I made my kids watch Ender’s Game on Sunday. They didn’t hate it so I went to find my copy of the book. It disappeared for some reason. No biggie, I’ll just run down to the used book store and find a copy for under $5, right?
They have Orson Scott Card in four sections of the store. The only section that had a copy was “Fiction Paperback” next to rows full of Star Wars fan fiction, makes total sense.
For the links:
“Here’s the deal, Juan…”
After no-showing at the Americas summit, a tense meeting between Brandon and the tense AMLO on the docket Tuesday.
Inflation leads to famine? Chicken meet egg?
I remember being made fun as a kid because I shared a name with this guy.
The Venezuelans will be allowed to remain.
I can’t even make a helicopter joke here. They’re throwing themselves out.
They take partisan politics seriously in Brazil.
Here’s a good tune. Enjoy your Tuesday.
Is it bad that I have a mental countdown on the number of weeks until that gif is up again in the cycle?
No and you asked for a daily ray of sunshine didn’t you?
And what a glorious ray it is.
Damnit. I knew somebody would notice it.
Notice? I lose half an hour to staring every time you post it. It’s hypnotic in the best possible way.
You’re not alone.
No it means I either need a new .gif or I need to vary the current image schedule
Whoa whoa whoa….slow down….take a few months to figure this out
You can replace some of the others, but so help me god if you take this one away from me, you’ll be personally responsible for whatever happens next. I will personally name you in the manifesto they find afterwards.
Please.
Like I can’t handle being on another list.
Gentlemen, I think we’ve found our Manchurian Candidate. /Hopkins Alum CIA pukes
Yeah! I’ve never been nominated for anything before. I feel like I’ve just won a beauty contest. What’s a Munchausen Candidate and do I get to wear a tiara?!?!
Also, if it involves tasteful nudity, the answer is an even more enthusiastic yes!
Does no one appreciate Q’s vids of frontal symmetrical beauty but me? Maybe there are some nice posterior ones that he can share that will help. Possibly even some family friendly PG-13 ones are available.
The loss of that gif will be enough of a tragedy to have Congressional hearings over.
You know that’s a Burger King commercial and is on YouTube, right?
Carl’s Jr.
Oops. My bad.
Thanks for the gif. I needed bright spot in this stressful day.
The second covers water. Chile is the only country on earth with a fully privatized water market and it has Latin America’s highest water prices. The constitution would make water a human right equitably distributed by a Nat’l Water Agency and a participatory governance system.
Aaaaand there goes Chilean agriculture. Nice knowing you, beef and wine grape growers.
Go for it Chile. Show us the way. But you have to stay if you turn your home into a shithole.
If Chile adopts and enforces this new Constitution, they will quickly get poorer.
The terrible horrible Constitution they are replacing looks pretty good to me. Probably the 2nd best in the world…
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Chile_2012.pdf
Yeah, the funny thing is the plebiscite could reject the new one and leave the current one in place. That will be entertaining.
This is what scares me about the calls for a Constitutional Convention in the US. I think it’s a disaster waiting to happen, even potentially more disastrous than just following through with the one we have, bad interpretations and all.
Unless… They create 2 or 3 constitutions and states decide which country they want to be in.
No.
Force those commies to be free. Make them suffer under the boot of personal responsibility.
You don’t look forward to enslavement to provide for new rights?
Yeah, there’s no way a convention wouldn’t just end in civil war. Despite the media’s best efforts, the Overton Window of politics is too wide now for everyone to have a compromise that keeps everyone happy. Except maybe if we split the country into, oh say 50 different smaller countries that could basically all have their own laws specific to how that region wants to be governed and those regions could be broken down into something like counties and then municipalities ensuring that the most important people in government that anyone has to live under are a short car ride away greatly increasing the chances of them having some small modicum of accountability. This would ensure that people in rural areas didn’t have to live under the rules of urban areas and visa versa. The federal governments tasks could therefor be greatly reduced to only a few important, but manageable things like maintaining a military and interstate highways. Being decentralized would limit their power to do things like print money to give to cronies, start wars that are really about giving money to cronies, or create a prison industrial complex that’s really about giving money……..oh I see what happened here.
Sri Lanka v2.0 here we come.
I don’t think you know how badly they managed to fuck up privatization. In classic Latin fashion, they made sure that the old oligarchy got the water rights. Not saying this is a good solution, but the current one isn’t great.
Sorry, Chile.
I didn’t make it past the first sentence I was laughing so hard.
