Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas ! And what an absolutely amazing day it always is!
Isn’t shit like this what got the Taliban to rage across Afghanistan to begin with?
No matter the country, the US sucks at managing mass influxes of immigrants.
Majority of Cyber Ninjas audit team out sick with Covid, delivery of Audit report delayed.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2017 Texas law outlawing an abortion procedure.
California police find hundreds of recall ballots, guns and drugs inside sleeping mans car.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to nearly 6 months for burning BLM flag.
Belgium Woman banned from zoo for having an “affair” with chimpanzee.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
No matter the country, the US sucks at managing mass influxes of immigrants. – Just take a big empty state that no one really uses and put them there
Namibia?
Romania…
Baja California Sur
Too close. I’m going to stick with Namibia.
That makes no sense in Spanish or English….
Morning Banjos.
*stares at links*
I’m going to sit this round out.
I looked and went with the least depressing/concerning/maddening. Banjos pulled no punches this fine Tuesday.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to nearly 6 months for burning BLM flag.
Imagine how much he would have gotten for burning an American flag.
The only question I have is this – was it someone else’s property?
If so, why did he get moved to the front of the line when there’s so many more people from 2020 in need of prosecuting for burning other peoples’ property?
Because the mandarinate wants to make sure people that refuse to bend the knee gets the message…
Dark times are ahead, and I am starting to feel that the only way these incompetent credentialed crime syndicate members will finally see the people have had enough is when the people start making them pay for fucking with the people this way.
When you read a comment filled with unbridled optimism from AlexinCT that will be the sign of the end times and you will have only a short time to bug out to your retreat of choice.
I am optimistic that the right thing to do is teach our kids mandarin. That way they can address the people that will enslave them properly when the time comes and have an advantage over those that will be used as cattle and to do the work in the mines for the CCP.
Ni hao!
Gěi wǒ yīxiē pìgu biǎo zi!
Give me butt whore?
Close, but use some more Ghetto slanging…
Work on your tones, TO’G!
Ahhh… xi xi (sp?).
Can we go back 30+ years to when the Japanese were going to eat our lunch? Because I know a few Nipponese words. Hai, hai; bye.
It belonged to a black church in DC.
And wouldn’t restitution be a more appropriate punishment if it was someone else’s property?
BIPOCS nationwide will be traumatized for generations by this act of hatred, Neph.
Say at least three generations? Or is that not enough?
I see what you did there.
Some people’s property is more equal than others.
Now you’re getting it.
“Tarrio stole a BLM banner from the Asbury United Methodist Church and set it on fire at a nearby intersection in December, according to court documents. He was arrested on Dec. 12, 2021, when he was found with two high-capacity magazines before attending the Jan. 6, Trump rally in Washington.”
OK, so legitimately he should be charged with theft and trespassing, and possibly something like creating a public nuisance and littering.
The “speech” part of burning the flag and the possession of firearm magazines should, in a sane world, be sacrosanct under the FIRST TWO AMENDMENTS to the Constitution.
This right here.
And the fact that they refuse to prosecute anyone on the other side of these protests for the exact same crimes means the other charges should be thrown out under the 14th Amendment.
No, see, they accommodated his right to a speedy trial, see? Those other people were just expressing free speech, yup yup.
In one of his last public events, Justice Scalia explained why he cast the deciding vote in the Johnson case, on the principal of a textual reading of the First Amendment. “If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag,” Scalia said at a November 2015 event in Philadelphia. “But I am not king.”
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog/when-the-supreme-court-ruled-to-allow-american-flag-burning
From the ded thred, I was having a wee bit of a poke at the Scots for their capital being the size of Tulsa.
not Tulsa:
http://pointstravelers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/scotland.jpg
https://www.h-itc.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AdobeStock_90784710.jpeg
Needs more flat.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5A8VF5qgFOk/TuNqK_P0A7I/AAAAAAAAD2Q/L57LIVLm4dY/s1600/Trainspotting+03.png
Honestly, that part of Trainspotting 2 where they go out to visit a grave in a freaking barrow field kind of blew my mind.
They made a second one?
I don’t recommend T2. Seemed kind of unnecessary and masturbatory.
I rather enjoyed it. It was totally unnecessary, and like masturbation, pleasant.
In fairness, there was a sequel to Trainspotting in printed form first:
Porno (link goes to wiki, SFW… as much as a link with the word Porno can be)
A couple years after Trainspotting came out, and this book was released, there were rumors and rumblings that they wanted to make this movie about 20 years after Trainspotting, so that the characters would be appropriately aged up (though not really, because heroin is a hell of a drug).
Haven’t seen T2 yet. Tspot film much better than novel, at least for non-Scots.
Yeah the dialect in the novel was mostly incomprehensible to me.
No Burns Night for you then, Waffles?
(And i’ve heard it said that the film is more about E than H.)
Hey! Tulsa is pretty great. There is some wacky, whimsical stuff that only the newly hyper-wealthy (from the initial 1920s oil boom) could dream up. My brother works in one of the glorious art deco buildings that has secret tunnels and one-person elevators so that the founder of Phillips Petroleum wouldn’t have to expose himself to kidnappers.
Heh. Hadn’t heard of that. Haven’t been there but have some rellies (ancestors?) from there.
Argh! “Principle”, you geniuses! ⬆️
Some people *like* to expose themselves to kidnappers, or any people for that matter.
Or so you’ve heard?
Old Town (first pic) is where JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter. So Gothy; can’t think of anywhere else like it.
We visited the tea shop where she did a lot of her writing. The Elephant House.
I had whisky.
I loved Edinburgh. One of the coolest places I’ve ever set foot.
Oh aye.
I hear their hours are 10-6 most days. 😉
Forgot the oblig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSANTRnEBgg
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to nearly 6 months for burning BLM flag. – destruction of property… tragicomic really
whaddup doh’
I amazed I can see the keyboard
all three of them
“Guns, drugs and Ballots”, Get me out of this.
+1 Warren Zevon
You’ll see him sleeping at the convenience store
High as a kite, gun in hand
Stole some recall ballots and got fucked up last night.
Ballots from Compton again
a-hoo! Ballots from Lawndale!
a-hoo!
a-hoo! Ballots from Compton!
a-hoo!
Well played
He’s just an excitable boy.
I cannot WAIT for the conspiracy theories about this.
The CCP overlords unleashed a bat swarm on the auditors.
“We can’t stop here!”
Theta variant? Or the Omega one they had been keeping for when people really needed to be killed?
They’ll assume none of them are vaccinated because anyone right of Mao is not vaccinated in their batshit crazy minds, then imply they deserved to get sick, and then imply that they hope they die. Do you not Twitter?
I keep trying to not Twitter but the bird app keeps sucking me in. It’s all “stare into the nightmare rectangle and watch the collapse of civilization” and I’m like “yes please”.
Eeeew. Now I have to take a shower.
I do not twitter.
Out of morbid curiosity, what’s Ken White’s take on Tarrio being given prison time for flag-burning?
I wish I never found out what an insane asshole popehat is.
‘member when Popehat was good on freedom of speech? I ‘member.
seriously. I used to love reading him until he went publicly nuts
Maybe it’s temporary? Andrew Sullivan lost his mind, and seems OK now.
