Nothing happening here.
Nothing really going on in sports. And certainly no grand slam tennis. Oh, Chelsea dropped more points. That’s about it. Now on to…the links!
Just in time with the current admin imploding. This has always been a fishing expedition, as they have never demonstrated a specific crime they were investigating. It’s a sham and an affront to our entire legal system, and I hope nobody participates.
“Of course we know him”
-the Brits
Well of course they did. They know all of them over there. They just don’t ever do anything with the information until it’s too late.
This would be great. Unfortunately, I don’t see how it jives with Warren v D.C. And I can assure you the unions aren’t gonna stand for it either. But I can always hope I’m wrong here.
I’m sure he’ll land on his feet. And I’m willing to bet it’s at CNN or MSNBC.
Well it’s about time. Lol, just kidding. This is a useless gesture that will mean a small part of the population will be masked up for…a couple days. And it’ll be done on your dime, taxpayers.
Silence is golden, Joss.
Dude…..stop. Just stop. Don’t take any more interviews. Don’t make any statements like this. Just stop.
Have fun with this, Houston parents. Or should I say “suckers”? Out on the lake, life is still normal. And has been the whole time. Y’all are being taken for a ride.
Here’s a lovely song for you. I hope you enjoy it.
And enjoy another cold day, dear friends!
“Well of course they did. They know all of them over there. They just don’t ever do anything with the information until it’s too late.”
The moment that the FBI didn’t come out bragging about how they did the rescue I suspected that we were not getting the whole story. And I am not disappointed finding out that the FBI was totally useless and even lied after the fact about not knowing the motive of this evil asshat.
Did they originally claim they shot the guy during a hostage rescue or was that a game of telephone?
They claimed they didn’t understand the motives of the hostage taker even though it was blatantly obvious he was an Islamic terrorist demanding the release of another Islamic terrorist, AND that they ended the standoff with the individual dying, but never shared details of how the individual didn’t survive the attempt (and that immediately put my hackles up considering how much they like to brag about killing people).
I am sure they shot the asshat, but they did that AFTER the hostages freed themselves, likely so this guy wouldn’t be allowed to talk and embarrass them even more.
Nothing really going on in sports. – in fact the timberwolves defeated the knicks
The only sport worth watching is sport fucking…
Actually that is one sport I would rather play than watch
You need to do both at the same time… It’s a lot of fun…
The only think I know about the NBA right now is that I’ll be avoiding downtown Cleveland the third weekend of February.
Well of course they did. They know all of them over there. They just don’t ever do anything with the information until it’s too late. – see and this guy just waltzed into the US and I need a visa. Is that fair?
Plan to come here and hold congress people hostage and tell that to your local authorities. I bet they fly you over on a private luxury jet.
Of course. Private jets are specifically exempt from carbon taxes!
They’re not sending their best.
Some of them are rapists and murderers.
Trump was correct…again.
Steve Inskeep on NPR pretending (badly) that he loves and respects Merle Haggard was amusing.
Why do you listen to NPR?
If you pay for it you should listen to it. In fact everyone should have a radio on NPR in their house which they cannot turn off
That’s probably the most evil thing ever said on this site.
For great and informative hit pieces like this…
I am being sarcastic about NPR basically just being a mouthpiece of the totalitarian marxist-fascist crime syndicate, while pretending to do news, just in case anyone misses that.
Write a whole article about inflation, mention the Fed once and only in the context that Biden cannot fight inflation, only the totally independent Fed can.
Though, to be fair, I do think Biden gets too much blame for inflation. Gas prices are his to own due to his policies, but I really don’t want the Fed getting off the hook, nor either Obama or Trump for adding to the national debt so much that it’s practically impossible to raise rates without crashing everything.
Gas prices lead to higher shipping prices for producers, which leads to higher prices for products.
Bullshit. He signed off on an unneeded stimulus and keeps pushing for trillions more. Throw in the pipeline rules and the supposedly independent fed not raising rates. Yes, Trump and Obama (and Bush and Clinton and Bush….and Hoover) laid the groundwork for this shitshow but all Biden did was throw gas on the fire.
This increasing inflation in the USA is the fault of Democrats in Congress and el Commandente Biden. its mostly because of COVID lockdowns and regulations that fucked up the supply chain in the USA. The Commies in other nations also take the blame for wrecking the supply chain that services the World.
Most people are morons. If I listened to radio with a political slant I agreed with, they’d most likely also be morons. By having the morons be my out-group it makes me feel better about myself.
Yup. The hive-mind can be an insidious thing. That’s why I listen to the CBC on my commute, sometimes.
Morning, Glibs.
sup’ cuh
“Just in time with the current admin imploding. This has always been a fishing expedition, as they have never demonstrated a specific crime they were investigating. It’s a sham and an affront to our entire legal system, and I hope nobody participates.”
After 4 years of the enemies of the American people making up story after story to tarnish the bad orange guy and be able to get rid him through lawfare or numerous soft coups – the lousy attempt to run a soft coup be it through the Russia collusion hoax or the lies that led to impeachment attempts, not once but twice leading the pack – and them basically investigating everything about him to dig up dirt to tarnish him with, it is obvious at this time that their only recourse is to make up a crime to hang around his neck. Queue the Jan 6 bullshit. This AG shit is just plan Z for when that Jan 6 bullshit charge too finally unravels because they do not want the people picking an unapproved person to be in charge of the curruptocracy/kakistocracy.
Too bad my wallet is participating.
Dude…..stop. Just stop. Don’t take any more interviews. Don’t make any statements like this. Just stop
“In Gadot’s case, he suggested the Israeli actor had misunderstood him because “English is not her first language.””
If old Gal was browner this would be considered racist. Also she seems to speak english pretty damn well.
I will have you know that despite English not being my first language, I am aware of all the sexual innuendoes you people send my way
U W0t M8?
are you wearing your internet slang gloves this morning?
Show us your tiddies!!! ???
I bet the old “rusty trombone” would be lost on you without a quick internet search.
What does a “Dirty Sanchez” translate to?
“Have fun with this, Houston parents. Or should I say “suckers”? Out on the lake, life is still normal. And has been the whole time. Y’all are being taken for a ride.”
1. Check your lake privilege
2. My friend in ducthland was more pro vax than me and is getting less and less, especially since his kid is home from daycare because all the personal have the bug despite being triple vaxxed the lot of em.
I suspect that the people that will become the hardest anti vaxxers will be the ones that started being hard core pro anti vaxxing until reality made it impossible for them to deny that they had been played by the machine that peddled vaxation as the magic solution to the destruction created by the totalitarian machine. Especially when people that took a hit in the pocketbook read shit like this…
“What do you expect? All we got on this team…
Is a bunch of jews, spics, niggers, pansies,
and a booger-eating moron.”
Essentially Congress ?
saying moron is not longer acceptable dude
I think it was HM that posted “retard is no longer an acceptable term. Now its “mentally gay””.
How does ass eating factor into that new term?
For some reason that counted as a kids movie when I was a kid.
I remember hurting my 11 year old self laughing so hard at that movie.
“A stretcher for balls?”
Honest? Honest as the day is long!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., doesn’t personally trade stocks — her husband does and the transactions are reported regularly.
G’wan, g’wan, get away from here. There’s nothing to see.
That reminds me of G. Gordon Liddy talking about firearms. “As a felon, its illegal for me to own one. My wife however, has quite a few.”
/paraphrased
If Liddy was honest about even half of what he wrote in “Will” he was a nut job.
Embrace the power of “AND”?
