Back from Spring Break with the family in Florida. What a nice time.
You got screwed, man.
What an amazing start to the NCAA Tournament. Of course, there were some awesome results: St Peters, Iowa State, Miami. And some shitty ones: TCU getting the screw job by the officials at the end of regulation, Duke winning any game ever. Next week should be a lot of fun. Across the pond, the FA Cup semifinals are set, with Liverpool facing Man City and Chelsea playing Crystal Palace in an all-London affair. But first…the international break. And that’s it for sports.
Also a genocide, you sniveling fucks.
This is awful. It’s also true. And he should also grab a fucking mirror and reflect on Yemen.
At least it’s not terror-related. Oh, what are their names, by the way? Nevermind. They’re not being published. Oh, that reminds me…whatever happened to the guy who went around barricades so he could drive over a bunch of people in a parade here a few months ago? That sure got memory-holed.
I’ve got a quick question: shouldn’t this have been done before these things were put out for use? Or at least before they were mandated? Or at a minimum before they were referred to as a “vaccine” (and the definition changed by the CDC)?
Of course they’re ignoring it. So are a lot of the media. And the 51 intel officials who waved it off without looking at it in order to influence an election.
Bloomberg’s new editorialist is old-school
Bloomberg, you out of touch fucks. Also, please, please, please keep this messaging going through the midterms. I beg you.
I pray this man is ok. Just like I did when RBG was ill.Many on the left, however, aren’t sharing their compassion for him the way they did her.
I respect the hell out of this guy. Also, we all know people like this, I’m sure. Except they’re not explicitly paid for the same reason, they do it anyway. I don’t respect those people. (I’m looking at you, Congress.)
Wait, there’s people who think these are actually private? I always assumed everybody knew that was bullshit.
I haven’t played these guys in forever. And that’s on me, because they’re wonderful. Here’s some more evidence. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely (not weather-wise) Monday, dear friends.
“Of course they’re ignoring it. So are a lot of the media. And the 51 intel officials who waved it off without looking at it in order to influence an election.”
Watch if something comes out to get rid of Kamala soon. This is not happening by accident. I suspect that they are now admitting this is real because they are setting up the stage to get rid of Joe. But they have to get rid of Ka-Ah-Loh first, cause I am certain they already know she would be worse.
Here comes president Pelosi!
I would expect a court challenge to the constitutionality of the presidential succession law at that point. It might get thrown out of court to avoid a hard decision, but I’d expect it to be argued.
Of course if it happens after the mid-terms but before the new congress is seated, things could get really interesting.
expect a court challenge
Exactly why they sprinkled polonium on Thomas’ breakfast cereal.
If Stacey Abrams can run the Federation, she can run the country!
Even in that fantasyland, she was only a planetary governer.
Ha! You watch that new woke garbage? Ben Sisko would be ashamed of you.
No. I stopped watching back when DS9 and Voyager were still doing first-run episodes.
I just have a good memory and it’s been reported on several sites.
I dropped after Enterprise — which at least had a good 4th season showing the buildup to the Federation. Everything after they let Abrams try to turn it into Star Wars looks terrible to me.
I can’t pinpoint when I stopped exactly, but I know I stopped before Enterprise began its run. When did that start? *Checks internet* 2001. Sometime before then.
I couldn’t watch Enterprise. The theme song was so bad I couldn’t get past it. I wish I hadn’t tried until streaming services let you skip it, because I bet I’d have enjoyed it. Alas, it is forever spoiled for me.
I think I watched at least some of whichever one had Scott Bakula in it, but I’m not certain as I can’t actually remember anything about it. That was the last one.
Bakula would be sad that you didn’t remember Enterprise.
Oh boy….
Yup, I watched the original Abrams one, found it very mediocre, and I don’t think I’ve seen anything since. Maybe I eventually watched the second Abrams film, but I remember people saying it was a Wrath of Khan reboot and I remember the writers swearing on their mothers’ graves for months that it wouldn’t be a Wrath of Khan reboot because they wouldn’t ever be so stupid.
Anyway, I didn’t hate Enterprise. Wasn’t exactly good TV most of the time, but so long as you can skip the theme music, it’s decent second tier trek alongside Voyager. I generally hated the time travel plot arc and found some characters dreadful, but similar criticisms could be leveled at Voyager or even DS9.
Fucking heretics. Star trek Enterprise was worth watching just to see Jolene Blaylock acting the dry Vulcan woman….
My biggest criticism of DS9 was that in a parallel universe with a completely different power structure in place, all the main characters managed to find themselves in the same place in a vast universe. The odds of that happening are incomprehensibly small. So why try to pass it off as realistic to a bunch of nerds who are capable of doing the math? You’ve got a better chance of selling a retarded parallel universe situation like that to those who watch “How I Met Your Mother” or “Friends”.
Yeah, that was ridiculous. You just have to view those episodes as comic relief.
I gave up on Star Trek when Guinan got pissed at Picard for Tommy-gunning a bunch of Borg on the not-so-holodeck, and then Picard agreed with her.
But then later I watched the first JJ Abrams film, found it to be an abomination, and gave up entirely. That movie sucked so bad, I never saw another movie in a theater. I was on the edge of being done with hollywood for a long time; that film just confirmed its decay for me. Come up with something new rather than rebooting the same old shit.
Also, fuck superhero movies. That shit needs to end.
Come up with something new rather than rebooting the same old shit.
Financial incentives, how do they fucking work? That’s the real problem – the consumers buy that shit.
I gave up on Star Trek when Guinan got pissed at Picard for Tommy-gunning a bunch of Borg on the not-so-holodeck, and then Picard agreed with her.
To this day, I’m not sure I understand that scene.
21st century chick: blow up the ship and kill all the Borg in an inferno!
Picard: No! We can’t sacrifice the ship, we’ve sacrificed too many already. We need to make a stand!
21st century chick: youre just a murderous asshole! Kill them all in a fiery explosion!
Picard: No! The line must be drawn heah!
21st century chick: you’re captain ahab! Why do you enjoy killing them so much?
Picard: True, let’s kill them all in a blaze of fire and go live out our lives in backwaters so we don’t fuck up the timeline.
???
Sorry — I don’t agree.
