Back in the mix
The Lightning are still alive after thumping the Avalanche. The Yankees are on fire. And the CWS has been a wacky ride so far. And that’s it for a very short segment of sports.
I wish they’d get on with it. The suspense is killing me. Oh, and if they end up changing the Roe draft decision, then we might as well all get ready for the left-wing mobs to get their easy forever. So fingers crossed it doesn’t play out that way.
This fucking guy needs to go. Now.
He’d be getting off light. But that’s the way it goes for the po-po. Expect him to negotiate a sweet pension as well.
This is a farce. It’s a shame he didn’t ask him why he banned the opposition party for life. That would have been more interesting than prostrating himself.
I hope they ate the fucker. Steve Irwin deserves a little payback.
Christ, what an asshole. Sounds like he should have been offered a Snickers bar mid-flight. Or perhaps a ball-gag.
The irony is just so…ironic. But I fear it will be lost on so many from the left.
This headline is a step in the right direction. And yes, they’re still free to participate in the correct division.
PROBLEMATIC!!!
Some people have too much time on their hands. And the government has too much money if they’re spending millions to “fix” it.
This could be interesting. I hope those studies figure out how to pump water into the sea below sea level. And how they’ll work in a power outage, which would be likely if anything requiring their use happens (see: Harvey).
80s videos were…weird. That’s putting it mildly. Good song though. Going further back brings us a better one though. At least in my opinion. You decide.
And that’s it. Go out there and have a great day, friends!
Maybe Zelinsky’s vying for a bit part in There’s Something About Mary II, Electric Boogaloo. He can be the guy who’s snuggling with Ben in jail because he got arrested again because writing sucks nowadays and they keep recycling bits.
Simple Jack Returns?
“I’m a dude, playing a dude, playing another dude!” or is that “You never go full retard”?
That was Tropic Thunder
“I DIDN’T SAY LANCE! I SAID NANCE!”
Ukraine Thunder: The Empire Strikes Back
In reality, There’s Something II would begin by explaining why Mary quickly left Ted for Brett Favre because Ted was a beta stalker and Brett was a gracious alpha who respected her privacy.
Did Brett send her pictures of his junk?
“Zoolander” met Zelenskyy on Monday as actor Ben Stiller visited Kyiv to mark World Refugee Day.
When clowns collide…
I’m waiting for his 7 minute abs tape.
Why not six minutes or am I just talking crazy?
I need more information on hand modeling…
Maybe there will be an airstrike and we can give him a yougoogly.
I wish they’d get on with it. The suspense is killing me. Oh, and if they end up changing the Roe draft decision, then we might as well all get ready for the left-wing mobs to get their easy forever. So fingers crossed it doesn’t play out that way.
We don’t negotiate with terrorists. We just give them what they want.
“I wish they’d get on with it. The suspense is killing me. Oh, and if they end up changing the Roe draft decision, then we might as well all get ready for the left-wing mobs to get their easy forever. So fingers crossed it doesn’t play out that way.”
What if their decision is that they will not render a decision before the election of 2022?
I don’t think they can do that. They have to issue the decision this term.
I have seen some people point out this is what they plan to do however to make a point about the leak to generate political pressures on them being something they will not tolerate…
Looks like nothing today on the abortion case according to SCOTUSblog. Thursday is the next decision day.
after appropriating it from Buddhism and other eastern philosophies
So there were Buddhists in Europe over 2,000 years ago?
Any architecture fans in here? I’m wondering if the reason for designing the building at 45° off of north is so that all rooms can get some direct natural light or if it was really a secret nazi plot inside the navy in the late 50s when it was designed.
Both? Neither? Who cares?
I kind of care. Not about the possible Nazi shit. That’s ridiculous. But I am curious if they’d have designed something to capture more direct light 60 years ago only to most likely refit all the windows later with reflective glass to keep that same direct light out.
What if they were told by Zhuul the Eater of Souls to do it so the gatekeeper can make its way into our world?
That’s more of a Gozer the Gozarian thing.
looks like all the roads are laid out that way to fit the shape/orientation of that end of the island.
Good point. I wonder if they designed the roads with the buildings in mind or the other way around.
They used landfill to align the shoreline with the building, then built the roads between.
We had a building like this on campus when I was a kid, designed in the 50s and 60s. Any record of it has been scrubbed from the interwebz as it was dramatically renovated in the 90s. It was a dorm, and yes…there was a lot of good light.
To line up with the shoreline.
I think the last pgh and panned out photo tells the real story. Looking at the one building alone is taking it of context.
Yeah, despite the author being a little bitch about it (“One far-flung rumor…”) I’d say it’s a real possibility.
I don’t know about Buddhists (I’m unclear on their timeline in general), but Rome regularly traded with India.
Swastikas were used by German tribes as they were used around the world including the Americas. Like so much imagery, the Nazis were trying to connect to German history.
Remember how concerned the whole world was that social media might be used for disinformation that might sway an election?
Someone seems to be spending a lot of money on “grass roots” social media propaganda. The last month or two it has exploded. I have particularly noticed a shift on Reddit. Someone has created local groups for nearly every region and metropolitan area. I made the mistake of interacting with a couple of local questions and my space based feed became inundated with posts to these groups.
They are entirely dominated by communist propaganda. Not “communist” in the pejorative sense, communist in the “we advocate for a communist government” sense.
The spike in housing costs seem to have been a big driver. I get one or two posts from the local groups each day about how we need to rally for rent control. The local CWP is organizing protests over rent every week.
The ones here also post anti-DeSantis propaganda regularly. The latest two are “An expert in Facism declares DeSantis the most dangerous man in America” and “DeSantis is the only governor in America who refuses to pre-order covid vaccines for children under five.”
For some reason I am also getting their posts from places like SanDiego. They have the same articles and the same fake “posts of support” across these groups. They mostly have very low interaction.
Maybe this is where that money the CWP raked in from BLM is going?
Reddit is the preferred hangout for the functionally retarded and 14 year olds. But I repeat myself.
Pretty much. I connected with a group there to rent a boat for a Falcon heavy launch a couple of years back. I have used it to keep track of aerospace and astronomy events ever since. It is pretty good for that purpose. Politics rarely enters the arena. Well, until Elon Musk became the political football.
While one hand shovels money to investment firms to buy up real estate, the other hand demands rent control and other state interventions. A wonderful self-licking ice cream cone.
