Still entertained by the reaction to Musk buying Twitter?
#metoo
Here’s a few links:
What are we calling them these days? The Nazgul? The Supremes? Either way, everyone will want to know how Jackson defines “Mexican”.
Meanwhile in Mexico…
Keep protesting, I’m sure it will stop.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just make him stay in Mexico?
A violent fascists that will allow you to …publicly make fun of him?
Mixed feelings on this one, but not cool.
Why? Could it be over a century of their government making dumbfuck decisions?
These guys were real screwballs, weren’t they?
No, I am not entertained.
Not enough blood spilled in the arena?
Not enough sister leering.
How about more of this story?
“Amber Heard shifts uncomfortably as clinical psychologist tells defamation trial that she suffers from TWO personality disorders and ‘grossly exaggerated her PTSD’ after split from Johnny Depp”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10755797/Amber-Heard-diagnosed-two-personality-disorders-psychologist-reveals.html
What about her PTSD from being in Aquaman? That should probably count for something…..
Depp’s testimony was pretty funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XKbpucBvlg
And he is reading the worst Iain M. Banks novel. Dude, stick to The Wasp Factory or Complicity, the rest is at best meh.
Oi! I thought Excession rocked! (And Iain Banks only uses “Iain M. Banks” for his sci-fi work; everything else as far as I can tell is under his “Iain Banks” name).
Over the years, I read most of what he wrote and in the end I found the best way to decide what is good or not was determined by the M. Skip everything with it, and stick to his mainstream stuff: The Crow Road, Wasp Factory, The Bridge, and Complicity being the best. I always found his SF too what I call School Boy Sniggering. “And he renamed farts to straf, isn’t that the funniest thing of ALL TIME!”
But I dislike most British SF for that reason.
“One engineering student I spoke to keeps all his savings, in US dollars, at home because he fears that the banks will again devalue holdings overnight.”
That might not be such a good idea either.
wait, what? That’s not very smart.
Well, you see, there’s a big dollar with a man named Benjamin Franklin on it. And, like, there’s a small dollar with a man named George Washington on it. And the big dollar has been devalued so it can only buy things the small dollar used to be able to buy, and that’s not right.
Nicely done, Veep.
His friends in the business school tried to tell him otherwise but being an engineer he thinks he knows everything.
He repeatedly downplayed the severity of the virus, which he referred to as a “little flu”, and was criticised for removing his face mask in public after testing positive for Covid-19.
The Brazilian president also attended anti-lockdown protests after regional governors imposed restrictions, denouncing the measures as “dictatorial”.
Is “Bolsonaro” Portuguese for “DeSantis?”
As right wing South American thugs go he’s alright plus he looks like Carl Sagan.
Not enough helicopter rides, though.
Has he accomplished anything? Every time he is in the news, you learn that the Brazilian Deep State prevailed once again and forced Bolsonaro to wear a mask for extra humiliation.
I thought it was Portuguese for “Trump”.
Democracy in action!
Trump Latino advisor doesn’t like establishment Republicans. No mention of what the party ever was for him except his own chance at some graft.
Still entertained by the reaction to Musk buying Twitter?
Yes, but the gif is still better.
It is near perfection.
Enjoy the source material.
It provides important context.
Now I want Carl’s Jr.
Not everyone does:
LOL!
Or as I was going to say, “A commercial you can’t make any more.”
Progress!
Alternately — “A commercial you really, really don’t want them to try to make any more” — imagine the Current Year version with “inclusive” models across the spectrum….
Yep, my immediate thought was “imaging how ugly everyone would be today”.
Someone needs to mine that for additional gif’s. There have to be at least a dozen more good ones in there.
You could download the video and make your own!
I love context.
Sorry, Swiss – but too perfect.
Mexico detained almost 6,000 foreign migrants in a four-day span, the country’s National Migration Institute (INM) said on Monday.
By far the largest group by nationality detained over the weekend were Hondurans, with 1,060 detained, followed by 942 Cubans and 906 Guatemalans.
That’s a helluva swim. Are Cubans navigating the Yucatan Channel in their homemade rafts, or catching cheap flights to Cozumel and overstaying their visas, or what?
Reminds me of the border kerfuffle some months back when Border Patrol agents on horseback were allegedly whipping Haitians. How the hell did the Haitians get there in the first place?
How the hell did the Haitians get there in the first place?
Via Chile as I recall. Not exactly the direct route.
Well, there were these two guys in North Carolina….
