Hey, kids! Happy Thursday. Just one more day to get through before the weekend! Woohoo!
I’m super busy (what else is new), so if these links are inadequate, share some amongst yourselves. (Like you wouldn’t anyway!)
Well, it better still be free.
There is a list of devices included so you can opt out.
Uh-huh. Sure, they have “injuries.”
OK, I am outta here. Share your own soundtrack for the afternoon!
“Well, it better still be free.”
I hope so too. Doesn’t M$ own github?
If not free can we get rid of answers that ignore the criteria of the question?
Well, the best way to get answers on Stack Overflow is post something wrong, then read all the corrections.
I wonder if wellakshually.com is registered.
It just redirects.
As it should.
“Why do you want to do this? Why don’t you do something else instead?”
The most common comment type on Stack Overflow
TBF, “X Y Problems” are incredibly common there.
The common problem I had was:
Q: “How can I do X using only the standard library? I am in a restricted environment and can’t use 3rd-party packages.”
A: “Use this 3rd-party package.”
I love those responses.
“Write it in Go so you don’t have to deal with dependencies”
😛
(seriously, that’s half the reason I’ve learned some Go)
So true. I fricking hate that, but it is ubiquitous on many forums about technical topucs
Doesn’t M$ own github?
Yes.
$7.5 billion if I remember correctly.
The Bee really is cribbing from SugarFree.
“I still can’t hear the sound of a garbage disposal without triggering my PTSD.”
[golf clap]
Based in New York, closely held Stack Overflow operates a question-and-answer website used by software developers and other types of workers such as financial professionals and marketers who increasingly need coding skills. It attracts more than 100 million visitors monthly, the company says.
Stack Overflow has been a big help for me. I wonder what will happen to it after the acquisition.
“On June 8, Amazon, the Web giant with tentacles reaching into every nook and cranny of our lives, is going to stretch those tentacles out further by turning all its gadgets into little cell towers so they can help each other out with little slices of bandwidth. It’s created a new Wi-Fi protocol with no beta testing to get your gadgets to talk to one another: a recipe for potential security and privacy problems, some experts say.”
No shit.
Anyone with an activated Amazon Alexa device in their house is nuts and has already sold their privacy down the river so why not their security too?
Yeah, I don’t understand why anyone would want to own a web-connected device owned by The Washington Post.
Do you know how hard it is to get up and turn on the light in the room you are using? You are a caveman!
The sad thing is that it wouldn’t be any harder to simply put a zigbee or bluetooth chip (or even use the wifi chip) in the same “smart” device and kill the cloud component. For most devices, the cloud access is unnecessary. For the few devices where cloud is beneficial (Ring doorbell comes to mind), I’d personally rather set up a cloudless alternative and then VPN into my network to access it.
I had a couple of “smart” wifi bulbs I got for free and liked them quite a bit (I have my office color-shifting based on time of day, etc.) but got sketched out by the fact they require cloud connectivity.
I bought a Hubitat and started going zigbee/z-wave – things are slightly more for those, but I’m way happier having everything local. To the point I will actually consider a keypad deadbolt for the back door plus a open/close sensor – upstairs neighbor keeps leaving it unlocked and I don’t want to have to check every night.
Thanks, I’m going to look into that. I like tech stuff but anything cloud based is a nonstarter.
“smart” wifi bulbs
I have a bunch of those. They are on an isolated network and can only communicate directly to the internet. No local communication with any other parts of my network.
Still not ideal, but it’s the best I can do without spending hundreds more dollars.
Clap on! Clap Off!
Thinks of new sex toy….off to the drawing board!
Been done before.
Thinks of new sex toy….off to the drawing board!
You could make a fortune with a sex toy that removes the clap.
Psst.
A normie friend of mine has one in his house and I don’t even like talking in there.
“Let’s just grab a couple of beers and sit on the porch, bud.”
Is the porch within earshot of his Ring doorbell?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1866977.What_s_Become_of_Screwloose_and_Other_Inquiries
My answer: No fucking way and fuck you for even coming up with it.
At least 10 Capitol Police officers were out with injuries as of Thursday, according to a source on Capitol Hill and at the police union, while as of Friday, seven members of the D.C. Metropolitan Police force remained in a “less than full duty status” due to the events of the riot, a police spokesperson said.
I’ll bet their malady is known as “Gold Bricking”.
If the injuries are so bad, let’s see them or hear them under oath or affidavit.
No different than the one guy that we all know from our workplace that milks the disability for that ‘injury on the job’ at this point.
I’m willing to bet that the number of officers IOD is lower than usual
IOD? Internet of Douch?
Injured on Duty.
See I took China’s or whoever it was a completely different way:
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/06/03/chinese-state-media-tells-america-to-forget-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-and-focus-on-real-state-violence-like-capitol-riots/
I didn’t see that as saying the riots were like Tiananmen Square, I see that statement as “Look what your own government is doing….”
Even locking up people who got a bit silly for 20 years pales in comparison to unleashing tanks on students looking for liberty.
Agreed that the two are not comparable but I believe the take from the “right” is not getting the point, or at least what I read out of that statement, which is ‘don’t throw stones in glass houses’.
We like to say “he who lives in a glass fish house shouldn’t throw frozen minnows”
Probably shouldn’t poop thru the ice, either.
When you’re still an order of magnitude less worse, it’s like throwing stones in a house of bulletproof glass.