Akshually, I remember hearing that bit on his radio show ages ago.
His radio show was pretty good…
Less bloviating than Rush at the time.
Well clearly the thing to do is to have a single bureaucracy responsible for all Congress member portfolios while they are in office. You know, a bureaucracy that gets the same pay whether they do a good job or a lousy one. I think that could teach Congress-critters a wonderful lesson.
I’d back this proposal if the returns to Congress were limited to 8% annually with any surplus deposited directly to the Treasury, earmarked specifically for any new funding they have passed in the prior year. Losses to be uncompensated.
I will have you know that despite English not being my first language, I am aware of all the sexual innuendoes you people send my way
Whatever you say, Agent Tulpa.
New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office says it needs the testimony of former President Donald Trump and two of his adult children to determine their knowledge of what investigators say they have identified as numerous “misleading statements and omissions” in tax submissions and financial statements used to obtain loans.
*yawn*
Dude’s been under investigation for tax bs forever. This is, indeed, convenient timing for such accusations as the midterms approach and Trump is still the influence in the Republican Party.
The funny thing is that they keep looking at this dudes taxes while I keep seeing story after story about some big wig democrat that believes people should be taxed even harder having some tax problem. Yet none of these democrats in position of power that have issues with the IRS ever is told they now need to get out of politics.
Billionaires like Trump have teams of IRS auditors assigned to them who go over their tax filings in great detail every year. If there was anything questionable it would have been found long ago.
Not necessarily. First, people with huge tax liabilities have the best tax analysts and lawyers on their side (often ex-IRS people who realized the big bucks were on the other side). The IRS can fight with those folks for years, and possibly lose; so if you want to collect more taxes from under-payers – you look for those who can’t afford to fight you.
aka “You Cant Fight City Hall”
This. And the idea that he does his own taxes, as opposed to having a team of accountants do it is ludicrous. Also, I would be willing to bet half of those accountants are ex-IRS agents who took the better pay.
Once again, a YUUGE nothing-burger with diet coke.
You miss the playbook.
“We have identified numerous misstatements and misrepresentations”…. “We require testimony”
So they are going to go with the tried and true “lying to investigators” gambit
She ran on a platform of “getting Trump”. Not justice. Not prosecuting crime. Getting him.
I would not allow anyone to talk to them about anything, ever. They are going to lie about what is said and prosecute, no matter what. They will claim a hotel that the company said was worth $500 million was only worth $389 million, therefore perjury. Something like that.
New York DA 101. They love loan documents.
Trump is going to be indicted … no matter what. They will find somebody in his organization, even an 18 year old kid, who disagreed with something Trump did and indict him.
There’s more evidence he fucks children than there is for tax evasion based on his relationship with Epstein, but nobody in the establishment wants to touch that story.
According to lawyers, he was the only big name willing to even speak to them about Epstein. I think that says his hands are clean on that one.
The npr always breathlessly repeats any update to the Trump investigation. They found that Trump’s golf club counted non-dues paying members towards it’s valuation and added value to properties for carrying the Trump brand. The horror, the absolute horror.
What a joke.
Colorado Republican Ken Buck told NPR, “I think it’s a good idea” to ban members from trading stocks. He doesn’t think members are abusing the system or acting inappropriately, but said it’s an appearance problem.
“I don’t know of anybody that has profited. But I do know that members of the public are questioning whether we get insider information,” Buck said.
“There ain’t nobody here but us chickens.”
Congresscritters always beat the market because they’re simply smarter than the tax cattle they’re ruling. That smarterness is why they get elected in the first place. Q.E.D. In hoc signo vincamus. Shanti shanti shanti.
Could NEVAH be the fact that they know some law they passed will impact some industry in a way that will either tank or send the company’s stock soaring? And I remember that one of the favorite tactics of members of the Obama admin and the times they held both houses of congress, which they used to pass a bill they told us we could read after it was the law that would let us keep our doctors and fix healthcare, was to first drive some company’s stock or value into the ground through lawfare, gobble the stock or the company itself all up at pennies on the dollar, then reverse course, hand a bunch of government contracts to the flailing entity, and thus suddenly drive up the value ten to a hundred fold, making the people owning the stock or the company instantly super rich..
But people that profited from this or turned a blind eye to the corruption of the Obama years want you to believe Trump was a corrupt guy for avoiding abusive and shitty taxes…
It’s been common knowledge forever that lobbyists and industry reps pass hot tips to Congressholes. Doesn’t take a pending law or reg, which are too public anyway to really frontrun the market.
Scandal. Free. Administration.
Nobody profited, but Harry Reid was effectively a lifelong critter and had a net worth of $85 million.
The lack of response that day by the former officers, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane — whose federal trial begins this week on charges that they violated Floyd’s civil rights — has led multiple states to codify through legislation or policy that officers have a duty to step in if they witness a colleague using excessive or unauthorized force.
I don’t see how they were supposed to respond since Chauvin didn’t kill Floyd and didn’t appear to use excessive force. Pick a real example that doesn’t simply comport to a false narrative.
I wonder if anyone will discover whether Ashli Babbitt has any “civil rights”.
She had white privilege. You know, the same white privilege that keeps all white folk safe during law enforcement interactions.
Yeah, because if a white cop had shot an unarmed black woman at a BLM protest, nothing would have happened, because White Privilege.
She waived her rights when she insurrected.
The booger-eatin’ thing – that’s one that’s obviously pretty common, but I’ve just never, ever gotten it.
How on earth does somebody (as a child presumably) decide to do that the first time? And then a second? Seems clearly nasty to me, especially for an adult.
The proper procedure is clearly to inspect them and then wipe them under the edge of whatever piece of furniture you’re nearest.
According to my pediatrician, boogers are entirely edible and harmless.
Considering the amount of mucus that gets swallowed, how could they not be?
Why do you still have a pediatrician ? Shouldnt you be seeing a grownup doc ?
He needs to find dates?
One of biology’s many little burdens.
This. Built in genetic behavior.
Also, builds your peripheral immune defenses. By bringing pathogens to the stomach, IgJ immunoglobin is produced, which can block infection at the boundary layer.
Good to know! (srsly)
Bodies are a pain to maintain. Can’t remember the relevant early Seinfeld bit.
Nature’s salty snack.
Probably cleaner than that bowl of peanuts at your local bar.
*digs for gold*
The train in Spain stays mainly fucking expensive
the standard price from Madrid to Seville seem 75 fucking euros. And no, a blow job from a Romanian lady of negotiable affection is not included apparently
Passenger trains in the US (outside the megalopolis) are more expensive than flying and slower than driving.
Amtrak is the prefect exemplar of a Government run business.
but if you spend a few trillion of high speed rail they will be slightly faster maybe probably
Unfortunately, you can’t duplicate Cali’s super-efficient Bakersfield – Fresno route in the northeast, because there are little towns every five miles that can’t be left behind in the High-Speed Infrastructure 2.0 revolution.
well if you have flyover states why can’t you have move fast past towns?
The actual speed capabilities of the train have little to do with how slow Scamtrak runs. They are frequently on borrowed lines and have to give right of way to the owner of the track, which leaves them waiting, a lot.
Did anyone here hear that CNN has floated the idea that the way they correct for being a bunch of lying evil shills for the corruptocracy costing them viewership was to have their own fact checking agency? Cause idiots will believe a lie if that lie is fact checked by people they know are lying, must be the logic there. Sounds, going to language Tres points out HM showered us with, “mentally gay” to me.
