverse suppliers to XX Corp.
What do I need to do?
Every quarter you will receive a reminder to submit your data to XX Corp. Please login to XXXXX and provide your information by the requested date.
What information do I need to report?
You will be required to report your use of diverse supplier over the prior quarter. This is reported in 1 ways:
· Indirect Spend: Your spending with diverse suppliers that was not related directly to the fulfillment of any specific customer contract. This spending must be reported for each diversity category.
The disappointing part is that the powers that be at my company are considering doing this. I would have not problem telling XX Corp thanks but no thanks.
“get bent” should be the response.
So XX Corp is demanding you select suppliers based on racist criteria.
Sure, sounds legit.
Ready a fucking lawsuit would be my response…
According to XX Corp It is only a “suggestion”….. hahaha.
https://www.veteranownedbusiness.com/1818/firearm-accessory-manufacturers
“Why did you buy $100k of AR15s?”
“To get our diversity numbers up.”
I wish I knew who XX Corp. so I could stop buying anything from them.
Sheeyit. Then you wouldn’t shop anywhere and I wouldn’t have any customers. We produce retail food and get “ethical audits” from the big chain grocery stores all the time. They actually come into my plant and interview random employees with no plant management present.
See, this is some of that “pessimistic about the country” some of us were talking about last night.
This shit is not going to end well.
Depends on whether you regard the point with people hanging from lampposts as the end or the stage after that where hopefully lessons are learned as the end.
We’re only at the requiring diversity reports stage in our legal department, but other parts of the company are starting to require more.
We have so much non-productive shit going on right now that it’s a wonder we actually make a profit.
If you no longer wish to buy our products we will be sorry to lose you as a customer, but you will not tell us how to run our business.
Does your customer have a prime contract to supply the federal government perhaps?
I don’t know if they are a prime supplier to the Fed Govt. The bulk of their products are sold in grocery stores.
So they probably also sell to military exchanges and that is the govt’s hook for this.
That is a distinct possibility. We also sell directly to AFEES but haven’t received any such request from them. Yet.
On the bright side, when the economy comes apart at the seams, companies will figure out rather quickly that they can’t afford this shit.
Just got a training video from corporate yesterday. “Please Don’t Die Of Heat-Stroke On Our Watch!” The same asshoes that mandated triple-ply masking… I wore shorts to work last night so I wouldn’t overheat and the single ply comes off at every opportunity. If I can’t breathe, I can’t work.
Check out minimally compliant masks.
Would this be a good set up for a disaffected worker to threaten the company with a hostile workplace lawsuit and receive a juicy settlement? Document how such practices makes one uncomfortable, and report that to direct manager, and then to HR; then again document the inactions by company to address your concerns.
Sieg Heil!
That train image looks like something from Tonio’s next “Cold Open”..
So many bad designs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h44AU_PaZ-k
Some of these can’t be real.
Please.
Started watching, then saw it was 8 minutes. I have seen the mismatched carpeting stairs in hotels before. Seems a bad idea when your bar is on the lobby floor, and closer to the stairs then the elevators.
I’m guessing the ones where railings block a large percentage of the steps are due to some government rule saying a hand rail must be within X distance of everyone on the stairs, so they had to install them after the fact.
All I get is ads and I can’t get past them.
Youtube must have changed their code again.
I’ve never seen a Youtube Ad while using Brave browser. I’m shocked YT hasn’t “broken” Brave’s ability to do this, but still works!
I made it half way through. Comically bad designs.
My best friend when I was 11 lived in house that had been DIY remodeled. They added a new staircase, but kept the old one, which now went from the master bedroom closet to the pantry.
First time guests to my house always get confused about where the upstairs is. The stairs up are fully enclosed, and there’s a set of doors by the foot of them. People always think it’s a closet until someone else shows them or goes upstairs to get something. The second floor is clearly visible from the outside of the house as well. It entertains the girlfriend and myself.
Midnight snacker?
CPI up 4.2% compared to last year looks like inflation is here… As if we didn’t already know.
You can’t hide it, so obviously the thing to do is keep spending and blame Trump.
It’s not “real” inflation.
/the Fed
What we need to do is have the government spend another 2t before prices get out of hand!
Biden Proposes $2 Trillion Bill To Study What’s Causing Inflation Rates To Rise
There was only a 50/50 chances this wasn’t a Bee headline.
LOL
I have it on good authority from government propaganda sources that it’s “transitory”.
It identifies as interest and deflation?
Yes it is in transit from inflation being hidden by foreign demand for dollars to hyperinflation and currency devaluation. The transit takes a long while because it starts out with a very slow rate of acceleration, but the rate of acceleration is accelerating at an accelerating rate.
Baseball birthdays:
Lou Whitaker, who should absolutely be in the HoF
Yogi Berra, who is
Lave Cross
Felipe Alou
Lance Lynn – still active
Chicken Wolf
I had to go 6 deep to get to that name, couldn’t leave him off, not sure why Sloopy did.
180mhp a few feet above the water?
Sounds like a hovercraft.
Miles / Horsepower? That is a very odd unit of torque.
In an extreme example of sexual dimorphism, however, males are typically only 1 inch long. Male Pacific football fish become “sexual parasites,” where they eventually become part of the female fish itself. In the process, they lose their eyes, internal organs and everything else but the testes, “and serve as an easily accessible source of sperm,”
Well that takes all the fun out of procreation.
Organizations shouldn’t be able to fast-track BK proceedings simply to avoid scrutiny.
But DA’s should not have the explicit goal of eliminating an organization.
Hah! That Billy Squire video was him pissing away millions of dollars. It’s been linked here many times but what was he thinking? Oozing about on the floor, flamboyantly dancing about and shooting his fists in the air like he was auditioning for a gayer version of Glee? His band was pretty solid and the guy had a great voice. Not gonna cut it it in the age of AIDS. Not with his audience.
Watching 80s videos without the sound is hilarious
What do I need to do?
Every quarter you will receive a reminder to submit your data to XX Corp. Please login to XXXXX and provide your information by the requested date.
What information do I need to report?
You will be required to report your use of diverse supplier over the prior quarter.
We purchase our raw materials and inventory legally, from legitimate and competent suppliers.
The End.
“When I first got to Northwestern, I wondered why walking around on campus could be so frustrating,” he wrote. “Even when sidewalks were relatively empty, I would often have to walk way around people to pass without bumping into them.”
