Tonight’s the night! I get to wear my new leisure suit to the bar and WebDom promises me that this will be an absolute pussy magnet. “Dad, your main problem will be allocating your Hot Man-Meat self to the hungering female hordes who will beset you.” Well, she didn’t say “hordes” or “beset” since them’s fancy words and she don’t use fancy words, at least not since she got that last tattoo, but it was the clear meaning. Anyway, this is going to be great and I’m likely to begin tomorrow’s Links with, “I always thought you made these letters up, but here’s what happened to me…” followed by a story with several girls, a midget, and an amputee.
Birthdays today include the French Kamala Harris; the George Soros of his day; a guy who succeeded by taking a flyer; a disgusting piece de merde; Baltimore’s second best poet; a guy whom you can blame for Gene Roddenberry’s horrible shows; a guy whom you can blame for perverting Philo Farnsworth’s invention; the author of Tennis Without Balls; a man to beware; a guy who fucked Kellyanne Conway AND Margaret Carlson; the guy who put Peyronie’s Disease on the map; and a guy who fucked Wil Wheaton.
And now on to actual Links.
So wait, washing with soap is a good thing? Pro Tip: Every time you see the phrase “forever chemicals,” you’re dealing with a bullshitter.
Why does this surprise anyone?
I don’t see how this could possibly be constitutional.
I don’t see how this could possibly be constitutional.
Grant-chasing for fun and profit.
Old Guy Music hit a couple of chords…
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody
“I always thought you made these letters up, but here’s what happened to me…”
Get some stank on the hang-down !
Morning, Tres! Thanks for the new word (hang-down), that’s like crack for writers and editors.
There was a funny moment in the movie Role Models where a kid makes up sexual abuse by Stiffler’s character. “He grabbed my hang-down!” “Huh? I have my own hang-down to grab.”
True…
What happened to that kid? I thought he had a bright future. Did he run into Will Smith and get bitchslapped without some camera being around and then ran off?
a story with several girls, a midget, and an amputee
As long as you don’t end up being the amputee, sounds like fun.
I am never giddy.
You identify more as Alix?
With his timing? Niil.
followed by a story with several girls, a midget, and an amputee.
And a bath tub filled with ice.
“So many people were there that the concrete around the pool crumbled and fell into the water. It was like ‘Jersey Shore’ meets a frat party. We are preparing a massive lawsuit . . . We’re waiting to serve him. B̵r̵e̵t̵t̵ OMWC was last seen on Sunday chugging Champagne with two midgets.”
And a missing kidney?
There were definitely signs of growing GOP opposition to the IRS under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, but it really took off (as with so much else) when Barack Obama was president. The Government Accountability Office recently found that overall IRS audit rates have plunged in recent years, and are now at their lowest rates in generations.
But her (the other one) emails.
With all the various 3 letter US bureaucracies weaponized, any American that isn’t a leftist drone – and even they should be worried, because the machine will have no compunction using their weaponry against one of their own for gain – is being put on notice that the government bureaucracy will never give up their power without a fight to the death. And they are fine killing you.
Is there a single leftist who has learned that lesson?
I am not sure what your ask is, but based on historical perspectives, leftists always seem to cheer this shit on when it is their enemies taking it. The Bolsheviks cheered the killing of their enemies, never realizing that while wave one and two of the lining up the enemy to kill them is the people they dislike, all subsequent waves, and there will be numerous of those, will be them being put down cause they no longer serve the cause of the power wielders.
Such as the weaponization of the IRS against the administration’s enemies?
“Wow, when your propaganda is why it’s a Good Thing to expand the size and power of the IRS, you have a novel strategy.”
As many people believe, with Biden being but a step up from qualifying in intellect as a fucking vegetable, this is a third Obama term. Remember that one of the most effective and efficient weapons Obama wielded against his political enemies, was the IRS. Yeah, the usual lying shits pretending to be a media protected his administration from that scandal – as they did with scores of others – and the crooks think they will be able to do it yet again.
The new IRS agents are not gong to go after the rich. The rich get lawyers and can fight back. They will also not just target everybody not rich. No, the intent is to sick them on people the US government labels as problematic, especially the people resisting the globalist agenda, and to force them to pay up money or risk jail time.
It’s going to be a lot of abuse, intimidation, and when convenient, a weapon to lock up their political enemies.
The conspiracy theory I’ve heard thrown around…
1. The ATF starts changing the definition on National Firearms Act restricted firearms and accessories.
2. The new woke IRS army descends on firearms owners who now owe a bunch of tax money. Collect the money and guns while killing a lot of them.
3. Peace on Earth – or civil war. They seem okay with either.
May I offer you a roll of tinfoil?
Yes please.
(I don’t buy into this theory – but no good will come if they really hire 4 infantry divisions worth of armed IRS agents)
#1 certainly isn’t a conspiracy theory. The ATF is actively trying to a reclassify a pistol with a stabilization brace as an SBR.
I guess they could be doing it for just fun, but it’s a great approach to instantly turn hundreds of thousands of gun owners into felons overnight.
If they wanted to take action on those felons, #2 is just one of several possibilities.
Check out the income levels of who actually gets the audits.
That chart is missing a column indicating the breakdown of these new audit targets being people the state tells the IRS are problematic….
Oh wait. Since the number would be 100% of tem, you don’t need the column.
They spend that much time and money going after people with >$25k in income???
Microtransactions are the most profitable monetization scheme game companies have come up with. So collecting what little bits you can from the vast swathes who make little will add up
(I’m assuming the > was meant as a < )
If you tell someone that only makes $25K a year to pony up $500, they are not gonna say “Fuck you, I am getting a lawyer and suing you.” and will just pay up to avoid the hassle. it is a massively lucrative racket.
Yes, they really do. I was audited at my lowest point in income, twice. No way to afford help or get help. Those assholes love it when you can’t fight back.
“For decades, Republicans have starved the IRS of funding, and now American taxpayers are paying the price,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said in a statement in February
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Unholy vengeance?
He means we WILL pay the price. In higher taxes and harassment.
Every time you see the phrase “forever chemicals,” you’re dealing with a bullshitter.
Oxidane is a “forever chemical” that is also an amphiprotic solvent and greenhouse gas.
Bah, tis nothing compared to hydrogen hydroxide.
Helium is a forever chemical
Are Unubtanium and Bullshitium, the chemicals that makes marxism work, also forever?
Untrue
/Red Giant Stars
Nope, it escapes harmlessly into outer space.
Harmlessly?! It’s absconding with our Mass! Get it back!
I can make greenhouse gas.
Pull my finger.
Do you play rugby?
If I fall short of the line, I can gas jet myself across to victory. It’s a skill.
“Conversion therapy is a traumatic practice based on junk science that actively harms the people it supposedly seeks to treat,” Wolf said in a press release.
Now do top/bottom surgery. DeSantis should ban genital mutilation next.
We live in an age where people with mental disorders are encouraged to go to extremes and then deal with the consequences on their own 9cause they will be canceled the moment they question if they had been done a disservice by the people encouraging this shit)….
By golly, OMWC, you are a snappy dresser. I’m guessing those are your everyday duds. You’re going to wow all the ladies at the church bizarre.