I finally got one of those unsolicited “we want to buy your house” phone calls.
If they offer me what Zillow estimates, they can have it. I may rent until the kids are in college and move to the boondocks.
“I’m going to need a minimum of ten million, probably closer to twenty. That’s my cost of relocating.”
I’ve also thought about moving to the mountains if the conditions were right. As long as it isn’t too remote I can handle the colder winters.
“They are entirely dominated by communist propaganda. Not “communist” in the pejorative sense, communist in the “we advocate for a communist government” sense.”
My experience with communist sympathizers is that they either claim to have read Marx but never did, or did read it and didn’t understand what he was peddling. People that read Marx and understand him, indubitably turned against marxism unless they were power-hungry monsters like Lenin/Stalin, Mao, Castro, Kim, and so on…
The ones who do read it tend to do so uncritically and with a religious zeal. They see it as a holy prophecy. The perfect communist state is their holy land they will get us all their…..no matter the cost.
Another billion or two mountain of bodies and the rest of the people living at 15th century standards and under the 15th century feudal system for the win!
Stingray leather is cool.
Stingray leather gimp suit?
Stingray belly skin grips FTW.
Looks like most of Houston is between 20 and 90 feet above sea level, so gravity should be sufficient to drive flow through the tunnels.
Only if the tunnels are barely below the surface. And the ship channel and coasts are pretty built up. So it’ll have to go below the foundations of those buildings, which will absolutely take the tunnels belie sea level at their lowest point. Not to mention that to move a significant amount of water from a large county, these tunnels would need to be pretty damn large in diameter, which means they’re gonna have to be even further underground.
I’m not saying it’s a non-starter. But there’s a lot of obstacles to overcome for this to be a viable system.
All that matters is the elevation difference between the two water surfaces. Exiting below the surface doesn’t really make a difference. What might make a difference is the difference in the density of seawater vs freshwater. The fresh water in the tunnels will have to be a little higher to overcome the water column of seawater, but not too much; only about 1% given the density of Gulf seawater.
We do a lot of water removal here in South Florida. Every neighborhood has pump stations underground that pump rainwater out.
So it does not have to be entirely gravity operated.
50 feet over 50 miles seems like a fairly shallow slope for rapid water removal. Probably needs a power assist.
Based on some public sewer design criteria I was able to find, a 50 mile long pipe 20 feet in diameter would require just under 8 feet of drop.
Exiting beneath the surface of the gulf doesn’t affect that. All that matters is the height difference between the point where the pipe becomes fully flooded and the elevation of the body of water into which the pipe exits (and of course the diameter and head loss in the pipe which would be minimal at the expected velocities).
Gracias. Thanks for the info. I guess it could work.
It’ll work like The Big Dig worked!
Chicago’s Deep Tunnel hides its face in shame.
Grifting opportunities don’t just pop up out of nowhere.
Wow. Just 8 feet.
I wonder how much that alters the rate of removal?
It just intuitively seems like 2 inches over a mile would move really slow.
You misspelled “awesome.”
Seriously though, I credit the ’80s as being a reaction from the 1970s “art must do something different” to “art must do something good.”
I’m kinda disappointed you didn’t show up last night to vote Nay on my membership to Kayaderosseras.
Oh shit, I totally forgot it was the third Monday.
It happens.
Speaking of the 80s…
I took the family to see Top Gun 2 last night.
It was a beautiful version of an 80s action flick. Stupid fun with great action sequences… just the right amount of cheezy and over-the-top to really do the genre justice.
I laughed out loud several times about events or dialog that I suspect you have to be old enough to have watched these movies on the first go-around in order to really appreciate them. I highly recommend it, it was the right combination of goofy and serious. It tiptoes toward high camp while never actually crossing over.
And they are right, having the actual actors sitting in actual jets does enhance the realism of the action sequences. The difference between this and a couple of grips rocking a mock-up in front of a green screen is palpable.
My youngest and 17 and had never seen the first one. So we watched that with her, then got in the car and went to the theater to watch the second one. That was a great move. Even the opening credits, the font used, and the opening music match.
The Mekong river is dammed to hell and back by the Chinese. I wonder how many of the water wars we are warned about will come to pass.
Also big fish is cool, good morning.
Wait until they sound General Quarters because there are missiles inbound, and the products of this shitshow decide they just want to go into safe spaces and not deal with the problem.
If I was the incoming commander in chief I would summarily and publicly dismiss everyone involved in supporting this nonsense wile announcing a return to the military’s core mission… “Your mission is to defend this great nation and her people. You have no identity groups beyond Army green, Navy Blue and the red white and blue of the stars and stripes. Your mission is to destroy the enemies of the United States. Anyone who interferes with that mission or with you being the finest, most cohesive fighting force on the planet will be removed. Thank you, and God Bless the USA.”
Yeah, they are certainly relieving people from command, but methinks they are being removed for lacking enough loyalty to the unaccountable and unelected criminal bureaucracy and its political allies with the woke agenda, and not because it is destroying military readiness….
They really only want people there that think AGW is the greatest threat to us and not a rising China and its imperialistic agenda or a nuclear war because our political class is a den of idiots.
Yeah, I am talking about undoing this damage. They unquestionably have been purging the military leadership of anyone not of the left. They are doing the same throughout the bureaucracy.
That is one thing Obama understood… it is the Bureaucracy that runs things, not elected officials.
Obama brought the Chicago machine to DC and the DC bureaucracy is eating it up.
That is the simplest explanation of all this crap, and I think it accurately foretells our future.
Obama was not kidding when he promised fundamental change. I never understood people that thought that change would be for the best considering who mentored and protected Obama. They should have realized what he meant was that he would destroy what existed to replace it with hell on earth: the only thing the belief system of these morons can deliver to humanity.
Fuck all the way off with that nonsense.
Whoa, DuckDuckGo is giving no results for any search.
Is this related to the big Cloudflare outage I read about earlier?
Same here with DDG.
Huh, that just happened to me over on my work desk and I thought, “That can’t be right.”
looks like it’s back now?
They were purging wrongthink from the indexes.
Clearly they got to you, as you spelled “indices” incorrectly.
This might help explain why my bank website is so slow and 4 days out of date.
Do they also have a President of White Cishets? I wonder what platform they ran on.
I didn’t vote for him
He won the Electoral College.
Consultant, speaking to Bobby Betetta-Paris: What would you say ya DO here?
