Back in black!
The Browns took out the Steelers. Trubisky is not a good quarterback. The Pac12 is salty. Look at some other, lesser, conference maps, chief. Were you complaining for those schools out of the goodness of your heart or are you just griping now because your wallet is gonna get thinner? And I’m about to depart in an hour or so to a stadium UCLA will likely see in a few years to watch the Buckeyes take on Wisconsin tomorrow night. If any of you are in Columbus, let me know and we can grab a beer or two tonight or tomorrow at the tailgate. And that’s it for sports.
Know your job, dick.
And this is why this guy should have never had the job. The Constitution was written in black and white. It’s a rigid document, you fucking clown. Rulings should adhere to the letter of the document. If society changes, the constitution has an amendment process to change with it. Loser.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Go fuck yourself. And I mean that will all due respect to the writer of this trash.
“Here you go, crazy kid. I won’t ask or look to see why this thing weighs 30 pounds.” What a colossal failure. Not to mention the long-term failure in allowing this kid to remain in school after his countless threats and obviously crazy behavior that should have sent off alarm bells more than once.
Hoisted!
Here’s some local news. What a maroon. Not that the behavior should even be illegal, but it is kind of funny when one of them gets hoisted on his own petard.
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” Of course, it’s not 1984 and the internet lasts forever. But the attempt is still chilling and comically pathetic.
This is unnecessary. At least it would be if these assclowns respected private property rights.
Meeeeee-ooooooooow! This catfight doesn’t mean much, sadly. I’m sure whoever is in that position will neuter the police and ensure the city continues its decline into lawlessness.
Huh, I had no idea this was a thing. And here I’ve been telling my kids to watch their hands when I didn’t need to. Also, this is silly. Also also, we need to stop bubble wrapping everything in the world.
After all those negative links (for which I apologize), I owe you something upbeat and happy. Hope that fits the bill. Same for this one. That’ll get the blood flowing.
Now go enjoy this Friday and have a fantastic weekend. Go Bucks! Beat Wisconsin!
Breyer openly admitting he is a political animal who cares more about his popular image than the rule of law. It’s nice when they tear off the mask.
Living constitution under attack by people that claim the attackers hate the constitution because, well, reasons. Reality is that some people understand the constitution, and some want it to be living so it doesn’t interfere with their agenda to grow the power of the mandarinate.
That’s what Justice Taney thought too; look, I’ll just push my own opinions here and settle the issue once and for all!
Good morning everyone. It’s chilly here in Western NY and all my long pants and coats are in a storage unit back in The Rockaways. Sigh… I guess I’ll do our very first (of many) bonfires of combustible trash. Go take on the day vatos!
Orale!
“Not to mention the long-term failure in allowing this kid to remain in school after his countless threats and obviously crazy behavior that should have sent off alarm bells more than once.”
Is it a failure if that’s what they want?
Schools have a zero tolerance policy regarding denying education to trouble makers. Locally they have an alternative education school for the worst cases.
School shootings seem the best way to pass more gun laws.
And give us insufferable twits who get into Harvard when they never could have otherwise and fail to start pillow companies or something.
Only extremists make pillows.
At least with the Parkland shooter, they kept him around so as not to send proud BIPOCs into the “school to prison pipeline.” This kid was a racial untermench.
Thanks, Obama!
whaddup doh’
“Here’s some local news. What a maroon. Not that the behavior should even be illegal, but it is kind of funny when one of them gets hoisted on his own petard.”
When they do stories like this, I wonder why they never put pictures of the significant other in the story. And of the hooker. I bet a lot of people would feel obliged to give the John a pass if they see he is shackled to a battleaxe. And to get ticked if his choice of extra curricular activities is fugly.
All men pay for sex. All..
Some also pay for the partner to leave after the sex.
And of the hooker
Because other businesses pay for advertising.
It must be fun being a vice cop — all the drugs and hookers you want, for free.
I do love that places in TX still use the hamburglar suits.
Not another victim of the old sex for security scam!
Technically, isn’t it a “manufactured sound” if it’s from an ultrasound? A stethoscope or microphone would be different.
An ultrasound is basically just a very sensitive well calibrated microphone at the heart of it, isn’t it? Or something in that vein anyway.
Careful, Swiss’s blood may start to boil.
We can’t always worry about his feelings on everything. Otherwise this place will just end up as an echo chamber
Ultrasound isn’t audible. It’s used for imaging.
In ultrasound, no one can hear you scream.
The WaPo fact checker said that Abrams was a hundred and eleventy percent correct, because the ultrasound is just bouncing off of electricity.
That’s why bats don’t fly into power lines!
SCIENCE
Yeah, a process that uses sound to generate images somehow magically is being spoofed by electricity in the mother’s womb… I guess the EV types should start researching how to get more preggers to milk for electricity to power their cars?
This is how the Matrix gets started
Well when a SC Justice says something like:
Can we really blame fact checkers for also being technically illiterate?
Maybe if they wrote 20 computer programs? Fuck I haven’t heard of anyone writing a program for 10 years at least.
We need DR. SCIENCE Fauci to postpone his retirement until we get this lack of knowledge fixed.
I don’t understand the reference to computer programs at all. What is he talking about?
I took it as his bewailing that you can do flowchart / process based decisions based on the Constitution — “If scenario FOO, then decision BAR depending on BAZ” kind of things. Hence you could reduce courts to a set of computer programs — feed in the problem, get back the “constitutional” solution. Too many corner cases and chaos in real life.
I mean, he’s not wrong — until you got something like true AI, covering all the nuances of a problem isn’t going to be doable with a decision tree and hence no program would work. But it is kind of a strange (dumb) analogy since no part of human society works that way and it doesn’t really obviate sticking to the literal contract for the government to exist from the sovereign states as written instead of finding penumbras and shadows in clauses (that give us crap like Wickard… well, penumbras and naked threats from the Executive branch and all…).
CAN’T do flowchart decisions, gorram my lack-of-proofing-until-AFTER-posting…
OK, still seems like a weird reference. And probably a strawman argument, too, because I doubt any of the SC justices are advocating for anything remotely like that.
I thinks it’s a reference to George Bush being amazed by scanners at the grocery store.
Good morning! And while it is a great morning and I’m planning on a wonderful evening, kindly indulge me as I begin the Work Day o’Rage:
All you metric boosters who claim that metric is better because it uses nice round numbers, why in the absolute fuck does this job require a 0.9mm allen wrench? 0.9 is not a round number.