Just because an idea is r-coded as all get out doesn’t mean it won’t work. Personally I think the idea of “fact checking” is so horribly stained I cannot believe a word that comes from any self-appointed “fact-checker”.
Facebook flat out admitted in court that their “fact checks” are actually just opinions.
So it’s propaganda, but they want to use their propaganda to censor when it helps the evil totalitarian fuckers they have chosen to be in bed with, but not in a court of law where this stance will cost them money for being lying evil fucks…
It wasn’t HM, it was Crust Juggler, afaik.
Ah OK. So there is no connection to ass eating then….
Bummer.
^^^ seen.
Did you guys see the one circulating yesterday? CNN Chiron:
Investigation: shooter was factually Arab, but morally white.
Link?!
A buddy sent me the pic. I shall search
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:10011312660
Apparently it was a joke that got widely circulated on Facebook as being true.
When you get so far off the rails that you are indistinguishable from parody…
Biden to give away 400 million N95 masks starting next week
Which, like the convid tests, were probably made in China.
The box of surgical masks I have from China says “does not protect against vinuses.”
No, that is not my typo.
Interestingly they do not protect against viruses either. I believe all the masks of all types say that. I wonder why the legal disclaimer…
Because the only thing they effectively protect against is bacterial infections, if you change them with regularity.
The ones my wife bought advised her to put it on her “mouse”.
That’s a euphemism, and those were panties.
And like the covid itself…
A little OT but I’ve been up for hours and just realized something. It wasn’t even the “woke” that turned me Libertarian, (whatever the hell you want to classify that as) it was a simple wish to be left the fuck alone, mind my own business and think my own thoughts. Fuck those leftoids. I didn’t move away from them, they left me!
Nearly every waking conscious thought that I have is centered on how I can get through the day with the least hassle and disagreement.
Same here man…
Independent thought alarm!
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“Biden to give away 400 million N95 masks starting next week”
I can see a little stand in front of the White House, Dr Jill haranguing tourists to get their free masks before they are all gone. 400M, wow! That’s more than 1 per person! Some lucky folks are gonna get 2, not fair!
I’d pay good lucre to watch Lady Hayek fire all those masks up Joe’s bunghole with a rail gun.
Can we really lean in to the European stereotype? Maybe design it in Italy? First to be deployed in the CH.
https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a37530375/microlino-ev-reveal/
Those aren’t green.
False Advertizing!
They have one in that green variant of pink that used to get used for the insides of hospitals and mental institutions.
voici
Who wants an institutional green car? Fire everyone involved with this project.
If some idiot told you they wanted to make tea bagging fun again, would you tell em to go fuck himself, or think that was just the right thing to do?
What does she look like, and does she have symptoms of oral herpes?
I’ll see your Isetta and raise you one of these
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=messerschmit+automobile&atb=v198-1&ia=web
I thought they were cute but I never tried to get into one
Ahead of the curve
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=SEAT+600%2C+spanish+car&atb=v198-1&ia=web
Ditto, but never had the opportunity. Funny Face!
Messerschmidt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snILjFUkk_A
https://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=BMW&model=Isetta+300&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=on
If I only did in town driving I would roll that. I always wanted an Isetta ’cause I love stupid cars sometimes.
Sure…
Ray Epps, the Arizona Oath Keeper at the center of multiple theories related to Jan. 6., intends to sit for a transcribed interview Friday with the J6 committee, his attorney said in a phone interview. …
Epps, who has become the centerpiece of a GOP claim that the FBI incited the mob at the Capitol last year, met with the Jan. 6 committee in November and told them he had no relationship to the FBI or any other federal law enforcement agency. But the meeting was just a precursor to a more-formal transcribed interview this week, said Epps’ lawyer John Blischak.
Blischak told POLITICO that the reason Epps was removed was, in part, because he was no longer an unidentified suspect. Rather, he called the FBI on Jan. 8 and “explained his position” after a relative informed him that he had been the subject of news reporting related to the riot, Blischak said.
Some people did some things.
But Epps wasn’t one of those people, even though he was there that day, and Stewart Rhodes who was NOT there, is one of them. Yeah, that all makes perfect sense.
So everyone else, including a grandma that was just walking around lost, that they identified ended up with charges or sent to an internment jail cell, but this guy Epps, the ONLY guy that clearly is inciting something bad, they decide to drop off the list? Yeah, sure. I would like a giant shit sammich cause you have convinced me it HAS to be delicious with all that unprocessed corn in it.
I’ll remember to call the FBI and “explain my position” the next time I’m suspected of seditious activities.
From the completely shocking local news department:
Cleveland home rental cost increases as incomes drop 10%, report shows
So… if you prevent evictions for over a year, the property owners may increase the cost of rent to cover those loses? I wonder how much of that income loss was from rental properties to begin with…
BEING A LANDLORD IS NOT A LEGIT BUSINESS!
Ain’t it funny that the mooches that want to classify all the shit they want others to give them, for free, claiming this stuff is their right, or that they just want their “fair share”, always feel that they taking on a financial obligation in some contract with someone else that has what they want, is oppressive?
I want free shit and I want YOU to work and pay for it…
/assholes
I want free shit and I want YOU to work and pay for it…
Marxism in a nutshell.
Biden to give away 400 million N95 masks starting next week
You get what you pay for.
Laced with small pox
Ooooh! I should put one in the desorber and see what comes off of it. I’ll betcha I can find carcinogens! Or at the very least mass spectra with a >50% match to a known carcinogen.
You could make that go
[dons sunglasses]
viral.
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
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YEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
DO IT. DO IT NAAHW.
goddammit
*EDIT FAIRY BLESSES YOU*
THANKS, EDIT FAIRY!
‘If Donald Trump is giving away masks, I won’t wear one.’
-former VP candidate Harris in the alternate universe where Trump
wonstayed in officeUnless there is a ‘D’ next to your name and you still have favor with the party.
We are taking legal action to force Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump to comply with our investigation into the Trump Organization’s financial dealings.
No one in this country can pick and choose if and how the law applies to them.
We have uncovered significant evidence indicating that the Trump Organization used fraudulent and misleading asset valuations on multiple properties to obtain economic benefits, including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions for years.
Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump have all been closely involved in the transactions in question, so we won’t tolerate their attempts to evade testifying in this investigation.
We will not be deterred in our efforts to continue this investigation, uncover the facts, and pursue justice, no matter how many roadblocks Mr. Trump and his family throw in our way.
No one is above the law.
The walls are closing in!
The foundation is crumbling! The tide is rising! Our long national nightmare will soon be over! Yeah, yeah. Spank it out in another direction, Sparky!
Insert Rand Paul “Its Happening!!!” GIF
Ron, not Rand.
Rand got his ass kicked mowing the lawn.
And all the (D)s cheered.
The good news with batteries of this size is that charging time should not be an issue either—the company says that the Microlino can be recharged with a wall outlet in just four hours.
Sweet. I’ll take two.
You will need a really, really long extension cord to get that thing to go more than a mile or so, though…
Seems legit…
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) disclosed to a congressional office that illegal migrants flying without proper identification can use an arrest warrant as an alternate form of identification when presenting to airport security, according to a letter the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively obtained.
Responding to Republican Texas Rep. Lance Gooden’s Dec. 15 inquiry about illegal migrants flying across the country, TSA Administrator David Pekoske explained that certain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents may be considered acceptable forms of alternate identification for non-citizens, including a “Warrant for Arrest of Alien” and a “Warrant of Removal/Deportation.”
OFFS.
See ya soon!