#metoo
I can’t help noticing how that slap turns into a caress.
She lingers
You know who else…?
So rote
Chile is the only country on earth with a fully privatized water market and it has Latin America’s highest water prices.
What about shortages? How do the Chileans rank?
On any conservative Twat page, I’m almost immediately blocked to log in. This page I can scroll all the way down…
Hmmm.
Shorten the Twatter link by deleting the “?” character and everything after that. That’s referral and tracking.
I also use private browsing for Twatter.
https://twitter.com/StarChamberMaid
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/
Private window and all (Firefox). Locked after a couple scrolls.
It’s not perfect but it extends the time before you get locked out unless you login.
Heres what I do. Hit the Log-in button when it comes up. Then, on the screen where it wants your Username and PW, hit the X on the upper left to exit out. Then it stops asking you. At least it works on Chrome.
1) install Greasemonkey
2) https://greasyfork.org/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover/code/Login%20reminder%20popup%20remover.user.js
3) …
4) Profit!
1) Click ‘Close Tab’ because it’s twitter, and full of bots.
I think it’s on an account-by-account basis. For instance, you can’t scroll down on Elon Musk’s account without being logged in.
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis
Locked.
https://twitter.com/OregonGovBrown
Not locked.
Eh, I had the same login prompt from both?
Huh. I just did it again, and her’s did block me fast this time. *Shrug*
I dunno, maybe I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
My oldest who is the bookworm read Ender’s Game and was not happy with the movie but also didn’t hate it. Same with the Percy Jackson movie versus books.
They left out a lot of important details in the movie, to the point where they mention the word, “Third” about 90 mins into the movie and it wasn’t explained at all.
Insert Picard Face Palm here.
Kind of important….
I can’t take anything past Xenocide, though my wife liked the Bean series. Authors really need to know when to stop (“When they stop paying my mortgage, cretin!” I’m sure they’d reply…)
The Bean series (in my opinion) is the better story arc. It follows Bean through the Battle School and what happens on Earth in the aftermath of the Bugger war.
I loved the Bean series. My favorite was the Christmas episode where he got the turkey stuck on his head.
^^ditto^^
I couldn’t take anything past the start of the first book. And judging by my reaction to one of his other books that my father picked as background noise on the road trip, I just can’t stand Card’s writing. In the book that I wasn’t able to abandon (I didn’t want to cause strife with thousands of miles to go) I found his characters insufferable, and often whated to shout “I don’t care” at the narrator. I can’t even recall why I dropped Ender’s Game so early in the story.
We liked the Percy Jackson books. Though his latest ones are very woke and it seems really forced. I did hear Disney+ is making the books into a series, which is what should have been done in the first place. The guy churns out so many books making them one movie at a time would never work.
It was perfect and my son gained knowledge of Greek Mythology, he tried the Egyptian ones, but wasn’t as impressed. That opened the door to actually reading Homer and is impressive at trivia night.
I would be worried that Disney is taking that up.
I’m not too worried. The books were published under Disney’s publishing company, and it sounds like he’s involved in the project.
Ah, so absolutely gif-tastic.
Thanks, señor!
Bill Gates’ response: “Wanna bet?”
Oh, good. You both have been doing such a bang up job so far.
Chile is fucked. Cross it off the list, prospective ex-pats.
And yes, that’s a great tune!
Where have you gone, Gussie Pinochet?
A desperate land needs you to save the day,
Ay-ay-ay…
(with apologies to Simon and Garfunkel)
[golf clap]
Don’t apologize to those twats.
I thought Paul Simon was based now.
Re: the pic from the Mexico – US meeting.
Is there anyone other than Tapioca Joe who’s still going on with the talismask charade?
Yesterday I sat on a plane next to a guy with a big beard. He boarded the plane without a mask, sat without it while the rest of the boarding passengers walked by him, then he put on a mask during the takeoff. He took it off immediately after the beverages were offered and didn’t wear it for the rest of the flight. Nothing about it makes any sense.
Yes.
Again, I’ve seen idiots in mosh pits wearing paper face masks. If you’re that concerned, maybe get a seat or don’t go to the concert. Definitely don’t think that a little paper mask is going to protect you from anything in a mosh pit.
Today there was a woman in Kroger (supermarket) wearing a disposable mask inside out. Not that it matters, of course, but I found it comical. We’re down to about 10% public masking now. Even the unionized Kroger employees are mostly unmasked.
I spent the day in college town county, and the number of masks was astonishing. Mostly women, but a few men also.