I have his theme music.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x56csu
Not this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASw
I thought this was the theme music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76IgTbz0v1M
That is spot on.
“Veling said she first got involved in the book review committee when she realized that many of the titles being challenged were LGBTQ+ books. She said both her sons are openly gay and when they want to read a book, she typically buys it for them. But her concern is for kids who might not have that same support at home.
“If they don’t have access to a book that is reflective of who they are, does it just continue to make them feel like they’re in a homophobic area? So I started speaking up because of that,” Veling said. “It’s to all the other kids that won’t have access to it, who really do need access to it.””
Both of her sons are openly gay? How old are they?
Taking cues from teenagers can be misleading. Puberty is a helluva drug.
If they don’t have access to a book that is reflective of who they are
I only read my auto-biography.
I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body! Who should I be reading to feel better about that?
I don’t know. I didn’t read Harlequin romances growing up so the sexuality of characters wasn’t important. Most characters were not like me which gave me something to imagine.
“But her concern is for kids who might not have that same support at home.”
So, she wants to use the schools to propagandize. Got it.
That’s why kids today come out of school dumber than if they had just avoided the experience completely…
I wonder what is the nature of these “LGBTQ+ books”.
Could be anything from “Heather Has Two Mommies” to… well, use your imagination. Schools are sneaking in all kinds of objectionable material under the fig leaf of “LGBTQ+ books”.
Apparently “not your fucking business” isn’t an option for Veling.
Wow, so Coco Chanel consorted with Nazis. Old Man, it’s wild how much esoteric knowledge you have about people I’ve never (or barely) heard of.
Now do Maurice Chevalier, the original OMWC.
Eh, my dad’s sixth cousin did too, after she married the King of England.
“For decades, Republicans have starved the IRS of funding, and now American taxpayers are paying the price,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said in a statement in February.
That sounds like a threat.
A simple tax code is never the answer.
The current tax code is like the drug war, it’s an employment racket. Keeps agents of the state busy. A simple tax code would wipe out the perceived need for those 87k new agents. And for the love God, won’t somebody think of the poor accountants who would be put on the streets by a simpler tax code.
Think of all the new bookkeeping positions available in the businesses that can now thrive without the oppressive taxation. They’ll have plenty of opportunities, even if they don’t change sectors.
It’s worth noting that one of the biggest lobbyists against a flat tax was H&R Block.
Doing work Americans won’t do!
No, the US taxpayers are NOT paying the price, shitheels like Neal are sad that they aren’t looting as much money as they’d like for their pet projects.
Democrats said such rhetoric is false and inflammatory.
“The incendiary conspiracy theories Republicans are pushing about armed IRS agents are increasingly dangerous and out-of-control,” said Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, calling the language being used by “high-ranking Republicans” in speaking about increased funding for the IRS “shockingly irresponsible.”
Fucking racist anti-government Nazi bastards, riling up the deplorables just to score a few political points. It’s shameful.
We learned it from you Dems!!! /juvenile Repubs
That Mar-a-Lago raid? The reason for it was exactly what I speculated the other day: The corruptocracy was looking to take documents Trump declassified, but they wanted to keep out of the people’s hands to protect their criminality around a slew of criminal activities, but especially the whole Russia Collusion hoax, he had taken so he could release them when he thought it was time to hurt the machine the hardest….
““White House counsel and company disobeyed a presidential order and implemented federal governmental bureaucracy on the way out to basically send the stash to the National Archives, and now that’s where it’s at,” Patel said in a subsequent interview on June 23 on a different pro-Trump internet show.
Trump and his allies have for years pushed aggressively to declassify materials related to the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation that examined alleged ties between Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia — a probe that was later put under the control of Robert Mueller following his appointment as special counsel. Patel, who previously served under then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) during Nunes’ time as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has claimed that nonpublic information provided to Congress undercut the Russia probe and helped support Trump’s claim that the investigation lacked merit.”
It’s not an accident that the very FBI people that executed that raid are the same ones under criminal investigation by the Durham council for the hoaxes, fake impeachments, and a slew of other crimes to oust a sitting president they didn’t like.
It is certainly looking that way. But what did they think Trump was going to do with the documents? Apparently they’ve been sitting in boxes for 18 months.
So, my call is that they were hoping that he would not release the documents – unless he was totally forced to – because he still would have to wait for them to properly black-out the sensitive information in these documents or risk them trying to go after him with some obstruction or other charges. My guess is that they have been slow walking the process, but now are planning to do something – my guess another big hoax based again on the same bullshit as usual (see that lying and conniving asshat Strzok coming back out form under whatever rock he had been hiding since he was proven to be a criminal, to actually insinuate Trump has a Russian passport), they know will make him feel he would feel was enough of a push to release the documents, so they wanted to deny him the ability to do that.
Our government bureaucracy seems to be beyond saving. It’s now run by criminals that have as their top priority protecting themselves, their power, and the political party that has sold out to them. They will fight to the bitter end and I am going to make a prediction that they will have no problem murdering people they feel are a risk to their power. In fact, I think one of the things they are really hoping for is for their political enemies to do something they can use as an excuse to crack down on everyone, mercilessly, and with brutal force.
You should check out Strok’s twitter feed.
Let me guess, Tonio: The asshole resents the fact the people he looks down on still refuse to accept they did wrong by not seeing what he was doing, while absolutely criminal, was for their own good…..
After perusing it for 2 minutes, he made a total ass of himself posting a tweet thread about the malfeasance of Trump having 2 passports, only to publicly learn at the end that presidents are issued a second diplomatic passport. Dumbass.
But he just KNOWS he is smarter than everyone else and the only one that knows what is good for everyone else…
Maybe Trump was saving them for the 2024 campaign season.
I bet that was definitely part of the consideration. Remember, the main goal of the machine is to make it so Trump, and anyone that like him would not be coerced to do what the machine wills, never rise up to challenge them again…
Hopefully, he has copies of some of the more damning stuff stored elsewhere, with instructions to release them if he should be arrested/imprisoned/die.
That would not surprise me. He plans fairly well.
RealClear Publishing Preview: Branding Democrats
Disappointed that the article did not include what branding irons were going to be used.
It is always the messaging not the policies. The people just aren’t grateful for what the Democrats are doing to them.
Huh. It turns out “we hate you and we want you dead” isn’t an effective marketing strategy after all.
Reminds me of a new meal-kit type product line that corporate once dreamed up. It had many flaws, but most of all it just didn’t taste good. Several years after it failed and we had stopped producing it, product development pushed, successfully, to sell it again. They justified doing so by saying that the previous name/brand of the line sucked, and they now had a better name. I said, “Yeah, that’ll make it taste better.”
Did it taste like despair?
Indeed, it did. The 2nd time around – which failed as well – had some fancy name following the “artisanal, craft” marketing fad. The product was for use in slow cookers, so we called where we produced it the “crock” line.
Oh, I would have loved to be an account manager on that!
“Really, you think that is a good name? It is right up there with Nut Snack.”
“We can’t use that, Planters has it trademarked.”
/I don’t know if true.
Say it out loud.
(I don’t know who had used it, but the wife and I saw exactly one commercial with that slogan, and of course, we mistook it for Nut Sack.)