Wow, that guy is world-historical levels of asshole.
Every Uvalde cop who was at that school should be fired. Cowards. And whoever ordered them to stand-down should be prosecuted for accessory to murder.
First Look Inside Uvalde School During the Mass Shooting Reveals It’s Even Worse Than We Thought
Cops were in the hallway outside the room with a shield an hour before the Border Patrol showed up and took the shooter out.
More details of this clusterfuck.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/20/uvalde-police-shooting-response-records/
The only shoe left to drop is the one where it’s determined the police shot some of the kids. And I expect that to happen some time in the future once FOIA requests get everything released.
They still haven’t admitted the Waco cops shot any bikers.
Next you’ll say something about a shooting happening in Las Vegas.
Was there one?
One of the largest mass shootings under Trump and it disappeared…that should raise red flags for anyond
That and the one Dem Congresscritter saying she was the only legislator in Congress who had been the victim of gun violence. No mention of Steve Scalise from TMITE that I can recall.
If there was any argument to be made, to point out to the morons that tell us we should give up our rights to self protection and wait for the armed agents of the state to come to our rescue, are not to be trusted, the information that keeps coming out of how Uvalde was botched, should be brought up.
The suspense is killing me.
Let the riots over a deliberate misinterpretation of the decision commence.
So fingers crossed it doesn’t play out that way.
Intimidating the court is ok when the left does it.
Why are high school students watching Dave Chappelle comedy specials? I blame the parents
should be working in the monocle mines after school anyway
This headline is a step in the right direction. And yes, they’re still free to participate in the correct division. – how backwards and last century of the federation
Also on swimming, some Romanian dude won the first world championship gold medal for the first time ever. the local press is all patriotic about it.
I think they actually are allowed to compete after they have completed their transition. I am not sure this entirely solves the problem, but it definitely removes the temptation to “identify as” if you are a mediocre male athlete just so you can win.
I had understood it depends what kind of puberty they go through in some other article I read… this one, besides the headline “This content is not available in your country/region.”
I did not read the new rules, but reporting I saw seemed to indicate 2 categories…. people who went on puberty blockers before age 12, and people who have completed transitioning, which I took to mean bottom surgery.
The BBC reporting on this said that they were banned from elite events “if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty.”
Yesterday, the International Rugby League enacted the same kind of ban on a temporary basis while they “investigate”: https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-league/61875651
Apparently World Rugby have already enacted a permanent ban, saying, “because of the size, force and power-producing advantages conferred by testosterone during puberty and adolescence, and the resultant player welfare risks this creates”.
I wonder how this outbreak of sanity will be punished?
Yeah, this doesn’t solve anything long-term. It is a split-the-baby position, and it will not mollify either side for long.
Narrator: It does not solve the problem, at all. Males still have certain physical advantages no matter how many drugs they take.
When you’ve lost NPR.
I am sure they were really disillusioned to have to report that despite the reality TV efforts this thing is not working as advertised.
I think it totally flopped…. but all of the news outlets are still reporting it as members of the team. They state the allegations and conjecture of the committee as fact…. as in: “Vice President Mike Pence’s life was in real danger during the insurrection” … according to “evidence presented at the hearing”. Said evidence being someone’s stated opinion.
The wife had ABC news on last night. They did a long segment on the hearings. They repeated allegations as fact, and pushed the narrative thar “everyone wants Trump prosecuted for trying to overthrow the government” they even presented a poll that says 58% of Americans think he should be criminally prosecuted.
Power dynamics: our unproven allegations are facts, your facts are unproven allegations
Not “unproven allegations”….
They literally used modifiers like “despite having no evidencence” every time they described some statement from Trump or Republicans.
And they did use the term “deadly” repeatedly.
I was mostly in the other room for the ABC report, so I only got the highlights and didn’t get to see the slow-motion video underscoring the evil that is Trump.
It’s programming propaganda porn for the dumbed down population. Unfortunately for them, people now have real world problems created by them that are keeping these people from being persuaded.
Are they still claiming that Trump’s storm troopers killed five cops? I seem to recall that lie was stated as fact during the season premiere a couple weeks ago.
58% of Americans think he should be criminally prosecuted.
I’m shocked they could only get 58% of ABC viewers on that.
My gut reaction is that 58% is closer to the number that wish Trump had won the last election.
Now ask those 58% what specific charge should be brought.
Insurrectioning!
I hate that I got redistricted to the 7th. I liked Wittman.
Wittman has a boat fetish that drives me bonkers. There’s no amount of money that’s too much for the military, and specifically the Navy. I get the realities of being a SE VA congressman, but we don’t need 500 holes in the water. We need to end our overseas bullshit.
Things I learned:
In China, there is a government job of “porn appraiser.” Who determines what is or isn’t porn.
Because viewing porn is illegal for the proles.
So the CCP is automating the detection of people watching porn .
What are the perks of that government job? Endless lube and tissue supplies?
They’re not communisming right if they’re withholding porn from the masses.
When in power, communists dispense with “bourgeois” decadences, even if they find those same decadences useful against their enemies.
Ben Stiller meets with Zelenskyy in Kyiv, tells Ukrainian leader ‘You’re my hero’
They both pretend for a living.
Can’t we all just get along?
Not happening….
What’s a healthy body fat percentage?]
https://mennohenselmans.com/what-is-a-healthy-body-fat-percentage
A lot less than I have anyways. Also why do the women get away with higher body fat? I blame discrimination.
Well, if the women didn’t have higher body fat percentages, Q would be a sad panda.
That being said, body fat percentage seems a better measure of general health then BMI.
yes, but it is harder to measure and probably for at least 2/3 of people BMI can work
I hope they ate the fucker.
Looks like they released it.
Last time I was in England, I ordered skate at the Fish & Chips shop since I had never had it before. It had bones in it. WTF?
I found a bone in the salmon I made this weekend. It happens.
Apparently skate is served unfilleted. Which kind of defeats the whole “pick up and bite into it” technique of F&C.
Research Spotlight: The bench press may target different muscles in male and female lifters
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/research-spotlight-bench-different/
Even more discrimination.
Damn, I thought you were linking to some gym porn…
Menno Henselmans often has that sort of thing, the stronger by science guys almost never
Dave Chappelle announces theater at his old high school WON’T be named after him following outcry over transgender jokes – but takes jab at woke mob by christening it the ‘Theater for Artistic Freedom and Expression’ instead
If they care that much about the tranny jokes don’t tell them about Clayton Bigsby.
