This is why I avoid ever going into a church. No good will come of it.
Banjos is busy filming the remake of The Wizard of Oz; she’s one of the Lullaby League. It’s a nice gig if you can get it. So I’m filling in. And saving the fun Tales Of The Woke for my regular slot tomorrow.
Some days are just shit for birthdays, and today is one of them. But there’s a few marginal ones, including a guy who was Castro before it was cool; a pioneer of shitty cars; some guy who was choppin’ real good like; a guy whose art inspired Peter North; a guy I always confuse with Bent Fabric; a guy who is as smarmy as Tom Hanks; a throwback to the halcyon days of bush; and the fiftieth second coming of Hitler.
Maybe Links will be more interesting?
Why does anyone give a shit? Have they run this short on Crimethinkers?
Another judge shows that “l’etat, c’est moi.”
See, this is how you do panic.
I was assured that serial killers are always white.
Seems like a natural spot for me.
More support for my hypothesis that Gen Z was created to make Millennials look good.
If you’re not in the mood for drinking at the moment, this will change that.
“Another judge shows that “l’etat, c’est moi.””
It’s just gonna be transitory inflation. about8-10% a month for a decade.. Then, when all you serfs are broke and fucking poor, things will go to the new normal. Don’t worry, we the top men bought you a real cool tracking collar with a name tag!
NPR was gushing about how great that judge was.
And ANOTHER story celebrating the winningnest “female” in Jeopardy history. Seriously. They keep calling her “female.”
Back in the USSR the authoritarian marxists murdering cabal in charge did evil/stupid shit like this all the time. Everyone knew you were being sold a pile of shit, and man did they tell the people some whoppers and outright idiotic lies about shit, but the serfs had to go along or face the gulag. Same shit, but now in the US.
“They keep calling her “female.”'</“female.”'
Well, so do you…
So, I called her “her,” the same pronoun I use for my car and battleships. Your point?
Men are now better at being The First Woman To than women are.
At least with the massive die-offs we won’t need to be poking around in the Gulf of Mexico for oil any more.
whaddup doh
You need to reformat that image — the text is too small to be readable.
It’s also in Nazi. Can we get a translation?
Well, it starts with a guy having breakfast then playing a board game with his wife. After delivering a baby’s coffin, he goes to the synagogue to learn about kabbalah. He picks up some bao for lunch and… something about cuckoo clocks… the mother of the dead baby wants some coffin alterations made, they execute a POW because the Geneva conventions don’t exist yet…
OFFS!
Before there was Trump to live in every Democrat’s head, there was Sarah Palin.
I love the classics.
Well said sir.
These people truly just need their heroes to cheer for (and mad do their heroes tend to be serious villains) and villains to hate (and their villains are always villains because these are people that expose the emotional childlike morons for what they are) because it is all about emotional reaction to things for them.
Eric has all of NY’s problems resolved, has time to be concerned individuals that may not feel well.
Gets things done, ready for DC!
Enough about Palin
Sarah Palin returns to NYC restaurant two days after testing positive for Covid
But this time, the unvaccinated former Alaska governor and her party sat outside Elio’s.
Old news for Old Man.
“We as parents own our children and we are allowed to make decisions for them and they are allowed to make their own decisions because they are human beings and they have every right to,” he said.
You and your children are subjects of the state.
You and your children are
subjectsresources of the state.The new overlords really are – without exception – smarmy pricks, aren’t they.
Tinpot dictator with a small taste of power. Imagine what he’d be like with more.
P.J. O’Rourke once wrote that “The appeal of fascism is that it gives every piss ant an ant hill from which to piss. “
Just because we are sick of (the government) does not mean (the government) is sick of us
“More support for my hypothesis that Gen Z was created to make Millennials look good.”
Both however are the products of the fucking super morons of the boomer gen that decided participation trophies and self esteem without ever having done anything, were real things. Fuck marxism makes you stupid.
My parents told me my participation trophies were fake and worthless.
See, that is a generational difference. My parents would have beat me for bringing home a participation trophy.
My father would have beat up the asshat handing them out. Well, he would not have gotten violent, because he understood violence well and knew when it was appropriate, but he would have schooled the fucking idiots doing that. I made a lot of enemies when I was coaching the kids of my son’s age, and told the parents that while participation was going to be appreciated, there would NOT be any rewards but for those that show determination, grit, and the desire to learn and be better at whatever sport it was at the end of the season.
Mine wouldn’t even let me participate cuz they used me as forced labor on their subsistence farm.
Same with my parents, afraid I might get hurt playing sports and wouldn’t be able to work. I learned the Labor Theory at an early age and I’m glad now that did.
Ha! I was one-upping. Should’ve been more obvious like CPRM. I did have to work, though, but just a newspaper route then fast food.
/feeling like a lazy millennial now
You had it light! My parents beat me, locked me in the basement, which was just a hole under our tin shack, and made me do slave labor because I saw a trophy once.
Shwank or Biguns?
Yorkshire was a tough place to grow up.
Ha, you had it easy.
I lived in Yorkshire!
I never gave one out. I don’t know what those other assholes were doing.
Federal judge cites climate crisis in decision to cancel oil and gas leases in Gulf of Mexico
Federal judge needs to stay in his lane.
THE WORLD IS MY LANE!
Part of the problem is that apparently federal law allows private suits to enforce this – sorta like the TX abortion law.
Bad fucking idea.
How many warships does this federal judge command? “S’pose we go
on stage and playto the Gulf and drill anyway . What are you gonna do about it? Huh?SteinContreras? You’re gonna look pretty funny eatin’ corn on the cob with no fuckin’ teeth.”FBI mounts Waco part 2?
I think we’re up to Waco part 3 now.
“He made his law. Let him enforce it.”
Nice is he also the lead singer and driver of the Winnebago
Since this judge is doing exactly what the admin wants him to do, I’m sure he’s have every gun he needs at his disposal.
Can’t they just wear a mask?
Those lethal gases aren’t as smart as covid.
Are we not maintaining a perimeter? I don’t see why this is an issue.
The U.S. Navy is currently in a race against the clock in the South China Sea to recover a $100 million F35-C jet — before the Chinese military gets there first.
“The $100m F35-C plane came down in the South China Sea after what the Navy describes as a ‘mishap’ during take-off from the USS Carl Vinson,” the BBC reported. “The jet is the Navy’s newest, and crammed with classified equipment — and, as it is in international waters, is technically fair game.”
Although the location of the crash has not been revealed, the Chinese Communist Party claims almost all of the South China Sea’s 1.3 million square mile area as its territory.
Right at the moment the USN may be the only ones who know exactly where to look. If they were dumb on EMCON (probably…) then there may be some publicly available hints, but otherwise it’s a big ocean. Hanging out at the right spot kinda accelerates the PRC’s research for them. If you’re gonna set up a guard, do it somewhere else…
I would assume with only what — 10 at most carrier groups at the moment? – the CCP has spy sat coverage of them at all times. Should be able to just search the footage and find the aborted takeoff to get the location. Big ocean — but big, conspicuous ships and global spy sat coverage one has to assume.
I very much doubt the PLAN has any deep water recovery capability at all. Hey Pooh Bear, how’s your aircraft carrier coming along?
It’s a relatively fragile airframe in salt water and I guess pretty deep. Can’t the US just drop a few deep mines nearby and let them accidently go off? Crush the plane and allow nature do the rest.
They could also fire up the Glomar Challenger.
That didn’t work in For Your Eyes Only.
He was distracted by the girl in the tiny Bikini
You can just drive the Lotus submarine down to the wreck and attach an inflatable.
We’ll have to borrow it from Elon.
I’ve heard the pilot started suffering severe chest pains just before landing and was subsequently diagnosed with myocarditis. He recently received a COVID vaccine.
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fascinating if true.
Ozy shared that gem with us.
As someone told me the other day when I asked the same thing…remember who is in charge.
“Gen Z workers should be proud of being ‘snowflakes’ rather than martyrs”
And here I thought snowflaking was performative martyrdom.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. And it’s too early in the morning to slog through the Grauniad.
It’s the same bullshit; people who don’t understand the economy bitching about the economy.
Never change GWARdian.
Now I’m hoping that’s the name for GWAR’s newsletter.
A coalition of environmental groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity, Healthy Gulf and Friends of the Earth, sued the Biden administration to stop the lease sale. Environmental law firm Earthjustice represented the coalition.
“We are pleased that the court invalidated Interior’s illegal lease sale,” Earthjustice senior attorney Brettny Hardy said in a statement. “We simply cannot continue to make investments in the fossil fuel industry to the peril of our communities and increasingly warming planet.”
Contreras’ decision found the Biden administration had used outdated modeling when assessing the climate-warming impact of the lease sale, relying on modeling from the Trump administration that concluded the greenhouse gas impacts of not drilling in the gulf would be worse than holding the lease sale — due to increased reliance on foreign oil and gas supply.
You have to use OUR made-up numbers, or it doesn’t count.
If we assume our policy has no negative consequences …
Make sense. The Earthies just assume there will be no “increased reliance on foreign oil and gas” but instead people will just willingly decrease their quality of life to satisfy their demands.
The only problem is that every one of their demands leads to… increased reliance on foreign oil and gas. It’s almost like people in the real world aren’t widgets in a SimCity game.
I want to see the litigants lead the way in consuming less energy – before they can make the claim of the necessity of that for the rest of us.
You seriously don’t understand the concept of being a top man. You don’t sacrifice anything as a top man. You tell the peasants what THEY have to give up so you can feel even better that you can do something you are denying them….
Yeah, I expect leaders to lead by example. Silly me.
That’s so 50 years ago dude..
They were promised there would be no math (in life.)
Or that their idiotic wants would override reality. Then nature kicked them where it hurts, and now they hate the people that are not as stupid as they are…
Shouldn’t an organization called “Healthy Gulf” be happy that oil companies are taking that evil dirty oil out of the gulf of Mexico?
wut?
military discounts?
Mobbed up.
More support for my hypothesis that Gen Z was created to make Millennials look good.
Errors and flaws accumulate until something happens to purge them. Every generation is slightly worse than the last until their suckiness catches up with them and they have to learn what it’s like to overcome hardship. Then it starts all over.
Bad times make hard men. Hard men make good times. Good times make soft men…. Cycle of civilization.
“A hard man is good to find.” — Mae West
Once Biden starts WWIII they’ll be the Greatest Generation.
I think we still have a decades or two to go before we are “ready” for unrestrained global conflict. At least on present course. Gen alpha will be Greatest Generation 2.0
Close – this is the Grievest Generation.
That could easily turn into Gravest Generation.
