Should be a good one.
The Hawks and Clippers won, evening their respective series. Sweden drew with Spain, while Slovakia surprisingly beat Poland and Scotland lost to the Czechs in a game where a dude scored from midfield. The Dallas Baptist dream came to an end in the CWS. And the Euros continue today with France-Germany and Portugal-Hungary. Those poor Hungarians. That group is absolutely brutal. And that’s sports.
Birthday Boy
Edward the Black Prince (he was a white dude, so this is uhpropreeashun) was born on this day. He shares it with composer Edvard Greig, gangster Sam Giancana, commie loser Yuri Andropov, actor Lash LaRue, jazzman Erroll Garner, infielder Gene Baker, country great Waylon Jennings, outfielder and manager Dusty “The Lizard” Baker, commie asshoe Winnie the Pooh Xi Jinping, catcher Lance Parrish, third baseman and fried chicken and beer connisseur Wade Boggs, actresses Helen Hunt and Courtney Cox, rap great Ice Cube, infielder Tony Clark, actor NPH, and pitcher Tim Lincecum.
That was a decent list. Except for the commies. Anyway, on to…the links!
An awful human being
You know, you can just stop giving her airtime. And if you do, she’ll slip back to being irrelevant pretty quickly. Yeah, right.
Damn, this is kinda fucked up. Now, I’ll believe there’s justice when the government officials who fed them the information are also convicted. That doesn’t negate what they did, but it would sure make it seem like they were actually trying to punish the wrongdoers rather than just go after money.
My expectations are very low as well. Namely because I’ve seen Biden speak recently. And based on what I’ve seen, I’ll be surprised if he even nows where he is or who he’s meeting with.
The grotesque exploitation of a dementia sufferer continues apace
So the White House is openly calling for a chilling of free speech. And I do realize the government wouldn’t actually be carrying out the ban. They’d just be leaving it to the myriad businesses they have government contracts with and give a shitload of money to. That’s coercive and it’s a chickenshit move. Also, their silence on the firebombing of other government buildings throughout the last year and a half while calling this a “domestic terrorist attack” when there’s dozens of videos showing the police open the building for protesters is also bullshit.
Get your popcorn! The seriousness with which the other media outlets will cover Project Veritas will all depend on what they uncovered. SO expect wall-to-wall coverage or absolute silence.
I guess they’ll stop mocking the LaPorte plants new, right? After all, only idiot red-staters would build a chemical plant near a residential area.Right? RIGHT?!?!??!
And yet another example of the government outsourcing the stifling of rights. Maybe this one is more along the lines of coercing businesses to force behaviors under government pressure. Either way, government funds shouldn’t be used to fund the program.
This writer gets it. It’s all theater.
Enjoy this wonderful song. I certainly will.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
“My expectations are very low as well. Namely because I’ve seen Biden speak recently.”
That’s generous… The man is fucking lost in space and the media has been trying so hard to hide this fact but as usually doing the same kind of crappy job…
Without the blockqoute, this could have been about Newsom also.
SRSLY, this digital proof of having taken the holy communion is ” not required” and the vax is optional, then what does it even do? What is the consequence for not getting jabbed? I’m so pissed about this. I just hope we are able to fire this asshole. Stop bitching about the 40 percent of us who don’t want your crazy risky drug and aren’t scared of the not so risky virus. Bastards.
He can’t help himself. His craving for power is a mental disorder, and he will cling to it regardless of the threat posed by the recall election.
Apparently, they almost had a Silver Alert issue in Cornwall. An aide had to retrieve him from a restaurant. Hopefully, they have an “If found please return to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC” bracelet on him or something.
Where was the SS when this happened? Kind of odd.
Bedding sex-workers and then refusing to pay them?
They got distracted during the pushup contest that they were in with Biden. While they were pumping out reps, Biden just wandered away.
Linky.
RT, so adjust your skepticism meter accordingly.
I don’t know, ask Hitler.
Getting their asses kicked in Kursk?
Why would Trump know?
Someone needs to pin a note on the front of his coat, giving permission to buy one pack of cigarettes, as they are for his parents.
“After all the disinformation of the Trump years, we really need our leaders to level with us,” he said.
Bingo!
He was right in ways he couldn’t even imagine.
It flummoxes me how gullible people are to think that Trump is somehow to blame for the covid hysteria. Brain damage is the only viable explanation.
Mental disorder. I have found with the vast majority of team blue people that they are religious fanatics. They don’t care they worship a bunch of crime syndicate bosses. Then again, the hard team red folks tend to be morons of a different sort, even though they don’t suffer from the same level of religious solipsistic ability to not have any morals.
I’m probably suffering from some confirmation bias from using reddit as my window into Basic Lefty thought, but even so the mental illness thing tracks.
Sometimes it seems like everyone on the internet ‘struggles with mental illness’. It can’t all be clout chasing, can it?
Now we have prosperity and time to think about our mental illnesses instead of powering through trying to survive (not well). I did that for decades. It was only when I got some time to pause and think did it really start to get to a point I NEEDED to be seen. This point was when I was a WAHM and didn’t have to get dressed and drive to an office every day, and my children were my coworkers who didn’t know any better.
The problem is you can’t find the non-lefties because they’ve been kicked off or downvoted into oblivion.
Sometimes it seems like everyone on the internet ‘struggles with mental illness’. It can’t all be clout chasing, can it?
I go down a few different mental paths with this one.
One is the clout chasing path, but you’re right about it not explaining the entire phenomenon.
Selection bias is another path I go down. People who arent mentally ill are less likely to hang around on reddit all day posting stupid shit.
Another is my inclination to believe that boredom creates mental illness. That, along with the selection bias aspect (bored people spend more time on reddit) means an overrepresentation of the mentally ill.
Yet another is my belief in environmental factors contributing to creation and unhealthy expression of mental illness. Without diving into an entire article’s worth of argumentation, I’ll say that our society creates a large share of mental illness.
Finally, overdiagnosis due to the ability to medicate away natural consequences of unhealthy lifestyles. People can do things they’re not meant to do and can ignore the mental and emotional side effects of the misalignment by taking pills to suppress those side effects.
Most leftists have zero insight into conservative or libertarian thoughts and philosophy. Combine that with an online, 24/7 echo chamber, and people’s thoughts go seriously off-rail and they follow the tin hats around like lemmings.
That said, conservatives do get a double-barrel blast of lefty ideas, but due to a similar confirmation bias, they completely (in my eyes at least) miss the motivating factors of the left. They confuse a quest for utopia with a grasp for power.
The quest for utopia IS a grasp for power.
It’s malignant narcissism. The constant need to be validated by what one perceives to be the “in crowd.”
I saw that shit in junior high/high school. And I wanted nothing to do with it. The best part of high school was my part-time job in the real world.
