Fuck you, Europe. We’re taking it back!
I was specifically asked to bring up the final frisbee golf tournament of the season in the sports breakdown today. I don’t know who any of the people are but I know a few of you guys follow it. So go [enter name of favorite disc hurler here]! In stick and ball golf news, the Ryder Cup will be kicking off right about the same time as the links this morning. Man, the Europeans are coming out swinging. I just hope we can get through alternating shot each day with split points. We manage that and I think we bring the cup back home where it belongs. The Texans played last night, so of course the Texans lost last night. They suck. The Cardinals can’t do anything wrong. The Dodgers and Giants are neck and neck. Liverpool are getting hit by the injury bug…again. The top European clubs are pissed at FIFA getting greedy with World Cup plans. And Ohio State will be resting CJ Stroud’s shoulder this weekend, which opens the door for Kyle McCord and Jack Miller to see if they can hit wide open receivers Stroud kept missing last week. Plus it’s a night game! And I’ll be there!!! Gonna be a fun weekend. And that’s sports.
That’s a dude.
Math and astronomy nerd Girolama Cardano was born on this day. He shares it with former Chief J John Marshall, British athlete Lottie Dod (apparently it’s a woman, but she sure looks like a dude (pictured to the left)), weapon designer Hugo Schmeisser, bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson, golfer Tommy Armour, writer F Scott Fitzgerald, penicillin purifier Howard Florey, religious fanatic asshole terrorist Ayatollah Khomeini, commie douchebag Konstantin Chernenko, muppet maker Jim Henson, billionaire musician and singer Linda McCartney, tv guy Lou Dobbs, football great Mean Joe Greene, fantastic actor (fuck you, Andy Dick) Phil Hartman, infielder Rafael Palmeiro, outfielders Bernard Gilkey and Kevin Koslofski, Heisman winner and all-around great dude Eddie George, and wrestler Stephanie McMahon-Levesque.
Right, now on to…the links!
OK, and? You know, when you move somewhere legally that’s fine. But yeah, when you cross through 11 countries illegally eventually somebody is going to take you back to where you came from. I’m sorry, but them’s the breaks. And yes, as much as you want to deny it, that actually is justice. Now apply for a visa like everybody else has to.
Nope
-China
Oh boy, here we go. I almost expected this from the US government first. I expect it to happen soon, or for our government to start setting up server farms in order to mine cryptocurrencies to the point that they can manipulate their value.
Well, so much for “follow the science”. The new slogan should be “fuck you, do what we tell you or suffer the consequences.” At least that’s being honest.
This was inevitable, but the way he did it makes little sense to me. He should have filed based on the jury shenanigans and the absolutely fucked-up way the judge ran the trial. But I assume that will be claimed when he starts explaining how his attorney failed to properly represent him.
The Grabass Twins
Oh good lord. I’ve looked at that blurry pic a hundred times. And I’m pretty sure its Aaron Rodgers.
Oh please please please let this be true. Fucking Italians, amirite?
This should come as no surprise. Everybody associated with high-ranking Illinois politicians should be excluded. Because they’re all crooks.
Of course it’s not dying. In fact, it’s thriving. And any progressive looking for a great place should immediately pack their bags and head there. Especially the ones living in Texas. Please. Hell, I’ll come help pack your bags and will even fly you there (economy class).
Jesus, JUST GO AWAY ALREADY! That goes for the rest of them that have been there more than two terms. You fuckers have no idea what life outside the political bubble is like and need to stop trying to run the lives of people whose lives you wouldn’t even understand.
It’s ladies day here at Glibs. So I’m gonna play a song by an adorable chick and her bandmates. Well, maybe I should play a second chick song too. Dare I go deeper into the vault and rock out with another group of chicks? OK, I’m done after this one.
Hope that is enough for you. Now go have a great Friday and an even better weekend, friends. I’m going back to O-HI-O!
There’s a lot of BTC in China. This should get very spicy.
This also the 6th time China has banned BTC. If China can’t squash BTC, no one can.
That’s a good endorsement.
The threat of BTC isn’t the investment value, it’s that it can serve as black market cash. That’s what they’re afraid of.
It’s also a convenient way to seize “illicit” wealth.
I’ll dispose of it for them.
Sorry, Guerrier Antoine, but this isn’t a justice issue. You’re getting treated according to our laws. You have no right to live here just because things are bad where you came from. And what about those other countries? Why not rail against them? And what was wrong with them, anyway>
You cease to be a refugee when you cross through 11 countries. You’re officially a tourist.
The idea being that refugees are just trying to get to safety, yeah? It’s kind of darkly funny seeing all these Haitians ditch their South and Central American IDs to avoid getting sent back to Haiti.
You damn near need an itinerary.
Brazil doesn’t even have a living wage! *faints*
Stop being mean Tonio!
You are hurting feelings, brah!
Jesus, JUST GO AWAY ALREADY! That goes for the rest of them that have been there more than two terms.
Relevant
Oh please please please let this be true. Fucking Italians, amirite?
We have to post the link to find out what is in it.
Article says he didn’t deny it.
So, it’s been two weeks since the superspreader events masquerading as football games. Where are all the articles about the piles of the coofdead, like after Sturgis?
Maybe this just proves that in addition to the incantation “black lives matter,” chanting “fuck Joe Biden” is an effective ward against the magivirus.
NFL has better lawyers.
NCAA has too much invested too.
Plus, the universities that profit from that are their political clients.
That’ll come with the mandatory weekly ‘vid tests for the non-vaccinated.
Penn State suspended a bunch of students a few days ago for not complying with the mandated weekly testing of the unclean… err… unvaccinated.
Penn State doesn’t require vaccines but instead requires weekly testing of the unclean… errr… unvaccinated.
You remember in Spring of 2000 when someone was doing the phone tracking thing and going to track the spread based on the spring breakers on the beach?
Yep, never heard about it again.
Spring of 2020? I was really struggling to think about any pandemic in the before times.
If the Left was a supervillianSince the Left is a supervillian, their superpower must be sweeping failed predictions under the rug. Remember the wailing over what would happen if Obama’s “net neutrality” rules were repealed and how none of that happened?LEAVE SAN FRANCISCO ALONE!
I want to fortify it. By getting every single prog in Texas to move there. What’s wrong with that?
When you say fair share…
President Biden may have improperly avoided paying Medicare taxes before he took office and could owe the IRS up to $500,000, according to a Congressional Research Service report.
“Joe Biden wants to raise taxes by $2.1 trillion while claiming the rich need to pay their ‘fair share.’ But in 2017, multi-millionaire Joe Biden skirted his payroll taxes — the very taxes that fund Medicare and Obamacare,” said Rep. Jim Banks, who chairs the conservative Republican Study Committee.
Banks said the report indicated that Biden improperly used “S corporations” while he and first lady Jill Biden raked in over $13 million on speaking fees and book sales in 2017 and 2018, but counted less than $800,000 of it as a salary that could be taxed for Medicare.
You could knock me over with a feather.
I thought President Friend of the Working Man just signed over his entire income to the Treasury and worked strictly for the privilege of serving the People.
In Biden’s defense, he has no idea what happened 3 years ago. So asking him about it isn’t gonna get us anywhere.
Maybe ask one of the squad what happened. They can blame his “greedy Jew accountant” or something.
Always get a Jew.
It’s a shande, Larry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGkLjfPWqeI
“There are millions — literally millions — of S corporations. So there might be a half a million S corporations that are playing this game,” said John Bogdanski, who served as a member of the IRS Commissioner’s Advisory Group. “And the IRS doesn’t have anywhere near enough of a budget to bring a half a million cases every year.”