Now I’m off to thread four 22ga wires though a 1cm conduit that already has a1/8″ tube inside it. And there are two 90 degree bends in it.
Out of curiosity, how much voltage can 22ga carry? I know that telephony uses it to carry 47vdc, but can you safely do 120vac?
The voltage capacity is determined by the insulation and spacing, not the size.
Maximum current for 22ga is around 7 amps, but I would reduce that figure in a conduit.
-48VDC nominal, usual these days is more around -52vdc
Yes, there is no doubt about what you believe.
It’s more about what they want others to believe and at what time. Always for some other nefarious purpose…
On the other hand, she didn’t claim the vaccines work!
And I believe that antibiotics work, so they must work for every application. It’s science.
You know what? We need to start a rumor that the new variants of the Rona are caused by over masking. The new strains are becoming mask resistant. To stop this we need to stop over masking. Only masks prescribed by doctors should be used.
I’m going to remember that line.
Do you believe in life after love? Do you believe in magic in a young girls heart? That’s all it takes bud.
“Huh, I had no idea this was a thing. And here I’ve been telling my kids to watch their hands when I didn’t need to. Also, this is silly. Also also, we need to stop bubble wrapping everything in the world.”
There is a massive battle between the universe producing idiots and the people trying to idiot proof the universe. So far the universe is winning hands down.
They better also remove car doors. I would suggest that fingers slammed in a car door hurt way more than fingers pinched in a car window.*
*My kid sister might disagree after that one time I managed to get her fingers in a car window while I pulled on the manual window crank. Don’t feel too bad for her, I am sure my ass hurt more than her fingers after getting a spanking from Dad when came back to the car from the store to find his Darling Daughter screaming with her tiny fingers wiggling out the window.
If you make it idiot-proof, they’re just going to build a better idiot.
Also because the regulators got their knickers in a twist any time that Tesla finds any kind of “safety” related issue and updates it via its regular OTA software updates it now has to put these in as a formal “recall” with fedgov.
In the old days like a window reversing with 15lbs of force instead of 12lbs of force as specified Tesla would have just fixed it. However, for something escaping me DC claimed the Tesla tried to keep them in the dark about something safety related and fined them. I believe Tesla decided to bury them in paper as result. NHTSA likely isn’t equipped to deal with the new OTA world so I actually think this is kind of funny.
The Pac12 is salty.
I hate everybody involved. I hate the Pac12 commissioner for the bitchy letter. I hate the schools for selling out. I hate the B1G for thinking that I give half a shit about a UCLA v. Buttgers conference game. I hate the SEC for setting the standard at 16 teams. And I hate the NCAA for turning FBS into a semi-pro league.
The problem is the NCAA doesn’t run the show – the TV networks do. If the NCAA was smart, they would’ve instituted a playoff system and killed the bowl system.
Yes to all that. Also:
I hate the NCAA for basing their playoffs on a popularity contest instead of conference championships.
I also hate the ADs and coaches for scheduling like pussies. PAC12 teams have struggled to get home-and-home series with quality SEC and Big10 teams. The Nick Sabans would rather play home games against Utah State and LA Monroe than commit to traveling to the Rose Bowl or Coliseum for an early season game. And why not? Not like they get penalized in the rankings for playing patsies.
Those are the two big reasons UCLA and USC are jumping ship.
it’s about the money. Not about any kind of real championship thing.
Look at it that way, and it become clear why the idiocy exists & persists.
Because it’s a popularity contest, sports tv and radio guys can prattle on for hours about which team is theoretically better. I guess that’s good them. I quickly lose interest and tune out of the conversations and the overhyped games.
I can’t be bothered to begin with because the whole thing is a fucking sham.
“Sports” in general is still in asterisk mode* thanks to plague insanity.
I don’t know why I bother with any of it.
*As in, these results are bogus
Any FBS team that plays a FCS team should be disqualified from post season play.
☝️
And if they lose, they get dropped to the FCS.
For-eh-vur
I wish to subscribe to your sports channel.
I also hate the football viewership that wants playoffs, championships, and generally can’t accept traditional bowl matchups with a meaningless media anointed “champion”.
Morning, Sloopy.
Re: Return of the Masks — This should be shoved down the throat of every mask mandate twit until they understand how they were played.
Re: MI kid — yeah, I’m really loathe to go preemptive psych evaluations on people (for what I think are obvious reasons around here) — but the whole “the thoughts won’t stop” and what sounds like “BLOOD! BLOOD!!!!” notes were kind of a big red flag that merited a little professional checking and keeping him off campus until that was done.
“I’m shocked, SHOCKED that there is prostitution going on here!” … “Your Candy, sir.” (Hey, even if NO ONE laughed at my joke yesterday, I still find it funny… grumble.)
I hope Abrams keeps running her idiotic mouth. Not that Kemp is great from what I can tell (not living in GA right now, unfortunately and all) — but he’s tolerable enough. And the more she bombs, the more chance there is for Warnock to get low turnout / lose to Walker as well. And I really want the Dems to lose the Senate and the House to stem the current tide of idiocy.
Well, I *want* them to be repudiated by the electorate in such a massive bloodbath that all their stupidity is looked upon as the foul sludge it is for seven generations, but that is almost certainly not happening — so I’ll take a Senate flip, please!
Re: Beetlejuice and the permitting — meh — it reads that the permitting is more for street closures for multiple restaurants to make sort of an “Outdoor Food Fair” type atmosphere (local town actually did that a few times over the last couple of years — but it was the whole (2 whole blocks! 😉 ) downtown and just about all the restaurants still standing). For that, I can see coordinating with the city for the street closure, and if that’s all it is and this is just adding it as a “normal” option to request, it doesn’t seem too silly. Being Chicago, I’m sure there is beak wetting or other stupid crap I’m not seeing in the article.
I am all for idiots that want to do it, wearing their masks. I don’t care how many and in what conditions. But i do draw the line at government trying to use this to create some kind of racket they can abuse.
Somebody needs to tell that writer that “viruses” is a perfectly cromulent word.
“I think that single-layer cloth masks really don’t provide much protection,” Ray said.
It’s not protection they’re after, it’s social signalling.
Right.
IOW, surgical doesn’t work either for respiratory virus.
So we are left with N95 or KN95 (maybe) that cannot be reused and must be worn at all fucking times. They also provide protection to the wearer, so none of this “my mask protects you” bullshit. Yes, mandates are not necessary.