So do glibertarians eat apricots and if yes how? Just take bites from it or split it along the seam in two halves, take out the stone and eat the halves.
Yes!
Cut into little slices and serve over a bowl of Cheerios and whole milk?
I disprove of eating fruit with a knife. That is why you have teeth (except fruit like citrus which need to be peeled)
That’s funny, because when I eat oranges, I bite a hole in the rind and then peel it with my fingers.
Pithy.
Peel and cut into chunks and toss in the skillet with prunes and browned pork chops. Deglaze the pan with beer, put a lid on it and turn the flame down low.
Peeling is unnecessary and why would you cook fruit. You people…
I didn’t realize that you hated fruit pies, tarts, and quick breads.
I’d probably drop the prunes, and go with apple chunks for the port chops, then you can deglaze with cider.
I generally don’t do desert so I rarely eat fruit pies, tarts, and quick breads.
Do yourself a favor and grill up some peaches.
Speaking of Prussians, the rise and fall of the pickelhaube
why would you cook fruit
to caramelize the sugars?
Yes to the delicious apricot.
1) Jam on buttered toast
2) syrup for pancakes/french toast. or ice cream sundae.
3) glaze for baked ham. or chicken. or pork loin
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Also… 40 year old newlyweds with a toddler.
and?
Just the state of our world today.
I was discussing this at church the other night… I am 56 with a 9 year old daughter, and I was far from alone among the parents volunteering for VBS. Late 30s and early 40s first time parents seems to be a new normal. Literally Grandpa becoming dad.
My first real girlfriend got knocked up by the next guy she dated. Kids at 17. I have marked my alternative life by that clock. She was a grandma in 2000. I haven’t heard anything since, but I will assume she is a great grandmother. Note: her cycle is more normal than mine. I could be a great grandfather. Instead, I volunteer at my daughter’s elementary school.
In 9 years, I’ll be 56 with 9 year old kids. They’ll be the ones asked by their friends how come their Grandpa always picks them up at school.
They’ll be the ones asked by their friends how come their Grandpa always picks them up at school.
That reminds me of my wife’s best friend. Lily white country girl that married an Indian guy (dot not feather). She’s constantly asked if she’s the nanny when picking up her kids.
My parents were 22 when I was born. My first kid was when I was 26.
Right now, I’d be stunned if any of my kids made me a granny fucker before they were 26.
I was 28 when the first one came. Now we’re having the “should we have a third and maybe fourth before we hit 40?” conversation.
In all candidness, we could’ve and should’ve started earlier. I know why we didn’t and why it was smart at the time to have held off, but the direction our lifestyle is heading is very amenable to more than 2 kids, and I don’t love the idea of having kids in the house when I turn 60.
I see a major split between those who are plugged into the mainstream culture and those who aren’t. The people who are embedded in the traditional Christian subculture (which would include us at this point) are still having kids in their early 20s and having 4, 5, 6, 7 kids. Even in the same churches and extended social groups are those who either got into the subculture late or are more part of the mainstream than the subculture, and they fit the late-20s/30s for first kid mold, often only having 1 or 2, maybe 3 kids.
Its an interesting split, and I don’t think it’s nearly as much of an outlier as it was 20 or 30 years ago.
Having had my second child at 37, 0/10 would not do again.
Same here. I started really late. I will be retired and doing something leas stressful by the time my daughter is out of high school.
If I found I was about to be a father (again) at my age, Id suck on a gun barrel.
I thought about it and decided that a major economic crisis would not work for me at this time. Seems like an inconvenience tbh.
I’ve run the numbers, and this isn’t the right time for me either. I’ll pass. Maybe next time.
Honestly I think I could do well if I knew a little more about how it would shake out.
The notorious history of California’s still-standing swastika-shaped building
What do you have against Buddhist symbols?
Speaking of forbidden symbols. I noticed the ride safety signal used at Hersheypark is the OK hand sign.
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Asshoe indeed.
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Things started off so good.
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Couldn’t have gotten a “2” to start if I was a gamblin’ man, but I ain’t.
Played for the long run.
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Big titty babes comin’ hard and fast.
https://archive.ph/KHop7
Titty Tuesday.
comin’ hard and fast
FAKE NEWS
Remnant Bikinis Fashion Show – Los Angeles Swim Week 2022 – Art Hearts Fashion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW5SPz6nGvk
Hahaha, this guy thinks DEI is supposed to have solutions. It exists for one reason, to enable the purveyors to have power.
I read that as REI and wondered WTF an outdoor sports equipment supplier would need with “data-driven assessment of root causes”…
If they made it data driven, every single DEI director would immediately lose their job.
DEI is a jobs programs for the dreck that colleges are pumping out.
No discernable skills? Go into DEI. You can terrorize the people who are doing hard work and being compensated for it. Why should those bastards make more than you?
I have a college acquaintance that took a job as a DEI director at a university. I had to sever ties because I just wanted to lambast every stupid Facebook post he made after that.
I think it was one celebrating Angela Davis that sent me over the edge.
My company hired a DEI coordinator a few years ago before we were taken private.
That position no longer exists.
There is no more destructive entity for a company tat needs to deliver value than the HR and the DEI departments…
Not necessarily.
It all depends on the data collected and how that data is interpreted.
As I have told a lot of people recently: when you misdiagnose the cause/reason for something incorrectly – by design – never expect anyone to provide any sort of working fix. This diversity shit is all premised on absolutely incorrect causation, and thus, serves only to allow the people peddling it to make bank and never have to worry about putting themselves out of a job..
Truly the market for bunkum is limitless.
The grievance and advocacy industries are wholly self-perpetuating.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/vax-2-0-go-moderna-announces-human-trials-new-hybrid-flu-covid-vaccine-officially-underway-future-triple-threat-vaccine-works/
Wasn’t it Ms. Splosives just commenting on a hybrid jab yesterday? And here we are.
“Double your poison. Double your fun.”
(With apologies to Doublemint)
Ah, the 80s
https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/57d307721600009e26c01cf4.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&format=webp
Yup. That didn’t take long.
And I agree – no jabs here. See some of you in the camps.
