He wants competition (unlike Nadal).
The voice of reason. Basketball playoff results: don’t know/don’t care. Man City did their job to take back the top spot in the PL. ManUre officially hired their new manager (of the sinking ship). F1 is at Imola this week, so I’ll pour one out early Sunday for the late, great Ayrton Senna. And that’s pretty much it for sports.
::Shrug:: I don’t give a shit. Do a better job serving your customers.
Their possible hero?
The irony here is ironic. Will they be marched off the lands with only their possessions on their back? Maybe they should get a US Senator to champion their cause. There’s one who knows all about Indian customs and cultures that aren’t hers by birth.
I hope this crazy shitshow lasts forever. It has to be the best entertainment out of Hollywood in years.
This was a bad idea.
However much he’s being mocked, it’s not nearly enough. I mean…this is the news media photo version of Billy Squier’s “Rock Me Tonite” video.
The pants-shitting is reaching new levels. These dumb fucks have no foresight whatsoever.
Not exactly a breath of fresh air. The next bit of drilling will be by a lawyer.
Why wasn’t this guy rotting in a prison cell? Or rotting in the ground after being chucked in a woodchopper years ago?
I’m all for reducing crime, but not like this. This is a gross violation of their constitutional rights. And it needs to be struck down as quickly as possible.
Start your day fast. that’ll get the blood pumping. And this will ensure it stays pumping all morning. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday. I’ll enjoy it because I will end it at home after basically being gone for four days. Although a couple real NY slices last night were worth the trip to this crazy city.
You were in The City(tm)? There’s a USPSA match on Saturday, I could have loaned you some gear.
Got in yesterday afternoon. Headed out today at 3. I won’t even get more than 3 miles from JFK the whole trip.
And that meeting starts in just a few minutes. Enjoy your day, friends!
If it takes Trump to get Congress to reign in presidential powers, that is another plus on his record.
Now THAT is how you kill any legislation right there – give credit for it to Trump!
*wanders off to look at Twitter stuff and maybe do some Quordle*
Is Quordle on Twitter?
Might as well be.
Barbarian!
The Jan. 6th committee will fade into the same irrelevance as the Un-American Activities one did.
Depends on whether they keep it or not after the elections this fall.
Oh sure, I see Speaker McCarthy keeping it. bwahahahahaha
It would be interesting for the Rs to keep it, but change targets.
And nobody will learn anything from that about how anything one faction creates will be co=opted and weaponized against the creators.
They never do. Every warning about “the ends justify the means” is ignored because they can’t think beyond their emotions.
The November 3rd Committee has a nice ring to it.
I guess maybe I’d prefer a November 5th Committee:
Remember, remember, the Fifth of November
Gunpowder treason and plot
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot
He avoided being quartered alive; that’s pretty cool.
That event looms large in a novel I just finished reading yesterday – the latest release in a long series I’ve recommended before. I’ll comment about it when “What We’re Reading” posts (next Friday, per tradition?) No spoilers, though. ?
“A brief History of the Gunpowder Plot”?
“The Last Days of Guido Fawks”?
Oh, it’s by no means the only Big Hairy Historical Deal happening in the book (which is the further adventures of my favorite time-traveling historians/disaster magnets.)
I don’t know if irrelevant is the right word. HUAC and the McCarthy era were huge parts of American History classes when I grew up.
HUAC and McCarthy were hunting Communists and actually found a few. The lefty educationists never forgave them for that and spent decades trashing HUAC and McCarthy.
Neither outfit had a detectable effect on real life of the masses of ordinary people.
Nothing except people and the media having a healthy distrust of the media and government until about 2015 or so.
Neither outfit had a detectable effect on real life of the masses of ordinary people.
And that is pretty much the definition of irrelevance, no?
Rank and file don’t follow the meat and bones of political discussion. That’s left to their betters. People like us and MSNBC or FOX.
hock-ptui
Spitoons, indeed.
It had a pretty big effect on the entertainment industry, and that affected what the “masses of ordinary people” were allowed to hear or see.
Not that you’re wrong about “lefty educationists” being mostly angered by who was being targeted, and not the practice itself.
Don’t forget that HUAC was originally created to find Nazi sympathizers.
And that a Soviet agent in Congress was a principal in that.
As for Netflix it isn’t hard. The vast back catalog of movies and shows that drew people to it has vanished. The original programming it produces are either terrible and dumb or they only appeal to a very niche social justice slice of the broader audience. The product is worse and people have other options. Simple.
So our elites plan to deprive of us both bread and entertainment?
Their power is too diffuse to prevent degradation even of their own tools.
Don’t forget the recurring price hikes “for more quality content”.
The standard plan was $7.99 in 2013 and is $15.49 now.
WTF? I dropped it 3 years ago, at that current price I would never reconsider it. If I got a gift card I’d re-gift it.
Ditto. There are 3 or 4 services with better content for less
Britbox?
I watch a lot of Britbox.
Like?
HBO Max, Prime Video, Disney+, to name the 3 we have used. Hulu, possibly.
We have the hulu, disney, espn+ for $13/month. It’s well worth it. I use a VPN and can watch every Wings game. I cancelled Netlix to see if anyone in my family would not notice. No one has said a word that we don’t have the service anymore.
I can never find anything with watching on prime.
Might consider Disney, now that my son is getting old enough to watch Disney movies. Do they have the oldies on there?
Do they have the oldies on there?
Yup.
Huh. I find Prime has a vastly better catalog of older content.
I find Prime has a vastly inferior browsing interface. If I don’t know what I want to watch, I can’t find anything.
@unciv definitely agree. Hard to find something unless you know the exact title.
@NA I only watch TV with my wife, who is kind of a snob. So while there might be some old stuff I’d like to watch, I simply don’t for the most part.
@trash good to know, I’d like to watch Pinocchio, etc. Maybe in another year.
The woke BS content is replacing more worthwhile content, and sucking production dollars from other content. But for me the tipping point will be advertising; the reason I pay for content is to enjoy it ad-free.
I cancelled after season one of The Witcher.
I had read all the books, played the games and was legitimately excited when I saw the trailer.
They managed to bore me with it, in spite of Harry Cavill doing an excellent job as Geralt.
That show should have been amazing.
Yup. They’ve become an HBO/SHO clone with lesser programming.
And people have been cooped up for two years. With inflation as it is, lots of people are preferring non-televised entertainment for a while.
Yup. Everyone has already watched The Evil Dead or Titanic enough already. New circuses, dag-nabbit!
Meh. They put out some decent (Marvel) or more-than-decent (Altered Carbon, Umbrella Academy) content.
But yeah, the more fragmented the catalogs become, the less valuable any particular service is worth. I HATE the commercials at IMDB, but at least the price is right.
Commercials so irritate me that even free is not cheap enough to put up with them anymore.
Commercials don’t bother me so much or I would have cut the cord ages ago. Reason being is I don’t watch TV steadily, it’s more background noise. Anything I want to watch steadily, I get a hard copy of it.
One of the problems with streaming commercials is there is a very limited supply of them, so you get the same ones every break.
Sometimes the same commercial multiple times in the same break.
One good thing about IMDb’s commercials is they set a timer on the screen. If I know it’s going to be a bit I’ll get up and do some minor bit of household chores.
It’s like having “The Pillow Guy” for that nosy neighbor
Hhhhullo, I’m Mike Lindell. Care for some Giza Dream Sheets?
Yeah, when I watch Dr. Who on Pluto it’s the same NYC vax propaganda during every. single. break.
I guess HIV is a problem around Washington based on commercials.
And Cadillac is looking to corner the androgynous coke model demographic for their electric car in Austin.
In the bedroom I only have an antenna, which isn’t so bad. PBS Create is nearly as good a background noise as TCM. Fox Biz was pleasant BN for three recent years straight.
I wish I could get OTA broadcasts. A ridge on one side blocks Washington and one on the other side blocks Richmond. The only broadcast I could get was MHz.
I think that a huge part of the drop in viewership is that the pandemic is truly over and people are getting back to work (or at least getting off their couches).
Parents aren’t buying the excuses from their kids anymore and stopped paying for Netflix. “Get off the couch and get to work, the rona ain’t gonna kill you. But I may if you don’t get a job”.
The lockdowns had to be the single greatest moment for Netflix’s business. Now that it is over, it can’t be surprising that they aren’t making as much money.
The only reason I haven’t looked into dropping it yet is my son still enjoys binging Pokemon shows there, they’re still there the last time I looked — and I’m not paying out the rear end to get them on iTunes (yeah, yeah… Plex server yadda yadda — I’m still going the Mac Mini hosting my iTunes library across my network, okay?). I do watch the British Baking Show whenever they bother to bring over a new season – but I can live without it.. the new seasons haven’t been great anyway.
