NY players beards will get a bit longer.
I hope everyone had a nice extended weekend (and understood why we were enjoying it). But now it’s back to the grind. And the Rangers got back to the grind earlier than the Hurricanes did in the Wales Conference semifinals. They will now face the Lightning to see who advances to the Stanley Cup final. The Astros stayed pretty hot through the weekend, and the NBA finals is set. Today will see Nadal face Joker. And Zverev will face upstart Alcaraz. So a decent day for tennis. And that’s pretty much it for sports.
Awesome!!!!! Oh wait, we’ve been hearing this same bullshit for decades. Back to the oil patch, boys!
Another one? But I’m sure the frequency with which this is happening is a coincidence. Yeah, that’s it. A coincidence. Move along.
LOL, “By the end of the year.” These stupid fucks are still paying their bogeyman. And will be for several months…and at the end they’ll pass an emergency measure to keep paying him because they don’t have the means to provide for their needs otherwise.
Like father, like son
His father would be proud. Because that’s what he did before rounding up dissidents in Cuba and having them jailed or killed.
This list reads like a who’s-who of corrupt pieces of shit. Sadly, this is the smallest conspiracy they’ve been involved in. But literally none of them will ever face justice.
He’s right. The committee is a sham and a mockery of the normal committee creation process and House rules of decorum. And this dude is a private citizen. Hopefully he prevails.
Hey Beetlejuice, take the beam out of your own eye. We Texans are already working on the mote in ours.
California Dreamin’
So….you’re really not concerned with recycling? Also, everybody who’s seen Seinfeld knows the Michigan run is the way to go.
That’ll teach em! Oh wait, it did nothing at all. But an effort was made.
You go, girl! Such talent. Here’s some more magic. The intro to that is absolutely perfect for the era. And it still hits to this day. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this magnificent Tuesday, dear friends.
This is got to be an odd day. Links before 7?
And where is everybody?
Not sure about anyone else, I’ve been fiddling with the bandaid I had to put on my finger. I think I’ve stopped bleeding.
We use that New Skin stuff
+1
I had a little incident with a hole-saw and a conduit box while installing some new lights on the garage.
It was just a nick on the pad of my hand, but it bled like a stuck pig.
Why you cut yourself again? Do we need to worry about you and some school?
The gloves serve a purpose… So no one knows he’s a cutter.
I take 2 bayer aspirin each night before I go into work. When I cut myself (often), its pretty impressive. The beer Id had in the morning/afternoon before helps thin my blood too, Im sure.
A slight bruise will peel the skin away and I won’t notice it until I see the blood dripping. Aspirin is a helluva drug, even 1@ day of 81mg.
Probably just because it is early — but I first saw that as “fiddling with the barmaid I had to put on my finger”. I expect that’s more of a Wed. links thing, though…
“soak it in cider”
Fiddling with the…
Huh.
On your finger?
Huh.
Urban Meyer, that you?
We need to have a conversation about commonsense pointy object safety control.
Given how much I use these knives, the rate of injury is vanishingly small.
IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE!
I’m a Celtics fan, but the Eastern Conference Finals was a showcase of flopping by both teams.
The winner of the JV bracket is about yo get thumped by the winner of the varsity bracket.
It should be a good matchup. I’m not going to talk trash about it.
I hope you’re right. But I fear the league wants Kerr and Curry to win again and the Celtics were already a bit overmatched even before the officials start getting the phone calls from the league office explaining the script.
Vince McMahon owns the NBA?
Warriors in 5.
They never seem to come out to play….
* Narrows ga-ay-ay-aze*
If nukular fusion were developed, it would be immediately declared too dangerous to use.
Isn’t there a way of doing nuclear fission differently than how we do it now? Something about no danger of meltdowns, or something?
Of course.
If we had “unlimited power”, why would we need “betters”
Free abundant energy would undermine the plans of the Davos crowd.
It’s a race against the clock, free and abundant energy versus the total state. Total state has a massive lead.
Isn’t there a way of doing nuclear fission differently than how we do it now?
Yes, there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
But the Watermelons are staunchly against nuclear in any form.
Cheap, easy, and available energy makes people less likely to be dependent…
MSR technology is also much more scalable than the fission technology currently in use, which offers the promise of many smaller plants and the advantages that come with that.
But that will also lead to more NIMBY battles.
From what I can tell, the Watermelon playbook is: Current nuclear technology is so dangerous (Chernobyl) that we can’t take chances on new, unproven nuclear technology.
I know you know the difference, but my pedantic side won’t let me avoid pointing out that there is a difference between reactors that use molten salts for fuel, and ones that use molten salts purely as heat transfer media.
No, I didn’t know that. But thanks for being gracious (as always).
You know, if someone with a stronger engineering/science background than me wanted to write an explainer article…
I miss Smiling Joe Fission as well.
30 years ago I probably could have written such a thing — but I gave up on anything being built by us long, long ago. Russia? Probably – but probably going to suck. China? Maybe — depends on what they can steal. India and France seem the most likely to build anything new these days – and France only if they can keep telling the EU greens to sod off.
That’s an interesting point – China is supposed to be so technology savvy, and yet they are burning coal like no tomorrow.
I’m not a nuclear engineer, but I’ve learned a bunch about it as a hobby interest–my Dad was a nuke in the Navy and worked on reactors post-service for a time.
From what I know, Soviet naval reactors (and possibly some early US naval reactors?) were cooled primarily by liquid sodium salts. The advantage of this type of system is that it allows the reactor to be run at higher temperatures than PWRs or BWRs allow, which improves the efficiency of the overall system–higher temperature/pressure steam can be generated by heat exchange with the molten salt than in the other light water reactor types.
It isn’t even Chernobyl, it is “ZOMG THE BOMB!!”
(I grew up near a nuclear reactor, and even back in the seventies the watermelons were nuts over this.)
Blame that idiotic movie China Syndrome that portrayed a reactor going critical as a nuclear detonation.
It’s painfully obvious that a lot of our problems (including climate change!) would be solvable with more energy and not less.
But not the way they want it solved.
They’re solving a completely different problem.
Control of the masses.
More than one way on the fission front. Passive cooling with otherwise similar reactor designs is the standard for a while now on the Gen4+ designs (iirc). Other nations pursue Thorium which tends towards significantly less meltdown risk, some work a while back into distributed small reactors that just don’t have the core density to meltdown, etc.
And yeah — the minute anything that would work in fusion seems viable, you know the cult of negative human growth will come after it. Same way they bewail the drought but make sure no storage, desal or other things that might actually address the need ever gets built in California.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/28/after-nixing-50-million-gallon-a-day-desalination-plant-california-demands-residents-use-less-water/
Oh, California has no problem destroying the environment, as long as it is in Red area’s of the state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrizo_Energy_Solar_Farm
A massive solar array on the other side of the county that has Diablo Canyon, it is just not on the coast or Sierra’s.
Oh, California has no problem destroying the environment, as long as it is in Red area’s of the state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrizo_Energy_Solar_Farm
A massive solar array on the other side of the county that has Diablo Canyon, it is just not on the coast or Sierra’s.
And it is powered by squirrels!
“Nukular skwirls” is the name of my new Dark Wave band. Looking for a keyboardist.
And here I am with my oboe.
Damn.
We have never had a meltdown that burned through the containment area in this country. The only civilian accident of that kind anywhere was Chernobyl, and they were running crazy experiments.
There has never been a radiation overdose death in a civilian reactor in this country, ever. And yes, there are even newer and safer designs on the drawing board.
The USSR was never known for their building codes. Even their military endeavors were shit shows.
They shut down the power on purpose to see what would happen.
The reactor core landed in the parking lot because they didn’t bother building a containment dome.
Fukushima would like a word.
It took an earthquake and tsunami to break and it still didn’t kill anyone?
Or has there been a recorded death attributed to it in the years since?
Just the meltdown part as well as huge clean up issues.
They are trying to play statistical jujitsu now with mortality rates and the accident.
There IS some good evidence that some workers there that helped mitigate did die from exposure.
Only Top Men can design a system that requires active cooling.
I think one guy died from radiation.
Neither the earthquake nor the tsunami did much damage to the plant. The real problem is that they placed the back-up diesel generators downhill (towards the ocean) from the plant. Idiotic design flaw.
^^^THIS^^^
The problem was an engineering/design failure issue. Not a technology one.