More like:
Lily (21-st century chick, NOT Guinan): “So… you could blow up the ship, which would suck for the crew in that you’d be stuck in my time — OR you could keep trying to fight the Borg when your weapons have all been adapted to, risking losing the ship, the future AND with the benefit that all of your remaining crew will be mutilated and mind-raped into joining the enemy. Those you don’t shoot as soon as they’re possibly turned (“Poor Ensign Lynch”) when you’re the one ordering them into the situation where they may be. And your only reason for choosing option B is that you want to PERSONALLY beat them with your bare hands…”
Obviously, as with all naval victories — the perceived victor of the Battle of Sector 001 isn’t going to be court martialled — but there should have been some serious questions about the blase attitude of “We lost shields for a significant period next to a Borg vessel… maybe we should damn well check for boarders, down to the nanite layer?” (And for that matter, why DO the Borg bother beaming drones aboard when a stealthy nanite package especially if you know how the soon-to-be-assimilated meat’s food replicators work would likely work better? Hell… given the Federation trade practices — assimilate a few Ferengi or other edge-of-the-Fed traders WITHOUT the big old obvious implants, have them do some special “shipments” to worlds across the Federation that self-shield against sensors and then integrate with the ubiquitous replicators to well… replicate and sit back without bothering with the big stupid cubes… Man, evil SF races are just DUMB. Luckily for them good SF races are too….
I wish that level of nuance was actually brought into that scene.
Were I an all-powerful time traveling movie writer, I’d change Lily’s motivations. She’s one of the few remaining survivors of a civilization ending war. The idea that she’s somehow going to balk at killing the Borg is a stretch. However, her self interest is in protecting the semblance of a life they’ve cobbled together on the surface. Lily’s confrontation would make so much more sense if it was out of a desperate fear of the Borg ending up on the surface.
Blow up the damn ship because even a single Borg getting to the surface is unacceptable. Sorry that you’ll be stranded, but like hell am I gonna be fighting your time traveling robot zombies for you.
The only good Star Trek now is Lower Decks.
It has a low bar to clear to be the best of the lot these days.
Star Trek tries Rick and Morty doesn’t really get my motor running. Drinker panned it pretty savagely.
He came up with all of that from watching … the trailer. It’s far better than he predicted.
It is a pity that the marxist ruined the Star trek franchise with their shit. “We come in peace, SHOOT TO KILL” rocked.
Please realize I am not defending Kamala. But she has been kept in a box during the entire presidency and has had no chance to engage in graft or criminal activity she could be tagged with. She would have to be entrapped at this point. And she probably knows this, and is just going to “do nothing” to succeed and become President. When her becoming president is a certainty os when the really obvious dirty tricks will come out which I hope will sink the Democrats for a decade.
I think that’s giving Kamala way too much credit for her intelligence.
Not so much intelligence as knowing who to blow and when to go. She is a California politician and as such is very well versed in dirty tricks. That experience will keep her from falling into the painfully obvious democratic party traps. Now being a sporting man, I will lay a six pack of Texas craft beer on the line which says she will survive traps and become President, presiding over the total destruction of the Democratic party machine. Neph, what’s your bet, and I’ll let you decide the bet duration. 2 years? 1 year? We shall seal up this bet and revisit then.
Oh, I don’t disagree that she’ll probably be the president for at least a brief while (and not in that whole acting president while the president is in surgery or the like). What I don’t see is her getting elected to president, or even getting more then 2 years in office.
Absolutely. And she will preside over the total destruction of the Democratic Party during her short tenure.
I’m just not so sure the Democratic Party will have a full collapse during that short tenure. It’s been predicted so many times, that eventually it will need to come true.
What do you mean by “total destruction?” Would a schism resulting in a “Democratic Party” and a “Progressive Party” or something similar count? For instance the “Democratic Party” would be a more traditional Dem party, trying to regain lost ground with the middle and lower classes, representing labor and industry better, with the “Progressive Party” being the AOC / Sanders wing of crazy elitists?
Or do you mean a literal destruction of the party entirely, resulting in a vast splintering of factions vying with each other to rise from the rubble?
Or a complete and total dissolution, with no chance of reconstruction?
Those are very different outcomes with different probabilities.
A schism might have the possibility of inducing a schism in the Republican party, where we’d end up with a repulsive middle ground of proggy grifters mishmashed with neocon grifters.
It would be your last answer. Can’t feed off your comment due to using the Crapmophone. We will end up with a new party of sick progressives and RINOs and a different middle ground party that can reflect the majority of the country, made up of centrist democrats and new Republicans. Knowing how lame our system is it will keep the old labels of Democrat and Republican. Whatever hideous grifter group emerges will still have power but should be far less powerful.
I’d be in favor of any of those possibilities as long as the end result is a third party.
If I rented a person, I might end up feeling even more pathetic afterwards.
Well what are you renting them for and will you get your money’s worth? Cause some kid of “renting” comes with some benefits…
Know what I am saying? Not that I have that sort of experience, but I have read about it exstensively.
No, I don’t know what you’re saying. I was commenting on the Japanese guy article.
So you saying you rent guys? NTTIAWT..
I suppose hiring a contractor counts as renting people.
I’m your friend for free, UCS, if you can put up with Old Guy stories.
You know I listen.
I like Old Guy stories! I gotta sign something?
kid? ?
I’m sure he meant kind.
Still, John level typo. Made me laugh.
Learn Japanese Through Anime Titles – 彼女、お借りします – Rent-A-Girlfriend
I can get the benefits (especially if it is a young woman going somewhere she doesn’t feel safe or at least doesn’t want to be hit on) like the “I just want to have a quiet dinner” — but it seems like another sad commentary on how we’re self isolating and maybe folks should just make some real friends (yeah, yeah… like my antisocial butt can talk, I know…) on one level. On another level, I would think stuff like the “be there on medical consultations” and whatnot would run the same risks as some of the transactions Alex alludes to — you’re there to provide a friend experience on some level, there’s going to be some very natural empathy / social bonding out of that — and I would expect there will be more than one occasion when it isn’t as consequence free as the parties wanted going in. Just my gut instinct, though.
oblig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaXw2ztCqU
If I were going to rent someone in Japan… of course, my wife would be contacting SP for the rusty can lid recommendations if I did….