I saw the same shit at my step-kid’s high school. The only difference between her time in high school and mine were that it looked like the faculty at her school were actively encouraging such narcissism.
It is the source of all the virtue signaling. Plain ol’ vanity. Of course Vanity isn’t a virtue, it is a deadly sin. And when you point this out to them they get vicious (thus proving the point).
Sometimes it seems like everyone on the internet ‘struggles with mental illness’. It can’t all be clout chasing, can it?
In my experience, people with social issues spend more time on the internet than socially well-adjusted people. I think that has something to do with it.
Good morning! The weather is almost perfect in my corner of the world. 65 to 76 and sunny. At lunch I’m going to take a walk for a few miles by the river. Then when I get home this evening I’m going to do it again with my dog. Have a splendid day!
The weather inside my house is good today.
I’m peanut butter and jealous. We switched from rain and storms every other day for the past month and half to 95 and humid with nary a cloud in the sky this past weekend. We skipped the pleasant part of spring and have moved directly into the balmy portion of summer.
Same here. It’s been mid-90s for the past week and change after a period of rain every day for a month and a half.
But I personally love this weather.
I spent 10 days in the last 2 weeks with brutally hot & humid weather waiting for them to come install my new A/C and sweating through the night. Got it this past Friday, and we had a nice 80 day where I got to use on Sunday, and otherwise it has been rain and below 75 weather every other day so far… It’s a conspiracy.
Yeah. But you can’t expect the Jooz to have weather machines and not use them.
::adjusts tinfoil hat::
DAMN YOU, OMWC!
We are also experiencing very pleasant weather this morning. This week will be some relief, and then it will warm up again starting next Sunday or so.
When I pulled into the parking lot at work this morning, there were a pair of Coopers Hawks roosting on top of the light pole I parked under. They screamed at me for a while before flying away. That was pretty cool.
The digital menus do have a small advantage for the businesses, it’s much easier to update a website then to print a new batch of menus (and costs a lot less as well). One place I stopped at is sticking with the web based menus as they’re going through a menu refresh anyways, so they’ll test it out, and when they get it finalized, they plan to print it.
The Ivory story has potential. I hope it doesn’t disappoint.
Project Veritas gets me hyped up every so often. I love that righteous indignation feeling. Nothing ever comes of it, but it’s a good high.
Yep. It’s a combination of righteous indignation and fatalistic despair. The fact that PV can expose such ridiculous shit and nothing. Else. Happens. Is depressing.
I forgot about the fatalistic despair, ugh. It’s the kind of hangover that just doesn’t quit.
It’s a local Fox station…meh.
Fuck you Merrick Garland. As so often happens with the most disgusting and evil sorts of people, the universe intervened to save us from them. ManBearPig, the real Clinton capo, this asshat Garland. All got cockblocked by the universe, and America got a reprieve because of that.
Decent letter.
Yeah, we dodged him being put on the court. All we have to do now is deal with a vindictive head of the DOJ running a revenge campaign against his political opponents.
Good times.
He’s just looking out for his people.
Boom! We need more of this.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Garland and the other DOJ ass hats ended up resurrecting the 10th amendment?
Yes, in the extreme.
“Everything restaurants were doing was so customers could see they were doing everything they could,” Lynch said. “The message was, ‘Hey, we care about you.’ It’s not about theater but about wanting customers to feel comfortable about going out. Going forward, it won’t have to be as showy.”
It’s not just theater. Right.
If I wanted to be ‘cared about’, you asshole, I would let you know.
Let’s add immigration status to that…
So now they have ID for voting!
This is DIFFERENT!
*keeps eyes warily on NY as we plan our fall trip in that area*
Avoid it if you can. If you must cross NY to reach New England, make it as direct as possible. Be wary of speed traps. The mountain towns love to drop the limit at the bottom of hills.
We’re hoping to visit family in Rochester, but we’re not getting vaccinated, so it won’t make sense to go if we can’t actually do anything without the swastika armband.
Be wary of speed traps. The mountain towns love to drop the limit at the bottom of hills.
See also: every other small town in America
Several dudes from various towns in western PA went skiing in New York last year and never knew it.
I’ve heard several anecdotal stories over the past year about boaters getting into some trouble in Lake Erie when they crossed over the international border without paying attention.
“accidentally”
Darn maple smugglers.
I can’t imagine them giving you trouble unless you’re trying to dock in Canada without filing a small vessel float plan. Or if you’re drunk and operating your craft like an asshole.
But Canada has turned into a police state, so I wouldn’t be surprised at anything.
I’ve heard similar reports from a friend whose family lives in the Toledo area. Just crossing the line will get you intercepted these days, it seems.
Traditionally, neither side cared too much, there aren’t flotillas of Ohioians looking to escape to the great white north, nor are their flotillas of flappy headed Horton’s lovers trying to bring us their best poutine.
Most of the stories I’ve heard were people out fishing on the lake, drifted across, and then were quickly intercepted. Most of the stories were around Middle Bass island, which isn’t too far away from the border (under 5 miles). Then there were the people who were trying to sneak across to their vacation homes on Pelee Island…
Canada has some serious boating while intoxicated laws on the books. A lot of my fishing buddies have sworn off fishing on the Rainy River because the Canadians are such assholes about policing that invisible line.
According to stories I have heard, having any booze in your boat can get you in all sorts of trouble.
You WILL come by and see us? Right? RIGHT?
I’ve already prepped the wife to keep the kiddos in view at all times.
In seriousness, I definitely want to make that happen. I’ll let y’all know as it gets closer and we start setting the plans more solidly.
This is a gross abuse of government funds and power. But how many New Yorkers will care?
I have been assured by the good people of this site that the problem with New York is New Yorkers.
And I stand by my assertion.
At the vaccination sites here in Arkansas, There is a little card on the counter that you sign your name to. That is your vaccine card here. As far as I know, there is nowhere in this state that requires proof of vaccination, but if they did, this is all they would have to use. One of the guys I work with who elected to take the shot picked me up a spare card.
Woo Hoo Black market passports here we go.
“After all, only idiot red-staters would build a chemical plant near a residential area.”
IIRC, anyone near it moved there, mostly from Rockford (my old post-apocalypse wasteland hometown) when the schools collapsed, burglary became the city sport and property taxes kept going up.
Remind me. How does subsidizing demand effect prices?
Ugh, the “good program, but wrong time” vibes are too strong from that article.
Hyperbole? From Democrats?
“Democrats are always at risk of being hyperbolic,” said Murphy, D-Conn. “I don’t think there’s a risk when it comes to the current state of democratic norms.”
After the norm-shattering presidency of Donald Trump, the violence-inducing bombast over a stolen election, the pressuring of state vote counters, the Capitol riot and the flood of voter curtailment laws rapidly being enacted in Republican-run states, Washington has found itself in an anguished state.