Masks, assuming* arguendo that they work, were always a collective action problem. The supposed benefits of having everyone mask up only works if everyone has the same belief in the horrors of covid. If someone didn’t worry about covid, for whatever reason, then they were not going to take masking seriously, and would slip it under their nose, wear it loosely, or whatever.
*I know, I am making an ass out of you and me. I know.
Interesting…
But it did take 69 attempts to do.
That’s a big bullet
That made it more like artillery, where you’re lobbing it in
Nice they noted that, it was certainly my thought.
Field artillery at that distance.
nice.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/09/08/wildlife-mating-season-in-wyoming-tourists-warned-not-to-approach-pet-saddle-animals/
Too many idiots get their beliefs about nature from idiotic Disney movies. They deserve getting their asses kicked for being that stupid.
As I recall, this guy had sprayed himself down with deer urine during rut season as a stunt. It didn’t work out the way he had planned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGGbozilko
Moose look gentle because they normally see humans as insignificant. Alaska has signs warning tourists because someone wants to get a picture standing next to a moose. It typically doesn’t end well.
I understand they sometimes bite, yeah.
A moose bit my sister once.
Avoid moose. Instead hang out with llamas.
Caaarrl!
If you’ve ever seen a moose up close, it’s hard to over state how stupid and naive this would be, they’re big!
So you can break the record by hitting the target in less than 69 attempts?
Not a real record unless you can put 3 consecutive shots on target.
Well, the earth’s rotation did come into play.
Or unless you do it cold. First shot down the tube that day.
It’s still an impressive feat, but I wouldn’t mind seeing some generally accepted standards for these kind of records.
My buddy made the barrel for that gun.
This article has more details and pics.
Wow, time of flight ~25 seconds, Rise above line of sight 2500 ft, yeah that is more like artillery. A bit aggravating that you really had to dig into the article to find the cartridge, 416 Barrett.
Nice! I’ll be perusing this in-depth later.
“Here you go, crazy kid. I won’t ask or look to see why this thing weighs 30 pounds.” What a colossal failure. Not to mention “Here you go, crazy kid. I won’t ask or look to see why this thing weighs 30 pounds.” What a colossal failure. Not to mention the long-term failure in allowing this kid to remain in school after his countless threats and obviously crazy behavior that should have sent off alarm bells more than once.
I’ll take the contrarian view on this. My backpack easily weighed 30 pounds. Some of the threats and crazy behaviors listed were looking at pictures of guns, pictures of bullets, and writing depressing poems. How many teenagers would get caught in a dragnet if they started red flagging looking at pictures of guns and teenage depression? The phrases are more disturbing, but there’s not much context. Teenagers used to be able to bring guns to school for hunting season/target practice and now we have elementary school kids being suspended for chewing their poptarts in the shapes of guns.
The best answer is don’t send your kid off to a government institution.
Public schools have gone from being a nuisance to being destructive. Especially in urban areas.
Yeah. A couple of text books are probably heavier than a loaded pistol.
Agree with you. I’d be in a psych facility or something instead of happily married, raising a family… Precrime is an evil idea.
Now I’m off to thread four 22ga wires though a 1cm conduit that already has a1/8″ tube inside it. And there are two 90 degree bends in it.
Use the core of a bicycle cable as a fish tape.
‘Orning ‘ordles.
First round, decent — no chance of getting near Hype’s Challenge as usual, but I’ll take a +2.
Main round…. sucked. Not quite to Chumptown, but sure saw the exit ramp for it.
Daily Duotrigordle #205
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Ah, dammit — hit post without thinking. Meant to strip out the Constitution class computer consoles there. My apologies.
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On fire this week, my guesses will never be this good again.
You folks are really putting me to shame this morning. Good job (?) 😉
Daily Duotrigordle #205
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Anybody made plans for the weekend yet?
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Switched to expert mode, in some ways, it is easier.
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The crooks attempts to confound inflation for the serfs is not working. The quick way to address this is to point out to any idiot claiming inflation is steady, that at the current rate in 7 years all prices will be double of what they are today. That registers with even the dumbest of economic illiterate cuntes.
GF was complaining last night that a dozen eggs was up to $5.50.
Wow
$3.17 here this week.
The shortages are getting more and more irritating.
My neighbor has too many chickens and shares his bounty with us. Those fresh eggs are insanely better. That being said, my kid eats eggs like crazy because he does body building so I need to buy about a dozen more eggs a week. And yes, the price has nearly doubled from where it stood 18 months ago already. At least this is not one of the food items that sporadically isn’t in stock these days.
Chicken feed has risen from $17 a bag to $25 a bag.
My neighbor has a relative that works at some bakery and gets the discarded older bread cheap for him to feed his chickens. They also have plenty of foraging space here (well, winter is gonna crimp that, but he has plans) so food is not an issue.
At least this is not one of the food items that sporadically isn’t in stock these days.
I haven’t seen the higher quality eggs that I usually get at Sam’s in 3 months. The low quality ones are in varying levels of stock. Sometimes they have a whole pallet full, sometimes only a couple dozen cartons.
Find a local farmer. There are no store bought eggs that are worth a damn.
What happened between Q1 and Q2 last year that tanked grain products prices?
Breyer said it was a “very frustrating” spot to be in as he found himself in dissent in a number of historically consequential cases where he said the majority side (conservatives – although the retired justice did not use that description) was unwilling to bend.
Cry some more, loser.
How often did you bend when you were in the majority?
“New Jersey army reservist, 32, who ‘grew a Hitler mustache and was known as a Nazi sympathizer’ is jailed for four years for storming the Capitol on January 6
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, 32, from Colts Neck, New Jersey, was sentenced for the felony of obstructing of an official proceeding, as well as a slew of misdemeanor charges.
Those charges include entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or destructive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11241195/Alleged-Nazi-sympathizer-gets-four-years-prison-U-S-Capitol-attack.html
Sounds excessive, but I would have shaved the mustache.
Same sentencing as the people who stormed the Kavanaugh hearings, right?
How about those two nutbags that cornered Flake in an elevator and started screaming at him?
That’s different. Those brave women were heroes.
USMNT defense is horrible, but saved by an offside call.
Or maybe they aren’t saved.
Wish they’d just stick to pushing out Silver Eagles.