So, ATF is pushing us closer to the boog.
Months ago they arrested a dude for selling “auto key cards” which are credit-card shaped pieces of steel. Because these coupons had pictures printed on them that if cut out, polished, fitted and assembled could allow certain obsolete models of AR platform rifles to be fired in full-auto, the BATFEces guys declared them machine guns. Autokeycard guy (Kristopher Ervin) was friends with and placed ads with one of the d-baggier guntubers. When Ervin was arrested, D-bag youtuber Matt
HoopleHoover announced the arrest on his channel and ran a legal defense defense fund for Ervin.This of course makes Hoover a co-conspirator, and thus he was arrested yesterday. I cannot WAIT for this logic to be applied to defense counsel.
WTF??
The Biden administration is letting all the agencies off their leashes. It appears to be their intent to force a showdown of some sort by just laying waste to all the legal controls on them and daring anyone to object.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people in the gun community who still think that the big law is constrained by rules. That if they utter the correct incantations, the feds will say, “Well, looks like you got us! Guess there’s nothing that we can do!,” and go home.
Ervin is finding out that this ain’t the case. A lot of dudes with arm-brace ‘pistols’ are gonna get their turn next.
I don’t think that applies to Ervin, any more than it applies to people selling 0% lowers.
it’d be more applicable against people selling
short barreled shotguns“firearms,” but oddly enough neither Mossberg nor Winchester have had to deal with this.The company wouldn’t pay you to fuck around on your phone?? Oh. My. God.
lack of transparency in raises and promotions
I have no idea how much anyone else in my company makes. None. And no real desire to know, it’s not my business.
I had access to my company’s salary figures for a project I was working on a long time ago. Man, was that demoralizing.
The one time I got access to salary data, it exposed how absolutely pedestrian my pay was. I thought we were some of the highest paid departments in the company (thus the constant pressure to “add value”). Nope.
one* of
*sips coffee*
I never wanted to see those numbers. I was pretty sure that people better than me were paid less than I was and worse performers were paid more.
Compensation more often than not has nothing to do with performance as much as it has to do with being a good negotiator and having influence with the people that decide compensation…
I might have had access a few companies back, and I intentionally didn’t check if I did or not, nothing good could come from it. I was happy with what I was making.
A co-worker regularly looked up how much we were paying to a outside company for a crappy 3rd party app we had to support. It was depressing.
Once upon a time, at a company I may or may it have worked for, HR had all employee salaries and other personal information in an unlocked & unprotected xls on the corporate document repository. Me, er my buddy was looking for salary band (just which band it was in) information for a new position and found it by doing a keyword search for that new position. Once realized what it was and how extensive it was, the blood drained and backed away as quickly as one could, hoping it wouldn’t be noticed. This was before excel shows who all accessed a file right on the side.
Another time all of the annual reviews were left accessible to everyone when they were first moved to the new HR system.
Oh, you want me to make a public announcement about why you didn’t ge a raise/promotion, why you were disciplined, etc.? OK.
/thinks back to co-worker who was excited to be put on a Personal Improvement Plan
Wait….wut?
Well, if you work for the gov’t (like a university, hint, hint) it is all public record. And, as these people all live to work for a university, they cannot understand why things aren’t like a university.
Hint. Hint.
I think that people that work in the university/college circle that are not part of disciplines that have to actually work in the real world, you know the ones that live in fantasy land and never have to prove or disprove the idiocy they spout by actually dealing with its consequences, are the most disconnected and dangerous you can find. People that have to produce things that work and face consequences when these things fail, can’t afford to be idiots. But your average studies marxist philosopher can always tell you the problem isn’t what they believe but some external circumstance or the fact you didn’t do it hard enough. That’s why you hear them claim with certitude that the USSR or any of the other murderous implementations of marxism, were not real communism and tell you with a straight face that it would work if the right people were in charge or if it was implemented in a really rich and prosperous country. When you remind them about how that played out in Venezuela they tell you that doesn’t count and that we should do it in the US. Because it is so evil that a country this rich doesn’t let more than half of the population just stay home to play video games while getting catered to by people that have to do all the work (an arrangement we used to call slavery back when cause someone was forced to work for someone else’s benefit without proper compensation).
“I’ve worked in the private sector. They expect results.”
It certainly explains why these people always seemed to end up in academia or the public sector. But the problem is that I am seeing this mentality now making its way into the private sector as well….
I’m trying to finish salary planning this morning (and instead I’m here…). Anyhoo – I can truly say that our lead team tries very hard to make raises and the resulting mix of salaries to fit what everybody here would call “right”. Usually I feel like we succeed. And we generally stay out of the silliness in the quote.
The big thing this year is that IMHO the overall org isn’t adjusting aggressively enough for inflation and its impact on the labor market (for Engineers, in this case). I’ve already told my VP and HR what it’s going to do to hiring and retention incentives. They get it but their hands are tied on this budget cycle.
The Korean folks I work with are very open with each other on how much they make. It makes it difficult around review and merit discussions.
There would not be much shock in my group if they knew how much each other made. I’m pretty good at paying for performance. The only exceptions are those who were hired by others at a really shitty salary that I can’t easily (or quickly) bring up to what I think they are worth. Unfortunately my manager is in a different country with different salary rules and expectations. I wouldn’t be surprised if I didn’t make more than him.
Happens a lot more than you would believe. I left a job I one took 3 months after I got it because my manager became absolutely hostile to me once he found out I was getting paid almost double what he made as a technical hire. He felt it was insulting to him that he was the boss and I made so much more.
What? you don’t get to go to medical appointments while you’re still on the clock?
If I can swing it I will for sure make sure I can get my work done and go to a medical appointment without taking personal time. Of course I don’t expect to be able to do so but I will schedule appointments, first thing, end of day, or over lunch hour to make it work. It’s sort of a white collar privilege but any professional should be able to flex this.
Don’t they know what a workday is supposed to be like?
What, you mean a performance review isn’t a like a participation trophy?
I would be amused if this whole thing was a troll.
What good is this whole thing if you don’t get to enjoy flashing your junk to women, in their locker room of all places, while they can’t call in the authorities to give you the shit you deserve. I care very little how people want to identify. Shit, I myself identify as a multi-megaton nuclear hypersonic weapon, but I don’t force others to pretend my reality is the real one while rubbing my junk =- an apropos comparison here- in their faces.
Listen, she’s obviously sincere. No man would want to share a locker room with young, nubile female athletes in their physical prime.
I get lesbianism. I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. but I would not be trying to grow tits and tucking my junk while talking in a falsetto just to get to look at the ladies wares, brah..
Face it, Lia understands how to get a good look better than you. You’d just be a pervie white cis-het-male getting your jollies – and they know it. They can’t say that about Lia.
You telling me she isn’t going home to spank it furiously when she finishes a swim meet?
Now where did I leave the brain bleach?
In the article, it says she “still” dates women.
I find the use of the word “still” telling. So up until last year, “she” was a man who swam on the men’s team and dated women.
Then one year of hormone therapy (which in this case means suppressing testosterone, not taking estrogen) in order to meet NCAA rules, he declares himself a she, doesn’t seek surgical alterations of any kind, and doesn’t wear a typical women’s competition swimsuit. (See article for pics.)
He is doing the equivalent of shit posting?
Yeah, I don’t want to mind read anything here, but when I read the details hayeksplosives points out about “Lia”, my only thought was we are being played, and played hard…
See article for pics.
Polite decline.
I may have to watch Porky’s this weekend.
Is it on Tubi? We could watch on movie night, or is it too well made a film?
Exactly. This is an expression of power. It is flashing its junk because it can.
The appropriate response would be to hold it down and finish the process it started with zipties and scissors.
I appreciate the use of proper pronouns.
No need to be so cruel, just use a rubber band like we’d put on cows.
I am so glad i am not alone.
I am so glad that i am not alone.
Suicide by cop?
A 37-year-old man was shot and killed by multiple law enforcement officers on Interstate 65 in Nashville Thursday afternoon after at least 30 minutes of tense negotiations.
Metro police released a video statement containing bodycam footage from officers involved in the deadly shooting of Landon Eastep. …
For 30 minutes, officers tried to negotiate with Eastep as he held the box cutter in his left hand and kept his right hand in his pocket, according to Metro police. …
Nine officers, including six Metro officers, two THP troopers and the off-duty Mt. Juliet officer, opened fire when Eastep pulled a round, metal object from his pocket that Metro police later reported was not a firearm.
It’s cool cuz he’s white.
At least this fella only made them do a nasty cleanup
Oof.
Snuff film warning.
Good form, nice start, didn’t tuck early enough though.
Needs more practice
Fucking East German olympic judge here….
Saw that yesterday. Apparently he survived.
He survived? How? He lands on his freaking neck…
I’m quite surprised too.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/suicidal-jumper-misses-the-landing-mat-on-purpose/
From the comments, That’s gold Jerry!
Dear Cisco, why can’t your VPN client have a “re-connect” or “re-authorize” button instead of making me completely disconnect from the corporate VPN and reconnect every 24 hours? So many things get disrupted.
Security man… This way we can force you to rehack the connection if you are with the NSA.
I could be worse. They could task their Webex team to update the VPN software.
Because the people who make purchasing decisions at big corporations don’t actually use the products they buy.
Dear Tech Industry – why the hell don’t we switch to long passphrases instead of the requirements that encourage the use of passwords like P@$$w0rd – which defeat the purpose of adding the special character bs?
I worked on high-security systems that used a five-word passphrase back in the 90s. Much easier to remember than the high-complexity passwords most systems enforce.
How long before a company like Cisco has to change their name to appeal to the LQDASFO:IUEGDSJ:GKLJ:ENN crowd?
While the pandemic has opened up such possibilities, it also laid bare the extreme divides between those workers who could work from home and those who had to show up and risk their lives. It showed how many businesses were willing to put their employees at risk in the name of profits, and how many privileged people were unwilling to sacrifice their creature comforts for another person’s safety.
Yeah, whatever.
Aren’t these the same people who say we never had a “real” lockdown?
Well… they didn’t change the locks on my doors.
You jest, but that’s exactly what the PRC did in Wuhan’s lockdown.
They went so far as to glue or weld doors shut.
There are plenty here who would approve of the same.
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Uh oh. Dueling streams.
It’s like Germany in here!
Splitter!
As long as they don’t cross.
“how many privileged people were unwilling to sacrifice their creature comforts”
Indeed it does show that.
Talk about pointless:
The GOA sent out an email for people to contact Asshat Wolf to sign the bill that would strengthen PA’s preemption on gun laws.