Quite frankly, I had read it as ‘Sack’ the first time around.
When your political strategy is about managing what people believe about you rather than solving the problems you were elected by those people to solve, do not act as if the people are the problem. And have no doubt that the dnc and the old republican party apparatchiks were/are about managing perception and doing nothing but robbing the coffers.
Customer service in 2022.
Wendy’s Employee Kills Elderly Customer With Sucker Punch
It happened recently at Dunkin Donuts too. Probably helped the kid’s defense that the old man was on video saying the N word to him.
words are violence
And real violence is just acting out against oppression, right?
When you are pissed at the world cause all you can do is work “How can I help you?” jobs, some people snap…
This guy should blame the public school system for his behavior after it did em a disservice and left em unqualified to do anything that would result in well paying work….
No, he really shouldn’t blame anyone because he is a violent idiot with impulse control issues. That’s all on him.
Economists Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez wrote in an analysis of American wealth inequality,that audit rates of the largest estate tax returns have been almost completely eliminated in recent years.
When somebody dredges those two idiots up, you know they’re serious.
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Easy one today, and I brain farted on try 2.
I don’t see how this could possibly be constitutional. – it is all about mustard
I have to deal with the cleanup of these “forever chemicals”.
This can be shockingly good news for some of them.
Since i have to deal with the fire fighting foams, i am still doomed i guess.
But that’s all in the years to come. For now, the fact that the IRS is set to see a financial rescue is cause for celebration in and of itself. The IRS is not becoming a “shadow army,” as Cruz would have it. It is instead an agency emerging from financial duress that will finally be able to do its job in the name of the American people.
Heroes of the Reich. There will be a special place in Heaven for them.
Only traitors would be against the hiring of 87,000 Sheriffs of Nottingham.
Did I tell you guys I hate LVS? I think I did. Goddamnit.
Licking Vintage Silicone?
I mean despite my job, I dislike silicone
So, no fake titties or bubble butts for you?
no, though I keep visiting my favorite escort despite her getting fake tits
Two of the three worst things ever. The inventors should sit in two of the mouths of Satan, and whomever came up with injecting lips should sit in the center mouth, taking Judas’ place.
Luther van Sauce?
What do you have against Ludwig von Siegen, (c. mars 1609 Cologne – c. 1680 Wolfenbüttel, Germany) a German soldier and amateur engraver, who invented the printmaking technique of mezzotint, a printing-process reliant on mechanical pressure used to print more complex engravings than previously possible?
Las Vegas Sands?
Did you lose a lot of money at the Sands?
Louis Vuitton Shoes?
Chanel is overrated. Paul Poiret and Elsa Schiaparelli were the true talents of the age.
The Old World Order Is About To Collapse – Peter Zeihan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 514
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRT7P-VKM0k
Does any one know about this Peter Zeihan fella and is he full of shit or worth a listen?
I’ve found him to be interesting, and he worked with George Friedman (who is very interesting) for years. If he’s right about the demographics, China is no real threat anymore than Japan is.
Probably shot, but he confirms people’s prejudices.
If you want a decent description of the coming collapse, and yes, you have to work around the fact this guy is a raging fucking green nut that really doesn’t get energy too well, you should look at The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.
Atlanta PD hot on the trail of the white supremacist who painted a swastika on the LGBTQ Rainbow Crosswalk Landmark. All other investigations will take a back seat.
BREAKING NEWS!
“Iconic”? Really 46? Just painting a rainbow over a damned crosswalk isn’t Major Art.
CBS should never have bought them — they should have stayed syndication and oddball movies…. was a better channel.
I believe painting that rainbow in the first place is a violation of the laws regarding road markings.
+1 Black Lives Matter Plaza
top dial: 2, 5, 8 (GPB), 11
bottom dial with lots of clicks: 17 (wrestling), 36 (sometimes, maybe), 46 (cartoons and movies)
yeah, 46 as CBS is against all my childhood programming
Growing up I had a lot of broadcast options: 2 KCBS, 4 KNBC, 5 KTLA (syndicated shows and Tom Hatten), 7 KABC , 9 KHJ (Elvira’s Movie Macabre), 11 KTTV (independent then FOX), 13 KCOP (game shows and Japanese imports), 28 KCET (PBS), 50 KOCE (PBS).
Why do they hate Queers for Palestine?
For the same reason Palestine hates queers.
They don’t produce enough next generation suicide bombers?
“Apple security flaw threatens ‘everything we hold dear’: BILLIONS across globe scramble to update iPhones and Macs as tech giant reveals cyber crooks can take control of devices and access bank accounts, photos and more”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11126551/Apple-reveals-security-vulnerabilities-affecting-iPhones-iPads.html
“How to protect yourself from the Apple security flaw affecting iPhones, iPads and Macs – after experts warn hackers could track your location, read your messages, view your contacts and even access your microphone and camera”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11126465/How-protect-Apple-security-flaw-affecting-iPhones-iPads-Macs.html
I know someone who recently claimed his iphone was severely compromised.
Hmmm…
I’m still on 13.3.1.
Anyone else worried about updating?
I’m always a bit paranoid about “What crap will they sneak in this time”, but since I’m on 15.4.1 already, a couple minor version bumps probably won’t be too bad. I’m going ahead and doing the update now.
Yes. I read all the notes and wait a week for scary news before updating.
Why I don’t use Apple Wallet or Google Pay
^^^ THIS. The entire eco-system is unsecured and unmanageable, by design.
Yes, I definitely do not use that. Plastic card in secure wallet is as far as I’ll go.
So, you don’t buy anything online using your credit card?
I use AW for AAA & Proof of Insurance cards. But not a credit card.
“Shocking moment mob of looters RANSACK and destroy 7-Eleven store in Democrat-led LA, leaving store worker fearing for his life”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11127071/Shocking-moment-giant-flash-mob-ransacks-loots-7-Eleven-store-LA.html
Looters should be shot.
I doubt any of them made off with more than $950 dollars of merchandise so no need to waste precious resources going after them.
That’s like twenty cartons of name-brand cigarettes, so possible. Also, clearing out vaping supplies could probably take one person over.
Well, if it is vaping supplies, send the SWAT and FBI after them! That stuff kills!
Oh, don’t you worry, cause the problems will suss themselves out…
Eventually the entities under attack will simply have to stop operating, and then the people stuck in these areas will all be fucked and ready to beg government to become their savior.
And then we’re back to “food deserts” to complete the circle.
By design…
That’s what I think escapes most people…
These people that are enabling this have as an end goal of terrorizing the people affected into compliance and being willing to accept any deal, no matter how brutal and evil, to make it stop….
The looting ends when the shooting begins.
The looting also begins when the shooting ends.
It depends who wins the fighting.
As long as no swastikas got painted.
“Warning over brand new ‘tomato flu’ virus detected in India that leaves at least 82 children with giant red blisters”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11126647/Warning-brand-new-tomato-flu-virus-detected-India-infects-82-children.html
No.
YOUR CHILDREN WILL DIE IF YOU DON’T TREMBLE IN FEAR LIKE WE TELL YOU TO.
Flu’s do not cause rashes. Looks like chicken pox.
Also, fuck off.