You try that next time you are wondering through security.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10417551/Demi-Rose-shows-curves-plunging-swimsuit.html
Potato, I am gonna work on getting you a date with this chick so you can get whatever it is out of your system, man.
There is a video of her riding a bike but they left out any part of it where she actually pedals, because it is probably hilarious.
Weebils wobble but they don’t fall down.
Nope. ‘Todo está bien en Demi Land,’
Well, he’s not wrong.
I certainly regret not sleeping with lots of hot young women, though I never had the chance to
I regret not sleeping with enough of them. Life is wasted on the young.
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“German Chancellor appeases Putin and obstructs Western efforts to defend Ukraine as he refuses to send weapons to Kiev’s forces and takes soft stance towards Russia”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10415275/Ukraine-Russia-tensions-German-Chancellor-Olaf-Scholz-accused-weakening-Europe.html
Worst Chancellor ever!
You know what other German Chancellor obstructed Western efforts to defend a European country?
Bismark was a herring !
I thought it was a donut.
Bismarck?
Bismarck?
Damn it!
Good.
Make it difficult for Biden to salvage his approval rating by starting a war with Russia.
If things were really bad enough for him to think that *that* idiotic move would improve his situation, how bad would things be? Pretty damn bad. Given the state of things, that’s a risky gamble.
There are plenty of warmongers in DC who would push war in the Ukraine as a net positive for Biden domestically.
And god knows how many agencies are doing things behind the scenes to foment problems in the region.
I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m saying it’s more likely to be a disaster than otherwise.
It’s pretty amazing to me how the US ended up taking over Britain’s place as Russia’s adversary in that region–this stems to far back before World War I, probably back to pre-Napoleonic times.
It would absolutely be a disaster.
But that’s never stopped us before.
Yeah, but do the Russian troops understand all of the nonsensical pronouns and are they up to date on their diversity and inclusion training?
Hey, that’s a dick-shaped hole in that hornet’s nest over there, someone’s gotta fill it.
https://pasteboard.co/GkXgEKOkhLPJ.png
DB, if you are interested in that sort of thing, there is a great book by Peter Hopkirk called The Great Game that is worth your time. Goes back to the early 18th century in the spy war between those two countries and is very fascinating.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+great+game+peter+hopkirk&sprefix=the+great+game%2Caps%2C263&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_4_14
Thanks, I’ll check it out. I just finished reading (a few weeks ago) A Peace to End All Peace, recommended by KK, and you can see how the Great Game has been extended to the US through European entaglements and the intentional efforts by Europeans to get the US working in that area since the time of WWI.
Imagine if the US had stuck to the Western Hemisphere and been a positive force throughout North and South America for the last hundred-plus years, rather than getting entangled in the Old World and being diminished and diluted.
You would deny the Wilsonians their right and duty to remake the world in America’s image?
“Federal government will allow TEENAGERS to drive big rigs from state to state in apprenticeship test program in an effort to ease supply chain backlog”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10416127/Feds-allow-TEENAGERS-drive-big-rigs-state-state-apprenticeship-test-program.html
Why is there a shortage of truckers?
Why is there a shortage of truckers?
I’m sure it must be Trump’s fault, because reasons.
Wait until one of these extra-vaxxed teens has a heart attack and crashes that truck killing a bunch of people on the road for them to tell you one heck of a fable blaming the truckers that refused to take the vax for the accident…
greedy corporations do not pay enough
Corporations never pay: the people that buy products/services from the corporation, and the corporation’s employees, do the paying. But idiots never seem to understand this basic fact. then again, maybe they do, but they want free shit and to make other people pay for that free shit, so they don’t give a fuck if this sort of stupid economic practice hurts more than it helps.
Teenagers…he is lowering thr age from 21 to 18. So fucking dramatic all the time. Good move in my book
That Thompson Twin video suffers from mid-eightyitis. Which one is the cute girl? j/k Sloop.
Meanwhile in the Democratic People’s Republic of Aussieland: Booster mandates incoming…anyone surprised?
“We did it for the best of reasons last year.” And which reason was that?
If she’s a middle of the road moderate, I’m Ray Nitschke’s leather football helmet
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, with less than six months on the job, turned Tuesday into a tour de force of her political and government prowess.
In one day, the moderate Democrat reported shattering campaign fundraising records, saw one of her biggest potential primary opponents bow out and released a state budget packed with goodies for residents and special interest groups.
And a statewide poll shows her crushing her foes.
All of it comes just months after she succeeded Andrew Cuomo, who resigned amid a sexual harassment scandal after nearly three terms in office, and suggests Hochul is quickly replacing the former governor as the most powerful person in New York politics.
If she wins, Hochul would be the first woman elected governor in New York history.
“She’s a tough chick from Buffalo,” said state Sen. Diane Savino (D-Staten Island), who endorsed her last year. “I always said — from day one, when people assumed she would just be there temporarily and as a placeholder for [Attorney General] Tish James or someone else — I said, ‘don’t underestimate her.‘”
Hochul’s rise in New York, a hotbed of progressivism, offers a new test of the idea that moderates are the future of the Democratic Party — not the left.
Hochul’s early victories come as she’s running as a middle-of-the-road Democrat from upstate New York, which hasn’t had an elected governor from the region since the 1920s, and after the pro-business former cop Eric Adams ran and won the mayorship as a moderate in heavily blue New York City last year.
Of all the reasons to hate Cuomo, Governess Hokum is at the top of the list.
*hat tip to Rhywun, I think
This is being reported as a good thing. And far too many New Yorkers agree that it is.
Hence the productive class fleeing NY in record numbers.
I didn’t say that but it’s twue.
Have a look at some of the stuff she’s spraying money at.
She isn’t a “radical” so much as a “swamp creature”.
*cue some nerd driving by to point out that I did, in fact, say that*
I lack the neck-beard.
You are just intimidated by strong women. Also why not spend money, that is the governments job. It will all come from the uber wealthy anyways
as she’s running as a middle-of-the-road Democrat
Extreme left Dem = “moderate”
Center-right Rep.=”far-right extremist”
Well, you have to understand, that is how it looks from NPR/Politico’s front porch. In Georgetown.
So I posted a few days ago the danish study showing the booster protects from transmission… studies aside I keep looking at the aggregate data. Denmark still is having record cases. The over 14 population is 90% vaxxed and 70% boosted – and many have 2 weeks from the booster so it is not that. If these numbers of vax/boosted do not stop transmission… I doubt you get record cases from the 30% unboosted. I really have no idea what to think
I think you should stop wasting your time looking at data.
^^^THIS^^^
There are no studies you can trust 100% and most of the data today is unreliable or tainted. It will be at least a decade, and maybe two to avoid the politicizing of the information, before you can look at any of that stuff and make accurate predictions.
Soooo many variables.
“I am not going to be running for Governor of New York State, but I am going to devote every fiber of my being to fighting inequality in the state of New York,” de Blasio wrote on Twitter.
Non-profit parasitism, FTW! The pay is great, and you can sleep in.
And he has eight years of experience at that. A perfect fit.
I’m sure the J6 committee will be all over this.
Frame-by-frame video evidence analyzed by The Epoch Times paints a vastly different picture of Babbitt’s actions than that portrayed in media accounts over the past year. News media regularly painted Babbitt as “violent,” a “rioter,” or an “insurrectionist” who was angrily trying to breach the Speaker’s Lobby.
Video clips appear to show she tried to prevent the attack, not join it.