Almost daily, Democrats warn that Republicans are pursuing racist, Jim Crow-inspired voter suppression efforts to disenfranchise tens of millions of citizens, mainly people of color, in a cynical effort to grab power. Metal detectors sit outside the House chamber to prevent lawmakers — particularly Republicans who have boasted of their intention to carry guns everywhere — from bringing weaponry to the floor. Democrats regard their Republican colleagues with suspicion, believing that some of them collaborated with the rioters on Jan. 6.
It’s always
fivetwo minutes to midnight, and the end of DEMOCRACY!Jim Crow-inspired voter suppression efforts to disenfranchise tens of millions of citizens, mainly people of color
I had no idea standardizing the voting requirements to what they were in 2018 was so oppressive. Especially when the 2020 voting standards were generally done through executive order rather than by being legislated.
Hyperbole and bad faith arguments undergirded by progjection. It’s all they have.
If it was all they have, I’d feel comfortable laughing at them. Unfortunately, they also have the heavy hand of the DOJ to clamp down on the states who dare to ensure vote integrity. And o have a feeling they’re going to do whatever it takes to force loose voting laws on states at least long enough to get cases before the SC, which might just be long enough to last a few election cycles and completely fuck everything up for a long, long time.
“Progjection” is too mouthy. Doesn’t roll well, not even when reading it.
I propose a better way for the exact same concept.
Pro[g]ection.
“norm-shattering presidency of Donald Trump”
He’s basically LBJ with 24/7 media coverage. Jeez.
Well, the media did shatter many norms in covering Trump.
“President Joe Biden will arrive Wednesday in Switzerland for his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a decade in a period of stark deterioration in relations between their two countries.”
Treason summit.
It is a clever assassination attempt. Putin will laugh himself to death.
Putin’s going to eat him alive. He’s way smarter than Biden was on his best day. Now? Good lord…
That Police song is the best Police song! Nice pull, Sloop!
Agreed. That video’s kind of fucked, though. Andy Summers playing a Chapman Stick? Is that for real?
I’ve always dug this tune. https://youtu.be/uB6NmhOy4Io They were a great band but I didn’t care much for most of their music. That reggae beat…
Nice link, but not the one you intended, I think.
Heh.
Ah Feck –
Here it is https://youtu.be/8j6Tln0lN0c
The only one I actually like is One. LA radio played them every other song for ten years. I’m done with them. The other “every other” song was U2.
In the 80’s my buddy and I were riding the strip in our small town while on mind altering substances and he suddenly blurts out, “want to go to the police?” I said something like, “hell no!” He’s like, “that’s cool, man.” Weeks later I hear The Police will be in Dallas, ask my buddy if he want’s to go see them and he says, “I had tickets lined up, you didn’t want to go so I blew it off.” Live and learn.
Heh. Looks from the map provided that Germany is going is going to bite France’s dick off yet again. Guess they shouldn’t have given that region such a gay name…
Police
That’s also a masterpiece.
Also agreed. As Tundra says below, Sting fucked up.
More Police
Good morning, Sloop!
I wish Sting hadn’t crawled up his own asshole. That was a really good band.
Helen Hunt was hotter than Courtney Cox. It is known.
Here’s my counterproposal: go fuck yourself. Asshole.
Helen Hunt was your bud’s sister. Courtenay was the bedazzalled one. They both have their merits.
Slaughter
A cashier was gunned down inside a Georgia supermarket Monday simply for asking a man to put on a mask — and a retired deputy who intervened was also shot, authorities said.
The afternoon horror happened at a Big Bear Supermarket in DeKalb, when the worker asked Victor Tucker Jr., 30, to mask up due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation,
Tucker refused and got into an argument with the woman before leaving the store without making a purchase, the report and GBI said.
The suspect then barged back inside and allegedly shot her in the head, authorities said.
“Simply for asking”
I can’t help thinking there might be additional details which would prove enlightening.
Yeah, there’s a few bits of info missing from that report, I’d wager.
Maybe, but probably not. The dude left the store freely, went and got his gun, then walked back in freely.
The cashier may have been out of line by asking the guy to put on a mask, but once he freely left the store, he was free to take his business elsewhere. Instead, he chose to go back and initiate violence on what appears to be an innocent person. He’s the asshole.
Yep. Shooter was asshoe.
I suspect he felt he didn’t get the respect he deserves. Nobody tells him what to do.
Still, there are probably some details missing. It takes a special kind of person, probably with a history of outsized reactions and maybe an official record of such, to get worked up enough to shoot someone over something minor like that.
Perhaps. But none of those details change the facts of the matter. And none of them involve the victims of this nutball’s rampage.
There was literally no outside force from a third party that caused this guy to do what he did. I hope he rots in hell.
Agreed with that.
pulled from earlier
Intelligence is knowing how to recognize violent, antisocial people by their behavior cues.
Wisdom is knowing not to mouth off to them.
The Biden administration report also calls for beefed up cooperation between the feds and private internet companies and requests the Justice Department to review whether to request a new anti-domestic terrorism law.
The Capitol riot is described as an example of domestic terrorism alongside the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, which killed an estimated about 75-300 people, and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168.
“Domestic terrorist attacks in the United States also have been committed frequently by those opposing our government institutions. In 1995, in the largest single act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, an anti–government violent extremist detonated a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people – including 19 children – and injuring hundreds of others,” the report says.
We must hunt down and destroy anyone who doesn’t trust the government.
Not that he was justified but why exactly did Timmyboy detonate that homemade bomb? It didn’t just come out of the blue you know.
The Capitol riot is described as an example of domestic terrorism alongside the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, – this association is beyond vile
I’m actually left stunned and without a reply. That is just a lie. Buffalo Hat killed nearly two hundred people? What about the ones that let them in? Did they not drop dead when some random Glib put his feet up on Nancy’s desk?
“People RIOTING inside the capitol on January 6, 2021.”
Look at the photo with the caption.
Will we ever run out of fuel for this gaslighting operation?
If only they had stayed outside and tried to burn the building down instead.
Growing angrier, lately, trying to be cool. Not working well.
Funny how all the Lefty domestic terrorism from the 60s and 70s doesn’t make the list. LA riots? Nope. Congressional baseball game? Nope.
^^^
Not to mention the 1920’s bombings.
A very selective memory. Of course, with the state of education in the US, it’s a safe bet to assume that most people don’t have a clue about those events.
1920 Ocoee massacre. Democrats in all their glory.
“The Capitol riot is described as an example of domestic terrorism alongside the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, which killed an estimated about 75-300 people, and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168.”
Yes. The death count was roughly the same.
Notice the framing of that. No other comparisons? Just two that have been attributed to white supremacists from the looks of it.
The document says the US endorses the Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online, which seeks to curb content available online following the 2019 mass-murder of 51 people at a mosque in New Zealand. The State Department quietly endorsed that private-public international push for restrictions in May.