I have to really work it not to be rude to them. Like, past the point of civilized.
I don’t let it bother me unless they are trying to get me to wear one.
I look forward to the footage of the Chilean Presidential Palace being stormed in ten years a la Sri Lanka and would like to extend a warm welcome to whatever neoPinochet will have to straighten out the situation.
Chilean meteor a warning shot?
Either that or its an omen.
Good thing I don’t collect wine from Chile.
I have a single bottle I got from my friend’s parents as a housewarming gift. My friend’s dad spent a lot of time in Chile in the 80’s. He is now an economics professor at ASU.
Make of that as you will.
Why?
If you were a collector now, you could probably make a killing selling it later.
Carmenere – wonderful stuff.
Yes, I will mourn the loss of Carmenere. I will drown my sorrows in Ribera Del Duero.
We should be buying heavily now given the exchange rate – although it may get cheaper, before it disappears.
Chile is fucked. Cross it off the list, prospective ex-pats.
I used to indulge myself in idle speculation about moving to Chile.
Not no mo.
Biden is a handy fellow… a little too much for my (and many others) comfort.
Handsy and nosy.
*handsy
If they don’t find you handsome, at least you can be handy.
We’re all in this together.
I have the same problem with Orson Scott Card’s books that I have with those of Kim Stanley Robinson; halfway through I put them down and never pick them up again.
Both authors were supposed to be the “new, upcoming thing.” Meh.
I enjoyed “Red Mars.” Dropped out of “Blue Mars” early on. Not sure about “Green Mars,” whether I even started it or not. The books got to be too damned Commie for me.
👆👆👆
About the same for me
OSC is a good writer, but I have a hard time getting past his personal animus for homos. I enjoyed Ender’s Game.
One day, on a blog I frequented way back in the day when I was somebody in the Mormon literature scene, someone wrote a blog post excoriating OSC’s novella Hamlet’s Father. I said, “Have you read it?” They said, “No.” I said, “Don’t review something you haven’t read.” So guess who got voluntold to write a review? I just went back and re-read it. It wasn’t a very good review.
Wasn’t OSC one of those authors that alienated the majority of his reader base through a new tech that came about in the early 00’s called a blog?
You misspelled John Scalzi
Is there anyone other than Tapioca Joe who’s still going on with the talismask charade?
There have been several references in the current round of Fortress Biden pieces about his aides’/handlers’ open fear of exposing him to the plague.
He’s not exactly in robust health.
“Vim & vigor” does not apply.
Another great music choice MS.
Gracias. Airheads is one of my favorite movies.
Whatcha thinking about? Swimming pools
My wife hates when I answer that way.
Mmmm, swimming pools…
This tape smells like piss.
What Has 6 Legs, 2 Eyes and 158,500 Votes? This ‘I Voted’ Sticker.
Fucking legend.
Look at the other lame contestants: https://elections.ulstercountyny.gov/i-voted-sticker-contest/
NYT paywalled, dammit.
Clear those cookies
The other suggestions are not paywalled and it is tons funnier. All this serious crap… Then at the bottom… perfection.
heheheheh….Democracy in action, folks.
OMG, a The Thing reference.
I voted in person a couple years ago. Some pushy old man was weirdly fixated on giving me an ” I Voted” sticker. I didn’t want one and he was shocked. I very loudly said “the only thing more pointless than the ballot i just cast is weiring that dumb sticker.” Lots of people glared but, hey one random middle aged dude laughed!
I think the only useful part of voting is showing up just to tell people how useless voting is.
Who doesn’t want to wear the
ribbonsticker?I once turned in an empty ballot. The election official noticed and I told him that was my vote.
I at least write in “NONE OF THE ABOVE”
It was a primary election in Maryland. Since I wasn’t major party I was given a yellow (unclean!) ballot that only had a couple local offices with candidates I have never heard of. The beauty of the action was taking the ballot directly from the check in desk to the ballot machine without going to a voting booth.
The sticker I linked to would get me voting again.
I added my vote to that sticker.
“I vetoed”
@Compelled Speechless: https://youtu.be/rS57A_2yWg4
I saw it on the dead thread already. Thanks for the pick me up.
Powerline:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/will-dems-dump-biden-before-november.php
The doomsday conspiracy types think they’re going to off Biden a la JFK and blame it on the deplorables.