Those dumb hicks don’t even know what a pimp roll is.
Yes you went to Harvard on Lake Michigan and even with the amazing opportunities that come with that diploma you still must find something to complain about?
(I am assuming that Northwestern hasn’t been as consumed by social justice crap as the actual ivys and still has some institutional credibility.)
OCO is my favorite baseball stadium. East Bay all the way!
And unlike everyone else who has lived in the bay, I fucking hate that POS the SF team plays in.
I would take Candlestick with all of its warts in a heartbeat.
West Bay is where it’s at.
The Colliseum was nice for its time, but Mt. Davis ruined it. Candlestick sucked especially when it had artificial turf.
And-
XX Corp is “requesting” that we contact all our suppliers and have them tell us their “diversity status” which we must send to XX Corp on a quarterly basis.
Dear XX Corp-
What sort of racist asshole goes around badgering his suppliers to provide racial and ethnic information completely unrelated and irrelevant to the daily course of business operations?
Your obsession with racial categorization marks you as an operation unfit for a continued business relationship.
How long should people who play games on their phone in waiting rooms with the damn volume jacked up be imprisoned for? Some people, I swear.
Also, if your phone rings in a restaurant and you have to take the call, that is okay, but WALK OUTSIDE. No one wants to hear your conversation.
It’s obvious here who never takes public transportation.
You can either rage or keep repeating “serenity now” or move to Japan.
I have heard everything from fights of all kinds to gynecological appointments.
Take two cheeks and call me on Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.li/Gjdjj
SJWednesday: Non-Sequiturs Make Great PhD Theses In Grievance Studies
“Homebirth offers…”
If you wanna do x, do x; if you don’t, don’t. I might want to read why somebody made the decision they did, but I don’t want them to tell me that x is anything itself. X is what it is. It’s your preference, your experience of interacting with it in a context, that might be worthy of examination. But your contextual opinion of x is not x, and it definitely doesn’t apply to humanity as a whole.
Hell’s bells.
Thanks, Edit Fairy!!!
Customer calls me about every 6 months to get a quote on equipment and never pulls the trigger.
Calls today and I won’t give him a quote because I can’t replenish my rental fleet due to shortages. He of course gets pissed off.
Probably required to get X quotes for the process, but has a preferred vendor.
Nah. He’s just a cheapskate who fails to see how annoying it is to repetitively ask for quotes he never follows thru on.
I can’t replenish my rental fleet due to shortages
You run a west coast Uhaul?
I am a self loathing neurotic New Yorker and I miss everyone else being as miserable as me.
So many assholes have come out of the closet in the past year.
It reminds me of the 18 months after 9/11…
Yeah, pretty much.
The Nation? Of course.
Fear is a path to the dark side.
Also, JP is on it.
Homebirth offers an opportunity to experience birth outside of the institutions of society that all too often cannot see or respect us in all of our human complexities.
Dishwasher pugilist cavort green mesomorph ponderous.
Sigh. Proof that there are no good guys in the Police vs. Minneapolis yahoos fight.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that 99% of the physical injuries are bullshit. Lower back pain, dizziness, chronic fatigue. You know the shit that is nearly impossible to disprove.
Cops or Teachers? Which group of “heroes” are the biggest posers?
They’re sick…of their jobs.
I really hope Rand Paul is able to destroy Fauci completely. Fauci belongs in jail.
Rand put a release out on his Facederp account yesterday about the grilling.
I swear half the comments were Fauci-bots ranting about how Rand isn’t a real doctor and he needs to be worshipping at Fauci’s feet for saving the country.
Yep, the rest of the media says Fauci owned Paul.
Our media fully meets the actual definition of fascist any more.
We have been living under Faucism.
I’m joining up with AntiFau and burning some health clinics down
If you actually listen to Fauci, you could tell he was carefully parsing his answers. The old “depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is” defense.
I’ve been a bit optimistic lately by the number of people I know who have been quietly turning on Fauci. I think the whole “you still have to wear your mask after getting jabbed” routine was him jumping the shark.
The bad news for Drake is that if you overtly do the “I told you so” dance about Fauci, all those former believers will dig in and defend him still. It is like arguing with your spouse, you just need to quietly accept victory and move on. So I don’t think Fauci will ever get the orange prison suit he deserves.
Being abandoned by the Media will probably hurt Fauci more than being tossed in prison anyhow.
Of the two Paul is the Doctor still treating patients.
Has Fauci ever treated a patient?
Yes. Back when he went by his old name, Mengele.
I think you mean Nonbirthingpersongele
Yeah, nothing like a good long look at the average American these days to send me plummeting into pessimism about this country.
On a related note to the speed limit conversation above, here is a 5 year old article that was reposted earlier this week. You can even see my minor criticism in the comments.
Engineers Should Not Design Streets
Ok, I’m convinced. Florida cities are the opposite of that idea. You can’t get anywhere efficiently, accidents are common, and no street is pleasant to be on in any way.
Most cities are the opposite of it.
The funny thing is that you think cities would do better just from a tax base perspective. The blocks with the highest property tax/acre rate in almost every city is unbuildable today. You would think cities would want to encourage duplication of the high tax areas. Instead zoning makes those type of blocks impossible to build. Generally, they are mixed use, with storefronts on the street level with offices or apartments above.
Also, that article was written by a civil engineer, so its not like he is anti-engineer.
In contrast, the function of a street is to serve as a platform for building wealth.
Aaaaaand I’m out. It strikes me as the same exact kind of social engineering the prog fascists engage in. “It’s not just a street, it’s an avenue for improving justice! “
See my comment criticizing that.
It is mostly the exact opposite of that, he is a conservative with some libertarian leanings, but I really think he is wrong in that description (although I criticized it oppositely from you, I said it sounds like something from a Rand novel).
I should’ve been more clear. I don’t think he’s a prog. He doesn’t come off as one. But he’s susceptible to the same exact impulse to socially engineer irrelevant things to fit his hobby horses.
Yes, I agree. I think part comes from the fact that the people he works with tend to the proggy side, so he writes in a way to attract them.
I like much of his earlier writings better than his later stuff.
“I wonder how many people tried to catch Pikachu that day?”
Count me in.