Soundtrack
I’ll bet their malady is known as “Gold Bricking”.
Malingering.
Setting up your disability retirement.
“The Cook County Deputy Sherrif Plan”
The good: Finally, a molten salt nuclear reactor used for commercial power generation. The bad: unfortunately, it’s being done by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. The ugly:
But if the lie that it’s to supplement BS wind/solar is what it takes to get us there, then so be it.
Look forward to amusing protests and sit-ins from enviros. Maybe OMWC will get to enact his Greta fantasy after all.
The Noble Lie. My problem is I’m not sure if Gates or Buffet know its a lie.
Oh, they know it’s a lie. As does the Harris(Biden) regime. They’ll continue to make war on the fossil fuel industry, but know the US needs more power than “renewables” can provide. And we’ll continue to be burdened with wind farms, for show.
This is slightly more hopeful than the grim future of rationing, and rolling brownouts and blackouts.
Do we care Gates and Buffet are financing this thing? I don’t share their politics but it looks like building this reactor is a good thing. Am I missing something important because it is connected to them?
Sorry, I have other obligations this afternoon, so I’m going OT early. I just wanted to let you know that the city of Minneapolis remains on the ball
The city started clearing out George Floyd square at 4:30 AM this morning! That is clearly some evil tricknology to start that early.
Better yet, they have outsourced security to a third party group composed of ex-gangmembers.
Should be some excitement because the peaceful protesters are not happy
Malingerers.
Is this the word of the day?
Agape? I bet they are real assholes.
That would be if their spokesman was Steve Smith instead of Steve Floyd.
Something’s happening around here. What it is ain’t exactly clear…
a peacekeeping force whose staff includes ex-gang members–
“What could possibly go wrong?”– The Rolling Stones.
“What could possibly go wrong?” – Alex deLarge
“What could possibly go wrong?” – El DeBarge
I read the Post story, and composed a long response.
Then I deleted it, because the Post is shit and I shouldn’t be wasting my time on that crap.
I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Citation needed.
Or maybe wypipo are becoming more aware of, and pissed off about, the chump effect.
“The GOP is now defined by “an all-consuming form of resentment politics”
Sounds like hipster-Dems complaining “We were doing it first!”
You can’t steal our shtick!
Here’s a list of all the bona fide Republican efforts to take us back to small government:
Huh.
At Federal level? Yeah.
At the state level? In NH, the Republican (*) budget from the State House cuts spending more than the governor wanted, cuts taxes across the board, and eliminates a bunch of state jobs. Sadly… those state jobs are unfilled, but baby steps. From the legislators I know, the tax cuts will stay in the Senate’s version of the budget but unfortunately some (i.e. not all) of the eliminated jobs and spending cuts are back. We’ll see what the conference committee comes up with, but I expect the NH government will be smaller and take a smaller bite out of taxpayers’ wallets.
(*) OK, OK, a significant number of NH Republicans are actually libertarians.
Apropos Meme.
We all know that white people, Christians and the wealthy don’t deserve any representation.
Well, its certainly not interested in small government, so I guess nearly anything else would be “more”.
I don’t recall seeing anything, other than the one nutter’s failed attempt at an Anglo-Saxon caucus or whatever, related to “defending” wypipo. Although if you count opposing critical race theory, that would be one. But that would be admitting critical race theory is anti-white.
Defending Christians? Again, not seeing it.
Actions have consequences? NOT FAIR!
Wallace said in a Wednesday interview with The New York Times that he had been concerned that a graduation delay would have prevented him from taking the bar exam this summer before starting a job with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C.
“I was astounded,” Wallace told the Times. “I couldn’t believe that without any more than this letter of concern they placed my graduation and everything I’ve worked for for the last three years, they’ve placed that under threat.”
Based on what was quoted in the article, “ur lame, lol” would have been an appropriate response.
“Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff models in first VOGUE shoot celebrating the ‘return of the mullet’ – which she calls ‘ugly-chic’ – just weeks after graduating from fashion school”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9649299/Kamala-Harris-stepdaughter-Ella-Emhoff-lands-shoot-Vogue-modeling-mullet.html
No.
She’s cute in kind of a bank teller or librarian way but the mullet’s gotta go.
I believe the word for her looks is “ordinary”. Not even cute (although if she ever smiled, who knows?).
In no universe would she get a Vogue shoot unless her mother was VP.
VP from the correct team, moreover.
Yes.
After the weekend’s graduation ceremonies, I can tell you that the mullet is alive and well. Business in the front, party in the back.
I meant no to Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter modeling.
Anyway, the mullet had it’s return two years ago.
Well, she DID say it was “ugly chic”, so…maybe she thinks she’s ugly?
I would classify her as “plain”, not ugly.
I would classify her as “plain”
Concur.
So, like a 5?
“No more than” a 5.
“Plain” means, more or less, not pretty, and maybe not homely. Maybe homely, too, if you’re being polite.
5-7 to me is “ubiquitously pretty”. You’re pretty or cute, but not in an eye-catching way. Nothing special. Not beautiful/gorgeous. You look like a bazillion other pretty/cute women out there.
Now, if a plain Jane has an amazing personality and is generally a happy person, she can be very attractive, even if she’s not pretty or cute.
Maybe more than that. I started noticing the trend with MLB pitchers a few seasons back (ironically, Jacob DeGrom, who was one of the guys who started the trend, is now clean-cut once again). The most notable offender, IMO, was Dodgers hurler Dustin May.