At this point, I’m surprised the administration isn’t sending charter flights to various countries to bring them in.
And you know what? I’d actually be *fine* with that — presuming that there’d be at least a little vetting, they’d avoid the coyotes and if the actual border was locked down. Vet their claims of “asylum” and if they just want to be transient workers in *their* country (but actually vet them), the way it should be. I’ll stop before I start preaching to the choir here — I know y’all have heard it before.
They did at the end of Afghanistan – and it was just random people getting on.
They would do it with Ukrainians, but they are yukky white people who will probably get jobs, assimilate, complain about taxes, and vote Republican.
This linkage between rapid money growth and inflation is a basic law of economics, something like the law of gravity in physics.
If the velocity of money was anything like a law in physics, we’d already be pushing around wheelbarrows of dollars.
Posted earlier, but I’m thinking of attending this Surf / Rockabilly / Psychobilly / etc. festival at Asbury Park Lanes in NJ on Aug 19-20.
Music loving Glibs–I’m thinking about going to this in August in NJ:
https://www.songkick.com/festivals/2831649-hitide-summer-holiday/id/40291139-hitide-summer-holiday-2022
Messer Chups and Black Flamingos, who I’ve seen before, will be playing, as well as Man or Astro-Man?, Los Straitjackets, and other bands you might enjoy.
It’s 2 days–I’d really like to see MOAM (it’d be the first time) and Messer Chups and Black Flamingos again. I don’t know what days each will be playing.
Anyone interested?
Will be driving back north from Ocean City on the 19th, so probably not. Asbury Park has turned quite upscale in recent years, not the sleazy dump I fondly remember; played in a chess tourney at the old convention center there in 1978 and stayed a block away in a motel called, I kid you not, the Flamingo. John Waters would have been pleased.
But how do you feel about the schism?
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/jersey-shore-pizza-institution-drops-the-mack/1918814/
Hah, I remember that! The (shitty) pizza hasn’t changed, they still put gobs of sauce ON TOP of the cheese. They still get a line halfway down 12th street at lunchtime.
Boardwalk pizza in OC is a bunch of places trying to see who can make the biggest pie. 24″! 26″! I guess size matters, quality certainly does not.
I grew up near Ocean City.
We have family on LBI too, so that’s where I go now.
My kids used to love it when we were driving down on a Saturday morning and would see the eastbound traffic on SH 72 backed up about a mile west of the Parkway. “Dad, how far is it to LBI from here?” “Only about 10 miles”.
OK I bought my tickets
Enjoy!
I’m interested, I was thinking of going. I’ll have to see if there are any issue with that weekend for me.
Man or AstroMan!!!
I might have to see some of these bands before they disappear.
There will also be a Reverend Horton Heet show on Memorial Day weekend in my area.
There will also be a Reverend Horton Heet show on Memorial Day weekend in my area.
I remember that.
I probably won’t go. I’ve been in PA a lot this Spring, and that weekend will be a good weekend to get stuff done up here in NH.
I know! I missed MOAM in Pittsburgh because I wasn’t paying attention. Not going to miss them again if I can help it.
I saw Messer Chups in Cleveland (at the Grog Shop) in 2018 and Black Flamingos was on the bill too and I really loved their show.
I have a Man or Astroman poster on my wall!
Man or Astroman is great live. One time I saw them and one of the guitarists was dressed in a homemade, light-up robot outfit. He kept getting shocked so had to get out of the costume.
Well juris didn’t get his wish on what he wanted Musk to tweet. Instead we got Per aspera ad astra!
C’est le vie.
“EXCLUSIVE: Joe’s missing millions! Financial records reveal Biden had $5.2million in unexplained income – as emails show he paid Hunter’s legal bills for one megabucks Chinese deal and was tapped as ‘big guy’ to get a 10% cut in another”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10728521/Financial-records-reveal-Joe-Biden-5-2million-unexplained-income.html
“unexplained”
“Madison Cawthorn cited for having a loaded GUN at an airport: GOP Rep. has another encounter with law enforcement in North Carolina for carrying a Staccato C2”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10756173/Madison-Cawthorn-cited-having-loaded-GUN-airport.html
Wait, did the DM correctly identify a gun?
Same as mine. Maddy has good taste (and all the common sense of a largemouth bass.)
He probably got his as a gift.
/jelly
“Married life has not slowed her down! Paris Hilton channels Barbara Eden from I Dream Of Jeannie: ‘I am a neon raver Barbie cowgirl and ready to sliv'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10755601/Paris-Hilton-channels-Barbara-Eden-Dream-Jeannie.html
You do you.