Video shot by John Sullivan, also known as Jayden X, shows that Babbitt tried to stop the violence against the Speaker’s Lobby at least four times before she climbed into a broken window and was shot by U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. At one point, she was so distressed at the violence, she was jumping up and down in frustration.
“The reality of it is, Ashli wasn’t a violent person. She was a good person, but they’ve demonized her to become this domestic terrorist that she never has been,” Tayler Hansen, an independent journalist who was feet away from Babbitt when she was shot, told The Epoch Times.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Umm, Michael Byrd is a hero! Almost as much a George Floyd or Rosenbaum! Why do you deny SCIENCE! you racist?
Remember that these people had no problem throwing someone like Carter Page, a Naval academy grad that worked for the CIA against the Russians, under the bus and manufactured a lie where he became a Russian agent just because they needed to create these false connections to criminally spy on the Trump campaign and then try to run a soft coup. You think they wouldn’t kill as many people as they needed to, then lie about why or how, to take advantage of gullible idiots?
The best mask “is the one that you will wear and the one you can keep on all day long, that you can tolerate in public indoor settings,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said last week.
That’s not an N95, but sounds sciency nonetheless.
So it looks like Omicron wave has turned the corner, nationally and in most states. Only a few days ago, but the fall off in new cases has been dramatic. Or people have just stopped getting tested. I am sure it will bounce around for a week before falling off permanently.
Deaths never even noticed the Omicron wave. CFR is down to .212%, although that might tick up a bit as the cases fall. Hopefully deaths fall with it. But at this point, death-wise, it is a weak flu that everyone gets.
here wave 5 is just a starting.
We’re still in “condition red” throughout Indiana. I think we were still dealing with the Delta wave over the holidays. But cases are way up, and deaths have peaked and are trending down.
I think you are right. It looks like the Omicron peak was yesterday, although too soon to tell, and deaths are higher than nationally but falling, with a current CFR of over .4%, so about twice the national average. More delta or just random variation?
Yeah, well, we are on double-secret probation here in Oregon.
Ooooh! I should put one in the desorber and see what comes off of it. I’ll betcha I can find carcinogens! Or at the very least mass spectra with a >50% match to a known carcinogen.
Fecal matter, from the dirt floor in the “factory”.
So it looks like Omicron wave has turned the corner, nationally and in most states. Only a few days ago, but the fall off in new cases has been dramatic.
The masks wuz what dunnit. The masks saved us.
LIAR!
IT WAS BRANDON WHO DONE IT!
LETS GO BRANDON!!!
N95 masks can be made of recycled cardboard, right?
they made Trabant out of cardboard so why not masks?
Great photo, but don’t take it as an invitation to handle a mantis shrimp. Never handle a live mantis shrimp!
https://twitter.com/wizentrop/status/1483478486945832967
That’s a big mantis shrimp.
The best mask “is the one that you will wear and the one you can keep on all day long, that you can tolerate in public indoor settings,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said last week.
She forgot “looks good on you” and “makes the proper political statement”.
Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.md/8VuJZ
Related:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8206253/girl-sex-colostomy-bag-australia-porn-scenes/
I loved Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, but Fuck Joss Whedon. What a tool.
I’m not going to condemn him for sampling the talent if they were willing, and I bet they were more than willing.
But his explanations are tone-deaf at best.
I’d sample Buffy…and the little mechanic chicken from Firefly
Mechanic chick…..chicken….. chicken…ah fuck
I’d sample Buffy…and
the little mechanic chickenevery female character from Firefly. Including that entire whorehouse that the crew saved.^^^ the correct answer ^^^
No bad choices.
Jewel Staite is a-dorable.
Whatever producer shitbag made her lose weight for the Firefly movie, should be dragged behind a speeding pickup truck by his balls.
That weight loss was all on Jewel. That was her normal weight at the time. In fact, I seem to remember they made her gain weight for the TV show.
I suspect that the primary reason they were “willing,” if they were, was that he either offered them boons or threatened consequences for not playing around with him.
That is absolutely not the same thing as free will.
Look at the guy. Then tell me that the women on his shows would be naturally interested in him. Sure, he has a way with words and wrote fun quirky dialogue, but he’s not charismatic enough for them to be throwing themselves at him. It’s more likely his power as the show runner that was the motivating factor–either positively, or more likely, negatively, based on the accusations that at least two actresses have leveled against him about threats he made to their careers.
If he coerced them, yeah, he deserves punishment.
But I don’t underestimate the willingness of actresses (and actors) to use everything at their disposal to get what they want either.
Such an unfamiliar story-line.
Have you ever watched the Hot/Crazy matrix guys do the one for guys <scoll to end for the one on women rating guys)? While the hot/crazy matrix for women is seriously complex with lots of zones of variability, the one for guys basically says that if you are rich/powerful, you can be the fugliest dude, and still bang hot chicks. And yes, some times these chicks do it willingly because they think they will get something out of it and then later pretend like they were forced into it.
I get it. I had a female colleague try to play me because she thought I could get good things to happen for her. Nothing happened, and it actually took a while for me to realize what was going on. I have nothing but contempt for that kind of behavior now.
I’ve had that happen for very low stakes. Imagine when millions of bucks are added to the mix. Not excusing anyone’s behavior, just saying.
Willow or GTFO.
Zwak is correct.
Never watched the show, but Charisma Carpenter is very much my type.
Opinion: Why did almost no one see inflation coming?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-almost-no-one-see-inflation-coming-11642519667
Ummmm… maybe “professional” economists didn’t, but average joes saw it coming from about a light-year away.
Really. The question was not why is there suddenly inflation, the question was what in the world took inflation so long to arrive.
I got the concept likely in middle school, after reading w/e Hitchiker’s Guide books had the Golfrinchians. They used leaves as currency.
So the way to combat our current inflation is more forest fires?
Poor Thomas Massie.
Another “Nobody *I* know voted for Nixon” story.
Well, let’s be honest. Did any actually “vote” for Biden?
“… he quickly added that he had felt he ‘had’ to sleep with them, that he was ‘powerless’ to resist. … He had been surrounded by beautiful young women — the sort of women who had ignored him when he was younger — and he feared if he didn’t have sex with them, he would ‘always regret it.'”
I’ll give you points for honesty, but you’re still an asshole.
I didn’t understand the hate on the Gal Gadot comment.
As I understand it, he said she misunderstood him because he was using an American speech idiom and she is not a native speaker…. Which sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I have worked with plenty of immigrants, and they often misunderstand idiomatic speech…. Sometimes with unpleasant results.
Because #metoo#believeher, Hater! TBH, he does sound like a creep. The special sort that pretends to be an ally. Chicks can see that bullshit from over the horizon. He wielded power and influence to get some quim. He was a selfish cheating scumbag.
Points for “quim”!
Tip’s top hat to the young Lady.
The punchline to the joke is “because they can” for a reason.
It sounds like bullshit. He could have just said “I never threatened her” and left it at that for a more believable explanation.
Serves you right for being unclean.
Unvax students at New West Charter LA segregated behind barriers & not allowed to attend class. They asked for chairs, were denied & are sitting on the pavement, not allowed to even use restroom. LAPD is on site but not intervening. Litigation from Let Them Choose already pending
https://twitter.com/snorman1776/status/1483585283115433985
It was the covid that killed him.
Child abuse.
A teacher at @NPSD was caught on camera taping a mask to a student’s face.
I mean back in the day teachers would basically torture students and it made em tougher
Now think about what you said and what this teachers actions are teaching the kid. One is to toughen up little buttercup the other is to teach State compliance.
Teachers never made us tougher, it was the other kids.