It sorta percolated down to the college and high school level from there. Hopefully we’ll look back on this in five years the same way we look at people who still wear Ed Hardy gear.
It was also popular among art students.
I don’t watch a lot of baseball but I just assumed the mullet never went out of fashion for them.
“Business in the front, party in the back.”
That has a different meaning in Arabic
In Cascadia as well.
And in Dari.
Appropriating hillbilly culture!?
Unattractive batshit crazy leftist with a piranha for a step-mother.
What’s not to love?
Stop, stop! I can only get so erect!
“Doctors from around the country say a Soviet-style ‘purge’ is underway in medicine as professionals are hesitant to voice opinions that run counter to ‘woke’ culture for fear of being labeled racist.
A new generation of medical professionals believes it is incumbent on them to confront patients on their racist views and to offer treatment to minorities.
‘I’ve heard examples of Covid-19 cases in the emergency department where providers go, “I’m not going to go treat that white guy, I’m going to treat the person of color instead because whatever happened to the white guy, he probably deserves it”,’ one doctor said.
The concern is so great that doctors are holding private Zoom sessions with colleagues in secret to discuss strategy as everything from medical research to doctor-patient relationships are viewed through a prism of race.
They say they are being reprimanded for criticizing patients for being late because doing so is perceived as racist and that if they question prevailing orthodoxy, they are being fired.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9649163/Top-doctors-warn-rapid-spread-deeply-illiberal-ideology-medical-field.html
This cannot end well.
It’s coming out of the med schools. There are going to be some very unpleasant happenings in this country if it persists.
My doctor went to a medical school in Argentina. He has that going for him.
My wife went to nursing school with a few foreign doctors… who failed.
Thinking nonwhites are incapable of punctuality is racist or bigoted at the very least and any doctor who’s reticent to treat a patient because of skin color shouldn’t be a doctor or in any position of trust really.
My problem is that most of what The Woke is calling race is actually class/socioeconomic status. Is it any easier for a rural white person without a car to get to a doctor than it is an urban black person without a car? At least in urbanville, you have a chance of catching a bus.
Yeah, if you look at similar SES across racial lines you see similar issues regardless of race but that doesn’t make for a good grift.
what The Woke is calling race is actually class/socioeconomic status
During some seminar in law school, I got a proto-wokester prof sputtering by mentioning that congruence. “Everything you have pointed to as evidence of privilege working against women and minorities seems to instead be consequences of poverty. Why not just tackle the root cause and raise up all poor people?”
“Ummm….err…..umm…. well, women and minorities are hardest hit!”
*roll eyes*
“Black” is the proxy for “poor.”
Nobody cares about poor whites, Hispanics, or Asians.
It has been ever thus. Ask me how I know.
Probably similar to the way I know.
It is indeed, but being unaware of the cultural phenomenon I was first introduced to as “tiempo Mexicano”, but which extends through all of Central and South America in my experience, will stress you out if you expect certain people to arrive on time (say, for kickoff of a soccer game…just as a random example).
“Afghan Time”
Last time I was on the island of Crete, making an appointment for some contractor to show up at your place was always specified as (for example) 1500 GMT; when I, confused, asked why Greenwich Mean Time was used, the person telling me this just grinned and said “Greek Maybe Time.”
Oh.
Southern Europe has a similar notion, though I think they are too lazy to give it a name.
So, when in Latin America, feel free to be casual about punctuality.
When in real America, maybe not. When in Rome, etc.
Seems to me like not expecting people from certain cultures to be punctual is racism. Or maybe cultural appropriation. Maybe both?
I’m just saying that when I tell my team to show up 30 minutes before kickoff, the majority of the ones that drag up as the ref is blowing the whistle tend to have a common cultural background. I expect them to be on time…but I also know that many of them won’t be.
I’ve also seen it in business meetings where the CA contingents would routinely show up 10-15 minutes late.
Which, of course, is why you tell just those folks that the meeting starts 15-20 minutes earlier than it actually does.
Its just my wypipo culture, I know, but I find being late to meetings (without a good excuse) to be pretty disrespectful of the other people at the meeting. By being late, you are wasting their time and signalling that you don’t think their time is really worth much.
Yup. Start on time, end on time.
It should be acceptable to start a meeting on time even if the late person is the leader. It should be acceptable to leave on time, even if it’s an important person keeping you long.
This is some dystopian level of thinking here.
That account from “one doctor” sounds like a parody.
criticizing patients for being late because doing so is perceived as
racisthypocritical.Fuck you and your waiting room bullshit. You work for me, not v.v.
If you’re late for your own appointment, you go to the back of the line. Why should somebody who was on time let you butt in front of them?
No issues with that. But if I’m on time and sit around for more than 30 minutes I think I’ve got the right to pissed.
Mrs. Sensei, RN got into a pissing match with outpatient surgery. They had a cancellation and asked us to come early. We did. However, the staff there thought we were late to the cancelled time slot and treated her like shit.
She proceeded to read all 25 pages of releases that we needed to sign as if she were an attorney negotiating a contract. I knew I married her for a reason. They were turning purple. Fuck ’em.
Sure, if you’re late, then either you get seen as can be fitted in (either because the appointment window is longer than necessary or other patients can be moved up/fitted in) or rescheduled. But in no cases is criticizing a customer appropriate. They are not my boss or my parents. Coupled with the waiting room heel cooling that goes well beyond my scheduled appointment the other way without more than a token flippant “sorry”, if that.