To bad that the US is an island nation located on the Ring of Fire and not a continent spanning nation with stable places to put a power plant.
The North Anna (Virginia) nuclear power plant is built on a no-shit fault, though not a very active one. Several years ago there was a big (for Virginia) earthquake, I think 3.x on the Richter scale, and the plant shut itself down automatically. No radiation leakage. They were able to restart it quickly.
But the enviros freaked out… zOMG the plant shut itself down. DOOM
Diablo Canyon is built on a fault, also.
Wait until they get nuclear diamond batteries working for cell phones. iPhone users everywhere will be screaming for more nuke plants to be built.
Nukular 5G FTW!
“I need to power up my house. Let me turn on my phone.”
Sounds a lot like the purported TDP of the next generation of Nvidia graphics cards (650W+ holy frakking crap!).
Trudeau has made it inexcusable for any U.S. citizen who seriously believes in gun control to not move to Canada. They’ll be happier there.
I’ve seen the threads, showing people with 20 or more different kinds of rifles in their possession. You ain’t getting rid of guns here.
I wish I had more than 20 types of rifles. I’m barely over a dozen.
Canadian bush pilots need both a long and a short gun. Why does the PM hate the First Nations folks that depend on the bush pilots?
I think the UK is using subterfuge, first letting Australia, then the Canadians go all totalitarian, before it happens on the isles itself.
The clown in the north will dress up in a pastiche of traditional clothing to tell them how to live. Amazing how far one can get with no personal honor or shame while spouting the approved lines.
Yeah, I don’t think the government that invented a fictional mass grave and stood by idly while churches were torched over this nonexistent crime is going to go door-do-door among the First Nations to confiscate their guns.
This is a White Man’s Law only.
Yeah, that was my first thought when I saw that he said something along the lines of “No one in Canada needs a handgun” (except for my Elite Stormwaffen.. I mean government police). There’s significant parts of Canada that (like Alaska) still qualify as “untamed wilderness” as I understand it. Where wolves, bears (and for all I know, hardy mountain lions) still roam and might consider you free lunch if they can get over the aftertaste of soy and burnt coffee and all.
The pacified “everyone lives in urban bubbles like me” mindset is stunning.
The next step, if the U.S. is any indication, is to ramp up the crime rate in the cities. The purpose of making people defenseless is never to let them live in peace.
LGS had a Sig Copperhead. I’m torn between that and a CZ Scorpion. Or a 642 pro.
I’m a CZ fanboi, and I do not recommend the Scorpion.
I really enjoy mine. Easily my favorite gun to shoot.
I don’t know about favorite, but I do like mine a lot.
Comparing the one I’ve shot to the 9mm AR I built for a quarter the price and magazines that cost half as much, it doesn’t seem like the price:performance ratio is correct.
35 rd magpul mags are $20. That’s a bit steeper than 5.56 pmags, but I don’t see that as excessively high.
I have no clue on the tradeoff versus building your own. The price and performance seemed reasonable to me for an out of the box option.
Ah, when I shot the Scorpion2, it had just come out and here were no aftermarket mags.
Also, the price on the Scorpion seems to have come down considerably — I remember it being close to/same as the Banshee.
Things have changed, the value proposition also changes.
Now having said all of THAT, my personal preference is to minimize the number of magazine types especially if I want to multigun.
Yeah, I think the aftermarket had exploded with options right before I started looking. That was a selling point for me.
Now having said all of THAT, my personal preference is to minimize the number of magazine types especially if I want to multigun.
I pulled a storage box out from under the bed a couple months ago and was surprised to find a bunch of assorted mags, still sealed in plastic, that I had bought and forgotten about. Fewer types would definitely be more manageable.
The SIG will run better than any straight blowback PCC.
That’s not to say that the SIG is an objective model of reliability. Keep it well lubed.
Biden could go to Chicago and re-assure the folks that he’s doing something. Propose to tear down the entire city and rebuild it, this time with a real law against gun violence. While the ‘attack rifles’, which are more serious than ‘assault rifles’ are being banned our neighbor to the north has his own solution, handguns are the culprit.
TPTB are trying to get ahead of Something. Where’s my Reynolds wrap?
Politicians aren’t interested in your day-to-day gun violence in places like Chicago because reasons.
The agenda isn’t to stop gun crime, and all the rigmarole about that is plain bullshit, because it really is about how to go about disarming the law abiding citizens. These crime gangs do the work that abusive & ineffective government depends on to keep the serfs beholden and subservient to the government for things they no longer are allowed to do themselves.
Gamma City? Is the ED-209 ready to deploy?
So does senile Joe. He went after 9mm over the weekend. Almost like his handlers and Justin’s coordinated.
You’ll shoot your lung out kid.
Because 9mm ammo poses a much more significant threat than .45? Or .40? Or 380 Auto?
Because he’s a damn fool.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/30/remarks-by-president-biden-after-marine-one-arrival-10/
LOL
You could go out and buy a cannon though. The man’s either pig ignorant or a liar, neither of which is good.
He’s a chronic liar, and lies even when the truth would suit him.
https://youtu.be/gmW_CLyjqgY
I doubt the surgeon story is true, but no one in the press corps will call him on it even after fifty years of solid lying.
Allow yourself to imagine the potential in both.
I wonder if that was teleprompter or Biden speaking off the cuff.
.22 never killed anyone. How old is RFK these days?
I haven’t looked lately but isn’t 22 usually the murder caliber of choice by far in any given year?
I’ve heard something like that for years, and of course don’t know the real numbers, but my guess has always been that (if it were ever true) it was a by-product of its commonality. There’s just so many of them out there that it could dominate the numbers – at least in the past.
An intermediate cartridge is a weapon of war and no civilian needs it. And it’s far too weak for hunting.
A rifle cartridge is a sniper weapon and no civilian needs one. And if you need to take a shot at over 100 yards, you’re a terrible hunter and should have your license revoked.
A .22LR is an assassin’s weapon, designed to be used with an undetectable silenced ghost gun.
.38 special is more than enough for any civilian. If it as good enough for Dick Tracy, it’s good enough for you!
.380 was certainly good enough for Archduke Ferdinand and his wife.
I’ve heard a .22 can be more dangerous than other calibers. The very reason being because it can’t exit and can often bounce around inside your body hitting multiple bones and organs.
That is indeed a myth that will not die.
Ed Gein used a .22 on all of the victims he shot.
He didn’t want to damage the meat?
When ol’ Ed said “I’ll tan your hide” to his girl friends he was not speaking metaphorically.
That Mona Lisa has an attitude.
whaddup doh’
1/6 was an existential threat to the ones who should be swinging from lampposts, if they didn’t off themselves first out of personal honor, for their abject repeated breaking of their oaths of office. To everyone else and the American people who should be their bosses, it was a large mob, barely more unruly than any large sporting event and less than post-victory parades celebrating those events.
The cold civil war has already kicked off, and one side intends to win it. The other side is still largely in denial that it’s even happening.
I broke in my new smoker this weekend. I brined two Boston Butts and two turkey wings (the latter just to try out). I coated the butts with my friend Kerry Cheesboro’s Pig Sand (sorry for the needless plug) and smoked them low and slow for about ten hours at 225. The pork came out great, although the wife did the actual pulling of the pork after I “fell asleep”, aided by a few cocktails. We had the neighbors over yesterday and they gave it favorable reviews and went for seconds. I wasn’t quite as impressed with the turkey wings. I used a Parmesan Ranch rub on them and what I’ve tried so far is a little too strong on the rub and there’s no crispiness to the wings. I’m going to have to up my game on the turkey, because I do want to smoke a turkey breast at some point. I definitely think I’ve caught the bug.
Smoking turkey or chicken is good, but you won’t get a crisp skin unless you get the heat up to 300 degrees or better – that’s when the Maillard reaction kicks in. You can smoke for an hour or two (which gets the smoke flavor in) and then finish on a regular grill, oven or air-fryer.
I’m okay with skin that has bite threw, doesn’t need to be crispy but most people who smoke chicken end up with rubbery skin
The smoked turkey I buy to make bean soup doesn’t have rubbery skin, but it’s not crispy either.
Hey me too! I took the lazy route on smoker #2 and got a Green Mountain Grill pellet smoker. The Boston Butt came out with a uniform color that was gorgeous. Did chicken wings also and those were scrumptious.