Barbra Eden did it a LOT better.
Amen to that. She can’t hold a candle to Barbara Eden.
I like her better as a burger salesperson.
Also good.
She and Britney must have both heard about the “Hot / Crazy Line” and thought… “Oh! A CHALLENGE!”
Amber Heard won that challenge. And it wasn’t even close.
Really? I heard she shat the bed.
Moderately hot, absolutely bug-eyed insane
Still wouldn’t pick Paris. Maybe I got spoiled working on that chain gang.
For Jerónimo Ferrer, a formative memory is of Argentina’s crushing financial crisis at the end of the 1990 – when bank accounts were frozen and, almost overnight, people’s savings evaporated.
Coming to America?
The NHLA’s 2022 mid-term liberty rating is out.
I initially read that as the National Hot Librarians’ Association Mid-Term Library rating is out
Serious note: the “sponsor” column is 0.0 for everyone, what is supposed to mean?
I assumed it was a race-car league.
Racist.
I thought it was hockey-related. You know, the league Gary Batman runs
Now there’s an association a lot of folks could get behind.
I didn’t notice that until you pointed that out.
I found this in the document:
This year, we did not include
a sponsorship score modifier as the truncated legislative session resulted in a reduced view of all submitted legislation and fewer roll call votes and
as a result, there was concern that the sponsorship score would outweigh actual voting performance. Note that given the limited number of rollcall votes in the senate by mid-term, there could be a substantial difference in the final rating as compared to mid-term.
I wonder if this was a mistake. The the final session of the 2018-2020 term was truncated due to the Lil Rona Panic. This term has been odd because of the Lil Rona Panic. For example, the legislature’s first meeting of the term was in a parking lot. In December, 2020. In New Hampshire. But, despite the oddities, neither session for this term has been truncated as far as I can tell.
IL is easy.
“We suck. The End.”
Yes, Elizabeth, the government has been doing many illegal and unconstitutional things for a very long time. That doesn’t mean we look the other way and keep doing them.
The market is bearish on TSLA right now partly due to the Twitter kerfuffle. As you guys know, I am a Tesla fanatic. I love the cars, I love the business model, they are more than a car company; I expect the stock to split yet again in the next couple of years.
If you want to buy a few shares, this might be the day for it! ~$800 per.
I would, but my wife says I have to let Elon know before I buy so he can expect it to tank further. It’s like a regulation or something. Sheeh, you make some bad calls during a tech bubble and suddenly you’re an investment pariah.
Bill Gates is winning.
Lol, whut?
I will give Gates this: he has the MSM and NWO on his side, unlike Musk.
Gates has a big short position in TSLA
Who says war isn’t profitable!
Milo Minderbinder?
The peasants?
Edwin Starr?
Yes! Ow, my aching feet.
The article talks about “sending” the goods home. Does that mean that the logistics train isn’t as bad as Ukrainian news implies? Who’s doing the shipping?
Our leaders who stole Russia’s $300 billion of foreign exchange reserve sure didn’t say it.
The Russian military is fair, even junior officers benefit, not just generals. What’s the point of waging a war if you don’t collect trophies? Трофейное!
As usual, Razorfist kills.
National treasure, he is.
Saving the planet
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced new energy efficiency regulations that will phase out old-fashioned incandescent lightbulbs, a move that will drive down electricity use and curb greenhouse gas emissions from the country’s power sector.
The Energy Department’s rules, which reverse a Trump administration policy, will ban the sale of light bulbs that produce less than 45 lumens per watt and raise energy efficiency standards for various types of general service lamps.
The new standards will save consumers $3 billion each year in utility costs, the department said. The rules could also prevent 222 million tons of planet-warming carbon pollution from being emitted over the next 30 years. That’s about as much as 48 million vehicles emit in a year.
Did it hurt when you pulled those numbers out of your ass?
Ignoring all the cheap transformers for LED lighting that will quickly self destruct.
Yeah, you never bother with the Mini class like Bumblebee or Cliffjumper — shell out for the higher end die cast like Masterpiece Optimus Prime, he’ll hold up better.
Somebody still is going to bust a cap in him too unfortunately.
Anyone who would Dare would be a real instrument of destruction.
This is one I seriously don’t get.