JFC, so much this.
Across the board, I’m annoyed by the “make sure you’re here on time, we’ll get to you when we’re ready” when I’m the one who’s paying.
(since I didn’t see RCD’s post)
I’m not expecting anyone to just wait until I breeze in, but 99.9% of the time I’m kept waiting when I am on time for an appointment (I’ve got a thing about being punctual, makes me crazy when I’m not [or we’re not, as the case may be]).
You can buy a stupid t-shirt for only $99
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9649099/Olivia-Wilde-keeps-cool-balmy-North-London-flowing-summer-skirt.html
You know what really cuts down on corruption? High taxes and stifling regulation.
President Joe Biden is placing global anti-corruption efforts at the center of U.S. foreign policy, issuing a new directive to federal agencies to prioritize efforts to confront the problem.
The instructions came in the form of a National Security Study Memorandum released Thursday, the first of Biden’s presidency. The memo formally establishes the fight against corruption as a core national security interest.
The memo is important because it publicly notifies federal agencies that they need to “up their anti-corruption game,” said an administration official, speaking to reporters on background about the directive.
The memo directs a 200-day interagency review of how to improve anti-corruption measures, culminating in a report and recommendations to the president.
A report! That’ll show ’em who means business.
So they are going to report on their own corruption? My guess we will see, at the end of the 200-days, a report that highlights any and all businesses that contract with the FedGov that are owned by white people, deemed as corrupt or at minimum, their contracts as such.
So they are going to report on their own corruption
My first thought as well. That’s pretty rich coming from the Biden administration.
Hunter Biden hardest hit.
Nah, he’s good. He’s got his money laundering “art” biz all set up.
The non-for profit CCP ( Congregation of Compassionate People) really like his artwork. I’m sure their interest is completely legitimate.
I guess the big guy wasn’t getting his 10%.
I was in Bozeman this morning. At one [point, I was behind a girl on a big green Kawasaki dirt bike She was just barely big enough to ride it. When she got to a red light, she had to scooch her cute little butt way over to the side, which just barely allowed her to get her tippytoe down to keep the thing upright.
It made my day.
I resemble that remark.
Soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIiFgzWsCYk
Hat tip to Los Doyers.
For all of the old-timers around here:
https://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=michael-j-hihn&pid=196606666&fhid=2644
RIP
89% of real libertarians agree, bully.
How do you get a fraction of a person?
Ask James Wilson
Were the names in parentheses spouses, or name changes?
Spouses.
Thanks. Thought so, but I’ve never seen that particular convention used, so I was confused.
RIP
He was one of the most accomplished sock puppeteers, ever.
I thought somebody took over his account and was trolling. Nope. It was all him.
I never knew he was local to me. I could have been called a bully in real life.
Shine on, you crazy, crazy diamond
He went to school with my mom….small world.
Oops, misread and thought it said he went to Boise High…never mind. Not a small world after all.
That name sounds familiar, like I should know it or something. Maybe it’s just a dream from a previous existence.
Is there an obituary with some guy named Weigel on it? That seems to ring a bell too.
He was an Hihnspiration.
RIP fellow libertarian. No matter how caustic he could be, he cared about liberty and that’s more than can be said about most.
Seconded, at least he gave a shit.
Well damn you for being generous and reasonable at a moment I would indulge my baser instincts.
Rest Hihn Peace.
Rest Hihn Peace. Seriously, im sad hes passed.
? Is that our Hihn? We don’t know, do we.
yes, that is he
Oh wow…and I was on his Top 10 list!
The Fauci email dump just proves how awful Trump was.
People like her cannot be reasoned with. Maybe in 40 years, they will come around, but I doubt it. The only thing we can do is make sure future generations are not told only one side of the story.
But it is important that such people be publicly discredited lest other low-information people take their hysteria at face value.
It occurred to me last night as I was nodding off that every single “conspiracy theory” from the last five years could turn out to be true and nothing will come of it. We are already getting a slow trickle of them and I bet much more to come.
I think that’s real, because a parody would have to be more subtle.
If you click the hashtag (don’t) but if you did, it seems like there are more people defending Fauci than trashing him. That could just be because Twitter is garbage though.
Never forget – twitter is a very skewed and isolated set of people. They do not reflect reality.
Are you talking about the employees or the users?
Applies to both, I think.
Kinda like here then?
If corporations began setting policies based upon the opinions here, we’d probably be happier.
The difference between our little corner of the web and Twitter is that the latter is a house of lies. From Dorsey’s pandering to Congress, to the “Trust and Safety Council”, to the way they actually make money, everything is obfuscated and everyone is duplicitous. You come here, you know who’s in charge, you know what the rules are, and you know there’s a bias from the start (see: the name of the site).
You come here, you know who’s in charge
I’m in charge of the music, right?
Punctuation.
Look CNN explains he is just being “misconstrued”.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says publicly released email about lab leak is being misconstrued
Nothing to read here. Move along.
Remember they are just providing cover for the people who need an “official” source to say it’s not true, so that they can feel good inside.
I don’t recall Trump actually suggesting any of those things. He mentioned light therapy because there was an actual trial going on.
But, let’s do talk about how Fauci was involved in trashing actual therapies that had shown promise. Fauci has long been obsessed with vaccines – his failed tenure as the AIDS guy was eaten up almost entirely by trying to find a mythical vaccine, while actual treatments were neglected. He has a history that goes back much further than COVID, and its not a pretty one.