Lol. Sure, not all S-corps are doing this.
I’m sure he paid his fair share.
OFFS
They would love to convert all S-Corp income to payroll compensation because of the increased tax burden it carries. In fact, I bet they will try to do it shortly.
I’ve been wondering on the reporting of the various “10% to the big guy” funds, personally…
Do you think he paid any taxes on that?
That’s what I’m wondering — because my gut says “No F’ing way.” And if he wasn’t looking to give the IRS a bunch of power and money, one would think they might have an interest in seeing about that… given the laptop is now “authentic” after all…. :eyeroll:
The laptop being “authentic” reminds me of when CNN was surprised to discover China was lying about its COVID numbers, and all of us were saying “no shit, Sherlock”.
That’s like a lot of links, dude.
It’s actually the normal amount of links. It’s just a lot of music and a lot of me blathering about each link.
If they are depressing or infuriating, you can just hit the back button and stare at jogging lady another 5 minutes. I’ve already done so twice.
I see that quite often. I hear it’s not good for the Cooper’s ligaments.
I volunteer to hold them. Free of charge.
Is that sufficiently creepy or do I need to work on it?
You could offer, but I think it might become difficult unless you have really long arms.
More outraged squawking
The Democratic National Committee blasted DeSantis’ choice of Ladapo, CBS Miami reported.
“Instead of going with a trusted advocate for science, DeSantis is once again playing games with peoples’ lives by appointing someone who has trafficked anti-vaccine and anti-mask rhetoric,” DNC spokeswoman Adonna Biel said in a statement. “The American people are ready to return to normalcy and the DeSantis playbook of prolonging the pandemic is dangerous and wreaking havoc on his own state.”
You can’t let an apostate run the temple of SCIENCE!
“The American people are ready to return to normalcy and the DeSantis playbook of prolonging the pandemic is dangerous and wreaking havoc on his own state.”
His playbook is the only way we’ll end it, you stupid fucks. You’re the ones prolonging it by not getting a significant percentage of the population naturally immunized. Now shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.
Damn your nimble fingers!
There is no such thing as natural immunity!
I think most of the country is on board with moving the fuck on. The enclaves that won’t move on and want to stay entrenched in covidiocy will drift further and further away. This divide is startling.
I’ll take wishful thinking for $800, Alex. Unless you exclude Ca, NY, NJ, VA, OR, HI, MA, andWA. Or the rust belt once it gets cold and the numbers go up.
The Dems are saying that it’s DeSantis trying to prolong the pandemic??
All projection, all the time.
by appointing someone who has trafficked anti-vaccine and anti-mask rhetoric,
When did getting a second medical opinion go out of style?
Instead of going with a trusted advocate for science
Dude is literally a doctor. And you know you want to call him a “house negro”…
If she ran past everyday, I’d time the mail recovery. Like pushing kid’s faces aside.
Why don’t they just give you your mail while you are work?
That’s not procedure.
Ve Must Follow Procedure!
Promoters of cryptocurrencies say they allow anonymity and flexibility, but
Chinese[insert random nationality] regulators worry they might weaken the ruling Communist Party’s control over the financial system and say they might help to conceal criminal activity.You can’t use just any fake currency here. Only the ones we control.
Victoria Australia completely cuts off internet access so protests not reported.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lML1m_sxNSw
They seem intent on going full third world dictator.
I hope their rulers end up hanging in the square as a result.
I wonder if they cut themselves off from the world because they are going full Tiananmen Square.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Bradley93038424/status/1440920068095819778?
Have you read the replies from people in the area still using the internet?
I think the protesters may be at the point that the costs of becoming truly violent are outweighed by the benefits.
Satellite?
Blast your dainty, nimble fingers.
Sure they can cut off landline-dependent internet, but they can’t cut off purely satellite-based services like Iridium and StarLink.
Whatever happens will get out – just not as fast.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Melbourne anti-lockdown protests fizzle out as daily cases hit pandemic high
“Here’s a photograph from two months ago to prove it.”
FFS
This was a really bad time to do my semi-occasional replay of OG Deus Ex…
I don’t know what it is but there are some games where I had no trouble at the time, but the graphics get in the way today.
Deus Ex is one of those. The look grates on me before I can finish the statue of liberty.
Yeah, the OGDX graphics are awful even by the stardards of early 2k. There are some really good fan mods that help a little.
But really I’m not playing for the graphics.
I try, but I can’t overlook the way it looks.
I did finish it back in the day.
No mention on NANOG – I’d expect chatter about it there (NA or not, any significant worldwide outage gets discussed).
https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2021-September/thread.html
Dude. I thought Britain was bad, and I thought China was bad but seriously. The new Ministry of Truth is shaping up to be Australia. Nothing but love for our Aussie brethren….
“A trusted advocate for SCIENCE!” like the CDC head who overrules the “expert panel” based on FEELZ and political grandstanding?
Since it’s been a half hour:
For the vintage car fans (hat-tip: David Thompson’s Friday Ephemera)
Oh crap, I SFed the second link:
David Thompson’s Friday Ephemera
I remember many of those.
Wonder why no C4 Corvette is shown.
It blew up?
Ah yes, the Subaru XT Turbo, or as it was affectionately called, the Disco Dashboard.
But that Oldsmobile Incas, wow….
I wonder if that was a trim hat on one of those steering yokes?
I see that quite often. I hear it’s not good for the Cooper’s ligaments.
I hope the fabric of that shirt is not abrasive.
Biennial World Cup?!
I guess it makes sense in a let’s-give-more-kleptocracies-a-shot-at-graft way.
211 member countries – majority rules. There are a lot more have-nots out there than haves.
It already takes two years to grind through World Cup qualifying. If this stupid idea somehow comes to pass, it will be non-stop qualifier games not to mention totally fucking up all other competitions.
I’m not defending the proposal, but in terms of majority interest – all of those little federations would get more out of it than they do from the current situation. So I can see how the votes will line up. Yes, it is unworkable and will be an unmitigated disaster – so naturally the majority will support it.
Its funny that UEFA and CONMEBOL are being overruled as they provide all the talent. They should refuse to send teams every other tournament, or only send teams that failed to qualify for the continental championship. Which, in CONMEBOL is none of them.
Just because you’re not a soccer fan doesn’t mean you should call it “commieball.”
Sorry, the People’s Democratic Sport of Commieball.
I think most of the country is on board with moving the fuck on. The enclaves that won’t move on and want to stay entrenched in covidiocy will drift further and further away. This divide is startling.
The mask-tards are re-emerging, around here. It really gives me hope for humanity to see somebody walk into the bar from outdoors with a mask on, and then remove the mask immediately upon sitting down and lay the disgusting snot rag on the bar.
SCIENCE!
I interviewed someone yesterday who declined to remove his dirty paper mask when I told him he could remove it. He continued to fidget with it during our talk with his nose poking out frequently. People be weird.
Well, he was hiding the meth mouth.
I hope you’re not considering hiring him.
Not at this time.
I was interviewed over the phone last year by a lady who had to have been wearing a mask. With the volume cranked on my headset, I understood maybe every third word she said. It was like talking to somebody in another room.
mmm wuh? mm mm mmm mm wuh?
/Peanuts teacher
That’s gross. When I was slinging drinks, I would scold customers for putting their hats on the bar; I would boot someone for putting a mask or dirty handkerchief down upon the food/drink surface.