Make LED bulbs at an affordable price point (and with the right color / light temp, etc.) and people will obviously use them where it makes sense to lower their energy costs as it is. Not a lot of people *want* to use bulbs that take more power for the same light, after all… and leave the market alone for those few who need Classic Easy Bake Oven replacements, or use them for home heating as well or whatnot.
If the efficiency comes without substantial tradeoffs, there’s zero need for regulatory intervention. And regardless of what the Trump admin did or didn’t do (and I don’t care enough to go look it up) — I don’t think you can say that the LED marketplace is on a downswing (well maybe due to semiconductor supply chains over the last couple of years…). So this is just preening for the loons combined with sticking the government nose into a market that would work just fine as it is.
Maybe I should just go tie an onion to my belt today, I guess.
I had a really cool chandelier and matching wall sconces in my San Diego house, and they needed halogen bulbs, little tiny ones. There is no substitute for those.
I’m trying to figure out how they square halogen bulb bans with the constitution.
All together now — “The FYTW clause, of course!”
Re: This and Brooks’s comment 30 — beyond that the Feds shouldn’t have the power to do this, extra fun is that they’re not even pretending that Congress has any say in the matter. Rule by Regulatory Fiat… SUBMIT, PEASANT!
Sigh.
I got lucky on the sconce issue with the GA house – those bulbs are too tiny, were originally incandescent – but I found LED ones that fit in there just fine. Since those are among the lights I leave on all the time so the house looks lived in, that mattered to me. Sorry to hear your little tiny ones don’t have a direct replacement. Of course, whoever bought the house from you will probably just end up changing out the fixtures. Everything’s disposable now, after all….
I just looked at the Zillow listing for the old house in SD. Looks like they uninstalled the chandelier and sconces before they put it on the market!! (I had already moved to Nevada and left it in the hands of the realtor.)
I can’t believe it. They were beautiful things, made in Italy. I hope someone salvaged them instead of throwing them away!!
You know who else thought highly of light fixtures from Italy?
I found LED-replacements for the hot-ass halogens my stove hood came with; you’d start sweating just from the heat of the halogens before you even started cooking.
“The Energy Department’s rules, which reverse a Trump administration policy”
Does Congress ever actually do anything?
Great, another go-round of a “environmentally friendly” admin fucking with light bulbs. And it went so well last time…
The administration’s new rules will eventually phase out most incandescent and halogen bulbs on the market.
Halogen, too?
YOU BASTARDS.
But we’ll still have LED’s, right?
LEDs have improved substantially over the last 4-5 years.
It kind of sucks about halogen though. I have a hardwired fixture that might not get a replacement bulb now.
They are getting pretty good about having LEDs that will fit old/odd light shapes as well. Getting the color right still seems to be the greatest downfall.
The halogen ones are a PIA. I finally gave up on LED replacement for a big halogen in a fan and bought a new fixture.
They make great grow lights now as well
I’m just here for Hyperion’s take.
“By raising energy efficiency standards for lightbulbs, we’re putting $3 billion back in the pockets of American consumers and substantially reducing domestic carbon emissions,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm said in a statement.
We’re forcing you to replace you 89 cent light bulbs with bulbs costing ten bucks. See how much you’ve saved?
I remember when CFLs were supposed to save money by lasting 10 years. I was lucky to get a year out of most of them. LEDs do seem to hold up pretty well though.
All I hear when I see the front page gif
See comment 7 — that’s all I hear.
But we’ll still have LED’s, right?
Yeah, like the little “high efficiency” LED work lights in my tool box which eat batteries like popcorn.
Good thing electricity is cheap and plentiful and we’re not having rolling brownouts before trying to force everyone into EVs or anything… that would be just Paris Hilton levels of crazy talk…
Your music link kicks so much ass, BTW – love that song.
Not so fast on the Twitter purchase. Musk’s Twitter Purchase Fails After 138,000 Board Votes Found Overnight
NYT explains how the sausage is made. Funny they don’t frame things this way when they like the plaintiff.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/travel/mask-mandate-overturn.html
When the federal mandate requiring masks to be worn on planes and other public transportation crumbled last week, it was not because of lobbying by established trade organizations, or the strident calls of Republican lawmakers, or even a determination by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that masks were no longer necessary.
Instead, the mask mandate’s demise was brought about by an unlikely confluence of individuals: Leslie Manookian, a former Wall Street analyst living in Idaho who had founded an anti-Covid-regulation nonprofit; two Florida women who said their anxiety prevented them from wearing masks and, therefore, traveling; and a Trump-appointed federal judge who the American Bar Association said was too inexperienced to be appointed to the bench.