I think they just want to make sure there’s a record of opposition to his actions that they can use in later statements–something like “despite public outcry, Governor Wolf refused to sign a bill that has popular support across the state.” And then use it against him and Josh Shapiro in the fall.
Uh Wolf’s not running for anything… is he?
Of course he isn’t. Josh Shapiro, currently Attorney General, is Wolf’s handpicked successor who is (or will be) running for Governor on the D ticket.
Freedom Convoy Canada!
Let them truckers roll!
Aint she a beautiful sight!
If anyone up that way has a tie-died Minibus, now would be the time to get it out.
With a thousand screamin trucks
And eleven long haired Friends of Jesus
In a Chartreuse microbus
Constable – I am guessing she is mega fired buddy
Just learned Redd Foxx was only 48 when he started on Sanford and Son. What wonders some gray hair dye and good acting can do.
That guy was funny. Too sad so many supposed supposed comedians today, especially the late night types, are anything but funny with their woke acts.
Hey y’all, the Biden’s adopted a cat.
They’re so relatable, aren’t they?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/bidens-welcome-new-family-cat-named-willow-to-white-house
Yeah, I can see Joe scooping out the cat box when he’s 95 years old. ?
Woo is the cat going to attack before it goes the way of the first 2 dogs Joe adopted (we were told they moved back to the Biden residence in Maryland, but I hear they are sharing a hole with Jimmy Hoffa)?
Unless Major breaks Willow’s back first.
Biden also eats ice cream. When will he release his Spotify playlist?
Oh lord… didn’t Obama do that all the time? It was so diverse! ?
https://www.today.com/popculture/president-obama-shares-his-ultimate-workout-playlist-t103805
When I went from disregarding Wired to hating their guts.
Do you think Queen Elizabeth would like to add Biden’s speeches to her collection?
Transition your face.
I meant it when I said the future was going to be made right here in America. Companies like GM and Ford are building more electric vehicles here at home than ever before.
And all the raw materials come from abroad (mostly from China and Chinese-owned suppliers).
All on their own with no “encouragement” from the government.
When they build an electric vehicle with over 500 mile radius of operation – at standard levels – that doesn’t cost so much money to keep running (you are getting lied to when you get told you will save money on gas and it pays for itself. just check out how much it will cost you when its battery replacement time or you get your first electric bill from charging it at home) that you need government help to even make it semi palatable to the people that like to smell their own farts, and there is an infrastructure to actually support electricity production that isn’t based on libs wet dreams, I might look at one. And that is me speaking as an engineer. Unless I was super rich with money to piss away, these things seem to me to just be toys for smug assholes to claim they are better than other people at this time.
Wait until people discover that their electric cars either have utterly dismal range in winter, or else are wasting power to stay warm.
you get your first electric bill from charging it at home)
Hasn’t been all that noticeable for us. Maybe $20/month, but that’s getting close to the noise threshold.
Granted, ours isn’t fully electric. We’re only getting 30 miles of charge each day, not 300.
You have to consider total cost of ownership. You see when I bought a hybrid instead of an electric I took on the extra cost of gas and maintenance that electric vehicles don’t have. Let’s see, after four years my maintenance has been $0 and I’ve used about 280 gallons of gas which would be less than $1,000 at today’s higher prices. Electrics are only a couple thousand extra, right?
I know. I’ve been told I can’t compare my car to a Tesla. Tesla has more features. I have to compare to a higher end car the same way I have to compare my house to a mansion.
SARC: It’s easy to build more than ever when there has been only a handfull made by Ford and GM in the past 5 years. GM and Ford are much farther behind Tesla and will be for the foreseeable future. I’m guessing GM and Ford are looking for more handouts above and beyond those being provided to Tesla to level the playing field for tiny little GM and even smaller Ford.
Funny how he mentions GM and Ford, but not Tesla, innit?
NPR is befuddled
Across the country, about two-thirds of large school districts currently require students to wear masks. Most commonly, those masks are cloth. And cloth masks, experts say, are insufficient to contain the spread of the omicron variant.
Where one goes with those two pieces of information is, increasingly, a pandemic Rorschach test.
For some, the answer is obvious: upgraded masks, stricter rules. On Jan. 21, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest school district, updated its mask policy to exclude cloth masks. California has distributed tens of millions of N95 masks and kid-sized KN95 masks to schools. And in districts as disparate as Boston, Denver and Round Rock, Texas, student activists have been demanding respirators in the name of safety.
For others, resisting school masking along with other pandemic restrictions remains a largely political stance. For example, the newly elected Republican governor of Virginia wasted no time in ending the state’s school mask mandate by executive order, setting off a flurry of opposition.
What’s different about this moment is that there is a third camp — call them pro-vaccine, anti-mask. And they’re getting louder.
We have to break the world down into simplistic Good-versus-Evil terms, or we’ll be lost in the wilderness.
student activists
OFFS, I blame Boomers for this phrase.
For some, the answer is obvious: upgraded masks, stricter rules….
For others, resisting school masking along with other pandemic restrictions remains a largely political stance.
One side has embraced the obvious solution of upgrading. The other side is resisting for political reasons.
Much unbias. So neutral.
Grr, last para shouldn’t be italicized.
*EDIT FAIRY HALP!*
WOAH!
Lia Thomas is really getting around!
The good news with upgrading is you are now in the territory of your mask protecting you. You no longer have to insist other people do the same to protect you. Kinda like the vaccine.
No you insist other people also wear the mask to protect themselves because they are too stupid to do that on their own. And you don’t want to pay for their healthcare (which we should because everyone should have the same healthcare).
The most jarring aspect of a lot of this is how, in both “for-profit healthcare” (U.S.) and “universal healthcare” (U.K., France, etc.) systems, absolutely zero effort has been expended to expand hospital capacity, and in fact, in many cases hospital capacity has been reduced. Two years of a “global pandemic” and trillions of dollars/pounds/euros expended to “combat” it and yet not a single new hospital has been built nor an existing hospital significantly expanded for this purpose (possible exception: Sweden, which already had significantly more hospital capacity to begin with).
The most jarring aspect to me is how not a single existing institution, whether it be hospital or medical school, put any effort towards developing therapeutic protocols independently of the government, even when the government provided next to nothing and what little they did provide had mortality rates upwards of 50%.
Not only did they not attempt to develop their own protocols, they actively resisted the development and implementation of such.
This failure of ethics is historic in scale and people should hang for it.
Whom do you hang? There is not a single independent decision-maker to be found. Not even Fauci makes any real decisions (he’s just the smarmy, obnoxious face). This is the distributed consensus of the bureaucratic hive-mind. The hospitals won’t do anything that they don’t have top-cover for; they won’t get top-cover for anything the insurance companies won’t pay for; the insurance companies won’t pay for anything that the government health bureaucracy hasn’t approved; the government health bureaucracy won’t approve anything that doesn’t provide opportunities for bureaucrats to advance their careers and reward their cronies; the class interests of the bureaucracy do not coincide with those of the working class and so assisting them is not even considered.
We are approaching the ultimate realization of democracy and equality: the complete abdication of personal responsibility for the leaders, and the complete surrender of autonomy for the populace.
When it comes down to brass tacks, the buck always stops at the public face of the regime.
The list in my head is certainly long.
Hang the face of the bureaucracy (like Fauci) pour encourager les autres.
The entirety of the federal health apparatus is complicit. They either actively supported or just went along with a crime against humanity.
Do I think anyone is going to hang for it? No.
But I do think expressing my opinions on the subject is necessary. Torching personal relationships over this issue is morally justified and required in order to foment any progress. If I remain silent, I’m complicit as well.
You can lead a horde to water but you can’t make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke?
Who
mdo you hang?Committees are indeed a machine for diffusing responsibility. Actual executions may be a bit much, but I see no reason mass firings wouldn’t be appropriate.
We are approaching the ultimate realization of democracy and equality: the complete abdication of personal responsibility for the leaders, and the complete surrender of autonomy for the populace.
Beautifully put.
“Hang the face of the bureaucracy (like Fauci) pour encourager les autres.”
The bloody French revolution had a purpose…
Who do we hang?
Do we start with hospital lawyers?
That is a twofer.
Its been more than 1.5 to 2 years since covid started!
We’ve never run out of physical beds.
The nursing shortage is mainly nurses leaving bedside nursing, and they started doing so a year ago, before any new nurses could have come online. I don’t think that anybody in the summer of 2020 predicted a nursing shortage in late 2021. Hindsight, bro.
Hospital finances are getting slaughtered right now because of nursing pay. My organization has around $800mm gross revenue, and generally clears about $30mm in operating income. We are paying more than $10mm a month in excess nursing pay. The industry is awash in red ink, currently somewhat masked by really good financial results through, roughly the third quarter of 2021. Its easy to say “pay more”, but where does the money come from? We can’t raise prices except with a lot of lag – around half of hospital revenue, maybe a little less, is government money. The rest is paid by insurance companies under long-term contracts.
If we hadn’t torpedoed treatment to pave the way for the vaccine regime, none of this would be a problem.
According to China, China built a hospital because covid.
Are we calling sanitoriums and crematoriums hospitals now?
zero effort has been expended to expand hospital capacity
I don’t know that we need to expand the physical capacity of hospitals. I think we have plenty of beds. It takes a year and a half to two years to build a new hospital or add a wing to an existing hospital, minimum. And its by no means clear that the billions we spent on that wouldn’t be wasted, since actual inpatient hospital demand is trending down.s
Actual capacity is almost universally a nurse staffing issue. Again, it takes years to get a new nurse from enrollment to fully qualified bedside hospital nurse.
As Scruffy points out, the real solution isn’t expanding hospitals, its keeping people out of hospitals with better treatment.
Not firing a third of your nursing staff may help.
Its been more than 1.5 to 2 years since covid started!
And you don’t need to train new nurses, just pay enough to hire them away from competing hospitals!
I mean, sure, that doens’t help the system as a whole, but it provides the right incentive to get more nurses.
Do we start with hospital lawyers?
What on erf makes you think we make any decisions about clinical matters, like what treatments the hospital authorizes, much less what treatments are available outside the hospital?
I just thought it was funny.
1. Hang hospital administrators
2. Hang lawyers (general principle)
Therefore, start with hospital lawyers. Not for any specific reason, just have to start somewhere.
Yup. That’s the first thing that struck me, too. I don’t even think they know that they’re biased. I think they genuinely believe that their perspective is the only legitimate one.