Read it as US Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I’m flying to Vegas and driving around Nevada and Utah next week. Long overdue trip. Going to not worry about anything but coyotes and armadillos for a while.
Trust me — keep an eye out for deer, especially around dawn. That little love tap a few weeks back cost me $3k.
0:2 to Japan?!
And it looks like we used the European-based players. 🙄
Here we go again *sigh*
Looks like right back is a huge problem – both goals from where a right back should be defending, and neither of ours did much.
Never mind not a single shot on goal.
Not inviting Pefok to camp is criminal.
Well in fairness, how many times did the ball make it anywhere near the forward line? The problem was the backline and midfield.
I think that stems from Gregg never settling on an 11 and letting them play together. Every international window was a “trial” for this guy or that guy.
“US watchdog admits $46 BILLION in pandemic unemployment benefits was stolen by fraudsters using the SSNs of DEAD people and prisoners – year after saying it was just $16billion”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11241391/Federal-watchdog-admits-45-6-BILLION-pandemic-unemployment-benefits-stolen-fraudsters.html
Your tax dollars at work.
And they could have spent that on weapons for Ukraine instead! :sniff: Those poor, poor defense contractors…
I’m sure they have enough ink for the printers. It may raise inflation an inch.
Vocabulary updates, from stories in my alumni magazine:
1. DEI (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in hiring) is now DEIB: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging.
2. Neurotypical: in a story about working to alleviate the effects of autism. An child with autism was playing alongside a neurotypical child.
Will B push out DEI like T is pushing out LGB?
Shouldn’t it be child with neurotypicalism? People first language, people.
Since we are doing words:
Epistemological impugnment: A form of intellectual bullying that involves declaring or implying that a claim should not be believed, not on the basis of logic or evidence showing it to be false, but by tainting the source with real or imagined failings in some other area. This often manifests as unsubstantiated allegations and guilt-by-association.
Isn’t that just a fancier way of saying ‘ad hominem argument’?
There’s a “center for autism” here that runs a bunch of scammy radio ads, informing us of a constantly increasing autism rate? In just a few years it’s gone from 1 in 69 to 1 in 44 (I think; I instinctively reach for the buttons to change stations when their ads come on).
In just a few years it’s gone from 1 in 69 to 1 in 44
40 years ago, high functioning autistics were just quirky. It had to be severe to get the official label.
I was tested in 1975/76. The diagnosis was “eh, borderline, but we aren’t going to put him in special ed. So throw him in the gifted class and hope for the best.”
I found this out from my Mom **after** my daughter was diagnosed.
She is me turned up to 11. And both good ways and bad ways.
1 in 69 to 1 in 44
It is not easy to get an autism diagnosis. It’s not like getting your kid an ADHD diagnosis so Mom can start popping Adderall five minutes later. The closest specialist able to diagnose autism is an hour and half away from me, has a 14 month waitlist, and costs $700 to administer the ADOS if you have private insurance. Parents aren’t exactly lining up for this as the newest fad. No parent, outside a few munchausen by proxy wackos, wants an autism diagnosis.
While part of the increase can be attributed to change in diagnostic criteria, particularly making the autism spectrum an umbrella term that covers Asperger’s and PDD-NOS, there is strong evidence that overall rates in autism have increased significantly over the past 20 years. It’s likely that autism covers multiple conditions that present similarly. Some are genetic and we would expect the incidence rate to remain relatively stable. But if some have an environmental cause, then a change in environmental conditions could easily trigger the spike seen.
There’s also cultural changes. Child rearing has changed dramatically over the past sixty years.
Neurological inflammation with a variety of causes
And most pediatricians have their heads fully inserted in their asses when it comes to the condition.
No parent, outside a few munchausen by proxy wackos, wants an autism diagnosis.
A diagnosis gets support services at school and insurance coverage for therapy.
“insurance coverage for therapy.”
In the best case. My daughter was diagnosed in Jan of 2018, my insurance didn’t add autism therapy coverage until Jan of 2019.
So we did as much ABA therapy as we could afford in 2018. Which was like 8 hrs per week. In Jan of 2019, it went to 30 hrs per week. She completed it in July of 2019.
The doc for my daughter had a shorter wait list, about 6 months (this was 4 years ago). We were 2 hours away. We got put on the “we will be there in 2 hrs if anyone cancels” list, and got a call about 2 weeks later. I told my boss, “If you see me run out the door, this is why.” Fortunately, we got the call on a Friday afternoon for a Monday appointment, so I was able to let him know in advance as opposed to sprinting out and yelling in his office as I went by.
I have seen soooooo many people match some physiological/psychological/character traits to an autism meme and say I’M AUTISTIC! that it’s become laughable. Some people are just weird people. We used to call them introverts or eccentric. Anything to justify why they weren’t the cool kid in high school.
I was a cool kid in high school (looking back I see that now, but it wasn’t hard since there were only 20 of us), but I mostly turned my nose up at the things the other cool kids did because I liked my little interests better. I don’t feel a need to justify that with a label.
Why do people feel they need a label?
Mind you, I do believe autism and the spectrum exists and is real. But I feel like it’s being cheapened.
Yeah, I have ADHD. My mom’s rigid OCD kept that in line mostly, and I struggled, but I did go years coping with the downsides. I only care about a diagnosis so I can get meds that make my less difficult than it has to be.
That poor neurotypical kid doesn’t have any victimhood points. Sucks to be him.
“Life is complex, life changes,” Breyer added. “And we want to maintain insofar as we can – everybody does – certain key moral political values: democracy, human rights, equality, rule of law, etc. To try to do that in an ever-changing world. If you think you can do that by writing 16 computer programs – I just disagree.”
Consistent principles do not bend with every passing breeze, you simpering boob.
It does when your goal is just to use these terms as a shield to do all sorts of corrupt and criminal shit to keep and expand your power over the serf class.
Muh democracy!
“Democracy” isn’t a value, its a process.
Under current linguistic rules, “Democracy” is “shit I like.”
“Fascism” is “shit I don’t like.”
Ron Klain is running the country. If he really believes the bullshit he sputtered this is not good.
What did he sputter? I missed it.
He sputtered about the disastrous situation Biden inherited failing to recognize that it was prolonged deep blue lockdown policies that caused all of it.
We have a sick, sad situation where no one in leadership will take the blame or responsibility for anything.
That’s by design.
You do realize that all of todays conflicts are precisely between the people in charge that want nobody to be able to hold them accountable for their actions and the people that say that is a non-starter option, right?