The NYT can fuck off.
The Boston Globe revealed that the two plaintiffs were anti-vaxxers the day after the Florida judge lifted the mandate.
Sorry for a drive-by, but i wanted to drop a reply to whiz’s reply on my comment about Musk/Twitter lawsuit issue.
Whiz- “govt is defendant in that lawsuit, not Twitter.”
Whiz, I spoke in legal shorthand and skipped a lot of steps. Yes, the suit is against the govt, but if you read the complaint, they allege “upon information and belief” that their Twitter suspensions were a direct result of the government’s actions (specifically the Surgeon General’s Mar. 2 “demand” that social media companies turn over “Covid-19 misinformation” before May 2.) In the trial, the plaintiffs are undoubtedly going to ask for subpoenas – under FRCP 45 – for Twitter to produce documents and probably even testimony. Their lawyers have to know that this lawsuit is out there and in any kind of purchase this would have had to have been disclosed.
Which means at some point Elon’s Twitter is likely to get a subpoena duces tecum (at least) regarding these 3 guys’ Twitter suspensions for saying what amounts to some very unobjectionable things, yet getting pulled for “Covid misinformation.”
My question is what will Elon do? Will he fight the subpoena, have Twitter’s lawyers move to quash, assert some privilege to not turn over the exact algorithmic way in which Twitter ID’d and yanked these guys, OR… will he “open kimono” and turn over all of it, even cooperate to help the plaintiff’s case against the govt – and Twitter’s – censoring?
I would suggest that will tell us whether Elon’s going to really honor his claims about the First Amendment or not.
Anyway, my apologies I threw off something semi-literate in haste earlier and wanted to clarify.
The Biden administration has committed to achieving a net-zero emissions electricity sector by 2030, and plans to complete 100 energy-efficiency actions this year.
Saints preserve us.
Good intentions matter more than economics and physics.
Livin’ in an Amish paradise…
Politico
Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover
Reaction from probably even just 20 years ago.
I listened to the audiobook of “The Godfather” on YouTube a couple of weeks ago. Johnny “Sinatra” Fontaine is in a lot more of the book than he is in the movie.
This is a good case study of how today’s “press” works. I can find no instances in which Musk says he will have zero moderation on Twitter. Not one. He said he supports free speech, and some things about making the algorithm and banning more transparent. Yet all you hear about in the MSM is how Musk is going to allow anyone to say any kind of “hate speech” and he’s going to allow Trump back on.
The “news” is not about facts, it’s just people reacting to each other’s mind reading.
They’re just reporting on what newsworthy people (like them or their friends) say on Twitter.
That’s journalism, right?
😉
And rampant narcissism.
The news also has bought into the idea that allowing some people to speak (e.g. white guys) will cause other people (e.g. women, minorities) to not want to speak freely because they are worried about criticism from the first group. Therefore free speech for some becomes censorship for others, because we all know white guys are just waiting to criticize women and minorities. It’s in our nature. And women and minorities need the helping hand of censors, er, moderators.
If someone is too chickenshit to speak up when they want to that’s their own fucking fault.
Check your privilege, man.
Here’s an example of the reasoning. https://www.npr.org/2022/04/16/1093212502/women-face-disproportionate-attacks-online-one-expert-shares-some-of-the-details
“As you’ve probably heard, the tech titan Elon Musk has launched a hostile bid to take over Twitter, the social media platform favored by many politicians, celebrities and journalists. That’s because he says he’s a free speech absolutist. And he says the platform now has too many rules about what people can say. But our next guest says there’s a group of people who are essentially censored on social media right now – women, especially women of color and public-facing women, because of the vicious, sexist and racist abuse they’re subjected to online.”
Like there is a way to keep women from speaking.
Tiresome.
It’s true though. Saying “there’s a group of people who are essentially censored on social media right now – women” is complete bullshit.
Your shtick is almost as old as Brochettwad’s.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitters-top-lawyer-breaks-down-tears-during-musk-takeover-meeting
Who needs some prog tears?
Oh look, yet another female Indian commie. They seem to be everywhere these days.
Did Modi kick them out of the country or something?
From Juris’ 3:16 link:
In the Fed’s Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress in 2021, Chairman Powell stated, “The growth of M2 . . . doesn’t really have important implications for the economic outlook.” Later he argued that the connection between money and inflation “ended about 40 years ago.”
At this point, I’d be grateful if Joe Biden nominated his dog to be Fed Chairman.