If they go to commercials, drop those from the catalogue or go much higher, they’re gone.
I like The Last Kingdom.
I liked it at first, but it drifted away from the books, and in the last season Uhtred felt like a side character in his own story.
Just like everything else they do, it seems the showrunner doesn’t like the books that it’s based on.
Haven’t read the books. Perhaps I should.
The Saxon Tales and Master and Commander are my 2 favorite historical fiction series.
I could type a whole paragraph about these books.
I liked all of them, the last book seemed unnecessary, but it was still entertaining.
Uhtred in the books is way more competent and arrogant than the show. Also it does a better job highlighting Alfred the Great’s genius and mistakes.
Plus the show glossed over his whole youth with the Danes (I understand why, but it adds a lot to the story).
What I’m trying to say is, if you liked the show, the books are definitely worth checking out.
I saw a fun, campy, not trying to be historically accurate show on Prime called Britannia (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5932548/). Might be appealing to people who enjoyed the Last Kingdom, but a different more whimsical feel.
Bernard Cornwell, the Last Kingdom’s creator is an incredible prolific author, with multiple works converted into TV, notably the Sharpe series. I listened to audiobooks of his King Arthur series and read some standalone stuff. My favorites were probably the Last Kingdom and the one about the archer in the Hundred Years War.
I loved the King Arthur and the Archer series.
First thing I ever read of his was Stonehenge, which got me hooked on his stuff.
Never read any of the Sharpe books, I think there’s too many of them.
I thought the same thing about Master and Commander, but once I started, I read them all.
Absolutely correct. The rise of things like Pluto and Tubi were totally missed by NetFlix and others in their mad dash to waste money to new content nobody really wanted. Once you got a streaming TV set and could see just how much ad-supported content there was out there, with no subscription other than paying your internet bill, it was game over for NetFlix and others given time. This is just the beginning. I would also like to point out (tin foil hat placed ceremoniously on head) that this shift in model means a huge expansion of freedom. Not just from bills. That’s easy to see. I mean in access to information. There is no single gatekeeper on the sprawling ad-supported content. Make your own channel! If somebody wants to give you ad revenue for it, you are golden.
I, for one, am willing to pay a modest fee to have no ads. For enough decent content, of course. Netflix has been pretty borderline for us for awhile. I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets the axe the next time we do a round of cost-cutting.
Not to shock you, but Netflix announced they were looking at putting ads in content. While still charging you money. I still have both NetFlix and Amazon myself for now. Amazon will probably go first. But over the past few years I weaned my wife from cable and showed her that streaming services are also not necessary. I consider that a big plus so far.
Yeah, if Netflix does ads, I think they are history in our house.
Netflix’s world has been turned upside down as stock plunges 35%
I looked last night and apparently Netflix is costing me $20/month. When the fuck did that happen?
There’s been at least two price hikes in the past couple of years.
I have no idea what we pay for roku. I don’t watch TV. We’ll be paring down soon.
Roku is free unless you have added one of their premium services/channels.
We pay for some goddamned thing.
The new Glib motto!
Pic caption –
Guy: “Hi, Carol, have your menses started yet?”
Carol: (thinking) “I have to get away from this idiot and get to the links…”
Looks more like he’s rebooting and she’s thinking “that new patch corrupted all the links.”
I didn’t really mean to make out with your sister but she’s so damn hot!
oblig: http://static.dailyforest.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/22111824/Joeys-Sisters.jpg
Had Italian best friend for awhile. Can confirm.
Did they all wear house slippers? I don’t think I noticed that on Friends before.
TBH, I wasn’t looking at their feet.
Not into feet, eh?
No, more of a leg man.
Sorry to double down on the Friends refs, but Monica was onto something in accusing Phoebe of “feet flirting” (toe polish, cute sandals, or whatever that entailed). Much body language in feet.
That’s because she wanted to bang the hot guy she was massaging who was staring down at her feet through the head-rest on the massage table.
Or so I’ve heard.
Have y’all seen The Opposite Of Sex? Lisa Kudrow is lovely in it; so is everyone else.
https://youtu.be/d2nazpBBi0M
Also LK in The Comeback. Poor Aunt Sassy.
Mm, the Matthews; eh, rhywun?
Native Americans facing disenrollment fight to remain with tribes
Indian givers.
Not all of them give. A SoDak immigrant is going to be made an example of.
I wonder if this tribe has or is about to get a casino. Can’t be sharing that loot.
Pine Ridge is one of the most depressing places I’ve ever been. And there probably isn’t a large enough population nearby to support a casino.
Present for Swizzy – https://youtu.be/iUl_QQAj_oA
Ouch
I am sorry to have disappointed you.
You know how fond I am of you, Swiss Servator. Relax.
One good thing about being mainly a lurker and not being interesting enough to contribute much around here. I already know how disappointing I am to Swiss and the other Powers That Be — so nowhere to go but up.
Most Improved! ? ?
It’s a terrible piece of music but the song remains the same. Fecking auto-tune!
That’s disappointing from Kacey.
I don’t know a lot of her stuff, but what I do I like…and none of it sounds like that.
Wait, is she unbuttoning …?
/Pushes Swizzy aside
It has to be the best entertainment out of Hollywood in years.
If I were him I’d show up to court every day dressed as one of his characters in movies.
I’d watch him talk about his crazy wife as a drunk pirate.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S10E15/748914
Not the right sort of Indians, apparently.
Ah, communism. Ain’t it grand?
If it were not for zoning laws Robert and Michelle could start their own tribe and pick and chose. Have to be done surreptitiously because of other laws though.
The disenrollment appears to correspond with the closing of the casino in Deming
I’ll bet that if some intrepid reporter dug into the history of this tribe they would discover that Clan B just defeated Clan A in a recent tribal election. So now it is time to distribute all the goodies to Clan B and purge Clan A.
I’m also sure that the reason Clan B took over was the rest of the tribe was tired of Clan A’s corruption. If Washington tribal politics are like they are here, in 8 – 12 years Clan A will sweep the elections because Clan B is seen as utterly corrupt.
It is one of the problems when you have a pseudo democracy imposed on a clan/family based society.
Same up here. Democratically elected Councils fighting with the Feudal system. It gets really ugly, really fast.
I was thinking the same thing. Happens with the Senecas all the time. Same story every 30-40 years for them. It’s New York, so I guess they’re more corruption tolerant.
Getting casinos and the huge amounts of cash that they bring really accelerates the corruption/turnover cycle.
Eh, why shouldn’t they get in on the grift too?
(I confess near-ignorance about both Indians and casinos.)
Because it is defacto race based privileges, which I will always oppose.
But in the case of casinos, a voluntary grift. (I myself don’t gamble.)
Yes, I just meant everyone of every race should be able to open a casino if they want, not just native Americans.
Maybe Jeff Probst could mediate.
That’s a Kickapoo right to the Nooksack.
In interesting numbers today:
https://thelibertyloft.com/2022/04/20/world-war-three-is-about-to-hit-a-new-high/
I’d say the negotiation ship has sailed.
C’mon, we can ramp up WAR if we apply ourselves.
Hold on Buster – not if it means sacrifice!
Kind of sad. What would happen if any of those countries got into a real war?
‘Oops, ran out of materiel. Guess we’ve got nothing to hit the Chinese with now…’
Lame AF.
Trump continues to falsely state he lost the November 2020 election due to widespread fraud despite multiple court losses and audits confirming Biden’s victory.
She claimed despite evidence.
‘There are many of us who are of the view that the Insurrection Act, which the former president threatened to invoke multiple times throughout 2020, bears a review,’ said Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, a member of the January 6th committee, told the Times.
So it can be used more broadly against dissenters, I presume.
I’d be for scrapping it altogether.
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Hurdle chumped me today.
Not quite Chumptown — but was definitely skirting the town limits today. Barely swerved away in time.
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blech. I think I’m getting worse at these
Did I miss discussion of this gem?
FAA to review as parachute stunt triggers Capitol evacuation
The feds are a little jumpy if you ask me.
Well just think of all the money wasted. Between the flight, the response and the investigations after.
If the Capitol AA had taken down a team of Army skydivers, how would they have blamed Trump?
1) He contributed to the ‘environment of fear’ by goading on the 1/6 protestors
2) As a Republican, his funding cuts hurt the communication center where they were supposed to let each other know what was going on.
…I’d say you have a bright future in broadcast media, but I wouldn’t want to offend you.
Lol!
It was on point and fact free. Perfect!
Or the simpler, but tried and true “Because we said so, shut up.”