Every one of his public statements can be directly counter-manded by another of his public statements, so he was always right… at some point.
The Bee captured that quite nicely.
A new generation of medical professionals believes it is incumbent on them to confront patients on their racist views and to offer treatment to minorities.
Have you ever heard the story of Androcles and the Lion, Doc? What do you think would have happened to Androcles if he’d said, “Fuck you, Lion, I won’t help you.”?
Fuck you.
You mean, like every doctor for the last 50 years? The beef doctors have is with Medicaid patients, who tend to be terrible about blowing off appointments, not following the plan, being demanding and difficult, etc. Minorities are disproportionately represented in Medicaid, but I’ve never met a doc who treated somebody with commercial coverage or Medicare any differently because of race.
Just what a white guy would say.
“received death threats from fellow scientists”?
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1400442987642077194
Damn.
“Redfield received death threats,” not “Redfield claims to have received death threats,” Iowahawk makes a good point there. Vanity it seems has something to back that up.
Listen, the earth is the center of the universe damnit. Now drop it before something happens to you.
The memo also identifies the need to address strategic corruption by foreign entities and governments “and their domestic collaborators” in part by “closing loopholes exploited by these actors to interfere in democratic processes in the United States and abroad.”
Legal activities which are not under our direct control, and do not benefit our team at the expense of the Republicans.
“Maggie Haberman is right. Donald Trump really does believe that he is going to be “reinstated” as president, alongside former senators Perdue and McSally. This isn’t “fake news” or the product of a garbled telegram. I can attest to it myself.”
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1400506899196428290
“Two days ago, the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman reported that Donald Trump “has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August.” In response, many figures on the right inserted their fingers into their ears and started screaming about fake news.
Instead, they should have listened — because Haberman’s reporting was correct. I can attest, from speaking to an array of different sources, that Donald Trump does indeed believe quite genuinely that he — along with former senators David Perdue and Martha McSally — will be “reinstated” to office this summer after “audits” of the 2020 elections in Arizona, Georgia, and a handful of other states have been completed. I can attest, too, that Trump is trying hard to recruit journalists, politicians, and other influential figures to promulgate this belief — not as a fundraising tool or an infantile bit of trolling or a trial balloon, but as a fact.
It will be tempting for weary conservatives to dismiss this information as “old news” or as “an irrelevance.” It will be tempting, too, to downplay the enormity of what is being claimed, or to change the subject, or to attack the messengers by implying that they must “hate” Trump and his voters. But such temptations should be assiduously avoided. We are not talking here about a fringe figure within the Republican tent, but about a man who hopes to make support for his outlandish claims “a litmus test of sorts as he decides whom to endorse for state and federal contests in 2022 and 2024.” Conservatives understand why it mattered that the press lost its collective mind over Russia after Trump’s fair-and-square victory in 2016. They understand why it mattered that Hillary Clinton publicly described Trump as an “illegitimate president” who had “stolen” the election. And they understand why it mattered that Jimmy Carter insisted that Trump had “lost the election” and been “put into office because the Russians interfered.” They should understand why this matters, too…”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/maggie-haberman-is-right/
So on one hand we are to believe that Redfield is making shit up, name names! and on the other, we are to believe that Haberman can attest to this. Got it. I was really missing my daily dose of propaganda. I can sleep well tonight.
Cooke must really think we’re stupid. Frankly, I don’t believe it.
” I can attest, from speaking to an array of different sources,”
Name Seven. Fuck you journalists, your profession has spent any good will towards “anonymous sources”.
Odd, I have no fucks to give about any of this.
The only reason I do is that this is the ticket to put away people who entered the capitol I believe and also a way to keep the newscycle churning. If Trump really does believe this, then he must be giving dog whistles to his supporters.
That may be so, and no doubt also NR wants to stay in the establishment’s good graces so Cooke and Williamson can avoid ever having to find real jobs. With “friends” like these, who needs enemies?
I’ve heard the “Trump reinstated in August” bit.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Of course, Trump could come out and say it’s BS, but he enjoys the BS a bit too much. Instead, it keeps him with the laser pointer, but it isn’t the same effect as when he was president.
There’s no process for that – you’d need a coup.
*taps nose*
You need more cocaine?
Oh, I see, you’re out of Parm
Even if if was found that the election was stolen it’s a moot point. The States have already ratified the election according to the Constitution. I’m not sure what the remedy would be in this case. (I’m not stating that the election was stolen, just stating a hypothetical.)
A monumental crisis in a sane world, a 30-second clip on the local news in our world. It would not reinstate or even trigger a redo of the election. However, it could be a big enough trigger for people to move from “not my president” to “we have a usurper and must be removed” in office.
The only way I see the crisis resolving itself would be for Harris to resign and Biden appoint Trump to VP (or an agreed upon person) and then resign himself. Beyond that yeah. Interesting times.
She doesn’t have to resign. She could take a page from Budd Dwyer instead.
So Trump is less delusional than Dementia Joe? Got it.
I’m not sure it’s possible to lower the bar any further.
Does Trump believe this? Maybe! Do I believe that this is in any way confirmed? Nope. I am not going to buying the “oh my anonymous sources corroborated their anonymous sources” routine anymore.
^Yeah this, give me a named source that’s reliable or get fucked.