Well I never got a flu shot in my life so I am skipping this one as well
For Pie:
One of the top chess players in the world may soon be Romanian. Apparently Richard Rapport is in the process of moving from Hungary to Romania.
who the fuck gives a shit about chess? YouTube tried to recommend me chess videos from some American chick with a Romanian name but I said yeah no.
Tard Tuesday: That Totally Explains Why People Are Moving There
Oh, and Glory to Ukraine, Bastion of Right Thinkers! (in comments)
If these dipshits could possibly be even more Manichean in their worldview, I don’t see how.
Looks like dishonest cunte is dishonest and cuntey.
The only possible reason anyone would vote against the way I would vote is their False Consciousness!
The problem isn’t the immigrants
Modern immigrants aren’t helping to make your case
In twenty years, the story will be “My mother showed up in the US with only free rent, free food and NO paid college. They made her get a job! Can you even imagine?”
When I was applying for a green card for my wife, I had to get my parents to sign some promissory note that said we wouldn’t go on welfare for 5 years (or something). It grinds me that these refugees all clamp onto the govt teat with the power of a Suckmaster 2000.
I’m closer to an Open Borders guy, than most, but fuck get a job and make your own way.
Any truth to the rumors that King Walz is in a little trouble come November?
I doubt it. He should be, but the GOP is going to run a nut. I like the nut, but he is out there enough that he will lose. He is right on the Rona panic, but he is a bad communicator and the MSM will use that to make him look bad.
When the South voted for Democrats, it was still the poorest part of the country.
Uffda. This will show you shitlord child care providers who didn’t join the govt union
Our last gov (Gov Mumbles) worked really hard to make everyone providing child care join the union. There were still holdouts, but maybe they will learn their lesson and join up now.
GIMME FREE SHIT!
The cry of the 21st century warrior.
I feel a bit for the whiners in this case. If the govt is giving teachers – who all stayed home – $1k hero pay and telling me to take a flying fuck, I’d be pissed too
You mean the daycares that would refuse to take kids at the first sign of any sniffle? Those heroes?
Tard Tuesday: We’ve Got Him This Time!
however long it might take
As long as Ds control the House?
As obsessed as some idiots are with Trump the Savior, these morons eclipse them in their maniacal hatred.
He lives rent free in their empty skulls.
He enjoys having plenty of space.
Breathing room, if you will.
I think the word you’re looking for is lebensraum.
If the asshats foisting this on the moron class had anything serious and real, they would not be doing a reality TV show, but in court dealing with it where there would be real consequences.
My new go to line when someone is telling me that the hearings are important because they will prove that Trump has to be banned from running in 2024 is to agree, but…
Only after they ban Hillary from running. Because what she did was more egregious and far more proven than the vaporous tendrils of speculation that the 1/6 committee has.
I am all for Trump getting what they feel he deserves, but only after Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Valerie Jarret, Comey, Clapper, Brenan, Holder, and a slew of other Obama admin people, and especially the meat puppet Biden, all get the jail time they are due for real criminal shit.
Hell, we know for certain that Biden is on the take. We knew before the election. Even the Dems acknowledged it with their spin of “trading on dads name,” to demure the obvious conclusion.
Rule of law is over and done.
We watched Obama *actually* interfere with the peaceful transfer of power… And did nothing. We have watched judges actively participate in the subversion of rule of law in support of these guys. And we did nothing.
This election may be the last opportunity. If the people do not vote them out, and do so by massive margins, I don’t see how a free people remain.
The most important election of our lifetime?
😉
Right up until the next one…
This election may be the last opportunity.
I think Trump’s election proved that our last opportunity was long ago.
Could be.
It certainly proved that I am an unreliable pundit. I famously opined (publicly and repeatedly) that his support in the polls was a joke, comparable to Deez Nuts polling night. I predicted that nobody would actually pull the lever for Trump.
When I get it wrong. Wow, do I get it wrong!
The problem is that the Team spirit is so strong. All the Team Red people know that no one in the Trump administration did anything wrong and all the Team Blue people believe the Trump administration was completely corrupt and this enabled them to defeat the pure-as-the-wind-driven-snow Team Blue. Same with inflation: all my Team Red friends are sure that inflation is due solely to Biden and all my Team Blue friends are sure it’s the fault of greedy corporations. So, if we can just vote our team in, all will be good.
As a wise man said to me recently, “we’re not going to vote our way out of this.” But 90% of Americans would disagree with that.
The normies tried to vote their way out of it with Trump. Didn’t work.
If I were a Democrat I’d be pissed. There are at least a dozen big problems in the country right now, but instead of doing anything at all to address those problems and help people who voted for them, they’re continuing to be obsessed with a person who’s been out of office for a year and a half.
Breaking the Biden Age Taboo
“Democrats and the media suddenly discover the President is old.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/breaking-the-joe-biden-age-taboo-media-democrats-kamala-harris-2024-election-11655504661?st=hz8zpq0dqrw9rc3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
If you don’t see this is about using age to keep that Cthulhu spawn Hillary out, and painting the bad orange man as too old, then you are not paying attention. They don’t care about Biden, cause Biden’s role is that of meat puppet.
Good! DeSantis vs. Harris then.
DeSantis will be accused of being able bodied and fighting a cripple, which is mean..
Good morning, Sloop!
Yeah, that was kind of a crappy game. I predicted a blowout after game 2 and am not surprised at all. Should make for an interesting next few.
Several SC decisions this week that could give us another Summer of Love. I wonder if the authorities will be tougher on the rioters this time?
Why are you lauughing?
Video for song one is great, but song two is a way better song. Thanks for both of them!
At least here, I’m guessing if there are rioters, they’d prefer the authorities being the ones to stop them. Constitutional carry is legal in Ohio now, the FOP is upset about it, and some white supremacists are starting to police their own neighborhoods.
Scary, black, gun – seems all the elements were there.
Tulip posted the following earlier today:
When your product starts stinking to high heaven……
Leave the kids alone.
The CDC has approved two COVID vaccines for children under 5. But some parents remain hesitant. Elise Preston reports.
The commenters do not appear to be onboard.
A vaccine that provides marginal benefit for a limited vulnerable population for a limited time that is directed against a variant that has not been circulating for more than a year….. For a population that statistically has zero risk… And since the vaccine does not stop (and maybe not even slow) transmission, there are not even any societal benefits?
Hesitant?
Uh, ya think?
fuck them kids / Michael Jordan meme
“Government mandated pregnancy” is an odd term.