They are the good guys! Of course their perspective is the only legit one…
That’s what every evil fuck in history has believed too…
Since June of 2020, when it became apparent the masks did nothing (as was originally believed in March of 2020 before the first of many sudden “public health policy” reversals), the primary purpose of the mask has been social signaling. You wear it to show that you are of the virtuous elect. By January 2021, pretty much everyone who was going to wear it did so already. This, of course, devalued its totemic power. A new symbol is necessary, so now we have the (K)N95 mask, which of course looks different, makes breathing even more difficult than before, and still does just about nothing in situations of prolonged exposure (small chance × large time interval = large chance). The primary purpose is the same as the imposition of the Manchu queue upon the Han Chinese: it signals obedience and in turn status (for the middle ranks).
???
As I have stated before, the left is populated with people that would ignore, and even feel robbed, if you provided them with explanations/solutions to problems – from the small and simple to the horribly complex and big – and it left them feeling emotionally unsatisfied. They need to create arguments that provide them with villains to hate and heroes to cheer for so they can be emotionally satisfied. And they will pick that even when they can blatantly see the emotional appeal/argument is bunk as shit, because to them it is about the feels.
I think you are talking about a lot more than the left there – you’re including a big chunk of the middle.
Something something hammer.
We really are splitting into two species here.
For others, resisting school masking along with other pandemic restrictions remains a largely political stance.
Personal freedom is just you playing politics, brah.
or example, the newly elected Republican governor of Virginia wasted no time in ending the state’s school mask mandate by executive order, setting off a flurry of opposition.
How dare the new executive end something enacted by executive order with an executive order.
Well, mask requirements are imposed by the state, which makes them inherently political. Both supporting and opposing are equally political.
Metro looks to fight possible fuel thefts
Metro allows theft through fare jumping, why not allow fuel theft?
Most. Popular. President. Evar.
President Biden is leading former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in two hypothetical, head-to-head match-ups for the 2024 presidential election, according to a new poll.
The survey, conducted by Marquette Law School, found that 43 percent of adults nationwide would support Biden if the 2024 presidential election were held today, while 33 percent would vote for Trump in a one-on-one match-up.
Sixteen percent said they would choose a different candidate, while 6 percent said they would not vote.
In a hypothetical race against DeSantis, however, Biden polls slightly worse: 41 percent of adults nationwide said they would throw their support behind Biden, while 33 percent would support DeSantis.
Eighteen percent of respondents said they would vote for a different candidate, and 8 percent said they would not cast a ballot.
Only 29 percent of those polled said they want to see Trump run for president again in 2024, while 71 percent said they did not want to see him seek a second term.
I’d be curious to see the results of a poll asking about approval of Biden and then about would you vote for him vs a generic Republican candidate. I think that would be more telling than “would you vote for Biden over Trump again.”
They want DeSantis to declare now so they can begin to demonize him. As long as they still think it’s Trump 2024 they’ve gotta keep the TDS going, wasting $$$ and energy.
Get rid of masks? Maybe someday, but not yet.
Spoiler Alert: There will always be a reason to wait
COMPLY SUBJECT!
Some teachers in the local district threatened to quit if mandates were revoked. The mandate was removed Monday. I have yet to hear of any teacher resigning and moving to Canada.
Supposedly they’re having to cancel classes at the local district because of lack of teachers and subs. They’re also struggling with student retention if the propaganda I saw yesterday was any indication.
Nice on the Flogging Molly. I always enjoy their music. The wife considers it “too antic”.
Too bad the lead singer of Flogging Molly got married, and his wife made him quit drinking. Takes all the fun out of the band. Of course, last time I saw them, the singer was still bringing a bottle of Jameson’s on stage. It was just filled with iced tea.
Drink or don’t drink, don’t fucking fake it. My culture is not a costume!
Everyone wants to be The Pouges, but nobody wants to do what it takes to be The Pouges. https://youtu.be/BgYml2eokLA
Are they a French cover of the Pogues?
Damn it! Thanks. The ONE thing that auto correct leaves alone.
And now, I really to hear a Breton take on the Irish/punk hybrid music.
It’s because they all suck compared to The Pogues.
I mean, it’s not even close. Fuck that noise.
Yeah, you right. They even make Dylan exciting. https://youtu.be/BXJlBGRLLWM
I saw that the Bosstones hung it up yesterday.
Rumors are swirling that Dickey Barrett is a filthy antivaxxer who may have produced a theme song for a filthy antivaxxer protest.
Dean Martin has a sad.
From Coffee and Covid. More info on the DoD data:
This sounds like one of those “too perfect to be true” things, but in the past few months plenty of those have turned out to really be true. So I don’t know what to think anymore. Playing devil’s advocate, I can’t think of any alternative explanations.
Apparently, they videotaped themselves downloading the data from the system and they intend to submit the data to a court.
And they’ve sworn to it under penalty of perjury.
The penalties for lying in this case would certainly be implemented as the government is going to fight back.
It’s “the government’s” own data. They’re pulling the information straight from the DoD’s own servers and software systems that was specifically contracted and designed to track PHI.
But look how they treat VAERS data. That’s the government’s own legally-required pharmacovigilance system – but they have been shitting all over it in a massive disinformation campaign to make people believe that VAERS isn’t worth a shit.
Yet it’s the government’s OWN legally-requisite system that dozens of their own experts have told them needs to be updated. And yet, they never do it.
No matter how many McKesson, Deloitte, etc. or PhD, MPH consultants look at VAERS, they all say, “it underreports. There are better ways of doing this.”
Fauci had money to launder through EcoHealth Alliance for GoF research, but we definitely couldn’t spend money to have a better system for tracking vaccine adverse events. I wonder why…?
In this case, they can’t handwave the data away as being “unvetted.”
That doesn’t mean they won’t find another objection, but in the war of popular opinion it matters. And it may find more resonance with the professional class.
If that data really is as advertised (based on the actual diagnosis, etc. entered by actual physicians), it is by far the best first cut we have seen on adverse side effects. The myocardial infarction data is roughly in line with what the FDA reported in the hearings on booster approval, and the FDA’s data was based on claims data in the real world (also very solid).
Friday Funbags continuing last night’s tits to bounce, shimmy and heave forward!
https://archive.md/djShK
Could you imagine if a political party dared to play political games?
Press Sec. Jen Psaki warns Republicans about playing “games” with Biden’s Supreme Court pick
Games like making up stories about rape?
Shit, they had no problem making up a lie about a germophobic president having a piss hooker party with Russians and thus being one of the KGB plants. That’s the sort of shit I would expect Hunter Biden to be involved in.
Those are two great questions to ask sweet Jen.
Did the Russians fund that oil lease lawsuit?
Inquiring minds…
“A 16-year-old aspiring rapper and alleged gang member charged with shooting a New York City cop in the Bronx is walking free on bond Thursday, infuriating the union representing NYPD officers.
Camrin Williams – aka C Blu – was locked up in a Brooklyn juvenile detention center on gun and assault charges for shooting Officer Kaseem Pennant, 27, on January 18.
Just nine days later, he posted the $250,000 bail using money from his record deal advance on his contract with Interscope Records and has walked free.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10450715/16-year-old-wannabe-rapper-charged-shooting-NYPD-cop-scuffle-walked-free-bond-Thursday.html
What’s the over/under on how long until he gets killed in a “drug deal gone bad”?
The police won’t investigate too deeply.
“A 15-year-old teenager known as ‘the boy in the skirt’ will not have to register as a sex offender after he was convicted of two sexual assaults at separate high schools in Loudoun County, Virginia.
The unidentified male student previously pled ‘no contest’ after he was found guilty on two counts of sodomy for an assault in May at Stone Bridge High School and another in October at Broad Run High School.
He was placed on probation by Judge Pamela Brooks on January 12 and has since remained in custody at the juvenile rehabilitation center.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10450515/Teen-convicted-two-assaults-Loudoun-County-schools-not-registered-sex-offender.html
Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. They’re not really a sex offender until they’ve raped three times.
“They ask for too much, they do too little, they do not respect hierarchies, they don’t want to pay their dues”
Anecdotal, but the latest crop of new hires (Gen Z) seem to me to be significantly more competent, hard-working and team-oriented than the crop of ten years ago (Millennials). They also seem to be a lot more suspicious of top-down solutions and power concentration. I take all of that as a good thing.
Though in reality, as I’m a tail-end Gen Xer, I couldn’t give a shit (takes drag from menthol while wearing flannel).
Flying the Flannel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE5V-nCNswE
I’ve got one driving a forklift and the other suddenly eyeballing management positions at Walmart.
What is the cutoff for Gen Z? My youngest is 17, she’s the hardest worker out of the three. Has multiple part time jobs and loves to get a paycheck. The other two (21 and 24) would love to look at a screen all day.
I led plenty of tail end Millennials in Afghanistan and Iraq. They did just fine.
1) Slug down a Rock Star energy drink, crank some tunes up to get psyched, load up the M240B and roll out.
2) Come back to the FOB, and go to the Rec tent and play some CoD.
Rock starRip-It“Trans child molester, 26, who sexually assaulted girl, 10, is sentenced to just two years in a JUVENILE facility: Judge slams woke LA DA George Gascon who refused to prosecute her as an adult
‘Because of George Gascon’s blanket policy against transferring any juvenile to adult court, even if the 17-year-old rapes or murders an innocent child, James [now Hannah] Tubbs will not have to register as a sex offender, will not spend any time in county jail or state prison, will be 26 and housed with juveniles for a very short period of time, and will be released with no probation or parole monitoring.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10450891/LA-judge-orders-transgender-woman-26-serve-two-years-juvenile-facility-sexually-assault.html
1. Math is hard.
2. Assault in 2014, guilty in 2020, sentenced in 2022?
3. Sentencing someone who like’s ’em young to bunk with juveniles doesn’t seem like much of a punishment.
He’s trying to covid kill Breyer.
At the end of his event, Biden handed Justice Breyer his mask, which Breyer then put in his pocket, and Biden walked away maskless.
Amazing how clueless this man is.
I’m sure Nina Totenberg will be all over this scandal.
I’m guessing GM and Ford are looking for more handouts above and beyond those being provided to Tesla to level the playing field for tiny little GM and even smaller Ford.
Like subsidies specifically for union made electric vehicles made in America.
Holy shit that pisses me off.
GAY
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17462496/boyfriend-been-together-three-years-never-had-sex/
Either he is into dick or he is a pushover and after he met her in real life didn’t have the courage to tell her he wouldn’t fuck her with Q’s dick…
Lollipop Guild =/= Lullaby League
Lollipop Guild was male. Lullaby League, female. Say what you like about Banjos, she’s been popping out babies at a record clip.
My statement still stands.
But I was not aware.
They also seem to be a lot more suspicious of top-down solutions and power concentration. I take all of that as a good thing.