Shocking maybe, but I find it kind of gross when a mom dresses all skanky while pushing a baby carriage. Not this story, but it is something I saw today. Creepy, but I did take an extra long look to be sure it was creepy.
ラッキースケベじゃない?
きもかわ。
笑
Honest LOL. For everyone this is a portmanteau of cute + creepy. I think it’s an awesome word.
Why do you hate sluts Straff? Sluts are what makes the world go round, yo!
Apparently has a boyfriend.
Thigh tattoo looks trashy.
Pics without mask, and of her ass, because Wednesday, here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9562201/Autistic-mom-says-threatened-body-shamed-Six-Flags-police-short-shorts.html
I blame global
cooling,warming, climate change.‘It’s a tragedy.’ French winemakers face devastation after worst weather in 30 years
We had april frost as well but I think a dozen or so apricots made it. It did not affect the cherries or the sour cherries or the plum trees it seems. But the stupid apricot trees always bloom early
Just had a frost warning here for the past two nights.
It’s fucking MAY!
I woke up to frost in my yard the past two mornings… gah!
When it’s colder than normal it’s just WEATHER!
It’s only climate change when it’s warmer.
Exhibit #456,642,493,456 for the separation of school and state.
I realize it’s counter-intuitive, but gifted students are actually a category of special needs students. When they aren’t given challenging enough material, they wind up having, not equal, but worse performance than non-gifted students. They tune out material that they already know or can figure out. But, that means they wind up missing material. This is a long-established and studied phenomenon.
This. Over and over.
I remember back in 75-76, when I was in first grade, I was tested to go to the magnet Advanced Program school. I found out, just a few years ago, that I was also tested for autism. It being the 70s, there wasn’t a lot of “sprectrum” talk, so I was diagnosed as “borderline”. School recommended to my parents that special ed made no sense for me, so put me in the AP and hope for the best.
My daughter, who is me turned up to 11, was diagnosed at age 2. She will do even better than me, because she has some social skills.
And yes, I can’t imagine going even slower than I did. AP wasn’t fast enough for me at times (hence the discussion from yesterday about skipping Pre-Calc).
And btw, this isn’t bragging on my part, being on the tail end of the distribution doesn’t really provide a whole lot of benefits. Unless I figure out how to become a wizard min/maxing to have a high INT doesn’t do much good.
And yes, I can’t imagine going even slower than I did.
Exactly. My guess is you’d wind up sitting around half the classes with your proverbial thumb up your keister. When that happens, surprise, surprise, kids wind up tuning out the class and looking for something to keep them mentally occupied.
if you want an omelette to be equity you have to break a few children
The Handicapper General will see you now.
I don’t like to brag (but I’m gonna just power through it) but this was precisely me in small-town Iowa schools in the Sixties and Seventies.
Me too. I did poorly in Elementary School and High School because I was bored shitless. I suspect a majority of Glibs have had the same experience.
Nah… I did fine through elementary and high school despite being bored shitless. Of course, I was generally reading a different book during the classes.
I got put in smartypants classes from 4th grade. I guess that’s passé now.
I remember having very anti-authoritarian views from an early age and always hating school. This was bolstered by the unjust bullshit that is standard for school (getting in trouble for “fighting” even if you just defended yourself, etc). I also seemed to end up with the teachers who took joy in humiliating students in front of the whole class when they made mistakes.
By high school, I had started to read some political philosophy and history in my own time, and sometimes I would ignore the assigned subject for an essay and write about one of “my own” topics just to show them that I could do it but chose not to. One of my best memories from high school was a day that I skipped and read Walt Whitman.
I still think the entire methodology of American government schools is a dismal failure.
Just pulled my dinner from the fridge and had five items hit the floor, one of which was a package of tofu that sprayed everywhere. Then namesake cat bit my elbow. Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean… Who needs this much food if you’re not named Nero?
let the items hit the floor
let the items hit the floor
I’ve got quick hands but only two. I can barely get at my milk for my morning tea.
At least you only spilled tofu, not any food.
There is that.
Sometimes a man just gets lucky
I get misty eyed when I think of my XX moving away, and then…
“What is all this inedible crap in my refrigerator???”
“Fights break out at the pumps as $50 gas rationing spreads across America: Biden administration begs people NOT to panic buy as 60% of Atlanta stations run dry and 1K across the South amid Russian hack on Colonial Pipeline”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9570811/Fight-breaks-NC-gas-pump-amid-Russian-cyberattack-fuel-crisis.html
It’s a gas station, not a waffle house.
“Why will it take a WEEK to fix the Colonial Pipeline? America’s biggest fuel pipeline is still days away from resuming full operations after falling victim to DarkSide cyberattack”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9568063/Why-taking-week-fix-Colonial-Pipeline.html
That’s a good question. They just can’t open it up manually?
And how will they exactly how much of every single thing they are supposed to report to all 500 regulatory agencies has been put through the pipeline?
Getting all of those agencies to waive their report requirements will take longer than fixing the problem.
/s somebody who works in a highly regulated industry.
Without knowing the details of their control system, the answer is generally no. With pipelines you have to carefully control flows and pressures that would be difficult to do in “hand”, also depending on what’s affected, safety systems may be down or flying blind. It’d be a bad day if a safety function trips a valve closed unexpectedly and you’re depending on operations to manually close other valves to prevent transient pressures from spiking elsewhere.
However, my question is the same: why is it taking so long? Should be able to rip and replace with offsite backups in practically no time
You should be able to.
Unless you have to re-register every computer with every industrial control device all the way down the line.
I actually just RTFA and its not even their control systems that went down, only their IT stuff. So from a controls perspective there’s zero reason to keep it down. Plants ran just fine without the internet and email in the past. Even remote monitoring software like PowerBI or IP.21 aren’t really necessary, can get that information from the operators or by walking over to the control room if necessary.
As far as revalidating control points, usually after a system rebuild a plant would just do spot checks on a few control loops per CP, no need to revalidate the entire system. That would be completely unneccessary and too time and cost prohibitive.
As someone who works with offsite backups a lot:
– They never recover 100%.
– They take an average of 300% longer to instate than the lab test.
See capitalism causes shortage.
YAY FOR A RETURN OF 1979!