Is xylitol a common ingredient in Japan? ?
Dammit… how did I SF that link?
I so suck at markup languages…. (and a Preview before submit wouldn’t kill ya, WordPress…).
Consequences so terrifying the link SF‘ed itself.
“A car driving at a high speed hit a crowd at about 5 a.m. local time, an official said. Two people were found inside the vehicle and arrested for murder; both are from La Louvière, deputy prosecutor Damien Verheyen said at a news conference. No charges have been filed yet.”
So the car did this all by itself? As soon as I see reporting of this kind I understand what we really have is propaganda to hide some inconvenient shit the people in power want the serfs to remain oblivious to. I wonder if this car was related to that red SUV in Kenosha tat hit the Christmas parade..
Turns out fully self driving cars are here earlier than we thought (according to the media). Downside, the AI template was apparently “Christine”.
Wait until you hear what guns and bullets can do by themselves.
“TCU getting the screw job by the officials at the end of regulation”
Whatever man. Bear Down!
Oh the worst part for him was Michigan winning while Ohio State lost. At least ‘Nova can keep cleaning out the Big I-Can’t-Count conference.
^^No lies detected^^
So much this.
9 invitees, 2 stagger into the round of 16, where at least one one will crater. Maybe the selectors should stop rewarding failure. But, I already heard much excuse making for the Illinois coach this morning on the radio, so it appears not many are learning the right lessons in the heartland…
It wouldn’t shock me if Purdue bungles the most broken bracket they’ve seen in decades and fails to make the FF.
Purdue hardly “staggered” into the round of 16. They won their first round game by 22 and the second round by 10 points. I feel good about Purdue’s chances to go all the way.
I am talking the conference as a whole… Purdue might be the only chance to reach a higher round.
I’m done now that my Memphis State Tigers were eliminated by Gonzaga.
Pretty happy that the Tigers played so well. Also the Minnesoda kid who went to Gonzaga is dreaming if he thinks he is a one and done. He got pushed around by every Memphis big guy. NBA guys would destroy him.
I loved the Drew Timme show in the early second half of that game. Damn.
I didn’t like it at all, but I was impressed.
Memphis in the first half had him shut down. To go from that to almost Larry Bird was something.
“Bloomberg, you out of touch fucks. Also, please, please, please keep this messaging going through the midterms. I beg you.”
Marie Antionette called. She is claiming “cultural appropriation” by these elite cuntes.
Mmm, brioche.
I don’t think I have ever even had lentils.
Y U no liek dal?
Mm, lentils. Wee earthy flatulogenic pulses.
Obligatory.
oblig: “Four!”
Cases, again
U.S. health experts are warning an emerging, highly contagious Covid omicron variant, called BA.2, could soon lead to another uptick in domestic coronavirus cases.
White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said BA.2 is about 50% to 60% more transmissible than omicron, but it does not appear to be more severe. Health officials continue to stress coronavirus vaccines and boosters remain the best ways to prevent serious illness from the virus.
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Fauci said he expects “an uptick in cases” due to BA.2, but not necessarily a massive surge like other variants have caused. That’s despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently relaxing mask recommendations for most Americans.
The wind has shifted to the east, despite the fact that many people are left=handed.
White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said BA.2 is about 50% to 60% more transmissible than omicron, but it does not appear to be more severe.
So no one will notice/get tested. Good.
I see you’re familiar with NPR’s style guide.
Be vewwy vewwy quiet- we’we hunting witches
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will reveal new details and may make new recommendations about legislation and criminal penalties for officials who failed to carry out their duties, said Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
“Our first priority is to make recommendations,” Cheney, one of two Republicans on the nine-person select committee, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We’re looking at things like do we need additional enhanced criminal penalties for the kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump when he refused to tell the mob to go home after he had provoked that attack on the Capitol.
Yes, yes, of course. Trump’s Robot Army must be stopped before it’s too late.
“Our recommendation is that we prosecute Speaker Pelosi and the Capital Police officers involved in the incident.”
This goes beyond “duty to protect”, which is already unconstitutional, and goes straight to “duty to do and say exactly what we demand”, which is completely at odds with the concept of free will and a representative democracy.
Fuck these authoritarian fucks.
Also “after he provoked the attack”? What, by telling people to go peacefully and make their voice heard?
Democrats would only have been satisfied with Trump re-enacting GoT’s walk of shame.
Replace “satisfied with” with “further emboldened by” and you’re 100% correct.
Prog rule #1 – Nothing is ever good enough. Ever. If you’re enemy concedes that they’ve made a mistake, apologizes in anyway or is merely convicted in the court of public opinion you’ve successfully opened the grievance door. You won and you get to hold it over them and beat them over the head with it. Forever.
Amen.
Not with Warty’s big self-powered appendage… but I agree with your underlying sentiment.
“”BA.2 is about 50% to 60% more transmissible than omicron”
…and o mi god icron was 125% more transmissible then what ever came before that…
I’m having trouble with the math. Help!
Fauci, go home, just go home. Your Shelf Life has expired.
I’m having trouble with the math. Help!
Let me help you do the calculation: Nevermind, it’s bullshit.
You’re welcome.
Hey all, I’m collecting can lids to make into a wind chime/mobile for SP.
1) Take a lid, rusty or not (preferably a canning lid, but whatever you can get), write your glibs handle on it along with a message of appreciation for her immense contributions to this site. NOTE: you may get better results using a fineliner permanent marker.
2) email me at trashy-glibs [at] disengage [dot] co (and let me what your glibs handle is) to get the destination address for the lid.
3) shove the lid in an envelope and get it in the mail by April 1st.
Once I get all the lids, I’ll assemble them in a way that only a trash monster can, and I’ll send it up to SP to replenish her stock and keep OMWC in check.
I’ll continue posting this in the links threads this week.
NOTE: Athena has graciously offered to put messages on lids for those who, for whatever reason, can’t. (athenaofprogtown at the gmail)
Did that Bloomberg article suggest slapping the shit out of your kid when s/he comes home from school jabbering about global warming?
No. Bloomberg never writes anything worth reading.
NPR had a multiple-minute segment on a US version of Eurovision that is apparently happening. They of course thought Eurovision was the greatest thing EVAH! but were afraid that it would be too “queer” for a nation “founded by Puritans.”