“[T]he United States endorses the Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online. We applaud language in the Christchurch Call emphasizing the importance of tackling the very real threat posed by online terrorist content while respecting human rights and freedom of expression,” the new document says.
You can say anything you like, as long as it does not hurt anybody’s feelings or contradict the approved establishmentarian narrative. Is that so hard to understand?
We applaud language in the Christchurch Call emphasizing the importance of tackling the very real threat posed by online terrorist content while respecting human rights and freedom of expression,” the new document says.
Sorry, asshole. But you can’t do both. You either uphold human rights or you tackle the threat. Especially when you’re the ones determining what constitutes a “threat” and what “domestic terrorism” entails.
Also, even casually equating the Capitol Hill riot with OKC or the Tulsa massacre is an insult to those who died in the latter two. It’s like comparing the ice cream machine at McDonalds always being broken to the Holocaust.
“[W]e must ask the question of whether legislative reforms could meaningfully and materially increase our ability to protect Americans from acts of domestic terrorism while simultaneously guarding against potential abuse of overreach. New criminal laws, in particular, should be sought only after careful consideration of whether and how they are needed to assist the government in tackling complex, multifaceted challenges like the one posed by domestic terrorism and only while ensuring the protection of civil rights and civil liberties,” the document said.
Boilerplate gibberish for “trust us”.
soup truck
https://twitter.com/NehmahlCutie/status/1404289738274754562
California offers $100 million to rescue its struggling legal marijuana industry
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-14/california-struggling-marijuana-industry-cash-grants-budget
How in the hell is it even possible to make legal marijuana unprofitable?
I am sure it is not easy but bureaucrats worked hard at it so they deserve a bonus
Taxes
^^^THIS^^^
Plus overbearing government regulation…
Combined these two never, ever, fail to result in a business bust…
Taxes. Taxes. And again, taxes. Fun Fact – a decent amount of manufactured product (vape cartridges, edibles, concentrates, etc.) are reaching NYC via diversion from the CA retail supply chain. NYC prices here are significantly lower (25% – 75%) than one would pay for the same product at a CA retailer.
Have sales already started in NY? I thought that was still another year or two away?
Pretty sure he’s talking black market.
How long will it take them to recoup that through tax revenue? Also, I assume this will coincide with a severe crackdown on illicit sales and more “oversight” of legal grow operations. Neither of which will end well.
Last Friday, they raided a bunch of “illicit” grow operations. Now we know why.
State officials initially expected to license as many as 6,000 cannabis shops in the first few years, but permits have been issued only for 1,086 retail and delivery firms.
Government estimates are off?
I’m betting a ton of video store owners from the 80’s are wondering where were their bailouts?
Nomenclature police
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer apologized on Monday for using an outmoded word to refer to developmentally disabled children during a recent podcast appearance.
Appearing on the One NYCHA podcast, Schumer used the word “retarded” in making a point about the challenge of overcoming community resistance to housing initiatives meant to serve vulnerable populations.
“When I first was an assemblyman, they wanted to build a congregate living place for retarded children — the whole neighborhood was against it,” Schumer said, referring to the time he spent representing parts of Brooklyn in the New York legislature from 1975 to 1980 prior to serving in Congress.
“These are harmless kids. They just needed some help,” he said, adding that the effort was ultimately successful. “We got it done. Took a while.”
The term is considered outdated and offensive by many, and advocates for people with mental and intellectual disabilities discourage its use. On Monday afternoon, a Schumer spokesperson said the majority leader erred in using such an “inappropriate and outdated word” during the interview.
You know- morons.
Wasn’t that NYT reporter chick trolling clubhouse to rat on people using the R word?
“You’re a person with stunted intellectual development” doesn’t have the same impact.
Since he actually called people with problems retarded he should apologize. It is unkind and ungentlemanly to call people who are struggling by an ugly word like that. They didn’t do anything to deserve that treatment.
But a simple apology should be enough. Even Schumer isn’t enough of an asshole for me to think that he meant anything malicious by that.
Calling Global Climate Change, the Green New Deal, CRT and a host of other bad ideas retarded is completely acceptable. In that case you are simply commenting on the merits of those ideas in a simple and succinct way and are not impugning immutable characteristics of a person.
I’d agree, but he was talking about a specific time and the word “retarded” was used then professionally to describe developmentally disabled people.
This would be akin to knocking someone for referring to the NAACP as “the organization founded by WEB DuBois in 1909 to help colored people”.
Context is important and Schumer shouldn’t be castigated for using that word. Instead he should be castigated for being a despicable piece of shit who hates individual rights and wants to consolidate power over our daily lives.
“Cake-wanters”
Look, if black people can use the “N” word, and Jewish people can make jewish jokes, then what’s the problem with a retard like Chucky saying “retarded”? He’s one of them!
Notice how it’s “outmoded” or ““inappropriate and outdated”, and not a hate crime and literal violence. Could it be that D in parentheses? Funny how that works.
“Following an 11-month interplanetary cruise, the two Photons (named Blue and Gold) will insert themselves into elliptical orbits around Mars”
This is far outside the already slow ~8 month Hohmann transfer to Mars. What would this mean for the mission’s deltaV and trajectory?
https://twitter.com/ToughSf/status/1404747978552889346
People who snitch on their friend for moral wrongdoings at work are valued morally, but they are not wanted as a friend.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1404669800945799170
I’m not so sure that the use of the word “snitching” isn’t used to create a negative connotation.
If I had a coworker who was stealing from my employer, I’d probably confront them and try to get them to make it right. If they refused, I’d most likely turn them in, whether they were a friend or not. And because theft is wrong and I don’t want to be friends with a thief, I wouldn’t give two shits how they felt about me afterward.
And no, this isn’t moral preening. It’s just being moral.
^^
True it greatly depends on the transgression… Stealing, fraud, misgendering colleagues behind their backs…
THAT’S A MAN, BABY!
A good friend would NOT put you in a position where you have to compromise your morals to protect them from the repercussions of immoral or criminal behavior. Friends don’t fuck over friends by putting them in a position where they have to be the one that loses to protect the friend…
Exactly why I would never go to a friend or family member if for some reason I needed a place to hide out. I don’t want to be in that position, so I wouldn’t put anyone else in it either.
Our corporate overlords have a line to loss prevention that one may call if one witnesses employ theft/pilferage/vandalism/fraud and claim a $500 dollar reward if one’s tip pans out. While I would drop a dime in a heartbeat (I owe my coworkers nothing and I can really use $500), lately events have been giving me pause. We have a, well actually several, known serial shoplifters (plus quite a few who remain anonymous) about whom management has instructed us to disregard; just try to make a list of what they take so it can be written off. I don’t feel quite comfortable ratting out a kid who surreptitiously drinks a bottle of juice or shoves a pack of deli meat down his pants at the end of his shift when I’ve been ordered to ignore the cat who swept every single stick of Old Spice deodorant into a duffle and sauntered out the door.