Forcing him out via XXV would allow people to claim it was a coup, and reduce confidence in Harris. The scenario you outline would allow Harris to come on strong and make a show of catching the perps and expanding the national security state. There is no advantage to the regime of him simply dying of natural causes while in office.
You forgot to put quotes around “natural causes”. Although in his case, that could actually be what happens. The dude is starting to look like the Nazi in The Last Crusade that drinks out of the wrong cup.
catching the
perpsdupesfrom the comments:
btw – I see someone named RC Dean posting in the comments section of Powerline. Same peep as our beloved commentator?
“the Venezuelans will be allowed to remain.”
Nothing so permanent as a temporary solution.
How many Haitians are still here?
A brazillion?
Don’t be too hard on them. They had a close shave.
Are you waxing nostalgic?
They can’t be expected to go back to anything short of utopia.
Paging SF!
New story arc?
Also, wtf, Cooper?!?
Huma _used_ to be kinda cute … but … now she looks like a mummy
Has she always looked like that? Eat a sandwich for Pete’s sake.
This is the aftermath of all those rituals she engaged in with Hillary.
Hildog would put anyone off their food.
Or put something in their food that turns it into their last meal.
Dude could bag any chick he wants and he goes for Hillary’s cast-offs?
“how does it feel to go the same places Hillary’s prehensile clitentacle has been?”
Please tell me that clientele misspelling was intentional. Someone get the people who make hentai on the phone and let them know we have something new for them.
Also, Anthony’s wiener.
That’s so odd.
I am waiting in the shop to get my “new” car. It’s a
’13 Chevy Malibu. It rode really well. I care not about about branding.
This feels very strange. Job starts in one month. I have other non-work, but-on-the-ground work to watch/learn/write about Peru, Indiana’s annual circus festival.
Family doesn’t want me to get an apt just yet. They are fearfulbof me being alone/unwatchable. They are not wrong in this. I am motivated to be good and have been. Today is 19th day clean. Even I was getting weird thought patterns last night.
Ev driving, and LIVING,…ALOOONE?! No supervision?!
It will be fine. I have been good and no desire to stray. Not even close. I have my other crutch. I now have a car that will make it easier to pick up on my own.
Responsibilities, power and freedom all mixed together.
The Malibu is a perfectly cromulent vehicle
Hopefully he won’t get dissed in it.
I plan on embiggenning it shortly with my own cromulent abilities and perspicacity.
Wishing the best for you.
Just got back from Florida. I am pooped and roughly medium rare with some searing. Just drizzle some butter on me and put me to bed.
STEVE SMITH APPLY BUTTER TO YOUR SPECIAL SPOT.
As long as I get a nap and some aloe vera…
BY ALOE VERA MEAN…..
I got a sunburn on Lake Geneva on Sunday. The Bains des Pâquis was so packed, it looked like a rock with seals or sea lions covering its every inch.
So lots of topless women who shouldn’t be topless?
And neither should lots of topless men.
/man who does not go topless (You’re welcome, bitches.)
Men should always wear shirts.
We’z ugly people.
Could be worse. It could be men in thongs.
There was one old fat man in a thong. At least he wasn’t hairy.
“ it is likely the most legitimate constitution in the world, as it is written boldly in the context of the climate crisis”
So many things to say about this statement, but it perfectly encapsulates the elitism internet to the environmental movement.
Famines incoming…
legitimate famines though
Peoples’ democratic famines.
I read all of those as “fannies.”
WTF is wrong with my brain
homepage post image?
NZ Docs sent a letter calling for an investigation into vaccine deaths.
https://nzdsos.com/2022/05/24/deaths-following-c-19-vaccination/
In other news, NZ suddenly has fewer licensed doctors.
I’m sure the cops will get right on it. This was interesting:
How would they know an average of how long after taking the vaccine people die from it if they’re going out of their way to make sure most of the deaths after 48 hours doesn’t get counted as a vaccine death (or even investigated as such)? Kind of taints the data pool.
^^^This
I agree
“Time For Trump To Hang Up His Hat” For DeSantis 2024, Says Musk
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/time-trump-hang-his-hat-desantis-2024-says-musk
Would certainly help.
Trump should be a rally type person and help his party in that way.
That’s only going to help the media paint DeSantis as the second coming Satan/Cthulhu and sway some really oblivious independents.
help his party
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahaha
Trump really should just call himself Zuul.
Trump has no party. He cannot run as an independent because ‘virtuous’ warmonger Republicans would not vote for him, guaranteeing a Democrat win. So he has to skinsuit them to have a tent to campaign under. Is he supposed to rally for the likes of Graham and McConnell, forget about Romney, Cheney, and Murkowski? To hell with the GOP.