I still prefer the wood fire though.
Is this thing on?
No.
Yes. I see both comments you made, 7:11 and 7:12.
What you aren’t seeing is the comment it won’t let through.
I keep getting this:
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Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@glibertarians.com to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
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This isn’t the first time it happened, so I’m thinking WP shenanigans.
Maybe someone could check the log?
WordPress takes offense at certain comments and server errors at them.
It’s suspect.
Yeah, I’ve had the same error – randomly. Like it just pukes on some particular thing, I thought it might be embedded link related, but probably not.
I’ll make sure the WordPress team knows about this.
The big picture is that we are way behind on WordPress updates (understandably, due to recent events), and they are working on that.
Thanks 🙂
So another comment that’s being filtered somehow?
Happened to me yesterday. Something about Yusef’s meal. No links, nothing risqué.
Same here.
Those are warnings to keep it in your pants…
If the media and deep state honestly thought the laptop was Russian disinformation, they would have tried to confirm it, so they could point to it as Russian collusion. That they didn’t even try, shows that they knew it was real.
And that’s the gist of the whole thing: the standard has become to deny it as something nefarious and then censor anyone that asks what research was done to confirm a claim or produce evidence for something being claimed. That’s why you suddenly get the need for a “Disinformation Bureau” from the government too.
The scary thing is that it works. So many people never lose the trust, even after repeated revelations that they are not getting news but being programmed to believe what the top men want. After the revelations of the last 5 years I can’t see why anyone believes the old legacy media on anything political (or otherwise) anymore, because the lies are blatant and always in the same direction.
I remember that ABC showed footage that they claimed was of our Kurdish allies being mercilessly slaughtered in Syria, all because Pres. Trump redeployed a couple thousand troops out of there.
They admitted that it was actually video of a live-fire exercise/fireworks show in Kentucky, and that they knew that’s what it was when they aired the original story.
The Kurds are just our latest dupes, they aren’t allies.
I hate to be Debbie Downer, but there’s a big difference between filing a suit (Navarro), and having the court grant standing to sue. Hopefully the court will grant standing and let the case proceed.
I just wish we could go back to the days when people treated contempt of Congress like it was nothing.
No, not shitbags like Eric Holder ignoring subpoenas from actual congressional committeees and then flaunting it, but normal people telling congress to fuck off.
“Some critics say it’s actually Big Tech that poses the greatest threat to national security. They note that Google has worked with the Chinese military, that Apple stored data on Chinese servers and shared customer data with the Chinese government and that Facebook has also shared information with the Chinese government.
According to a study published Friday, Google, YouTube and Microsoft’s Bing highly rank Chinese propaganda outlets in search results.”
Great.
Look over there at something Putin is doing or saying!!
No, no – this week look at gun control as the narrative and Ukrainian army collapses over there. In a few weeks, the mainstream will have a new narrative ready for the Ukraine. Probably “see what a bad guy Putin is for partitioning the country and threating to take the whole thing if they don’t negotiate?”
I just got rid of all my guns. You should as well.
Hmmmmm.
You never owned any guns.
You should buy some.
I think I need to join a hunting club for that
“Hunt Club” is the color my office is painted in.
Did you lose them in a river? Curious minds and all…
I thought his kind had trouble with running water?
Sun’s out, guns out.
Moved my “home office” into my bedroom for the summer – where there is AC. Gonna need it today.
I guess I could have bought another window unit for the space bedroom, but this easier and cheaper.
W00t! A completely shocking performance after their miserable away form all through the playoffs.
And now we have home ice advantage!?
<em.Fusion promises a virtually limitless form of energy that, unlike fossil fuels, emits zero greenhouse gases and, unlike the nuclear fission power used today, produces no long-life radioactive waste.
Mastering it could literally save humanity from climate change, a crisis of our own making.
Nothing short of fairy tale perfection will be acceptable. If you can’t power a city on banana peels and candy wrappers there’s no reason to bother. We’ve got too much invested in solar cells and windmills to just walk away from them.
They’re not wrong. It would literally change everything.
Just not in the way they want, as others have pointed out.
. We’ve got too much invested in solar cells and windmills to just walk away from them.
60K KIAs in VN, a T$ in Afghanistan, no price is to big to borrow and walk away from. The right people have long made their money and it’s on to the next boon doggle
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“Pregnant black woman, 26, is shot FIVE TIMES by Kansas City police while running from officers, witness says: Cops were responding to reports of an armed carjacking at the time”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10869877/Pregnant-black-woman-shot-FIVE-TIMES-Kansas-City-police-looking-stolen-car.html
I’m out.
“Of course I had to shoot the lady….you didn’t expect me to able to run her down, did you?”
They are like dogs, run away and the predator instinct kicks in.
If they are anything like the porkers in Uvalde I doubt they could chase her down.
There might be something to be said for better training of cops, if they cannot chase a pregnant woman.
Depends how pregnant. A track star who is a couple months pregnant can easily outrun the average cop.
/pedant
holee fook
I wouldn’t even try to piece together what actually happened from what was reported in that article.
Fire at Omaha chemical plant forces residents to evacuate their homes
Hundreds of residents were also left without power on Monday night following the blaze at the Nox-Crete plant. No injuries have been reported in connection with the fire, officials said.
There seems to be some sort of orchestrated attack on energy and food going on.
I posted about an egg farm that caught fire, yesterday.
European Union leaders agree to ban 90% of Russian oil by end of year
Just in time for winter. I do wonder what they will replace it with. The Brandon administration isn’t exactly interested in boosting American production.
They’ll replace it with sweaters and browbeating.
Hairshirts for all
This was excellent news for the project in France, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, better known as ITER. Its main objective is to prove fusion can be utilized commercially. If it can, the world will have no use for fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, the main drivers of the human-made climate crisis.
Just imagine the baffled anguish of these cargo cult nitwits when they attain their lofty de-carbonization goals and nothing changes.
We were right… but it was too late….
There will be no reflection. They will immediately pivot to the need to prevent global cooling.
Hey, they need something to power the goalposts!
“It will be illegal to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada,” the prime minister said. Families of shooting victims joined him at a press conference in Ottawa.
Canada already has plans to ban 1,500 types of military-style firearms and offer a mandatory buyback program that will begin at the end of the year. Trudeau said if someone really wants to keep their assault weapon it will be made completely inoperable.
I see a lot of boating accidents in Canada’s future.
*insert Don Corleone here*
If they make transfer illegal, that means you can’t inherit handguns when relatives die. It’s a long game to grab all handguns.
^This. It also means you can’t take the guns to the range, promote gun ownership, or really have any practical use for the handguns other than deciding if the jail sentence is worth using in the case of a home invasion (New York charged the homeowners in multiple cases).
Handgun ownership will be essentially extinct within a generation.
Yep. No need to go house to house when it wither on the vine. Grandkids will call the cops to pick up the dangerous weapon they found in the attic after the funeral.
It’s really important to get rid of the guns *before* destroying the working- and middle-class standard of living. I don’t know if Canada has really thought out this timeline…
They’ll comply to some disappointingly high level, and nothing else will happen. That is a thoroughly defeated populace.
The trucker freedom crackdown was successful.
Going by previous iterations of this law, a ‘disappointingly high’ level of compliance would be about 20%.
Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro SUES Nancy Pelosi and January 6 committee because their probe is ‘partisan weaponization’ and they have no legal right to hold him in contempt for defying his subpoena
The committee is illegal even under its own resolution.
Man in wig throws cake at Mona Lisa in protest of climate change
Videos posted on social media showed a young man in a wig and lipstick who had arrived in a wheelchair.
I’m…confused.
It’s performance art. You are too hillbilly to understand…
I took my daughter to MOMA in NYC a few years ago. On the top floor was an inviting group of wooden chairs all facing a large painting. I was tired of walking and needed a rest. So I sat down. The security guard immediately got on my case – the arrangement of chairs WAS the art installation!
There’s one of those at the Hirshhorn in DC as well. They had to put signs up around it.
Then there’s this. https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/inge-mahn-schulklasse/
Modern artists are experts in bullshittery.
“A White House official pushed back on those concerns, saying that around 14 percent of current White House staffers identify as Black…”
“Identify as”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/31/biden-white-house-black-staffers-00035931
She identifies as unpronounceable.