That’s about when we started exporting our inflation in the form of foreign reserves with the assistance of the Saudis. That connection is about to hook back up again like two trains colliding.
Say Whut?
White House adviser Cedric Richmond confirmed Tuesday that he will depart President Biden’s staff for a position at the Democratic National Committee — shortly after reporting that he called left-wing Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib “f—ing idiots.”
Richmond, 48, will serve in a vague DNC role boosting the party’s efforts to avoid a wipeout in the midterm elections in November. He and the White House described the transition as a promotion.
Richmond, director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, was one of the few relatively fresh faces among Biden’s senior West Wing staff, which is dominated by longtime associates of the 79-year-old president. He reportedly struggled to be included.
It’s unclear if Richmond’s criticism of Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Tlaib (D-Mich.) had anything to do with the timing of his exit.
I didn’t tell the President you’re a fucking idiot. I thought he knew.
Well.
They are fucking idiots.
He’s not wrong.
Countdown to leftists screaming how polluting electric cars are to spite Musk
Nah, they just started calling him racist, of course.
Business Insider already running a story how subsidies propped his companies and made him rich.
I’m thinking more along the lines of a complete reversal (like they did with the “Trump Vacksine”). Govt officials have been saying, for the last few months, “just buy an electric car!!” to hedge against increasing gas prices.
I’m thinking now they’ll be saying how much better petroleum is than electric.
I don’t know; there’s a pretty vocal group of True Believer Greenies out there.
Countdown to leftists screaming how polluting electric cars are to spite Musk
Maybe they’ll figure out where batteries come from.
Spoiler Alert: It’s not a magic hat.
baaahahahahahahahaha
LOL
Daily Waffle Roundup
#95
No one gives a shit.
Well, no one will say you waffled in your support for the game.
I have to say that I’m amazed at the stories this morning about Twitter locking down code because they are worried the employees might sabotage things. I’ve been through several ugly corporate divorces/marriages and I’ve never known anyone who would tank shit like that. Sure you can bad mouth management and only do what is asked to, but deliberately screwing things up seems wildly immature.
I wonder how many people working there will start leaking to the media? Musk rats are the worse!
“wildly immature”
Something extremely rare in Progressives.
The liberals all say they hate Twitter, but I bet they secretly are turned on by Twitter’s new Musky smell.
These are people that thought they were saving democracy by banning the Biden laptop story and banning Trump. Not to mention all the Covid censorship they were doing. I have no doubt someone would want to sabotage Twitter to prevent an African immigrant from taking over. Whether they’d act on it, I don’t know. It would be pretty easy to trace who done it.
It would not work if it were obvious. Source could just be rolled back. Something subtle and surreptitious though? perhaps
the code lock was a good idea and showed that elon was planning this kit.
*out
I have a slightly more hopeful take – there are still adults in positions of authority at Twitter and they were prudent enough to declare a change moratorium.
The politics as praxis crowd cannot be trusted.
Tetas grandes on Mammary Martes!
https://archive.ph/rlcy7
GAY
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18380260/never-interested-sex-no-even-girlfriend/
The dude, the girl friend, or both?
Make this legal and the shoplifting problem in big cities will clear up pretty quickly.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10755655/Family-Dollar-worker-21-charged-murder-emptying-entire-clip-shoplifter-49.html
Well did he empty the Glock “clip” or fire six shots total or hit the victim six times?
I’m sure the rest of the story is correct.
“But at least I can profit from it.”
Bizarre
Lauren Bernett, a standout James Madison University softball player who helped the school to a historic run to the Women’s College World Series last year, died suddenly at the age of 20, officials said Tuesday.
The death of the sophomore catcher, who was third on the team in home runs and second in RBI, was announced by JMU president Jonathan Alger.
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The school’s statement did not state a cause of death, but it is not being treated as a crime, officials said.
“Yes, we are conducting a death investigation at this time,” Rockingham County Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson said in a statement to NBC News. “It is not a criminal investigation as no foul play is suspected.”
A representative for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia could not be immediately reached for comment on Tuesday.
These stories are very weird. Why are so many young athletes with no known health issues keeling over?
Mental health issues as well.
Exercise is dangerous.
Crikey. The geomagnetic storm crap is still rippling through and causing sporadic bad behavior in electronics and communications. Or maybe it’s a hostile EMP sneak attack; I dunno.
This is a strange place and time in which to live.
In what bands?
Hopefully, Nickelback.