Doubtful. He gets a lot of public support for being an asshole in public. Twitter fandoms can really enhance and reinforce some terrible personality traits.
I followed Popehat for a while, but last I saw he was still all ate up with the TDS.
At least in Fierce Creatures it was a gorilla.
She must be an uggo.
If that chimp is alpha enough it don’t take no shit from other chimps. Kick ass and reestablish social status
“This court must respect the right of any citizen to peacefully assemble, protest, and make his or her views known on issues,” Cushenberry said, according to CNN. “But Mr. Tarrio’s conduct in these criminal cases vindicate none of these democratic values. Instead, Mr. Tarrio’s actions betrayed them.”
“We believe in the first Amendment, but….”
Let’s see- why not restitution for the destroyed property?
As for the magazines, fuck off, slaver.
He could have thrown those at somebody. Have you ever been hit by a magazine? It could hurt.
“Belgium Woman banned from zoo for having an “affair” with chimpanzee.”
Does the zoo have a conjugal room? Cause otherwise it had to be all about finger-banging, which means the monkey was the patriarch…
Ever hear Gilbert Gottfried’s theory about Sunset Blvd. and Norma Desmond’s chimp? Eh, never mind.
Tortoise Hunting a Tern Chick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdsENsy68g&t=77s
that chicken is either retarded or suicidal.
Jungle McNuggets!
I’m sure he will be readily available to answer any questions that might arise.
They called the Clintons for “advice” on how to make the guy disappear…
Crazy, right?
Remember when guns & drugs together was a big deal?
Remember when random stacks of ballots showing up in a car in a convenience store parking lot was a big deal?
nah, me neither.
Maybe he planned to put them up on Ebay as collector items of this historic event after the election.
I’m just going to assume with the kid gloves treatment by both police and media, this was Hunter Biden.
Yes, this was very good.
Torrance?
Whatever became of the South Bay Glibs, anyway? (-EG)
It’s kids like little Johnny with his banjo that really piss me off. Why can’t he be a normal little troublemaker like my kids were?
/Sarc
Thanks, Miss Banjos, it’s kids like Johnny that give me hope.
Blessed by the holy priesthood
Then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a statement Monday, before he left office, calling for all New York state employers to require Covid-19 vaccination after the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine.
“This morning’s announcement that the federal Food and Drug Administration has fully approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccination eliminates any doubt in the science and efficacy of COVID vaccines,” Cuomo said.
They said it. That means it’s true. Stop whining and take it.
Thus spake the Party of SCIENCE!
Good-bye, Andy, your wisdom will be missed. Like a toothache…
Kathy should make her first action the recinding of all Andy’s mandates, just to spite him.
Sounds like she will be doing the exact opposite of that. Might be looking at more mandates for more of the state.
eliminates any doubt in the science and efficacy of COVID vaccines
No, it doesn’t.
some bureaucrat signed a piece of fucking paper.
Woopty fucking doo.
“I swear, it’s almost like they are trying to create a situation where Americans are going to be captured.”
I think the people making this statement are totally wrong. They are not hoping for the Taliban to take hostages, they are hoping they brutally kill people so they can use that as an excuse to ship another 150K troops to this shithole for another 20 years. The people in power are pissed, royally, that China is taking over their opium trade source, and that the whole tax payer lucre laundering racket is going up in smoke. Having to use just green energy and racist shit to steal money from tax payers is seriously going to hurt their racket.
The country is run by a bunch of crime syndicates, and they are angry that the people keep fighting their wishes.
Well, yeah. They learned their lesson from Carter.
It is weird. The Brits and French are just driving around picking their people up and getting them out. We are doing a massive airlift of Afghans while leaving Americans to rot.
Just another instance of our elite hating Americans more.than anyone else in the world?
Isn’t shit like this what got the Taliban to rage across Afghanistan to begin with?
Well yes. But we figure that we have already dug the hole so far that we might as well keep digging.
Regarding the Fifth Circuit ruling on Abortion. The Fifth Circuit has appellate jurisdiction over TX, LA, and MS, so this opinion is binding precedent for all federal courts in those states. SCOTUS will likely take this up given that unlimited abortion is one of the big goals of the left. But also expect LA and MS legislatures to enact similar legislation.
“California police find hundreds of recall ballots, guns and drugs inside sleeping mans car.”
One gun, “some narcotics,” and over 300 recall election ballots that “were accounted for as being sent out to voters but not yet returned.”
Sure, totally not focused on the election.
Well we can’t count these ballots, we have duplicates of them!
Pinky-swear?
Stealing mail is a federal felony. So they just cut loose a guy who committed 300 federal felonies?
If I were the US Attorney, I’d be pissed.
If you were a Biden appointed US Attorney, you just might not be all that angry…
That’s why I think they’re Elder votes.
How did the guy come into possession of 300 ballots that had been “sent out,” presumably by US Mail? Either he stole them from mailboxes or was given them by a USPS employee. Either one should be a federal crime, no?
It’s only a crime if the authorities actually enforce it. These days the criminal system enforces (or doesn’t) the law only when it benefits the machine against the fucking rabble.
“Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to nearly 6 months for burning BLM flag.”
What was the actual charge of which he was convicted? Can’t remember the last time anyone was incarcerated for burning any type of flag.
Well, it was someone else’s flag, so probably larceny, arson, hate crimes, wrongthink, and being associated with traditional values.
90 days for flag burning, 150 days for std cap mags.
The magazines were the pretext. And it sounds like he was prosecuted under DC law.
Mornin’ Banjos! Damn that was a fine musical link! Do their parents keep them in a box and only let them out to play?
Nation’s foremost blathering senile quack
Dr. Anthony Fauci has admitted making his latest mistake in coronavirus guidance, this time over when he thinks the pandemic will come “under control” — apologizing by saying, “My bad.”
The White House coronavirus czar had told NPR on Monday that if enough people get vaccinated the US could “really get some good control over this” by the fall or winter of next year.
But quizzed on it by CNN’s Anderson Cooper later the same day, Fauci — who has been under fire repeatedly for flip-flopping on his public advice from the early days of the pandemic — said he actually thinks that control will come even sooner.
“Anderson, I have to apologize. When I listened to the tape, I meant to say the spring of 2022, so I did misspeak,” he said.
He insisted that if “the overwhelming majority of the 90 million people who have not been vaccinated” now get the shot “I hope we can get some good control in the spring of 2022.”
What a sick joke.
I read that as “…has admitted making his last mistake…”
And I thought maybe he had resigned.
dammit.
Any remark he makes should be answered with “Resign, you odious little troll.”
At this point, what does he actually do? He makes statements to the media, except none of them have any new useful information. He’s not leading an effort to improve treatment of the disease; he’s not pushing for better vaccines or actual studies that would convince more people that it’s safe and effective to take the ones that already exist.
He just seems to keep saying the same things over and over again. It’s not working. If his goal is to reduce the impact of this disease on society (and it sure as hell should be) he is not doing anything new or particularly effective to accomplish this.
He costs more than any other federal employee. His post needs to be dissolved and the buget items for his department destroyed.
At least he got his voice somewhat fixed. Was brutal for a while.