It’s pronounced “Throat-Warbler Mangrove”
The actual number is higher, but they don’t want to get beaten with a pool chain for showing up late to work.
When the Earth was populated by less than a billion people, there were enough renewable sources to meet demand, Bigot said.
“Not anymore. Not since the Industrial Revolution and the following population explosion. So we embraced fossil fuels and did a lot of harm to our environment. And here we are now, 8 billion strong and in the middle of a drastic climate crisis,” he said.
Que?
And the rotten stinking corpse of Malthus continues to haunt the earth.
Got news for you dipshit, there aren’t enough renewable sources to meet demand for a tenth of that unless you like subsistence living. And fossil fuels do a hell of lot more than just create energy.
You go, girl! Such talent.
Clem Burke workout video?
Very much so. He is a hell of a drummer.
No coverage of the Champions League Final?
At least Liverpool one the 2nd most important trophy. And the 47th most important trophy.
That game sucked ass. Parking the bus is not fun to watch.
It deserves no further discussion.
Giving up a goal to team parking the bus is really bad defending.
Oh yeah, Liverpool were dreadful. No doubt about that.
I mean, not really. Liverpool still had a 2+ xg. Courtois won it for Real.
One rule change I would like to see soccer adopt is from Lacrosse…you have to keep 3 field players on each side of the center line at all times.
Three guys can’t drop back in defense, 3 guys can’t push forward. 7 on 7+G opens things up a lot for the offense.
Make the rule 2 instead of 3 would be fine by me.
Limit to 8 on 8 would still open up the game.
If you really want an extra guy on the attack, you can send your goalie.
Ohio elects some real winner Republicans.
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/05/30/sen-portman-crosses-into-ukraine-calls-on-us-to-send-mlrs-rockets/
Standard MLRS configurations can reach 190 miles, which would allow strikes inside Russia using US weapons packages.
So dangerous we have to give them more money than Russia’s own military budget, but somehow also so safe our politicians and celebrities can visit any time they want.
Quantum warfare!
If you want to get the Ukraine carpet bombed that’d be just the way to do it.
If the Palestine “strategy” is any indication, provoking retaliation is the point. Parading around pictures of devastation and dead bodies is more useful than peace and prevention.
Maybe, the Russians have been using a somewhat light hand, at least as regards population centers and civilians, so far. If Russia itself came under regular bombardment they’d react harshly I’m sure.
Not that I necessarily support giving them long range missiles, but “it can strike inside Russia” is a transparently stupid reason not to. Any weapon can strike inside Russia if you are close enough to the border.
Providing them with a capability that they currently do not possess to strike further internal Russian targets would be seen as the USA’s endorsement of a broader escalation. What’s next, cruise missiles that can reach Moscow?
If the Ukrainians are willing to use them, then that puts the theater of operations out past the Dniepr. Unless the goal is to prolong this war*, widening the engagement envelope to include two-thirds of Ukraine’s land area seems foolish.
* = For a lot of people, though, this is exactly the goal
Russia’s engagement envelope already includes all of Ukraine. Ukraine’s includes anything in Russia within range of drone* or artillery strikes, and they have already made drone strikes inside Russia. Much Ukrainian territory currently occupied by Russia is effectively outside of Ukraine’s engagement envelope.
*I’m not clear on what the range is of drones Ukraine may have. The putative drone strikes inside Russia may have been carried out by deep penetration teams.
I don’t see the champions league final results in the sports section.
Almost like a Liverpool fan ignoring reality.
I keep seeing stories on plant fires, and my conspiratorial brain jumps to engineered famines/economic destruction, but it’d be useful to see how many fires typically happen, and their circumstances.
Same with athletes dropping dead, it’s easy to jump to vaccine side effects, but I’d need to see data from before covid vaccines to make any conclusions.
It depends. Fires can be common at many types of manufacturing facilities; and it’s a function of how likely a process is to catch fire, how good the fire prevention/suppression systems are, and how good the firefighting response is (most plants at risk have their own internal firefighting teams).
Fire is never a good outcome, but many processes necessarily run right on the edge of it.
It’s possible that staffing problems could be contributing to a problem, if one exists. Manufacturers have been struggling to hire and retain employees, and that can contribute both to fires starting and poor firefighting response–inexperience and lack of training being a problem with new employees and high turnover rates.
It used to be that the ones that got reported were the real bad ones. I feel like recently, people/the media have simply just been noticing them more. But there could be a personnel issue.
Additionally, rising costs and supply chain issues have hit maintenance budgets hard in the manufacturing industry. Deferred/insufficent maintenance due to these problems could be a contributor as well.
But don’t worry, I’m sure that Biden will take the problem in hand and propose nationalization of the high risk process industries–certainly the government can fix these problems better than the private owners.
It was Nox-Crete. I know that company and am not surprised at all.
They use a large amount of industrial solvents and other assorted petroleum products.
Here’s an analysis on food processing plant fires.
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/05/30/german-parties-agree-to-107-billion-boost-in-military-funding/
Might be hard to achieve when you’re spending half of your GDP on gas and oil.
They are watching an army 10 times bigger than their own (62,766 according to wikipedia) get annihilated. Maybe NATO and some better tech could save them. I’ve seen German soldiers training – good NCO’s, not so good enlisted.
That’s the Germany that everyone in Europe wanted circa 1945.
“WASHINGTON — Faced with a worsening political predicament, President Joe Biden is pressing aides for a more compelling message and a sharper strategy while bristling at how they’ve tried to stifle the plain-speaking persona that has long been one of his most potent assets.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-white-house-adrift-rcna30121
We are living with Chauncy Gardner in the White House. Isn’t the president supposed to be the one with the vision? It’s always the messaging with either Team Red or Team Blue.
MOAR PUSH UP CONTESTS
Their heavy emphasis on “messaging” and “optics” reveals that they are there to sell a prepackaged set of ideas to the population. They spend far more time convincing the public to accept what the establishment wants than they ever spend convincing the establishment to accept what the public wants.
As has been pointed out, no protest against war, no matter how large, has ever deterred the federal government from joining or starting a conflict it desired.
DC has its own agenda which has nothing to do with the will of the people.
“Isolationism” is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the military-intelligence-industrial complex: always and everywhere undermining the glorious vision, and yet somehow also unable to stop the country from getting involved in every major conflict around the globe.
Hehe, yep. That sounds about right.
Clearly the solution is to adopt an even angrier public persona and divide the American people more than ever on wedge issues.
When you don’t have any kind of positive plan that the people whom vote would feel compelled to actually vote for, and their plans certainly would get no support if everyone got to see what it was that agenda is going towards, you have to rely on the divide & conquer strategy of painting your opponents negatively.
That’s all the Democrats have this year. I’m very concerned about where their rhetoric will go, and where it will take them.
All the pieces are in place for another “summer of love” even worse than 2020, and it is only waiting for a trigger event or events. De-escalation is the only hope, and the Dems can’t afford to de-escalate because all they have to campaign on is anger and negativity.
“That’s all the Democrats have this year. I’m very concerned about where their rhetoric will go, and where it will take them.”
Talk is cheap. And nobody tells more bullshit than the democrats. And the more of this crap they do, them more people get wise to them and their criminal shit. But the problem is that the democrat party is for all intents and purposes a crime syndicate of the powerful (what you get in socialist systems), and they will not just stop at rhetoric. The Kung Flue bullshit worked perfectly to give them cover to “fortify” the 2020 election. They lack that this time, but I am willing to bet money this will not dissuade them from trying to steal it again. after all, they are fighting hateful racist Nazis, and they can use that line to convince the usual lot that feels being serfs is cool because “free shit”.
Talk is cheap, but there seem to be a number of true believers who will sell themselves cheaply. The Democratic leaders don’t do the dirty work of “peacefully protesting,” but they can incite it and can and do demur when asked to condemn it.
“WASHINGTON — Faced with a worsening political predicament, President Joe Biden is pressing aides for a more compelling message and a sharper strategy while bristling at how they’ve tried to stifle the plain-speaking persona that has long been one of his most potent assets.”
And there is our problem in a nutshell. The morons running the country don’t try to figure out what to do to actually address issues & problems, but how to shape the narratives to make the fucking unwashed masses believe whatever convenient lie they want to tell so they can keep doing more of the shit that is strangling the people.