3) The communication center was also short staffed due to Covid, which Trump has repeatedly denied.
4) Climate change.
God wants you to cover your face.
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday said mask requirements would remain in place in New York state on public transporation and in other higher-risk indoor settings.
I thought that was heads.
C.S. Lewis disagrees, sort of.
However fans at basket ball games are fine to not wear masks.
Police release video of suspect in Atlanta security guard’s killing
White-supremes at it again.
The black faces of white supremacy.
My umbrella doesn’t work unless you use yours.
MSNBC’s Dr Patel: Carry extra masks on planes & force your neighbor to wear one
Go fuck yourself.
“Force.” Yeah, doc, about that…
Because so many people do. My next question might be “WTF are you doing on a plane then? Shouldn’t you be with your kid?”
Then why aren’t you wearing an N95 mask?
“Do you wear an N95 whenever you are home with your child? If you are worried that your child is immunocompromised*, shouldn’t everyone wear one when they are with your child, and shouldn’t your child wear one whenever they are with anyone else? That is what you are doing, right?”
*Cancer doesn’t make you immunocompromised, BTW. Cancer treatments do.
52 minutes.
It’s either rebellious or scummy. Maybe both.
*shrug*
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again now, The Price Is Right has the absolute best theme and musical stingers of any game show ever, and most other shows besides.
People that have never come within a country mile of The Price Is Right know that sad trombone!
This was a suggested play after your link. Maybe it’s raise your spirits a little. ?
I thought this one was also a good suggestion.
As a rule, I hate AC/DC covers. But that. was. fucking. AWESOME! I love the one guys Angus impersonation, too. Thanks for that Swiss. I have to go share it with the world.
It was a good run.
“Carry some rapid tests with you if you’re traveling.”
Number one, those rapid tests are worthless unless you’re symptomatic. Number two, why, unless you’re expecting the government to screw with you and keep you from getting home.”
They’ve resulted in several younger coworkers having to work at home for 15 days or so because they were asymptomatic.
I fault my company’s mandatory testing policy and not the coworkers.
I felt kinda squirrelly if I missed more than one or two days of school. Don’t you want to overhear what your coworkers are saying about you?
Yes, the “test all the time” regime is a major part of how we got into this mess.
See China for an example of ramping the same mentality up to 11.
I’ve got an elderly mother at home…I’ve got a child with cancer at home…
So, basically, she’s advocating that people lie to force behaviors on others. Congratulations, cunte, before hearing your drivel, I probably would have made allowances for people saying something like that. Now, I want documentation or shut the f**k up.
It’s become socially acceptable to lie in order to obtain victim status and morally coerce others into compliance.
Can’t wait for the breakdown of civil society that will result.
So, basically, she’s advocating that people lie to force behaviors on others.
Unless the mask is somehow in a sterilized package, why would you take something from a stranger and wrap it around your face?
Look, just wear the ribbon.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
*Note; I started posting these because “normal” news is so depressing. I was hoping to remind us all that there are still a lot of great and wonderful things going on and wonderful people. Given last night’s post, I hope I’m not guilty of simply reposting and not adding any value.
I’m always terrified that I’m pissing people off without knowing it because I have almost zero spideysenses when it comes to that sort of thing. I swear I’m not being stupid and annoying on purpose, it is all natural!
Pope, if these rays of sunshine go away, I will note it in my eventual manifesto.
P.S.: No pressure.
+1 “Good luck. We’re all counting on you.”
Fear not holiness.
Do not stop posting them. Please.
A bit of positivity in the face of 10 depressing current events links can be a huge boost.
Value is in the eye of the consumer. Your rays of sunshine have a number of happy consumers. Keep ’em comin’.
Fuck that shit! Most of us love the daily ray of sunshine and it remains important to this site. I’ll hunt you down if you stop.
These are well appreciated.
*scuffs shoe on ground and mumbles thanks to Mrs. Caron my 3rd grade teacher*
OK, how about a bonus one?
Another Ray of Sunshine
Why do you do that to an old guy, Jimbo?
I mentioned before how that mean Miss Brown kept me in from recess in first grade and made me read a loud as she busied herself with other tasks.
I hated that but by second grade I was setting the pace. I couldn’t live with out reading. Cheers to all those involved in the reading programs
I’m trying to figure out how to guide my 4 year old toward liking reading. She has the capacity to be reading more complex books now, but she doesn’t have the motivation to put in the necessary practice.
Wife and I are at odds because she’s of the opinion that she’ll learn when she learns, and she’s ahead of her peers anyway. I’m of the opinion that she needs to get out of the easy readers and then a whole new world of stories and imagination will pull her in. My mom taught me to read very early, and I think it gave me advantages that still help even today.
I taught my kids to read before they started 1st grade, reading to them at bed time, then trips to the public library and let them choose their own little kid books. Good thing, too, both are avid readers and relatively skilled in the language, they learned to speak Texan with an accent.
My 2 cents based on observation with absolutely no theory – kids will learn in spurts and then slow down on one subject while they zoom forward in another and the best thing to do is not force them into a mindless conformity (pushing one thing and holding back the other).
Priorties.
Ukraine should be rebuilt as a clean powerhouse that spurs the EU’s Green Deal, according to the head of the Ukrainian parliament’s climate subcommittee.
“We’re essentially going to be starting from scratch with the amount of destroyed industrial sites, energy sites. We can be the breeding ground for new technology for pilot projects, for renewables projects,” Lesia Vasylenko, an opposition MP with the pro-EU Holos party, said during a phone call last week from her home in Kyiv, to which she had recently returned after 45 days hopping from safe house to safe house.
Vasylenko wants to reverse Ukraine’s polluting legacy as the U.S.S.R.’s manufacturing base. In doing so, the country could become the engine for Europe’s ambitions to reach net zero emissions by 2050, she said.
Russia should conquer the whole thing to stop this nonsense. ///Half-Joking
Why don’t they just come right out and say they want to use Ukraine as their not-so-little corruption playground?
“It’s essentially an appeal to the EU, to all of the donors that are going to be giving this money to Ukraine, for the renewal and rebuilding so that they don’t go cheap on us that they actually invest in the greening of the planet,” she said.
Interestingly the planet has experienced massive greening since the small increase in atmospheric CO2.
“There must be a precondition to all of the money that is going to be given to Ukraine … that there is an environmental and climate change element to it,” she said. “That we’re giving you all of this money, but you can only buy the green technology.”
I am sure the Ukrainian government can be counted on to not squander/launder this “investment”.
Ten percent to the big guy(s) is mandatory.
Her country is at war and she had to keep moving for months to stay alive. But she’s getting wet thinking about the blank slate the Russians are providing her to build her country-sized cathedral for Gaia. Fucking ghouls.
If the Russians wipe out/drive away half the population, think of how much easier it will be!
Or she’s just telling the idiots in Brussels what they want to hear so they’ll dole out the money. The tax cattle in the rest of Europe can suck on it.
It’s reprehensible technocrats and corruptocrats any which way you look at it.
If I start wearing a weird cloak is it possible that I too become an oligarch? Asking for a friend. Real life has become too much.
I’m sorry to read about your recent and longstanding stresses. I don’t suppose there’s any way I could help.
No. I’ll just keep making jokes about it. Fuck it. I’m beyond care. We all gotta go some day…
I dunno man, sounds like you’re depressed (good knows you have a reason to be), I wish you’d take better care of yourself. Things can look very different on another day.
Either way, love you, no homo.
Good, you’ll have time to come to the HH in the fall, be the only international traveler.
Solyndra 2.0
Scott Ritter reports that Gonzo Lira was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by an Azov battalion death squad.
Nobody seems to care because he was saying unpleasant things but probably true things. His last tweet was prophetic.
Nobody in the West gives a shit how many people Zelensky’s government has murdered. He’s doing it at our bidding. Thou shalt not get in the way of the narrative.
After all, we don’t care how many people we drone-murder, nor would we ever hold someone accountable, or worse contemplate stopping.
on charges of inciting a political opposition
The fuck?
(roughly the equivalent of sedition)
Doesn’t sound like it.
When reports emerged that Gonzo Lira, a Chilean social media “influencer” who resided in Kharkov, Ukraine, and who published online content critical of the Ukrainian government, was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the Kraken Unit, part of the Azov battalion affiliated with the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), the West is silent.
It is almost like it is quite possible that there are no good guys involved in this conflict.
“It is almost like it is quite possible that there are no good guys involved in this conflict.”
Post-Soviet politics of the “Near Abroad” as Russia would call it, is an absolute clusterfuck that the midwits in our journalistic establishment have neither the brains nor the patience to get educated about.