Yep. And I have told several people, practically all women, that believing that words are violence is something only someone that never has experienced real violence would believe.
Meh… teachers started my long standing distrust of authority.
They sometimes let the other ones bully you and turn a blind eye? Lived it, learned it, loathed it.
The other day at a grocery store, I saw a man pushing around a stroller. The man was wearing a mask, when I passed by them, I saw that the infant in the stroller also had a mask affixed to their face.
There are no mask mandates here.
“Dr. Fauci’s Processed Immune System” is much safer than nature’s organic immune system.
It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping!
A different version of Florida coverage
https://youtu.be/ncxQ3bgTqd0
It’s not over ’til we say it’s over
The World Health Organization on Tuesday said the pandemic will not end as the omicron variant subsides in some countries, warning the high levels of infection around the world will likely lead to new variants as the virus mutates.
“We’re hearing a lot of people suggest that omicron is the last variant, that it’s over after this. And that is not the case because this virus is circulating at a very intense level around the world,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead, said during a coronavirus update in Geneva.
New infections have increased by 20% globally over the past week with nearly 19 million total reported cases, according to the WHO. But Van Kerkhove noted that new infections that go unreported would make the real number much higher.
Clinging desperately to the levers of control. Keep fear alive!
There is no final variant to any respiratory illness. They always mutate. This is endemic. Take your vitamins and deal with it.
New York attorney general’s office says it has identified numerous ‘misleading statements and omissions’ in Trump Org. financial statements
Which in times past typically resulted in fines but we are going to find extra judicial language that will allow us to tie him to a rocket and launch him to the Sun. For Democracy
and H-dog will still not be president no matter how much turn it is
See…just a few weeks ago, the New York AG was publicly adamant that Trump Org was criminally doing stuff.
Paging traitor Robert Mueller…paging traitor Mueller.
The Supreme Court Could Decide if Ted Cruz Gets $10,000. It Matters More Than You Think
[…]The U.S. midterm elections were in full swing, with Republicans on the way to holding the Senate and Democrats poised to take control of the House. And the day before Sen. Ted Cruz won his reelection, he loaned his campaign $260,000 out of his own pocket. […]
Federal law dictates that if candidates loan money to their campaign, they can’t pay themselves back more than $250,000 using funds raised after Election Day—meaning funds from donors who know the outcome of the race. (Candidates can pay themselves back as much money as they’d like using funds raised before the election, as long as they do so within 20 days after the election.)
Cruz’s campaign paid him back $250,000, but he didn’t get that last $10,000. He and his campaign sued the Federal Election Commission (FEC), arguing that the loan repayment cap discourages candidates from loaning money to their campaigns and limits political speech, violating the First Amendment. [….]
Poor Democrats. They just dont want loans repayments to be enforced. This might start a trend where student loan repayments are enforced with no exceptions. Or campaigns have to properly account for all money coming in AND out. Or just average people borrowing money from people, then loaning money to their campaign, and then winning against Democrats.
See you must have graft and quid-pro-quo for political favors. Any other method for politics in America is unacceptable.
I just dont get Ted Cruz. This is some “n”th D chess if he purposely over-loaned his campaign by $10,000 to have a legal claim that he could dismantle FEC rule.
Then he says Jan 6 protesters committed a “violent terrorist attack on the Capitol where we saw the men and women of law enforcement … risk their lives to defend the men and women who serve in this Capitol.”
You can take the boy out of Canada…
Hey now!
Being an independent contractor sucks for a lot of reasons, but it also affords you the unique ability to tell people to fuck off in delightful ways.
https://twitter.com/BirdRespecter/status/1483550568761020416
Nice
Opinion: Why did almost no one see inflation coming?
Because the Federal Reserve had been so successful for so long at keeping money tied up on deposit with them and out of the hands of consumers.
Everyone saw it coming decades ago. But the Fed rigged the game to hide it for so long that most if not all of these people actually came to believe the Fed had found a way to keep doing fiscally insane spending and money printing/borrowing without it having to ever face the consequences of that sort of fiscal stupidity. Then reality punched them in the fucking dick right when it would hurt them the most.
2 reasons
The petrodollar arrangement maintains our status as the world’s reserve currency
The dollar is the best looking turd in currency punchbowl
I guess that’s one reason.
So we’re going to continue to suck Saudi dick for the foreseeable future.
And part of that deal was to pull the Saudis out of direct conflict with Israel.
Whatever happened to that guy who was going to issue gold and oil backed currency?
Tis a mystery
The only way inflation can be “hidden” is if productivity increases make up for it. But it is clear that once Calvinball Covid Rules were enacted, productivity plummeted when the ‘curtain of productivity’ that inflation was hiding behind was lifted.
Mask and test burning videos better be forth coming in the next weeks. Though, I could see a claim by the DoJ that it is destruction of government property….
Plus violation of burning ordinances and crimes against the planet.
weird weather in old Bucharest. Larger than usual swings between night and day like -7C to 7C and this is unusual
You guys must all be racists, homophobes, sexists, and oppressors, because that sort of wild swing is what happens to climate change when you evil fucks do your thing…
/Stupid Studies PhD.
The plot thickens.
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/was-peter-daszak-working-for-the
Meh…I bet a lot of the critters in and around D.C claim that or something similar for prestige and to get laid.
The accusation goes into far more detail than just “I work for the CIA.”
The UofChicago link in that substack is good.
https://thechicagothinker.com/editorial-uchicago-must-end-its-booster-mandate-we-are-not-lab-rats/
Huff undermines his own credibility with the paranoia routine.
‘Poisonous’ woman created 30 fake profiles to get innocent ex-boyfriend arrested
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/courtney-ireland-ainsworth-jailed-fake-instagram-accounts-095731003.html
“Courtney Ireland-Ainsworth, 20, created up to 30 false profiles, then told police her ex Louis Jolly was behind “vile” messages.
“Cunning” Ireland-Ainsworth reported him for supposedly threatening to stab her and warning: “She is getting a f***ing blade in her chest.”
She made 10 police statements claiming Mr Jolly was harassing and stalking her, leading to him being arrested six times and spending 81 hours in custody, including being remanded overnight.
He was charged with assault and stalking, hit with a stalking protection order, bailed on a home curfew with an electronic tag, and lost his job.”
I assume toxic masculinity is at fault here
As Mayor Marion Barry said: “Bitch set me up!“
Ireland-Ainsworth was convicted of perverting the course of justice and was jailed for 10 months and given a 10-year restraining order.
Well, at least she’s being given some sort of punishment (although I’m curious why her mother, who certainly seems like she was an accomplice, isn’t getting punished at all). I’ve actually seen cases where prosecutors decide not to do anything about it because “they don’t want to discourage victims from coming forward”. And even the judge only criticizes the woman for “wasting the police’s time”. Yeah, because they’re the victims here.
Today in youtube recommends
Caps Or A Cork? Ireland 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6H6Q5AaFkQ
Distilling Whiskey in Dublin City, Ireland 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXC4QBpNjCE
Ahhh, the auld sod. ??
They don’t let it rest for two minutes at :55 or so? /faints
rest? why?
beer is not wine to need to breathe a bit
Because it’s Guinness, and needs to settle. Any fule no that.
The product in a corked bottle is going to age differently than in a capped bottle.
but the question is better or worse? can beer be corked?
Better.
I have many 750 ml bottles of beer down in the wine cellar aging. These are all Belgian Quads and a mix of Belgian and American Sour ales all in corked bottles.