Let’s hope so.
More support for my hypothesis that Gen Z was created to make Millennials look good.
Meh. Honestly, I think the issue is that they’re the generations for which education is correlated with a lack of intellectual honesty and curiosity (i.e. indoctrination). It looks like these generations suck because we only hear from the educated element.
That sure as hell was a huge part of it. I am always left stunned at how little basic knowledge that would make you a functional adult often seems completely lacking in these younger people. From basic economics (stuff as simple as balancing a check book, which leaves them completely immune to the simple economic basics) to simple civics and understanding about their country. But the real scary thing are the absolutely idiotic things they believe that they are sure are true, but are completely false. Like the belief healthcare should be a right and that all college degrees are the same for example. Or that biology and any science can be political.
Well, yes. But, again, if you talk to less educated people in that generation, the insanity seems at least more subdued.
That’s because the educational system was coopted by the marxist which understood that the only way to defeat the American system was to undermine it by making the educated American turn against what made the country great. The people that avoided the intellectual vacuum created by replacing teaching things of value with indoctrination, were less impacted by this. Unfortunately the idiots produced by the corrupted system grew in size and took over the levers of power, and we are now where we are. There isn’t a group of people I am more weary of than your average college grad with degrees in what you would call soft sciences or arts. These people used to be the ones that learned to be well rounded 50 or so years ago. Now they are moronic robots that can’t think their way out of a paper bag and think that when the stuff you believe fails to prove right in reality, what you do isn’t rethink your beliefs, but double down. Rinse and repeat when it fails, even more miserably, again.
Eh, knowing how to balance a checkbook for these kids is like knowing Japanese joinery. They have weird types of bank accounts (Chime) and debit cards (Walmart payroll debit) and they aren’t allowed to spend more than they have. They can look at their current balance immediately if they want to know how much they have to spend. Checks are pretty much a thing of the past. My boomer landlord initially asked us to Venmo our rent, but then I pointed out the fees she would incur, and she’s like, “Okay, drop a check off at my bank.”
Eh, knowing how to balance a checkbook for these kids is like knowing Japanese joinery.
This has been the case for a while. I just got a new book of checks because we ran out of the 50 checks we got in 2013.
Checks are really freaking annoying. They have a tendency of lingering out there without actually debiting the account, and we certainly don’t use them often enough to bother using, let alone balancing, the register.
That said, to Alex’s point, most millennials and gen z kids wouldn’t know a budget if it slapped them on the face.
I write one check a month to the cleaning lady (she’s awesome, and she has her oldest daughter do it right now, as she is also pregnant.) And we are trying to set up a way to get out of that – I don’t want to order checks ever again.
I’ve been using Venmo for most of my transactions. It has a 2-3 day delay before it debits, but that’s more than acceptable for our needs.
My point was that you understood basic economics. I make so much. My expenses are so much. I want to save so much for whatever purpose. Balance that shit out. You quickly learn that if you spend more than you make you will get plenty of help to rack up major debt, but then you are gonna take it in the ass from the people knocking at your door for you to pay them back. Reality will refuse to let your inability to deal with it change it is my point.
And yes, I write one check a month during the summer months to my landscape company for the same reason (and I don’t do any of these spangled new payment systems cause I refuse to pay fees) you mentioned. I pay all my other bills with my credit card, and promptly pay that early in full and rounded to the nearest $10 every month to make sure I never pay them a fee or interest. This gets me a shitton of credit card points and bennies. The rest of my transactions are in cash (especially when I don’t care to have them track what groceries I buy).
I “lurned” the hard way never to spend more than I make when my ex brought me $32K in student loan and close to $40K in credit card debt when we got married back in the early 90s. I paid that shit off in 4 years by living frugally and working hard. We ended up divorcing 23 years into the marriage because she simply could never get spending under control and I got tired of paying thousands of dollars in credit card debt off every month, and resented me for not being like she was.
They can look at their current balance immediately if they want to know how much they have to spend.
An excellent way to stay poor.
“Okay, drop a check off at my bank.”
“Nah. I’ll mail it to you.”
No argument there, but both of them have demonstrated that they can save if they have a goal.
John Dewey’s influence upon the public schools was firmly established by the time the Boomers (educated in the 1960s–early 1970s) and Gen X (educated in the late 1970s–1980s) were being taught. Credulity towards “democracy” and indoctrination with progressive root values (“equality”, “civil rights”, etc.) is not unique to the two latest generations.
I want to see a poll of likely voters’ response to a Biden-vs-Empty-Chair race in 2024.
Empty suit vs. empty chair?
Obama isn’t eligible for a third term.
What if Michelle runs?
Empty pant suit vs. empty chair?
Bad news and good news
Bad news
https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-covid-19-sub-variant-being-investigated-detected-in-us_4235772.html
The good news is Pfizer estimates it will only take five doses of their new formulation to reduce the risk of hospitalization from this variant by 15%.
I knew Wikipedia was biased, but this is nuts.
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/louder-with-crowder/wikipedia-co-founder-makes-startling-admission-about-the-worlds-largest-research-portal
cruel disregard for the lives of his citizens is an opinion and should not be stated as a fact.
They are subjects not citizens.
I would say that it is correct to call that opinion unless you quote or reference a source. Mao might not of consider what he did cruel or disregard the lives of his citizens. An alternative interpretation could be he was indifferent to the sacrifices of the individual as long as it benefited the collective and the party.
In a technical sense, this is true. It’s the choice of example that is most revealing.
But let’s look at some other entries….
An insertion of attributed third party opinion – Kershaw describes Hitler as “the embodiment of modern political evil”.[4] “Never in history has such ruination – physical and moral – been associated with the name of one man”, he adds.
An insertion of unattributed third party opinion – Scholars and historians rank Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history.
Wikipedia editing has two main principles:
– You must only cite secondary sources
– The sources used must be reliable
This rules out independent thought (interpreting primary sources is not allowed) and divergent analysis (any source that differs from consensus is “not reliable”). Wikipedia editors are simultaneously framed as woefully incompetent (must use someone else’s interpretation) and yet curiously omniscient (know how to select which sources are reliable or not). It is the epistemological model of the commenter Tony from H&R: too stupid to make their own decisions, yet so smart as to suss out the correct experts.
“You must only cite secondary sources”
That’s retarded.
Strictly speaking, what I said was wrong. Primary sources can technically be used but the rules around them are byzantine and in practice their use is strongly discouraged. Interpreting a primary source, which is generally necessary to at least some extent, is where the problem arises, as it constitutes “original research”. This needle is quite difficult to thread as often times primary sources are too coarse (e.g. witness statements) or too technical (e.g. research papers) to use directly in encyclopedia articles. This requirement for an intermediate medium of interpretation (“reputable”, “neutral” secondary sources) offloads the responsibility for interpretation to a third party.
Yes, you can use an autobiography or personal blog for autobiographical details.
However, if the person says they were born on date 1 and the NYT says they were born on date 2, the NYT is always right.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Nothing more, and nothing less. What gets lost is the fact that an encyclopedia is inherently a shitty source (tertiary at best), and only good for a consensus view, and that consensus is the same as any major media.
My second example seems to violate both principles.
The bias in selection of sources is obvious for anything political and for a large portion of the historical entries.
I see it as a curious but entirely predictable loophole. Before going woke, xkcd observed the fact that many Wikipedia citation trails ultimately went nowhere. There is no “root” source for a claim like that, but it technically meets both policies: you can cite it and the citation is (obviously) not a primary source. You only need some “reputable” journal to publish the claim.
This is older, but I found the story quite enthralling – The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse – how middle-aged amateurs defeated the German navy
how does a horse charge on water?
They lured the ships onto the land, then outmaneuvered them.
today’s takes are molten
https://twitter.com/muddaub/status/1486843207392501765
Jeepers! Perhaps thermonuclear war, toe to toe with the Russkies isn’t such a bad idea after all.
JUST IN – Pope Francis: Spreading “disinformation” on vaccines and COVID-19 is a violation of human rights. In a speech Friday, he praised “fact-checking” and urged “truth.”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1487029455184973824
Semi-confident prediction: the Catholic Church will support gay marriage within 10 years and abortion within 20 years.
If that happens there will be a for-real schism.
Yep. Catholics are leaders in the pro-life space. If the Vatican deserted them, they’d declare an anti-pope faster than you can say “clump of cells”.
I think people who oppose abortion need to abandon “pro-life” before it’s too late. That’s a marketing slogan not a set of principles. It can and will be skinsuited (“what about the death penalty”, “what about gun violence”, “what about trans kids’ suicides”, “what about the social safety net for unwanted children”, etc.).
I oppose abortion for two main reasons: it’s evil in its own right, and my enemies like it. I do not oppose it because of a set of abstract principles that can be turned against me.
My attempt to clean up some shades of meaning:
“Pro-life” can imply any of a number of different things, but in practice it was chosen as a positive-sounding alternative to “anti-abortion”. Whether it or “pro-choice” came first I do not know, but everyone knows they have precise, political meanings.
However, there is a consistent tendency of progressives to convince non-progressives that the progressive position is actually what they’ve believed all along. Manipulation of the Biblical phrase “let he who is without sin cast the first stone” eventually led to “if you don’t support the proliferation of sin, you’re an un-Christlike bigot”.
The people who came up with the slogan “pro-life” in the first place generally understood that it was marketing jargon for retail politics. The people who came after, however, are not so self-aware. They learn the politics first and the history later, if at all. Sometimes learning the history makes them cynical. This is the wedge that progressives exploit. The same phenomenon could be applied to “pro-choice” but the cultural power the left wields generally prevents it from happening.
So, in laying out a set of principles, care should be taken to avoid common pitfalls. If this care should not be exercised, then I think it’s better to simply state the desired outcome. I don’t want babies to be killed, and I want the left’s culture power frustrated wherever possible. I don’t think every life is sacred and I don’t think the notions of charity or good faith should be used against me to alter my positions on other matters. People are not logically consistent automata and standards are enforced by your friends, not your enemies.
Prolife also encompasses opposition to the death penalty – it ain’t just about babies.
Yes, and that’s all the more reason to drop it. The death penalty is sometimes appropriate, especially when enforced person-to-person (e.g. lethal force in defense of life and property against invasion/assault).
Don’t call self defense the death penalty.
All penalties are for transgressions prosecuted in criminal justice proceedings. Death is one of those penalties, imprisonment another. Self defense isn’t a penalty, it is an outcome at the moment of the transgression.
The anti-abortion catholics are also mostly anti-death penalty, so that one isn’t a problem.
Self-defense and the death penalty are two different things.