For instance, how many Western elites realize that for decades, ethnic Russians in Estonia (who were nonetheless Estonian citizens) could not get passports and were second class citizens? Acknowledging that requires thinking outside the childish “good guys vs. bad guys” framework that The Narrative is built upon.
…the midwits in our journalistic establishment have neither the brains nor the patience to get educated about.
Is there ANY subject of substance that they would endeavor to not be pontificating ignorant assholes about?
If they get paid to write / talk, regardless of quality… Glibs wouldn’t take that deal for fear of embarrassment, but we are made of finer clay. ?
True enough – incentives and all that. And it does come down to what the greater market consumes.
They get paid to repeat what they’ve been given.
Ritter kind of walked that back.
However, given the circumstances, Lira almost certainly has already met a grisly end. For those who haven’t seen the background, the neocons at The Daily Beast were so mad at Lira for contradicting mainstream war propaganda they were actively trying to doxx him to the Ukrainian authorities.
“they were actively trying to doxx him to the Ukrainian authorities”
So The Daily Beast editorial staff are murderers then.
Yes, and I won’t post the link, but a weird pro-regime trans journalo called Sarah Ashton Cirillo has been taking victory laps and crowing about it on Twitter for days.
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How Trump-like!
And apparently Macron made his own deplorables blunder.
Caption: “Thy parents have gone to Burning Man for half a fortnight, now spirit away with me and reveal thy heaving bosoms and Whispering Eye.”
https://archive.ph/FROdJ
Thot Thursday.
#3 is absurd photoshop.
Looks like Winston might have a sister, about 1/3rd down.
Face diapers. Blech.
Half a fortnight? Why not just say a week?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/murdered-nyc-mom-orsolya-gaal
They’ve caught a suspect in the “hot blond mom” gruesome murder here in NYC.
Given how many times she was stabbed there was obviously some kind of relationship. So the question is what kind and how long until the Lifetime TV movie?
Jeepers. This really is playing out to be a movie.
Giving me “this is MAGA country!” vibes.
Bernie may step up to the plate a third time if Scranton Joe can’t play anymore.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/20/bernie-sanders-2024-presidential-election-00026733
Sen. Bernie Sanders has not “ruled out” a run for the White House in 2024 if President Joe Biden declines to seek another four years, according to a campaign memo obtained by POLITICO.
The memo was circulated by Faiz Shakir, a top Sanders political adviser and his campaign manager in 2020. First reported by The Washington Post, the memo was distributed to allies, advising them how to “embrace the attacks” regarding Sanders’ support for their candidates in 2022.
“In the event of an open 2024 Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Sanders has not ruled out another run for president, so we advise that you answer any questions about 2024 with that in mind,” the memo said.
By then Bernie will be 83.
Yeh, right. Rather have Hillary then Biden, in that order.
Drake’s comment is emblematic of why I don’t understand the Twitter hate/ban. MSM is dead. Anything you read there is straight state-run propaganda. Twitter may be a cesspool, but it’s also one of the one only places to get actual news and perspectives of events that government doesn’t want you to see. Yeah some of it may be false, but I prefer that than having a MSM gatekeeper decide what the messaging will be.
If Ukraine is too controversial, consider Andy Ngo’s reporting on the “mostly peaceful” BLM riots. I’m unaware of any outlet that provided a better on the ground view of Portland’s riots than Andy did on twitter. I’m certainly all ears though and would appreciate any recommendations on other places where you can see get this boots on the ground perspective that the MSM blocks.
Ironically enough, reason (Nancy Rommelman?) did a pretty good job on Portland.
Twitter was the way that I learned my governor removed the face diaper requirement on my morning train into NYC.
In turn that tweet was picked up with by the news outlets roughly 30 minutes later.
I’m happy to let folks here go through the Twitter cesspool and highlight useful information. The signal to noise ratio here is fairly high against tweets I have no interest in reading.
Substack, Gab, and Telegram are where people who have been banned from Twitter end up. Not really Twitter replacements.
Twitter is a cesspool =/= Twitter has no redeeming qualities.
Swiss (rightly, in my opinion) made note of how much the Twitter content linked here has drifted to the cesspool side compared to the redeeming quality side and as a general ratio to total comments. Now everybody’s freaking out about censorship because he issued a challenge to cool it on the shitTwitter links.
*shrug* it motivated me to move browsers so I could run Eyepiece again. I don’t need shitTwitter in my life, nor do I need any of the other drudge-style link dumps.
Go re-read what he said. His complaint wasn’t about the quality of the Tweets being linked to. It was about the number of people linking to a Tweet. He considers it lazy. He never mentioned the quality of what any of the tweets contained, just that too many tweets were being linked to.
It was about the number of people linking to a Tweet. He considers it lazy.
I guess I read a bit more into this. Yes, I think dumping a Twitter link with all of “lol” or some snarky retort is a pretty dang good indicator that it links to some brainless content on shitTwitter that we’re all supposed to cheer or cluck our tongues at.
Completely different from, for example, Drake’s post in this thread, where a Twitter link actually provides value to the point being made.
I should really stop flapping my gums on this. I have a short-term solution in place already, and I’ve outlined a medium- to long-term solution in my head that I just need to code up. The right balance is letting people post what they want and letting everybody else filter out what they don’t want.
The right balance is letting people post what they want and letting everybody else filter out what they don’t want.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee – you aren’t catering to my whims!!!!!
I am lazy. I’m also guilty of posting Twitter stuff. *shrug*
I can lay off it for a day.
You’re not gonna get super deep lengthy posts out of me…ever.
You keep showing us your guns and meat.
Phrasing?
I’ll be interested to see what you come up with. The thing I don’t like about a straight-up Twitter block would be missing things -as you said- like Drake posted. There is legitimate news there that we likely won’t get anywhere else. Baby, bathwater, etc…
“Yes, I think dumping a Twitter link with all of “lol” or some snarky retort is a pretty dang good indicator that it links to some brainless content on shitTwitter that we’re all supposed to cheer or cluck our tongues at.”
Or you know, it could just be something funny. And often can’t be quoted because they are pictures or video.
The right balance is letting people post what they want and letting everybody else filter out what they don’t want.
I have a gadget that does this. It’s called a mouse wheel.
Yup.
I did note that it is a useful tool – we have an account. But, just dumping in Twits and saying naught is distressing. Note how there is more discussion going on in this post…. 🙂
By the way, it was a request, for one day. Do or do not accept it as you will.
As a guilty twitter poster, I am slightly sad I have caused so much distress. I guess I don’t quite understand how a shitty twitter link is any different than the links posts in general.
As someone equally critical of Twitter (if not more so), you have not caused ANY distress. Let’s all just move on here, nothing to see.
Now, if Swissy was king for just one day he might have decreed a ban…
1. Reflexive contrarians gonna react badly to “suggestions.”
2. Saying “stop doing that” has a very high probability of other people responding with their own personal airing of grievances.
3. Mischaracterizing what people say sets off another round of both of the above.
Are you threatening me??
Man, talk about reading the room!
Reflexive contrarians gonna react badly to “suggestions.”
That says much more about the reflexive contrarians than the suggestions.
Are you more concerned about the is or the ought?
After the “Libs of TikTok” creator got attacked by establishment media elites, I have to imagine that Defiant L’s account is next.
Dems/leftists never dehumanized anyone.
Addressing The Bulwark’s Tim Miller, Wallace said, “You and I even fall into a tradition of a profession of focusing on what works, and I think we recently had a conversation about Mitch McConnell and why does he do what he does, because it works. I worry that in covering Glenn Youngkin and his politics of parental choice, all the focus was on how well it worked, and even in our conversations about DeSantis, it’s about how well they’re serving him. The truth is dehumanization as a tactic for politics is from war. Dehumanization — it’s a tactic. Speaking of right now, the Russians get the soldiers to rape children by dehumanizing them. Dehumanization, as a practice, is a tactic of war. It’s being deployed in our politics, and people like you and I sometimes lose the plot.”
Did they also turn the fricken frogs gay?
Does she have any evidence to back up that allegation? Or is she just talking out of that asshole she calls a mouth again?
Is she ironically or stupidly dehumanizing Russians? She’s lecturing the proles on dehumanization techniques while also practicing it because her handlers have a war boner.
INSURRECTIONISTS!
Vasylenko wants to reverse Ukraine’s polluting legacy as the U.S.S.R.’s manufacturing base. In doing so, the country could become the engine for Europe’s ambitions to reach net zero emissions by 2050, she said.
Laptops for everybody!
That’s a lot of unicorn farts.