“If we could just find out how much they owe, and make them pay….”
Good morning!
I’m off to the NY State USPSA Championship. Look like we’ll be having some great weather to go along with the great shooting.
@NotAdhan – Should be hitting the range around 2-3pm to walk the stages. Look for the pudgy white guy with facial hair.
*pictures a sea of pudgy white guys with facial hair*
…you’re not at all wrong.
Is it a Libertarian convention?
It’s a beautiful day to clean guns! Well, gun. The one I’ll be shooting tomorrow. It’s been a few thousand rounds (forgive be St. Browning for I have sinned). Now off to the range to make sure I didn’t break anything while cleaning it. Should shoot weak-handed since there’s one of those stages.
I’m like the opposite world Pope Jimbo. Today’s ray of darkness: Cops mag-dump into a guy standing still with his hands up, the backstop being a bunch of young nightlife people, hitting 6 of them.
Look, the important thing is that all the cops got home safely to their families.
I’m like the opposite world Pope Jimbo
I totes despise you smart, good-looking skinny people!
Jesus Christ. That’s straight up murder. Those fuckers better go to jail. Enraging.
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Meh indeed.
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Re IRS
Anything that enables an all encompassing state is by definition a Good Thing. That which opposes the state is a Bad Thing, even if that thing that takes peoples’ hard earned money to squander. There’s no pro government position they will not show fealty to.
The IRS needs greater support to carry out its most essential functions, like processing tax returns, enforcing the tax code, and closing the tax gap.
And using sjw’s with poor trigger discipline to arrest people apparently.
Speaking of forever chemicals, I spoke with a customer today that’s in the business of manufacturing boron-nitride nanotubes for research purposes.
He was fairly confident about the safety, but admitted that they don’t have a clue about long-term exposure effects.
Given enough time, something, anything, will kill us all…
Hyper-stable structures like that are chemical oddities and they tend to go everywhere.
That said, BNNTs have some interesting properties like high thermal conductivity while remaining a good electrical insulator.
Forever chemicals, forever wars, finding a forever home (in pet adoption). Adult speech is taking phrases from babies and toddlers.
Anything that enables an all encompassing state is by definition a Good Thing. That which opposes the state is a Bad Thing, even if that thing that takes peoples’ hard earned money to squander. There’s no pro government position they will not show fealty to.
Learn to love Big Brother, Citizen. He only wants what’s best for you.
Scientists believe there is a one in six chance of a major volcanic eruption this century which could dramatically change the world’s climate and put millions of lives in danger.
So when the next little ice age comes we can blame it on anthropogenic climate change and further impoverish and enslave humanity.
Ain’t it convenient that these fucks suddenly want people to think that anything nature does is going to hurt them, so the solution is for people to lose their freedoms? I mean, fuck, I never knew nature was that brutal – Disney movies made it all out to be a sweet walk in the park – and that government taking away my freedoms would put that bitch in her place…
The only way to put nature in her place is to take up arms and tools and impose human order on the wilds. Go forth and be industrius!
The only solutions with any chance to stave of Gaia’s petty behavior (and that bitch goes orders of magnitude further than your usual vindictive bitch), are technological ones. Not tricknological ones like the globalists pretend.
In the Year of Our Lord, 536 AD.
Another security question:
Tap to pay debit cards…how vulnerable are they if you were to carry one around?
I don’t know, so I got a shielded wallet to avoid the risk. I certainly don’t want to encourage such technology, since I know it will charge the wrong amount to the wrong card even if nobody is sitting there with a gadget for stealing card info.
Depends on what the criminal entity trying to steal your info is willing to do to get at it?
If the POS is hacked, it doesn’t really matter which method you use.
You should have it in a little Faraday cage. Many wallets provide security for that. Seems to be a recurring subject here. Wallets range from batshit heavy duty, like the Secrid, to more traditional wallets. Passport cards, etc.. are starting to have those kind of chips too. It’s a good thing to update your wallet.
Wallet wallet, or prison wallet?
Prison wallet would not function as a proper radio block. You’d have to wear copper mesh underwear.
You don’t?
I go for the poor man’s version: sheets of tinfoil inside tighty whities.
copper mesh underwear
Like this? (P-NSFW)
Don’t complain. I could have linked to this instead
I can’t accurately answer how vulnerable they are until you tell me your: birth date, last 4 of your ssn and your mother’s maiden name.
Tap to pay debit cards…how vulnerable are they if you were to carry one around?
I wouldn’t carry around a debit card at all if there is any choice. I don’t like giving merchants access to my bank account. My bank will not give me an ATM only card, so I set the purchase limit of my debit card at zero and only use it for ATMs.
Credit cards give a layer of protection between between bank accounts and theft. Banks usually eventually make good if you have money stolen through a debit card. But that takes time to recover your own money back. Not a concern with fraudulent credit card use.
All of our debit cards (between the wife and I there are four) go to accounts with limited online access and limited funds. So, if the online accessibility was hacked the thieves might take a couple of grand, but not have access to real money. CCs all have protections that seem to work pretty well.
Safety vs. convenience.
Nonprofit Protect Democracy filed the lawsuit challenging the law in June on behalf of honeymoon registry technology company Honeyfund and Ben & Jerry’s franchisee Primo Tampa, both of whom wished to require employee training prohibited by the law.
The group also challenged the law on behalf of workplace diversity and inclusion consulting company Collective Concepts and its co-founder Chevara Orrin.
It doesn’t work if it’s voluntary. We have to force those stupid racist homo-phobes to confess their sins and abase themselves.
How else are they going to make sure you understand that if you don’t comply with whatever idiocy du jour they are peddling, they will be compelled to destroy your fucking ass to make an example of you to others?
I’m sure they can find other ways to tell their white employees how awful they are.
Officer says someone spray-painted a Swastika on the intersection at 10th and Piedmont this week and the LGBTQ Liaison Unit was notified by Zone 5 units regarding the hate speech.
Am I a bad person for laughing out loud at that?
You can burn down a Wendy’s or two, but don’t deface the rainbow.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
*make sure to watch the second video
“Taking the Fifth should disqualify a politician from taking office
Jennifer Rubin”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/trump-taking-fifth-disqualify-office/
Paywalled, but WSJ is probably doing me a favor.
Rubin, as usual, manages to find the worst interpretation of an act possible.
She’s a vile human being.
I think she is just that dumb. Evil would suggest that she understood things and made a conscious decision to do the evil thing.
I’ve come to the conclusion that trying to distinguish between stupid and evil is a waste of time and effort in most cases.
So she is dangerously ignorant. Perhaps such people who demonstrate such a lack of understanding of American legal tradition should not be allowed to vote.
We make immigrants take a citizenship test, but just being born here means all that knowledge is genetically transferred.
Well, except for icky laws like immigration.
Tribe is a disingenuous, lying piece of shit.
Here’s what he wrote on the Faithful Execution of the Law Act of 2014
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-113hrpt376/html/CRPT-113hrpt376.htm
Now do the 2nd amendment.
The law prevents workplaces from requiring employees to attend any activity that violates any of eight concepts, like instilling that someone bears “personal responsibility” for historic wrongdoings because of their race, color, sex or national origin.
So the law does not prohibit speech, it prohibits compelled listening.