Back in the good old days in Romania you had to sleep overnight, sometimes two nights in the car queuing for gas. If you were not in the car when the line moved forward you would lose your place as cars would pass you. My mom and dad did it in shifts. Off course the real problem was people wanting to have private cars. Without cars there would be no gas shortage.
Then again the waiting list for a car was around 7 years (5 if you wanted a trabant, more for dacia or oltcit or lada)
If they ran it like a Chick-Fil-A there wouldn’t be a problem…
Methinks the hackers bit off more than they can chew in this case.
You want your target to pay you and not to bring down the entirety of the US intelligence apparatus on your head.
I think you are right.
If only we’d do the same to all the damn illegal marketing phone calls.
A big one gets shut down about every 10 years or so. I believe this was the most recent.
They need to cull them again.
I’m tired of hearing from the dealer service center.
Since I’m home occasionally I’ll just screw with them
You called me to tell me my warranty has expired. I don’t need to tell you the make and model. You know.
What’s my name? Again you already know. You called me.
I usually see how long I can keep them on line while giving them zero information.
Basically they rip off the uniformed and elderly. Full stop just evil.
and not to bring down the entirety of the US intelligence apparatus on your head
They’re too busy policing pronouns and looking for vicious selfie-taking insurrectionists.
I think we’d have better luck if the pipeline owners hired a couple of guys with blowtorches, bolt-cutters and pliers to pay them a visit. (HT to Marcellus Wallace).
What US intelligence apparatus?
It’s a gas station, not Miami International Airport.
Greater disgust sensitivity among conservatives was probably a misimpression, created by research based on self-reports
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1392127228876558337
Social science being bullshit? Well I never!
Some of the comments above about the army and its officer corps reminded me of the Civil war. Until Lincoln shitcanned the political generals and turned command over to Grant, who brought in Sherman, the Union was well on its way to sharing the continent with the Confederacy.
Peacetime leadership tend to always fuck up war fighting, while war time leadership never does well once the fighting is over and the stupid fuckers look at the military as just a petri dish to conduct social experiments with. The skillset that gets you into the upper echelons and the general items of focus of peacetime leadership are practically always anathema to effective war fighting.
Only after he had hired and fire McClellan, Meade, etc.
I really marvel at George C. Marshall. I don’t think there was any individual as crucial to the US victory in WWII as him, not even close.
I have a similar degree of respect for the man. He was extremely good at getting the right people in the right positions and he (and Nimitz) managed to keep McArthur reined in which was likely a full-time job by itself.
Apparently Benning shit-canned the reforms he had implemented there in the post-WWII era.
Bradley didn’t oppose that?
In boot camp, the Marines teach you that the reason we had so many good officers when WWII started was because guys like Chesty Puller had spent years in Haiti and Nicaragua fighting rebels. So the officers and senior NCO’s had all heard shots fired in anger.
I think the next time the US tangles with another big power, there is going to be a lot of consternation when our intersectional generals have xer asses handed to them.
“They won’t respect my pronouns and willingly cede air superiority!”
I think the next time the US tangles with another big power, there is going to be a lot of consternation when our intersectional generals have xer asses handed to them.
I think you’re right here. The biggest problem is that, unlike in previous peacetime interregnums, the war fighters haven’t just been held back or put in less high-profile positions. They’ve been actively rooted out and cashiered. I’m not terribly confident the U.S. will have the ability to switch to a war footing should it prove necessary.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/his-womanizing-was-well-known-flood-gates-open-biographer-details-microsoft-founders
In other news, water is wet.
” who recruited local strippers to attend naked pool parties,”
I fail to see the problem here.
Srsly. What do they think is the point of being a billionaire?
To opress brown peoplez!
/CRT
You mean Cis-het females make for cheaper prostitutes than Cis-het males?
I must ponder this.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9570205/Demi-Rose-flaunts-eye-popping-assets-pink-orange-wrap-bikini.html
You provide a welcome bit of predictability in a disconcertingly changeable world.
I thought he demeans the hangout of STEVE SMITH
And what is Q? Chopped liver? 🙂
Good morning everyone. Things are hectic at work, so I’m still sifting through yesterday’s articles. Disappointed that I missed prime time on Ozys. I spent almost 2 years in Nanjing on business and had the time of my life. Those pics of Hangzhou really took me back. Never really could get into Shanghai, it was always too crowded and too stuffy/business like compared to the laid back college atmosphere of Nanjing.
Of course what I really miss was the food. Just can’t find hotpot or hand pulled noodle bowls here like I had there. There was a spot we’d eat every day, about a kilometer away from our plantsite. It’d be 30C and we’d all walk down there, get in line in an unairconditioned building and for boiling hot noodles with several spoonfuls of Chinese peppers. There were 3 chefs and it was fun watching watching assembly line efficiency. 1 man rolling and stretching noodles over and over again again what must have been hours, another woman cutting massive chunks of roasted beef with an ancient steel cleaver, and another manning the50 gallon pot serving up steaming hot bowls and collecting everyone’s rmb.
We’d be drenched in sweat long before we made it back, but it’d be worth the change of clothes.
Thanks, Cowboy. I joke about Chinese food, but I came to love huo guo – and I learned how to enjoy spicy hot food.
WATCH: New 25 foot-tall statue unveiled in NYC, Rockefeller Center to honor “African culture” – Smithsonian Magazine
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1392260512252051461
I mean better than a testicle on a stick
I think the artist is trolling all of New York.
That really isn’t the Babylon Bee?
I actually think it’s kind of cool. Do they ceremonially light it up every Kwanzaa?
It’s a butt plug.
Is it a statue of Al Jolson?
Is that The Watcher or M.O.D.O.K?
The Watcher.
I find it kind of gross when a mom dresses all skanky while pushing a baby carriage. Not this story, but it is something I saw today. Creepy, but I did take an extra long look to be sure it was creepy.
I just tell myself she’s the big sister.
I wonder if she will be the one that bangs her daughters boyfriend/husband….
I bought artisanal no added sugar blueberry sweet preserves. The label says 100% blueberries and no other ingredients. I don’t get how it is made just boil some blueberries?
Anyway despite the romanian name Dulceață (meaning sweet thing) it is more sour than anything else
just boil some blueberries?
Yup, just need to release the liquid and activate the pectin, then pour it in a sanitized jar. The sourness is why sugar is typically added to preserves.