My fervent hope was that he fell into an open sewer drain.
I hope we can get some good control in the spring of 2022.
It’s just two weeks to flatten the curve, comrade. And you do not “control” a coronavirus. It is endemic. It is here forever now. Deal with it.
You misunderstood. The control isn’t of the Coronavirus – it’s of plebs like you.
For a long time I have assumed that this is how the common cold became “common.” It’s a coronavirus (actually a set of coronaviruses) and changes/mutates enough that it is impossible to develop “a” vaccine for.
The way this has likely worked out in the past millenia is: new coronavirus mutates and infects people; the most vulnerable among the population die over the course of months/years; virus becomes endemic among the population whose immune systems can control it; decades or centuries later, lather, rinse, repeat.
The “common” colds we deal with now are likely the lethal coronaviruses of the distant paths; we have just evolved to handle them. The efforts now to eliminate this particular virus, while well-intentioned, are doomed to failure and eventually the virus will take its toll, like all before it.
Without a major advancement in vaccine technology well beyond what we have seen to date, coronaviruses will continue to do this for a very long time. The investment in fighting this particular one is tragically wasted. We will wish that someone had come up with a cure for “the common cold,” for eventually, that will be what tames coronaviruses in general.
Just my ignorant, non-medica-professional thoughts.
“distant *past*”
While there are a number of viruses that can cause the common cold, I believe it is predominantly a rhinovirus.
Rhinovirus, coronavirus, adenovirus, and enterovirus are the 4 most likely.
Ah, yes, thank you for correcting me. I think that the past evolution of the colds probably follows the same pattern, regardless of the specific type of virus.
As I recall, rhinovirus causes about 2/3rds of the cases of common cold and coronavirus the other 1/3rd.
So COVID is a super-cold and not a super-influenza.
COVID will eventually become just another cause of the common cold.
antidepressant or Tolkien character quiz
https://antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app/
This is actually kind of difficult. *Sensible Chuckle*
20/24, I know them both well enough,
Mine was Imipramine. Took it for a week, threw the rest into the river. It turned the fish Gay!
I hope that was quite some time ago. No reply necessary.
1987, no hurt feelings Miss O’Grady.
A team coordinating privately chartered flights out of Afghanistan exclusively told the Daily Caller News Foundation that they’ve received no support from the Biden administration in trying to get Americans and vulnerable Afghans out of the country and that it’s been an ‘impediment’ to their efforts.
If the current regime actually wanted to withdraw smoothly it would have been executing it throughout the time running up to the previously agree to date.
Former Republican Virginia Congressman Scott Taylor described the lack of support from the administration as “frustrating” and “a massive fuck up.”
I’d argue that the admin is aiding and abetting the enemy. I believe there is a constitutional provision that covers this.
Remember that Obama guy? He is still breathing free air.
I believe there is a constitutional provision that covers this.
Dude, that’s like 100 years old and written by white slave owners!
that chicken is either retarded or suicidal.
Are you trying to say there is a chicken somewhere which isn’t retarded?
Chickens are dinosaurs too stupid to go extinct when SMOD v1.0 hit.
I like it, saved for later,
Chickens are evil. The only reasons that we like them is because they tasty and small enough to be no threat. I’ve seen chickens kill pretty much anything they want to if it is small enough. Chickens eat chicken scraps.
Yeah, you can tell from the look in their little velociraptor eyes that if you passed out in the pen, they’d eat you.
Uffda.
Mad bomber learns to use the system.
I guess if I was looking at a long stint in prison, I’d try to do it at a women’s prison too.
“Mad Bomber”.
Sorry, there is only one Mad Bomber, PBUH.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Metesky
*clears throat*
The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight would like a word. That word is, “BOOM BABY!”
Heh. Like the real-life Mad Bomber, the evil one was an electrician. I might need to reconsider getting that generator hooked up…
“Mad Bomber” evokes images of a black and white clad villain using cartoonish black bombs with the long fuzes ala Wile E Coyote.
That or a C-list Adam West Batman villan.
He plans to get more ass than a toilet seat…
that’s how you do it
Have you ever been hit by a magazine? It could hurt.
I have been swatted with a rolled up magazine. It stings.
Especially September Vogue.
Teen Vogue is into the anal, which really hurts.
Hurts like hell if it’s Cosmopolitan. Those 70’s issues couldn’t even be rolled, just folded over. Get one of them on the top of your noggin and you’ll remember the lesson, whatever it was.
For F, SOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wMesI8aiw
Aw, not my original? I actually did get thrashed with a Cosmo when I was 13 or so.
Did you pee on the carpet?
Wu?
Cocksuckah!
You have to pay extra for that
Gee, I wonder why our agreements with prideful, status-conscious patriarchal societies keep ending up pear-shaped. A dea’ls a deal, same as downtown you State Department lackwits.
A deal is only a deal if the enforcement mechanism has teeth.
White Man speak with forked-tongue!
Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan and two other members of the five-person audit team are “quite sick,” and the full draft of their report will not be delivered on Monday as expected, Fann said in a statement.
Uh huh…
There’s never going to be a report, the Cyber Ninjas had no idea what they were doing and they know that as soon as they submitt their “findings” the grift is over.
“This court must respect the right of any citizen to peacefully assemble, protest, and make his or her views known on issues,” Cushenberry said, according to CNN. “But Mr. Tarrio’s conduct in these criminal cases vindicate none of these democratic values. Instead, Mr. Tarrio’s actions betrayed them.”
Now do BLM/Antifa mass destruction of property and violence.
Charges dropped because their conduct was in support of Democratic values.
“But again, there’s a big caveat there — this is a very wily virus,” he told the CNN host, warning that the timeline could easily change again even if everyone follows his advice.
Our BEST. Our BRIGHTEST. One of the finest minds this great nation has to offer.
?
I think what he is saying is “This will never end.”
Like the Common Cold? or the Flu? I need answers, I’m too stupid to figure this out,
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/600×315/cb/80/65/cb806548ce04ea68db3da504de0ac378.jpg
Bugger! momentito…
https://live.staticflickr.com/7669/17295342730_82bd87d773_b.jpg
So he got his (our) money’s worth out of those grants to Chinese labs?
this is a very wily virus
Goofy, inept and consistently thwarted by a roadrunner?
“The election ballots, they were un-tampered with, unopened, a little over 300 of them found, primarily from addresses in Lawndale,” Ponegalek added. “There were some from Compton. We’re still trying to figure out where all these belonged to at this time, so we’re working with the Los Angeles election office as well as the U.S. Postal Inspector.”
“We will be turning them over to the DNC – uh – I mean destroying them promptly.”
That dog is asshoe.
“I haven’t got anything else,” Timmermans said. “Why do they want to take that away?” she asked in her interview with ATV. “We’re having an affair, I’ll just say. Other dozens of visitors are allowed to make contact. Then why not me?”
Luckily this turned out not to be what I thought based on the headline…
Are you threatening me?
Taliban Won’t Extend Aug. 31 Deadline for US Withdrawal – Threatens Biden Regime, “Complete the Evacuations by Aug. 31 or Face Consequences”
“Perhaps the US should not assume it is negotiating from a position of strength.” – China to Blinkin
Time to start glassing Mainland China until the Maoist rebels surrender to the government in Taiwan.