Someone posted this yesterday: https://www.city-journal.org/building-costs-are-high-in-red-states-too
I find it an interesting question. One thing that bothered me in the article though:
‘The Federal Highway Administration reports that outside a few especially expensive regions such as the Northeast, bridges over freeways cost (in round numbers) roughly between $100 and $250 per square foot in the United States—meaning that a 20-foot-wide bridge over a 200-foot-wide freeway could be expected to require about $1 million in spending.’
Who the hell is building 20-foot wide bridges? That’s like a single lane once you add shoulders, lost a lot of credibility with that sentence. You need closer to 30 feet for a two lane bridge (one lane each way + shoulders, barriers)
FDOT says 40′ minimum if you want traffic in each direction and a decent speed limit. Maybe a 30 mph road could get away with a 30′ wide bridge, assuming you don’t want any sidewalks and you like to make the drivers uncomfortable.
20 foot wide would be a narrow lane, no shoulder bridge. I believe standard lane width is 12 feet.
Sloppy writing – they mention 200′ wide and the 20′ should be long.
20′ long? What are they crossing, a bike path?
Luxury!
Biking on Cleveland’s new Wendy Park Bridge and Whiskey Island Trail (video)
I haven’t actually ridden that bridge yet, as that’s a different path then I usually would take to get to the lake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJ0RV7aMV8
Ate they using total square feet or just the roadway?
I assumed total square feet. 20 years ago you could put an overpass in for a million. I don’t see how that price wouldn’t have changed by now, to about double.
But don’t worry — yesterday’s announcement that they’re bringing back in full force all the Federal environmental “impact” reviews will *surely* improve confidence in regulator stability and decrease costs. No way more money goes to lawsuits, planning and impact reviews than can ever go to construction before any work of real value ever gets started (*cough* CA “high-speed” rail).
And it isn’t like the corruption, graft and spreading the goodies among the state districts isn’t enough to rival NASA and DOD federal district shopping… oh, no…. States would never bribe their communities with construction money, and would always, always use gas taxes as intended.
Sorry — DOT-isms are one of my hot button topics. From having to live in CA with stupidly high gas taxes and yet roads that rival Michigan for crappiness without the excuse of the weather to my constant mental screams of frustration (for the sake of my passengers) when I do my hopefully-yearly trek back to GA and the return trip and am constantly amazed at the “construction zones” spaced every 3 gorram miles with little actual work going on (oh, but lots and lots of potential for ticketing for speeding in construction zones! and lots of lane closures on the off chance they decide to get to this stretch in the next 6 gorram months!), I swear DOT is just code for “Cousin Bubba’s road crew needs to funnel more money to my campaign” combined with a sincere belief that interstate commerce needs to be throttled until it resembles an Arkansas possum that tried to cross I-40 near Memphis….
“roads that rival Michigan for crappiness without the excuse of the weather”
Yeah, what’s with that? Lowest bidder? Using annual average rainfall in specs? Encountered one in 921xx yesterday one could bury a toddler in.
If it’s like VA, non-roads need some of that gas tax. Hell, we have a toll road paying for an extension of Metrorail.
Ah yes, diversion.
I’m assuming they’re intentionally doing a job such that it looks nice for about a year then falls apart, ensuring Repeat Business.
They certainly don’t plan for the loads they have to know they’re going to get — you can see it whenever they resurface 101 into San Jose — the left two lanes stay nice, the next-to-right goes within a year… and the right lane (where trucks are supposed to be most of the time) starts to go inside of 6 months. Every. Time.
Anyone else remember the early incentives in this project? Sorry to read belatedly about the casualties to music history though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_105_(California)
Typically destroying homes of the disadvantaged
That’s a problem with either the engineer designing the fix or the construction oversight letting them put the wrong thing down. (Assuming it’s not a sub base issue, of course).
6 months is really fast to deteriorate.
Potholes of New Orleans is one of my favorite Instagram accounts – https://www.instagram.com/potholesofneworleans/?hl=en
Oh, and when I passed through ABQ about five years ago, the whole city seemed to be torn up at once. I had to tail the local plates to know which lane to occupy.
One of my pet peeves here is that they never seem to build bridges wider than their current needs. Sure the hiway might be only two lanes now, but why not make a bridge that could handle 3 lanes in the future?
That way if you want to expand the road you can do it without needing to rip the bridge down and do it over.
Also, I have a theory that summer construction is planned as part of a senior project by cadets at West Point. The instructors give them the assignment: If you wanted to prevent opposing forces from transiting from south of the Twin Cities to the north of them, what bridges and roads would you destroy?
The cadets plan is then put into action by the DOT and we get to spend the few non-winter months sitting in single lane traffic.
Freedom of speech is a threat to our Demcoracy.
In recent years, we’ve seen how quickly disinformation spreads, especially on social media. This has created real challenges for our democracy.
Part of the reason it’s hard to bring about change is because we live in a media environment that elevates falsehoods as much as truths, and divides people as much as it brings them together.
Through the @ObamaFoundation, we’re working to empower and equip emerging leaders to tackle issues like the spread of disinformation.
We have to destroy 1A to save 1A.
Anything that keeps Democrats from winning is a threat to Democracy!
1984 appears to have been an instruction manual.
You keep selling that – a lot of people aren’t buying.
Maybe reconsider the things you want to “change”.
About last night… Last night’s thread depressed the Hell out of me. Swiss, I’m kinda sorta with you on the twatter links. After spending the past couple days there, the suspension was a welcome forced disassociation and I wont be returning; it was very bad for my emotional well being. I really don’t know what the point of this is other than to say I love this place, I love and respect everyone I’ve encountered here and I’m hurt by the loss of any one of you. It is not an exaggeration to say that the past two years have been the absolute worst of my fifty on the planet so far and you people have been a lifeline. Special acknowledgement to SP, OMWC, and WebDom, without whom I would have just walked out into the sea and blissful oblivion months ago.
TL/DR – stop fighting amongst yourselves or I’ll just start posting links to the good Peaches or the other Peaches all day.
No Stranglers?
Glad you didn’t Norman Maine yourself. I had a feeling a couple of years ago that the Glibs might soon be needing one another.
OMWC just gave me a good perspective check this morning in TPTB chat. I am over…all of this.
I will continue to edit all the most welcome and appreciated contributions people submit. I expect to continue as GC for the Foundation as well.
Enjoy Every
SandwichPost!Swiss: I mentioned this in an e-mail to someone a few months back but, if you need help editing I can do some of that after about the first week of May. I assume you have my e-mail (and by edit, I mean writing editing; I have no clue on how to run a website, etc.).
Thank you!
Tonio is the chief writer-flogger… I just do the prep for posting on the site stuff, scheduling, minor editing, etc.
Well, you have my offer, such as it is.
..and I am bringing it to the Board.
It ain’t easy keeping the lights on here. It IS appreciated.
VERY appreciated.
Well, my boss probably wouldn’t appreciate it if he knew… ?
TPTB chat
There’s a secret place for chatting amongst the benevolent overlords ? Is it like a Star Chamber?
You don’t need to worry about that. Why worry about what happens behind those velvet ropes?
I saved you a spot next to me out here in the line that is waiting to get in.
I’m not sure I’d want to. Sounds like a lot of work.
Thanks, TPTB! For keeping this place running.
…maybe
Huh — sounds kind of familiar.
Someone is going to reveal the truth about aglets next….
Since when did we get benevolent overlords?
They can’t say that they love us, but they don’t mean us any specific harm
Uffda. Stealth logout ate up a super awesome response I had typed out. Now you are getting the shitty retyped version (Fuck an edit button, I’d much rather have the ability to save a comment when you get logged out)
Anyhow, last night’s post depressed me too. This place is too awesome and it makes me sad to see us bicker about who killed who. The only thing wrong with this place is that it is embarrassing when I have to explain it to outsiders.
This place helped me a lot when Dad died suddenly. When others come on here and vent a bit, I’m always happy to listen and try to help. It seems the least I could do after all the support I got from you weirdos.
I’m really hoping that a lot of the crankiness is being caused by cabin fever. This weather sucks. Maybe once Spring has really sprung everyone will chill out a bit?
Why do you have to explain it to outsiders? Rhetorical question, if you prefer.
Sometimes I’m trying to get them to join.
Other times, I start talking about how I spent my weekend working on tin can lid art and have to get into it.
Or when I’m talking about the Honey Harvest and Fourscore. Or even Tundra (when I’m trying to scare my kids straight).
I realize that there is a bit of hypocrisy involved when Glibs is so important to me, but I regularly tease people who are totes into Facebook.
Once I called Paski “strawberry” to my wife, and she asked me why I would use a cute nickname for “souless Psaki”.
My wife knows about Glibs and has read some of my articles, but had never seen Joemala.