I agree too. I don’t think Trump’s policies were too bad, or at the very least they were far better than what we have now. But he didn’t have any experience in government which made him too dependent on the swamp he said he wanted to drain. DeSantis can bring in his own people with governmental experience. I don’t really expect him to drain the swamp either as I don’t expect perfection from any politician, but he can make more progress. He also seems more disciplined, so he wouldn’t get bogged down with stupid tweets.
Agreed. Trump is poison in the burbs in several swing states.
Trump\DeSantis ticket? Not a bad deal for DeSantis as Trump’s pretty old.
Btw, I’m not a fan of this idea; just floating it as a possibility. If you cannot get Trump to NOT run, this might be your next best option.
Yep. I fear Trump will be making tons of noise about betrayal and irreparably split his fans and either draw voters away from whoever has a chance of beating Biden/whoever. Alternatively, he could actually stand on the sidelines and demotivate/demoralize them by bitching and moaning while not running, causing them not to vote at all.
#metoo
I don’t know if I can take any more of the Trump circus. The left will go batshit insane either way but hopefully not as much with DeSantis.
The ratchet only goes one way. They see themselves as being rewarded for their insanity in 2020, and it will only get worse.
Does anyone know anything about those air conditioning charger kits for cars?
I’ve used them a number of times. What do you want to know?
What about them?
Should I look out for anything? Any recommendations? I’ve never used one. I’ve ripped the A/C out of most of the very old cars I had, and the ones that had A/C were before charger kits were available.
They work. Follow the instructions closely and get a kit with dye so you can spot leaks.
Then I also need a UV light?
If you want to fix the issue instead of recharging repeatedly.
If it is a band aid it doesn’t matter.
You don’t need the dye or light unless you suspect it’s low because of a leak – at least a fast enough leak it needs to be addressed – but it’s a good precaution. But he’s right, basically follow the instructions or watch a Youtube video to walk you through. It’s really easy and they work.
OK, thanks.
I don’t suspect it’s could have much of a leak though. The A/C works but has been slowly getting weaker over the past few years.
As long as it’s 100% the actual refrigerant you need (and not some blend of substitute hydrocarbons or contaminated or the entirely wrong refrigerant), the only issue is that you can only pull the can down to your car’s suction pressure….the rest stays in the can. I don’t know if that’s a good value or not.
IOW, I don’t know how much better off or not you would be to pay a mechanic to charge from a large, clean, spec bottle and know that you are paying only for material going in your system, not for backwash.
Of course, clown mechanics will charge a car with the garbage they recovered from other cars, so that can get you into the situation where your car has had sex with every car your mechanic has had sex with and whatever contaminants/acids/water was in their bloodstreams.
Don’t use the goop, get a 12oz can of straight freon and a charging hose (the hose will be about $15, same as the freon. You don’t want to over oil the system, and the big can will do exactly that. Your freon escapes over time, not the oil.
Why Trump shouldn’t get another chance:
Monster.
It’s hard to find good people.
JFC. I’m not sure there’s a more unrepentant murderous monster working in our government. And that has some serious competition.
They’re so disconnected they don’t even bother to hide their crimes anymore.
I mean, he’s probably already got charges against him in a few countries, but he’s untouchable, like all of those people.
It would be a beautiful thing to extradite all of our war criminals to the countries where they’re wanted most.
It’d be a good platform to run on.
I would actually show up to the polls if that were on it.
Untouchable until they’re not.
Russia is already copying our playbook: R2P, illegal combatants, etc.
“The video Uvalde cops didn’t want you to see: 17 officers RAN AWAY from gunman as he sprayed 100 rounds into two classrooms full of kids – and they spent 77 minutes doing nothing while 19 children and two teachers were killed”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11007401/Leaked-Uvalde-shooting-video-shows-gunman-calmly-walk-elementary-school-fire-young-boy.html
It’s gotta be crooked. There can’t be that many dickless cowards out there.
That’s a gut punch to watch. I’d rather be dead than the guy who stood around in a hallway fondling his gun while kids were executed.
Or the motherfucker using the goddamn hand sanitizer.
Fuck the police.
Please tell me you made that up. That’s beyond parody.
Nope.
Jeebus. At least Lady Macbeth waited until the blood had stopped flowing to wash.
Correct. It is too true to parody.