So Much For Civility: N.Y. Gov. Hochul Calls Pro-Lifers ‘Neanderthals’
Man. Of. The. People.
White House officials say the July 4 weekend, when tens of millions of Americans are expected to hit the road, is a target for announcing new measures to help lower record-high gas prices.
Biden said Monday that he could make a decision on pausing the federal gas tax by the end of this week. “I hope I have a decision based on data,” he told reporters traveling with him in Rehoboth, Del.
A gas tax holiday would require congressional action and one White House official acknowledged it would be challenging. “Republicans don’t want gas prices to come down,” the official said. “They want Biden to suffer.”
Republicans, for all their faults, had the country as a net energy exporter and cheap gas under the prior Republican administration.
The primary issues are refining capacity and regime uncertainty. Nobody is going to build a ten billion dollar refinery when the stated goal of the federal government is to eliminate fossil fuels from the economy.
Yep.
Considering the latest refinery build was 1976, this isn’t a recent problem.
No, but quite a bit of capacity was taken offline during COVID due to demand reduction.
There may be some expansion of existing operational refineries, but unless the federal regime falls, there will be no more refineries built.
Which is absurd and has been for decades.
This is the problem of the environmental movement being subjugated to the new left. It abandoned the notion of conservation replaced with humanity hating anti-capitalism.
It’s going to take more than that – it’s going to take the certainly that another Democratic administration won’t take power four years later, or ever again.
A friend of mine at the gun club, a retired USPS employee, lifelong union member, repeated uncritically a story a friend told him about how “the Republicans running the oil companies want to keep prices high to ruin the Democrats in the next election.”
I think this will backfire just like everything else. Nobody paid attention to the federal gas tax, and for the government it was better that way. If they suddenly pause it, people will realize how much it is, and it will be unpopular as hell to bring it back.
We’ve got the stickers on the pump here showing the tax bite each level takes.
When I first moved to NH, I remember seeing stickers on pumps that had the breakdown of state and Federal gas taxes.
I haven’t seen them in a long time.
Isn’t the federal tax only 18 cents?
To be fair, we really don’t need to collect the Fed gas tax because no one is doing infrastructure projects anymore because inflation is making them too expensive.
Whee! Seventies II sure is fun, innit?
Construction cost overruns are going bonkers right now.
Steel in particular is through the roof.
I know of at least three different expansions of businesses that have either been cancelled or postponed due to estimates doubling since the project began.
Saw NYT headline about New Mexico fires, searched for other sources and lo-and-behold, Vox was on it five days before the Times. Love the whole “experts said this was needed, but oops, got out of control” vibe.
Fweedom.
“I think that we all know today is a day to celebrate the principle of freedom,” Harris told a group of about two dozen elementary school-age children at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington. “And think about it in terms of the context of history, knowing that black people in America were not free for 400 years of slavery.”
“Let this be a day that is a day to celebrate the principle of freedom, but to speak about it honestly and accurately, both in the context of history and current application,” Harris went on during her apparently extemporaneous remarks.
Slavery in the US did not end until 2019…
So why couldn’t I buy anyone?
You just wouldn’t pay the excise tax – to the DNC.
“Elon Musk’s son Xavier, 18, files petition to change their GENDER to become a woman named Vivian Jenna Wilson and says it’s because ‘I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10935873/Elon-Musks-transgender-child-18-files-court-docs-change-distance-him.html
“Twitter board unanimously recommends shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10938049/Twitter-board-unanimously-recommends-shareholders-approve-Elon-Musks-44-billion-takeover.html
I mean there are ways to stick it to daddy and there are ways… Probably mental health issues and I seriously doubt old Elon, for all his achievements, counts father of the year among them
Yeah… Working way over 100 hours per week is not going to allow “father of the year” interactions in the best possible world.
But you can tell she is a bit because she didn’t just transition. She made sure to cut all ties with her father, the richest man in the world, publicly.
That is crazy. You could accomplish the “cut all ties” without ever saying anything to anyone, and probably keep your millions in stipend from the trust fund for life.
Mommy’s got a bunch of Elon money, too. I doubt this is really the sacrifice it’s being made out to be.
^^^THIS^^^
Virtue signaling at its worst…
But you can tell
shehe is a bit becauseshehe didn’t just transition.Weird auto-correct, brah. I think you can tell he is a bit crazy regardless of whether he cut ties with his father.
related to my biological father
Interesting word choice.
“Enjoy flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life, ‘Viv’.”
Wow. That is much smarter and much more concise. Well done.
Well I’m sure xerm still wants to remain in the will.
What @EmmanuelMacron
& @OlafScholz
don’t understand: for many European nations the war against russia is payback time.
Not one of these nations will tell Ukraine to stop, and all of them will help to kill as many russian troops as possible.
This is a list of these nations:
https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1538856994869850114
even if true, the ones dying are not the one who should die
Though to be fair, seeing some Russian ass kicked is what appeals to me as well in all this, though I would much rather there be peace
All age restricted and I’m just a thirteen year old girl when I’m on the internet.
The noose is tightening
A prosecutor who worked on the Watergate case against Richard Nixon 50 years ago said on Sunday that a Georgia election interference case is the most likely to send former President Trump to prison.
“I think that’s enough. If you’re asking me which of the cases right now, which one is going to send Donald Trump to prison, that’s the case,” Nick Akerman told MSNBC on Sunday, referring to a January 2021 call between Trump and Georgia’s secretary of state.
“If I had to put my money on one prosecution that’s going to go forward here that would send Donald Trump to jail, it’s Georgia,” Akerman, a former prosecutor with the Watergate Special Prosecution Force under Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski, said. “No question about it.”
What, specifically, is the charge? We’ll think of something.
I assume it’s the phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State, and that’s pretty weak sauce.
Someone is off his meds.
I thought nooses were racist. Explain yourself Brooks
Always lost in these stories: If you seriously believed there was election fraud, you weren’t committing a crime you were preventing one.
Using ML to predict shootings in Chicago:
“…of the 500 people with the highest predicted risk, 13 percent are shot within 18 months”
https://twitter.com/MWStory/status/1538837009476816897
I am sure nothing can go wrong
Flip a coin; you’ll have a better chance of getting it right, guys.
Akerman, whose work probing an illegal break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in 1972 substantiated ties to Nixon’s reelection campaign and led to the former president’s resignation, also said on MSNBC the Nixon case occurred in a vastly different political climate than Trump’s.