After a brief and heavily censored description, she agreed that she should never see it.
My wife has been to a Honey Harvest (twice) and wonders why you guys let me hang out with you.
PO Nick really shined her up with his gushing about kimchi and how great it is.
Kimchi is great!
Good time to remind folks that I’m opening up the cabin today for visitors, a new (slightly used) refrig is being delivered in an hour. If anyone needs a quiet respite for a few days its available. Some Glibs have visited, shooting range available, might even find a rusty old gun if necessary. Fishing included.
Sounds like heaven 4×20. Wish I was closer by, or had more time off.
She still didn’t give up her family recipe for kimchi though. She’s cagey and clever.
Mead
Let’s not forget mead
Kimchi IS great. I had some with my eggs for breakfast.
Yes it is, I made kimchi soup last weekend.
If I lived closer, I would go to HH, but I can’t figure out a way to make it work.
I’m happy to let folks here go through the Twitter cesspool and highlight useful information. The signal to noise ratio here is fairly high against tweets I have no interest in reading.
For whatever reason, twatter links won’t open for me. I’m not complaining.
I’ve considered a DNS block of Twitter and Facebook. If only I can get my wife to stop going there.
I did DNS block facebook. Rarely notice it.
The dns block would help with your wife’s problem too. 😉
Swiss and Animal,
I chose my words poorly in yesterday’s midday thread. I apologize for the hasty generalization and the unnecessarily inflammatory way I described the situation.
Nobody took offence, you Fag.
This is how you reconcile!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZRAjrMWwAEsv3g.png:large
You evil, evil person.
*claws at eyes*
Now that’s just gay.
TO’G wins the internet.
Gah!
*pours covfefe in eyes*
I would have thought Drinky Winky was more apropos here…
HA! Tipsy and Hoe, what’s the last one’s name?
Geez, I just thought it was cute. Sorry to have o-ffended. We here are all naïfs in some way.
Ta, Moj.
You know what it means when you can say the word without getting censored…
You weren’t wrong at the core though. The system regularly spits out exactly the kind of product it intends to make (careerist hacks). There’s no conspiracy there – it is a longtime project of groupthink. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t exceptions, and I think that is where your brush was overly broad.
I understand where you were coming from. It was distressing seeing what is/was going on…Just know there is a lot of Irish Democracy going on in the Armed Forces.
Learned a new phrase today, thanks.
The Democrats: party of new ideas and youthful vigor and enthusiasm!
The Party of old folks that got some. It’s been that way for decades. Remember Gen-X? I sure do.
OK, Boomer.
Through the @ObamaFoundation, we’re working to empower and equip emerging leaders to tackle issues like the spread of disinformation.
Go fuck yourself.
I’ll suggest that disbanding the democrat party and their media apparatus would be one hell of a start in that fight.
I find the ambiguity in that statement interesting. Not “oppose”. Not “refute”.
“Tackle.” You can tackle things to either amp them up, or reduce them. “Our conversion rate of applicants to new hires is low. I’m setting up a work group to tackle that problem.”
With that in mind, I do believe the Obama Foundation is, indeed, going to “tackle” disinformation.
Nothing says civility like constant outright lies and condescension.
After ending the interview, Wallace said, “The job of White House press secretary is tricky. You represent that president, but you’re paid by the American people. Handling those sometimes dueling obligations is a delicate balance. But Jen has done as good a job at it as any press secretary I can remember while restoring some much-needed civility to the White House briefing room. She will be missed.”
Didn’t you jump on to a sinking ship that you now need to escape from?
I am very amused at Chris’s predicament.
Fox News should have fired him and not waited for him to leave on his own.
Could you imagine if the press treated her the way they did Trump’s Press Secretaries?
We would be reaching levels of condescension that shouldn’t be possible.
Psaki has no soul.
I hate myself, but that should be obvious already. WOULD.
https://i.redd.it/kkimrvc14vg81.jpg
Hon, you could do much better. Even you. /ducks ?
Ah yes, someone who uses crude language and supports the president doing so it’s absolutely bringing back civility. Whatever assholes.
I watched “The Adjustment Bureau” last night. I almost didn’t make it through the first ten minutes. Golden Boy Congressman and Senate-candidate Matt Damon, beloved idol of the liberal media establishment, played by themselves. I wanted to puke.
It got mostly dumber from there. But I watched it all the way to the end, waiting for the big knife-in-the-eye reveal that the head adjuster is really Satan.
Disappoint.
I’ll admit it. I watched it just for Emily Blunt and ignored the rest of it.
Someone is tired of winning.
DeSantis and the legislature pushed through a sensible education bill, and then stared down Disney’s ridiculous, hysterical criticisms. They fought. They won. There is no need for them to salt the earth, take revenge, or make Florida’s policies worse.
Stolen and paraphrased from someone else, but the National Review set always show up to declare surrender in the middle of victory.
Lamentations of menstruating people upset the National Review
“Charles C. W. Cooke, what is good in life?”
“Reward your enemies, see them take positions of power over you, and hear their perversions in every schoolhouse”
Also at NR… https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/04/the-florida-legislature-is-right-to-push-back-against-disney/
I will grant that not everyone is in lockstep at NR but Cooke is more widely seen and promoted.
I find that NR is far more self-critical than The Nation or Jacobin, or reason.
If by “make Florida’s policies worse” he means “revoke Disney’s special nation-like statuses”… what the hell is he on?
I don’t know, but Cooke moved to north-central Florida in the last few years…maybe he’s on a pile of Disney lobbying cash, somehow. Purely wild speculation on my part.
He defended his position on Mad Dogs this week. It ain’t Disney cash.
The Mouse is more equal than other animals.
Listen bub, the business of America is business. And what’s good for
General MotorsDisney is good for America!He’s correct though that Republicans had already won.
Disney stfu about this like 3 weeks ago when they realized most people agreed with the Florida law.
I agree that Disney should get no special privileges, however.
On the other hand, Republicans are really just doing this for political revenge and probably not the right reasons. So be it I guess. At least their special privileges are gone.
The Republicans aren’t even close to winning. Winning is crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentation of their women.
While this in partly in jest, the Left are playing for keeps. Enough Romney’s, McCain’s, Bush’s, and the National Review ilk who never actually push back towards recovering ground already ceded and lost.
I just mean on this issue.
In just one state also… It’s eye opening to see how few Republicans actually want to do conservative stuff
‘give them a mile and they take an inch’
I know. There’s more to winning than just passing the one bill. Take the 2nd A as an example. NY does some insane shit, 2nd A group sues, NY rescinds rule/law.
I guess the 2nd A group could stop now and call it a win. But it’s not nearly enough. They need to push through to the court to make sure other municipalities do not do this again. They need to take to court and try to hold personally liable every single person involved in denying the 2nd A to the citizens of NY. Even if they lose the suits, the process can be the punishment and it starts shifting the window back again.
Disney enjoys massive special concessions from the government that regular citizens can’t hope to obtain. It’s insane to allow this continue. The Republicans Florida were until now literally funding their opposition with special exemptions granted to no other entities in the state, and the NR calls doing so moderate and reasonable.
At least the replies put him in his place.
The right balance is letting people post what they want and letting everybody else filter out what they don’t want.
But that would be haaard!
Well! After last night’s debacle, I am here to say it’s my barfday (same as my namesake Queen Elizabeth) (I wasn’t really named after her), and my mama’s taking me to brunch. I love brunch.
Later I shall make a Shirley Temple poke cake.
Happy B-Day! May there be many many more.
A what now?
https://www.sparklestosprinkles.com/shirley-temple-poke-cake/
I got the Diabeetus just looking.
Happy Barfday!
I know, right?!
That was not even on the list of stuff that came to mind for the phrase “poke cake” I thought of the hawaiian fish dish, and japanese cultural imports first.
lol. I thought of the raw fish poke too. But I was too scared to say anything and get on Mojeaux’s list. (I’m probably already on it for not going along with her crazy ideas about BBQ).
Poke cakes are a thing (my next fave is lemon).
Yes, you’re already on my list for your erroneous bbq opinions, but you’re from Minnesoda, so I understand. You doan know no bettah.
Happy Birthday you wonderful, wonderful woman. I’m gonna try this recipe as it looks delicious.
Just reading “sparklestosprinkles” made my ass hurt.
Oh and Happy Barfday!
Happy barfday, Mojo! ? ?
Why must you build your own cake? Do you not trust anyone else to get it right?
Eh, nobody to make it for me. The kids won’t even remember, much less make a cake. Husband went and got me doughnuts this morning, as WAS our tradition once upon a time. This is the first one my husband has not bothered to take the day off for since the kids work and I work. I don’t mind. Husband and I will go out this weekend, as I can’t fit a restaurant brunch and a restaurant dinner in ma belleh on the same day.