The worst part about is that the youngsters have fallen for it. When I was a teenaged asshole nobody could tell me what to do. What’s changed?
Y’all make me do these 😉 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2NaHBVVYzY
No dice!!!
Learn it; know it; live it.
Mornin, Ralph.
Those guys are fags!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOH9trJLedk
Parents aren’t a pain in the ass anymore? Life in their bedroom is not so bad?
When you cater to your kids every whim and drive them wherever they want what is there to rebel against? Why get a drivers license or a car?
Shit… one of my friends was lamenting about his teenage step-son not wanting to get his drive’s license. I can’t comprehend that mindset.
In Cleveland? The only people I knew who didn’t immediately get their license were NYC people. I find it hard to consider someone a full adult if they can’t drive. It’s that important.
Yep. Western suburb (Lakewood) which is fairly walkable, but still. From my understanding, he was also one of the younger ones in his cohort, so all his friends had licenses to give him rides.
He has since gotten a license and moved out.
Not being able to drive is like not being able to swim or do basic arithmetic, or fry an egg. It solely and completely removes you from the category of ‘adult.’
It is that important, but it’s also a clear sign of the creeping infantilization. People I know who have their kids ready to fly the coop at 18 are teaching their kids to drive at 15 and 16. People on the track to having 25 year old live-in children are the ones telling me that their kids don’t really care about a license.
I think most of the country is on board with moving the fuck on.
DIsagreed. I think most of the country is still terrified of their shadows. Some people have become desensitized to unmasked people frolicking around, but they’re not okay with it. They’re merely afraid of confrontation.
Here in deepest bluest northern VA, I’m seeing exactly the opposite. The only reason people are still wearing masks is either being obligated to by an employer, or else they want to avoid being hectored by the Karen brigades.
In Vegas, most of the Viva attendees (especially female) were going the minimally compliant masks. One attractive woman managed to go mask free for at least one day. She had painted her face to look like a mask (in colors to match the dress and makeup she was wearing).
Trashy, based upon my unscientific sample of driving halfway across the country – Most people aren’t scared.
The overwhelming majority of wears were in places where compliance with a mandate was the only way to access something. Where there was no mandate or lax enforcement, unmasked all over. There are pockets of people who cling to whatever fears they cultivated, but these are small, and shrinking.
It’s is good to hear. I’m in a pocket of holdouts, even though it’s rural.
Your sample is more scientific than most of the crap flung at us right now.
All of the stupidity will return this winter because flu season but all flu is now considered to be convid. I will continue to not participate in this new religion and I encourage others to join me.
https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/nearly-300-school-bus-drivers-plan-to-walk-off-job-ahead-of-mondays-covid-vaccine-mandate-deadline/
Good for them.
YES!!!
Thanks Bill! My CPU is not on the Windows 11 approved CPU list so the Windows Insider Program thingie wont let me download it.
Yeah, I don’t know what is up with that. Mine is not on the list either. It’s only 5 or 6 years old and it meets every other criterion other than “be on this list”.
Motherboard TPM support? That’s what I’m hearing is the main stumbling block for most systems. I believe they’re really pushing Secure Boot only this time around (which, since I don’t care about it for my home built systems is part of why I don’t care about Win11. 😉 )
No, it has that.
Probably go with Scruffy’s comment then…
Planned obsolescence and Microsoft guaranteeing that the major PC manufacturers will continue to preinstall their product.
I don’t think there was ever any worry over that.
It is in the server range of products. Microsoft is helping them sell PCs and laptops in return for preference on the server side of things.
Support chipset is the reason given.
Means I’ll be 50% eligible. Fortunately the gaming rig qualifies. So I don’t really care.
Basically MSFT doesn’t want to do driver support on defunct chipsets. You can force an update but they offer no guarantee on future support.
I’m in the market for a new PC in the next year anyway.
I’ve seen nothing about Win11 that makes me give a rat’s behind about moving to it.
I can’t think of a single way in which Windows 10 is better than Windows 7. In fact, in many ways, it’s worse. I updated for security reasons, same reason I don’t keep old smartphones connected, but I’m tiring of this update treadmill. A lot of games work on Linux now, and besides them, I’m out of reasons to continue using Windows at all.
Windows 10 is infinitely better than 7 for security.
Of course, most of our informatoon security problems are the result of a 30-year legacy of lazy incompetent system code.
I regard the telemetry as a security flaw.
Anything that compromises my data is a security flaw, especially if it’s intentional.
Windows 10 on my system won’t update to the big update that came out last year. It downloads the files, forces a reboot, takes up to 6 hrs to do the update, then says it couldn’t complete the update and it’s reverting to the previous install. Every time it does this it corrupts the previous install and I have to fix it. I’ve done all the steps they have that should fix the problem, short of a fresh install, because fuck that noise.
That’s not a bug, but a feature…
I did the Windows update to 10 3 years after the fact and long after Microsoft allowed it to be done for free (but I still did and screw them). My computer now needs me to hard kill the boot logic every time I restart, because it just hangs on the startup, followed up by another start so it fixes the start logic. I tried, repeatedly to download and correct the files that seem to be corrupted that cause this problem, but it breaks after every update so I just quit fixing it and double start by default.
Meanwhile, in Switzerland…
The Swiss should be careful. The populace is pretty well armed and it’s a mountain country. That doesn’t bode well for the government.
Didn’t they fairly recently vote for gun control though?
They weren’t going to waste more expensive, metal bullets! I bet they lined the cops up and made them find their expended rounds…
Don’t they have those cool halberds? Or do they only send those guys down to the Vatican? Cheaper than a bullet either way….
It’s been sad watching Switzerland turn into every other western European country over the last decade or so.
Demonstrators chanted “freedom” as they marched through the streets of Bern old town full of late-night shoppers. Some protesters carried flowers as a sign of peaceful resistance.
This anti-government sentiment will not be tolerated.
Yeah, when resistance is punished whether peaceful or not, you’re going to lose the peaceful resistance real fast.
SICK BURN.
Don’t let’s look at 2021, though.
Or the robbery rates which presumably fall under non-violent crime. Car break-ins, people walking out with drug store shelves, etc.
Headline:
“Tablet acquired by Hobby Lobby going back”
Did Hobby Lobby act on its own accord, or did the owners obtain the tablet? I can’t help but think this characterization is being used to encourage people to boycott the store.
Owners bought it, with a fake certificate of gubbermint OKness. The G said “hey that is fake” and the people gave it back and announced such. So a big nothing except the owners got scammed by a shady dealer.
It’s the owners who bought it. More specifically a ‘bible museum’ the family established that is run by the son of the founder.
Seems like a good gig. I should have chosen my parents better.
Tom Tom Club was not an all-girl band (husband and wife, in fact), but excellent music choices.
I am incredibly tired of Genius of Love.
A better choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7MPca09uNQ
Does 2/3, non-relatives, count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvuetnVoxIs
Weymouth is bit of an enigma to me.
Red Bull Music Academy? Well, I guess we know what Max Verstappen’s next career move is….
Maybe confused them with Bananarama?
I get TTC confused with Voice of the Beehive and above all The Art of Noise. Rik Mayall!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK-vUY6erQU
Gantz to form committee to consider universal conscription reform
It’s about time. Nobody should be required to fight aliens with futuristic weapons after they’ve died.
I saw that back in the day
So that’s where Scalzi stole the idea for “Old Man’s War”.
My mom works in a nursing home/assisted living space. All residents are vaccinated, not necessarily all staff, but most.
They are in the midst of another outbreak.