25 foot-tall statue unveiled in NYC, Rockefeller Center to honor “African culture” – Smithsonian Magazine
Holy shit. If a white man had come up with that, he’d be looking down the barrel of a lynch mob.
So who here is team Israel and who team Hamas?
I am team nuke everyone already.
Can’t we stay out of it?
I’m pulling for a secret group of Christian terrorists to come out of nowhere.
I’m pulling for a pacifist leader to come strolling out out the desert.
The Judean Peoples Front?
Commie Pope is not very likely to call for a 6th crusade.
6th9thThe Battle of Tel Hai was fought on 1 March 1920 between Arab irregulars and a Jewish defensive paramilitary force protecting the village of Tel Hai in Northern Galilee. In the course of the event, a Shiite Arab militia, accompanied by Bedouin from a nearby village, attacked the Jewish agricultural locality of Tel Hai. In the aftermath of the battle eight Jews and five Arabs were killed. Joseph Trumpeldor, the commander of Jewish defenders of Tel Hai, was shot in the hand and stomach, and died while being evacuated to Kfar Giladi that evening. Tel Hai was eventually abandoned by the Jews and burned by the Arab militia.
Wait a minute… Trumpeldor? suspicious
I’m pulling for the man in the iron dome.
I’m pulling for the man in the iron mask, the one true Dauphin!
I find this far more likely than the forces of darkness being in perpetual control.
Whole thing is a pretty good read.
I lived through the 70’s once. Once was enough.
It depends on whether the states can rein in the Democrat fraud machines.
The Streets for Cycling Plan identified about 645 miles of “different levels of bike lanes” to be delivered by 2020. So far, the city has installed “about half of them,” she said.
“Success”
Vermonters sue governor
Some Vermonters are suing the government saying the state went too far during the pandemic.
A lawsuit was filed by eight Vermonters who claim government overreach.
In March 2020, Gov. Phil Scott declared a state of emergency and instituted the Stay Home, Stay Safe order.
In August, he put a mask mandate in place.
Opponents say it’s not the business of the government to decide these matters.
The UK can take its bogus statistics and bugger off.
From 16th March this year, CNN reports that there have been 45 mass shootings in the US; including four in which four or more people have died.
So, there were 41 mass shootings where 3, 2, 1 or 0 people died. Is murder-suicide a mass shooting these days?
They are counting drive-bys in Chicago?
My guess is if more than one person is shot at by the same shooter it is a “mass” shooting.
There is no hard and fast definition but the FBI defines it as
three or more people are shot (injured or killed), not including the shooters
Not everyone whom is shot dies.
Whom?
Yeah, I realize that, and I realize that not every bullet hits its mark, but TMITE frequently and intentionally conflates the colloquial meaning of mass shooting (messed up kid trying to shoot up the local movie theater/school/whatever) with the FBI (or some other substantially different) definition of mass shooting.
A few of those have been family-related or the shooters have known the victims. So, it’s not the random shooter phenomenon. It’s just more manipulation to make you scared of everything.
I absolutely love the English and their failure to understand our gun culture.
I read a review of “A Quiet Place” in “The Economist” where they were complaining that it touts American gun culture as “a solution”.
This is I guess because at the end they use a shotgun to blow away the bad creature after disabling it via a sonic attack.
This movie is set in a dystopian future where there is no government whatsoever and a race of monsters is wiping out humanity. And they used a FUCKING SHOTGUN.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-military-letter-warning-civil-war-france-gains-160000-signatures
How does that work when both sides wave a white flag?
They’re going to perform a necromantic ritual to summon the shade of Charles Martel.
[golf claps]
France couldn’t win a war so it is threatening to wage one on itself. Even then it still loses.
I know young people that are getting the jab that say they are not stopping with the masking. When I ask them why they invariably say that we’re not sure. I think they secretly groove on it. I had one youngster say to me last night that I should wear one “for her”. I’m a kind and caring man so she is not some statistic right about now. I didn’t argue, I just looked at her. That Grandparent over-the-glasses look? Unbelievable.
We are sure now. Even the CDC has admitted that spread rate from the vaccinated is a rounding error.
This whole mess has been about politics, fear and emotions. How do you contend with that? I don’t even try. Imagine that! A young’un asking me to mask up to protect her when her entire family has been inoculated. Ponder that in the tree of “Whoa!”
How do you contend with that?
For me, I’ve stopped engaging with them. I’ve had a few conversations with conservative, Christian friends that have converged on this disengagement point. “We need to circle the wagons with like minded people and start preparing for the time when we’re barred from polite society. It’s coming.”
There are a lot of reachable people who are going to be locked out of these nascent communities that are starting to form. But it’s a safety measure. The true believers will gladly starve us to death if given the chance. They’ll gladly infiltrate and skinsuit our communities if given the opportunity. They’ll happily report on us (truth or lies) when they discover us wrongthinkers. They’ll use whatever talking point works, whether it be bigotry or covid fear or outright intimidation of the impressionable.
Here’s some positivity for you Festus.
A couple months ago, I went down to THE U of M to see my kid. Streets were full of kids walking alone or in small groups (outside) all wearing masks. Really depressing.
Went down again a week or so ago and almost none of the kids were wearing masks. Asked the Altar Boy why the change and he said that the campus was abuzz about some Stanford study that proved that masks were bullshit. So the kids all decided to stop wearing masks.
Thanks! Lucky for me the new craze will hit Canada about a year late.
abuzz about some Stanford study
So they are relatively easily swayed in either direction.
If you want to be Mr. Half Empty, yeah.
The upside is that they are reachable.
Now we just need to work on their knee-jerk deference to credentials.
Good luck with that.
The Ivy Leaguers are the worst because they perceive themselves as to be of the elite. Flash some credentials at them and tell them the sky is purple.
*looks at history of youth movements*
Aren’t they all?
In Home Depot yesterday, the masked older checkout lady’s glasses fogged up and she rhetorically asked why they keep fogging up today. I told her it’s cuz she’s wearing a mask. She defiantly proclaimed, “And I have the shot, too, but I’m gonna keep wearing the mask!” I was unmasked.
“Okay, you crazy fucker!”
You should have danced a little jig.
My son says it’s because the risk is not zero. Because the risk will never be zero, I think it has more to do with signaling tribal affiliation.
^^^This is it, the Night of Nights! And oh what Heights we’ll hit! On with the Show, This is It!