The greatest threat to the inept and insane credentialed elite class is the serfs holding them accountable. That’s the reason they have taken off the gloves and are resorting to criminal activity to stop the people that want accountability at any and all costs.
I really, really want accountability. Oh no, I guess I’m an enemy now.
I am seriously more concerned with who is running Ron Klain. Is it Valery Jarret? And if it is here or not, are they getting their orders from the crime syndicate leadership (dnc), the Obamas, the Clintons, or the CCP?
“I’ll say it again: It shouldn’t be harder to obtain an abortion than an AR-15.”
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1572947287361585153
CWAA
I can’t get an abortion at all!
Statements like this make me think I need an AR-platform rifle. Or at least something in 223/556, the gap between 9mm/45 and 308/30-06 is a yawning chasm, waiting to be filled.
You absolutely do. And there ain’t nothing wrong with entry level Palmetto State stuff.
https://gunshowtrader.com/gun-shows/oaks-philadelphia-gun-show/
Oaks gun show next month too.
I am so split between poverty pony and gucci rifle. I do think, given how much I actually shoot, the best compromise is to go low-ish end, slap on a red dot that I already own, and plunk the rest into ammo and range time
^^ that’s what I did. Granted, range time has been lacking of late.
AR-15s are that easy to get in California and New York?
If you don’t mind 10-round mags and a weird sharkfin grip plus 200 dollars more than the price in the rest of the nation, sure CA is fine. Also you need to pay a bunch of extra fees and wait 10 extra days for pickup. NY, idk.
Teens can legally buy an AR15 without their parents permission or notification?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“The NYC Dept of Education put this book about drag queens as recommended reading for 3-year-olds.”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1573123511157403648
Is it a pop-up book?
Euphemism?
By the way what’s with all of the hate for Shirley Muldowney. I may have to get a “my Drag Queen is named Cha-Cha T-Shirt”
I imagine it is more of a taped back book.
Good morning, Sloop!
The fetal heartbeat foolishness just tells me that they know goddamn well it’s a baby.
I never worried about the kids getting caught in the car window, but I am always careful about the dogs. I didn’t trust the auto stop feature.
After all those negative links (for which I apologize)…
Fuck, you aren’t kidding. Ramones help, though.
it’s not accidental that they always feel compelled to massage language to hide the real evil they are doing Tundra. You only feel the need to do that when you know when regular people come to understand what you want and what you are doing they will recoil in disgust and anger.
Them little bitchez wanted it!
“What you do is what I learned from (Justice) Arthur Goldberg when I was his law clerk, and I’ve tried to live up to it. And I learned it as well from Sen. (Ted) Kennedy, when I worked for him,” Breyer said. “You do your best, you know, and maybe people will agree. And maybe they don’t. And maybe you’ll win. And maybe you’ll lose. And then what you do is you think about it for a while.”
You decide on your preferred outcome, and then diligently work backwards into a legal justification for it?
Jeebus. He admits that one of his role models is Ted Kennedy?
Probably a fun guy to party with as long as you don’t need a ride home.
Yeah, I dunno. He might want you to join him in a waitress sandwich.
How many young women has Breyer drowned? Ted would be disappointed in him.
You know your destination, and even if you drive off a bridge — you make sure you get home?
I still have no idea how London Breed got elected. Especially in a city that is synonymous with gay culture.
Who knew there were so many Breeders there.
Provincetown exists to make SF look straight.
“and the internet lasts forever”
Does it though? With Google et al disappearing search results and at least one of the major archiving sites deleting archives I’m not sure that’s the case.
Hard choices. Real solutions.
The D.C. Council this week, at Bowser’s urging, voted to create a government office that will help provide asylum seekers with food, legal services and temporary shelter, among other things.
Why didn’t anybody think of this sooner?
There’s no crisis when literally millions are streaming over the Southern border… but a city of over 8 million is tragically brought to its knees by 2500 people arriving on buses.
And what of the homeless problem?
Breyer sounds like a whiny little bitch.
He always has. And his opinions were trash. Thank God he’s gone.
I only wish he’d have changed places with RBG. I’d have enjoyed seeing how she acted during Dobbs and what her opinion would have been.
Uffda. NoDak is even worse than I thought. A woman is being criminally charged for going to a bar with an African American!
Wait a minute…… Oh, I see. Nevermind, it was a raccoon she went to the bar with.
It is nice to know that now that they have run over all the GOP extremists in the state, the cops can focus on the real criminals.
The article couldn’t provide me the reason she thought this was a good move… I remain curious about what the thinking behind that act is.. Maybe she had some revelation about how to make sure this helped her get the right kind of gal or guy?
It’s NoDakTown Alex.
Seriously, the rubes are probably way more comfortable with wildlife than city folk and would be interested in a semi-tame coon. A girl in my class during elementary school had a pet coon that they rescued and it was always a big hit at Show-N-Tell.
Do they have meat raffles up in NoDak?
I’m a pretty good guy and when I see a woman with a wild raccoon at a bar I’m on her like white on rice. I know it’s a weird fetish but it is what it is.
The anti-pinch requirements on windows have been in place about 15 years now in the US (and even longer in Europe) and it’s why when you replace a battery you have to “retrain” automatic windows of the up/down stop points. Interestingly enough, it’s more about pet safety. Dogs would put a paw on the door sill to stick their heads out the window and would step on the older toggle style window switch and roll the windows up on their own necks. My own dog has done this in my avatar. I have to be sure to disable the windows with the switch when he rides in that car. They also did away with toggle style switches and went with the current pull up/push down design since humans can do that easily, but pets can’t.
Interesting. My doggo would do that. Not the window on the neck, but would startle herself.
I heard that window thing happened to a lot of Dobermans…
Aussie what you did there.
Next they will ban ball washers on the golf course, cause my boss fell off one and broke his leg….
Speaking of political stunts
Senate Republicans voted Thursday to block the consideration of a bill to promptly require organizations that spend money on elections to promptly disclose the identities of donors who give $10,000 or more during an election cycle.
The body failed to invoke cloture on the measure, in a 49-49 vote. Every Republican present voted against the measure, while every Democrat voted for it.
Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) were not present for the decision.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) brought the bill to the floor to highlight the reliance of Senate Republican candidates on huge cash inflows from GOP dark-money groups, such as the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC linked to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), according to Democratic senators familiar with Schumer’s thinking.