Well, it is bizarre.
Are they gonna do it by state?
And DC! And five territories! It’ll be sooo representational!
whaddup doh’
I don’t think I have ever even had lentils.
Aren’t they a major component of Indian cuisine?
*I do not care for Indian cuisine.
A billion Indians can’t be wrong.
Relatedly: some pundit was talking about how completely isolated Putin was, that there were only two nations willing to trade with him: India and China. Admittedly, a third of the planet’s population is technically a minority of the world, but still…
Don’t look at all the western European nations continuing to buy gas from him behind the curtain.
They’re not doing business with Putin, they’re doing business with Gazprom.
*ingore the fact that Gazprom is majorityt owned by the Russian state*
Yes, yes they can.
What are they wrong about? I know only about the food and decorative arts, honestly.
The use of the English Language.
Take your word for it. Did they really get their accent from the Welsh Guards, or am I very gullible?
Just kindly do the needful.
They are not wrong about food, if that’s what you’re implying. 😛
Well the Bloomberg article mentioned in the links isn’t as clueless as I expected. Still I wouldn’t have contrasted the different impact across income levels along with the “helpful” tips.
Inflation Stings Most If You Earn Less Than $300K. Here’s How to Deal.
This is literally saying only the 1% income earners are not affected.
Which I’m happy to have made as widely known as possible.
Are they not affected because all the $10 trillion that was printed during the last two years of insanity was delivered directly to their front door steps in adorable grift boxes topped with a big shiny bow and has a little speaker that plays Kamala’s cackle on a loop when you open it?
Local news: I have no idea which locality since my station covers NY VT and MA, but some politico was in full NIMBY mode and said, and I quote “I haven’t found a single person who thinks it’s a good idea to put a landfill right next to a school district” (his emphasis).
Is there anyplace that is neither inside, nor next to a school district?
Inside certain national parks.
Yeah. Most of Iowa, the Dakotas, and Wyoming. Put them all there.
-leftists
Why don’t they just put it where no one will even notice? Like Jersey.
Just threaten to take it via eminent domain and build a school on it like Love Canal.
*When I did environmental training, I used to love the hazardous/solid waste portion and telling my captive audience about Love Canal and Hooker Chemical.
I’m still annoyed that people still use that incident to condemn the one group that did everything they could to prevent disaster (the company) while glossing over or ignoring the actions of the group that caused the disaster (the school district).
I pointed that out. Nearly everyone around was screaming “DO NOT BUY THIS LAND” and the morons said, “it should make a really nice place for kids. Perhaps a school or something”.
In a conspiracy mindset, I can see lefty enviro-nuts forcing that on purpose, just to bolster their “save the planet” argument.
See also: Animas River.
“No one is going to produce a play about a couple who move back to Love Canal!”
https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/script-to-screen-tootsie-a01f2feda37f
afraid that it would be too “queer” for a nation “founded by Puritans.”
They’re not called “Eurofags” for nothing.
The lady’s not for burning?
Well the Bloomberg article mentioned in the links isn’t as clueless as I expected. Still I wouldn’t have contrasted the different impact across income levels along with the “helpful” tips.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with “prioritize your spending” as financial counsel.
Certainly not. But their advice is a bit tone deaf for most people not living in dense urban areas (take the bus), and people who value a balanced diet (eat lentils instead of meat).
Not much left to cut over here. Although I generally endorse the “don’t give your pet chemo” advice…
Local news has been pushing a story to make the buses, trolleys, and light rail “free”, while saying that there may be some flaws with that plan.
Studies on that have shown that even a “token” fare amount greatly reduces vandalism and other problems associated with public transportation.
Putting aside valid arguments about the folly of public transportation…
I could see an argument for making public transportation free. If your goal is to reduce congestion and get ridership up, lowering fares is the way to go. And free is as as good as that gets.
Secondly, the fares now are only a minuscule of the true cost. So small that getting rid of the whole rigamarole of fare collecting could reduce your operating costs by that same amount. For example, if fares are only covering 20% of the costs of operating a bus, you might break even if you didn’t have to spend time collecting the fare (and associated costs of selling ticket cards etc.).
Again, I’m not advocating for free public transportation. I’m just saying that there are arguments for it. In the same way there are all sorts of interesting physics stuff that is possible if you start with “ignore air resistance”.
Free Housing on wheels/rails for bums!
That is the Blue Line.
One of the reasons I hated flying into O’Hare is because you’d get on the Blue line early in the morning and it would be stuffed with bums.
At least the Orange line to Midway shuts down at some point in the night and they clear them out.
The wino, bums and soaks had trouble when the ‘vid hit and the G shut down so much of the CTA…
If you want the system to fall apart you probably could not achieve that any faster than making it “free”.
More successful systems go the opposite route. I believe the Hong Kong system – before China got its mitts on it – was making a profit – one of the few to do so.
The solution in the US is to charge full fare. Stop subsidizing all those gentrifiers we keep hearing about who can afford it. Rebate the poors as needed.
But it will never happen so long as transit is positioned solely as a “benefit” to poor people.
“Buy a pellet gun and get free meat and rid your neighborhood of squirrels” was on the list of tips, right?
I am disinclined to eat rodent. Not even Cuy
Squirrel is my favorite game animal to eat. Fight me.
Never had squirrel. Farmed rabbit is delicious.
Squirrel BBQ in the depths of Oklahoma country. On a bun.
I’ve never had it either. I’m assuming like most game the taste depends on its diet.
You can have it, just don’t ask me to.
Your nuts.
Did you mean to say You’re nuts? Oh wait…. I see what you did there..
When I was a lot younger and lived in Mpls we would make an annual fall trip to the Zimmerman-Cambridge area and spend a whole day chasing squirrels. My dad had a shotgun, my brother and I with .22s. I carried a slingshot and rocks to shoot the nests and scare the critters out. It was always a fun day, to be out with my dad, learning things, eating the lunch my mom made for us. My dad was older than my friends’ fathers and the other kids envied us ’cause we had guns and stuff.
Now that area is suburban Twin Cities
Brunswick Stew, baby.
I could go to Japan and ‘do nothing’.