The CCP has some Glassmaking equipment too you know,
And why should the Taliban do anything different? They control things now, well until the CCP comes in,
Chinese knockoffs. And obviously the first target.
If they want to throw us out they can and will throw us out. As it stands now they hold the strong position and assuming this is a bluff would be beyond foolish.
And what, one wonders, do the property owners say about this?
Airbnb is planning to start housing 20,000 Afghan refugees around the world free of charge, the company’s CEO, Brian Chesky, said Tuesday.
The refugees will be housed in properties listed on Airbnb’s platform and the stays will be funded by Airbnb, Chesky said on Twitter, without specifying exactly how much the company plans to spend on the commitment or how long refugees will be housed for.
Sure. Stay as long as you like.
This sounds like a very stupid thing to do.
Therefore it must be done.
A thing must be done, and that is, in fact, a thing being done.
One of my mom’s neighbors (R1) does that sometimes. Good thing for them that their dog is cute.
The campaign against OnlyFans is part of a larger project: it’s not about ending violence and abuse, and it’s not about sex negativity or controlling women (though that’s part of it)—it’s about fighting to establish a fundamentalist Christian nation
https://twitter.com/melissagira/status/1429828800322445313
Oh yes that eternal plan to establish a fundamentalist Christian nation sported by probably LESS THAN 5% OF Americans
wut
I donno. The marxists have been radicalizing me of late. I might just start going Deus Vult and slaughtering heathens and infidels.
The problem with going deus vult is you never get good results unless everyone else is also going deus vult.
I am not Martyr material.
Never go full deus vult?
IIRC, it was mostly Dems who supported the SESTA/FOSTA laws that wrecked a lot of sex work.
I thought porn forced women to do things for the patriarchy to beat off to, or some such shit…
I’m a 5%er Ha!
So, in their conspiracy theories, Christians have seized control of international finance from Jews?
So the Jews for Jesus are the real villains pulling the strings?
Messianic Jewish churches seem weird, but I guess they have a claim to being even more traditional than the Catholic Church.
it’s about fighting to establish a fundamentalist Christian nation
LOL. We’re too busy trying to figure out how to avoid collapsing from lack of congregational support in an increasingly hostile society to bother trying to pull the puppet strings.
it’s about fighting to establish a fundamentalist Christian nation
Of course it is.
Saying the quiet part out loud.
BIDEN: “She [Kamala] happens to be in Asia for me right now, but that’s why we have a female Vice President of the United States of America, who’s gonna be, we’re gonna have some presidents pretty soon.”
I’m convinced they’re tanking all this on purpose as a pretense to get rid of Dementia Joe. Last week I predicted he’s gone by EOY, I might have to move up that time table.
Late November?
…
I still think Dr. Jill is gonna try to ride it out till he falls over.
Jilling off until she gets enough?
^This^
DR. Jill is riding under the radar, but she seems to be the one who is willing to ride Joe’s addled ass all the way to the coffin.
Great. Like the late Roman Empire. “Four Emperors? Fuck that shit! Let’s try five! In the space of a year!”
At least Rome had Julius and Augustus, we get Milley and Vanilli, the lip synch Generals.
Save your life from utter pointlessness with Titty Tuesday.
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Today’s debate topic: an exceptional dump is better than bad sex.
Discuss.
1000% The only reason one might prefer bad sex is that they need the acceptance and validation. Once you grow out of that awkwardness the dump is far more satisfying/better for health and self esteem.
Bad sex?
WTF are you even talking about?
Why not have bad sex while taking an exceptional dump? Cleveland Steamers, Dirty Sanchezes, and Rufus Turners don’t just happen, yo…
“Cleveland Steamers”. How was this not chosen as the new name for a baseball team?
There was just recently a Cleveland team searching for a name too. We live in the worst of all possible worlds.
Sure… just rub more salt into that wound.
But you can buy men’s roller derby team shirts to support the team that already has the name the baseball team selected.
I repeat myself:
Cleveland Spiders. Yes, they were bad, but that was Cleveland’s team name in the National League from 1889-1899.
In 1892 they did finish second in the National League behind the Boston Beaneaters.
The Brooklyn Grooms finished 3rd.
The Spiders name had quite a bit of local support. I’ve yet to meet someone who likes the Guardians name.
I’ve yet to understand how naming your team the Indians is somehow insulting to Indians.
Shhh, you trying to get scalped!?
Why are you not woking WTF? The fuckers that forced the change didn’t give a shit what the Indians thought about team names. My ex-football team actually changed its name, under pressure from some of the vilest and stupidest people you could imagine, despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of Native Americans though the team name honored them.
I like Guardians because I like the local connection and the actual bridge/sculptures.
Too many Germans would be offended by a team name that is derogatory of their culture?
Scheisse….
The Cleveland Sitzpinklers?
“Cleveland Steamers”. How was this not chosen as the new name for a baseball team?
Because it is too close to the Browns and people might get confused?
Bad sex is sweaty, unpleasant and generally uncomfortable with a modicum of satisfaction but at least with a good dump you never have to see the end result ever again. I’m pulling the lever for dump.
*toilet backs up* *results of last activity return*
Exceptional dumps never return.
What is this thing called “bad sex”?
What is the thing called “sex”?
It’s like gender except there’s only two of them.
China be trollin’.
When you feel life is going nowhere, just think: with
4 U.S. presidents
20 years
2 trillion dollars
2,300 soldiers’ lives…
the regime of Afghanistan changes from Taliban to… Taliban
The chick is cute though.
Stop fetishizing asian womexn you misogynist
Well the “fourth” fucking “wave” scare stories are starting round these parts. Apparently the % of deaths without comorbidity in increasing.
“Last wave we had ten deaths, two without coborbidities. This wave we had four deaths, one without comorbidities. That’s a 25% increase in the percentage of non-comorbid deaths!”
You must write copy for the AP!
Nah, they don’t pay enough.
Could that be due to the number of people with comorbidity has plummeted over the last year or so?
You see, COVID is like a giant grizzly bear and a pack of dire wolves chasing the societal sleigh. Eventually you run out of people who run slower than you do. It’s science *and* literature. And art.
You keep using that word…
The Department of Education is preparing its Office of Civil Rights to investigate schools that have blocked school mask mandates and other efforts to try to keep students and educators safe from COVID-19.
Republican-led states like Florida and Texas have imposed rules that say school districts can’t impose mask mandates; the Department of Education argues that this could lead to discrimination against some students who cannot attend school because it becomes unsafe for their health.
“We are prepared to launch investigations with our Office for Civil Rights to ensure that all students have access to this fundamental right of education … We’re going to use our Office for Civil Rights to investigate any claims that come forward to make sure that students’ rights are kept,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.
Which part of the Bill of Rights covers the inalianable right to force others to collaborate in your delusional theatrics?
Look fat, the constitution means whatever the courts say it means, I mean, everyone, the thing, we all know this!
Say what you will about the mean tweeting orangeskin, this kind of stuff wouldn’t be happening under him. They’d have a point if mask wearing was forbidden but it isn’t.