The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), has been a top Democratic priority since the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United in 2010 that enabled corporations and other outside special interest groups to spend unlimited amounts of money on federal elections.
Schumer on Thursday morning said the court’s decision more than a decade ago “has disfigured our democracy almost beyond recognition.”
Disfigured? Democracy is scarier-looking than Lon Chaney.
I’d be far more supportive of laws that prevented pols from taking money from people who don’t live in their district. Ilhan Omar has been outraised locally in the last two elections by her opponents, but still had waaaaaaay more money because non-Minnesodans sent her money. I think Stacy Abrams is also getting most of her money from non-GA’ns.
Don’t forget Beto.
👆👆👆
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) brought the bill to the floor to highlight the reliance of Senate Republican candidates on huge cash inflows from GOP dark-money groups
No, he brought it because he knows the Democrats can rely on their media and institutional allies to persecute large donors to the GOP, while their own large donors will be left alone.
reliance of Senate Republican candidates on huge cash inflows from GOP dark-money groups,
It’s always projection with these cuntes.
Actually, the issue is that they play to win, at any and all costs, and have no compunction resorting to criminality and violence to meet that goal, while the opposition is still trying desperately to be above this behavior. In a prison fight, when they come to shank you, you fight back and even kill, or you end up a prison bitch.
unlawful possession of furbearers.
So
many
possibilities.
Trump’s America punishing innocent trans folx based on their genitalia?
‘And here I’ve been telling my kids to watch their hands when I didn’t need to.’
Until you rely on the system and suddenly the system does working correctly…
We can do better Minnesoda!
Well if the CDC says something, it must be true!
But wait a minute! Why the fuck are there different limits on men and women for binge drinking? What about non-binary? Fucking Haters!
All that drinking and Wisconsin has a lower mortality rate from alcohol-related causes?
“tolerance”
If you’re a woman, then identify as a man and you can drink more without it being a problem.
Nothing to see here…
“The bill broadly defines a ‘catastrophic event,’ which could be used to extend balloting for up to five days after the polls close in a presidential election,” Tenney said. “It also tramples on the core principle of state sovereignty and directly contradicts the United States Constitution. The legislation also creates broad private rights of action in a backdoor to empower Democrat election lawyers and partisan operatives.”
Illinois Republican Rep. Rodney Davis similarly condemned the bill’s expedited passage through the lower chamber on the House floor and highlighted the hypocrisy over electoral objections.
“Democrats have objected to every single Republican presidential win in the 21st century.”
In 2017, Democrats objected to more states certifying President Donald Trump’s win than Republicans did four years later for Joe Biden. According to Axios, similar legislation in the upper chamber has already drawn support from the 10 Republicans needed in the split Senate to circumvent a filibuster.
Except this is a wholesale violation of state purview over their elections and any semblance of election integrity, not that anyone cares.
They need time to find the votes that will carry team blue over the finish line, DUH!
Let me guess, McConnell is for it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/xln7mh/i_built_my_dream_80s_video_store_in_my_basement/
Amazing.
The adult section under the blue light is a nice touch. Though it should really be behind curtains for maximum authenticity.
So cool.
Mayor Lightfoot proposes improved, permanent outdoor dining program
Mandated outdoor dining is perfect for Chicago winters.
“Mayor Lori Lightfoot is proposing a new ordinance that would make outdoor dining like this permanent from May through October every year.”
Get three restaurants or more together, and you can ask to have a street closure for this.
Speaking of raccoon tales…
I had these friends in Colorado Springs who decided it would be cute to toss food to this raccoon who wandered by as they were eating dinner outside one evening. Oddly enough, the raccoon started hanging out with them regularly. And then one day, the raccoon was fruitful and multiplied. “A” raccoon turned into four or five adorable little miniraccoons and their mama. This goes on for a while, until fall comes, and my friends are no longer dining outside on the back patio. Meanwhile, I am muttering, under my breath, “You’ll be soooooorrrrry.”
I came by one day and my friend told he got woken up in the middle of the night by a big commotion. The cat was, like, on the ceiling. He grabs a pistol and tiptoes down the hall.
The raccoon family had blasted their way through the screen door, and were busily ransacking the place. All the cupboard doors were open, one or two were in the refrigerator, et c. It took a few days to clean up the mess.
He didn’t like it when I laughed.
And that’s the kind of can-do raccoon ingenuity that made this country great!
What a maroon.
Rep. Jackie speier (D-CA): “We have 128 military bases in red states that ban abortion. Maybe we should just move these bases.”
Bring on the national divorce.
Not to worry — they keep pushing DIE(B) [meta thought… what happens when people get tired of it and try to shut it down… DIEBOLD?], and soon enough there won’t be any recruits at the bases anyway. Except for the little commissars they’re looking to train, I suppose.
In Afghanistan we just abandoned them.
Let’s start by removing bases from other countries that ban abortion.
Nice
First nuclear reactor to be shut down in Belgium today.
We have to do this because we passed a law saying we have to do this and there’s no way out of it.
Madness. And not the good kind.
Sure… shut down the plants that provide 50% of your grid and insist it won’t change things…. heaven help the Belgians.
Suicide is the in thing for the European nations it seems. Just fucking ridiculous.
Suicide is only painless for the dead.
Relevant.
Belgium is known for its earthquakes and tsunamis, so it’s good that they are shutting down their nuclear plants.
cope
Millennial parents are so annoying.
Boomer parents fed millennials garbage food. And raised them.
Still, I just see this as parents making excuses for their own terrible diets.
This. My (very late boomer/early Gen X) parents couldn’t cook worth a damn, and they were rather traditional as things went in the 90s. There were kids my age fed 100% from a microwave and fast food. Their (very early boomer/war baby) parents could and can cook worth a damn, but didn’t bother to because they were dual incomers or single parents.
Anyway, the phenomenon isn’t new. I remember hearing comments about the “daycare kids” only eating “macaroni, French fries, and hot dogs” when I was little.
No I didn’t.
And I taught both my kids how to cook.
Apparently we were asshole parents. We made one meal, the kids ate it or they went hungry. If they said they didn’t like something new, they were required to try one bite. Not once did we make something special for them. We ended up having a three year old who was into sushi.
Same thing with naps and bed time. Ignore them crying for 2 or 3 times and they get it.
Dude, the struggle is real for these parents. How dare someone take away their platform for whining?