I should try the Rental-San gig. Im sure Id be big in Japan.
It’d be better if you were maiden Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alfGdwifSxo
ISTR there is a market in China for “white guy in a suit” to stand around and not speak Chinese at business meetings.
When I went to our offices in Japan, they staged a shot of me pointing at a screen with a cluster of my Japanese colleagues huddled behind me. “We have white guys! See the great white IT man explains things to us!”.
I hear there’s a big ditch in Arizona which would hold a lot of trash. Let’s start sending it all there.
This is literally saying only the 1% income earners are not affected.
Have you priced a mega-yacht recently? It’s outrageous what they charge for those things!
You can seize one for free with this trick!
Sorry PA (Philly adjacent) Glibs – this will be a shitshow and I will bet mean a road closure that will last forever…
Two PA Troopers, Another Man Killed on I-95; Road Closed in Both Directions
I literally never travel that direction.
If we all could only be so lucky.
He’s gotten stuck in a very small dot on the far side of the planet to avoid moving closer to Philly.
I bought on the west side of the Susquehanna for a reason.
Susquehanna
Not like that’s a busty road.
Busy… heh Q hasn’t even posted yet.
Exactly.
And even though we know pretty well what happened it’s important that we take our time and thoroughly document everything in excruciating detail.
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Why does this smell like a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Rep. Liz Cheney on Sunday agreed with Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the use of chemical weapons should be a “red line” for NATO to intervene in Ukraine.
“I think that we in the West, the United States and NATO — we need to stop telling the Russians what we won’t do,” Cheney (R-Wyo.) said. “We need to be very clear that we are considering all options, that the use of chemical weapons is certainly something that would alter our calculations.”
Russian forces have bombed schools, hospitals and other civilian centers within the four weeks of their assault on Ukraine. Now, global leaders are concerned Russia is about to employ the use of chemical weapons.
Earlier in the month, Russia accused Ukraine of harboring chemical weapons, which U.S. officials believe to be a “false-flag” strategy to give Russia justification to use its own chemical or biological weaponry.
Bugs Bunny: I dares ya ta step over dat line.
Yosemite Sam: Ah’m a-steppin’!
Smells like they want to play a game of false flag. Nobody really believed it in Syria but it didn’t matter and we got us a base there where, uh, we can do stuff.
Where’s Jimmeh Cahtah when you need him?
In a 10-point plan, the IEA’s suggestions to reduce oil demand included reducing speed limits for vehicles, working from home for up to three days a week, and avoiding air travel for business.
“We estimate that the full implementation of these measures in advanced economies alone can cut oil demand by 2.7 million barrels a day within the next four months, relative to current levels,” the IEA said Friday.
I did not see “Save hot water by showering with a friend” on that list.
Much disappoint.
“Was this shower really necessary?”
The most impassioned conversations I’ve seen on this site over the last few days have been about DST and Star Trek.
You people are weird.
You should have been on the Zoom when they were arguing about whether Star Wars is science-fiction or fantasy (FWIW, I agree with Hyperbole, Star Wars is a western).
I always thought the whole Kinda Wanna Fuck my Sister and Kill my Father thing put it somewhere along the lines of Greek tragedy.
Pish tosh. Did you see a SINGLE tumbleweed on all of Tatooine?
Tumbleweeds are an invasive species, during the settlement of the west, there were none in the americas.
When Luke and co were on the Death Star, they forgot to put in the Foley of spurs rattling.
Firefly >>> SW.
Fight me.
I loved Firefly when I first watched it, liked it the second time, was bored with it by the third tine, and now I think it’s completely overrated.
Dons Jayne’s cap, joins Gender Traitor in the fight*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN49TDIY-Sk
The need to categorize everything afflicts libertarians, too.
It does prove we are human though.
Lookit the yokeltarian we’ve got here.
I’m more of a yokel libertine. An anarcho-yokeltine? I kinda dig that…
It’s science fantasy, with American western and Japanese samurai film influences.
Are you new here?
I just spending a lot of time forgetting.
Obligatory?
I see you’re familiar with NPR’s style guide.
“This spending proposal represent a sum of money equivalent to washing machines laid end to end from Ashtabula, Ohio to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.”
Could you dumb it down a little and tell me how many bathtubs full of rope that would be?
What kind of rope? Squirrel hair rope?
So we got the thing to boot and have network connectivity. Quick let’s write 100 tech articles.
Asahi Linux Is The First Linux Distro To Support Apple Silicon
So, um, does it have any means of graphical output?
I’m assuming unaccelerated graphics work.
Yes, to a serial printer.
VT-100
But it needs Twinax.
For very constrained definitions of “support.”
I’m not dumb but I can’ understand
Why she walks like a woman and swims like a man
Oh my Lia
La la la la Lia
*narrows gaze*
Minneapolis swarmed a neighborhood this weekend, looking to recruit residents after 150 shots were fired at a gathering in less than 10 minutes with no one being hurt.
Was the gathering a meeting of the Fraternal Order of Police? I mean that many shots and no hits…
Fraternal Order of Stormtroopers
Luckily no ensigns from the Federation were invited
Stormtroopers have landed on earth. Look for a guy dressed in black breathing heavily.
Maybe it was a rootin’ tootin’ cowboy celebration.
Was the A Team in town?
^ winner ^
alol
That’s quite a few even by my standards.
Police say more than 150 shots were fired at a massive gathering in south Minneapolis Sunday morning, but no one appears to have been injured.
Somali wedding party?
Could be. I’m no expert on those neighborhoods anymore, but it is just south of Little Somalia.
Ron Jeremy is the Ukraine?
The war in Ukraine has reintroduced these words and phrases into our vocabulary
Thanks NPR! I had no idea about any of this stuff because as your typical reader/viewer I’m more concerned with social justice, climate change and just how evil those Republicans are.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/chinese-passenger-jet-crashes-132-dead/
Terrible…
A nose dive like that is….brings up questions.
I thought it was gonna be mentions of Dirty Sanchezes, Cleveland Steamers, and Donkey Punches, but then I saw words that everyone uses all the time…
That plane dove into the ground like Heroic Mullato into ass?
Any Russians in the area?