I don’t really understand the end-game here. Blind power and control? Vengeance against a perceived enemy? Panicking herds that feel safer in the middle of the stampede? Never mind. It’s all of the above. God help us.
the Department of Education argues that this could lead to discrimination against some students who cannot attend school because it becomes unsafe for their health.
Ron Deathsantis clearly wants your children to die, unlike the benevolent Democrats who want to inhibit their breathing and incubate bacteria on their faces.
Good morning, Banjos!
*reads lynx*
Nope, the world didn’t change while I was asleep. It’s still retarded.
I am grateful, however, for you and the rest of You People for making it better.
Have a fantastic day, peeps!
✌️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM2eLhvsSM
You too, Friend!
And the voice of reason in these troubled times is… Bill De Blasio?
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2021/08/murphy-must-do-more-eliminate-the-testing-loophole-in-schools-editorial.html
“After requiring proof of vaccination to enter most venues, he took another bold action on Monday, announcing a strict new vaccine requirement for school staff, without the option of instead submitting to weekly testing. Bravo, sir.”
The Joseph Goebbels school of journalism is alive and well. When do I get my armband?
TMITfuckingE
he took another bold action on Monday
Upped his Metamucil intake?
“bold” Ha! Was he under fire when he made that decision? Does he face the guillotine if he’s wrong? I doubt he’d be issuing such edicts sans an armed security detail.
He was trying to start a movement.
Puke.
“Kamala Harris discussed Christmas shopping and climate change but failed to mention the current crisis in Afghanistan during her major foreign policy speech on Monday.
Harris, addressing a roundtable of business leaders before her speech, warned that climate change and the pandemic have contributed to supply chain issues, The New York Times reported, and suggested parents should consider getting Christmas presents now.
‘The stories that we are now hearing about the caution that if you want to have Christmas toys for your children, it might now be might be the time to start buying them, because the delay may be many, many months,’ she said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9920843/Harris-offer-vision-Indo-Pacific-major-speech.html
CWAA
I read that as “moar lockdowns coming, bitches.”
Or, please please juice the economy with Black Friday level shopping before the economy plows into the ground.
I would ladle on a portion of, “By the time Christmas rolls around, your buying power will be inflated away.”
It seems we are re-living the fall of the Roman Empire. Hopefully the sackings won’t happen until I’m already gone.
We might just be seeing Crassus and the Parthians.
So who is Caesar? I see Biden more as Flavius Honorius than Crassus.
Someone we don’t see coming right now.
I really think we can ride this out for another century before things really get bad for most people living at the center of the first world.
There were plenty of sackings last year. I haven’t kept up this year.
The barbarians are already inside the gates.
The barbarians *are coming from* inside the gates.
She speaks as surefooted as a teenager giving an oral report on something they’d only copied from Wikipedia minutes before.
Doesn’t she have experience giving oral?
“Mad Bomber” evokes images of a black and white clad villain using cartoonish black bombs with the long fuzes ala Wile E Coyote.
Behold
“Massive Microsoft Power Apps data breach exposes personal details of 38 million people: American Airlines and NYC schools data including social security numbers and vaccination status among information leaked”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9920349/Massive-Microsoft-Power-Apps-data-breach-exposes-personal-details-38-million-people.html
Typical, just typical.
Is there anyone whose information isn’t already out there?
*snickers uncontrollably*
Whelp, I’m guessing our highly confidential innovation tracking information is out there. I warned them to get the hell away from Power Apps, but “ooh shiny” won out.
The other day I was thinking about this. There has been so many data breach incidents I am pretty sure I have free credit monitoring until the year 3000. No doubt the government will make cheap credit monitoring a right, like health insurance.
“‘Chief COVID enforcer Nancy doesn’t believe a word she says about the virus!’ Tucker Carlson blasts Pelosi for going maskless at lavish Napa fundraiser where servers were made to wear face-coverings”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9921239/Tucker-Carlson-blasts-Pelosi-going-maskless-Napa-fundraiser.html
Laws are for the little people.
She didn’t at her hair appointment a while back. Why would he suddenly think she cares now?
Funny how the truly finer clay don’t act that way, and v.v.
Masks are for virtue-signaling and so that the “help” know their place.
SEA SNAKE SMITH?
According to Oceana, Olive sea snakes live in coral reefs in the western Pacific Ocean, spanning from Australia to New Guinea. Sometimes reaching over six feet in length, these “highly venomous” snakes “actively [hunt] small to medium sized fishes and benthic invertebrates, including prawns and crabs.”
“Though they only rarely bite people, their bites have been known to be fatal,” noted the organization.
The new study, published in Scientific Reports last week, sheds light on the sometimes-strange behavior of these sea snakes. The serpents are known to instigate “unprovoked attacks” on humans, where the creatures “swim directly toward divers, sometimes wrapping coils around the diver’s limbs and biting.” However, after studying sea snake encounters in the Great Barrier Reef, researchers concluded these creatures weren’t, in fact, aiming to attack humans. Rather, the incidents were just part of the creatures’ confused attempts at finding a mate.
Of course it’s Australian…
Extinction Rebellion
@ExtinctionR
The objective is to keep Earth broadly habitable – why doesn’t everyone share that objective?
https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR/status/1430137676884320261
We just hate the earth, evil libertarians that we are
Asked why Extinction Rebellion co-founder Gail Bradbrook drives a diesel car, environmental advocate Jonathan Tassell says: ‘We’re all hypocrites.’
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1430121456395079686
Eating 1 hot dog takes 35 minutes off life, study suggests
https://nypost.com/2021/08/23/eating-1-hot-dog-takes-35-minutes-off-life-study-suggests/
some people are slow eaters. I can get a hot dog done in 5 minutes I reckon
If this were true, I would have died at the age -4.
Or, if you hadn’t eaten any you’d be the guy at 135 years of age being interviewed on the Today Show telling our grandkids that booze and wild women were the key to a long life.
The only thing keeping him alive is the vaccine.
“Wokeness is the best evidence for the existence of a single integrated transnational professional-managerial class in the Anglosphere.”
“How is it that every elite institution in American life, from corporations to academia to media, all of a sudden all believe in the same narrow set of values?”
“Feminization, in the literal demographic sense. Many of these institutions became majority-female (or close to it) very recently.”
https://twitter.com/herandrews/status/1429922823301120002
certainly a theory
Agency capture via like hiring like, generally beginning with the HR department, is the answer.
Institutional capture I meant.
It all started in 1920…
?
In 1920 my GGM was saving her sorority sister from a fire. Quoted in paper as something along the lines of “Aw, shucks, weren’t nothing.”
I take your point, though I don’t think it’s inherent to all females, if you reach them early enough.
In 1920, my grandmother was out in the Georgia fields picking cotton. Being a girl of 10 years, she only had to pick a half-bale per day (her brothers had to pick a bale apiece) but, being a girl, she had to leave the field to help make lunch for the menfolk. Running off with my grandfather and his subsequent decision to join the fancy new Army Air Corps was the right choice. Talk of white or female privilege, to me, falls on deaf ears.
db’s Word Problem Corner:
Joshua and Tyler are protesting in the city center. There are twenty-five buildings on each side of the street, each with approximately four panes of glass. The buildings are about thirty feet wide. If Joshua can throw one brick every fifteen seconds, and walk at about 1 mile per hour, how long will it take him to empty the bucket of twenty bricks that Tyler is carrying for him? Assuming Joshua achieves a hit probability of 60 percent on each independent throw, how many bricks will he need to complete one side of the street? If it takes Tyler thirty seconds to run back to his Mom’s Land Rover Discovery to pick up more bricks, and two minutes to bring a full bucket of bricks back to Joshua, how long will it take to complete one side of the street?