Without compelled listening people might have the wrong ideas….
An employer telling an employee how he wants the job done is “compelled listening” — assuming the employee wants to keep his job. Desantis has gone off the rails here.
The compelled speech has to do with a lot more than the workplace when the employer can use things you do outside of work that have nothing to do with work to disqualify you.
I am absolutely 150% behind security and training for improved workplace efficiency. I have a huge problem with CRT shit and the employer demanding you behave a certain way, not just at work but outside of work (unless you are representing the employer). I told my employer already that I am not on social media because that shit is brain rot (they asked me why I had no presence, because to them that meant I was potentially a dangerous individual), but if I was, and I was not representing the company on social media, and they gave me shit, I would sue the fuck out of them for that.
Note that they also demanded I put pronouns in my profiles, and when I did, they got mad and eventually told me not to do it even though it was mandatory. For some reason they didn’t like me telling them that I was dead serious that I identify as an aircraft carrier and a MIRVed ICBM when they accused me of not being serious. I pointed out I would seek legal recourse if they demanded my pronouns then told me those were not acceptable because they didn’t like them.
Oh gawd, please NO!
That is hilarious.
Redhedz on Friday Funbags.
https://archive.ph/QYgBe
It’s a good thing to update your wallet.
I have had this same wallet for about thirty years. It’s the only one I can stand to have in my pocket. I have tried to replace it several times, and always go back.
There are individual slipcases that provide reasonable protection. It’s better than nothing.
This link may look awful.
Set of 12 RFID Blocking Sleeves by Boxiki Travel. Best way to Protect your Cards from Electronic Theft. Durable, Lightweight and Compact Design to fit in any Pocket or Purse. (Black) https://a.co/d/8jWDSVd
They also help keeping your card from getting trashed physically – My main restaurant card credit card has all of the numbers rubbed off of it, and my work credit card has the chip metal rubbed off; my bank card (in a sleeve ) is as pristine as the day I got it,
Did you Glibs discuss Sam Harris’ candid admittance that he is totally fine with the media lying to influence elections of people he doesn’t personally approve of? I particularly loved his claim that Trump’s alleged university pedantics to make money was more of disqualifier – it makes him an evil guy – than Biden selling out the entire country. I keep hearing this guy is supposed to be a very smart guy, but every time I hear him I see an idiot that is really good at pretending they are smart by using big words. The shit he actually believes and defends is downright idiotic.
Harris is one of the smartest morons I’ve ever seen. A brilliantly stupid man.
Now that is a good example of evil.
Trump’s corruption didn’t get us involved in a proxy war with Russia.
I’d ship that arrogant motherfucker off to fight on the Ukrainian frontlines the first chance I got. Or maybe drop him in Syria.
Harris is a skeptic.
In other words, a dumbfuck that claims to be an atheist while simultaneously worshiping at the altar of the Church of Climatopocolypse, the altar of Top Men, and the altar of Communism (but the being nice to people technocracy, not the butchery kind).
In other words, a dumb fuck regardless or what his IQ score may be.
Is Republican leadership doing everything they can to not win big in November? Tucker lays out how easy it would be for them to run a few simple messages – but they won’t. The want to make good concession speeches so badly.
They’re totes jelly of Liz Cheney, who got to lose in her primary, lucky bitch!
I had a great concession speech prepared but the lousy voters ruined my plans.
Better to run on principle by losing graciously.
I am torn personally. Yes, the Republicans absolutely blow it every.. time…
But if I ever wanted those jackasses to win, it is now.
Get new leadership.
That might happen when all the old leaders die – not before.
There is an old saying: science advances one death at a time.
No different in politics.
Who put Oz into the PA Senate race? The voters. There’s your problem Tucker.
Tucker lays out how easy it would be for them to run a few simple messages – but they won’t. The want to make good concession speeches so badly.
The GOP leadership doesn’t want to lose. They want to win, but only with one of their own. They would prefer to lose if that meant an outsider or someone capable of upsetting their apple cart. It’s why the GOP swamp conspired with the Dems on the 2020 election cheating, especially in GA. It’s why the GOP hypocritically voted against giving Americans another Covid check before the election but still voted to line their own pockets with a much greater amount of money (excepting those like Rand who opposed both out of principle).
There’s no fundamental difference between Biden and and someone like Cheney, except for surface level messaging. You would see McConnell fight like hell to get Cheney elected. You saw him and others fight like hell to get Biden elected in 2020.
The only good thing Mitchy McC ever did was keep Garland off of SCOTUS.
Which should tell you how bad Cocaine Mitch is.
Tucker is a fucking idiot sometimes. Wah, Republicans won’t run on my law and order hobby horse. To the extent that they address it, Rs have been ducking the immigration issue since Reagan’s amnesty. And unlike every time you visit the store, most people are not being victimized by crime every day. The Oz snippet is the perfect example of the idiots running. An elitist idiot with no prior experience. Somehow his background isn’t pulling in the Oprah viewers. What a shock.
I wonder what that judge would say if a business owner told his employees they had to listen to a thirty minute presentation about why they should not vote to unionize before they could pick up their checks.
That’s a good question, and I think it would be allowed (as long as they are getting paid during that 30 minutes).
I know that some companies, Wal-Mart for example, have anti-union training.
Purple Pride!
Sports journalos are the worst journalos. This idiot seems to think the vax status of the Vikes is super funny/problematic. You think this paragraph would make him rethink his position on the vax. (I swear I did not chop out anything in the quote)
Wow, Magary wrote a why your team sucks without calling everyone a racist?
It would have been much worse if that player hadn’t been vaccinated and boosted. They are thankful for the life saving chemicals that they have ingested. They are of the body.
The dude is probably on suicide watch because Kirk Cousins has already gotten the Rona this season and is back at practice again. How can you believe in anything when the unvaxxed never seem to die from the Rona?
“No one on this team got vaccinated, so much so…”
Do not get vaccinated, with extreme prejudice.
You’re welcome.
em>One of the few Vikings players who did get vaxxed on the team ended up hospitalized with COVID-19, thanks to his freedom-loving teammates
WHEEEEE!
I can’t even believe that CNN article. Consistently people have an overwhelmingly bad opinion of the IRS. And these guys are making them out to be heroes. It’s a wonder CNN+ didn’t do well. A real mystery.
I see positive developments at CNN. But then articles like that squeak out like a dirty fart.
What will be hilarious is if CNN completely reverses course and becomes the new FOX news. Or hires Russell Brand to replace potato. These things would be amusing. At this point CNN could go off the air and get higher ratings.
“For decades, Republicans have starved the IRS of funding, and now American taxpayers are paying the price.”
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Why not stretch the money printing model to the limit and eliminate the IRS altogether? Because either they’re lying and they realize money printing will ultimately end in disaster or the taxation is about control and not money. Either way not good.
Because taxation isn’t about raising revenue, it is the power to punish enemies.
Horseshit
The IRS has never managed to consistently collect anything above 20% of GDP. Never, not even when marginal tax rates were 90%.
These people think a reduction in the increase in spending is “austerity”, so…
I think taxpayers should be able to tour the big IRS regional data processing centers any time they want. They should see the absolute fuckups who work (or I should say employed because I’m not certain they actually perform any work) in those places.