Is that inherently so or simply a consequence of the condition of the modern state? The government doesn’t have to be so incompetent, its prosecutors so vain, its machinations so opaque, its judgment so removed from the offense, etc.
Inherent as I note above.
I think that’s a semantic game, but I don’t wish to antagonize people who oppose abortion since we share a common cause (even if our motivations may differ somewhat).
No worries, I’m not opposed to abortion as you are.
I’m pretty ambivalent about it, since it isn’t my decision to make about my body.
What’s the point of religion if it just blows whichever way the winds of progressivism take it?
Progressivism is itself a religion and has no room for any other systems of faith…
For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. — Hoffer
To have a place for good people to gather together and celebrate their goodness. Duh.
1 Tim. 6
Prediction of Martin Luther and John Calvin?
“Separation of church and state” ended up becoming “subordination of church to state” and since the Western liberal-democratic state is subordinate to the academy and media, so goeth the church as well. Throw in some skeletons in the closet (which every organization eventually has) that the leaders want to keep hidden, and some seemingly unimportant battles that were lost decades ago, and you end up at the gradual shifting of every institution along the axis of the Overton window. “Soft power” in action.
http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/html/gncf/appendix_a.htm
I would recommend everyone to read Mencken’s obituary of Machen. Link above if it works. If if doesn’t work, figure it out yourself. This was a century ago when similar fights were being lost in the mainline Protestant world.
The “Modernist” mainline side in that controversy actually BECAME Progressivism, in my opinion. It finally shed all the old ecumenical trappings (they’re still laying about) and stepped out on its own as a religion in its own right. This is where it came from. From the excellent text:
“What caused him to quit the Princeton Theological Seminary and found a seminary of his own was his complete inability, as a theologian, to square the disingenuous evasions of Modernism with the fundamentals of Christian doctrine. He saw clearly that the only effects that could follow diluting and polluting Christianity in the Modernist manner would be its complete abandonment and ruin. Either it was true or it was not true. If, as he believed, it was true, then there could be no compromise with persons who sought to whittle away its essential postulates, however respectable their motives.
Thus he fell out with the reformers who have been trying, in late years, to convert the Presbyterian Church into a kind of literary and social club, devoted vaguely to good works. Most of the other Protestant churches have gone the same way…”
Read the whole thing.
Maybe. I suspect it depends on the next pope.
I’m probably going to sound really crass doing an organizational analysis on the Catholic Church. But, I think it could be informative.
Like a lot of the mainline Protestant churches, the Catholic church is in a declining market in Europe and North America. They simply aren’t able to pull people into the pews. Mostly, the Catholic church in those markets is riding off fumes. In South America, they’re still a force, but getting their butts kicked by evangelical Protestant churches. The Catholic church’s only growth markets are East Asia and Africa. The issue is that these Catholics tend toward conservative Catholicism and take it pretty seriously. If the Catholic church is like most organizations (and, yes, I suspect it is), the guys running the growth markets are going to have an outsized say on the selection of the next CEO (i.e. pope). And I don’t think they’re going to accept a Francis redux. And, really, why should they? The Francis brand of woke progressive Catholicism may be getting them accolades from the usual, mostly non-religious, quarters. But, they’re not getting butts in the pews and dollars in the collection plate.
I don’t discount the possibility that the wokesters are going to be delighted to see a black pope. And then horrified to discover he makes Benedict look like a softy.
I think a return to a conservative, traditional Catholic church would be terrific marketing. I think there are plenty of Christians out there who are sick to death of SJ kubaya. A return to tradition (and mystery) would be interesting.
Not so sure about the decline in North America overall. There’s an longtime shift to increasing hispanic component in the US, not surprisingly.
Right. But, that’s just a shift within North America. Someone moving to the U.S. from Mexico or Honduras isn’t changing the total number of Catholics. And, as I said, within the Hispanic demographic, you’re seeing the rise of evangelical Protestantism.
Is the Pope Catholic?
This is sort of like what is the sound of one hand clapping innit?
Nope – https://novusordowatch.org/2022/01/francis-catholics-lutherans-faithful-people-of-god/
No – He’s a Jesuit.
legit LOL
“China is requiring a mandatory app that is ostensibly for “health monitoring” for all Beijing Olympics participants, media and govt officials.
As you’d expect, it turns out to be spyware that records everything said.
Have fun at #Beijing2022!”
https://twitter.com/MsMelChen/status/1486826991399542785
“After reverse engineering all of the #Beijing2022 #spyware app for @Apple
#ios and @Google #Android
I can definitively say all Olympian audio is being collected, analyzed and saved on Chinese servers using tech from USA blacklisted AI firm @iflytek1999”
https://twitter.com/jonathandata1/status/1486458526767661060
Today my basketball app slipped in a hockey headline which I did not understand “NHL player scores a Michigan ” and looking at the clip it seemed a pretty standard hockey thing of going behind the goal and then putting the puck thing in the net. So?
The player cradles the puck like a lacrosse move and dumps it in the upper corner without really shooting it.
One of my teammates does that all the time. I don’t think he’s scored a goal in a real game with it, but it is pretty handy to basically throw the puck down the ice right to a teammate. I haven’t perfected the art of picking up the puck with blade of my stick.
I’m trying to picture in my head if it’s tougher with the type of lie you guys use. You have a hand close to the blade but the angle is so different from a full length stick.
I find it difficult of course, but there are a lot of people who can do it. I’d say it’s easier for us.
It’s not standard because it actually takes a while to pull off and you have to be using a stick that can handle it. My blade is an open heel curve, so the toe is essentially straight. I couldn’t pull it off if I wanted to.
On top of that you have to remain below the crossbar. I have seen goals called back on that move in my yoots cause the player attempting it arced too high before putting it into the net.
It’s really, really, really difficult to do, to scoop the puck onto your own stick so that you can “throw” it into the net, rather than “shooting” it off of your stick.
Zegras has incredible hands – because doing that on the fly is just… otherworldly. I could probably spend the rest of my life trying to do that and never be able to.
“In recent years, science has confirmed what Aboriginal Australians, the world’s oldest continuous living culture, always knew: the Pilbara region of Western Australia is among the oldest places on Earth.”
Good lord that might be the dumbest thing I’ve read all week. Mammals have been a thing for a fraction of the 3.6 billion years that this region has been there, yet somehow the Aborigines have always known this in their primitive wisdom.
Stunning
Most important, he says, the finding suggests that it has now been months since Malawi entered something akin to what many countries still struggling with massive omicron waves consider the holy grail: the endemic stage of the pandemic, in which the coronavirus becomes a more predictable seasonal bug like the flu or common cold.
In fact, top scientists in Africa say Malawi is just one of many countries on the continent that appear to have already reached — if not quite endemicity — at least a substantially less threatening stage, as evidenced by both studies of the population’s prior exposure to the coronavirus and its experience with the omicron variant.
To understand how these scientists have come to hold this view, it helps to first consider what the pandemic has looked like in a country such as Malawi.
Before the omicron wave, Malawi didn’t seem to have been hit too hard by COVID-19. Even by July of last year, when Malawi had already gone through several waves of the coronavirus, Jambo says it appeared that only a tiny share of Malawians had been infected.
——-
Jambo knew this likely masked what had really been going on in Malawi. The country’s population is very young — it has a median age of around 18, he notes. This suggests most infections prior to omicron’s arrival were probably asymptomatic ones unlikely to show up in official tallies. People wouldn’t have felt sick enough to go to the hospital. And coronavirus tests were in short supply in the country and therefore were generally used only for people with severe symptoms or who needed tests for travel.
So to fill in the true picture, Jambo and his collaborators turned to another potential source of information: a repository of blood samples that had been collected from Malawians month after month by the national blood bank. And they checked how many of those samples had antibodies for the coronavirus. Their finding: By the start of Malawi’s third COVID-19 wave with the delta variant last summer, as much as 80% of the population had already been infected with some strain of the coronavirus.
But those people weren’t vaccinated. Why aren’t they all dead?
It’s the Zombi Cucumber.
the Pilbara region of Western Australia is among the oldest places on Earth.
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t pretty much everyplace on earth the same age?
*Unless it was constructed by aliens in the employ of white mice, over a prolonged time period, that is.
https://www.politicspa.com/breaking-commonwealth-court-rules-act-77-unconstitutional/99628/
ACT 77 – PA mail in ballots found unconstitutional.
I may need to contact my doctor in 4 hours.
Some good news. Thanks.
If PA Supreme Court gets a final say, your 4 hours likely shrinks to 4 seconds.
Don’t harsh my buzz.
I was wondering about that. The PA supreme court upheld it in 2020 and will do it again.
Josh Shapiro has vowed to fight for no-question mail-in ballots.
Will he fight to the death?
Jambo thinks the findings from the blood samples in Malawi explain a key feature of the recent omicron wave there: The number of deaths this time has been a fraction of the already low number during previous waves.
Less than 5% of Malawians have been fully vaccinated. So Jambo says their apparent resistance to severe disease was likely built up as a result of all the prior exposure to earlier variants.
“Now we have had the beta variant — we have had the delta variant and the original,” notes Jambo. “It seems like a combination of those three has been able to neutralize this omicron variant in terms of severe disease.”
Cancel him!
I am not sure Africa data is relevant to The West, which is old fat out of shape and scared of shadows
Is the Pope Catholic?
I find it hard to believe he has a watertight asshole.
I know this story is old, but I really did a double take when I saw it. The fucking government types want to sue a car manufacturer because their city is a crime infested shithole and their lack of serious anti-crime stance has emboldened criminals to do more crime. I constantly hear these people in politics and running these cesspit urban areas wanting to punish everyone but themselves for their stupidity vis a vis the legal system and the criminals for crime.
The city of Milwaukee might sue the Hyundai/Kia group, because their cars are too easy to steal.
The Honda CRX says “Hi”.
Are they going to sue the car owners for letting their cars be stolen? Because that makes about as much sense.
Infuriating
“It’s ok when we do it.”
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) wants the New York legislature to approve an aggressive gerrymander that would leave New York with three Republican and 23 Democrat seats in Congress.
DCCC Chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) wrote an “Interested Parties” memo titled “Preserving and Strengthening Communities of Interest” that urges the legislature to “correct the errors of the past.”
The memo reads:
Ya know, life would be a lot simpler if they just let me stock replacement parts. My primary machine has been down for two weeks and the part that it requires won’t be here until February 11. That’s no way to run a railroad. *Readytowalkaway.com*
It was one of the worst decisions we did in the military in my shop when we got rid of our bench stock. Little things like resistors, transformers, light bulbs, fuses. Most of our sites here in the FAA are fully spared, so we can get it up and running in an hour or so.