Wait…wut?!
Why in the world would they tell you to overlook that? Manager in league? Local mob?
maybe the shoplifter are an oppressed group and this is reparations?
Yes. We all know what it is. If violent rioters can burn cities to ashes without consequence, purely because of their demographic, then shoplifting is a freaking no-brainer.
So reading the news this morning my prediction is that the new Delta COVID variant will be the next thing that we must shut the world down over. I’ll be curious what kind of traction it gains.
OTH, James Gorman at Morgan Stanley has had enough and said if you can eat at a restaurant in NYC you can come to the office. Although the woke brigade doesn’t seem to realize it most of Wall Street plays for Team Blue so this has the potential to get interesting.
Why do you piss me off so badly every fucking morning, Glibs? I know it’s not you, just the World in general but come on…
I have to admit we are a bit to negative in the links… But you know this is what get engagement in general… I do try to add the occasional bikini vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlGXBC3EyO4
Come on, Festus, you make yourself feel that way. It’s up to you to choose to feel good or bad, or determined, or indifferent about what the world throws at you.
q-ette has diarrhea so I guarantee my day will be shittier (literally and figuratively) than yours.
Puppy pads are your friend.
Sorry to hear. The other end of the spectrum isn’t any better. We, twice, had to don the rubber gloves to employ the bathtub and clay sculpting tools to extract a gigantic constipated turd from our shrieking baby daughter.
I’ll cop to this transgression.
And I’ll try to do better, like I did a couple days last week with mostly happy links.
/no snark
A 21-year-old producer for YouTube comedian Friendlyjordies has been charged with allegedly stalking and intimidating the New South Wales deputy premier, John Barilaro.
Acting on a complaint from Barilaro, detectives from NSW police’s fixated persons unit arrested Kristo Langker at his family home in Dulwich Hill on 4 June and charged him with two offences of “stalk or intimidate intending to cause fear of physical or mental harm”.
The arrest represents a dramatic escalation in tension between Jordan Shanks’s Friendlyjordies YouTube channel and Barilaro, who is suing for defamation over a series of videos accusing him of corruption. Barilaro says the videos are “vile and racist”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/14/friendlyjordies-jordan-shanks-producer-charged-allegedly-stalking-john-barilaro
Police said Shanks, dressed as the video game character Luigi, approached Barilaro and introduced Langker as his lawyer, shouting, “Why are you suing us, why are you suing us?”
Shanks eventually complied with requests to leave, police said, but Langker remained, allegedly “tussling with several persons in an attempt to get closer to the Hon Mr Barilaro”.
He was repeating “why are you trying to sue us, John, why are you trying to sue us”, according to court documents.
Barilaro later complained to the police.
The second incident is alleged to have occurred just hours before Langker’s arrest.
Police said Barilaro was returning to his car after the funeral of rugby league immortal Bob Fulton in Sydney when Langker approached him and began asking: “Deputy premier, why are you suing my boss?”
Barilaro got into his car as Langker allegedly continued to film and ask questions. Barilaro was then driven away.
What a pussy.
Is that another way of attacking the man’s Italian heritage?
“the funeral of rugby league immortal Bob Fulton”
Um, if you are at his funeral, he ain’t immortal.
I never go to funerals. It’s a principle. These people are not coming to mine, so why should I go to theirs?
Free lunch?
Video by the buttsmarn (silly name that)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKLD3MZiEr4
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Man, so the swine probably have a special unit for EVERYTHING, don’t they. How do they distinguish them? Do they get different nightsticks to beat the hell out of suspects with or something?
What this country needs is more laws
There is no crime of domestic terrorism and no direct domestic equivalent to the “material support for terrorism” statute, which has allowed federal prosecutors to win long prison terms for people convicted of helping Al Qaeda and the Islamic State terrorist group, no matter how modest their support.
Many experts and civil liberties advocates argue that the government doesn’t need more legal authority to prosecute terrorism. Some FBI agents assert the opposite, saying a new law would help quantify the problem and add more prosecutorial tools.
The new Biden strategy is also silent on the question of whether it ever would be appropriate to designate domestic organizations as terrorist groups, the way the U.S. designates foreign groups. It does say the State Department will examine whether any foreign groups linked to domestic terrorism may merit designations as foreign terrorist organizations.
If only we could designate the Republican Party as a domestic terror organization…
They’re just a step or two from advocating for the droning of US citizens on US soil. I guarandamntee you you’ll see people in power making the preliminary justifications for that if they aren’t already.
Obama already provided a helpful precedent for extrajudicially killing someone who was technically an American citizen. As unsympathetic of a character as the killed guy was, the camel’s nose is under the tent.
Is this not what Conspiracy and Aiding & Abetting charges are for?
The SPLC must have a raging boner at the thought their list of “extremists” might one day soon be used as an official tool to denote domestic terrorists.
SHEEEEEEEE-IT! What the hell do they know?
These are the same ‘experts and civil liberties advocates’ that were screaming Trumpler! when he wanted to label Antifa as a domestic terror group.
Titty Tuesday providing better pairs than Syrah and rare elk.
https://archive.li/zReMv
Gotta protect the powerful from those pesky fucking YouTubers. How is asking questions, even persistently, stalking?
detectives from NSW police’s fixated persons unit
Eep.
Leaving for now but must remark on the kindness that I’ve seen on this site. It’s like none other on the inter-webs. We are not asshoe!
Fuck you, you fucking fuck!
Festus, if you need a shot of optimism, try this video of a kid hearing his dad the first time. I’m a sucker for these videos.
Well, you’re quite the vulgarian, aren’t you?
Bye Festus!
Kindness? Libertarians? Something is wrong.
It’s a cold, purposeful kindness. Often unappreciated until days later.
Suck it Portland! Minneapolis – which already was more bike friendly – now has TWO autonomous zones!
Deonna Knajdek was the woman who was sitting in a car blocking traffic for a protest when another car smashed into it and killed her. Given the fact that not a peep has been heard yet about the driver of that car, I’m guessing he isn’t white and has no ties to any law enforcement agency, GOP or white supremacist group.
Asian.
Since he actually called people with problems retarded he should apologize. It is unkind and ungentlemanly to call people who are struggling by an ugly word like that. They didn’t do anything to deserve that treatment.
Of all the things to despise Schumer for, that’s pretty far down the list. He used the term in its traditional descriptive sense, not as a slur or insult.
“Developmentally disabled” is the new retarded, I guess, so he apparently should have used that.
You can call AOC developmentally disabled all you want, but she’s still a retard deep down inside.
No doubt that this slip of the tongue by Schumer is way down on the list of things to care about when talking about him.
All I was trying to say is that if a group of people (with some trait that they can’t do anything about) say that a word is hurtful and could you use a different one, it is common courtesy to use that other word. If you slip up and use the hurtful word, a simple apology and a promise to try to do better is all anyone should expect.