It’s relatively obvious that the vaccines are going to be worthless within a few months even though they provide some protection against severe symptoms now. The authorities pretend that we can’t extrapolate trends and report everything as if the curves don’t exist.
Inductive reasoning? Bah.
“The people will think—”
“The people will think what I tell them to think.”
Are they dying due to outbreak or just sick? Because maybe the vaccine is working, somewhat?
That happens a lot with flu vaccine…you still get the flu anyway, but its milder.
One death so far. Three in hospital. Granted, these are not healthy people, but you would think they would not be dying of or with covid at this point.
Moving to the couch now. Balance about 25%. Pray for Festus!
?
He is literally “tipsy”…
Dispatches from 16 hours in the future.
Hello everyone,
I’ve been just lurking for the past few weeks to keep sane and minimize my exposure to the rage inducing news. I hope everyone is doing well.
I see the world is still insane.
I would like to create a bitcoin laundering service that will purchase CCP coin at 20-30% current rate and exchange them for Alibaba gif cards. Who wants to invest with me.
Great music links today. Girl power never looked so good.
WRT running girls and bouncy things.
Big Data.
Those shoes are a terrible choice for running, so is that sports bra, best lose both of them.
Whoa, that is so many degrees of teh awesome. Thanks. Even a couple of bears for me.
I forgot the year, but I think it dropped about the time those beards became a “thing”.
The older guy with the closely trimmed beard is my go-to. Hipster boy a distant second.
Also, paging R. J. although he’s probably still sleeping off last night. The cleaning crew complained bitterly about the state of the Glibs screening room this morning.
Alive! Working! No vom!
Nice!
I’m finishing up “WolfCop” now.
Here’s my guess: The bartender is one of the villains. The female deputy is/will be the werewolf’s love interest.
Baseball birthdays are much improved, after a week of meh.
Along with the aforementioned Palmiero, we have Dixie Walker.
Rafael has clear cut HoF numbers, but you know, roids.
Friday Funbags sez XENU CUMMIN’.
https://archive.li/fsX49
Huzzah for Yay4Cosplay; she’s always my favorite.
She’s one of mine too.
Narcissistic sociopath on the lecture circuit
Humanity needs to “grow up” and deal with the issue of climate change, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.
Johnson, a last-minute addition to the speakers’ list that day, slammed the world’s inadequate response to the climate crisis and urged humanity to “listen to the warnings of the scientists,” pointing to the Covid-19 pandemic as “an example of gloomy scientists being proved right.”
“We still cling with parts of our minds to the infantile belief that the world was made for our gratification and pleasure,” he said. “And we combine this narcissism with an assumption of our own immortality.”
Sure, Boris. I trust you to know what’s best for me.
Fucking dolt.
Led around by his eejit greenie missus, some say.
https://youtu.be/cTCvPdIANYA?t=380
“the world was made for our gratification and pleasure”
https://archive.li/TjzYe/2ba0cf30c1331554b4f2e8e7a41ec5da9404a3e7.jpg
Howza baby, Q? ?
Er, that is, your specific baby.
She’s awesome! Started crawling around and getting into trouble. I’m trying to convince myself that she’s started saying “dada” but it’s likely just random babbling. She’s also (mostly) sleeping through the night which gives Mrs. Q and I the opportunity for adult playtime.
? ?
Isn’t that how she happened in the first place Q?
(psst! why’d ya think I asked?)
this is one of those libertarianism run amok things according to British socialists
I… what?
It’s the gloomy political philosophers being proved right.
That man is in no position to accuse anyone else of being a narcissist.
We still cling with parts of our minds to the infantile belief that the
world was made for our gratification and pleasureglobal climate can be controlled by humans.Speaking of music-
This has been rattling around in my head since Pandora introduced it to me
Based on my proven inability to establish a long term adult relationship, I am adopting it as my anthem.
A buddy turned me onto SCOTS back in the ’90s and I love them.
“Put your teeth up on the windowsill”.
Lyrics like that are why they are the soundtrack to my wife and I’s sexy times.
Youtube sidebar on that song led me to these adorable lassies
Great tune, last verse is particularly relevant.
Guerrier Antoine traveled through at least 11 countries over the course of nearly a month, braving hostile authorities and violent bandits, being robbed of several years worth of savings, only to end up right back where he started: Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, where he was born.
Oh. Well…ok. Funny how that works.
You’d think a warrior could deal with bandits.
Playing a little World O Warships this morning, and someone started up in the chat with “America is gone!”, “Without borders, no county!” — “We need to take action, who’s with me!”
I didn’t say anything — but all I could think after the Justice for J6 folderol was “FBI: Hey fellow right wingers! Who wants to insurrection with me!”
Sad state when that’s your first thought.
And obligatory girl band music. I have zero idea what they’re singing — but the tune is just danged catchy.
…and it’s probably right.
“two minds without a single thought”
The “without borders- no county” seems like broken American English, so maybe foreigner trolling. Maybe typo of “country” which makes more sense in that context.
I like World of warships. I just had an American kid praise guevarra and peron. I quickly schooled them on the variations of communism. Wows censors chats when the tyrant lovers overseas gang up on you. There a bunch of military vets and relatively few ignorant commie lovers.
So Romanias whatever wave has started and now you will need to show proof of vaccination for indoor activities. I am generally not the type to protest and just keep low (I aint getting peeper sprayed for no politics) but I am starting to wonder how far this will go in the end and if I will be moved to less pasivity
Welcome to the big leagues.
Sorry Pie.
I mean in the end it is not much trouble to show the thing on my phone buy it makes me feel icky doing it
My fave wine fest which did not happen last two years is in 2 weeks hope they don;t shut it down till then.
One local church cancelled their Oktoberfest celebration for tomorrow due to rising case numbers, meanwhile a local brewery is holding a celebration tomorrow. I was going to go to the church one to support charity, but it looks like I’ll have to just support a local brewery instead.
Dont let them spray you peeper.
Your
Apparently there is a Japanese band doing Balkan music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJxpS3i2bAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VygQlDtmiQ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pEnnRmbHRA
How about Nogizaka 46 doing Levan Polka for a wtf moment.
https://youtu.be/YVnRe9BxdXM
For me all Japanese tv is a wtf moment. By TV not meaning movies/anime but various shows
Is this geo-blocked for you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVmybhXqtU
Surely this isn’t: https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E22/892891
It isn’t geoblocked but it looks very racist and problematic
Nah, you’ll live.
I never saw that. Loved it. The announcer’s Japanese is perfect. Cast does ok, but drops syllables in words making some sentences into nonsense.
Doesn’t matter. You can tell they really tried and the original script was actual proper Japanese.
Don’t suppose you’d translate the link provided above in comment 34? Be kind of funny if that catchy tune was with “Death to America! Only creepy older men will watch our video!” or something. 😉
https://www.animelyrics.com/jpop/stereopony/hitohira.htm
Read the first 10 lines or so.
Awkward translation, but nothing obviously wrong.
Much obliged, sir!
https://youtu.be/BmTfxyoEqAc
A bit too much of the regular Office. Now if they’d arranged the desk so they were all in a row with Michael at the head of it… and turned up the lighting to “no shadows”…
Still good! Thx
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention early Friday endorsed recommendations for a third dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for certain at-risk groups, clearing the way for millions of Americans to get a booster.
That corrupt cunte can fuck off.
As you can see, the jabs are meant to be permanent. As will the coming convid pills, which will likely be ivermectin or NAC rebranded by Pfizer and costing more. The time to not participate in this tyrannical farce was at the outset, but better late than never.