There so much that stinks about the story. Federal marshals doing crowd control. The legislation gets fast tracked and passed with the aid of the deep state fellating rinos.
As many have predicted, this gets more and more appalling by the week….
Twitter sues Elon Musk, setting stage for epic legal battle
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/12/twitter-elon-musk-lawsuit/
Stock up on popcorn for the discovery phase. He can buy Twitter for pocket change when that’s done.
“Weedkiller ingredient used in notorious cancer-causing Roundup is found in 80% of US urine samples”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11006431/Weedkiller-ingredient-used-notorious-Roundup-80-urine-samples.html
That’s why my piss kills weeds? I thought it was the alcohol.
“‘My body went completely numb’: Kentucky woman nearly dies after picking up $1 bill from McDonald’s floor she suspects was laced with fentanyl – just weeks after cops warned against picking up money
An officer who arrived at the hospital to take a police report suspected the bill did have traces of fentanyl, according to Renne. However, police later said no traces of fentanyl were found on the dollar”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11006947/Kentucky-woman-nearly-dies-picking-1-bill-suspects-laced-fentanyl.html
So if you OD, tell the cops you picked up a dollar?
That’s sorta testing the limits of how dumb cops really are, isn’t it?
Unfortunately I doubt that’s anywhere near the limits.
https://www.wate.com/news/upcoming-dicussion-about-changing-name-of-clingmans-dome/
The peak was originally called, “Kuwahi” and known as the mulberry place. However, the area was renamed after Confederate General Thomas Clingman, who was said to be the first person to accurately measure the peak’s elevation. Hill wants to try to restore the name.
Tautology of the week just now on WREG: “Clingman was a confederate general during the Civil War.” That really was the best of all times to be a confederate general!
Martin Sheen was a Confederate general in the 1990s.
I still live in a community and county district named for a Confederate. I haven’t heard any rumblings of changing either. I also live in a county and state named for Brits. Didn’t we fight them too?
wow, that Sr Estévez gets around: he was a US captain in 1979
Your daily dose of Sanford & son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rMNct76oZY
I’m out. Going to dinner.
It’s prediction time. So in the last couple weeks or so we have really seen a ramp up in the legacy media printing negative stories on Sleepy Joe. I will put the over/under at 8 months till Joe comes to the decision that for the good of the country he is going to step down. It’s full steam ahead with President Kammie for the last couple years. Yeah, she has a popularity rating right now that is worse than Uncle Joe, but they are going to push her like nothing else while keeping her unscripted time to an absolute minimum. It’s going to be a Hail Mary, but they are going to want her to have at least a little time in the top slot before the campaign for 24 starts to really kick off. I predicted she would be out VP about 5 years back. She will be our President soon enough, and if it’s Donnie that is agin her all bets are off. She could very well prevail in that case. Against someone like DeSantis she will lose badly and the Dems will be rid of her once and for all.
Against someone like DeSantis she will lose badly and the Dems will be rid of her once and for all.
*ballot printers go brrrrrrrr*
Shortly after the disastrous midterms, that way they can ram Kamala down our throats for ten years if they can manage. By the end of the year or early next year is my bet.
She could be President and get primaried?
Yes
I’m old enough to remember before the election when a writer for SFGate said it was a crazy right-wing conspiracy theory that Biden would step aside for Harris.
Just drove past a gas station with $3.85 regular. I predict they will empty the strategic oil reserve to drive prices down before the midterms. After that we’re screwed.
You had better believe they have a plan to drag the prices (and the reserve) to the lowest they can, by the week of October 31.
Buttigieg vs Cotton would be a battle between functioning adults I would enjoy watching.
Christie vs Kammie would give me a massive aneurism; as I lay dying and drooling, I would mutter something about Laphroaig (in other words, a day ending in Y).
Whitmer vs Noem is the gril on gril movie that should be made.
Butti will get the VP nod for the Kammie 24 run. It will truly be historic, will say all the media in unison. There will be some chattering but ultimately she will not be primaried as the Dems will ultimately all get in line behind her and do what they are told. The ballot shenanigans will be there no matter who Team Elephant pick, but if it’s Donnie Boy then count on those putting her over the top like Stallone. Against a formidable opponent those ballot tricks will not be enough.
More like 8 weeks. They need to right the ship quickly to salvage the midterms. The sooner they dump Sleepy Joe, the sooner the media can start the continuous fan-fiction love affair about how great Kamala is. I do agree, the MSM will push this non-stop and with all it’s power. Unless, they wait a little longer to let the GOP campaign specifically against Biden, then dump him in October Surprise. Either way, by November we’ll have a different president.