Well, we will see how successful the GOP is in 2022 in retaking the House. AP’s Nicholas Riccardi: “As the once-a-decade scramble to draw new legislative lines, a process known as redistricting, nears its conclusion, Democrats have succeeded in shifting the congressional map to the left. The typical U.S. House districting now comes close to matching President Joe Biden’s 4 percentage point win in 2020.” A national GOP official is quoted the biggest surprise is that “Democrats, where they had control, they went wild.”
The Republicans aren’t called the “Stupid Party” for nothing.
I think redistricting should be handled like splitting the cookie for your children. Oldest gets to break it in half but youngest gets to pick the half.
In the old days that’s the way it worked. Mutually created “safe” districts.
This can’t be true. I’ve been led to believe gerrymandering is exclusively done by republicans to disenfranchise minorities and women.
Hell. I’m not sure that the redistricting is finally complete here in Ohio. Three or four maps have been drawn, and then rejected by the state courts.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
* Pulls out sled hockey recruitment brochure *
I could use that kid and the marine.
Wonderful. Thanks, Holiness!
+1
Stupid, dusty house.
Attention, Attention, Attention.
Jergens lotion recalled for possible bacterial infection
Let’s all be safe out there Glibs!
Well there goes the penises
They didnt kill us with CoVID. Now they’re attempting to affect our abilities to reproduce!
To really get ya and keep it hidden, they would have to create a binary agent. One part in the lotion, the other in the tissues….
ZARDOZ IS PLEASED.
Working man, resurgent
More than 500 workers at a Chevron Corp. refinery in the San Francisco Bay area have told the company they will go on strike at 12:01 a.m. Monday.
Members of United Steelworkers Local 5 voted down the company’s most recent contract offer and gave notice of intent to go on strike, the union said in a statement Sunday.
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If the strike shuts down the Richmond, California, refinery, it could crimp gasoline supplies in the state, which has the highest regular gas price in the nation at $5.847 per gallon, according to AAA.
The union said in its statement that it reached a pattern agreement with the oil industry Feb. 25 on wages and working conditions. But about 200 bargaining units also have to agree on local issues before contracts can be approved.
But Chevron argued that “the union’s demands exceeded what the company believes to be reasonable and moved beyond what was agreed to as part of the national pattern bargaining agreement.”
Maybe Joe will venture forth from the Imperial Fortress to express his solidarity on the picket line.
Here’s a solution: replace them all.
Oh wait, nobody in that business from other states want to move there.
Good morning, Sloopy!
I’m glad the trip went well.
I’m still pretty surprised that more parents haven’t called out swimmer dude. Kind of cowardly to not defend your daughter.
I think they finally went too far. I have not seen a single person, even the lefties on Facebook, defend the swimmer. I have however seen some pretty hostile posts out there.
I saw on tv news that the 2nd place finisher tweeted that she was perfectly fine with a “male who identifies as a woman” winning the race.
Yeah, right.
Blink twice if you’re safe.
Demoralization is ugly to watch.
” Kind of cowardly to not defend your daughter.”
True. I’m sure the parents are pissed. Although I think the reason why most people aren’t outraged by this is because most people don’t care that much about women’s sports in the first place.
And either they’ve spoken out and been ignored by the MSM, or they’re afraid to speak out because they know the MSM will ruin their lives.
My comments have been declared spam.
Can’t really argue with that. Ha!
I don’t like SPAM!
Bloody vikings!
Wow.
JET CRASH China Eastern Airlines crash – Shocking moment Boeing 737 with 132 on board nosedives vertically into mountain at 350mph
I knew about the crash, but didn’t know we had pictures of it demonstrating VNE.
A dive like that has a lot of questions attached to it.
Something catastrophic had to occur lead to a dive like that. No power, no control surfaces or wings, or a pilot with no more will to live.
Airlines from countries with no GA/ smaller military aviation do not have good records when the automated systems fail.
Could have been a gyro issue.
I’ve watched many episodes of Air Disasters and it is amazing how many things can fool a pilot so he turns the wrong way.
Re: Sci fi TV shows, I’m taking the opportunity to finish a series that is admittedly super-terrible, but I keep watching it.
Earth: Final Conflict.
It’s just horrible, and yet I like it somehow. The acting is so terrible that one of the best performances is given by Majel Roddenberry (who’s previous best performance was “Voice of the Computer” on ST:ToS.) The storytelling is right on par with the original Trek, which is in no way a compliment. The aesthetic were twenty years out of date when it was filmed, but if you love an ’80s-tastic Miami-Vice-Meets-Blade-Runner vibe, you’re in luck with uber-1337 superHaXX0rZ in day-glo colors with gratuitous katakana.
It has exactly two good things: The opening credits music and the first season CGI, which still holds up (later seasons it really went to shit unfortunately).
And yet, every now and again, it has good (or at least surprising ideas). Like smartphones before they were a thing (though in this world, they’re all made by the same company). And killing off the main character in a completely plausible non-heroic way. And the makeup does get better in that the character portraying a billionaire CEO eventually figures out how to match her skin tones to her dye job. Seriously, has nobody in Hollywood ever met an actual rich person?
I had no idea it existed. Let alone that they made 5 seasons.
I cannot recommend it, even though I really like it.
It would not surprise me if the storyline was pulled out of Gene’s notes after he died and “touched up” by Majel.
I liked the first few seasons. It took a lot of time to get going. I liked the Jaridians when they were first introduced, but the aliens’ origin stories became stupid real fast.
I still think of Agent Sandoval when ever I hear the last name.
Yeah, that’s one of the things about the show that makes it somewhat hard to judge but was a terrible idea storytellingwise: Give a whole class of humans a legitimate reason to have a flat affect, but then make them major characters. Are they being good actors when there characters are supposed to act like terrible actors? I’ve never seen Von Flores in anything else, so I can’t tell.
I thought she was pretty good as Lwaxana Troi
Working man, resurgent, pt 2
Canadian Teamsters and CP Rail blamed each other for a work stoppage Sunday that brought trains to a halt across Canada and interrupted fertilizer and other shipments to and from the U.S.
More than 3,000 Canadian Pacific Rail conductors, engineers, train and yard workers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference are off the job after both sides couldn’t reach a deal by a midnight deadline.
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On Saturday, the Teamsters said in a statement that the company had locked the workers out, but later issued another statement saying the workers were also on strike.