What “recommendations”? The FDA, for one, recommended against it. It was just a few days ago, FFS.
Wasn’t it actually recommend against general population boosters, OK for elderly and at risk from the FDA? And the CDC is endorsing that recommendation?
Ah, OK.
Well, not OK – not when “recommendation” inevitably turns into “mandate” – but I get it.
FDA advisory panel, which is non binding, if I remember correctly.
“What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?”
Here’s a older girl doing newer stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRMuEBfLqT0
Ok — here’s an older girl doing older stuff (but not her own): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxj9sNyNakA
Wow! Thanks for that.
Yes. That’s gorgeous.
In many ways I like her version of this better.
https://youtu.be/vB2c7_vyBSM
Older girl doing her own older stuff:
https://youtu.be/gscJ6XTLuGI
Ponder this on the tree of woe. Note the references to STEM kids.
Sigh. We’re teaching kids nothing about data management or data analysis. Nothing at all. smdh
I hadn’t even considered that this would be a problem but I guess because of the prevalence of Chromebooks and other non-local storage capable devices, it is.
Still seems utterly bizarre to me.
Sometimes I ponder what it would be like to have grown up in that generation. Would I listen to the same shitty music they do, would I have my nose buried in the same shitty social media, would I be as functionally retarded as the students in that article… *shudder*
OFFS.
My problem is I have different hard drives that came into use at different times. Within each hard drive it is sorted, but I never take the time to move folders around from drive to drive because that kills productivity when you’re moving 100 gigs at a time. So for long run projects I have keep looking through all the drives to get all the files I need.
As for desktop icons, mine always seem to move around on me from witching displays and resolutions and stuff that I do, so I try not to put anything except programs on the desktop, and only the programs I use frequently.
My desktop is generally bare, with only the required icons on it. There’s a start menu to launch applications, and keyboard interfaces are faster then a mouse. There’s a reason I really despise the move to web based interfaces for applications. Give me back my keyboard shortcuts you monsters!
*counts*
5 icons on my desktop, 3 of which are ice cream recipes.
In fact…
1 icon on my desktop.
Two terminal windows with 12 tabs between the, however.
Symbolic links/aliases are your friends. Don’t move the data but make it available where needed.
Oh crap… we’ll apparently need full 64-bit inode number support before we need full 64-bit physical addressing.
Less sarcastically — I can understand art or business majors to some extent… but STEM? Not having the concept of a blooming *directory*? Oy.
Of course — my son has hit bugs in Minecraft because he kept making new save games using the default (that added a ‘A’ character or something, been a while) — and eventually the file names were too long for the Java interpreter. That was fun to track down… so I could see him doing this.
I personally don’t trust all the built in “search functions” not to be reporting to the mothership, so I never use them anyway. Today’s kids need more paranoia in their lives.
Search is too slow and finds the wrong versions. I don’t want to figure out which of these is the backup copy from X/X/2XXX, so I keep my stuff in trees that get rearranged as I come up with better organizational schemas for the content.
If it makes folks feel better – the young hires we have have zero issues with directory structure concepts.
If you need to keep your stuff in source control, you rapidly understand filesystem layout.
Hell, most current frameworks dictate a directory structure.
One thing I can’t believe is that these kids managed to graduate HS without having taken any sort of basic computer literacy course. I had comp. sci. every year from 7th grade on which was sort of unusual in the 80s but FFS it’s current year.
Yeah, this reads more like they’ve shoved lots of unready idiots into bloated programs to get more tuition revenue directed at the departments.
Ah, STEAM students ;-\
But I’ve no doubt at all that many [most] schools have bloated their STEM numbers with the congenitally inadequate.
I suspect you’re right. STEM isn’t for everyone.
Accountants make a good living but you don’t see them banging the drum for everyone to go into accountancy. Not sure why people think STEM careers are any different.
I don’t think it’s the STEM people pushing for everyone to go there. I think it’s people who see the prestige and fiscal returns of the professions and pushing to get in without the necessary understanding or mindset.
That is part of it, but don’t underestimate academic bureaucracy. Better to be the assistant deputy secretary in a large department than the chair of a small one.
But I thought it was fun to charter an accountant!
Real problem of Clean Desk™️ mentality?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10024229/Demi-Rose-just-protects-modesty-arms.html
Well, so much for “follow the science”. The new slogan should be “fuck you, do what we tell you or suffer the consequences.” At least that’s being honest.
The Doctors who voted against these 16-2 must have been a bunch of Horse paste eating Trumpaloes.
CDC says yes, FDA says no. Weird.
Do the boosters enjoy the same immunity from liability as the first doses?
It’s my understanding that vaccines have been liability free since 1985 or so. We’ve been lab rats for 40 years!
Yep, vaccine court, special funds, because pharmaceutical companies were getting out of vaccine business due to liability.
My cousin used to work for one of the last major flu vaccine manufacturers in the U.S. They packed up shop sometime about 10 or 15 years ago, IIRC, and moved all their production offshore. For a time, there was a serious concern that there would be literally zero vaccine manufacturing capacity in the USA.
I believe they hedged by using “may”. Not sure what the hell that means if an employer requires the booster.
For the moment outside of a healthcare setting it should mean no booster.
I forget the rule’s namesake, but may = may not.
I think RC Dean.
*bows*
My original formulation was along the lines of, the actual meaning of any sentence containing “may” is not changed if it is rewritten as “may or may not”.
But just using “may” implies a very different meaning.
Horse paste eating Trumpaloes.
The propaganda revolving around ivermectin has been something to behold. And also infuriating…
“Woman is arrested on suspicion of starting rapidly-spreading California wildfire as blaze sparks fresh evacuations”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10024269/Woman-arrested-suspicion-starting-California-wildfire-blaze-sparks-fresh-evacuations.html
CWAA
When the front-page gif goes into slow-mo, for some reason I keep hearing The Flower Duet
Good morning, Sloopy!
A lovely gif to open and all chicks in the musical selections.
That’s a solid Friday.
Have fun back in Ohio.Another chick to send you on your way!
Always reminds me of Am. Splendor.
Derek Chauvin appeals his conviction in George Floyd’s death
No shit.
Chauvin was convicted in April of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death on Memorial Day of 2020.
Three contradicting sets of circumstances and actions that involve one person inducing death on another all revolving around one person/incident. . .
He said he was denied representation by a public defender, and is asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to review that decision.
Because that is constitutional…
I can’t wait to watch similar cuntes railroad Rittenhouse as well.
Channeling my inner Tundra and actually making a couple of related girl band links:
Le Tigre
Vanity 6
Oh, yeah.
Both solid choices, Holiness!
Denise sure was pretty.
In a bit of good news, I went to my kid’s volleyball game last night. For the first time since last year, the teams high-fived each other before the game. Up until yesterday they had to wave at each other.
Meanwhile I had my first official hockey practice this week, and we were required to wear masks the whole time. The sprints were brutal.
Fine… some girl music, and some more.
A flight attendant has posted a photo she snapped of a “flustered” man she said looked strikingly similar to Gabby Petito’s missing boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, outside a hotel in Canada, according to a report.
Wear a wig until the real guy is caught.
OMFG we’re all gonna DIE!
A Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu to Seattle was diverted Thursday afternoon, Sept. 23, after a passenger refused to comply with the federal mask mandate.
According to a Hawaiian Airlines spokesperson, a passenger on Flight HA22 refused to wear a mask and caused a disturbance to other passengers.
The incident happened approximately two hours after the flight departed Honolulu at 1:05 p.m.