For extra credit, plot out the most efficient path for Joshua to hit the most buildings on both sides of the street, given the assumption that Tyler will hyperextend his elbow after four return trips, after which his brick delivery rate will be cut in half.
After the second brick they get shot by a rooftop Korean.
Not intersectional enough bro…
Why no trans-racist shit happening to spice the story up?
Baseball birthdays. Top two are HoFers Cal Ripken Jr and Harry Hooper.
Brett Gardner, Tim Salmon, and Hank Gowdy round out the top 5.
Coming up on the 25th anniversary of Cal breaking Gherig’s streak. That was one hell of a moment.
Fauci’s new 2022 timeline for Covid fight could be a political disaster for Biden and Democrats
Yup – everybody thought we just get rid of OMB and we can get this right back under control. Same with all the violent crime, err peaceful protests. So at this point even CNN realizing the can of worms that was opened.
Seems to be missing a word or two in there. And why would people be skeptical about the Covid vaccination that’s requiring boosters every 6-8 months?
That makes the long-term plan (if there is one) even more absurd.
They’re talking like we need over 90% vaccination to eradicate this thing (and they’re adamant that eradication is the only option). In many parts of the world, vaccination of that scale is going to be impossible. So what are they going to do, have that same 90%+ get not only the vaccine but the booster shot forever?
Eradication or masks and lockdowns forever. No third option. No fourth option either.
Not to mention close the borders forever.
I think we’re rapidly approaching rolling-eyes territory in many parts of the nation.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/coronavirus/cdc-estimates-1-in-3-americans-have-been-infected-with-covid-19
They’re acting like this never happened.
It’s all nonsense.
Everybody?
Everybody Who Matters, yes.
Has Fauci named his heir?
I think it would be very damaging to the country if there isn’t a clean succession for the Emperor.
Aussie-land goes full Nazi.
It will now be mandatory for people in NSW to sign-in to businesses and retail venues using the QR code system as health authorities crack down on the spread of COVID-19.
The changes announced on June 30 will be in place from today with fines now applicable for businesses and patrons who fail to comply.
People will also be required to check-in at outdoor gatherings, weddings and funeral services.
Business owners are now required to ensure people can provide their contact details when they enter the premises including ensuring a QR code is displayed in a prominent location and asking to see a green tick on the Service NSW app once patrons register.
If it is not possible for a person to check-in using their device, an occupier must have an alternate sign-in method at their premises.
The business then has 12 hours to register those contact details with Service NSW.
I can instantly see a way to fuck with this whole system – No phone. No smartphone means no QR code, means “MIKE HUNT” and company should be making a reappearance in Australia.
Now they’ve forced/co-opted businesses to be responsible for their totalitarianism by keeping lists and reporting on their fellow citizens. Totally not like Nazis, though.
inoffizieller Mitarbeiter
I recently acquired my first smart phone after about 20 years of using the same flip phone. I feel like a sucker.
Mornin’ Banjos.
The Pentagon said in a Monday briefing that it will consider leaving American troops in Afghanistan past August 31, in consultation with President Biden and allies, but dismissed the idea of the U.S. military taking back Bagram Airfield to speed up evacuations.
So…. shitshow.
Shortly before 8 a.m. last Friday, an official at U.S. Central Command sent a searing wake-up call to colleagues: The sweltering Qatar air base where the Biden administration is housing thousands of Afghan evacuees was awash with loose feces and urine and a rat infestation, according to internal emails shared with Axios.
But at least there are no kids in cages. Right? RIGHT?!?!?!
“The election ballots, they were un-tampered with, unopened, a little over 300 of them found, primarily from addresses in Lawndale,” Ponegalek added. “There were some from Compton. We’re still trying to figure out where all these belonged to at this time, so we’re working with the Los Angeles election office as well as the U.S. Postal Inspector.”
Compton. Elder votes?
“I haven’t got anything else,” Timmermans said. “Why do they want to take that away?” she asked in her interview with ATV. “We’re having an affair, I’ll just say. Other dozens of visitors are allowed to make contact. Then why not me?”
?!?!?!?!?
I have a bet with a bluish friend that we will still have troops in Afghanistan by 9/11 (I made the bet back in the spring).
It’s a toss-up at this point.
And for those Glibs who weren’t alive in the early 70s.
GM ‘Buckle to Drive’ Seatbelt Requirement Coming to 2022 SUVs, Full-Size Trucks
Good news is for now it is defeatable. It’s part of crippling features for “teen drivers”. Next year – who knows?
Anything to stop you from sitting on the seatbelt rather than under it?
That’s what people did in the 70s.
For those in the know you unplugged sensor under the seat. It had the bonus of also disabling the seatbelt alarm. The manufacturers were smart enough that the seat sensor worked on an open switch.
Today the seat sensors also set airbag force and a bunch of other stuff.
My 2014 subaru impreza had an annoying seatbelt alarm. Because I typically buckled my belt while exiting the parking lot it would go off and piss me off. I looked it up and there was a combination of button presses that disabled it. it involved holding a button while bucking and unbuckling the driver belt like 25 times. Weird but it worked. I think most car manufacturers have the good sense to provide debug menu stuff. I accidentally activated the nanny bs on a ford and could only remove it by tracking down the valet key. YMMV
Did the same with my Jeep. Multiple buckle and unbuckle sequence.
Because it is critical that I am fully buckled up before I back my boat down the launch for 40 ft after getting the boat ready.
Will Ford or any other truck company be gutsy enough to run on the anti-nanny features of their trucks?
That is exactly what I was thinking. Once we get to the storage unit, I am in and out of the truck to make sure everything is lined up for parking our trailor. I am not buckling up while backing up at 2mph in an empty lot. What fucking nonsense.
My guess is that it will come in the form of a “temporary cancel button”, kind of like the “clutch safety switch cancel” switch that used to be in Toyotas. Push the button, and get 10 minutes of seatbelt freedom. Automatically cancels above 15 mph though.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people, ch 6,722
Brad and Holly began speaking with other residents on their cul-de-sac. One of them, Nancy Gardner, had learned from a friend in nearby Napa Valley about a new company called Pacaso that was buying houses in the area. The company was co-founded by a Napa resident, and it converts houses into LLCs. Pacaso then sells shares of these corporate houses to multiple investors. Nancy Googled Pacaso, and, sure enough, the house on their cul-de-sac was on its website. The company had named the house “Chardonnay” and was now selling investors the chance to buy a one-eighth share of it for $606,000.