If a six pack and a bologna sandwich is good enough for us it’s good enough for the kid.
“Eat it or wear it” never seemed to have been uttered in some households.
4-part answer on what we did:
– Mrs. Tree cooks real meals and always has. Always aimed for having leftovers.
– “This is what we’re having.”
– Never forced them to try anything they didn’t want to try. Up to them. Be hungry if you want to.
– Once you’re about 7, you can cook. They’re plenty capable at that age to run the whole process of grits and eggs and bacon.
“This is on the menu today. Don’t like it? Come back tomorrow.”
My kids were foraging by the time they could reach the top shelf of the refrigerator. I cooked rarely, and XX didn’t like the meals I made. XY liked them so much he could eat a stock pot full of spaghetti sauce or stroganoff in 2 days by himself, and never mind what he could do to a meatloaf, so…that was expensive. XX doesn’t cook. XY started cooking for himself when he was around 10 or so. His one and only tryout at stroganoff didn’t go great (he didn’t stir or mind the bottom of the pot), so he was discouraged from making what he really liked because he felt it wasn’t as good as mine.
“Republicans today must face the music. Either vote to bring transparency and fairness back to our elections as the vast majority of Americans want, or block this measure and cast their lot with the forces of dark money,” Schumer said before the vote.
And then he laughed maniacally and disappeared in blinding flash of light and a puff of smoke.
I had a friend that worked for the department of transportation. He got fired for stealing from work.
I didnt believe it until I got to his house. All the signs were there…
Does that qualify as an interstate crime?
BOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Curiouser and curiouser
The former head of a Russian aviation research institute died on Wednesday, reportedly by falling down the stairs, in the latest in a string of deaths of Russian officials.
The Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) university announced the death of Anatoly Gerashchenko, 72, saying he died “as a result of an accident.”
An unnamed source told Russian newspaper Izvestia that he died on the university’s grounds, by falling “from a great height” down several flights of stairs.
Keep your feet on the ground. Gravity can be treacherous.
The Russians also have a terrible level of alcoholism. It isn’t surprising that an undue number die from falls down stairs and whatnot. Now those Russian windows that apparently contain some kind of gravitational vortex that seems to suck only rich and powerful men through, maybe stay away from those.
How not to accidentally die in Russia:
1. Avoid stairs.
2. Avoid windows.
3. Avoid watercraft.
4 Wear one of these at all times.
72? My suspicion level is dropping.
Stay close to the candles
I don’t think there’s a single sentence on the parenting internet more smug than “they just eat what we eat”
Maybe she’s talking about “pet parents”.
“Two Bombings in One Night? That’s Normal Now in Sweden.
My country just voted in a right-wing government. The almost 500 bombings since 2018 may have something to do with it….
There’s not just a bombing problem. There are shootings, too.
Sweden, which has a population of around 10 million, has the highest per-capita number of deadly shootings of 22 European countries. Forty-seven people have been shot dead so far this year, which, while far from American levels of gun homicide, is extreme for Europe. Other European countries have come to look at Sweden with horror.
It may be shocking for Americans to learn that in Sweden—the land of IKEA, Spotify and Greta Thunberg—all of this is going on. Perhaps the reason you don’t know about it is because of the uncomfortable reality of how we got here.
Among shooting suspects, 85 percent are first- or second-generation immigrants, according to the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, as immigrant neighborhoods have become hotbeds for gang crime. National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg has described the violence as “an entirely different kind of brutality than we’ve seen before” and his deputy, Mats Löfving, says that 40 criminal clans now operate throughout the country. Spreading fear are “humiliation robberies,” targeting children and youth, in which victims are subjected to degrading treatment by assailants, such as being urinated upon. Just this week, four men were sentenced for robbing, beating and urinating on an 18-year-old, who was also filmed by his tormentors…”
https://www.commonsense.news/p/two-bombings-in-one-night-thats-normal
Also it’s not politically acceptable to point out that America’s entire gun violence problem is due to disenfranchised minorities in gangs.
It can only be the guns themselves.
Being pissed on is only a step away from having one shoved up the old poop chute but I’d imagine that’s going on too. Whoever thought Somalis would be so unappreciative?
“‘Sweden Is Safer Than Ever’
When stories started appearing about gang-rule and attacks on people going into immigrant neighborhoods, sometimes referred to as “no-go zones,” a government agency started a PR campaign to rename them “go-go zones.” The government had help from left-leaning Swedish media. In 2015, the editorial page of Dagens Nyheter, for instance, said that people expressing alarm about crime were “safety-deniers,” and compared them to climate deniers. The Social Democratic publication Aftonbladet said in 2017 that the idea that Sweden needed to recruit more police officers was “populism at its worst,” given that “crime is declining”.
Meanwhile, the link between immigration and crime was turned into a taboo topic.
Aftonbladet, for instance, argued that there was no need for authorities to publish statistics on immigrants and crime because the very idea was inherently racist. Then-Prime Minister Stefan Löfven reiterated the same notion when he was asked whether immigration had affected crime levels. “We should act against what is wrong and criminal no matter the background and the cause. I don’t want to link crime to ethnicity,” he said in 2020––as if there were no legitimate questions about how his government’s immigration policy had affected crime.”
It’s culture, not race, you idiots.
I’m not sure you can separate culture and race that easily. Either way, inviting in immigrants from that far away without requiring assimilation is a recipe for disaster.
It’s not an “uncomfortable reality”. It was a fully willful choice imposed by the proggie politicians and media of the death cult.
Same thing as the Belch turning off a reactor – just a different piece of it.
It is a war, as surely as what’s going on in Ukraine. It’s been on for years, and only one side has been fighting, and winning.
When I saw this “Harvard student newspaper denies 82 percent liberal faculty is a problem“, I recalled how back 40 years ago they felt it was a YUGE problem that education was not liberal enough..
The left is a fucking evil religious cult.
That seems a low estimate for Harvard.
The other 18% are communist.
17%. A whopping 1% identified as conservative.
That many? No wonder they have problems. Do better!
According to the FIRE survey Harvard has over 5:1 bias in favor of liberal students. The comments on that survey are gold, regardless of the school you pick.
https://rankings.thefire.org/rank
Everyone knows that rethuglikkkans are too thoopid to get into Harvard.
I really want to make a mini rant here, but don’t have time this morning.