The original statement posted to the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference website late Saturday said the union wanted to continue bargaining but the company “chose to put the Canadian supply chain and tens of thousands of jobs at risk.″
“As Canadians grapple with a never-ending pandemic, exploding commodity prices and the war in Ukraine, the rail carrier is adding an unnecessary layer of insecurity, especially for those who depend on the rail network,″ the statement said.
CP Rail, Canada’s second-largest railroad operator, said it was the company that wanted to keep talking, and the union that pulled its employees off the job.
CP President Keith Creel said in a news release the union “failed to respond″ to a new offer presented by mediators before the midnight deadline.
Just do what we say, and you won’t get hurt.
Wow.
JET CRASH China Eastern Airlines crash – Shocking moment Boeing 737 with 132 on board nosedives vertically into mountain at 350mph
Is this going to turn out to be another pilot suicide?
If pilots want to off themselves, it’s just an asshole move to do so in a way that kills others.
They’ll just blame Boeing’s autocrash feature.
autocrash feature
Is that the buggy software that sometimes results in the Yellow Scream of Death?
* steps away from his holiness, in advance of the incoming lightning bolt *
Asiana Airlines Flight 214
Once again what happens with no “driver aids”.
Nope. Not looking. I have terrifying recurring nightmares of dying in a plane crash. Some have been so vivid I’ve felt the heat. I had a job where I was flying at least once a week recently and that quickly eased any fears, but the nightmares still happen.
The Japanese “do nothing” guy has captured my imagination.
It’s a perfect niche for him, and kudos for monetizing it, but nobody else can follow up with an imitation; it’s a one time thing.
Props.
More common than you think there. Aging and decreasing population.
You Can Rent a Dad in Japan
That is next level weird.
Parent “stand-ins”?
Japan definitely falls into “They’re _not_ just like us!”
Longer and non-paywalled
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry
Crucial disclosures
How much do companies contribute to climate change and how are they impacted by it? Those questions are at the heart of a major announcement expected on Monday from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The country’s top financial regulator is expected to propose new disclosure rules that would require companies to report their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions as well as how climate change might affect their businesses.
It’s part of a global push by regulators to acknowledge climate change as a risk to their economies and their financial systems.
Investors are demanding companies disclose potential risks from climate change. But some businesses worry climate-related government mandates could be invasive and burdensome.
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The push is largely coming from investors themselves, who are increasingly keen to know how climate change might impact the businesses they fund.
Of course it is. Just like those anti-gun “activists” who buy a few shares of Smith and Wesson so they can show up at the annual meeting and create a big distraction.
Oh, goody, SOX 2.0 – a bunch of regulatory overhead that adds nothing.
But it helps create barriers to entry for smaller companies.
So essentially Fortune 1000 with the exception of energy is likely to be all on board.
I can’t wait to read about all the “climate” horseshit in upcoming company newsletters.
Seriously, our marketing and HR groups get off on this shit, and on bothering ops to provide all their stats.
Speaking of regulatory overhead that adds nothing…
Yeah, bullshit.
Speaking of bullshit, the hot new thing around here is they are now rating apartment buildings for “energy efficiency”, and just like they rate restaurants they are posting these signs on the front door. I’ve only seen C’s and D’s. I can only figure the idea is to get tenants to “shame” the landlord into jacking up their rents.
Epic stupid.
I saw those signs on office building up in NoVA. If you look up details, the score includes proximity to transit, so it isn’t only about the building’s efficiency.
Oh, that’s gonna happen alright. Just not the way the author means.
So my nephew got jumped leaving a bar Saturday night. Hurt pretty bad. Had surgery yesterday, his skull was caved in at a part, they put in a plate. It was pushing in on his speech area of the brain. He was texting and can understand people, even before the surgery, but he can’t speak. He is up and walking around, had his first PT therapy this morning. If his speech doesn’t come back in next few days, they may have to start therapy for it.
The cops interviewed the guy who did it, and were going to let him go as a “bar fight” gone bad, but they watched the surveillance video and arrested him. Basically everything he told the cops was a lie, plus being in the bar on a fake ID didn’t help.
I don’t know if something happened inside that led to it, I don’t have any details, but my nephew never saw it coming. I don’t know if he hit him with something, I know he was hitting him on the ground after he knocked him down.
Local hospital transferred him to Baltimore (he is in MD), I guess they have plenty of experience dealing with trauma.
That’s horrible, man. Good thoughts for speedy healing to your nephew.
Wow, hope he has a full and speedy recovery.
Geez, sorry.
Seems like more people than ever are wound up tight lately.
Sorry. I hope he recovers fully.
Shit, sorry to hear that.
The cops were going to ‘let it go’ when there’s a victim with a fractured skull? Ask me again why I think cops are useless…
yeah
Uffda.
That seems very wrong. I wonder if the attacker had some connection to the cops somehow? They wanted to let him off, but because of the injuries they just couldn’t.
I was out with my dad once and a guy stopped him and chatted for a bit. The guy was huge. 6′ + and full of muscles. After he walked away my dad said he was an ex client. Was on probation for a bar fight where he punched a guy so hard that he broke a bunch of bones in the victim’s face and he lost an eye. According to my dad, the victim started everything and the only reason the guy had any charges pressed was because of the injuries.
I hope you nephew gets better and has a full recovery.
Did he hand you a vegimite sandwich?
“Do you speak-a my language?”
Yup. I knew a guy a couple years behind me in high school, who got into a fistfight. He fell, hit his head on a parking block, and never woke up.
Don’t hit other people, and don’t let other people hit you.
Sorry I didn’t see this.
Hoping for a speedy recovery.
That’s messed up.
Hope he can get back to normal.
Ugh. That’s awful.
Up & walking around sounds like he’s gonna bounce back fast.
Wow, very sorry to hear that. I hope for the best for your nephew.
I hope he recovers, and soon.
If the cops drop the case, there are a lot of strangers on this
trainchatroom.Awful, i hope he has a great recovery.
Yikes! Sorry 🙁
HOLY MACKEREL! I’m so very sorry to hear that. I hope he makes a speedy and full recovery.
That’s awful. I’m so sorry.