It’s a fashion accessory now.
One of the
fewonly predictions I was right about a couple weeks into the lockdowns.I remember you saying that!
And nothing else, right? 🙂
For $5k, this woman who thinks “we unfortunately live in a pronatalist world” will tell your man whether or not to knock you up
https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1391500447920254976
Every day I realize more and more I am in the wrong business
Biological imperatives are the fucking worst.
I used to say that about tele-evangalism. I couldn’t do it because I couldn’t make it through the program without giggling and saying “C’mon man! You know I’m scamming you?”
Later at our startup consulting business, I had the same feeling making pitches to clients. I can’t overcome my small town origins. I think that $200K is a LOT of money and can’t quite get over clients who think nothing of writing that check.
Imagine how much it would have cost sloopy…
Nice to see Nikki got steady work.
Reckless smears and innuendo
“Perhaps it wasn’t directly into what ultimately resulted in this worldwide pandemic, but why in the first place would American tax dollars be going to a Chinese communist lab that was conducting some of the world’s most dangerous kind of research in a laboratory that we know, that we knew three or four years ago, had various low, sloppy safety practices? “It was extremely reckless.”
Poor saint Foochy. Why are Rand Paul and Tom Cotton persecuting him?
Yeah, them degenerates are elected – they appeal to people for votes; Fauxchi is a noble servant of the people!
MIT researchers ‘infiltrated’ a Covid skeptics community a few months ago and found that skeptics place a high premium on data analysis and empiricism.
“Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, and not an institution.”
https://twitter.com/commieleejones/status/1391754136031477760
That’s a gold mine. Apparently anti-maskers are better scientists than the I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE crowd. It’s beautiful.
No fucking shit.
I want the evidence because if you’re going to put a burden on me and impede my rights, you better damn well have a justification for it.
Science is a process? You mean it’s not just blindly repeating the pronouncements of some dimwit in a lab coat?
Hah! You silly prehistoric people clinging to your religion. Praise Science we have evolved beyond that!
Well…bye.
The New York Times:
More than 100 Republicans, including some former elected officials, are preparing to release a letter this week threatening to form a third party if the Republican Party does not make certain changes, according to an organizer of the effort.
The statement is expected to take aim at former President Donald J. Trump’s stranglehold on Republicans, which signatories to the document have deemed unconscionable.
“When in our democratic republic, forces of conspiracy, division, and despotism arise, it is the patriotic duty of citizens to act collectively in defense of liberty and justice,” reads the preamble to the full statement, which is expected to be released on Thursday.
Nah.
“When in our democratic republic, forces of conspiracy, division, and despotism arise, it is the patriotic duty of citizens to act collectively in defense of liberty and justice,”
WE KNOW! That is what we are trying to do
– Trumpistas
It is rich that these yahoos think that getting rid of Trump and going back to the genteel tradition of surrendering to the Swamp is the moral high ground. Sure ignore that a Dem candidate hired a foreign spook to peddle lies about her opponent to the Deep State.
“It is rich that these yahoos think that getting rid of Trump and going back to the genteel tradition of surrendering to the Swamp is the moral high ground.”
This can’t be pointed out enough. The whole MAGAgain thing, conservative media types saying we need to hold onto our country’s roots… I think it’s being framed wrong. The America known by us & multiple generations past is an America with Socialism behind the curtain. The current soft revolution, with the election of Trump as its first obvious symtom, is by the conservatives. We don’t want to “take back” the country in any way that we’ve really known it. We want to go far back into history, to dust off the rule book, and make America what is was intended to be, something we’ve never known.
OK – so what do you people exactly STAND for? [Other than whatever it takes to get elected.]
was supposed to bold: patriotic duty … to act collectively
Watch out for your screen names.
https://twitter.com/KikkiPlanet/status/1392225908526698497
LOL!
PM: What r u doin l8r? ?
I can relate to this. I was on the glibzoom a month or so ago, logged in as “tripacer aka squeaky buttplug”. Then a week ago I logged into zoom for a class, given by a teacher at the school where I’m employed. Luckily I was only the second person to log in, and the teacher didn’t say anything.
Dilldozer and Assblaster FTW!
Heh.
“Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, and not an institution.”
The horror.
The HORROR.
Its the Truth! Run!
More than 100 Republicans, including some former elected officials, are preparing to release a letter this week threatening to form a third party if the Republican Party does not make certain changes, according to an organizer of the effort.
“Nobody move, or the nigger gets it.”
Well, bye.
“Ferry from Twatt in the Orkneys to Scotland, and then you can drive south down through Cock Bridge, Dick Place, Cockermouth, move through Penistone and Cock Alley, slide east into Slutshole Lane, down through Fingringhoe, and end up on the south coast at Ass Hill and Shitterton.”
https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1390728296409731072
Went down again a week or so ago and almost none of the kids were wearing masks. Asked the Altar Boy why the change and he said that the campus was abuzz about some Stanford study that proved that masks were bullshit. So the kids all decided to stop wearing masks.
Of course, they have to be told by an Authoritative Source. They cannot reason it out for themselves.
“Israel did not exist until 73 years ago when they were a settler colony that took over Palestine and have been violently maintaining their position ever since. If you don’t know this history here is a good primer to get you started”
https://twitter.com/anitasarkeesian/status/1392134298065543168
CWAA
“Israel is gamergate”
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1392473732166324227
everything is gamergate why should Israel get a pass?
Wait what does Greta T think about it? That is the important question
“To be crystal clear: I am not “against” Israel or Palestine. Needless to say I’m against any form of violence or oppression from anyone or any part. And again – it is devastating to follow the developments in Israel and Palestine.”
https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1392112286479917061
The correct answer is “who gives a shit?”
I see Sarkeesian has retained her patronizing tone and presentation. It’s so endearing.
It got her a butt-ton of graft back in the day, what incentive was there to change?
So much for that 5000+ years of living there, eh?
It is hard to square up that you need a recognized nation state to exist yet there should be no nation states.
Actually seeing as prior to Christianity and Islam, a good portion of the Levant was Jewish. So, checkmate or king me… whatever.
That line of argumentation is dumb. A nation deserves to exist as long as it has the ability to hold power there.
Looks at the bible… “Umm….”
Apparently, she is not aware of the bronze age.