Jeez, hon. I grew up knowing my parents’ birthdays better than my SSN. Glad Hubs will spoil you.
We never really did the “Pick out a gift for Other Parent and put your name on it” thing, so they wouldn’t have a reason to remember.
Happy Birthday!
Happy 21st.
Lots of April birthdays around here. Mine happened during my Vegas trip.
Happy belated birthday!
Happy belated Birthday!
The only poke I knew prior to your post was Hawaiian in origin and involves raw fish…
Despite my love of things Japanese it does not include raw fish. Yours looks more appealing.
Happy Birthday!!
Happy barfday!
Happy Birthday, hottie-in-a-dress-on-a-bike. In the snow.
I shall email dick pics.
She did call it barfday I guess.
^ This is how you class up a girls birfday. Also, with wedgies and a spanking. ?
Have a great one , Mojo! My favorite Mormon!
In the interest of full disclosure, how many Mormons do you know?
Happy Birthday.
I was very happy to read what you wrote last night.
I will admit it did get my back up a little. I find value in Twitter, but I find more value in the scroll button.
Happy Birfday!
Obligatory (sacred tradition!): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3kyn9Es4HoY
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday, may you see many more.
Almost missed, Moj. Especially for you
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lyrics+to+song+happy+happy+birthday+baby&t=ffab&atb=v198-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJxkaZBEYByw
Happy Birthday!
Ever notice that people named Elizabeth, may called Elle, Liz, or Beth, but never Zab?
I like it! I knew a Jennifer who preferred to go by “Niffer” rather than get lost in a sea of Jennies. I also knew a Stuart (first name, not UK royalty AFAIK) who disliked being called “Stu” but inexplicably balked when I suggested “Wart” as an alternative.
My congresscritter gets a hard-on for boats, lots of boats. But his grammar needs some work.
Yep.
The grammar is the least of his problems.
Given the district I live in, I have no hope of ever convincing him otherwise.
I’m sure he represents his district well, just not you.
Much like the decline of the British Empire, capacity is not likely to diminish by choice but rather by lack of it.
From Rebel Scum’s link:
Psaki said, “What was most important is that we reset the tone, that we reestablish the briefing room, the press office, and what we were doing as a source of information, accurate to the American people.”
It’s so much easier when you all know you’re on the same team. Except for those dumb bastards from FOX, anyway.
It is so much nicer when we are all pulling together isn’t it?
I assume special exceptions will be made for politicians loitering outside sexually-oriented businesses.
The parts + labor for the installation of cameras and floodlights is almost certainly much more than $500, so many will just choose the fine. It’s as much about revenue as it is surveillance.
“Mayor Pro-tem Martha Castex-Tatum”
I dub thee, Kotex-Tantrum.
Mike M., is that you!?
Er, why does Houston have a temporary mayor?
The real one got deported?
Is there any requirement that the cameras are more reliable than police body cameras?
Will the city accept “I forgot to turn on my store cams” or “The store cam video was corrupted and I can’t provide it”.
Or “we can’t turn that over yet”?
Uh, that went to a weird place real fast.
When others come on here and vent a bit, I’m always happy to listen and try to help.
I prefer to retreat into my own head and seethe.
Boo-hoo…”I’m always terrified that I’m pissing people off without knowing it because I have almost zero spideysenses when it comes to that sort of thing. I swear I’m not being stupid and annoying on purpose, it is all natural!”
You’re not shit-lording right. And Tundra still looks like he fell out of a Cabela’s ad.
Please realize that when I’m being a cunte it is meant as a joke. I would never hurt someone else’s feelings for shits and giggles. It’s just not in my purview. Time for bed.
Buona notte, F! and I have never noticed you being a cunte.
Good night, Fes.
No worries. Everyone knows that Canadians are rude, ornery and general assholes.
Don’t forget that they talk funny. Uffda!
don’cha know?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hL-fpCsGR8
Okay, so Prime’s content has gone down, and what’s good is paid.
I dropped Netflix 2 months ago after the price hike because the content is going downhill. I only got it for Cobra Kai, but the 3rd season devolved into teh st00pid.
We have HBO Max free as part of our AT&T service. I loved the Beforeigners first season even if it was in Norwegian, but can’t stand dubbed season 2.
We have Discovery+ (aliens! true crime!) for 9 months free with TV purchase.
We have Apple TV free for a year which we watch Ted Lasso because home-town boys. Bro mentioned Severance so we’regoing to try that. Also, it’s funny.
I’m thinking about Hulu for Only Murders in the Village.
Oh and @Unciv is right about Amazon Prime’s searchability AND since the Expanse is over, I’m adrift there.
Loudermilk and Moone Boy are both free on Prime and I like them a lot.
Moone Boy! ❤️ ☘️ ?? A sort of Wonder Years set circa 1990. If you like Chris O’Dowd, then recommended. Whair’s me jumper? ?
We’ve had Outer Range recommended to us but we haven’t dived in as yet.
Last year AMC+ did a promo and I got a year of it for $25. That seems about right for a streaming service.
Paramount + for 1883 that’s the only show I can recommend on it.
Just finished 1883 and was disappointed. Why the hell did they start in Texas? Planned to be at the South Pass in October? Isn’t that late? Then planning to go to SLC? The immigrants were portrayed as totally useless in a way that would be considered racist if they weren’t from Europe. The gypsy got run over by a wagon because he was ignorant about horses and wagons? Please, if anyone in that group would know about horses and wagons, it would be a gypsy. Friendly Comanches? I can suspend my disbelief for a fictional show, but this series just pushed it too far.
I believe Discover+ is about to get rolled into HBO Max. HBO Max has the comedy central stuff (Venture Brothers, South Park, etc.), and the DC Animated Universe (Batman the Animated Series is the shite).
Prime’s search is terrible, about the only one it’s better then is IMDB.tv, which they have rolled into Prime. Prime is also the only streaming service that didn’t pull the Community AD&D episode.
I miss venture brothers. That was the shit. Brock Sampson is my idol.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/nasa-lunar-gateway/
Totally random and off-topic, but did y’all know that NASA is planning on building a space station that will orbit the moon, called Gateway? Unfortunately for the project, it seems to involve and maybe even rely on the SLS boondoggle for launches.
Yes, knew that was announced. Given SLS and Orion being more than anything else make work for Boeing and keeping the Shuttle program graft for parts spread across the Congresscritter districts – expect SpaceX to either lift anything for NASA using Starship way before SLS is actually able to do anything or Musk to just laugh from Mars anyway.
I still miss the idea of a *real* Orion drive, at least once you get out of the gravity well.
Conspiracy Theory: Swiss is trying to cover for Sloopy and his beloved OSU and getting us all bickering about twitter instead of focusing on the real issue.
Ohio State U is found guilty of multiple NCAA violation!
Any organization that is willing to cheat for their fencing squad is going to be super cheating for football.
Fencing only applies to a yard enclosure. The other 2 are womyn’s sports so they dont count.
Why did the Norwegian Olympian have to pull out of the fencing competition?
The barb wire cut up his hands too much.
This would make a better Polack joke.
Fencing? Women’s golf?
wut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18316138/brother-likes-watching-taking-photos-naked-shower/
Dierdre reads nifty.org
‘Please don’t punch him or retaliate by taking pictures of him. That will only cause more problems.’
God, she is dumb.
Saw this earlier, and thought you would get a kick out it:
Dear Abby: Aging, ill husband would like to help his wife pick out her next mate
I was talking about this with my wife the other day, she said she couldn’t imagine dating someone else.
I told her of course not, after me, who would compare?
She said it would be weird to have someone that smiles or strikes up conversations with people or has friends.
I think she was insulting me.
Fencing only applies to a yard enclosure.
What’s the point of fencing, if there is no opportunity to get a wicked cool facial scar?
It sounds like I turned off my computer
too soonjust in time, last night.“Those businesses will be forced to hold security footage for 30 days and turn it over to police within 72 hours of their request.”
That’s a bunch of hard drives.
I’d find the cheapest POS cameras on the market and install those. Maybe sub-VGA resolution.
Yep, I’d expect a lot of malicious compliance.
30 days won’t take up too much space at 1 fps
Just find and use the same products and support as the MTA.
https://abc7ny.com/brooklyn-shooting-subway-cameras-7-on-your-side/11745041/
They don’t have billions of dollars to spend though.
Greenwald nails it:
what’s number two?
Case in Point: Project Veritas
Either just as legitimate as Lorenz/WaPo or just as illegitimate
Much more legitimate. They actually expose people in power and not people who repost things that left wing nutjobbers say.