Nah, he’ll stick it out until the 2 term limit no longer applies to Kameltoe. Not that either scenario will save the Dems in November. What will? Geraldo turning up Trump’s secret shrine to Putin and Hitler a week before the election and a week after 200 GOP candidates go on record supporting “no indictment” of Trump for J6.
I don’t think they will pull the plug on Joe pre election as doing so won’t change much and they won’t want to taint Kammie with the election stink when they lose bigly. It would t shock me but I think more likely in the months following.
In honor of Dr. Jill, I want to say gracias, mi taco to our host for these links and especially for the photo.
I’m seeing the phrase “forced birth” lately. Apparently that’s the new talking point.
Irreconcilable opposition of worldviews. Somebody who believes that a late term abortion is murder is never going to be able to peacefully coexist with somebody who believes that a late term abortion is exercise of a fundamental right against “forced birth”.
Yep. At some point it’s going to come to blows.
Pregnancy is so inconvenient I can’t even.
Hi Tulip – good thread last night – of course I missed it – only read while in the waiting room today.
I tried Eharmony a few times – first in ’06-07 in the Army. Got connected with a nice Canadian girl teaching english in Taiwan. Of course I missed her when she traveled back to Canada – just as I was leaving Drum to go to Korea. Then when I was in Korea, I suddenly had no expectations of leave dates or when I could possibly plan for a visit…so in the end after 6 months of emails/phone – didn’t go anywhere. Also talked to a girl in Singapore for a month or so – no progress there either.
Tried again about 10 years ago – trying to stay more local, but that didn’t wind up with any matches I had any interest in – in VA.
A lot of other issues in my life right now (some of which may make a good article in the future), but I actually like being alone (esp after a workday around lots of other people every day). Wouldn’t mind a roommate at some point in the future when I have enough space in a different house – would really like to share more of my movies/shows with someone else…but not a lot of other urges.
eHarmony
NewWife and I had our first date ten years ago this month. We were both on that site operating on the assumption that free/cheaper apps would not filter away the prols.
I didn’t do the online thing, but many of my friends did. Very hit or miss. Most struggled to find even a couple dates. Some got married.
It seems to me that it’s good for two things, getting laid and getting married. Those looking for something in-between really seem to struggle.
a decade ago:
decent chicks struggle: NewWife was being referred to guys hundreds of miles away
decent guys rule: if you have a job and aren’t addicted to twenty substances, you own everything between the horizons and go out with three new chix every week
that’s the numbers game: the ratio sucks
BUT: I think the the whole approach to life has changed. Ten years ago I didn’t text. Ten years ago people didn’t sit at dinner or drive a car while using a phone. I’m an old man now, but when I was 45 the world was my oyster. Maybe it is different now?
I thought I wanted a wife at the time…now at 41….ehhh, different things going on.
https://twitter.com/LeaMaric/status/1546305663290294272
What?
I can’t reconcile the window message with the bumper sticker in the middle.
Everyone has a trans-male husband.
“We’ll see how you feel about Abortions after I fuck your husband” – written on car’s back window
“Driver is gay” – bumper sticker
You know, the pro-abortion folks just aren’t that smart.
Just because the driver is gay doesn’t mean the driver’s husband is.
What an asshole, ruining the paint by putting stickers on it.
“Tour de France stage 10 halted by climate action protestors
The Tour de France stage to Megève came to a stop with 35km to go as the route was blocked by a group of protestors demanding action against climate change.”
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-stage-10-halted-by-protestors/
Bicycles.
Guy called me today over a few CFM of 130F air coming off some process: can I use this to save the universe!?11!? What oh what can I do with ALL THIS ENERGY!!!!
Dude, if you want a low return on investment, set up a barge to cyclone gold out of Mississippi River sludge. I should have told him to cool down the room by leaving his refrigerator open.
One of the ideas from The Energy Crisis(tm) back in the 70’s was to install heatpipes in the exhaust air stream and use that scavenged energy to preheat the incoming air stream. It seemed simple to me but I have no idea if it was ever implemented.
Then, after I post the link, I go back to read the article and it mentions this exact system. Article claims efficiencies of up to 75%.
I have one in my house. I don;t know that the technology is inside the heat exchanger, but it definitely works pretty well.