There was a big solar flare last week but it was allegedly not pointed at Earth.
However, we are in the upswing of the solar activity cycle. Get a road atlas, because your phone gps isn’t going to be around reliably in the coming years.
Get a road atlas
Always do, even though we’ve got GPS galore. Ferinstance, the Michelin mapbook of France is around 20 Euros and is the shiznit — the whole country at 1:200,000. Actually saved us from going wildly in the wrong direction a couple of times when our GPS decided to send us to the opposite end of France from which we were wanting to go (same town name).
This band is on fire
“This girl is on FIRE…”
The new youtube “phone” mode for videos is hot garbage.
In this case, I think they made the video that way (it is part of their “shorts” series as opposed to their regular work, and I think it is supposed to look like you’re viewing Facebook or TikTok or something on a phone). Just my impression.
Pretty hot. But not The god of hellfire
My baby’s on fire .
Where at? it seems fine up here.
Verizon said it was mainly California that was affected, but I can tell ya the Tesla couldn’t connect to the mothership either.
Our refrigerator “brain” died too; can’t make ice, dispense water, or even set the temperature.
The ravens are acting weird too. I’m just going to hunker down for a while…
(Yes I know I sound like a nut, but this is odd)
“Our refrigerator “brain” died too; can’t make ice, dispense water, or even set the temperature.”
What?
The front panel of the fridge is where the user interface (computer) is: setting temps for freezer and fridge, dispensing ice water or ice, setting other parameters.
Last night it took a dump and now is a glorified cooler. We ordered a new one.
Yikes! Are any other electronics in your house broken? Maybe it’s just a coincidence.
Russian saboteurs.
Lovely. The sun can really fuck things up. Back in the early aughts (2002 or so) we had memory corruption in our database storage array after a similar event, wound up with a two-day outage.
A modern-day Carrington Event would be bad times.
Definitely
And it is a crisis that is almost guaranteed to occur. It’s only a matter of time.
Meanwhile, we piss away money on climate change.
Looks like the storm has peaked now and is on the decline. At one point they were call for a G4 which can get pretty nasty (induced currents on pipelines and the sort).
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnings
Hmm… strange occurrences in the Nevada desert….
LOL.
Dugway, Utah is where the real action is. They jokingly call it “Area 52.”
I saw some stuff, man…
When you’re taking a stretch break at midnight, looking at the beautiful stars in a clear black sky, no light pollution, and then three aircraft blot out the stars while silently hovering above you, it’s a little freaky. I saluted, and the one in front tipped slightly in acknowledgment so I think they were friendlies. Couldn’t hear a thing but they were pretty close.
One afternoon we stopped at the PX for snacks on the way out to the hotel. We were covered in that fine powdered sand that is characteristic of certain areas on post. Some other dudes at the store saw us all there, looking dusty and weary, and they excitedly asked “Are you guys working on the meteor site?!?” We said nope, but really wanted to ask a bunch of questions. “Meteor”?
Area 52
The ravens are acting weird too
They’re saying nevermore?
No — that’s their normal. The ones around Hayek are saying “Eternally” and perching on her bust of Demeter instead.
The mated pair that lives nearby are sitting on the stone wall and looking into the windows. Not saying a dang “grock” today.
The more distant ones are walking by the roads instead of flying.
Those aren’t ravens; those are Heckyl and Jekyll.
Tis the wind and nothing more
It’s a lovely poem.
It did just occur to me that the ravens might be affected by the avian flu that is so severe this year. It’s been devastating to the raptor population in the Midwest, and one of the side effects is neurological problems.
Poor birdies! ??
That sucks.
We have tons of Magpies. I haven’t noticed them acting any weirder than normal.
No, they were saying “eat my shorts”
Actually, they are calling for the reestablishment of the monarchy.
Our refrigerator “brain” died too; can’t make ice, dispense water, or even set the temperature.
What have we learned?
We should buy horses?
I need a vintage ice box.
Manager: “Did you get the code done for that project?”
Me: “Was just about to commit, when everything went crazy. Some sort of geomagnetic storm? I’ll have to start over, should be ready in a couple of weeks.”
Man, now it’s affected your avatar.
Damn those solar flares!
The truth of HS is out there…
ACK ACK
In “Mars Attacks!!” the place where the alien ambassador first exits the aircraft to make contact with humans is…Pahrump.
Oh, shit—and I just remembered it was birds that freaked out the Martians and sparked the war!!
Holy ravens, Batman!
???