Flight attendants, along with an off-duty pilot, were able to de-escalate the situation. However, the captain elected to divert the flight out of an abundance of caution.
It’s a miracle the plane was able to stay airborne long enough to get back to land.
What we have in this country is a pandemic of hysterical retards.
He elected to turn around because some shmuck wouldn’t do as told? Holy shit. He’s like a dad icon.
Sounds like the air crew was in full Authoritah! mode to me.
caused a disturbance to other passengers.
That’s like saying the scamdemic caused businesses to close.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo is accused of sexual harassment by his former ABC boss who says he squeezed her buttock upon greeting her in a bar
Are you not supposed to great ladies that way? //jk
16 years ago
Get the fuck outta here. I despise that asshole but come on, man. It obviously didn’t affect you.
She only just emerged from the catatonic state into which the traumatic incident plunged her. ?
A girl band from Minne.
San Francisco is an enigma. One of the most walkable cities in America yet filled with streets so steep your legs burn; a hub of zero-emission vehicles and electric bikes crisscrossed with the world’s last manually operated cable car system; a leftist haven with more free-market billionaires per capita than any other city on Earth.
That town needs an enema.
Apparently, a fair number of the residents have recently had one, given what I hear about the state of the sidewalks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CehYA3omb5o
“Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call [SoCal city of choice]
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away
Any fucking time, any fucking day
Learn to swim, I’ll see you down in Arizona bay.”
Not really a girl band, but since we’ve already have some girl singer links:
Metric
and
Metric
Yeah — I’m a fan of Metric. This always seems appropriate these days.
Metric ear worm
Reminds me of this band I dig.
in a race where he would be the favorite to win reelection.
The incumbent usually is.
Robby Soave’s scooter habit disgusts me.
Scooters are like fat chix. Most of us – Tres being the exception – have hit one just so we could say we did, but we would never want to be seen ridding one by our friends…
https://twitter.com/jeremykauffman/status/1441394731385294848
is StoneToss acceptable on glibertarians
Online dating is such a wasteland for heterosexual males already that one must wonder what the point of it is anymore.
Be a 10 that always helps
Wow: “During an intense meeting at the White House on Wednesday, Rep. PRAMILA JAYAPAL broke into tears while arguing her case to President JOE BIDEN that the reconciliation bill should include a pathway to citizenship”
https://twitter.com/HCTrudo/status/1441085295173136384
managing to cry on cue is a quality I look for in politicians
And snake handlers?
The limitation to native born Americans needs to be extended to members of Congress. There are plenty of others who can serve and yet almost uniformly, foreign born naturalized congresscritters are un American in their outlook and temperament. Change my mind.
Oh what a shock, her sister is a parasite too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susheela_Jayapal
But noticeably more attractive.
Speaking recently of Cab C, perhaps America’s Most Wanted was a fan of St. James Infirmary (see 5th from bottom): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10021057/Brian-Laundries-restaurant-meltdown-THREE-DAYS-reported-sighting-Gabby-Petito.html
Not paying any attention to the news means I have no idea what this means at all.
Missing blonde lass. No es importante.
And yesterday’s musical link.
I have to wonder why she didn’t just drive away and leave him if he was such an asshole.
Praise the camera man on that gif!
Friday’s notice complained Bitcoin, Ethereum and other digital currencies disrupt the financial system and are used in money-laundering and other crimes.
So?
The CDC says it will be reviewing data in the coming weeks and will make recommendations about those who got the Moderna and the Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
Moderna has submitted its application to the FDA for its booster dose, and Johnson & Johnson has provided data but has not said when it will seek emergency use authorization.
Moderna and J&J just don’t have the right contacts.
Among the assertions in Chauvin’s appeal and aspects of the trial he pointed to:
I read the list of assertions. I think even if they are all true, the court’s decision will be, “You’re icky. Appeal denied.”
Is San Francisco open?
Yes! San Francisco is open. The city was the first to shutter during the outbreak of coronavirus and saw some of the fewest deaths per capita from the disease of any major city in America. Bars, restaurants, clubs and gyms are all now open (if you’re vaccinated).
So not really open.
The next drug or vaccine from Moderna that gets full FDA approval will be its first.
Pay no attention to wingnut conspiracy theories behind the curtain such as higher average income and lower percentage of oldsters.
I’d guess, without basis, more WFH, less public transit, less family and social networks (at least in person), and more willingness to limit contact with others. And asterisk possibly earlier wave of before it became well known.
SF has more public transit than most American cities but otherwise reasonable points.
Whatever were you trying to hide?
Capitol surveillance footage from the January 6 election integrity protests has been publicly released after a judge ruled against the attempts of Biden regime prosecutors to hide the footage from public view.
US District Chief Judge Beryl Howell has ruled that “the government shall promptly make the video evidence submitted to the Court on August 16, 2021, in connection with defendant’s plea hearing held August 19, 2021, publicly available without restrictions by providing access using the “drop box” technical solution described in D.D.C. Standing Order No. 21-28.”
“The government’s reasons for preventing disclosure of the video exhibits, and thereby sealing them, are insufficient to overcome the public right of access to the five CCV videos at issue,” Howell wrote, noting that “The public has an interest in understanding the conduct underlying the charges in these cases, as well as the government’s prosecutorial decision-making both in bringing criminal charges and resolving these charges by entering into plea agreements with defendants.”
These are all videos of public spaces. If the judge wasn’t hopelessly stupid/corrupt, they would all be ordered released to the public. There is no reason whatsoever to embargo them. Nobody in them has any expectation of privacy.
I thought that was what the judge WAS doing.
Am I missing something?
they would all be ordered released to the public
A handful of videos were ordered released – note the reference to “the five CCV videos at issue”. I meant all of it, every single second. There are hundreds or thousands of hours of video inside and outside the Capitol during that time. My understanding is that the vast majority of it is still locked up by the prosecutors.
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Energy prices are skyrocketing, and as winter approaches, Europe is getting worried.
The wholesale cost of natural gas has surged to record highs in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany and Italy. Bills for households and businesses are already soaring, and could go even higher as cold weather sets in and more fuel is needed for electricity generation and heating systems.
“We’ve seen huge price increases,” said Dimitri Vergne, head of the energy team at The European Consumer Organization. “It’s worrying ahead of the winter, when gas consumption will necessarily increase.”
This is what we want, right? We want the true cost of mankind’s destruction of the environment to be made clear.
Back to your caves, men. Learn to live in harmony with the land.
Or at least you’ll spend less on luxuries.
Is Your Trip Really Necessary?
Make Do and Mend
The alien invaders liked our climate just as it was; they cannot tolerate change. That’s why their puppets in charge of our governments are so worked up about the whole thing. When the truth comes out, it will become an act of Earth Patriotism to release CO2 at will.
Yep, that is the entire point of the exercise.
I am getting worried never mind Europe I expect my heating bill to double
Wear a sweater, says Jimmy.
Subscriptions would be the first to go around here; is that really what they want? Adieu, Netflix bux?
The greens could hardly have been more overt that this is exactly what they wanted.
And, to be fair, if there is one thing Marxists are good at (and make no mistake – greens are Marxists), its creating shortages. So this time, they at least picked a goal they could achieve.
Dave Smith unimpressed with Tulsi.
Good rant. He was pretty salty for the whole episode.
To Be Fair babies are overrated
I listened to half of it on the way to work today, so I heard the whole Tusi rant.
Made me glad I was never a Tulsi believer, though I did enjoy her embarrassing Kamala.
I don’t know how you could be surprised that someone who was so bad on every other issue could turn on the war issue.