Not that I find the age of a country as a particularly compelling argument. At the end of the day, national sovereignty is entirely a matter of having the ability to occupy and control land. Lord knows that the Israelis have earned their land by right of conquest the land they hold.
VINCIJA SWIM 4K UNCUT / 2020 Swimwear Collection / Miami Swim Week 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRGFxfUUyWc
Nope. Clair is the reigning goddess of swimsuit modelling -https://youtu.be/cw_tRLcUcpw?list=PLi6AAD1N39QNcgiI4m0IB1ozHKN_aT3NT
Sorry, Claire – https://youtu.be/eE4z3o51CKE?list=PLi6AAD1N39QNcgiI4m0IB1ozHKN_aT3NT
When you need to tell them this, I think it’s already too late.
https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1392482092823502849
How about styrofoam cups?
That would be fun after a bit. I recommend you don’t hold onto the cup, though.
“Napalm sticks to kids…”
A controversial position. It is going to start an epic flame war.
I dunno. It might spark a new thought.
Oh my, that video.
^^ It’s fantastic.
-1 for no Raiders of the Lost Ark special effects
I touched it up for them.
https://www.kapwing.com/videos/609bea84294ab50052c09320
OH, and NSFW.
But awesome nevertheless!
that’s artwork there…
That’s the G rated version. Grossed myself out with the X rated one.
Pretty rich for an org that’s mandated unsafe gas cans.
Being able to not get anything out of the can under normal use IS a safety feature.
I have a couple of these. never paid that much for them, though.
I have the Justrite version with attach hose now. I don’t like the Eagle ones because the funnels get dusty and contaminate the tank and you have to fiddle with the clamping cap to get the funnels on (unless you leave the funnels on, but they stick out a bit and the dust thing). If I was a rich man, I’d get the Justrite cans with the DOT transport bars to protect the handle.
Yeah, I need to clean my funnels.
Um, ah, phrasing?
Stimulus!
https://ezpourspout.com/
I just picked up a gas can in Canada while I was driving through.
Plus a ‘water’ can nozzle for the ‘safety’ can.
The capless filling system in my car literally cannot be used with the ‘safety’ cans. It has a factory provided funnel for filling with regular cans.
That was on our local news last night and I nearly ignited – without benefit of being stupid with a gas can.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1Jqgs3XsAMba9p.jpg
She seems nice.
She’s Pakistani. If she said she liked Jews they’d probably behead her.
She’s quoting you-know-who. Approvingly? I suppose, but she can always deny it.
“This Hitler quote is, naturally, a fake Hitler quote. One of the weirder forms of anti-Semitism out there is the need to attribute additional anti-Semitic quotes to Hitler. Like, you couldn’t find a good one from him so you had to make one up?”
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1392286293787357186
Huh. How does he know it’s fake?
/pedant
Yet (((we))) continue to vote Blue overwhelmingly; y’know for the politicians who agree, if not specifically but in principle, with the phony Hitler quoter. (((We))) also lap up the lies of TMITE assigning fake anti-Semitism to OMB, the guy who did more to help Israel and Jews than any American president ever.
*smgdh*
I had one youngster say to me last night that I should wear one “for her”.
Where on earth do people get the idea that anyone else owes them something like that? She’s effectively saying, “I don’t have any particularly good argument why you should do what I want, but I want it and your responsibility is to meet my wishes.”. At some point, I would actually laugh if somebody responded that she should provide a blowjob. “For him”. Of course, in that case, masks would be kind of superfluous, I guess.
I think all this started with the participation trophy. We have a generation (or at least part of a generation) that is raised with the idea that somehow they’re special and entitled to everyone else’s cooperation because of how special they are.
The only reasonable response to such flaming entitlement is, “Go fuck yourself. I hope you die horribly.”
I can’t do that. It’s complicated.
Friend, she is 33. My step-kids have never masked and the youngest is the same age. I try to remain optimistic but weep for the future. I won’t dwell on it, overmuch. I’m trying a big old diet of “positivity” lately. Whistling past the graveyard is the only way that I can get past the ghosties!
Given how you’ve explained her, I expected her to be 19, not older than me…
Fair enough. The thing is, and I feel like I’m aging myself, 33 would be old enough to be part of the participation trophy era. Millennials are now fully grown adults.
And I understand my response was a little impolite. But, it’s just astounding to me that grown adults can be that entitled.
In my travels last month I saw that the people going unmasked were generally old or my age. I saw no younguns unmasked.
Most of the young people I have seen wearing mask are products of woke education, unable to do basic risk assessment analysis of any kind, demand a perfect world, with zero injustices, think socialism and social justice will grant them that, nd in general will get majorly fucked by life because of these stupid beliefs at one point or another. They also tend to be the ones making dumb mask fetish things like the one we are discussing…
Also, they’ve been hoodwinked into thinking that thinking scientifically means always obeying the government. So many people harp on about how loyal they are to science, facts, truth, reality, etc. but are totally incapable of any skeptical thinking. They don’t know how to reason, so truth becomes something that must be given to you by authorities.
That and they’re entirely incapable of applying their same so-called principles in a social context. Science and truth becomes “my truth” and lived experience when woke shit comes up.
There are three buckets here. The half caring hanger on who regurgitates whatever TMITE tells them without a second thought. The true believer whose brain is so broken that they can’t recognize the self contradiction. The opportunist who may or may not believe some of the stuff, but is more than happy to spout it all in furtherance of accumulating power.
I just spent a month driving around the mountain west.
Colorado: People wore masks
S. Dakota: nope
N. Dakota: nope
Idaho: nope
Wyoming: nope
Montana: mixed, nope in most places yes on the rez
Utah: mixed SLC yes, Provo nope Moab nope
You did bring those folks on the Rez blankets, right?
Too soon?
Were you in Denver? No one around here is wearing masks.
I think all this started with the participation trophy.
Effect, not cause. Society was well fucked before kids started receiving participation trophies.
Yeah, I realize that, and I realize that not every bullet hits its mark, but TMITE frequently and intentionally conflates the colloquial meaning of mass shooting (messed up kid trying to shoot up the local movie theater/school/whatever) with the FBI (or some other substantially different) definition of mass shooting.</em.
This. they are only too happy conflate domestic disputes, turf warfare and drug deals gone bad, and the infinite variety of personal grudges in which the shooter(s) and victims are known to one another with what most people instinctively think of, which is some random stranger coming up and shooting them for no reason.