I’d pay good money to see that scene recreated with Lloyd Austin assuming the role of his office.
“Still entertained by the reaction to Musk buying Twitter?”
Nope, tiresome and, sadly, mostly predictable. Although I didn’t think about them going down the “you know what else you can buy for $44 billion road.”
DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
(The ‘I got nothing’ Edition)
#92
Champ(s)
The Hyperbole 19
Not Adahn 20
Raven Nation 22
Sean 22
Tundra 22
whiz 22
Evan from Evansville 23
MikeS 23
TARDis 24
Ghostpatzer 25
kinnath 25
l0b0t 25
SDF-7 25
Necron 99 25
one true athena 26
Ted S. 26
rhywun 28
Chump(s)
Grumbletarian 118
Grummun 122
19 players, 33.78947368 average, 6/13 TL, 2 chumps. I’m the champ with a 19? that should really be all that needs said. Dog’s sake people, reach back around and get a firm grip on your shoulders and pull your heads outta your asses, this is pathetic. I wanna see some 17’s tomorrow, or I may just hang it all.
“Champ(s)
The Hyperbole 19”
“We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.”
Breaking News:
Parag Agrawal, along with other members of the Twitter board, were just now seen on security video at Twitter headquarters wiping something with a cloth?
Headlines that should make you worry just a little
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/04/25/global-military-spending-tops-2-trillion-for-the-first-time/
It was hyperinflation that caused it.
“Still entertained by the reaction to Musk buying Twitter?”
Yeah, I just watched some it from today. Took them about 2 fucking minutes to call the guy a racist. One of the dumb twat talking heads said ‘Sure, free speech for white guys only!’. How mentally ill do you have to be to utter that televised?
If they believed even a word of it, they’d be terrified to say it out loud. Actual hegemonic white supremacists would make such pronouncements dangerous to their careers, at the very least.
They’re just mad that an African American billionaire can do what he wants with his money.
African American billionaire
LOL, perfect.
+1000. A guy that’s actually been to Africa. Oh noes, he was born there! Wait, white people cannot be African, and that’s not racist at all.
This mentally ill?
“Daily.
Black workers were called racial slurs DAILY under @ElonMusk
at Tesla.
This gives us a real glimpse of what he means by FREE SPEECH.
Free to call Black people niggers.
He wants a space where white people, particularly white men, have no limits on who they can harass.”
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1518962680500998144
(shit that happened) (this)
Please leave Twitter already. You promised.
I’ll rupture a kidney if he gets banned for saying “nigger”.
I predict these obviously false statements calling the owner of Twitter a racist don’t even get censored.
They’d better be careful, they can be sued for defamation.
My favorite are the variations on “free speech will end democracy”.
It’s like they’re not even trying any more.
The corporate media’s made it so easy for them for so long that they’ve forgotten how to play.
It’s like using cheat codes on a video game all the time and then being forced to play it straight.
Marxists have their own version of trying.
Was she on fire?
She was hot
I’d like to be a fly on the wall of Jack Dorsey’s office. He seems to be pretty supportive of Musk’s Twitter takeover. I wonder if he had just mentally checked out of Twitter those times he was in front of Congress and on Rogan. Given that he’s also the CEO of Square, he maybe didn’t have the time and energy to push back against the woke.
I’m thinking he was shuffled off to the side a while ago.
I think he tried to assuage the pro censorship types as much as he could and they pushed him out anyway and he’s pissed and hates them.
How pissed can he be, after getting nearly a billion dollars?
Because he obviously loves the platform still
He’s a pussy who’s stoked for a payday.
I’m most interested to find out which intelligence agency had his balls for the last 5 years.
“Watch these legislators and the anti-trans witness in Missouri openly discuss restricting transgender care to the age of 25, with a particular focus of restricting the transgender care of trans women (who the Republican calls “males”).
This is creeping fascism.”
https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1517537174652178432
I’m against children medically transitioning, but this seem too reactionary.
Of course, the whole “age” thing is screwy, you can work and drive at 16, vote and sign contracts at 18, buy alcohol at 21, etc.
Yeah, it’s creeping something… just not “fascism”.
Also, “a particular focus of restricting the transgender care of trans women” is backwards, because currently the opposite is much more of a problem.
If they believed even a word of it, they’d be terrified to say it out loud. Actual hegemonic white supremacists would make such pronouncements dangerous to their careers, at the very least.
There is a list a mile long of dissident journalists who were disappeared during the Trump administration.