Yeah, a “plain speaking persona” can maybe tip the balance when things are arguably good or your opponents are off track. When your party has effective control of the government and things are falling apart the only “plain speaking” is admitting you f**ked up and doing an about face. But, when the energy for your policy agenda is coming from faculty lounge socialists and New Class apparatchiks, you’ve pretty much dealt “plain speaking” out of your list of policy options.
“Amid a rolling series of calamities and sinking approval ratings, the president’s feeling lately is that he just can’t catch a break — and that angst is rippling through his party.”
Maybe if things constantly go wrong and you can’t “catch a break” the problem is you.
You’d think so.
But, clearly, their assesment of the problem is they are not succeeding in getting their message across to the morons that have to vote for them.
https://electrek.co/2022/05/30/deloreans-alpha5-ev-is-a-gull-winged-sport-sedan-that-does-0-88-in-4-35s/
Delorean?
*checks 2022 bingo card*
Nope. Didn’t have that…
Despite its provenance as the futuristic star vehicle of the Back to the Future series of movies, the original DeLorean had a pretty standard V6 engine. In the movie, the fictional time machine was “electrical” – what better way to make use of 1.21 gigawatts of onboard nuclear power.
Uh, the one in the movie ran on gasoline. The electricity was only for time travel. It was mentioned in the first film and a plot element in the third.
I’m actually surprised they’ve gone this far.
(CNN)Supreme Court officials are escalating their search for the source of the leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, taking steps to require law clerks to provide cell phone records and sign affidavits, three sources with knowledge of the efforts have told CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/politics/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-leak-phone-records/index.html
They still won’t actually catch the leaker of course.
Everyone seemed pretty sure it was the Indian guy working for Sotomayor a few weeks ago.
They WILL find something that can be used to embarrass justices of inproper politics, and that’s good enough.
Yep. My money is on Thomas or Thomas’ clerks. There’s a concerted effort to remove him from the courts for several months now. Well, really ever since he was nominated. It’s just picked up in the last several months.
I will totally remain unsurprised that team blue came up with a plot where they would “tiki-torch” this thing. It would be leaked in a way they could blame the conservatives for it, then claim it was done to deny them an October surprise. I will absolutely not be surprised that this exact scenario happens in October of this year, as an orchestrated media campaign jumps into action, all to entice and piss off all the demoralized morons that are members of the pregnant men party to go to the polls.
In these times, that seems perfectly plausible.
Bring on the empaths
Each time a high-profile mass shooting happens in America, a grieving and incredulous nation scrambles for answers. Who was this criminal and how could he (usually) have committed such a horrendous and inhumane act? A few details emerge about the individual’s troubled life and then everyone moves on.
Three years ago, Jillian Peterson, an associate professor of criminology at Hamline University, and James Densley, a professor of criminal justice at Metro State University, decided to take a different approach. In their view, the failure to gain a more meaningful and evidence-based understanding of why mass shooters do what they do seemed a lost opportunity to stop the next one from happening. Funded by the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the Department of Justice, their research constructed a database of every mass shooter since 1966 who shot and killed four or more people in a public place, and every shooting incident at schools, workplaces and places of worship since 1999.
Peterson and Densley also compiled detailed life histories on 180 shooters, speaking to their spouses, parents, siblings, childhood friends, work colleagues and teachers. As for the gunmen themselves, most don’t survive their carnage, but five who did talked to Peterson and Densely from prison, where they were serving life sentences. The researchers also found several people who planned a mass shooting but changed their mind.
Their findings, also published in the 2021 book, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic, reveal striking commonalities among the perpetrators of mass shootings and suggest a data-backed, mental health-based approach could identify and address the next mass shooter before he pulls the trigger — if only politicians are willing to actually engage in finding and funding targeted solutions. POLITICO talked to Peterson and Densely from their offices in St. Paul, Minn., about how our national understanding about mass shooters has to evolve, why using terms like “monster” is counterproductive, and why political talking points about mental health need to be followed up with concrete action.
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POLITICO: In your book, you say that in an ideal world, 500,000 psychologists would be employed in schools around the country. If you assume a modest salary of $70,000 a year, that amounts to over $35 billion in funding. Are you seeing any national or state-level political momentum for even a sliver of these kind of mental health resources?
Densley: Every time these tragedies happen, you always ask yourself, “Is this the one that’s going to finally move the needle?” The Republican narrative is that we’re not going to touch guns because this is all about mental health. Well then, we need to ask the follow-up question of what’s the plan to fix that mental health problem. Nobody’s saying, “Let’s fund this, let’s do it, we’ll get the votes.” That’s the political piece that’s missing here.
Yes, yes, of course. A million monkeys with psychology degrees could solve this problem overnight, if only we had the will to
spend the moneysprinkle the fairy dust.That’s some mighty fine cherry-picking there Lou.
POLITICO: In your book, you say that in an ideal world, 500,000 psychologists would be employed in schools around the country.
“In your book, you say that in an ideal world, a riding mechanic would be employed in every automobile.”
Idiot. Fix the root problems and stop chasing the downstream consequences.
To be fair, in an ideal world, each driver would know how to fix their car, so a mechanic would be in every automobile.
In an ideal world, neither would cars break nor schools be shot up.
Now you’re just engaging in fantasy 😛
Takes one to know one.
That would require automobiles which don’t require manufacturer provided software or tools to interface with the systems.
So either no computer, or open-source cars?
Generally speaking, after a few years the auto community hacks their way through most proprietary systems. But the manufacturers are looking for ways to make that impossible so you have to go to the dealer.
MUH Intellectual Property!!!
While I agree with your plan, I am honestly confused with what the “root problem” is. SSRI’s? Broken families? A metabolic brain-chemistry disorder? Demon possession?
An insufficient jobs program for psychology majors
-eh one of my friends was a psych major. I am not impressed with that plan.
No midnight baskeball
Nailed it in one.
Well, that’s probably the biggest one.
All of the above and then some. I’m in the camp that believes that our culture is profoundly sick and has been for a lot longer than most of us would like to admit. Not to say that fixing the culture gets rid of the problem, but I think that it would reduce the occurrence rate and impact.
The industrial revolution did many good things. One bad thing is forcing us to live next door to “those weirdos over in the hut in the backwoods”.
The root problem is obviously too many unemployed psychologists…
If only SCOTUS would recognize that due process is blocking utopia.
Bwaaaah!
Like anyone who has been frustrated by groups of people? Did they interview themselves?
They are like dogs, run away and the predator instinct kicks in.
Baboons with guns.
“We are proud to welcome Moses Ingram to the Star Wars family and excited for Reva’s story to unfold. If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only one thing to say: we resist.
There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don’t choose to be a racist.”
https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1531519653951836161
But editing black people out of the Chinese posters is totes OK?
Any criticism of the character, writing, or actor is by definition racist so just shut up and pay us.
Winning marketing strategy they’ve got there.
Their marketing strategy is to drum up outrage, counter-outrage, counter-counter-outrage, so that people on social media are talking about it, and the media can write articles about people on social talking about it, and people on social media can link to those articles…..
They are marketing to the new Star Woke fan base, not the people they already turned off with the horrible sequels.
And they’ll wonder why as the franchise slowly fades into irrelevance. Yeah, it must be racism or sexism or homophobia. Or whatever the flavor of the month is for the grievance industry. They took one of the most valuable properties Hollywood has ever had and wrecked it. And they don’t want to know why.
Remember all the hate Billy Dee Williams got? We wouldn’t want that to happen again.
/sarc
JFC what universe do these people live in?! Once more… IT IS NOT 1955 ANY MORE YOU MORANS.
I see that Brandon took Memorial Day as an opportunity to say some dangerously ignorant things about the constitution, American history, and guns.
I wonder if the cuntes pulling his strings have any idea of the gravity and consequences of what they are apparently aiming to do.
Biden argued in order for citizens to hold the government accountable with equal levels of force, Americans would have to own a fighter jet or a tank.
What I take from this is that the citizens no longer have parity with the government and if I want to park a tank in my driveway it should be between me and the HOA. Never mind that these systems require an extensive support network to operate. It would not be all that difficult to turn them into multi-million dollar paperweights.
So he’s admitting that the government is unaccountable.
Biden argued in order for citizens to hold the government accountable with equal levels of force, Americans would have to own a fighter jet or a tank.