“All of Nixon’s aides were indicted, they were convicted. The only person who didn’t go to prison was Nixon, because he was pardoned,” Akerman said. “There was accountability in the end.”
Akerman said the “real question” is whether Trump would be held accountable criminally. While Republicans initially defended Nixon, they had a change of heart when recorded tapes and evidence presented a solid case.
A conspiracy to recount and certify votes is totally the same as burglary.
At least one person thinks Watergate had nothing to do with the reelection campaign.
But of course the history has already been written.
Meh, I’ve read some of the conspiracy theories around Watergate (see the book “Silent Coup” for one of them) and I’m not impressed.
Assuming Nixon didn’t authorize the break in (and I don’t think he did; in particular, as he noted in his memoirs, why break into the DNC offices):
1. He created an atmosphere in his administration that led people to believe he would tacitly endorse illegal activities
2. He knew within days that at least some of the burglars either were, or had been, employed by offices within the White House.
3. He orchestrated a cover up which approached perjury levels.
None of this is to say he was the only politician ever that supported these kinds of activities but, for me, his actions were pretty egregious.
Interestingly, I read a Hitchens column that argued that Ford’s pardon of Nixon opened the door for more presidential shenanigans because most assumed there would never be criminal consequences.
Yeah, I wasn’t around for it and know next to nothing about it.
I was only amused at the possibility that what we think we know (i.e. the narrative we’ve been fed for decades) might be totally wrong.
And the parallels to current year.
Europe had a heat wave in June. Last June was cool in Bucharest, this one not so much.
Being an evil libertarian, instead of saying oh noes muh global warmin’ , my thought is we better keep the fucking AC running, by whatever means.
You have A/C? Romania must be the fancy part of Europe.
Wait until Hungary finds the extension cord plugged into their grid and running across the border…
Twitter board unanimously recommends shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover
“Sell our $18 million company to that sucker for $44 million? Oh, all right.”
My take:
This is the Twitter board insulating themselves against shareholder lawsuits.
Elon still hasn’t gotten his due diligence on the fake accounts. He can back out of the current deal, claim massive fraud by Twitter, and make a much lower offer.
I was wondering about that…I haven’t heard any news recently on whether he considers his request satisfied.
Or pay the $1B break-up fee, which makes more sense than $44B for a lemon.
Yep. No way he pays the full cost if he can get out relatively cheap if the investment is shit. If he can’t buy it and reform it, he can expose it through the due diligence process.
A question I have is whethe he is subject to any strong NDAs that would preclude exposure.
Kevin O’Leary aka Mr. Wonderful
@kevinolearytv
Money may go to bad people, but it never goes to bad ideas.
Juicero raised over $100 million for a juicer that used proprietary subscription-based juice packets you could actually just squeeze out with your hand
Quibi raised almost $2 billion for “YouTube but make it worse and not free”
https://twitter.com/eatinginmycar/status/1538910617486118916
CNN+
And boneroo gets over ten bucks for a pair of socks. Why? No idea. But apparently people will pay it.
Monkey in bulletproof vest found among the dead after shootout with Mexican police
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/monkey-in-bulletproof-vest-found-among-the-dead-after-shootout-with-mexican-police
I heard Peter Gabriel’s first draft was “Shot the Monkey”.
What was it armed with?
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/GhxqIITtTtU?t=7
miniature AK-47 with banana mags
Today’s sleep mode malfunction- woke up at 4AM stewing about multiple things, laid there for a while staring at the ceiling and suddenly it was 7:30.
I had one of those nights too. It was about 2AM, got up to use the bathroom, then my mind wouldn’t turn off. I hate those nights.
Yesterday for me. Woke up at 4, brain engaged and it was all over.
Fucking hate that.
I have times I wake up at like 3 but after 2 hours I usually fall asleep again for a couple.
I usually dream and remember and when I wake up I always think good dreaming meant I actually slept.
I can’t usually fall asleep (and know I’ll stay asleep) till ~2 a.m. I have to take Tylenol PM and watch hypnotizing/ASMR videos to do it, too. Then the sun wakes me up around 630ish (yes, blackout drapes, but my windows are configured in a way I can’t figure out how to hang the rods). I go back to sleep. Not well. I did use a sleeping mask, but it was light fabric so it didn’t really work. I bought new masks with dark fabric.
“Hey @United, why are you breaking the law? Masks are required on all flights out of Canada. Your flight attendant isn’t wearing one!” he tweeted as he also included government agencies and Canadian news outlets.
United Airlines, in a tweet, replied, “Hi Amir, thanks for bringing this to our attention. We’ve informed the appropriate teams for further review.”
United’s response should have been, “Go Fuck Yourself.”
It should have been, “Hi Amir, once the door closes on an international flight, the laws and regulations of the destination country apply inside the aircraft. Go Fuck Yourself.”
Wow, this is something new in #CCPChina. In Henan province, at the forced demolition site, someone shot down the excavator with I don’t know what to defend his/her property.
https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1539034686332223488
Fireworks.
Looks like a Roman Candle.
Dipshit in the excavator caused more damage than the fireworks ever could have.
lmao, looks like an 8-ball roman candle. My friends and I used to drive our cars and shoot them at each other for fun, often at a construction site that went bust and was just roads with no houses.
here it is the other way around they build houses without roads… well dirt tracks count as roads I suppose
This is the most horrifying thing I have ever seen
https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1538914533888098305
joinery is not even top 100 in terrifying things.
“Hey Canadian friends, your favorite condiment just got a whole lot cooler 🍅🧊
A refreshingly savoury & sweet ketchup popsicle, made from 100% Canadian tomatoes.”
https://twitter.com/Frenchs/status/1538885001214820352
WTF, Canada?
Puts a new twist on the whole Ketchup soup shit of the 80s..
At least it wasn’t poutinesicles?
“UC Irvine’s “Womxn’s Center for Success” has a problem: Because “womxn” is often pronounced “woman,” the term may not be “truly inclusive” of blind people, who have no way of knowing whether someone is using the woke spelling or the transphobic spelling.”
https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1538734632614625280
transphobic spelling?
Just when you didn’t think they could get further up their own assholes.
couldn’t
OFFS
what is wrong with good old fashioned “bitches” i ask you
Some of them come with male junk these days?
My pronunciations:
Womxn -> Wahm-zin.
Latinx -> La-tinks.