Pacaso was founded in October 2020 by Austin Allison and Spencer Rascoff, two former executives at Zillow. The company is based in San Francisco, and as is typical of tech startups in the Silicon Valley area, its founders tell a lofty story about their business that’s about more than just making money. The company says the motivation for the venture began when Austin and his wife, both based in Napa, bought a second home in Lake Tahoe. The night after they closed on the house, Austin says in a promotional video, he and his wife sat around a fire “thinking how appreciative we were to be second homeowners. And, from that moment, I’ve always been inspired about making the dream of second home ownership possible for more people.”
To make second home ownership possible for more people — and, of course, make money — Pacaso uses a “fractional home ownership” model. They buy a house, lightly refurbish it, furnish it and then create an LLC for it. They then divvy up ownership of this corporatized house into eight fractions and sell those shares on their website.
I hate them all. The smooth talking wizards who came up with the hokey timeshare-in-a-frilly-frock business model, and the torches-and-pitchforks idiots. California, man. It’s poison.
Hey now! Is big state!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRZzUh9hcTo
Good news is you don’t have to burn it down, it’s already burning. I’m worried for Sierra-at-Tahoe. These trees are endangered by the caldor fire right now.
Fuck. Chuck McDowell and Wesley (“West Lake” as I always hear it in his drunken barfly voice) Financial will never go away now.
Teams has an ‘Emo’ emoji.
How is this professional software?
It’s all built for the emotionally stunted departments like HR and outside sales.
If they can’t be professional, fire the lot of them.
From your lips to the C-suite’s ears.
Your Sales uses Teams? They mostly seem to hang out in Yammer or Slack.
Our whole company switched over to slack, and sales is pissed that yammer is going away.
I dunno who used teams. I tried it out, but there were some limitations that kept me from using it more frequently.
All that said, the people using the ridiculous emojis and gifs in a professional context are invariable outside sales, HR, or comms.
I miss the easy use of Skype Business. Teams adds more crap, more clicking, and less functionality. There are some who like it as yet another document repository.
I dislike the non standard emojis that MS created. I just want the standard rolling eyes ones so I can maintain a patina of professionalism.
We now have webex but I preferred skype for business
I hated Skype. Our deployment was unstable, I’d get booted mid conversation for no apparent reason. I like the asynchronous nature of Slack DMs, but despite “consolidating” on slack (with teams for telephony, one drive for file storage, Onenote for wikis, SharePoint for team sites, power apps for various applications, and a dozen other utilities for various other reasons), it’s still a fragmented work flow.
All this cloud stuff is making the actual day to day work take twice as much effort. Whatever happened to having a network drive mapped and a couple of on prem apps and dbs?
We have those too. And a samba gateway to hook the unix boxes into the cifs shares and move files about automagically in the background.
Of course they only notice that part when it doesn’t work and complain to me (I wrote the script and set up the system. It works at least 99.999% of the time.)
But that’s no fun and no money for licensing. IT quietly replacing network drives and even local desktop with OneDrive underneath.
My biggest dislikes with the Teams calls is the inability to change the ring length or easily IM the person back when I’m already talking on a non Teams phone.
I don’t know why your people would be making such a mistake. We have so much trouble from the software we don’t want the hassle of it. We’ve got plenty of on-prem storage.
Make life easier for our contract IT support. And the “promise” that you can drop in another PC without needing to reimage and copy everything over, easier access to user data for…discovery compliance, and once it’s switched, funding will have to coughed up or the user folders no workie.
I don’t know why your people would be making such a mistake.
??????
I see one of the vaccines was approved by the FDA this weekend. I guess that settles it. The FDA has a stellar track record for determining if things are safe and have any long term effects. My FB was already alight with “Ok it’s safe so now you can get your vaccine!”
I did notice they approved it for age 16 and up. I wonder how the “all kids should get vaccinated” crowd is going to react to that.
Like pedos? “Stick it in them anyway”
The 5 people who were hung up on FDA approval can be vaxxed now. For everyone else who was not hanging their hat on the FDA, punishments will begin.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E09/399231
This. I think it’s going to be, “Your last good reason is gone, now get the shot or we’ll hold you down and give it to you.”
Even worse, you will simply be denied access to life. That’s what is so disheartening about this whole thing – the first mandate is the most difficult to achieve. After that it’s just slavish obedience.
Game over.
In the old totalitarian implementations, the master class used camps to get rid of the undesirables. Unfortunately for the new masters, using camps would be a dead giveaway (see Australia), so they invented the next best thing: cancelation. If you are denied the ability to participate in society or earn a living, most people will react the same way that those that feared camps in the olden days would: compliance.
The communists might not have given up on their fantasies of Utopia (meaning hell on earth) and are still threading water in rich nations, but the fascists sure as hell won the collectivist war on humanity by rebooting the system with all the older faults now well hidden.
On the one hand, The FDA shouldn’t exist.
On the other hand, If they do exist, the approval process should be easier and faster.
On the gripping hand, this stinks of politics, passing it to avoid Nuremburg defenses.
Is the liability shield still in place?
The special liability immunity was for emergency use. Now that it is approved, it gets a regular liability immunity.
I think so. The dates back to a Federal law passed in the 70s or 80s and has nothing to do with EUA/full approval as far as I know.
Out of sheer contrarianism, if I’m forced to get one of the vaccines, I will now insist on one that is *NOT* approved by FDA.
Oh, I’ll insist on formal approval from the Afghan FDA. Say what you want, but I trust the Taliban a lot more than our govt. Sure I don’t agree with much of what they stand for, but they are pretty honest about their intentions.
I’m holding out for novavax, then I will need another excuse.
I think only Pfizer approved? I had Moderna, so I still am off the FDA-grid.
Forced medical procedures, which to me is both forced vaccination or forced swabbing, is still unethical.
Now that the FDA has certified the vax, that means that the emergency liability shield is gone. Right?
I mean it has been approved by the FDA, so all normal liability laws are back in force.
That ship sailed 35 years ago.
1988
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act
Also, being FDA approved (or rather, full approval as EUA is an approval) does not exclude a vaccine from the countermeasures program. The covid declaration runs through 2024
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/17/2020-05484/declaration-under-the-public-readiness-and-emergency-preparedness-act-for-medical-countermeasures
Just noticed this:
No off-label prescribing COVID-19 vaccines to kids under 12: FDA
Business owners are now required to ensure people can provide their contact details when they enter the premises including ensuring a QR code is displayed in a prominent location and asking to see a green tick on the Service NSW app once patrons register.
If it is not possible for a person to check-in using their device, an occupier must have an alternate sign-in method at their premises.
The business then has 12 hours to register those contact details with Service NSW.
RFID ear tags, duh. Numeric tattoos are so last century.
Whelp I’m out, Glibbies! 24 hours is quite enough for this bumpkin. Stupid fucking truck.
Buona notte! Keep us posted about work.
The standard feature will prevent the transmission from shifting out of Park unless the driver’s seatbelt is buckled.
You should have to sign a loyalty oath to DEMOCRACY! and SCIENCE! before the car will even start.
Go to junkyard, get male hookup from wrecked truck, connect, done
Wait until the seat belt buckles have embedded RFID tags that have to be matched to the vehicle VIN.
Might as well pair them with the airbag. That way shops can really make some money.
Look if I’m going to partake in male hookups, I’m going to do it right. Fancy dinner, good booze, expensive hotel.