Yep. High carbonation beers are corked and caged (similar to champagne bottles), and some are corked and capped (I usually only see this in some of the more hard to acquire sours).
1. On Tap
2. Corked
3. Capped
4. Canned
1a. In barrels
1b. In steel kegs
Yes
I am officially a peasant. #4 all day long!
What were they supposed to do with it?
Share it, maybe?
Some great news.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/covid-latest-news-coronavirus-restrictions-tests-cases-vaccine/#update-20220119-1325
I assume all the people against Brexit will also be against this.
Probably. As Malice put it, the panic porn gives the urban laptop class purpose to their meaningless lives.
Yep. Fills them with purpose and gives them a vehicle with which to flaunt what they believe to be their own superiority.
Wait, people are taking the plan B abortion pill for covid in the UK?
Good. I support abortions there.
I live and work in laptop class central. I can tell most of the time by address and other markers if the person who answers the door will be wearing a mask and fully invested in the Vid panic. That is indeed good news about England. We haven’t been back there in a while to see my wife’s mother who is in her 80’s, as the restrictions were too onerous. Not rushing out to buy plane tickets yet, but hope this is a sign of normality slowly returning there.
It will something to see England freer than anywhere in blue-state America. There is no visible sign of an end here.
Governor Landwhale (D, IL- Comorbidity) extended his own power to make us mask (started August 30th, started being ignored September 1st.) to February 5th. I am sure when the DNC decides to proclaim victory, he will coincidentally “lift” his imperial command.
Yup, it’s still full on Vid panic here with the vast majority wearing masks outside at all times.
Heheh, I love the (D, IL- Comorbidity)
I’ve been in a salty mood lately. Mostly work. QA/QC trying to blame my group for not knowing about an undocumented hairpin circuit going through one of my sites that is unrelated to any of my services.
Undocumented hairpin circuits are *tight*!
They’re just not hitting it hard enough
Australia reported 77 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, the most it has recorded on a single day during the entire pandemic, according to Reuters.
The country’s previous recored high was 57 deaths.
Australia is dealing with a rise related to the highly-contagious omicron variant, which is sweeping through the country. Hospitalization rates in Australia are on the rise, and more people are in hospitals and the intensive care unit (ICU) than at any time throughout the pandemic, reports Reuters.
Maybe they should bring Djokovic back and try him for genocide.
Good morning, Sloop!
Thanks for the lynx.
Nothing really going on in sports.
Nope. And with all the postponed games, I feel like the Wild have played like twice this month.
I can’t even get that angry at the silly mask thing. It’s just so sad that the administration thinks it will be viewed as heroic. Stick a fork in them.
I wonder what they’ll do for the next three years?
How many of those N95s will get worn for weeks? How many will get immediately tossed or placed into the all purpose drawer? Certainly orders of magnitude more than the number that will be put on with freshly clean hands, fitted tightly and worn for the several hours they might have some effectiveness and then thrown away.
Those few hours will be our allotted time that we are allowed to be in public until Biden’s elves manage to conjure up another 400 million masks.
We are not Australia.
Look on the bright side. You won’t have to stop by Home Depot for facemasks for woodworking or drywall projects for a while.
Whenever I sand some drywall and then take my mask off in the same room (if I remember to wear one), I will still inhale some dust particles.
I won’t draw any further conclusions.
Proper regulation won’t suppress freedom of speech online – it will protect it
https://capx.co/proper-regulation-wont-suppress-freedom-of-speech-online-it-will-protect-it/
“This month marks the one-year anniversary of the Capitol Hill riots in which five people died. It’s a stark reminder that dangerous behaviour online can metastasise into real-world violence. Plenty of other examples can be found closer to home, like the racist abuse of England footballers after the final of the European Championships, social media ads promoting human trafficking across the Channel, and of course conspiracy theories about Covid-19 and 5G that led to assaults on telecoms workers and arson attacks on phone masts.”
good old british “conservatives” tres pro liberty
Huh ?
Because humans never did any of that shit until the internet was born. I blame Al Gore.
Nudge Nudge Wink Wink
Are policy makers finally waking up to the harms of behavioural science?
https://thecritic.co.uk/nudge-nudge-wink-wink/
““Will nudge theory survive the pandemic?” wrote Simon Ruda, one of the founders of the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), in an article for the website UnHerd last week. In a piece which was positive — even at times quite congratulatory — about what a force for good “nudging” is, the truly extraordinary thing is that a reflection on its harms took so long.
It would have been more helpful for Ruda to reflect that “the most egregious and far-reaching mistake made in responding to the pandemic has been the level of fear willingly conveyed on the public” before the fear campaign was launched, not afterwards. Fear has put a brake on recovery and hurt our mental health and lives in countless ways. Codes of ethics which would govern psychology experiments were not strictly applied to the British people en masse.”
Fuck behavioral science and nudge theory with a rusty chainsaw
Of course, fear was the nudge, you insufferable tool. You can’t be all “yay nudge” and “boo fear” at the same time.
Fear is the Currency of Control.
I suspect that the problem with the whole “nudge” approach is that, while it probably gets high levels of compliance on a one-off, it comes at the expense of eroding social capital. Sure, you can BS people to do what you want. But, eventually, they catch on. And their trust in the authority doing the nudging or instilling the fear is reduced. So, it becomes necessary to BS even harder the next time. Which leads to an even greater loss of trust and voluntary compliance. And the nudge becomes a push and the push becomes a shove. A straightforward and honest approach probably yields less compliance, at least initially. But, it is, in the words of fashionable business jargon, sustainable.
trust in the authority
Authority according to whom? That’s the fucking problem right there. Self-annointed authorities for the most part. Because if I already valued your advice, I would’ve followed it on my own.
Well, you’re just displaying the low trust in the authorities that, frankly, they’ve earned. But, imagine a different scenario. Imagine that, say, the CDC acted as a rigorous clearinghouse of scientific information about the virus, was upfront about all the things they didn’t know, didn’t try to steer scientific findings for “socially useful” ends, encouraged thoughtful debate, etc. Maybe you wouldn’t trust what they had to say. But, a lot of other people who now don’t trust what they have to say probably would. It was their incessant “nudging” that reduced their credibility.
Anyone who admits how limited their own knowledge is will never present themself as an infallible expert who is going to nudge you. Nudging is the tell for hubris – as is the conceit that they know what is “socially useful”.
Don’t be too proud of this technocratic terror you’ve constructed. The ability to frighten an individual or even a whole group, is insignificant next to the power of free will.
The status quo is a nudge too, so thinking there’s no nudge without the theory, is naive. I prefer a way to think about what is being nudged and making it more transparent. I don’t agree with the ends of the people above, but at least the goals are open and we can thus combat it.
Cass Sunstein looms large.
I despise that POS.
Shoot me now. Idiot who has no idea about how a system works is telling the bosses what should be done to troubleshoot it. Which is basically a combination of shotgunning and cargo culting.
I am Romanian and such do not have a gun.
https://www-shootingrange-ro.translate.goog/pachete/?_x_tr_sl=ro&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
It looks like you’d be allowed to shoot one though, or am I missing something?
25 rounds in 30 minutes?
And $45 is kinda high, though if the instructor is any good it might be worth it.
/watches people changing web browsers because an unrelated application is crashing.
I have no idea what you mean.
Shockingly you find that nature is not woke.
Scientists, the experts we rely on to tell us how to live our lives, have been studying privilege and inequality among squirrels and other animals, according to the New York Times.