I guess it’s just disappointing because it really seemed like she was genuine about it, what with being a medic and seeing people die from horrible wounds in those pointless wars.
Oh well. I was done with the Democrat Party long ago, but the COVID shit and now Tulsi flipping on the war issue has pushed me to the point where I’ll vote for some pretty awful Republicans if it means getting the D’s out of office.
I can’t bring myself to vote for Republicans in their current incarnation. A controlled opposition is part of the ruling class and critical to facilitating their continued rule over the country. I appreciate their occasional blocking of leftists, but voting for them is voting for the current ruling class and trends to continue. I’m not voting for that.
Brother Keith says prices based on long term contracts is totes price gouging.
Ellison’s office is suing an egg producer because they “gouged” consumers when people were panic buying at the beginning of the pandemic. Eggs in some places went from $1/doz to $3.
What a bunch of wreckers to choose not sell their eggs for less!
Marxists hate that OTHER PEOPLE make money at their expense. When they gauge you, it is totes legit…
I am afraid to learn any more about KM besides that he sponged off Engels, and gave away his wife’s dowry on their honeymoon (!).
I read that trope he wrote. The man hated the fact that people didn’t think of him as highly as he did about himself, and he wanted to take revenge on humanity for failing to spot and worship his genius. It’s why I tell most marxists that they either never read Marx or they did and didn’t understand the evil shit he was saying, cause if they read him and understood him, they would know what he proposed was torturing humanity.
I only know Marx for Beginners, TG (nearly a comic, apparently by a Mexican).
The video that everyone is talking about in #Rome this week: a dozen wild boar walking calmly through traffic on Via Trionfale. #cinghiali
https://twitter.com/wantedinrome/status/1440598433966948355
wild boar ragu aint bad really
Nothing like hogging the road. I imagine the Romans were starting to bristle at them after a while… but what do you expect in Tusk-cany?
That’s a lot of future prosciutto….
“Drive until you come to the pork in the road.”
“Movin’ right along……”
Of course, come to think of it — that’s pretty much what Kermit *did*.
Right, Frog!
IT’S A TRAP!
That video has a virus in it. If you watch it, you will develop a stye in your eyelid.
DA FUQ? They sue because the cops made it easier for other entities to know these people are terrorists when the liberal machine in Portland turns a blind eye to their criminal activity? Some people have no sense of justice..
My mom works in a nursing home/assisted living space. All residents are vaccinated, not necessarily all staff, but most.
They are in the midst of another outbreak.
In addition to those friends, it looks my double-vaxed MIL might have covid. She works for the county and a positive coworker spread it around the office. She feels like shit and is getting a test. Here’s the kicker… the county sent her to a nursing home to get a covid test administered by the same workers who care for the residents.
The local government actually has a policy of sending all government workers with suspected covid to nursing homes for tests. I couldn’t believe it. The government is still deliberately causing outbreaks and deaths in nursing home.
It’s one way to cut spending. Pensions, Medicare, Social Security. All of those expenditures go away with every nursing home death.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059410/quotes?item=qt0524702
“Renew! Renew!”
It ain’t referred to as the “boomer remover” for nothing.
And, yes, the government is evil.
Let ’em work it out.
Chesterfield County Public Schools have confirmed that there will be an extra police presence at Meadowbrook High School after a brawl Thursday saw 8 to 10 students detained by police.
Chesterfield Police Captain Mark Haynes told 8News they aren’t sure what led to the altercation, but no injuries were reported.
The girl swinging the crutch was a nice touch.
no injuries were reported. – you need more knives in schools
Social Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of Fascism
https://twitter.com/istrebki/status/1441333017415352323
In the war between the two socialist philosophies of marxism and fascism, fascism clearly won. Fascist correctly understood that Marx’s model of state ownership would create a conflict between the central planners having to hold massive expertise in so many things to make less harmful decisions and the fact that their primary qualification would be loyalty to the state (meaning the people in power) and the ideology of marxism. The people holding power would always select for loyalty first, putting less or outright unqualified people in charge of decisions. That’s why not a single 5 year plan put together by the USSR or other client states (until China stopped following marxist doctrine and adopted fascism and severe lying to pretend its economy was a lot better than it really was) ever worked. There is no solution to this problem. The conflict between requiring loyalty to the marxist authority vs. expertise to make the right centralized decisions, can’t be solved.
Mussolini, and then Hitler and his cabal, soured on their marxist beliefs as soon as they realized this conflict. They solved it by putting the state indirectly in charge of the private sector. Through laws and power, the fascist leadership could choose winners and losers, and then also blame private industry when things went really sour, thus insulating themselves from responsibility. More importantly, it allowed them to collude with the private sector to circumvent limitations on government. While every goodthink citizen today says they revile fascism, because of the many evils done by those that ran fascist systems in WWII, reality is that practically every single Western democracy and even the Chinese run CCP are new incarnations – less camps and death, and more canceling people that piss the top men in government or private sector off, by denying them the ability to participate and/or make a living – are fascists.
Our own government today (but especially when team blue is in charge) picks the winners and losers, creating mega monopolies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and so forth, which generate wealth and helps them dupe and control the serfs, while abdicating any of its own responsibilities. It gets away with this by focusing people on bullshit first world issues, while the leadership class continues to steal the silverware and expensive trappings of their Titanic, loading them in the life boats, which they will use to get away when their actions sink the ship with the rest of us on it. Anything today with the word “Social Democracy”, or even Communist Whatever (with the exception of North Korea which has kept the Soviet model), is fascism 3.0.
There is no other Socialist/social system but fascism that can temporarily be made to work, since marxism is doomed to implode almost immediately.
Yes, what we have is fascism without the fascist. Hanging Mussolini may have been cathartic to the Italians, and no doubt he deserved it for selling out his country to Hitler, but at least there was someone to hang. The hierarchy of oligarchies that rule today admit no accountability and there is no personage to blame. It’s fascism by committee.
Cronyism, says Dr. Paul Sr. But you all don’t need reminding.
Corporatism. Six of one…
The hierarchy of oligarchies that rule today admit no accountability and there is no personage to blame. It’s fascism by committee.
Indeed. And we balk (so far) at the scale of hangings it would require. Literally millions of apparatchiks will get the noose if we go full-on revolution.
Part of the problem is that the apparatchiks are completely unaware of what they are doing or what type of governmental system they are a part of. Nobody knows this is fascism . Crowder once did a change my mind segment titled “Trump is not a fascist: change my mind.” My argument would have been that since FDR they all were. Trump was not uniquely fascist. And none of the Presidents or apparatchiks would think that they were.
Just following orders, eh? Well, what’s one more fascist tendency amongst the foot soldiers of fascism.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not advocating for mass hangings. I’m saying that if we get to the point of a true revolution, well, go long on rope and lampposts. The ancien regime never goes quietly and cleanly. And our massively bureaucratized ancien regime presents an absurdly target-rich environment.
Literally millions of apparatchiks will get the noose if we go full-on revolution.
Perhaps under a full-on revolution, yes, but that’s not the right way to go.
Nuremberg was not what most people are taught to think of it. Only a few near the top of the evil pyramid got hanged or shot. Most people, especially at the lower levels, were let off. Many were adopted into the new regimes. The guy who played the biggest part in getting us to the moon was a literal Nazi. The Emperor of Japan kept continuity from old regime to new. Even the Stasi widows still get their pensions.