For a guy who saw his army with tanks and fighter jets get routed by a bunch of twelfth century goat herders less than a year ago, Joe sure does run his mouth a lot.
I have always said that I would willingly turn in any weapons that the government is willing to give up as well…
Same shit, different day.
The narrative you say?
They WILL find something that can be used to embarrass justices of inproper politics, and that’s good enough.
I saw (can’t remember where) an article which attempted to make a case for the leaker being a clerk for one of the “conservative” justices. It was impossible (for me) to untie the logical pretzel.
I can do it. Short version: If you’re a garden-variety R, then a fairly large proportion of your support exists ONLY because you can pretend to keep “opposing” RvW. If it were a locally non-contentious thing, then bunches of your supporters go away. So you want it to stick around.
That theory was it was an attempt to keep Roberts from peeling off one of the conservatives that might have been wobbly.
Said theory in detail.
https://twitter.com/Johnson__joey/status/1530499953944055814
GUNS!!!!!
Such small collections.
I think the estimates of 400 million are waaay too low.
But…I…uh…where are the steaks?
I don’t understand the desire to advertise your stash. Why not show everybody your gold and solver coins while you’re at it?
I am totally with you on this Scruffy. And I worry people that want to do that stuff are not playing with a full deck and will eventually do something to encourage the usual gun grabbers’ campaign of lies.
This, do not flex and make yourself a target.
Is there another hobby or activity that people regularly do this kind of thing for? I really like power tools but I’ve never had the urge to spread my collection out in the driveway and pose for pictures with them.
First thing that came to mind.
https://starwarsblog.starwars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Action-Figure_resized-2400×1200-123417611699.jpg
Well, at least he has something to fall back on instead of getting laid.
Most of these people are probably glowies who are fishing for targets
Crypto bois are pretty dumb about being flashy.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/25-people-posing-with-their-collections–393713192418207522/
Dunno about the “regularly” aspect.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/150166968795335496/
I saw a post for the Action Figure Museum in Oklahoma on that list.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Tools/
Get busy Hype.
Also regarding tools, what about the guys who obsess over DeWalt?
Liking power tools isn’t a hobby.
What about hand tools?
Air Tools?
A nice tool chest to keep them?
Nope.
A hobby is something you do, not something you have.
I do a lot with them, but I see what you’re saying.
Woodworking, then.
Collectors often show off finds to each other on collector’s boards.
How do you people afford all that shit?>
They live in low tax areas.
Having our priorities in order?
A glass-walled vault?
I mean, I guess if someone has access to the inside of your house they WILL be able to get into any vault, but still…
I actually know Mia from the northern Virginia USPSA scene. She’s pretty good.
they’ve tried to stifle the plain-speaking persona that has long been one of his most potent assets.
Plain speaking like, “I was wrong” or “This isn’t working, we should try something else” or “The buck stops here”? That kind of plain speaking?
The sort of plain speaking Joe Biden has never engaged in in either his personal or professional life?
Listen fats, I was top of my class on a full-scholarship!
That old clip where he decimated his own candidacy by running his mouth and telling lie upon lie was just priceless.
I challenge you to trial by strength.
Quick update. Successfully did the prosecutor’s office and the court yesterday. Just picking up documents. Super easy. Fine was confirmed to be paid and I’m clean on that front. Today was Hospital Day. Well. Um. I’ll unpack it later. I wanted stronger pain meds. I got xrays. I have pics of the fracture on my femur. It’s like a sliver of one side of my hip has broken off. Same thing happened with my thumb playing baseball, my first broken bone.
I thought it was a fracture that went across the bone in a horizontal line. Nope. Good, actually. Easier, let’s say.
The broken off bit is right next to the titanium shaft in my right femur. That’s why they said I might need surgery. It’s been said by multiple doctors that I do NOT need surgery. Just be chill and careful. I wasn’t the day before. My. Leg. Felt. GREAT. Without meds. It felt like a turning point, but I knew to play slow and steady. I don’t think I went nuts. I did walk 2 miles. That’s much more that unusual, but nothing too crazy. The day before, when the pain was where it was for 4 days, I walked 1 mile, just doing basic day-to-day stuff. I live in a very dense part of town. Ya don’t need a car or a bus or a subway or a taxi. To do most things, you just walk. It’s fabulous.
But anyway. The danger is if I’m too risky or if something bad happens. Here’s what happens when this goes badly: periprothsetic fractures. Warning. Google. I don’t know how to use html at all.
https://www.google.com/search?q=periprosthetic+hip+fracture&rlz=1CACNAW_enUS929US929&sxsrf=ALiCzsZSn57rB2fN3k4NzqxqVlwibMhhJg:1653990748261&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb1ovYu4n4AhWZnFYBHXioAwgQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1494&bih=655&dpr=1.25#imgrc=uiDej9YhoBUTmM
That is fucking terrifying. HOLY. MOTHER. FUCKING. FUCKING. FUCK SHIT PISS CUM COCK TWAT PUSSY FUCKING FUCK….FUUUUUUUCK.
They said it was a risk, but I don’t seem to be in any great danger of this. Just, rest and hopefully accidents miss me. I’m trying to wrap my mind around it all. Was talking with Lady about it and it is absolutely amazingly crazy. Sit-com/serious comedic/drama/ etc. I’m gonna have to do something with it.
My physical index of being fucked up: 100%
My psychological index of being fucked up: 0% (I have some but nothing at all severe. Just “Oh, shucks!” type of shit. )
Lady’s physical index of being fucked up: 0%
Lady’s psychological index of being fucked up: 100%
Like. It’s absolutely remarkable. We are both in Crazy Land in the exact opposite ways. It was an insane conversation and absolutely an bizarre microcosm of two people going through the exact same thing…in exact opposite ways. In an understanding and joking way, we talked about who was most likely to die from the repercussions of The Incident and our differences. We laughed because we both shrugged and didn’t have any clue. Both of us are equally to die in our own way. Mine are obvious, but think depression, suicide, drinking yourself to death, etc. on her end.
I’m pushing the line of not revealing anything more. Her privacy is sacrosanct in this. So that’s where I leave you with that side of the coin. Mine, I love talking about. I joke and flirt with nurses and a completely broken human, but the rainbow still looks nice up there! Eeeeeee! It’s fucking gorgeous out! PLAY BALL!
It was a truly special moment for me, and although some of it was hard for her to express (tears were shed) she sincerely thanked me because I had made her feel better with us sharing that talk. It was the Team coming together.
Tomorrow’s mission is to take those documents to immigration and make sure that all is straight and get documents from them. Problem is, tomorrow is Election Day. It’s a federal, public holiday. Red Days, they call them. So I’m gonna have to call them tomorrow…I legit don’t know if they’ll be open. Today was a quasi-holiday. Cuz no school/work tomorrow, it was like a mid-week Saturday night, but it had more energy than even that. Maybe just cuz it was in the daytime. Immigration might not be open tomorrow. Hrm. I’ll find out in about 12 hours. *Shrug*
I’ll say this about my life. It is absolutely fucked. But it ain’t boring. “May you live in interesting times.” That curse is a fundamental part of my existence. *Shrug*
Goddammit. I’m sorry that’s so long. That’s borderline article length. Please read it, I guess? Meant a lot to me. I just had this conversation with Lady. I was just going to write a short thing and then I started pouring all of myself into it.
Hitler’s B-day Fun was fantastic. It helped it all coherently come out.
What? The spot price of platinum is half that of gold? What happened?
*Shrug*
Thieves are still stealing catalytics though. Business up the road got hit last week.
Man I hate that crap.
Nothing like showing up to work to find that your entire fleet has had its exhaust systems cut in half.
900/toz isn’t anything to skoff at, but I was surprised.
Justin Castreau wants a 5 round limit to long gun magazines. Magic number is magic.
NOBODY NEEDS MORE THAN FIVE BULLETS TO HUNT DEER!
It ain’t about deer, dear.
Yeah, the second amendment isn’t because the deer were marching on Concord.
“The Whitetails are coming! The Whitetails are coming!”
Lee-Enfield owners are fucked, but Mauser owners are fine.
He really does hate Canada doesn’t he?
Cultural appropriation!
Gettin’ all Kali with this shit.
“It is long past time to move on abolishing the US Senate or stripping it of its major legislative powers.