Yeah, that’s fair. I wasn’t trying to two-sides it so much as point out that lots of people jumped to defend Lorenz but also threw PV or Andy Ngo or others under the bus.
But it’s useful to remember “it’s not hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy”
I’ve long since disabused myself of the notion that the corporate media types can be convinced of their hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance. They either know what they are and accept it or they are too stupid to understand.
They can’t be THAT stupid, can they?
I know a lot of them are stupid, but there has to be a limit, right?
*points at Katie Couric*
Do their shoes have laces Ron?
The only dumb ones are the young and inexperienced ones. The older ones know exactly what they’re doing, but they also know that the game is sustained by kayfabe.
Like I said, I know they’re stupid.
I don’t see how they can be stupid enough to think they are honest.
The more I think, I see more glaring examples of outright stupidity in high positions, so I don’t know.
I think calling them stupid ignores how evil they actually are, but it is a big combo of both.
People lost their shit when Trump called them the Enemy of the People but he was spot on.
He saw their tactics, saw that they were working, lacked the establishment impulse to box those tactics as “for enemy use only”, and went to town. They have said far worse about “right-wing media”; to call the corporate press “the enemy of the people” is today, if anything, quite banal. “A cult of satanic pedophiles and their enablers” is more accurate.
I’d be ok revealing the identity of the LOTT person if she were working for some PR agency or out of the RNC offices or some other kind of astroturf thing, which is what I suspect of lot of Dem leaning stuff is.
Greenwald is inching towards the Hunter S. Thompson realization but with far fewer drugs.
The purpose of journalism has always been to protect power. The only times “muckracking” is allowed to occur are during power struggles. “Follow the money” is a useful tool for demystifying the powers involved, but should not be expounded into a maxim like “money is evil” or “it’s only about money”. Money is an audit trail and a means, it is not necessarily the end.
What’s the point of being a corrupt oligarch without hookers and blow?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/russias-war-hawk-went-trip-26761358?int_source=nba
“Proven” by facial recognition software is a fucking ridiculous standard. She’s gorgeous, but bringing her mom and kid along kinda ruins it for me.
the Navalny team’s investigation
Wait, which Navalny is this? Alexei? Isn’t he behind bars?
SCIENCE!
“CDC continues to recommend that people wear masks in all indoor public transportation settings,” the CDC’s statement continued. “CDC’s number one priority is protecting the public health of our nation. As we have said before, wearing masks is most beneficial in crowded or poorly ventilated locations, such as the transportation corridor.”
These people will go to their graves clinging desperately to the claim they saved millions of lives.
Clearest example of do-somethingism prevalent today. In practical use (i.e. not laboratory conditions or computer models), cloth face coverings do nothing. Even the N95 respirator is very limited in efficacy against viruses; it is designed to keep particulate matter out of your lungs, not stop the spread of infections. Nothing short of a totally isolating NBC-rated gas mask will reduce the risk of infection from prolonged exposure to a statistically meaningful degree.
?
This was known before COVID. The hygienists who attempted to bring it to light were unpersoned very quickly.
The mask is a religious symbol, an idolatrous inversion of wearing a skull cap or carrying a rosary.
They are “following the science” that denies 100 years worth of mask study after the Spanish flu.
Guy down the road from me with one of those “In this house we believe” signs was mowing his grass in a mask.
They also have a Ukrainian flag by their mailbox.
Spanish flu wasn’t even Spanish, apparently.
You got those there too? Is there respite? At least they identify themselves.
*¡no! respite, that is
How very Current Thing.
I tore down the flagpole in my yard because it was rusting and had no cord, but now I want to put it back up just to fly the stars and bars and Russian flags.
A Buddhist flag would have more plausible deniability.
Might work to keep dust and pollen out. I might actually do this next time I mow. XD
My dad has very bad allergies and has been wearing one for decades whenever he mows.
At this point I just change my clothes and wash my face, immediately afterwards, which helps a lot. I’m also not particularly allergic.
There has been a precipitous decline in outdoor mask wearing since it got warmer. I think some people were just wearing it because it was cold out,
I’ve talked with a couple people who have said they are going to keep one handy for walking outside on sub-zero days.
‘CDC’s number one priority is protecting the public health of our nation. ‘
Even if this were true, that’s a point against letting them dictate completely what policies we ought to have.
Yeah I mean they don’t have the authority to actually protect the public health of our nation. Their job is to recommend things.
ATTN: Tres.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/onlyfans-mum-audrey-aura-says-26751640
My desk sagged under the weight of that link.
You have got to be kidding me.
SMDH
Gross just cause she’s an australian. That accent annoys me.
target private citizens and punish them for having what they regard as incorrect political ideology, whether they are Trump supporters or identify with the MAGA movement or are too far to the left.
And when did that ever happen?
They tend not to go after the low level far leftists. They reserve that for the honest ones with some notoriety like Greenwald himself or Jimmy Dore.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-bid-141531087.html
Heh.
What? How does that work?
It fucks over the shareholders to protect the board and management.
‘The poison pill is another term for a shareholder rights plan, which allows investors to buy additional shares of the company’s stock at a discount.
This dilutes the value of each individual share amid concerns about an unwanted hostile takeover.’
… Doesn’t that go directly against their duty to maximize shareholder’s value?
“… Doesn’t that go directly against their duty to maximize shareholder’s value?”
Yes
a shareholder rights plan, which allows investors to buy additional shares of the company’s stock at a discount
Vague recollection, from when I worked on some of the first poison pills thirty odd years ago.
The goal is to dilute whoever is making the takeover bid. They are excluded from the issuance of additional shares. “Shareholder rights” is the kind of euphemism that should cause people to laugh out loud. I think what Twitter did was adopt a plan saying that if some trigger is reached (probably a percentage of stock ownership), everyone but the person with the high percentage of stock has the right to buy a bunch of shares really cheap. This would mean Musk would go from, say, 20% ownership to something much less.
How this passes legal muster, I have no idea. The end result is, of course, a lower per-share price after the poison pill is exercises – you just have a lot more shares that you spread the value of the company over. That means whoever is excluded from the poison pill has lost a ton of money, which would seem to give them a cause of action. But my high-level publicly traded corporate lawyer days are in the dim mists of time, so I don’t know how it is rationalized.
They must have set the poison pill threshold pretty low (way lower than 20%) because Musk hadn’t even cracked double digits and Vanguard bought more shares and pushed him down to 2nd place.
Interestingly, the Vanguard buy seems to have been entirely from their mid-cap fund. I wouldn’t think Twitter would be in that category.
I don’t think its been triggered yet. Could be wrong, though. Vanguard may have bought on the theory that if Twitter is in play, the odds of flipping those shares for a premium are worth taking a chance.
their mid-cap fund
Perhaps if valued correctly.
Some updates from NH via Reopen NH’s telegram channel:
HB 275, state of emergency reform, received an Ought to Pass recommendation from a Senate committee and is on the Senate’s Consent calendar. The reform limits the governor’s ability to renew a state of emergency to no more than three renewals, and limits the duration of a state of emergency declared by the governor to 21 days. This was the deal the House Majority Leader brokered with the Governor and the State Senate after the budget battle last year. It is basically what Reopen NH wanted for state of emergency reform. “Ought to Pass” means the committee thinks the bill should pass as-is. The Consent calendar, in both the NH House and NH Senate, means that there is no expected opposition to accepting the committee’s recommendation. The chamber votes on all Consent calendar bills’ recommendations at once via a voice vote. So, at this point, the bill is expected to pass and head to the governor.
HB 1606 related to making the vaccine registry opt-in only received an “Ought to Pass with Amendment” from the Senate HHS committee. The amendment allows both opt-in and opt-out. I haven’t seen it, so I’m not sure how this will work.
Rumor has it that one of the medical freedom bills that passed the House and is in front of the Senate will be gutted by the Senate and turned into a bill restricting who can write prescriptions for NH residents. I haven’t seen details.
Live Free or Die!
Guy down the road from me with one of those “In this house we believe” signs was mowing his grass in a mask.
Offering him the benefit of the doubt, the mask might actually stop irritants and allergens stirred up by the mower. That makes more sense than pretending a mask will stop an increasingly ineffectual virus.
I would, but he started it after COVID, I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
I tore down the flagpole in my yard because it was rusting and had no cord, but now I want to put it back up just to fly the stars and bars and Russian flags.
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
I would, but he started it after COVID, I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
I try to be magnanimous, on occasion.
That’s not as much fun.
LOL CNN+ shutting down after 3 weeks (and bringing Chris Wallace on board)
https://twitter.com/bristei/status/1517165214864744449
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