The bureaucracy needs a pruning, not a slaughter. Bureaucrats are herd animals. They do evil because they are just a cog in a system that does evil. This is not an excuse, but it is a justification for keeping them alive, and perhaps even employed, or at least compensated to stay out of the way. Their complicity in evil is between them and whatever god(s) or idols they worship. Trim the fat, cull the truly weak and depraved, and set the system aright, and you’ll have it producing desirable outcomes instead of undesirable ones. For a little while, at least. The universe is entropic, after all.
Despite all we are taught about how revolutionary our country’s founding was, in the grand scheme of things, it actually wasn’t that revolutionary. Even the most ardent loyalists were mostly just exiled to (what is now called) Canada rather than killed. The weak rulers and genuinely liberal regime of the Articles of Confederation were replaced with the not-so-subtly monarchic and quasi-aristocratic Constitutional order. That order has decayed, and I don’t think it can be recaptured on its own since none still live who remember how it actually was meant to work (the piece of paper is, at best, an abstract design; the implementation details of it having been left to the minds of Hamilton, Adams, etc., they did not write everything down).
Purging the enemy class is cathartic but counter-productive. It is the way of Zimbabwe, South Africa, etc. People reduce those conflicts to race war, but it’s really short-sighted triumphalism.
Agree on all points, kbo.
The harder the ancien regime digs in, the bigger the butcher’s bill will be. The response to 01/06 is not encouraging.
I like Moldbug/Yarvin’s plan – retire them; pension them off with a hearty handshake and a pat on the back for a job well done.
Also, as we’re seeing with the COVID tyranny, they just force private companies to enforce a lot of their edicts, so a sizeable chunk of people blame them instead of the government (see: BLM protesting the NYC restaurant that refused service to two black women for not having a vaccine passport).
What BLM protests is the lack of special privileges for blacks. From that perspective, the restaurant and the government are equally at fault for declining to extend those privileges.
Herr Kanzler Hitler has some good ideas -FDR circa 1930.
Tankies are a psyop
but do they know it? are they self aware?
Most aren’t, and I don’t just mean tankies.
you seem a tad jaded
I don’t think self-awareness is an immutable attribute. A person who lacks it today may have had it yesterday and can possibly get it back again tomorrow. But it’s a lot easier to go through life without it. I’m not excluding myself from this analysis, either. Self-awareness is hard to obtain and easy to lose. I am hopeful, but not a pollyanna.
Self-awareness is hard to obtain and easy to lose.
And, I submit, is a continuum, not a binary.
All-girl band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX5qtSzcZ0A
Good one!
Another.
Emory University’s Police Department on Wednesday arrested the man accused of writing racial slurs and swastikas at its autism center in early August.
One less White Supremist roaming free!
https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-man-arrested-for-n-word-graffiti-swastikas-at-emory-university/
And this is my shocked face.
No…. really…..
I will honestly be shocked when one of these incidents turns out to be an honest to goodness hate crime.
It was a hate crime – black guy hates whites enough to try to pin scurrilous Nazi sympathies on whites.
at its autism center
Ah…
The Georgia university repeatedly avoided questions about Roy Lee Gordon’s race
I wonder why…
Absurd doesn’t begin to cover it,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/today-in-leftist-absurdity.php
Not an all girl band, but a chick lead singer. Otep for the Metal fans.
that isnt music
A couple of cuties fronting this band.
https://youtu.be/8gMCxCI9IBw
Looks like a really fun day.
Different cuties, different band. But still nice.
Bordering on NSFW, but in this crowd I’m a little surprised no one has trotted out a Garfunkel & Oates link yet….
Found the German version of Grace Blakeley: an aristocratic Maoist
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1440953495465730049
she just checked her privilege
My turn: Chick singer/guitarist.
More girl power 25
In the article on the guy deported to Haiti, the following is noted:
“The Biden administration is still relying on a Trump-era border policy linked to the coronavirus pandemic that allows border authorities to swiftly remove migrants apprehended at the US-Mexico border.”
Yeah, well my local government is also clinging to antiquated coronavirus policy.
Seoul searching – does the Korean capital have the solution to the housing crisis?
https://capx.co/seoul-searching-does-the-korean-capital-have-the-solution-to-the-housing-crisis/
Enfranchising residents in the planning system got swathes of new houses built in Seoul
Giving property owners a vote on new developments shows the incredible power of incentives
Here is the part I do not fully understand. This is often talked about in the U.S. as well. Yet there is no organic population growth here, or in South Korea, or Japan, or many other places (i.e., the birth rate is outpaced by death rate). Why the need for new houses?
people move inside the country and from outside in
Yes, and other reasons besides. For example, better-paying jobs being in certain places and not others is a big part of it. But the “crisis” still seems at least a little manufactured.
most are at least a little manufactured.
The need for more Starbucks locations.
Because of blight and abandoned properties. I mean, there’s plenty of empty houses in Detroit, but who wants to live there?
That’s a good point, but that situation has its own set of unanswered questions.
In Korea, they tend to throw up houses quickly and cheaply.
I know my in-laws have torn down and rebuilt their house at least once since I met them (20+) years. The replacement home is also looking pretty shoddy now so I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens again soon.
A lot of the Koreans (especially the older ones) have the mind set that it is easier to throw up a house quickly and then get back to making a living than it is to spend a lot of time and money building a real nice house.
I recently read something similar about Japan – they purposely don’t build the houses to last for $REASONS.
Regarding the CDC, I posted this meme a couple of weeks ago.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Uncle-Joe-Says.png
Of all the things that can be said of Stalin, that he was doddering old fool who’s not really in charge of anything isn’t one of them.
How could I have forgotten this one?
Or this one.
Love her.
Ah, early 90’s Boston tunes.
This was on heavy rotation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrxoi0UwfdU
I used to see Kay Hanley out regularly at Boston Billiards Club (RIP). She was/is a good player.
From the same era, in heavy rotation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArXL7uEQsEg
and less heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LulQJDFtIs
She’s still on heavy rotation on my Spotify. She’s amazing.
Yes, yes she is.
Mignonne.
Indeed.
Before Stereopony and the like,
https://youtu.be/TkPE-TCFOmw (with the always lovely Chisato)
and further back when hairdressers ruled the world
https://youtu.be/doY90Hf4pdI
Girl rock…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A29BMj3v86w
Yes!
Thanks for that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1sG1-5gdes
Hell yes.
The song I always think of when I hear her name:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbq4G1TjKYg
Damn your nimble fingers!
In my top five albums of all time.
SFed link. I even tried editing the URL, but no luck.
::edits URL a little more:: This?
Indeed it is. Last time I freaking try to post a link…. I screw it up every time.
But not your top five links…
Ugh. Awful.
Saint Vincent did Metallica. That’s not terrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0K9xypNQVU
Or is it?
St. Vincent is fan-freaking-tastic. Liz Phair from album 2 onward is HORRIBLE. But neither Annie, nor anyone else, can hold a candle to the perfection of a breakup album that is Exile in Guyville.
This girl will get the blood flowing…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B19u9tHnIs
And if you wanna see a chick scream like that, an impressive cover…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Qu6SKFSGQ
I was expecting Lauren Babic.
*leaves disappointed*
Likewise.
For you more adventurous types
Imma just leave this here.
Female Linkin Park… only even angrier? 😉
where do you people find all this obscure music?
My contribution to the chick rock links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOuSoEYL2-Y
Girl not-rock…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwU69kje3h8
Nice.
The pic on the main page; is that one of the “human-specific cleavage sites” as mentioned here?
https://nypost.com/2021/09/22/wuhan-scientists-wanted-to-release-coronaviruses-into-bats/