If you still believe the usual suspects in the media are not lying propagandists for the corruptocracy and team blue, you should watch this exchange. A democrat lawmaker tells another blatant lie about J6, gets fact checked on it in real time, and this individual is not scandalized in the media. Ask yourself if this had been a republican claiming there was massive cheating in the 2020 election how the media and the machine would react to this.. Oh, wait, you don’t need to do that. Just look at the DOJ & FBI investigations and activity since then for a clue.
Banana republic. That’s what they have made this country into after Obama weaponized the bureaucracy as part of his “fundamental change” campaign to use lawfare to attack political enemies of the mandarinate and team blue…
It’s not a lie if you believe it.
Truth be damned –
riotersinsurrectionists beat that cop to death!!!11!!Good Lord. I dont know if he wants to believe, he wants to make sure others believe. Or a bit of both.
That was my thought. He’s in full on gaslighting mode. For himself as much as anyone else. CWAA
It’s what I want my truth to be!
Yeah, Gov. Hochul is running with the lie about five brave pigs dying as a result of the J6 attack that her opponent cheered on.
Due to circumstances beyond our control
Americans are about to see the biggest increase in their home heating bills in more than 10 years, and it’s not just because of inflation.
A new report from the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA), which represents the state directors of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), projects a 17.2% jump in average home heating costs this winter compared to last year, and a 42% jump in the cost of household electricity compared to the winter just before the pandemic hit.
The latest increase is the result of sky-high summer temperatures that sent the price of natural gas soaring as some customers cranked up their air conditioners to cool their homes, according to NEADA executive director Mark Wolfe. That spike in demand pushed prices higher, and was exacerbated by the retirement of coal-fired and nuclear plants, in favor of electric generators.
Meanwhile, natural gas production has been slow to come back online after waves of shutdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The U.S. also finds itself shipping more natural gas out of the country thanks to booming demand from Europe, which is facing a shortage of supply due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, said Gary Cunningham, director of market research at energy consultancy Tradition Energy.
“There’s now an imbalance between our supply and demand,” Cunningham said. “All summer when we should have been putting gas in storage, we weren’t storing it away. So, we had a cold winter, not strong growth in production, strong exports — and this is what we’ve got.”
Global warming. Putin. The plague.
Bad luck.
As mentioned above, this is happening because the credentialed elite class wants to do it, and they want to make sure nobody can hold them accountable…
A parting gift from teed off team red scumbag statists. Thank god these assholes are being sent packing. I hope karma fucks them in the ass. Hard.
I really hope the RINOs have a hard time of it. Best case we rebalance the shrieking on the left with some yelping on the right. Just not sure how many so-called “populists” will make it in. I am hoping for a lot, let’s bring government action to a standstill and potentially even reverse course.
I like the cut of your glib.
Lackadaisical, I saw your post about your cousin on the other thread. Sorry about your cousin.
Your offer of help is the right thing to do. If they ask for help, help them out. If they don’t, then they don’t need or want it. Move on. But definitely be at the funeral if there is one.
Sorry, Lackadaisical. Just read your post.
Same.
Tough loss.
Not, so far as I can discern, parody
he metaverse is full of promise. People are hopeful that this shared, interactive, immersive, and hyper-realistic virtual space will revolutionize the internet. Goldman Sachs has estimated that the metaverse could ultimately be an $8 trillion opportunity.
One particular promise of the metaverse is that it offers an opportunity to remedy some of the mistakes of Web 2.0 — in particular the failure of social media platforms to safeguard and protect marginalized and underrepresented people from hateful behavior online.
As we create the next iteration of the internet, the stakes are too high to exclude diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) from the conversation.
There’s been some progress in this regard. In May, the World Economic Forum, alongside a number of partners, including Meta, Sony, Microsoft, LEGO, and others, announced an initiative to develop and share actionable strategies “to create an ethical and inclusive metaverse.”
A recent example shows what an inclusive metaverse could look like. In April 2022, the deodorant company Degree partnered with Decentraland to host an inclusive virtual marathon. The company partnered with disability, race, and gender experts to advise on the design elements for participants’ avatars, which included wheelchairs, prostheses, running blades, and a variety of body shapes and sizes, as well as descriptive audio for people with visual impairments.
Companies who want to ensure their metaverse initiatives are inclusive can take inspiration from a movement in the design community, known as “design justice.” Before problem solving for a project or marketing anything, design justice practitioners begin by identifying which communities will be impacted and centering those communities’ voices. They believe that lived experiences are valuable to the design process; ensure that outcomes are sustainable, community-led and controlled; and work towards non-exploitative solutions.
Und so weiter.
No metajustice, no metaverse!
The metaverse is stupid. There. I said it.
I heartily agree.
A solution in search of a problem.
an $8 trillion opportunity.
That’s a lot of advertising.
I saw where Jamie Dimon came out and said a gas and oil free future is stupid and not going to happen.
In the war of the big banks, I’ll be standing over there with him.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/22/jamie-dimon-assails-stopping-oil-and-gas-production-in-us/
My bank.
He’ll cave, or die and be replaced by someone who will cave.
Does this mean all those equity dumbfucks will leave Web 1.0 to us normies?
…
…
We’re normies??
We’re on the normie spectrum.
…design justice practitioners begin by identifying which communities will be impacted and centering those communities’ voices.
English words but I fail to comprehend any meaning from them.
Centering voices? What kind of bullshit is that?
That is how (over)educated people talk now.
It means “punish white people”, near as I can guess.
I do enjoy some British understated insults.
Furious Prince Harry ‘SNUBBED dinner with King Charles and William at Balmoral after bust-up when monarch banned Meghan from joining grieving royal family at Scottish estate the day The Queen died – causing the duke to miss his flight’
This could go two ways: I could simply not believe that happened or I could believe it happened because Charlie is unserious, unwise, and possibly a little daft.
The metaverse will offer new opportunities for the way we work and play, how we interact with brands, and much more. Companies planning to participate in the metaverse have an opportunity and responsibility to shape an inclusive space where everyone feels represented and that they belong. While this work is not easy, the above strategies, rooted in the 10 principles of the design justice network, offer a path of how we can get from here to there.
Not a goddam word about function or purpose.
OBEY and CONSUME!
Ah, yes, distilling life down to its finest and most meaningful essence: “interacting with brands.”
I do not “interact” with brands. I purchase items that I need and/or want. Manufacturers provide them.
“interacting with brands” just seems so… so… icky.
What about the No Logoists? Doesn’t sound very inclusive for them.