Calling AOC retarded is completely fair game because she isn’t developmentally challenged. Retarded is very descriptive of her world view.
Another word like this is gay. It is bad form to use it as a slur against homosexuals, but totes OK when describing a Packers fan.
Going to back my ass up WAY over that ledge here, but I’m among friends, right? The real simulacrum here is calling someone “fag”. Yes, it definitely has a connotation with gay folks, but only slightly less common is its use to call someone overly childish, sentimental, or emotional. And I’ve heard a ton of examples of people getting in trouble for using it when there was no intent at all of using a “gay slur”.
You get banned on twitch for saying the fag-slur even once.
I don’t get how “retarded” is, by itself, insulting. Wasn’t it instituted because the alternatives (ie: idiot, moron, etc.) as clinical terms were themselves considered insulting? “Retarded” is descriptive and accurate in that the individual in question is developmentally delayed in some way.
White House officials have increasingly downplayed their expectations for the meeting. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said he doesn’t expect any significant outcomes.
“If Joe doesn’t fall asleep during the meeting, it’s a win!”
During an event in San Francisco on Monday, Newsom clarified that the “system” will essentially just be electronic vaccine cards that individuals can keep on their phones as opposed to carrying around the paper card.
“It’s not a passport, it’s not a requirement, it’s just the ability now to have an electronic version of that paper version, so you’ll hear more about that in the next couple of days,” he said.
The bolded part sounds like bullshit to me.
None of these precautions provide meaningful protection against the spread of the coronavirus, safety experts say. Instead, they are examples of what critics call “hygiene theater,” the deployment of symbolic tactics that do little to prevent the spread of the coronavirus but may make some anxious consumers feel safer. (The term is widely credited to Atlantic writer Derek Thompson, who catalogued ineffective but showy anti-covid tactics last summer.)
We’re still taking off shoes at airports thanks to that Shoe Bomber idiot. Covid theater will stick around unless folks push back.
Just.
It will just be a tastefully embroidered patch that you can pin to your clothes.
And you are correct that any ground given on this will never be ceded in return. They can fuck right off with their common sense regulations.
One of the biggest popular delusions is that government regulations and/or programs will simply be eliminated once their purpose is obviated. It doesn’t seem to matter how many bits of counter-evidence you can prattle off: “emergency provisions” from WW1 still in effect, “temporary” economic programs from the Great Depression, all the way up to taking shoes off at the airport like DEG mentioned… People will always look at you like you’re crazy if you say that at least some COVID measures are going to be stuck with us forever.
I don’t want to wait 98 years for things to get back to normal.
We still have a telecom tax dating back to the Spanish American War.
Huh. Still on the books though it isn’t collected.
Barilaro was then driven away.
The crowd threw rocks at him?
I don’t get how “retarded” is, by itself, insulting. Wasn’t it instituted because the alternatives (ie: idiot, moron, etc.) as clinical terms were themselves considered insulting? “Retarded” is descriptive and accurate in that the individual in question is developmentally delayed in some way.
We’re constantly trying to drive reality away. Swapping words around really won’t alter the hard facts on the ground.
The use of “retarded” as an insult seems to be a natural evolution of language use that has also occurred with previous clinical terms like idiot, imbecile, moron, etc. Right or wrong, I think it’s pointless to try and prevent it now.
It’s pointless because the stigma and the condescension isn’t attached to the term, but to the concept. A large portion of the lowest common denominator masses see mentally disabled/retarded/special/idiot/moron people as inferior. Short of removing the ability in the language to distinguish between mentally disabled and mentally able, the insult won’t go away. Even then, a dirisive grunt will likely fill the linguistic vacuum.
We at FBT are civil libertarians devoted to free speech. As such, we were wary of the “anti-CRT” bills in statehouses. But point out to us what’s wrong with NC’s bill, which stipulates the following:
Quote/
Public school units shall not *promote* the following concepts:
https://twitter.com/FreeBlckThought/status/1404495533742321667
Long thread no way to link it… On the one hand it is strange for government to decide what can be said. On the other it is not a free speech issue for government school employees. Maybe the government school part is part of the problem. Who knows…
Day two of staycation — Errand Day.
I have an article posting at 11 am today. I will pop in and see how thing are going.
After all, only idiot red-staters would build a chemical plant near a residential area.Right? RIGHT?!?!??!
I’m sitting in my office overlooking a large chemical plant smack in the middle of not just a residential area, but a large and high density residential area. Admittedly, it’s a barrio but still. I’ve often wondered at what would happen if our large tanks of light hydrocarbons and highly reactive epoxides suddenly went boom.
wondering like that is suspicious. You need to be put on a watch list or something.
You’re in Bhopal?
True story: I was at a polyurethanes conference just before the COVID Catastrophe, held at a resort center in Florida. As is common at these things, large suppliers had parties and hospitality events for customers. Our main supplier for isocyanates had an evening bar/food sort of soiree at one of the resort’s party areas, all with geographic names. The president of the company gave a little speech, but I could tell he was a bit perturbed. He kept glancing in a certain direction as he spoke. I followed that line to a sign which had the name of our particular party area.
Yep, Bhopal.
One of our professors in chemical engineering was in a position of responsibility at Union Carbide and supposedly fell on his sword or was tossed in front of the bus in the aftermath of that incident. By the mid ’90s he didn’t seem to be hurting.
I should say, “had been” in a responsible position at the time.
I’m assuming this company’s events coordinator got fired afterward.
That’s pretty funny; were the geographic names part of the convention center, or made up for this conference? If the latter, that’s balls. Either way, quality trolling to put them in that location.
It was the conference center’s name for that area.
More terror:
The Biden administration’s review of its domestic counterterrorism strategy began with that intelligence assessment. The unclassified version, released in March, concluded that the two most lethal elements of U.S. domestic terrorism are racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists who advocate for the superiority of the white race and anti-government or anti-authority violent extremists, such as violent militia extremists.
Anti-authority extremists you say?
We all know how un-American those guys are.
JOHN STEWART DESTROYS:
Oh, he kinda did for once.
It’s sad how pathetic the political comedians have become. Just mouthpieces for the party line.
Too bad Trump didn’t do something similar a year ago. Now the G-7 are demanding answers from China. Trump fumbled that one too.
Stewart has been sorta-sorta-red-pilled for a while. Nate Silver as well.
It was never his politics that made me dislike him. It was his sneering, condescending style and his labeling of anybody who didn’t line up with the preferred narrative as idiots and moral defectives.
Existential Comics
@existentialcoms
Conservatives: “we need to stick to enlightenment values.”
Me: “you mean the continual education of humanity moving progressively towards universal emancipation?”
Conservatives: “no, I hate progress and education. I just like how you could be more racist back then.”