Yes, I’m still bitter over my experience as an IBM repairman back in the early ’90s replacing equipment at the Memphis IRS center. My poor working ass would get absolutely enraged every time I had to go out there. The employees dressed like absolute slobs. This was way before business casual was a thing and they were all fat fucks wearing sweats to work. Then the person you were bringing new equipment for was never at their desk so you had to wait for an hour or more for them to return.
With almost everyone now filing electronically, why wouldn’t you shrink the work force? You don’t need all those people to manually process paper returns anymore.
Looks like a few of those dumpy slobs got promoted to the enforcement wing.
That fat bald fuck that was first through the door? He would have been the “hot man meat” of the IRS center I went to.
Seriously, one of the reasons that I think those assholes got to wear sweats was because they don’t make business wear for 500lbers. I’m talking about the people so fat that they have to waddle instead of walk.
Disgusting but somehow that’s appropriate for a bunch of morally questionable tax collectors.
JFC, those incompetent idiots are scarier than an actual SWAT team.
“Lemme point my pistol right by the ear of my squad member.”
“Imma grip this pistol like it’s a glass of wine with my pinky raised.”
“I keep my cuffs in the front pockets of my too tight jeans for ease of access.”
Working an audit now, returns are filed electronically.
Auditor requested we send him PDF copies of the returns filed. He said it was because he cannot get good PDF copies internally.
w0t?
I mean, practically every piece of software I use produces high quality PDF exports. I think maybe MS Paint might not.
Let me go check.
Okay, MS Paint does not offer PDF as an export option.
This guy doesn’t know anything so maybe he is full of shit about the PDF thing.
Well, the IRS could be using a 1960s COBOL program on a mainframe, with some in-house cobbled together graphical front end that doesn’t do PDFs so well… Or his co-workers could be producing PDFs by printing them and scanning them in on a 72DPI scanner set to autocompress the image and emailing that. I wouldn’t rule it out.
So in amusing local things, the main escort forum in Romania is introducing a rule that every registered escort needs to send a photo with her face and id to verify she is more than 18 years old. Given the illegality and anonymity of the trade, this did not go down well among the escorts
Above eighteens who don’t look tired and used up hardest hit.
well that is where the ID kicks in.
How do you have registered escorts if being an escort is illegal?
I’m guessing it’s registered forum users who claim to be escorts.
Yeah, they probably have a lot of scammers or maybe even robbers who pose as escorts online.
well registered as in on the forum, like I am registered on glibertarians
there is a special payed account for escorts (or their pimp, depending ) different from the regular user accounts. They have access to special areas of the forum just for escorts. Or pimps. Or people pretending to be escorts. But many seem to be actual escorts .
today in political compass memes
https://twitter.com/ING2Firebrand/status/1560359413030043653
Romanian Escorts
Not a face pic to be seen. On the other hand, not a bra in sight either.
Uffda. That was supposed to be a reply to Pie’s other post just above.
Disappointing click
I don’t get it.
I am not sure you are supposed to get memes just vibe man ya know
here
https://twitter.com/lumpen_princess/status/1559847443570769920
I ran into someone’s incorrect opinion and now I’m irritated.
They are delusional and think it’s somehow appropriate to not have the second space after the tentence terminating punctuation. Two spaces demarcate the gap between sentences because we have overloaded the functionality of the other punctuation.
Watch, WordPress will eat all of my second spaces the way it eats tabs and other formatting. Bad WordPress, Bad!
Two spaces makes machine parsing easier.
You have to use non-breaking spaces. ←Like so.
I did not no a space goes after a tentence
I need a proofreader for my rants, I get it.
well I need a proofreader for my snark so yeah
I know we’ve all argued about this before but yeah, I’m in the two-spaces camp but stopped fighting it around the time HTML was invented.
An interesting hair style from 1894.
https://twitter.com/UmarBzv/status/1559740046185472000
gay
Proto-hipster. Yuck.
He’s just playing The Moon in his village mummery.
most dislike countries in each country
https://twitter.com/OCanonist/status/1559667917783834625
it seems not everyone hates America as is the narrative
I think they’re obviously wrong about the US. The correct answer is “Russia”.
Everyone hates America including Americans. Some hate other countries more.
IOW there are a lot of Muslim-majority countries.
The Africa part is pretty hilarious. Giant swathe of Israel haters. I wonder why some of them hate Russia, though?
I want to know what their data collection method was.
I’m going to guess twitter poll.
There is a map of ‘most disliked countries’ being shared widely on Twitter quoting ‘Alliance of Dem 2022’ as the source.
To be clear, this graphic is not based on our polling. We have never run a poll on most disliked countries.
https://twitter.com/AoDemocracies/status/1560227749767282688
probably nothing really just making shit up
So… ass-pull.
I would expect more regional rivalries in an actual poll. Especially across Africa where “Those guys who try to murder us every few years and we raid in between” are going to be higher on the minds of the people than some distant geopolitical figure.
At noon today I start vacation. I’m having trouble concentrating on work. Thank you for the links to keep me busy with, OMWC.
I thought you Americans did not do vacation, unlike us lazy Europeans
Mike didn’t say how long of a vacation. It may only be until Monday.
I’m trying to become more worldly.
Seriously, one of the reasons that I think those assholes got to wear sweats was because they don’t make business wear for 500lbers. I’m talking about the people so fat that they have to waddle instead of walk.
So what you’re saying is a big chunk of that budget increase will be going for chairs made of structural steel, capable of supporting at least 1000 pounds?
The Federal vaccine mandate will end Monday for all government employees, including the military.
So how are they going to fix all of those subjected to the experimental clot shot?
Who said anything about fixing?
My question was what will they do for all the members separated under the mandate? The response I got was that there’s a class action lawsuit pending in the lower courts and anyone who completed the religious request and had it signed by a chaplain will be a member of the class. They may look at allowing individuals who separated to be reinstated as well.
I suspect there’s other Glibs here who know more about that suit.
For the FAA the mandate was basically scrapped after that one injunction and since it was just veiled threats “you are still required!” but no enforcement. Even the testing regiment they wanted to put in place never got off the ground. I suspect the whole vaccinated employees still getting and possibly spreading covid thing was brought up with the agency counsel.
Trump hires attorneys like FNC hires hosts.
Trump’s attorney Alina Habba was on Newsmax with Rob Schmitt to discuss what could be unsealed and then redacted from the affidavit which led to the FBI’s raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, plus whether or not surveillance footage from the raid will be released to the public.
She looks like fun.
dayum
Habba-Habba.
Physicists have discovered an unexpected particle inside the proton. “It’s remarkable that even after all these decades of study, we’re still finding new properties of the proton,” says Juan Rojo, who led the work
https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1559934541262950400
All major scientific discoveries are announced on Twitter.
Interesting. I wonder if other experimental models might need to be changed to accomodate this–for instance other models that rely on observing a charm quark as the product of collision, but that weren’t developed with the knowledge that a proton contains one.
Taylor Lautner reveals that his fiancée Taylor Dome will take his last name and also be named Taylor Lautner.
https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1559950586891554817
Will she be taking his pronouns?