It is all just grist for SugarFree’s mill…
” Washington State Mandates Critical Race Theory In All Public Schools
While critical race theory training is pitched as a way to ensure ‘equity’ in the classroom, in truth, it’s far more sinister.
As several states move to ban toxic critical race theory from indoctrinating students, the state of Washington is leaning in.
The race-obsessed framework isn’t relegated to schools in Seattle, where you’d expect a victim-centered ideology like critical race theory to flourish. Thanks to the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature, a trio of bills just signed into law mandates critical race theory training for all public school teachers. Another even requires training for medical students, teaching them it’s as essential to be social justice activists as it is to treat patients….”
https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/03/washington-mandates-critical-race-theory-indoctrination-of-students/
The Nation is so United now that Biden was elected
Good time to open a private school in the Northwest
STEVE SMITH ACADAEMY, OPEN SOON!
Bring it on.
You have good liberals at snooty Manhattan prep-schools rebelling against this shit. You think the average Joe Washington is going to play along with it?
“Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban
Going forward politicians will be treated more like everyone else
Facebook plans to end its controversial policy that shields politicians from the content moderation rules that apply to other users, a sharp reversal that could have global ramifications for how elected officials use the social network.
The change, which Facebook is set to announce as soon as Friday, comes after the Oversight Board — an independent group funded by Facebook to review its thorniest content rulings — affirmed its decision to suspend former President Donald Trump but critiqued the special treatment it gives politicians, stating that the “same rules should apply to all users.” The board gave Facebook till June 5th to respond to its policy recommendations….”
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/3/22474738/facebook-ending-political-figure-exemption-moderation-policy
King makers.
I look forward to the death of Facebook, and I am glad to see them hasten their own demise.
an independent group funded by Facebook
I don’t know who they are independent from, but its not who is funding them.
Whitewash FB’s actions and coopt their critics by making them own FB’s decisions.
So we should see an AOC ban coming down the pipe?
I’m sure that’ll be applied evenly and fairly. Good job Zuckerborg.
Can’t wait until, say, AOC gets suspended.
Ha! Take that!
Dammit!
I think you meant Dammit!
Kinda like here then?
Skewed and isolated is no way to go through life, son.
Frankenstein’s monster hardest hit.
Even if if was found that the election was stolen it’s a moot point. The States have already ratified the election according to the Constitution. I’m not sure what the remedy would be in this case. (I’m not stating that the election was stolen, just stating a hypothetical.)
As a purely hypothetical exercise, I assume a President who can be proven to have stolen the election would be subject to impeachment. That still does not put the loser in the White House.
Exactly, it puts Cackles in Charge of our lives.
I believe both can be impeached at the same time, but that gives us a “best case outcome” of Pelosi, or after 2022, her or whatever idiot the majority party replaces her with.
Good question. Remember too that the President election is not independent of the Vice president election. If the election was stolen, then both Biden and Harris received the stolen goods.
Yep. Impeachment and removal from office is the most you can do. And it doesn’t necessarily put the loser in the White House. See the fantasies of Hillary Clinton followers after the 2016 election.
Fuck those fantasies back then and fuck these now. I am sick to death of egregiously stupid people – particularly those with pretensions to running the country.
If the audits show that the election was stolen, it would put Sen. AZ and Sen. WV in a really interesting position.
I’d think an audit of the Georgia senate race elections could be even more telling in terms of repercussions.
Full-on 30-second belly-laugh at the top response:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nns8ge/whats_the_most_fucked_up_thing_someone_has_told/gzy1n6w/?context=8&depth=9
mmm, Slumbrew. So you are talking about coffee. Ok. Cool.
Beer, akshully, though they are no more.
Not that I drink much beer, just was flailing around for a handle
flailing around for a handle
I’m like that too. True anecdote.
I usually look around my space and see if something catches my eye. In this case the family had just bought me a cookie/snack jar.
Ugh, what a link. Sorry.
Makes me log in or use the app.
Really? I don’t even have an account.
I just get a “are you over 18?” when opening in a private tab and other browsers.
This formats about right:
LOL
Excellent!
Good news
Saw the doc this morning. He says I can put some weight on my weak foot. I asked him how much was ‘some’. Full weight but with the walker. Go back in 6 weeks, he said all is well and 3 more months and I’ll be ready to roll. Stlll need the walker and wheel chair though, at this time.
I’ll be able to go outside with the walker, maybe make it to the garage and find a little lawn tractor. Progress is being made.
Like James Brown, “I Feel Good”
While I have no idea the trauma suffered by the Capitol Police I’d be happy to trade their pain and suffering with the last 3 months I’ve enjoyed. If I were employed now and someone would drive me to work and back I’d be happy to go back to work, just to get out of the house, to feel useful.
While the Mpls George Floyd survivors are busy healing after a year, come sit in my wheel chair. The little good news I got today was extremely up lifting.
I’ll be relearning to walk, with a walker, tomorrow I’ll venture outside by myself, sit in the sun, maybe have a cup of real coffee. 6 weeks and go back to the doc, another 6 weeks after that I hope to be the same asshoe as before. Just knowing I’m making progress is a great feeling.
Thanks to all the Glibs for the encouragement. This year’s Honey Harvest will be a Coming Out Party.
This year’s Honey Harvest will be a Coming Out Party
You’re just leaving that one right over the plate aren’t you?