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1402715902181707778
This one is a pet peeve for me.
That mf’er couldn’t distinguish between Locke and Rousseau.
Funny how, “Your idea of progress will lead to untold privation and misery,” is really shorthand for, “I hate progress.”
Strawman Comics?
Presented without comment.
“cooperation”
Coerced compliance in order to force private companies to do the government’s bidding as a vehicle to get around constitutional constraints doesn’t count as cooperation in my book.
Not that Jack Bruh, Zuckbot 2000, or Jeff “Dick pic” Bezos are unwilling participants.
Let the healing begin!
Socialism is merely an extension of the ideal of democracy into the economic field – Eugene V. Debs
https://twitter.com/DebsEbooks/status/1404502518856617984
Gang rape is merely an extension of the ideal of democracy into the sexual field – some other socialists in the latter parts of commie eastern europe
The ideal of two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner.
Slavery is democratic as long as a majority vote for it.
Usually, though, it is two wolves and two sheep voting, and one sheep votes with the wolves because she has been assured she won’t be the one who is dinner …… (yet).
I mean, there’s a weird community of “incels” out there who truly believe that it’s an injustice that some men have sex with multiple women and others with none, and that there should be some sort of restriction on promiscuous behavior by females in order to equalize the distribution of pussy across all of male-kind. I’m not exaggerating any of this.
If socialists can just assert that everyone should have an equal share of the wealth that is created, I’m not seeing what objection they could raise against the incel’s claim that they have a right to an equal share of the poontang.
They demand fuquity!
AS best I can, Im going to use that word in a sentence @ work before the week is over.
The objection goes, ‘Something something males nonsense power structures wahgarble…’
I am actually willing to offer early 20th and late 19th century socialists some grace. They hadn’t really seen it play out. I mean, if they were paying attention they would have seen that Lenin and his lot were straight-up tyrants from the jump. In any case, I have a hard time coming down on a bunch of working stiffs trying to get a better lot (even if the government was the cause of much of their misery).
Trotsky couldn’t even get out!
Trotsky also thought that it was a good idea to irritate a guy who had ordered the deaths of thousands.
You are mistaken. Our founders soundly denounced socialism because they had seen it play out repeatedly, they just didnt use that word. The word ‘Socialism’ was just the rebranding of an ancient idea. They are always trying to distance themselves from their past.
That is the root of the weak excuse ‘that wasn’t real socialism’.
STEVE SMITH VOTE “AYE”.
“– Eugene V. Debs”
Wake me up when he wins the presidency.
If you were doubting the new anti-racist’s movement was all about more, but different, racism, it’s racism…
The whole”hate crime” concept is bad enough. Now they want to redefine it so that only whites can commit one.
Maybe that’s a good thing. It will effectively make “hate crime” a violation of the 14th Amendment.
I always figured that all crime was a ‘hate crime’. If I hold a gun to your head and take your possessions*, or bludgeon you into a coma, odds are I dont care for you very much.
Using “hate crime” as a modifier to an existing charge serves no purpose as a deterrent.
*taking possessions from a person using the threat of violence or death doesnt apply to various federal agencies.
Vax Wars, cont’d
Indiana University Health, Indiana’s biggest hospital system, is requiring all its employees be fully vaccinated by Sept. 1. So far, just over 60% of its 34,000 employees have been vaccinated, spokesman Jeff Swiatek said.
Some employees in Indianapolis on Saturday protested the requirement.
Kasey Ladig, an intensive care nurse and outpatient coordinator in the bone marrow transplant unit at IU Health, said she quit the job she loved the day the policy was announced.
“I would love to hear something other than, ‘We trust the science,’” Ladig said. “It was a huge red flag. I didn’t feel comfortable getting it.”
Hospital employees and others have argued that such requirements are illegal because the COVID-19 vaccines are being dispensed under emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration and have not received final FDA approval. But Koch said emergency use does not mean people are being experimented on, and she added that FDA approval is expected.
Allison K. Hoffman, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said claims made by Houston Methodist employees that they are being used as human guinea pigs or that vaccine policy violates the Nuremberg Code, a set of rules for medical experimentation that were developed in the wake of Nazi atrocities, “are bordering on absurd.”
What do those plebs know about SCIENCE!?
This is very simple. I decide what goes into my body, nobody else.
If you attempt to coerce me, I will not respond kindly.
unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is do #SexWork on the side because your early career prospects will be unstable, unpredictable, low pay, likely contract work and very much exploitative.
https://twitter.com/kwetoday/status/1403925202245935104
We need more escorts who do it on the side here in Bucharest, less mileage… One customer every couple of days
Then again if sex work is onlyfans meh.
It already happens and has been happening. Just because the exchange is for services or bartering for other goods, makes it no different. A woman or man at a bar looking to get lucky is engaging in such a transaction when they barter sex for drinks. That is the transaction, we just don’t call it that.
Nono. Those transactions that are not called that are more expensive.
^^Facts^^
Stupid Diva DRC who needs it it is ancient anyway.
Also due to some server changes the Kate browsed which is my goto on unix is no longer working properly. I mean I use gvim now and then but meh. Also nedit sucks. Anyhoo.
I pissed off my CPR instructor by calling the mannequin (he uses the spelling manikin, I guess he is Dutch) a dummy. “It is not a dummy and I don’t appreciate that language”. I hate people
sorry retardopuppet
*exasperated sigh*
He didn’t like that I pointed out that manikin, while technically can be used, can also refer to stunted growth persons, a dwarf, a midget, and is more insensitive than a dummy. I wasn’t having it yesterday.
Did you say “I don’t care what we call it, but can I have one with bigger tits?”
If it was a talking mannequin he might have had a point.
What’s the instructor’s name? Start calling it that.
The main driver of real-estate appreciation is that being a homeowner is better than being a tenant – so everything that makes tenancy worse makes homeowning better, which makes houses worth more.
Just as in labor markets, shelter markets are zero sum. When you have the income security that comes with the right to a regular shift, your boss has the cost-insecurity of having to pay you when business is slow.
Likewise, if you have the right to force your landlord to fix the roof, the rental is worth less. If your landlord can quickly evict you when a better tenant comes along, the rental is worth more. If rent increases are set by law, the rental is worth less.
If your landlord can charge usury interest, or force you to use an ISP that pays a kickback, the rental is worth more.
Everything that’s better for tenants is worse for landlords – and the worse things are for landlords, the less they’re willing to spend on income property.
The more a landlord is willing to spend to buy a house, the more everyone else has to spend to outbid them. Everything that makes life worse for tenants makes homes more valuable.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1404289266444734465
I am unsure this fella understands the economics well
I do not understand this word salad.
My guess – he is a shit renter and his homeowner is looking for ways to boot his ass
supply and demand does not exist when it comes to housing so you need to come up with new and exciting theories
Its Cory Doctorow.
Nuf said.