Why? The Senate suffers irreparably from an ever-increasing small-state bias & evermore debilitating parliamentary practices inconsistent with the constitutional intent & democratic practice.”
https://twitter.com/ProfStevenSmith/status/1530163915132325888
Professor who?
STEVE SMITH WANT DISENFRANCHISE YOU AND BY DISENFRANCHISE MEAN, WELL YOU KNOW.
Professor I-hate-Republicans. That’s all it boils down to.
I’ll take it! Right place, right time, right knowledge.
Kansas father and son save autistic 4-year-old from drowning in pool
https://nypost.com/2022/05/30/kansas-man-son-tom-maddox-westerhaus-saves-autistic-4-year-old-xavier-rigney-from-drowning-in-pool/
There is a headline on the google news about a father and son saving an “autistic” 4 year old from drowning in a swimming pool. That is fucking fantastic and they are exceptional human beings. But what does “autism” have to do with anything?
Elopement and drowning is a serious concern for many children with autism. I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but children with autism drown at a significantly greater rate than other kids.
and I assume it is more difficult for the rescuer to communicate with the child.
I believe that. We have friends who have a child with autism, and he’s completely no-verbal. He also LOVES water and will swim no matter how cold it is. Once they were at out house and we were working in the garage, and my wife noticed the kid wasn’t around. We ran around back and found that in the span of just a few minutes he’d gone back to the pool, pushed a chair up to the locked gate, and climbed over.
My nephew is strongly autistic, and one of the things his parents did early on was to get him in the pool for swimming lessons, as he’s around water a lot.
Why haven’t Karen and friends outlawed swimming pools by now? Too many deaths of innocent young kids. I’ll bet the death toll from allowing kids to swim is many times that of school shootings by nutjobs. And proms? Why are they allowed? If one kid dies in a traffic accident after prom, that’s one too many. Though to be fair, probably more new lives get started after prom than get taken by traffic accidents or shot-gun toting Dads.
Can’t have a pool boy without a pool.
What Karen gets in the cabana stays in the cabana.
Can’t have an illegitimate kid if you take it in the cabana.
No one “needs” a swimming pool.
And they are a lot more dangerous than AR-15s.
Why haven’t Karen and friends outlawed swimming pools by now?
My standard response to anyone who says “If it saves just one child” is “So when are you going to demand that swimming pools be outlawed?”.
And swimming pools — to be honest — have way less practical use than AR-15s.
No one has ever died mining coal or drilling oil.
Miss Fragola 2022 x Miss Città Murata Veneto, Camposampiero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhX2j_LxzF8
I love the freakout.
A great white shark was filmed eating a seal just off the beach from the Great Point Lighthouse on #Nantucket on Sunday.
there once was a shark from Nantucket
Who’s seal was so big it could suck it
There once was a shark by Nantucket,
who within a tasty pod had snuck it.
He picked out a seal,
and started his meal –
when noticing the press just said “Fuck it.”
look who made some sort of effort
Shark Eating a Seal
There was a shark off of Nantucket
Whose prev’iously down and sad luck it
Seems was increased and
Screams at “The Beast”
Were promoted by journ’lists throwing chum from a bucket
Obligatory
There once was a shark a great white
Who from a seal took a very large bite
The Twitterati raged
And ranted and raved
I don’t care, their opinions are shite.
Can’t wait until SF Wednesday, when I presume we will find out what “fexting” really means.
I are confused – was this fucker the chief of police in the city or a school district employee? What in the fuck is this nonsense about police chief for a school district?
This still doesn’t answer the question – was this guy a school district rent-a-cop? Or was he a sworn officer of some LE agency.
And the “high minded” nonprofit vultures will be battling frenziedly for a piece of the action
A fundraiser for the family of Irma and Joe Garcia – a teacher killed in the Uvalde school shooting, and her husband who died of a heart attack two days later – has raised more than $2.7 million.
Irma, a fourth-grade teacher who’d worked at the school for more than 20 years, was killed in her classroom in the shooting last Tuesday, along with another teacher and 19 students at Robb Elementary School.
They’re going to need guidance and support, you know.
Sheep almost passes out from screaming. It’s too much work, I guess.
It appears that the sheep better learn self-defense because, as the sheepdogs in Uvalde showed, they ain’t always going to protect you from the wolves.
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Fuck!
Good thread here:
https://twitter.com/Jusrangers/status/1530915430092746753
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1530915430092746753.html
WP won’t let me tell you about what.
Urge to kill…. rising.
Thank god Horace Mann saved generations of America’s children from mental illness.
In an open letter circulated to members of Congress last month, former US security brass, including Leon Panetta and James Clapper — who served as defense secretary and director of national intelligence in the Obama administration, respectively — warned that several proposed bills to rein in Big Tech could carry unintended consequences.
The antitrust bills aim to force a revamp of the business models of Google and Meta, the parent company to Facebook and Instagram, and possibly break them up.
But the open letter claims they could “hinder America’s key technology companies in the fight against cyber and national security risks emanating from Russia’s and China’s growing digital authoritarianism.”
Why can’t they both lose?
Doesn’t that basically admit that the big tech companies are working hand-in-hand with government agencies?
Yes.
Shut up, it’s a matter of national security.
Tractor-trailer crash sends 15,000 pounds of hot dog filler onto Pennsylvania highway
https://twitter.com/ABC7NY/status/1531305859799830529
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Hot dogs? You know what they make those things out of don’t you?
This is how far HBR has sunk.
Using Emojis to Connect with Your Team
https://hbr.org/2022/05/using-emojis-to-connect-with-your-team
“The simple task of emoji selection gives team members a moment for self-reflection, which has been found to positively impact performance. And those with higher self-awareness become more thoughtful in expressing their emotions, which results in a better accuracy of emoji selection to represent their given mood.”
???
From that NBC article about Biden’s flailing Presidency:
Any assessment of Biden’s performance needs to take into account the epic challenges he faced from the start.
“They came in with the most daunting set of challenges arguably since Franklin D. Roosevelt, only to then be hit by a perfect storm of crises, from Ukraine to inflation to the supply chain to baby formula,” said Chris Whipple, the author of a book about White House chiefs of staff who is now writing a book about the Biden presidency. “What’s next? Locusts?”
Biden wonders the same thing.
“I’ve heard him say recently that he used to say about President Obama’s tenure that everything landed on his desk but locusts, and now he understands how that feels,” a White House official said.
“It’;s not my fault. I don’t deserve this.”
“I was supposed to be greeted as a liberator!”
Self-inflicted problems are self-inflicted.
If everything was going great and he didn’t have to work he’d be a great president!
Exactly. This kind of shit pisses me off: “he most daunting set of challenges arguably since Franklin D. Roosevelt, only to then be hit by a perfect storm of crises.”
Let’s take this at face value.
1. Challenges: they all existed before he was elected. He ran on being able to solve them.
2. Crises: even assuming the BS that this was the worst set of crises to hit a president in his first two years…EVERY leader has to assume they’re going to face crises. It’s the nature of the job. No, you can’t have a contingency plan for everything, but, again, you’re elected to be a leader.
This, of course, is the big lie in so much of modern politics. Very few of the people we elect can actually lead. They hold no authority only power.
They also have been exacerbated by his attempts to solve them.
Well he did face covid, which he said he would swiftly handle and that’s probably the entire reason he was elected.
He was elected for one reason only – he wasn’t Donald Trump.
But Trump’s popularity had dipped from covid. I absolutely think it was a factor.
Also, voting standards got looser because of covid.
And those with higher self-awareness become more thoughtful in expressing their emotions, which results in a better accuracy of emoji selection to represent their given mood.
That’s why I’m partial to the Godzilla emoji.
There goes Tokyo.
Helpless people on subway trains
Scream “My God!” as he looks in on them
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of man
Nothing like showing up to work to find that your entire fleet has had its exhaust systems cut in half.
BAN BATTERY POWERED SAWZALLS!
Scrap titanium up?
I’m going to assume that she doesn’t understand the question.
It’s the woman’s choice.
Democrat supports killing babies after birth.
Just keep repeating the mantra.
My body, my choice has been thrown on the trash heap.
It’s supposed to be “Her body, Donald’s choice!”
in order to decrease the likelihood that an emoji will offend.
[insert “okay” sign emoji]
Sheep almost passes out from screaming. It’s too much work, I guess.
Maybe he identifies as a fainting goat.
Yglesias going conservative is not on anyone’s bingo card.