Cranky old Florida Man goes to Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru, gets bad service, verbally abuses staff, is told to drive off sans cruller.
Instead, he walks into the establishment to berate the staff some more, and directs his ire at one man using a term that’s guaranteed to piss black people off.
He won’t be doing that again.
Goddamn stupid and avoidable, is what it was.
77-year-old Florida man should have been told that, at his age, all that sugar was going to lead to his death one day. Oh well.
A punch to the head can be lethal force. Act accordingly.
In this particular case though, we’re down one asshole who uses racial slurs over drive-thru service, and one asshole who punches people. It’s a victory for civilization, by my lights…
Too bad asshole two will be back at it in a year or two.
But yeah, awful story.
You know, somewhere long before you turn 77 you should realize that it’s long past time to stop going about acting like you’re Billy Badass.
Yup. There a no winners here. Just sad all the way around.
Pretty rich for an org that’s mandated unsafe gas cans.
[redacted rant]
Don’t hold back. It’ll just burn you up inside.
He’s just fuming.
There is a project in Romanian parliament to give people who vaccinate themselves one extra day of paid leave.
Ceaușescu’s private plane can be yours at auction
https://www.artmark.ro/ro/licitatie/all-stars-game-licitatia-de-eleganta/lot/avionul-prezidential-super-one-eleven-folosit-pentru-zborurile-oficiale-ale-presedintelui-nicolae-ceausescu-1986-ro-56471
I think all this started with the participation trophy. We have a generation (or at least part of a generation) that is raised with the idea that somehow they’re special and entitled to everyone else’s cooperation because of how special they are.
This also relates to a comment above, about the (aggressive) homeless in dark blue strongholds. Too many people have been taught they can do virtually any goddam thing they please, with no consequences.
Establish hobo jungles in city parks? Sure. It’s your right.
Shit in doorways? Sure. Why wouldn’t you?
Tell every random stranger they have to wear a mask because it will make *you* feel better? Of course. It’s only fair.
I’m out, sorry for the downer story. It’s almost like I can’t help myself. Hope all you Glibs have the best day possible! Good tidings and good day!
Well I got my very first brand-spanking-new guitar yesterday. Nobody’s messed with the truss rod or filed down any frets. It’s all on me. Any other guitarists in the house got some sage advice to throw my way?
Ooh! What kind?
Ibanez acoustic/electric.
https://www.amazon.com/Ibanez-AEWC32FM-Red-Sunset-Fade/dp/B07MHTTSQ3
Sounds terrible as an acoustic, and really nice through the amp.
If you are inexperienced, have a luthier set it up for you, it’s really not all that expensive and it’s worth it to have it done right.
I’ve been playing for years. Never actually set up a new one. Always bought used. Never had a new car either.
Practice at least 15 minutes every. effing. day. Have to get your fingertips toughened up, so try some cider-vinegar to soak them in for the first few days.
Or just be hard.
15 minutes, though. Pick it up and love that guitar every day.
I got this thing because I’ve got bitchy neighbors and an electric. Now I have something I can practice with without the landlord calling.
I have no words…
A ‘beautiful’ female biker was actually a 50-year-old man using FaceApp. After he confessed, his followers liked him even more.
The middle-aged father’s big reveal sparked a debate over identity in the Internet age: ‘The only thing I’m creating is … my appearance. Everything else is me.’
*shrugs*
Ugly middle aged dudes have been pretending to be pretty young girls on the internet for decades.
Ding, dong, the witch is dead.
I look forward to soon watching her as a Paid Contributor on CNN or MSDNC!
Lol
I liked the sentence preceding it:
She is a warmonger whose family stupidly pushed us into the never-ending Middle East Disaster, draining our wealth and depleting our Great Military, the worst decision in our Country’s history.
He’s not wrong.
And this one:
LOL
A martyr for the cause! Stand strong for big-government Republicans.
Best CNN typo ever!
The media home price in Brooklyn, as Mara Gay of the Times editorial board informed both men, is actually around $900,000.
The article is actually a better version of the George Bush gotcha for how much milk costs during the 92 debates. As this is at a relevant concern.
These 2 NYC mayoral candidates have no idea what a house costs in Brooklyn
Yeah, that’s incredibly out of touch.
Also out of touch.
Former cop Eric Adams is the front-runner from what I’m hearing.
Heard the same. Manhattan seems to be looking at 1980s levels of crime and I guess people have had enough.
True, though Brooklyn has more voters and WAY more crime. Probably Queens too.
I remember the George Bush grocery scanner amazement lie was used to make him appear out of touch.
Ding, dong, the witch is dead.
I hope she pledges her undying fealty to Nancy and the Democratic Socialist caucus. That’ll get her votes in Wyoming.
Something something on the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
180 mph in ground effect? What could go wrong?
I’m hoping it’s pilotless.
I love calling people I’ve never spoken to before to schedule interviews of third parties. /end sarc
But, supposedly this is what they pay me for, and not the years of troubleshooting and technical expertise.
Speaking of work twisting arms… they’re trying to rope me into management. I need to figure out a graceful way to say “Hell, no.”
Yeah, but in my case, it’s the only way I’ll get paid more.
I’m at top of grade and all promotional opportunities are managerial. I don’t want to hop to a different job doing peoplesoft, so I need to get some transferrable skill on there. Some management time will help have something on my resume.
Same here.
I’ll probably bite the bullet and do it but it’s becoming clear why it comes with a raise.
Because it comes with a lot of tedious bullshit no sane person wants to do.
Add me to the list. At least the worst person (who I was warned would be under me), has already been provided his Professional Improvement Plan.
I can do the work, I just don’t like the work.
But the same is true with PeopleSoft, so… I’ll take the cash.
What sort of crappy voicemail system do these people have?
VM finishes spiel.
*beep*
Me: “Hello, this is-”
*Beeep*
VM: “We did not get your message.”
Try Spanish or press 1 for English.
+ 1 Caspian Sea Monster
That was supposed to go under Francisco d’Anconia
Banana republic federal agency and legal system confirmed yet again…
This is business as usual for these fuckers. And they were not afraid to do this to a sitting president. Why do people think they will fare better against them when they don’t fear going up against a sitting president?