People way smarter than both of us decided they could make the company books look a lot better when they had bench stock to account for. Then a bad thing happened that disrupted that model badly, and they all acted like nothing was going on because they had been warned about this problem, but dismissed it all as crazy.
The blame lies with the sub-contractors taking advantage. They have side gigs and are weaseling off the parent company. Doesn’t help me none. I’m looking for options. With the weaselly sub-contractors. Fuck my life.
We routinely hear this: You are not authorized to fix this circuit card assembly.
Now these are not multilayered PCB, these are fairly aged circuits that we have diagrams for and nearly most of us can follow along and troubleshoot. What would cost us $.50-$5 in bench stock costs us $250 + whatever we pay in shipping there and back + whatever the contractor is getting at a flat fee.
You fixing it fast and on the cheap would show up the people that put this system in place that is enriching some assholes, are assholes, and that can’t be allowed to happen.
Bench stock?! How dare you question just-in-time’s efficiency! Heretic!
I’m not a serious enough precision shooter to use a different stock at the bench than when I’m shooting offhand.
the US definition of the ward underpaid is weird to me
https://twitter.com/bornagainrimes/status/1486871231156695045
First world problems created by first world problems…
We need a nuclear war to rest the stupid..
My old company hired a “Chief Diversity Officer” of few years ago. Never saw her in the office even once – right up to the day I was laid off for being a middle-aged white guy.
You shouldn’t have dressed that way, Drake!
My provocative business casual slacks and oxford shirts were triggering. Damn Joseph A. Banks!
$127K/year for bullshit overhead and being an eternal source of headache?
We desperately need an economic reset.
Kudos on finding one hell of a racket outside of government however to this shyster…
Shinedown’s new song: Planet Zero
Misinformation, antivaxxers, etc.
Of course, whether Africa is truly now in a less dangerous position depends on a “key question,” says Emory University biologist Rustom Antia. “How long does the immunity that protects us from getting ill last?” Antia has been studying what would need to happen for the coronavirus to become endemic.
Not so fast, says Western Medicine. You can’t just let this sort of opportunity slip through your fingers.
Censorship will
help us enslave the massesget us through this pandemic..@NeilYoungNYA, thanks for standing up against misinformation and inaccuracies around #COVID19 vaccination.
Public and private sector, in particular #socialmedia platforms, media, individuals – we all have a role to play to end this pandemic and infodemic.
In this tweet is laid out the structure and mechanism of the modern system of governance. One entity, of a worldwide nature, governed by cosmopolitan experts, with consensus manufactured through cultural influence, full of empty slogans for the masses to sling at each other, with no accountability (or at best, false accountability, e.g. Cuomo brothers) for the architects and enforcers.
That is a perfect resume of position for the state of the world at the moment.
I thought it was just some random asshole.
Checked the twitter profile:
Ugh that asshole. The one who’s been sucking up to China since the beginning of this shit.
As far as I recall, the scientific principle made it very clear that there was no such thing as scientific misinformation, scientific consensus, following the science, because in real science the value of the principle is in the rigor required for those that want to take a hypothesis to a theorem.
Shorter version: If I can question it it’s science. If I can’t then it is propaganda.
“The masses cannot reason”
The enemy recognizes that this is a war, they have dictated the battlefields, and they have taken the high ground already.
Oh shush, You!
Nice….
Neil’s earworm on repeat https://youtu.be/sfp8xrNAS6I
Matas Maldeikis MP Flag of Lithuania
@MatasMaldeikis
BREAKING: I demand the immediate withdrawl of Russian troops from the historical sphere of influence of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, including #Belarus and #Ukraine. Russia’s westward expansion since the annexation of Novgorod in 1478 is an outrageous provocation
https://twitter.com/MatasMaldeikis/status/1485569942023983109
I didn’t see that one coming.
Does Lithuania have a big stick to back up that tall order?
I got duped by satire… I think
I mean it was obviously satire
Are you saying a mouse can’t roar?
Good luck. I’m still trying to get back Celtic Europe.
including that small bit of Celtic Anatolia ?
Only Europe. The Greeks can have Anatolia.
Similarly, when the next variant comes along, Mahdi says, it will be important not to immediately panic over the mere rise in infections. This rise will be inevitable, and any policy that’s intended to stop it with economically disruptive restrictions, such as harsh COVID-19 lockdowns, isn’t just unnecessarily damaging — “it’s fanciful thinking.” Instead, officials should keep an eye out for the far more unlikely scenario of a rise in severe illness and death.
How did that get past the NPR censors?
They seem to be retreating in some areas and retrenching their defenses on others, like vaccines.
Hola – sorry for the hassle – reposting from last night just in case:
I will give it a look.
On that — I’ll be submitting a header for an open post tonight, but I can’t get the images where I want them. Could an editor make it so they’re vaguely in chronological order? Thanks.
Good morning, Old Man!
Thanks for pinch hitting.
I love the fact that Palin still drives those idiots into a frenzy. I am a little surprised she’s still around.
The Gen Z article made my teeth hurt. Although if that’s my kids’ competition I’m liking their chances.
“Disinformation” is the new disinformation. Amazing.
So meta.
Just why? I mean unless it is to find, arrest, prosecute, and punish people abusing minors, I think this shit is Orwellian.
Why do I have the sudden urge to order pizza?
What was Q wrong on, again?
Sounds like a treasure trove of evidence for prosecutors. I would expect that under state law, at least, all of that data is required to be reported to CPS and/or DAs and AGs.
Yeah, I am wondering if it is not a treasure trove for deviant pedophiles hiding behind the system of authority…
I can see the sociology majors actually thinking this is a good idea. And the normalization of the behavior is an added bonus, because “we shouldn’t judge homosexuality of any kind.”
Two observations though:
1) Where’s the app for young women sleeping with older men?
2) That data never goes away and when the culture flips, it will be used against that segment of the population. They’re fools to share it.
Sounds like a treasure trove of evidence for prosecutors. I would expect that under state law, at least, all of that data is required to be reported to CPS and/or DAs and AGs.
I don’t recall the exact terminology, but NIH-funded studies are protected from reporting requirements and from disclosure to law enforcement. The protection is automatically granted for federally funded studies. Privately funded studies can also request to fall under the legal shield, and it would be required to receive IRB approval for any study where information about illegal activities are collected.
Sacrifices will be made
“European natural gas supplies are well below their typical norms and inventories, so a key question to ask is if Europe has enough natural gas inventory to survive,” Rob Thummel, senior portfolio manager at energy investment firm TortoiseEcofin, said in a research note.
“Given that there’s a lot of winter left, I think there are scenarios where it could become really challenging, and inventories could go really low. Europe needs Russia from an energy standpoint, and energy is so essential that it’s going to be very difficult to just cut off supplies for both sides,” he added.
Who could have foreseen this?
Grab your popcorn.
Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law professor and legal ally of President Joe Biden’s administration, has stated that vice presidents do not have the authority to make a tie-breaking vote for a Supreme Court nominee’s approval in the Senate.
News of Justice Stephen Breyer’s intent to retire broke Wednesday, though the 87-year-old has not formally announced the move. The news puts Biden in the position of having to pass a nominee through a 50-50 Senate, raising the question of whether Harris can cast a tie-breaking vote. …
Tribe previously weighed in on the issue in September of 2020, when he argued “the vice president doesn’t have the power to break a tie” on an appointment. Tribe made the statement as Republicans were gearing up to approve former President Donald Trump’s final SCOTUS nominee, then-judge Amy Coney Barrett.
“While the vice president has the power to cast a tiebreaking vote to pass a bill, the Constitution does not give him [or her] the power to break ties when it comes to the Senate’s “Advice and Consent” role in approving presidential appointments to the Supreme Court,” he wrote.
Yeah, you really think these fucking criminals care about people pointing out they are hypocrites by dragging out old video of them saying the exact thing they now oppose or the opposite of what they now promote? Shit, these immoral criminals count on their base being mentally challenged supposedly highly educated idiots.
It doesn’t really matter because Republicans are going to vote to confirm. Guaranteed.
Especially if it’s that DC judge they just voted to confirm a few months ago.
I would generally agree with that statement and makes complete sense if you believe in the separation of powers doctrine. Since the country no longer cares, it will be cries of racism if we get to that point that the Repubs are blocking a black female judge by not allowing the first black female VP from breaking the tie. Rules be damned..it must be allowed.
We won’t get to that point. Republicans aren’t going to stall for 3 years.
Well the stalling would only be til mid-terms with the expectation that the R’s don’t screw up and step on their own wrinkly ball sacks. But yes, I agree, there will be maybe a month of stalling and then capitulation.
It wouldn’t be that hard to simply suggest that the nominee be palatable to the senate considering the 50-50 split. But R’s have no balls.
I wonder if this is their Hail Mary pass for the 2022 shellacking they look to be facing. I mean screaming racism!! and accusing the republicans of being anti woman is sure to rile up the demoralized and beaten average donkey douches they were expecting to just sit this election out.
If I were to speculate, absolutely. It is wedge politics in masterful form. Just think, the next justice is going to be nominated solely on race, ethnicity and gender and when confirmed, will hear the Harvard Affirmative Action case.
The republicans should get ahead of this by telling Brandon that if he nominates Janice Rogers Brown they will rubber stamp her nomination. That way they make it blatantly obvious they have no problem with women of color, but with people with the shitty marxist anti-constitutional ideology team blue peddles.
That wouldn’t matter, look at the unhinged reactions to Winsome Sears in VA.
The fact that the left had to call her the black face of white supremacy sure as fuck sobered up a shitton of independents. Team blue morons won’t budge, but they are not the target for this tactic. It is the sane people that need to be shown that the cries of racism/misogyny/evil that team blue wants to be able to call out are all pure bullshit and for show.
He read about his “retirement” in the paper.
The amazing thing about that should be that someone leaked that information on a hedge that it would push what the left have been calling for from day 1 of the Biden admin. He was politically pressured but everyone is AOK with that. We have moved from a hammer to a nail gun and just moving right along that coffin.
How likely is it that we find out at some future time that Breyer had no plans to retire at all, but the desperate democrat crime syndicate decided to do this to him knowing he would either buckle under and do what they wanted or face their wrath?
They also showed him the news article about his unfortunate murder during a botched robbery.
The saddest thing about this story is that they reproduced…
Hey Joe
Like it, but why try to sound like Bob Dylan?
Holy shit, I can’t find a single news outlet talking about the bridge collapse in Pittsburgh that doesn’t lead or very quickly use it to support “Infrastructure Spending” BS. Worse because Biden is supposedly coming to the city today to talk about “infrastructure spending.”