He’s a blowhard but he’s not entirely stupid.
I almost want this ridiculous and illegal student loan forgiveness to happen to see Biden self-destruct even more.
Srsly???
Credit unions haz sadz. ☹️
NOT ME!!
Or does he mean student loan debt only?
He means student loan debt only.
The number I’ve seen for completely debt free is 25%, but I’m skeptical.
Ok then it is me.
Assuming he means student debt.
I think he is speaking specifically about student debt.
But it’s Yglesias so who knows.
I don’t think it’s a case of his going conservative. I think it’s just a case of his having enough animal cunning to see the handwriting on the wall. 2022 is looking increasingly like a Republican tsunami year. And the Democrats engaging in a massive giveaway to relatively affluent post-colonial feminist basket-weaving majors while the rest of the country struggles with inflation and a likely recession is probably something that would contribute to that.
I’m joking about him being conservative, but pickle put it well above – he’s not entirely stupid.
Totally normal behavior
Have to love the replies: “so what’s wrong with being upset about kids being killed?” As though that’s what they’re doing, rather than irrationally and hysterically trying to blame law-abiding gun owners for the actions of a murdering lunatic. I’d be willing to bet they were undisturbed by the Waukesha massacre, and remain unconcerned about the daily carnage in Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans, etc. etc.
Doesn’t that basically admit that the big tech companies are working hand-in-hand with government agencies?
They;re totally into the backdoor action.
client: *arranges for the work late Friday afternoon*
me: “3-5 business days turnaround time”
client: “Okay”
client: *Tuesday morning after 3-day weekend* “Where’s my stuff?”
Fudd of the year.
On Saturday night, Small, a self-described “devout NRA Republican,” did what he acknowledges would have been unthinkable days earlier. He unlocked his gun cabinet and pulled out his AR-15, similar to the one used by the gunman in Uvalde. He drove to his local police department and turned it in.
“I’m a gun advocate. I believe in the Second Amendment. But this AR, after what I saw in Uvalde, I’m done with it,” Small said as he turned the rifle over to an officer with the Charlotte police department. “I’m sick over it.”
He has purged the evil talisman from his life, and can live the rest of his days in bliss.
It must have been whispering evil into his mind.
Well I’m glad that cowards who don’t protect children and put their boots on gasping-for-air black people have the gun. Everything is solved now.
“”devout NRA Republican,””
Sure you were…*pats on head*
Yeah, my thinking too. Retired history teacher? Odds are against it. If he’s such an “avid gun advocate” how is it he’s unaware of the fact that the AR-15 is basically a hunting gun.
Or the rather large number of sporterized M-1s that have been used to hunt post WWII?
I’m skeptical of the story too, but I know of this guy who won’t work on AR or AK type firearms. As I recall, he made the decision to not do so after some shootings.
I’ll take “Shit That Never Happened” for a hundred, Alex.
I believe in the Second Amendment. But this AR, after what I saw in Uvalde, I’m done with it,” Small said as he turned the rifle over to an officer with the Charlotte police department.
What I saw done with ARs in Uvalde was a wall of police officers with their hands on their rifles ready to fire at a group of unarmed parents trying desperately to save their children. This is exactly the type of scenario the Second Amendment was designed for. It speaks volumes about Small’s view of government and his disdain for proles that he would give his AR to the police following this.
Only agents of the State shall have these weapons so they can point them inward and not towards the actual threat.
In 1908, people could order a mag-fed semi-auto Winchester from the Sears catalog for delivery directly to their homes. Of course there were bloody massacres everywhere.
…and then he immediately called up the local news desk, so everyone can bill and coo over his self-sacrifice…
Number of AR15s used in the Texas shooting: 2
Number of AR15s in America NOT used in the Texas shooting: 19,999,998.
So, 0.0001% of the AR15s in America caused those 20 death so, yeah, let’s confiscate those 19,999,998 to avoid more violence.
OTOH: there were (extrapolating), 42,300 people killed in traffic accidents in the US in 2021. Number of vehicles in America, c. 276m. Assuming each death was caused by a separate vehicle (which is probably not correct but, hey, I’m using anti-gun stats methods here). That means that 0.015% of the vehicles in America caused those 42k deaths. That’s a much higher % than the guns. So, by implication, we should seize all the private vehicles in America (and, yes, I know there are many progs who wish to do this).
Totemism is alive and well in the human species.
Sadly.
I’m a gun advocate. I believe in the Second Amendment.
No you aren’t, and no you don’t.
And just like that all of NY’s problem were solved.
New Yorkers: You can now choose “X” as a gender marker on your driver license.
Every person deserves to have an identity document that reflects who they are.
This is a historic change in our fight to make New York a more inclusive and just state for all.
I hate the world
I thought the purpose of having a gender marker on your driver’s license was so that people looking at it can more easily ascertain it’s you.
Silly me.
It doesn’t say “gender”, it says “sex”. Right there on the license.
Oh well, it’s not eye color and height weren’t always meaningless too.
Must be some other guy, I weigh 165.
We don’t have weight on our license, thank god.
Look I think it’s only been 10 years or so that Japan had hair color on drivers’ licenses.
What were the options? Black, or gaijin?
Simply it was assumed black. Eye color as well if I remember correctly.
No respect for the elders?
I will not rest until you can put “yes please” for “Sex” on a license.
They’re going to use “X” as their signature too, if they keep emphasizing this over teaching kids to read and write in school.
“Bernard Bigot (pronounced bi-GOH in French)”
My new favorite name with explanation.
I wish this fucker would die before his term was up.
Deep derp.
It’s weird that I cannot think of a single positive thing that the Biden administration has actually done.
No mean tweets?
“Positive “ is key. His administration has done a TON of crappy things.
Every person deserves to have an identity document that reflects who they are.
This is a historic change in our fight to make New York a more inclusive and just state for all.
Cuomo’s greatest crime of all was dropping Hokum into the driver’s seat.
How Tiberius improved his standing in history.
Nancy Pelosi is quoted as having told a friend, “Obama is jealous of Biden.”
*outright prolonged laughter*
Milk just shot out of my nose.
I could actually believe that, but only because Barry (PBUH) honestly thinks that, due to His magnificence, that pesky “term limits” idea should have been waived in His case.
The Bee, long form.
Any assessment of Biden’s performance needs to take into account the epic challenges he faced from the start.
What “epic challenges”? A low-level virus for which a vaccine has already been developed? An economy ready to surge on the simple act of no longer keeping things shut down? An agreement with the Taliban for an unchallenged orderly withdrawal? This entire pretense that there was some sort of crisis when Biden came in is idiotic. All he needed to do is sit on his duff scarfing down ice cream and he’d have been judged a success. But, the watchwords for pretty much every economic release since this guy’s come into office has been “below expectations” for pretty much everything but inflation. Inflation has seen plenty of upside surprises. But that means Biden has underperformed the models. Again, significantly. You’d think a journalist would retain some iota of a modicum of skepticism about this sort of unadulterated bovine fecal matter.
Biden has zero leadership skills. We’d be better off if nobody was president.
Fuck these fucking fuckers.
They turned off notifications by default now in webex, and I can’t find the old ‘participan joined’ and ‘participant departed’ sounds anywhere in the install. The only options are some annoying default windows noises, or to get a custom noise.
I hate whoever bitched about one of the most useful features that piece of shit had!
From our own derp mines…
It’s obvious that the Unwritten British constitution doesn’t work in either theory or practice.
I meant to post this earlier.
Why Won’t the FDA Let Doctors Prescribe Fluvoxamine for Covid?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-wont-the-fda-let-doctors-prescribe-fluvoxamine-for-covid-drug-approval-ivermectin-11653923709?st=au33qk34jksr8e3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Answer was found towards the end.
“A 10-day course of fluvoxamine costs about $5 compared with $500 to $700 for Paxlovid and molnupiravir. Monoclonals cost about $2,000.”
The eal reason has to do with outpatient versus inpatient treatment. If they approve a drug that you can use yourself at home, it undermines the EUAs for the vaccines.
That’s why remdesivir was approved early on, it has to be administered in a hospital setting. Same with monoclonals, except that monoclonals don’t kill you like remdesivir.
For our non-Canuck Glibs, a brief explainer: A reminder for Trudeau that Canadian gun laws are already much stricter than U.S. gun laws.
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