I suggested air-to-air recovery but noted that sort of thing is more vanity project for PR guys to showboat about than money saver: suppose you’re spending $10 a day to heat your house for 100 days out of the year and you can save 10% of that somehow, what can you build that is worth getting out of bed over for $100 a year? I lost money just typing about it for four minutes!
**but I also told have his utility come over and explain all the cool ways they can subsidize his dreams because I’d hate for all those bureaucrats I’m paying for to just sit around and drink coffee all day when there’s sweet sweet guvbux to be distributed
Point him towards a peltier device to convert it to electricity and ask him to do the math on The ROI.
He will either come back with crappy numbers or forget about it.
I’ve had the opportunity to ask greenies about ROI over the years and I have yet to get any reply other than the “deer in headlights” look.
I guessed from your initial post that this was some sort of industrial system rather than a home installation. From what I recalled the heatpipes themselves could be mass produced at a very low cost and would be cost-effective in a large-scale system although, as kinnath mentions, they are apparently installed in residential applications. If the up-front cost is low something can pay off over a long period of time.
Not my field*, only a passing observation.
*I was in college in the late 70’s and came close to getting my degree in Alternative Energy (or whatever they were calling it.) Stayed with EE and it worked out for the best as the alternative energy market collapsed when Carter left office.
I’ll admit to not exploring it much because there’s no money involved. Like I said, if you are 100% efficient at recovering 10% of $10 a day, you made zero.
Most homes are 100% recirc anyway, so you’re already holding on to whatever energy level there is. It’s only when you’re exhausting or rejecting heat that recovering it means anything to even start with.
Now if your heating bill is $30/day and you must run 30% outside air because of radon (Yankee problems I’ll never have), maybe you’re starting with more meat on the bone, and by all means the nickels add up.
I’m a numbers guy: BS in engineering and MBA in finance; I spend part of my days rejecting ideas that would distract me from more profitable projects. If the equipment were free, I’d lose money just staying at home to babysit the installation. I’m the asshole who points out that a dollar more per gallon on gasoline is less than $1,000 incremental a year, but the people clutching their pearls over $5 think nothing of spending a year’s salary on a car and then financing it for six years. What most people need isn’t a 100MPG carburetor: they need a job worth driving to at all.
Except that $1000 isn’t an added expense that should have occurred, and is mere the most visible and obvious sign of more pervasive problems that were all avoidable.
Are cyclists known to fart a lot? They do eat a lot of protein based foods, so that could be it. Or we could go with the Occam’s Razor – climate protestors have completely incoherent messaging.
It’s the carbs that make me fart at the end of a long ride. Hot, sweaty and gassy. The peloton must be really unpleasant.
It’s a drop in the bucket, but each of the teams has two cars that follow them around on the course, a team bus, there are multiple helicopters for TV coverage, the organizers have to move equipment from one city to the next by truck, etc. Furthermore, there are races all over the world that the teams often have to fly to.
The climate dead enders are hitting everything these days. They just pulled this on track at the Austrian GP. They ran out on track but as the race got red flagged on the first corner they didn’t get the chance to stop the cars before getting their asses hauled away.
That was Silverstone (British GP). Austrian GP apparently had some fan issues but not protestors that I know of.
The burrs are ripening. By fortunate coincidence, it’s also shedding time.
Yet another example of how much gentler nature is up here. Where I come from, burs are vicious vampiric things designed to pierce hide and hooves and draw blood. Here you can grab them bare handed without injury.
New York is a lovely, mild place filled with evil authoritarian assholes.
Just drove past a gas station with $3.85 regular. I predict they will empty the strategic oil reserve to drive prices down before the midterms. After that we’re screwed.
Jayziss. I just paid ~$5.20 a while ago, at the gas station right cross the street from the giant FBI headquarters.
Down to $4.69 nearest me.
I’ve been to the Hoover building. I am not aware of a gas station nearby. Also $4.15 here.
$4.09 here
Why college is a ripoff, #667742
https://mobile.twitter.com/blousteinschool/status/1546882448021078016
I was going to bitch about a persistant crash issue when I play videos on one monitor while playing a game on the other (multiple games, multiple engines, multiple vidro players, firefox) but I have a more urgent gripe.
As per my standard, the first thing I did when getting this tablet and putting firefox on it was disable password saving. When I logged in to glibs jhst now, I got asked if I wanted to save my password to google of all places. I see no addons if fieefox that might do that, so I can only conclude it is some sort of android spyware. Any idea what it is and how I can kill it?
PS, touchscreen keyboards are absolute garbage.