Trying to one-up George Foreman, huh?
That’s gonna be fun during the inevitable divorce court…
Constitutional scholarship
Jan. 6 taught us how fragile our republic is. It survived because a few stalwart Republican officials put country above party and rebuffed Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn a fair election. Don’t forget the Capitol police, who understood they were defending more than a building. Some lost their lives, and 140 were injured.
The Constitution does not defend itself. Walking out of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin famously quipped that the delegates had created “a republic, if you can keep it.”
Going forward, preserving the Constitution will require citizens to display their wholehearted commitment to it by voting for candidates who believe in a republic, not in a government where might makes right.
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On one side of today’s legal battle is the press. Its protections are enshrined in the First Amendment. News organizations want to see the Justice Department’s justification for searching Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8 to retrieve the top secret documents it alleges were stolen from the government.
In seeking the affidavit, the media is doing the job the Constitution gives it — to inform the people by keeping a watch on government.
As important as transparency in government is, the law also creates an opposite interest: grand juries’ obligation to investigate crime in secrecy at least until charges are filed. The reasons are compelling. Many alleged criminals under investigation would like to know who might have spilled the beans, and affidavits may expose their identity. Such disclosure can silence key witnesses and chill future confidential informants from coming forward.
Further, some targets of investigation want information about what investigatory routes to block.
The DOJ made the point in its court brief: “If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps.”
Let the accused defend themselves? That’s just stupid.
The interests of the press vs the interests of the government.
What about the interests of the people? Fuck them.
“The Constitution does not defend itself.”
Another in the line of “We had to destroy _____ in order to save it.”
We have to protect DEMOCRACY…
Which means that the people making this cry have to protect the status quo from the fucking unwashed rubes that have realized that not only is their government incompetent and run by incompetents, but that these fucks are actively doing things that will ruin the lives and livelihoods of the rubes.
It’s sad that I recognized Tribe’s style before clicking.
I’d love to have that asshat debate Robert Barnes on anything.
The unredacted affidavit will also likely show that this is a fishing expedition initiated by God knows who and facilitated by a complicit DOJ and FBI and we can’t have that.
No it will not. Anything that would show you how corrupt the government is will be “REDACTED” for national security reasons. All you will get is Evil Orange Man BAD!
What is this bullshit? Tribe is trying to establish that the press is a creation of government. The next logical step is an assertion that the government can regulate the press in service to that “job.”
Nothing exists if it is not created by government
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
What a steaming pile of dishonest horseshit…
“Some lost their lives.” Here we go again.
Conflict resolution by an independent authority helps keep a republic secure and its diverse population together.
Those are not Donald Trump’s goals. Even today, he aims for chaos around this hearing. His social media post on Tuesday demanded disclosure of a completely unredacted affidavit. He knows that that isn’t going to happen, and likely doesn’t want it to; the affidavit would surely underscore his potential guilt. His primary interests are in making himself look good, exploiting his followers’ sense of victimization, sowing discord and letting the chips — including those of disorder — fall where they may.
Fortunately, the Constitution is not a suicide pact, and the law does not require that a judge order disclosure of evidence that could derail a legitimate criminal investigation. That applies doubly to an investigation of someone who lost a free and fair election and had no right to take national security secrets to a private resort already penetrated by at least one suspected foreign agent.
That pretty well covers all the bases.
The Pres has ultimate power of classification and declassification by word and deed. Funny how all these articles leave this out.
More importantly is the fact he declassified these a long time ago, against council, when he realized the councilors were part of the bullshit, and the machine not only slow walked it all, but when forced, redacted all the things he wanted the dock declassified for: proving that the 3 letter agencies are corrupt.
Yep and also conveniently left out. They really do rely on and take advantage of the ignorance of their readers.
When there is no real free press and what you have in old legacy media is people willing to run psyops programming masquerading as news, basically telling the idiots that willingly consume that shit what to believe, you don’t really have to worry much about enough people realizing they are being played.
National security secrecy is intended to keep the public ignorant. Trust us.
Fortunately, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. It is a list of suggestions that Top Men can ignore when they conflict with what they want.
“Shocker! Dan Price, the founder of a payment processing company in Seattle, who made a name as a feminist boss, is now out as CEO and is charged with (sexual) assault after he tried to kiss a worker and “grabbed her throat when she rejected his advances”.”
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1560420208350986240
Every fucking time.
But he advanced social justice though so all is forgiven
Another “male feminist” is a shitbag. I had a shocked face somewhere…
Fashion Lady Eventi Triveneto, Miss Grand International Italy, Villa Italia PD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHzcwe81JgU
Che belleze….
Good morning, Old Man!
How would one prepare for such a thing? Get right with God? Kiss one’s ass goodbye?
I’m just gonna have another cup of coffee and hope for the best.
Oh, and listen to that song again. Good choice!
Now that I have a 10 week old kitten, I realize that getting a touchscreen laptop PC was not a great idea.
He loves to make it scroll.
So he sits on the keyboard and paws the screen?
Or next to the keyboard?
The laptop is propped up on a Logitech “Alto”, so he stands or sits next to it and paws the screen vigorously like he’s spinning the wheel on the Price is Right.
https://www.amazon.com/LOGITECH-Portable-Notebook-Keyboard-967684-0403/dp/B000LVKNN2
But you only get one or two spins of the big wheel. Your kitteh is cheating!
Good kitty!
Don’t let kitty bite the screen.
Has America collectively forgotten Lois Lerner?
Time to re-watch Remy’s “What Are the Chances?” (one of my favorites of his)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KohtsEmWY2w
WHO? [says everyone that could tell you everything you never wanted to know about either the Kardashians or the Dallas Cowboys]
Forgotten? Most probably never knew her in the first place.
there seems to be justice in the universe, even though it will be the common man that takes the brunt of this shitshow…
And Keynesianism seems to ruin everything for everyone …
This actually fits the Dynastic pattern.
After a long-running Dystasty, (in this case the Qing) if not overrun by an external Steppe Nomad peoples, there is a warring states/warlord period ended by a brutal regime (the CCP) that restores order that lasts for a handful of Emperors before a general uprising replaces it with a less harsh regime that starts out ethical and slowly decays over the next couple of centuries. Go Gristmill of History, Go!
In the long run, we’re all dead.
ZeroHedge? Is that you?
look sooner or later it will work we have to keep trying
“Twitter deciding to ban the phrase “groomer” before the phrase “MAP” (minor-attracted people) really tells you which team they’re playing for, doesn’t it?”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1559999947646402560
the media is doing the job the Constitution gives it
It’s the media’s job to spotlight the heroism and selfless devotion of our brave public servants in the face of authoritarianism and nihilistic anti-establishmentarianism.
LS Ranch | 52,695± Acres for sale in Crook County, Oregon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbyl7xJCs8w
In this video it says that 30k of the 50k acres are “forest service and BLM allotments” so my question is: can you count on that being your land in perpetuity or can things change?
Nope. It’s not the current owner’s land, they’ve only got 20K acres to sell.
In times past, I’d say you were pretty safe. Not anymore.
Henceforth the term “dog hairdresser” will be the accepted nomenclature.
Finished up my hate-watching of the series finale of Westworld.