I can only echo the sentiments already better expressed by others above. Best wishes for a speedy recovery and a satisfactory legal outcome.
That’s awful! I’m glad they were able to get him care quickly. Brain injuries can be devastating. My late wife had one undiagnosed (the hospital thought she was drunk) for almost after someone hit her in the head while she was going out for orange juice. She was never the same after that.
I hope your nephew recovers quickly and fully.
Fuck. I hope his speech comes back on it’s own. IT’s good that he’s cognizant to communicate via text. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Short notice: Eastern PA meetup in Quakertown today at 5:30 PM. Contact Sean or me via the forums for details.
Mosins?
I’m not surprised. There are probably lots still in storage, plus that is a sniper version.
Per Wikipedia:
Huh. I wouldn’t have thought it would still be in “common” use.
It’s only in the last few years that the Lee-Enfield left service. The Canadian Rangers replaced the No. 4 with a Tikka bolt gun (T3 I think? Produced in Canada for the Rangers under license and with a different model number). Indian and Bangladeshi police have stopped using the SMLE (2A/2A1 also for Indians).
There was a Danish military unit in Greenland equipped with M1917 rifles. For the same reasons the Canadian Rangers clung to the Lee: cheap, powerful enough to stop a polar bear, and Arctic conditions are hard on semi-autos.
Anne Finucane, who oversaw Bank of America’s work on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) matters as the bank’s vice chairman, supports enhanced climate rules. She says that reporting on climate risk is demanding and it can be duplicative.
“Right now, there at least a dozen third parties, NGOs, that measure companies — all companies, not just financial institutions,” she said in an interview with NPR before she retired in December. “It’s like a Venn diagram. Eighty percent is the same, but 20 percent is different.”
But if we get the government involved, then we can just shrug our shoulders and deny any accountability.
“We’re just doing what we asked them to make us do.”
“Investors are demanding companies disclose potential risks from climate change.”
No they’re not. I’ve had some Bank of America stock for a long time. Its value has nose-dived since the mid-1990s. The annual report talks about everything except making money.
Yeah, I specifically ignore those bullshit ESG scores when considering investments. Well, sometimes I look for particularly low scores.
Well they sure aren’t wasting any money paying me interest on my accounts.
The problem with making money via sperm “donation” is the whole pre-donation abstinence period thing.
Fecal “donation” does not have this problem.
Welp, I’m out. Had ulcers, not normal weight. Also, I don’t live in Arizona.
Don’t laugh, man. People with intractable C. diff thank you.
How is the ulcer recovery?
Very well, thanks. I can tell they’re gone and it’s wonderful.
Excellent!
https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Turd_Burglars
“Conservative satire site Babylon Bee REFUSES to delete tweet calling transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine ‘Man of the Year’ despite being blocked from Twitter”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10635519/Babylon-Bee-refuses-delete-tweet-mocking-Rachel-Levine-despite-blocked-Twitter.html
OFFS!
Look at those teeth! Those are the dessicated teeth of a drug user. To hell with the bad sex change. Those teeth are hideous.
Good for them. Fuck Twitter, they don’t need them.
The Democrats are crying about how unfair the GOP are in their criticism of their Supreme Court nominee. If anything else I’m amused the size of their cajoles to even make a statement like that after the savagery of the Kavanaugh and the stupidity Barrett nominations.
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!!!
All I’ve heard is she’s fully on board with the CRT stuff and other lefty planks, so of course they will find her objectionable but IIRC the senate already confirmed her for her current position (probably rubber-stamped) so I’m sure she’ll sail through again but the left will bitch and moan that she’s getting more attention this time around.
Customs agent: Anything to declare?
Wife of corrupt Ukrainian MP: No, just $28 million and 1.3 million euros in my suitcases.
Reminds me of that Afghan politicians who tried to flee with so much cash his helicopter couldn’t lift off.
Fleury traded to Minnesota. Hope Tundra has fun watching the playoffs this year.
Anne Finucane, who oversaw Bank of America’s work on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) matters as the bank’s vice chairman, supports enhanced climate rules.
Maybe it’s me but the whole ESG scam stinks to me of an emerging, untalked-about fascism. A few years back, the Business Roundtable declared that the duty of companies wasn’t to their shareholders, but to a nameless set of “stakeholders”. I complained about it at the time, and still do. If companies have no accountability to shareholders, management is effectively unaccountable to anyone but the government. Whatever decision management makes, no matter how self-serving can always be justified in the name of satisfying the wants and needs of some constituency. ESG seems like little more than an attempt to lock that unaccountability into the system. No matter how incompetently a company is managed, it can still get a high ESG rating by mouthing the right platitudes and playing along with the right agendas. And no matter how brilliantly a company is run, the ESG powers that be can choke off its capital. In many ways, it’s the Chinese Social Credit system applied to corporate governance.
“Stakeholder capitalism”, brought to you by… *drumroll* Klaus Schwab and the WEF
I’v really come around on this guy being a no-shit villain.
Yep. There are no “stakeholders” in a business other than investors and customers–and customers are really only important in that they are a source of income for the investors, and literally provide the lifeblood of the business (assuming the investors aren’t just throwing their capital at it for a loss). Employees can be considered, and should be, by management, because there are only a very few markets where stupid, unmotivated employees make little difference in the outcome for the company, but overall, employees have the right to leave, and management has the choice to do or not do something about that.
Absolutely correct.
One of my finance profs played this speech in class – still true today.
(good movie, BTW)
The tide is shifting, however, and companies and business leaders are now calling for a return to stakeholder capitalism, which is currently prevalent in Europe and was formerly the norm, even in the U.S.
Formerly the norm? Bullshit.
That is, indeed, a giant pile of bullshit. That was never the norm.
Hate it when my husband shoots down my unrealistic expectations with math and logic. Dafuq.
If a man says something and no woman is there to hear it, is he still wrong?
All married men know the answer to that.
At the moment, he is correct.
If I succeed, he will then be wrong. Wronger than wrong.
Ganbaru!
An extremely well known (and sometimes well worn) bit of Japanese.
Yes, thank you! That.
It helps that I am enjoying the task.
Biden sent significant number of Patriot antimissile systems to Saudis, US official says
And in return Saudi Arabia will quietly produce more oil while not claiming to do anything publically.