Makes it easier for the catcher
Funny, I never noticed that, my circles are pretty small but it brought a chuckle
Still, everyone is welcome, persuasions be damned
This is excellent news!
Excellent news, 4×20. Sounds like you’re making good progress.
I stumbled into the Alex Smith documentary a couple days ago and found it inspiring – it’s amazing to see the sort of things humans can overcome.
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPthcRYk2Io – includes gnarly shots of his infected leg.
Seeing Smith and all the military guys with the Middle East infirmities, my problem is nothing, time will provide a recovery for me.
The lady at the military center who was just matter of fact about “why am I trying so hard to keep this leg? My life is so much better since I cut it off” was hardcore.
???
Wife and I need a break and a trip. We will keep this in mind….
Huzzah! Excellent news.
Good news 4X12!
I hope it continues to progress well.
Sorry, 2X10 or is it 4X4?
Need a drink.
score = 20
4×20 = Four Score
6×13.33333333 isn’t quite right, mind you
Closing in on 4 guineas, a guinea being 21 shillings.
Fantastic news, Fourscore!
Great news!
Excellent!
giddy up
Yay!!!!!!
Since I submitted my package for this position, I have no interest in listening to my temporary boss. He is that military-type supervisor. Has 15 years of tech experience but as soon as the title was tacked on, has somehow ‘lost’ all technical knowledge. I fucking hate that.
He has people for that stuff now.
Yeah his people are me.
I once read a joke about an officer who goes in for brain surgery. As the doctors are working on his brain on the table, he’s sitting nearby. Then he gets a message that he’s been appointed general, he claps the top of his head on an is about to leave the room, the doctor says, “sir, your brain!” and he’s like “keep it, I don’t need it any more.”
Since I submitted my package for this position
Wow. Job hunting has changed a lot since the last time I was on the market.
Well, there’s a lot more womyn running the show these days. They’re liberated, doncha know?
It was short and to the point. What more can I offer?
Hopefully you’re headed in the right direction.
Sounds more like he’s just sorta hanging around.
One for all and all for Thot Thursday!
https://archive.li/l7IU9
A little bit of good news, no mask requirement at work anymore. Well not for vaccinated people who “voluntarily” confess their status into the HRIS. Fuck that noise.
When that point comes, I can’t decide whether to lie or keep wearing the fucking thing for spite. Shame me, assholes – I can take it.
At least for me part of the reason I got the damn thing was my to respect my coworkers with nothing to with the employer.
It’s not mandatory for me, but didn’t want to be “that guy” at work.
But I’m not implying that you are being disrespectful by not getting it. You should be able to make the choice on your own without repercussion.
The jig is going to be up when my boss returns to the office next week and asks me (again). I can’t lie for shit so it’s going to have to be Plan B.
Work is scrupulously taking the position that they aren’t going to ask so I hope my boss gets that message before I have to give it to him myself.
I hate lying. The odd thing is that I’m good at it.
I feel like I’m underutilizing a valuable skillset.
Scruffy Nerfherder 2024
Out of curiosity, why do you consider respectful to your co-workers to get the vaccine (if I interpret you correctly)?
I work with people that live with elderly family. Also just pants shitters.
So I don’t want them thinking I got them or their family sick.
It’s the classic problem of herd immunity and mandatory vaccines.
Ask them why they are afraid of you when they’re the ones that are “immune”.
But not 100%!
But folks don’t do math well as we’ve discussed. It’s perception and not reality.
Unfortunately, they also pay attention to TMITE.
Copy. I would think that I might risk long term unknowns if it’s genuine concern about their well being. To assuage what I consider to be irrational fear (that only seems to apply to Covid for some reason), I would be less accommodating. I will certainly be more careful about coming to work when I feel a bit under the weather now for sure. But since I haven’t seen any robust evidence of asymptomatic transmission, I’m not at all concerned about others actual well being when I interact with them as a person of un-vaccination.
You need masks that say “This does nothing”
Make like Fauci – lie every time you say anything.
LOL I am like the anti-Fauci of lying. People see right through me.
So no card games at your house?
I fucking suck at poker.
I had a step-uncle who was mobbed up tell me that no one deserves the truth when they ask something that is none of their business. He doesn’t flinch: he delivers his OtherTruth flawlessly because he emotionally connects with a second set of facts that is reserves for special cases.
But I’m with you: I only lie about fish.
https://twitter.com/gradydoctor/status/1399009463709978624
OFFS!!
“Microinvalidation”
That’s a new one.
No it’s not. It affects [insert percentage here] of men.
“BIDEN: “You turn on the stations… I don’t know many commercials you see… two to three out of five have mixed race couples in them. That’s not by accident. They’re selling soap, man.””
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1399836392839057411
WTF, Joe?
Didn’t he do that one before, several months ago? I feel like I’m living in Groundhog Dog.
Who can tell?
It’s all gobbledygook all the time.
I know what he means.
If anything, Team Woke has to overdo the overdo on mixed doubles to get their numbers up without having to give the nod to the gay bro marriage thingy.
What is that articulate three-year-old mulatto getting as Child 1 of Mixed Double: 20 times scale all of a sudden?
Yeah, the context is clear, it is really just his delivery. He really does talk like a crazy uncle about whatever is on his mind. It may come across as crass, but then again, so many set aside Trump’s cadence and content as easily and as offputting.
I don’t think its just his delivery.
“Turn on the stations” – who says that?