FFS
Reality is what we tell you it is…
Yep was grabbing coffee from the break room and it was local leaders cheering that they have infrastructure spending monies and that this might accelerate it to their area. So compassion for the injured.
I’m sorry, are you talking shit about NASH? The famously silky-smooth nine main bearing overhead valve twin spark eight? *slap* Sir, I demand satisfaction.
CONCACAF update after last night. 28 pts mathematically guarantees top 3 finish. 26 pts for top 4.
The real numbers will come down from that. US is at 18 pts with 5 games to go.
Costa Rica beating Panama helped bring down the top 3 number but kept the top 4 high.
Happy birthday to the USCG – https://youtu.be/VVBld88tmd0
This channel is running in the background for my Friday at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5jGX9A6ErA
Why is Fidel Castro their mascot?
Ha!
By all means, further degrade the military’s training and abilities.
The US Navy is pausing SEAL training at Washington state parks while a legal battle over their use winds its way through the courts.
“It is difficult to find peace in the woods when armed frogmen might be lurking behind every tree,” lawyers for the Whidbey Environmental Action Network, the group behind the lawsuit against the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, argued in a legal brief filed last month.
The Navy has used Washington state coastal parks for over 30 years for SEAL cold water training and other special operations exercises, with leaders saying the area offers the perfect environment to simulate what the elite forces may encounter on difficult operations overseas. …
“I do not care to catch a glimpse of apparently armed men skulking around and I DEFINITELY do not want to risk having my young grandchildren see such a sight,” a resident wrote to state regulators during a public comment period while the state was attempting to renew its agreement with the Navy. …
“In these days of great division in our civil society, we don’t need stealthy men in camo uniforms toting toy guns around our State and County Parks,” another commenter said. “People frequent parks to escape tension, not to encounter more. Keep the Navy commando training out of our parks!”
Those parks belong to the state. If the state consents to this use, I don’t see any basis for a lawsuit.
Oh, and if you glimpse SEALs skulking around, they’re doin’ it wrong.
They run those types of exercises at Langley AFB every year. Base security usually can’t find them.
I actually left a job some 20 years ago when HR pointed out a coworker, a Karen, of course, complained to them she felt unsafe because she thought that I was dangerous and she felt unsafe and they had to find some special accommodation to make it work. I was working as a contractor at the time and had done a lot of work with the company’s aerospace/electrical divisions because of my security clearance, but decided it was time I move on from that shit. That experience convinced me to never share my background with people unless I absolutely had to.
That experience convinced me to never share my background with people unless I absolutely had to.
Yup. If my coworkers don’t describe me as nice and accommodating, but aloof and kind of boring, then I haven’t done my job. Wayyyy too much risk to even think about “bringing my whole self to work”. Already got bit by a feminist once for the crime of her choosing to sit next to me at a company function, so I’m not gonna risk any more exposure than absolutely necessary.
“We need those stealthy men to be hunting down domestic terrorists that disagree with me and throwing them in prison,” the commenter continued.
Pretty sure those aren’t toy guns.
Probably HK416s, so that’s a matter of opinion…
Just tendered a feeler out to the competition. Let the chips fall where they may. I’m so sick of this shit. Light paychecks, no back-up whatsoever. Fuck it. I’m tired of it and to be serious, tired.
Go, Festus!
^^^THIS^^^
Thanks boys! We’ll see what happens.
Good plan. I wish you great success.
Good luck!
Got side-eyed by Judi because Amy is hotter than hades (if you’re an oldster). Nah, I’d like to keep it congenial and professional, thanks. I’m fairly sure that she feels the same. Nine years without movement. Fuck…
Onward and upward!
Good luck!
Good luck! Swing for the fence.
There is also Madeline who has been trying to poach me for many a year.
Glad to hear it, Festus. I know you don’t want to leave your current clients hanging, but that’s ultimately your company’s responsibility, not yours.
As expected, the Virginia State Senate torpedoed all the gun control rollback bills this session. It will be 2023 before anything can possibly happen.
Not surprised at all.
Holy shit! I mean, just holy shit….
That’s got to be satire.
*Double checks*
Apparently, it’s not satire.
They’ve certainly already had 12 years of indoctrination on how to do this. Piece of cake.
One of HM’s colleagues?
Good little Bolsheviks in training.
They want them to have no resistance to the inevitable killing fields.
At some point the NAP will have to be suspended.
LPC Model 16: An AR With a Huge Helium-Neon Laser Built In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-T_2GRB8xo
looks stupid
Amazing how much smaller the technology is now.
And cheap. A couple years ago, I got a Chinese, green laser sight for $25 on Amazon. I wouldn’t want to trust my life to it on a firearm, but it be great for airsoft and it worked perfectly in the role for which it was purchased – Tinkerbell in my daughter’s 4th grade production of Peter Pan.
Looks about 40W to me.
Hey pal, only what you see on the racks, OK?
If Grizzly is around… does “small cat” mean something in Russian?
Bet he wanted to say pussy, but mangled the translation.
He was trying to call him a “little pussy”?
See these are the kind of insights that the Glibhive is best at.
Makes perfect sense.
I like it. It’s classy. Stolen.
Pizda.
not a cat
It doesn’t mean anything in Russian. He didn’t want to get a violation for calling the umpire a pussy.
Scruffy, trshy, et al on the DoD Medical Data – Here’s a link to an Instagram video that includes some very good screencaps and information on the data that Tom Rens has from his whistleblowers and the DMED system. It’s about 6.5 minutes long. The piece of info I hadn’t seen before was that Lloyd Austin has 30K shares of Tenet Healthcare that he swore under oath to divest himself of within 120 days of his confirmation. As you might guess, Tenet Healthcare got a contract in this and no, Austin hasn’t gotten rid of his 30k shares. (That’s at the 5:30 mark or so).
Thanks. Here’s my own video submission of a children’s hospital nurse from a cardiology unit.
https://rumble.com/vtge32-tawny-buettner-rn-observed-a-10x-increase-in-the-rate-of-myocarditis-after-.html
Huh. A stripper that really WAS paying her way through nursing school.
https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1486891787872575488
Lex is right.
I doubt it
Goes for phone calls as well.
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.
@hubermanlab
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@lexfridman
And 99% of emails could be replaced with doing some actual work.
Bingo. I have 2543 unread emails. If its important, give me a call and I will handle it. I don’t have time to stop and read your email, I am doing work.
But CAT VIDEOS!
Most people don’t answer their phones. Usually have to leave message. Emails let me have a record of politely telling someone they need to do some work.
And I get that and I have to do that to establish a record on certain things. However, at work, I answer both my desk and cell. Home phone is a different story.
What the hell is a phone call?
Seriously though, IM if I can complete it in 5 minutes or less, meeting if you need my input before setting the requirements for your request, email if you’re giving me work to do. Without a record of what I need to complete and when, it’s not getting done. My docket is a mile long and I can’t spend 10 minutes hashing things out on the phone for every request that comes across my desk.
Conversely: stop fucking interrupting me with your IMs, I’m trying to work.
Send me an e-mail – I get to choose when I read those (and I will, eventually). Async > synchronous, unless something is on fire (in which case, feel free to IM or call me).
95% of the IMs I get are things that are not in any way time sensitive.
De gustibus.
And that is all in knowing your workforce. Some employees I can text only, some IM, some has to be a phone call. All depends and I work with them to get them the best results.
An app that allows CNN employees to masturbate at work?
Ha! I’d give you a high five, but if I raise my hand, my coworkers will know I’m Toobining.
Putting on tin foil poopy suit before I head in to the office and can’t follow up for 12 hours….
Was thinking about this a little the last couple of days – as far as the ridiculous draconian nature of the Olympic village this year – monitoring, isolation, etc – and the complete lack of foreign visitors permitted for watching the games…it would be pretty easy to just lock down that whole group…and then you’ve got a few thousand “valuable” hostages from essentially most of the world…..not a bad scenario if you wanted to go ahead and make a move on a country that is already increasingly isolated from the rest of the world diplomatically (if not economically) with comparatively little blowback actually possible given the scale and numbers of folks involved.
How crazy is this compared to releasing a fucking virus to kill your boomers after your one child policy caused an imbalance that left you with something close to 50 million men that can’t find a wife in your country and a fast aging population that would collapse your socialist healthcare system?
Or the fact that both of our countries are on an obesity/diabetes collision course with reality.
I can shame you for not wanting a vaccine or wearing a mask, but you better not fucking fat shame people you cad!
Also: So you hold these people hostage while the Russians cause trouble in Ukraine, and you invade Taiwan? You know the morons will end up paralyzed and unable to move until it is too late.
How would they hold the hostages? “COVID Outbreak” and forced quarantine?
That’s a good excuse, but they don’t even need that – they have them all in a confined location, they can’t travel freely – all registered (probably tracking devices). It’s not as though they don’t have the manpower to sit on them. (just watch more adv china vids for how dystopian things have gotten the last 10 years in terms of foreigners)
Probably. The NHL noped out when the players were told they could be held for 5 weeks in China if they tested positive while there.
Eh….didn’t work out for the Pali’s reputation very well.
/Munich
You wouldn’t know that from Europe and the academic establishment the last 40 years.
And again…they’re not killing them….they’re holding them for their safety while they carry out operations necessary to reunify a wayward province and avoid external distractions…..shame if something did happen from an escaped uighur terrorist that we warned you about…
You could knock me over with a feather!
“It’s definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women,” she told DailyMail.com. Apparently, Lia has explicitly told teammates that she still dates women.
The change indicates, to me at least, that there was some ulterior motive to the gender bending while still wanting chix…
We got the first tranny in our division 16 years ago. The women in the area were pissed about xer using their bathroom. A woman that worked with him in Atlanta before he transferred to different city told me real reason he had his junk cut off. He was 5’5″ and 5.5 (cm). Xer was looking for femmes.
My first encounter was in 1994.
Dude had boobs but hadn’t gone all the way yet. He was saving up for it.
The other employees would goad him into going to take a leak next to the new hires for laughs. They were disappointed when I didn’t react at all.
*Leans over*
“Hey girl, nice clit.”
The new Mad Dogs and Englishmen is a good listen but it’s just insane to hear Williamson so vehemently defending vaccine mandates. It’s like a twilight zone episode. Charlie Cooke definitely does a good job opposing them, but for whatever reason there’s been virtually no references to the health issues from anyone at NRO – and that’s pretty frustrating on the whole.
I drank 16 5.5 abv beers overnight. I am 57 years old, I am a Golden God!