It all began as a conversation among behavioral ecologists at UCLA: “They saw how COVID-19 was highlighting health disparities and other inequalities around the world,” the Times reports. “The scientists began to wonder if they could learn more about inequality by studying it in animals.”
The experts began searching for examples in the animal kingdom of human concepts such as privilege, inequality, and intergenerational wealth. “When we started looking for it, we found lots and lots of examples,” Dr. Jennifer Smith told the Times. “To see this across so many different species was quite surprising. And we’re just touching the surface.”
the experts we rely on to tell us how to live our lives – who is this we motherfucker
How much did that cost?
They could have just turned on any nature program and seen it in action. Look at the way beta male monkeys or elephant seals are treated, FFS. Or the way a male cat strolls into the neighborhood, fucks a new mama, and kills all her existing cubs because they aren’t his.
And they have the nerve to bitch about humans.
If a preggo female joins the harem of an alpha male zebra, his penis is big enough to cause a miscarriage.
I remember watching the show Meerkat Manor many years ago. They live in family groups led by a dominant female/male breeding couple. The dominant female will usually kill any litters birthed by other females in the group as part of maintaining her position.
Cixi?
I linked that yesterday just for the image.
Squirrels of Privilege was a solid sophomore album by The Glibs.
Which is the strongest, toughest, most enduring and most bestest generation of all time?
Gen Z. NPR and David Hogg say so.
Thank you for SugarFreeing that one.
Also gen z can make functional links
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073335334/a-new-look-at-how-turmoil-is-defining-the-lives-and-politics-of-generation-z
Just giving a platform to that nitwit indicates how bad NPR is.
Saw this tweet, had to share.
Heh.
Pickles out for Harambe
LOL
An exciting prospect.
All it took was a bit of speculation from a guy who isn’t especially close to the most famous people in Chappaqua, New York, for the arrow on the “love-Hillary Clinton-or-hate-her” meter to start swinging wildly once again.
Suddenly, the Boston Herald declared the idea of Hillary Clinton running for president in 2024 “a nightmare scenario.” But at The Hill, writer Joe Concha looked at the other Democrats who could run and asked, “If those are the options, why not Hillary?”
While the mere mention of the Clintons in the context of another presidential campaign offends some and inspires others, everyone in the political world has a reason to be excited by the prospect. Among her supporters, there must be millions who have recovered from the heartbreak of 2016 and are ready to back her again. Among those who oppose her, the chance to resume battle against the woman they love to hate must surely send hearts racing.
A business opportunity for Q
Scientists, the experts we rely on to tell us how to live our lives, have been studying privilege and inequality among squirrels and other animals, according to the New York Times.
At this point, I am seriously rooting for an extinction-level event. Meteor strike, plague, heat death of the sun, nuclear winter, I don’t care.
JTFC.
What are eons of human evolution and shared experience versus a blip on the timeline of humanity of our new priests db….get with the times.
Too bad some other group stole the name of this new religion. Since they can’t be Scientologists, are they going to e Sciencists?
vacuum decay, if you want to do a proper job of it.
Fuck behavioral science and nudge theory with a rusty chainsaw
Oh, come on. Haven’t you heard how successful they were at nudging people to get the vaccine by threatening to impoverish them? That’s SCIENCE! in the name of good, if there ever was such a thing.
“nudging people to X by threatening to impoverish them” = Tyranny
Why Cuba’s extraordinary Covid vaccine success could provide the best hope for low-income countries
Cuba’s prestigious biotech sector has developed five different Covid vaccines, including Abdala, Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus — all of which Cuba says provide upwards of 90% protection against symptomatic Covid when three doses are administered.
Sounds great.
The seven-day average of daily Covid cases in Cuba climbed to 2,063 as at Jan. 11, reflecting an almost 10-fold increase since the end of December as the omicron variant spreads.
This comes as the number of omicron Covid cases surges across countries and territories in the Americas region. The Pan American Health Organization, the WHO’s regional Americas office, has warned that a rise in cases may lead to an uptick in hospitalizations and deaths in the coming weeks.
And there’s the rub, they are just now starting Omicron wave.
Lost me right out of the gate.
Why you no Michael Moore fanboi?
Cuba? Why no love for North Korea?
Getting covid is preferable to starving to death.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808)
Damnit. s/b (born Jan 19th, 1808)
This wasn’t a rathole I needed last night.
It gets even dumber in the replies since this idea has become a fixation for NFT weirdos. Consumers will be paid for playing games through some sort of profit-sharing model (why? Because.), or they’ll buy in-game assets that will appreciate in value because other players will want to own them, too. Wouldn’t those skins and models be infinitely replicable? No, because ownership would be established through bLOcKchAiN as NFTs. (Why does that matter? Because.) How is this not a ponzi scheme, as the player base dwindles and a few “investors” are left holding these worthless NFTs? Well, because, see, these assets would be transferable to other games! As more games recognize those asset block chains, the assets become more and more valuable.
Why would producers go to the trouble of implementing assets you paid other producers for? Because.
That’s some wicked sharp economic theory there.
So, playing Activision Blizzard’s games isn’t rewarding enough on its own, and people should be paid for playing them?
Next time I go out to eat, I’m going to try that one out.
I left their games for one simple reason – I came to the realization “I’m not having fun”.
That is someone who is salty that they suck as a streamer and can’t break into that grift to get paid for playing games.
So, I’m curious, should Greg Isenberg’s employer charge him for the privilege of working there? Because that’s the essence of his proposal.
I write some fiction and reality looks at me and says, hold my beer.
Wow. They’re getting brazen now.
California sets up the worst cannabis business framework and then punishes those who engage in it. The mob is jealous.
That said, some analogue for Desert Snow may make an appearance in a future episode.
Story’s getting interesting.
This seems to fit.
Snort!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJZWSAUX0AQadlx?format=jpg&name=small
People who participate in a game, should be rewarded for their participation
The Little Red Hen should pay the freeloaders in the barnyard to eat the bread she baked.
I think we’ve gone way past section 230 being the major issue now.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1483728135829000193?cxt=HHwWgsC49Zu4oZcpAAAA
Whoa whoa whoa….that can’t be real.
Gah. She spoofed it for publicity.
It’s a hoax.
That’s pretty dumb. Crying wolf is never smart.
It’s comedy.
You’re right–the FBI would never signal to someone that they’re on the list.
Alright, who called it?
Yesterday when I was putting up the tears of the people that couldn’t get them cause they were in dorms, attached to commercial buildings and split units.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Serious belly-laughs
That “antivaxx” anesthetist who confronted Sajid Javid went on tee vee to defend his position but he totally flaked. He didn’t do well at all, then they brought in this Dr. Hillary (celebrity doctor, used to be a GP) to hammer home all the propaganda and twist his words. It wasn’t even that they had all the control of the situation and it was all done on their terms (which is why you never agree to this hostile interviews), but that he just seemed so weak anyway.
Sorry that was all in limey speak and probably makes no sense to Americans who may not even be aware of this.
As a rule, they won’t debate anyone who can make them look like assholes.
Steve Kirsch has been offering any FDA commissioner $1M to debate COVID vaccine efficacy and safety.
No takers.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJG5qm6XIAAR9JX?format=jpg&name=small
This is what success looks like.
Just one more shot oughta do it.
*perks ears*
/Iran et al.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
He’s not wrong.
Tone deaf.
And creepy.
wtf
Day 5 of no shaving. My poor old bunghole probably resembles a barbed-wire entanglement from the Somme. Kidding! I only shave my face like a normal man does. Downstairs is out of sight and out of mind.