“That’s not just by accident. They’re selling soap, man.” What the last sentence has to do with anything is a mystery to me, unless he’s saying mixed-race people use more soap than other people. Which is nuts in its own way.
He’s saying that the people that are selling soap know that the culture of America is changing and that Mixed race couples are the demographic that they need to target. Something, something…invisible hand.
Dad is that age and just doesn’t say what he means any more (of course, he shouldn’t be president, either): he is getting worse and worse at getting out of his own head and couching a phrase that gets his idea into your head.
“Selling soap” was a thing although I haven’t heard it used that way. Of course it all goes back to radio ads for lye, Dove and Ivory bars, and such. I think it’s more dated and unhelpful than odd, but I’ve got a Fibber Magee and Molly LP around here somewhere.
Europeans are excellent about one thing: they don’t ask about your work if you know them (only) socially. A colleague of mine dismissed a nosy American seatmate on a jet one time who asked what he did with this standard UTC+1 reply: “I sell soap.”
T’ain’t funny, McGee!
lolwut
So…finally got caught up with the last week of links. Some good posts in there that I wish I could have commented on at the time – cest la vie.
That said…as far as closet space and security concerns – can anyone link me to a good “getting started” page for gun safes? My home design is kind of limited with the crawlspace underneath and the only solid concrete floor is the garage. I think I can keep it out of sight of the “window” in the door fairly well, but I’m guessing I’d also want to get it bolted into the ground. Any issues/concerns if I wanted to take it with me in a few years or would it make a better selling point – given the market – if it wound up being more permanent?
I second this question. My collection has suddenly grown. Don’t really know how that happened.
*turns pockets inside out, finds only lint *
https://keepgunssafe.com/how-to-bolt-down-safe/
Why not just harden a spare bedroom or a walk-in closet? What would happen if you put a locking steel door and frame on your closet and then line it with 3/16″ sheetmetal or 3/4″ plywood: doubles as a tornado shelter.
You could put a gun rack behind a false wall behind the clothes.
Cool spot to hide a carbine is above the door on the inside: easy and quick to grab when you need it but your three-year-old can watch you getting dressed and never know what’s behind your sports coats or just above door.
Outside of also bracing the floor with cinderblocks or steel rods in the crawlspace (no actual concrete pad), I’m not sure that works with my current domicile.
I don’t doubt it. I’ve retroed CMU rooms for ad hoc office spaces, for flammable liquid rooms, for MCC, and for fire sprinkler riser closets, and it’s always a nightmare; indeed, in most of those cases, a decent room doesn’t cost much more to build than a 100SF closet.
A space I’ve used in the past (for camping gear) was to build a frame shelf above the half of the garage where I parked my truck (above the hood). I used 2×6″ framing and made a 4×8′ plywood frame platform that loaded on cleats lagged into the wall studs; the odd corner was supported by a chain from the joist (and tie a stud from that point in the joist to the roof truss if you need help fighting the sag. The point isn’t to put your gun safe there but to make room out of nothing that you can move low-velocity storage to (the camping gear only came down once a year, and it was kinda fun loading and unloading it into the bed by simply backing into the garage); you free up some space in a closet or in the garage so you can bolt your official sweet store-bought locker down to the slab. And if some inspector, insurance agent, or prospective owner bitches about it, you’re just a couple of screws away from taking it down and just put it up in your new place.
the camping gear only came down once a (month)
That certainly makes more sense. I guess I was only replying to the first couple of sentences. I did know another sailor in my previous unit who built his own hidden cabinet, but just doesn’t work in this house this time.
Definitely want to get more shelving set up – and will probably free up more space by getting a shed for all my yard gear and tools.
I have these:
https://www.secureitgunstorage.com/agile-ultralight-gun-safes/
Model 52 on the bottom and Model 40 on top.
They are easy to put together.
Bottom unit is screwed into the floor. Both units are screwed into studs in the wall.
Another black man being killed by police in Kansas City. He, like George Floyd, had a violent history including domestic violence. Some community activist said something about nobody being happy about his death.
I can guarantee there are women and children out there happy he’s dead and feeling safe finally. Nobody interviews these people.
There are people this world can do without, the issue has always been who gets to decide.
That is true. However, I would like someone to interview a suspect’s previous victims and see what they think about it.
Another black man being killed by police in Kansas City.
Sounds like they are taking their time with this one.
But he was starting to turn his life around and was thinking of enrolling in college.
Great contrast to SpaceX. NASA is a typical bureaucracy, not an agency that can innovate.
What a way to go
29??? WTF.
It happens…almost as if we are individuals that don’t all follow the same biological timeline.
Genetics 2 – Perrino Family 0
Good news:
The therapy dogs are back at work in the hospital. The mastiff is always a big hit in the Peds units.
Next Dog is going to go through therapy dog training. Currently, the Little Fat One is just not very social, and the Big Dumb One is extremely friendly, but too excitable, and 50 pounds of excited pit bull does not make for a good therapy dog.
Just borrow lobot’s Maine Coon – you can call it a therapy Lynx or such.
Does the mastiff look like Winston Churchill and give speeches to keep the kids’ spirits up?
Does the mastiff look like Winston Churchill and give speeches to keep the kids’ spirits up?
By the by, for anyone doing a cross country drive or a lot of traveling this summer, I have got to recommend the audiobook of “The Complete Father Brown Collection” narrated by Steven Scalon (excellent voices and accents). 41+ hrs for $6.99 on itunes.