That is written like someone that is high thinking they are making some profound statements. I remember doing that when I was young.
Dude, the weed is affecting your brain.
In what fucking universe are labor markets zero-sum?
Oh. It’s Cory Doctorow. Of course…
We have the same amount of labor and houses as 1000 years ago. It is known.
I’d still rather have an old one
The resurrection of the Bronco, which Ford initially produced from 1965-1996, has been years in the making, including a coronavirus-related delay earlier this year. The company initially announced plans in January 2017 to bring back the Bronco name.
Grueber said the plant is “trying to ramp-up production as fast as we can to satisfy the huge demand.”
I think I saw one in the wild, yesterday.
I’ve seen a couple… smaller than I expected
That’s probably the Bronco Sport.
Concur. Ford has really muddied up their naming. I actually like both and both have a place in the market, but think the naming is a poor choice.
I actually think the Mach E is a good vehicle as well, but it shouldn’t be wearing a Mustang name.
Is the “Ford” name now so toxic that only the Bronco and Mustang can save it?
I’m sure somebody in branding got a gold star for the idea of naming those vehicles in that way. Of course, immediate catastrophic brand dilution concerns were waved off as ridiculous.
They’re also producing a new compact pickup and calling it the Maverick.
“I actually think the Mach E is a good vehicle as well, but it shouldn’t be wearing a Mustang name.”
Mustang attaches positive brand connotation to a product most actual Mustang-owners would not buy.
Mustang II and Probe agree.
An ’87 Bronco 4×4 helped open many doors with the ladies when I used to drive one when I was in high school. Can confirm on the older models.
Those doors were probably fairly heavy.
Me too. Or a regular F series from that era, when trucks were trucks.
We’re looking at an F-450 for towing and camping duty.
is that electric? If no, I would pass on that one. You don’t want Alaska to global warm and have a bunch of Californians move there, do you?
Diesel, baby. Nothing but. Also, wimpy-ass Californians would fall prey to our mosquitos pretty damn quick.
I haven’t been in HD truck in years. Will the new one still absolutely rattle your teeth if you drive them unloaded?
The couple I’ve ridden in were pretty smooth for a 1- 1 1/2 ton truck. Not the old lumber-wagon drive you got in heavier trucks in the Seventies, but not as smooth as a car or even Mrs. Animal’s Expedition. Definitely a truck.
Not that the Ram2500 is a total log-wagon, but she does smooth out with about 500 lbs in the back.
My 2001 Dodge 2500 resembles that remark.
A friend of mine had one as a loaner (!) while her vehicle was being worked on. Loaded model; I can’t believe the lent it out.
I saw one a couple weeks ago.
I’m in the pre-market for a new car. The Bronco is high in the list.
The new Chevy Trailblazer is a tiny weird thing.
Just as in labor markets, shelter markets are zero sum.
Bless your heart. Have some more cake.
But that is snatching cake from someone else’s mouth!
There is no way that an enterprising person could make more cake! It’s zero sum.
Speaking of old Broncos- there is one in town which I have never seen anywhere but parked in the same spot on a particular street. It’s a really really clean old unrestored car. Based on what I’ve seen on BaT, it’s probably worth 35 or 40 k as it sits. I wonder if whoever owns it knows.
You should go offer them 20K and see.
Brid
https://twitter.com/SeattleSloth_/status/1404137407566524416
No one would have noticed the misspelling no need to discount
Some of us would’ve noticed. We’re not retarded.
Speaking of cars I saw one of those American Silverado things in Bucharest. What a pointlessly large vehicle.
Those are not even particularly large.
I think you’re too accustomed to sardine can cars.
Look and Opel Astra should be enough for anyone.
Also you have never tried to park in Bucharest. That thing you can only park on top of 3 smaller cars downtown.
Your terms are acceptable.
*drives on tiny cars, engages parking brake*
See? UCS is down with your Euro space constraints. He’ll sell you the whole seat, but you only need the edge! Sunday! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!
Canyonero !
When I was stationed in Korea one of the NCOs in the Battalion had a Ford F250 with dual rear tires shipped over (single, lower enlisted shlubs like me could not bring vehicles) I thought that was absurd. Outside of the freeways, I have no idea where you would drive such a thing in the ROK.
Across the DMZ on a suicide mission ?
Say, I do think the NORKs did dig some tunnels that might have been wide enough.
Did he actually drive or just spend all weekend wrenching on it to remind him of being back home?
He drove it to work, so I dunno.
I’ll die a happy man if his horn was either Dixie or Lee Greenwood.
The Army used repurposed Dodge W200s and Chevy Blazers in the field.
I remember those. Diesel and some had the troop carrier slat seats in the back.
CUTVs were the heat, you used to be able to get them in surplus auctions all the time. Now it is soft skin HMMWVs.
I enjoyed driving the M1009 CUCV. I hated the rear window. I don’t know how many we shattered in 2 years of use. I still have my key if any exist. The M998 HMMWV were fun in the field, but I would wan’t one for private use. They don’t drive well on roads or when not loaded. I would love to drive a M973 SUSV again.
Vehicles here carry a lot more than people, and the distances are much greater than Europeans are accustomed to. The Silverado double cab is what we see as normal size.
Old joke: Americans think 100 years is a long time, Europeans think 100 miles is a long way.
America is large. Our freeways are large. Our warehouses are large. Our houses are large. Our kitchens are large. Our refirgerators are large.
Why? Most of it was built years after people transported goods via horse and wagon.
Don’t blame us for your tiny ancient infrastructure. At least yours lures tourists for its ‘charm.’
Swiss reject law to help country meet Paris carbon emissions goal
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/swiss-voters-decide-pesticides-ban-terrorism-law-covid-19-aid-2021-06-12/
First they refused the EU on immigration now this. Bunch of hicks them swiss
Is your ass feeling loose ? Unable to contain those drugs ?
Seems there’s a big split between rural and urban in Switzerland, just as in the US, and probably most Western nations. I have some friends who live in Zurich and we were staying in the countryside far to the south–they were remarking on some of the political posters in the area where we were–how ignorant, those rural rubes!
Not to worry, the backers, just like the pesticide ban proponents, refuse to see the defeat of their scheme as a rejection but instead another obstacle to overcome.
If only I had posted that yesterday…
In the late night links which do not exist for practical purposes.
Also you people have a habit of not putting the keywords in the titles when you link something which confuses my search to see if it has been linked before
Presume Swiss links on Monday!
The best links! The classiest! They’re UUUUGE !
(I figured Pie is walking the streets looking for CoVID-free blood when the PM links post. Or sleeping.)
“Debates in the last few weeks have shown that many people want to strengthen the climate protection but not with this law,” she said.
They want to strengthen in a way that makes other people pay for it.
makes other people pay for it. – preferably Mexicans. But the Germans and English seem willing enough to wreck their economies