What a steaming pile of shit that was.
I stopped at the end of the first season. I realized I didn’t care about the plight of some Synths who hadn’t been properly reformatted, and the people were either untinteresting or… well, they were all uninteresting.
I should have stopped.
Was okay with season one…and yeah, glad I stopped there.
The rebuilding of the Madame without the shutoff device after the fire told me that the Synth personalities are just software downloaded from a central store. The fact that they’re retaining fragments outside of the current personality programming told me that some ‘genius’ decided that a full disk image was the appropriate reload of the software to the hardware chassis. If they’d simply recoded to load only the active program, the whole personality problem would have gone away, without any pointless interviews of the software. This would also make the reloads faster.
Proper IT processes would have prevented all of the problems of the series.
Of course, it would have required enforcing the principle of least access on their chief designer.
Even the data corporate wanted to get out of the facility didn’t need the convoluted processes used. If it fits in the head of a Synth, then they have data stores that would fit in a briefcase with sufficient capacity. Just do a site visit, copy to the datastore and carry it off site. It does belong to the company, after all.
Season one was the full story arc; adding seasons meant “oh shit, what story do we tell now”.
Also the whole run of one story arc simultaneously in different timelines is annoying cause its so poorly done. Witcher is also guilty of that.
Oh, I got the impression that the showrunners thought themselves so very clever for doing that. It was their ‘Big Reveal’ item.
I found it annoying.
I should say that I do give props to the special effects department. I only noticed a number of effects shots as such in retrospect, which is exactly how it should be.
I smelled the stench coming off it a mile away and decided to do something else.
Here’s one of those essays that I reread every so often. The Myth of the Rule of Law by John Hasnas
Specifically, I intend to establish three points: 1) there is no such thing as a government of law and not people, 2) the belief that there is serves to maintain public support for society’s power structure, and 3) the establishment of a truly free society requires the abandonment of the myth of the rule of law.
JFC, what planet does this guy live on?
It’s take a glib to read that article and think he’s being too optimistic.
Glibs don’t just black pill, we vantablack pill.
https://www.surreynanosystems.com/about/vantablack
He wouldn’t be a libertarian if he wasn’t autistic.
Slavery
Closing your laptop at 5 p.m. Doing only your assigned tasks. Spending more time with family. These are just some of the common examples used to define the latest workplace trend of “quiet quitting.”
Some experts say it’s a misnomer and should really be defined as carving out time to take care of yourself.
Ed Zitron, who runs a media consulting business for tech startups and publishes the labor-focused newsletter Where’s Your Ed At, believes the term stems from companies exploiting their employees’ labor and how these businesses benefit from a culture of overwork without additional compensation.
WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
Millennials continue to act like they invented slacking.
Nothing new under the sun. It’s cute when generations ‘come up with’ old ideas.
Balancing work and life has never been an issue before (current year).
It’s funny how “I’m not on call 24/7 so I’m going to work regular hours instead of stressing myself working past them” is considered slacking, and then the same people calling them slackers say not to be surprised if you get reduced hours or fired. I didn’t realize agreeing to be employed by a company means I have to be there all the time or standing next to my phone (unless that is, in fact, in the contract), so maybe threatening people with reduced hours or being fired because they’re doing only exactly the work you hired them for is dumb? This idea that I should do a bunch of extra stuff to keep my job is stupid. Sure, if layoffs or reductions need to happen, don’t be surprised when someone else who goes above and beyond stays and I don’t, but harping on everyone to do that is silly.
The term “quiet quitting” is stupid, but let’s not act like employees aren’t being asked to work well beyond normal hours and be on call. If their work is meeting deadlines,l and objectives, there’s no reason for them to stay any longer but a lot of employers act like they should.
No, it’s not new, but these idiots have to write about something.
I have told my employer that I will work for exactly the amount of time I feel I am being paid for. If they expect more, they better make it worth that extra time.
I’m inclined to agree.
Let’s face it, the ones they’re referring to aren’t you’re standard office drones. They’re the people who previously went above and beyond for their employers. Otherwise, it’s business as usual. It’s the people who previously busted their tails and previously did more than they were expected to and more than their job descriptions entailed who doing just what the job requires whose “quitting” is being noticed. Well, the obvious question is what message has corporate America been sending them? From what I can tell, it’s mostly one of dismissal and contempt. They’re not given favorable treatment for promotions or raises. Their assumption of added duties is treated as the new default. And all the glory and rewards are heaped on the mediocrities best able to mouth the imbecilic word salad of ESG. Oh, and by the way, the actual heavy lifting for the mediocrities’ word salad, yeah, that gets dumped on them. And, post-COVID, we’re seeing companies that tossed out good, competent workers because they wouldn’t get the shot, all of a sudden telling everyone they have to come into the office, not because there’s any real business value to their being in the office, but because management wants to encourage “culture” and “incorporating new employees”. A reasonable person will ask himself, “Am I going to give up my life for that?
And then they wonder why that weird dood in accounting is now in charge of promotions.
I suspect that if it were that weird dood in Accounting who was still in charge of promotions, this wouldn’t be an issue. Instead, it’s the Karen from HR who leaves every day at 5:30 and doesn’t think your 50 hour work week really counts for all that much. Certainly, it’s nowhere near as important as the upcoming Diversity, Inclusion and Equity seminar.
“The term ‘quiet quitting’ is so offensive, because it suggests that people that do their work have somehow quit their job, framing workers as some sort of villain in an equation where they’re doing exactly what they were told,” Zitron said.
Employers benefit financially from workers doing extra work without compensation and it is reasonable for employees to push back against that, he added.
“It’s part of an overwhelming trend of pro-boss propaganda, trying to frame workers that don’t do free work for their bosses as somehow stealing from the company,” Zitron said.
For employers that are dealing with workers who may be exhibiting signs of quiet quitting, Zitron has one simple message for them: Pay them for extra work.
You know what would fix this? Piecework rates. Fee for service subcontractors.
I can’t wait to hear what those “labor advocates” think about that.
“But then how am I supposed to be paid for doing nothing!”
My teens are in the ‘we will do the bare minimum’ stage of their working lives. Employers in kind, have reduced their hours to one 5 hour shift a week. When they complain to me, I point that out and they scoff at it and its “no the manager is a dick!”.
This was my 20 pieces of flair story apparently
Off to the west
TexasNY town ofEl PasoRochester!Sorry.
(my hometown)
You poor bastard.
Give the finger to my Alma Mater (RIT) while you’re in the area.
I have been to Rochester twice in my life.
Possibly two times too many.
I get to wear my new leisure suit to the bar and WebDom promises me that this will be an absolute pussy magnet. “Dad, your main problem will be allocating your Hot Man-Meat self to the hungering female hordes who will beset you.” Well, she didn’t say “hordes” or “beset” since them’s fancy words and she don’t use fancy words, at least not since she got that last tattoo, but it was the clear meaning. Anyway, this is going to be great and I’m likely to begin tomorrow’s Links with, “I always thought you made these letters up, but here’s what happened to me…” followed by a story with several girls, a midget, and an amputee.
A living Leisure Suit Larry.
I’ll be gone this weekend. I’ll have to go back through posts once I get back to see the stories.
Have fun!