I thought trans women ARE women?
I am so confused.
Or, maybe it isn’t me. But someone is terribly confused.
Womxn rhymes with Nixon.
Vote early, vote often
New York’s governor signed a law Monday intended to prevent local officials from enacting rules that might suppress people’s voting rights because of their race.
The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, named after the late civil rights activist who represented Georgia in the U.S. House, makes New York one of the first states to bring back a version of a process known as “preclearance” that was gutted by a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2013.
Under the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, states and counites with a record of suppressing the rights of Black voters once had to seek U.S. Justice Department approval before changing voting rules.
The court’s ending of that practice, on the grounds that federal oversight was no longer needed, helped clear the way for multiple states to enact new rules around voting in recent years.
Now, local governments or school districts with a record of discrimination in New York must gain approval from state officials in order to pass certain voting policies.
Nobody’s vote should be subject to scrutiny. Come one, come all.
And there it is.
that is not from the article I assume
Dammit, you made me click through.
You are correct.
the court’s ending of that practice, on the grounds that federal oversight was
no longer neededbased on outdated data.Shutting down all their nuke plants because of a tidal wave in Japan may not have been the smartest move.
Oh now baby, is THAT a mis-thread!
OFFS!!!!!!!
This is how you grandstand, people.
Wow she turning out to be a world-class… I better close my mouth before something that isn’t family-friendly comes out.
United’s response should have been, “Go Fuck Yourself.”
“We’re sorry. That flight is unavailable. Please find another carrier. Have a nice day.”
“We’re going to change our election laws so we no longer hurt minority communities,” Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, said at a bill signing ceremony in Brooklyn.
“I’m so proud to be here to sign this landmark legislation. No state in the nation has stood up with the courage and conviction and the power we have by protecting these important rights,” she said.
In a rational universe, this woman would be arranging pickles on hamburgers for minimum wage.
why would there be a minimum wage in a rational universe? maybe that universe is not as rational as you think
Which election law hurts minorities?
The one that allows them to register and vote Republican.
Once again, reality rears its ugly head
Germany has said the deteriorating gas market situation means Europe’s largest economy must limit the use of natural gas for electricity production and burn more coal for a “transitional period.”
Economy Minister Robert Habeck on Sunday warned that the situation is going to be “really tight in winter” without precautionary measures to prevent a supply shortage.
As a result, Germany will seek to compensate for a cut in Russian gas supplies by increasing the burning of coal — the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel in terms of emissions and therefore the most important target for replacement in the transition toward renewable alternatives.
“That’s bitter, but it’s almost necessary in this situation to reduce gas consumption. We must and we will do everything we can to store as much gas as possible in summer and autumn,” the Green Party’s Habeck said in a statement, according to a translation
If we could just get the unicorns to fart more….
Ha! Those stupid Europeans don’t realize all they need to do is ban fossil fuels, and within months the transition to green energy will just happen.
It is a self-fulfilling deal. You can absolutely ban or limit fossil fuels (and nuclear), and your energy will come from intermittent sources.
There just won’t be enough of it.
Related.
Sorry, WA Glibs. Yer gonna die.
He didn’t even make it all the way through the next sentence before disproving himself.
Hysterics never care much about self contradiction – it’s just another facet of being hysterical.
If only they had some nuclear power plants to produce electricity instead.
My sarcastic reply ended up under the wrong comment.
They had to shutdown because of waves in Japan.
It fits there, too, given that NY is also in the process of shutting down all it plants. It’s going to be an interesting summer, given that the bright lights running this place are also attacking natural gas – which is supposed to make up the difference for the 1/4 of our energy supply they just killed.
why would there be a minimum wage in a rational universe? maybe that universe is not as rational as you think
*clutches chest, falls to floor*
There is a funny assumption in there – the universe being rational. Why, because if it isn’t, then we humans can’t understand it. And obviously the universe exists for humans to understand it.
that is not from the article I assume
Correct. Another “close tags” fail on my part.
Do we have to name two misbehaviors after you?
[and who was it that was internet-famous for making typos in complaints about typos?]
“The fact is that most people enjoy the early stages of the inflationary process”
“Just lie back, and think of the Fed.”
About halfway through, Friedman interviews a “normal” guy–as soon as he opened his mouth I knew he was from Pittsburgh. And he didn’t even have a really strong accent.
Still in freakout mode. Helping myself by getting 2 loads of laundry done today. Got my jewelry & makeup packed yesterday. Tameka (neighbor) came up to my place yesterday to raid my kitchen, and she took my big cooler that was taking up space.
“Tameka (neighbor) came up to my place yesterday to raid my kitchen, and she took my big cooler that was taking up space.”
Strangest metaphor I have ever heard….
Once more for good measure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttrRJqCSeEQ&t=59s
Hey! “We” just sent another chunk of change overseas – this time to Sri Lanka to “help” their “food security crisis”.
If the GOP were smart (LOL) they would make foreign aid a cornerstone of the 2022 elections.
And obviously the universe exists for humans to understand it.
Thanks to our compulsion to see patterns where none exist.
No one really gets that a rational universe is predicated on a rational creator of that universe. A universe that exists merely by chance is one that has no reason to operate on a rational basis as chance is not rational.
According to something I saw on the teevee, Mattel has issued a “transgender” Barbie. How can you tell? Does it (unlike Ken) have a prominent and plainly formed penis to go with its improbable boobs?
I presume there’s no visual difference between Transgender Barbie and Glam Rocker Ken.
It comes with a cute little knife you can use to hack off the twins.
It will have a proprietary charging connector and built in minidisk player.
Honda and Sony Are Really Building EVs Together, First Car Due in 2025
https://www.thedrive.com/news/honda-and-sony-are-really-building-evs-together-first-car-due-in-2025
It’s a mystery
With California drivers paying more than $6 for a gallon of gas and state officials deadlocked for months over how to provide relief, lawmakers in the state Assembly on Monday announced they would investigate oil companies they say are “abusing a historic situation to suck profits from Californians’ wallets.”
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced a bipartisan committee to investigate gas price gouging, with plans to question oil companies, regulators and economists to find out why California’s gas prices are consistently the highest in the country.
We don’t know whose fault it is, but we definitely know whose fault it isn’t.
Shameless.
That’s just too easy: https://i.imgflip.com/6kebdh.jpg
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That video put me in a Depeche Mode mood for some reason.