You be you though. I’m not judging if asssex in a wrecked car is your thing, it is your thing.
On the gripping hand, this stinks of politics, passing it to avoid Nuremburg defenses.
At least Mengele was competent.
Totally not like Nazis, though.
“We’re only trying to help you. Stop sniveling.”
Strange. My Avatar vanished. I just restored it.
Avatars are like assholes…
All people have one, and most of them…..
Tighten your grip
New Zealand on Tuesday recorded its highest increase in COVID-19 cases since April 2020, as authorities warned this current outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus was like dealing with a whole new virus.
The South Pacific nation’s virus-free run since February ended last week after an outbreak of the Delta variant erupted in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, and quickly spread to the capital Wellington.
Authorities reported 41 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the total infections in the country to 148, the Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said at a news conference. That was the biggest increase in cases since April 10, 2020, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Of the new cases, 38 are in Auckland and three are in Wellington. So far, eight people associated with the current outbreak are in hospital, the ministry said.
“Delta is unlike our previous experience. It is, as we know, highly infectious and transmissible and, as we have seen, spreads rapidly,” Bloomfield said at a news conference.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has garnered global praise for stamping out COVID-19 in the country.
By morons, maybe.
Go ahead. Pretend it can be “stamped out”. See where that takes you. Spoiler alert: it’s a bumpy road, downhill all the way.
And tyrant wanna-bes.
Political SCIENCE! ch 5,003
DeSantis said school districts like Palm Beach County are “anti-science” for not recognizing “immunity conferred through prior infection,” referring to the notion that students previously infected with COVID-19 have a certain level of immunity to the virus.
“If a kid was infected this summer, that kid does not need to be in a mask, no matter what you think of the mask,” DeSantis said. “That has immunity. And so, if you’re not recognizing that basic, clear scientific fact at this point, that shows you that this is more political.”
But muh FEELZ!
I wonder how long “immunity conferred through prior infection” lasts. I doubt it’s forever.
If DeSantis had slightly bigger balls he could just say that “science” tells us that masks don’t do anything.
Having had it and knowing that even I am healthy enough to fight off Wuhan, despite being a fat bastard, I’d rather face the virus again.
I doubt it’s forever.
As near as I can tell, it is forever provided the pathogen is stable. Viruses can mutate out from under any immunity. And seem to have an easier time with artifical (vaccine) immunity.
Also, it was noted early on that people who had recently had OTHER coronaviruses had some level of immunity. Which is why young kids seem mostly immune, as they go thru a whole slew of minor viruses in relatively short order.
It’s a bit more nuanced that that. Depends on how long the B and T memory cells last as well. Some vaccinations/recovery last effectively for lifetime, others not as long. Aging can also change the response of existing response and development of memory in the first place.
*change the effectiveness of existing response
DeSantis is probably a swarmy politician but fuck, if he gets the Left in a rage like he’s been doing then maybe I can close my eyes and vote for this jabroni if he runs for President. If Trump was smart and and wasn’t an egomaniac, he would be smart to endorse this guy instead of trying to run again.
I’ve been wondering if Trump was going to ask him to get on the ticket for 2024. I think Trump’s too egotistical not to run, and DeSantis has already said he wouldn’t if Trump was running, displaying some loyalty (and probably also the realization that Trump would be too strong a candidate).
https://kval.com/newsletter/employees-at-mercy-medical-cheer-as-national-guard-members-arrive-with-reinforcements
More pandemic theatre. If they’re so understaffed and slammed, why would they be able to line the sidewalks with employees to welcome the guard. Police shutting the intersection. Give me a break. And the bullshit about filling critical roles and helping nurses. You’re unskilled labor. Why isn’t the hospital able to fill unskilled labor positions… gee it’s a mystery.
Maybe stop firing the unbeliever outcasts.
They haven’t done that. Yet. Buddy’s wife works at a hospital (not that one). If they haven’t reporting full completion, they’ve been issued lay-off notices. Starting 9/1, they go to unpaid status. No sick time, no entitlement time allowed. If they don’t get vaccinated by the end of the month, they’re gone. Union represented and it signed off on the plan.
Sounds like they need to organize and strike against the union.
This is why organizations and individual managers aren’t always opposed to unions. They can be a useful way to deal with employees without getting your hands dirty.
Anybody want to move to Howard Beach and be roomies? We can start a detective agency and be just like Surfside 6.
https://newyork.craigslist.org/que/apa/d/howard-beach-houseboat-rental-mint/7367650079.html
Get a robot instead!
Riptide (American TV series)
Dayum if I was younger and had my current income, I’d do that in a second.
Would not be a fun commute to Jersey City!
Nah, if I’m a private eye I can dump that stupid IT job.
Yeah, but, New York.
This.
I could be persuaded.
Don’t you have to be racist to live there?
Meanwhile, in Portland.
GRAPHIC video: @PortlandPolice are asking for help in identifying the person who shot a man dead who was trying to break up a female teen fight. The brazen murder happened on 20 Aug. at the 500 block of SE 92nd. Witnesses fled before police arrived. Case no. 21-231670.
My former company’s stock price since laying me off
Initial spike on the news I was gone, followed by a crash when they realized what they lost.
Okay, I am sure I had nothing to do with it, but it makes me feel good, in a petty kind of way.
“Website blocked.”
So… their stock was delisted?
It was imgur. I removed all identifying information.
I know.
Work proxy just blocks Imgur, so I was cracking a joke.
There’s a good reason why schadenfreude is pretty well recognized among English speakers. (And also in the spell check).
Can anyone tell me why legal briefs have three inch margins all around?
Place to write notes?
Or more likely, to prevent losing anything if copying.
Or some crazy historical reasoning involving binding.
The ones I see have between 1.00″ to 1.50″ margins. 3.00″ margins would be really weird – the text would be 2.50″ wide and 5.00″ long.
At one time, appellate briefs (or at least SCOTUS briefs and likely others) had to be printed, like, at a printer. The courts established standards – font size, margin, line spacing, etc. – and really, who can blame them, since there’s no telling what kind of illegible crap they would get otherwise.
It certainly feels like the text takes up that tiny amount of space. I get needing standards, but more than half the page is blank.
Plus a nice barrier to entry for anyone who isn’t a guild member.
The USPTO’s PTAB saw issues when they established insufficient standards and then instituted page limits. Hello size 6 font, single spaced. Once they fixed that and instituted a word limit, in came the acronyms.
Don’t want to read briefs in Comic Sans or Papyrus?
As near as I can tell, it is forever provided the pathogen is stable. Viruses can mutate out from under any immunity. And seem to have an easier time with artifical (vaccine) immunity.
Don’t they(!) say previous infection leaves a “blueprint” for production of antibodies if needed again? So a lack of antibodies does not necessarily mean they cannot be produced as needed.
That used to be the science. Now, Teh Science apparently says recovery just happens, by pure luck the viruse gets bored and moves on, and no immunity is created.
Funny comment seen elsewhere – I was going to donate blood today but they ask too many questions, Like “Whose blood is this and where did you get it?”
“Did you pack it yourself? Did you leave it unattended at any point?”
“What do you mean this isn’t the vampire food bank?”
“Why is it in a bucket!!?!”