I’m the substitute linkster that everyone wants. I mean, I’m no STEVE SMITH. But I show up from time to time, here to there. Like a once-popular sitcom character putting in his Sweeps Week appearance on the spin-off. Let’s see birthdays: The originator of the “Gibbs slap”. The master of uttering the word “Whoa” on the big screen. And an absolute bombshell. Apparently some midwestern universities are playing football this weekend. And also a rejuvenated FSU, who managed not to lose to their cupcake warmup is going up against a confused LSU. I expect the SEC quality will probably prevail.
Florida bear… you’re embarrassing me here.
I can’t really beat the NY Post’s headline here.
Florida Nazis, I hate Florida Nazis.
I can smell this place through the internet.
I’m sorry, but fecal transplants as a medical treatment seems like bleeding and leeches to me.
Enjoy this music video that will broaden your cultural appreciation:
Florida bear… you’re embarrassing me here. – not clicking what kind of bear?
Is that a Kung Flu mask?
“Oh, bother.”
I’m glad someone thought of the WTP connection.
yup lol
Sigh… must have put on my invisibility cloak this morning….
The bear version of a tin foil hat.
Brett must still be up from the night before.
My seven year old and I had a “put on the glasses or start eating trashcan” style fight over whether or not he should be allowed to sleep in our bed at about 2am. It was seriously 45 minutes before I got him back to bed. He’s more stubborn than me, so that must be his mother.
this is weird to me as a kid I never slept in my parents bed.
Neither did I. And I would have gotten my ass whipped for trying.
Of course not — all you Central Europeans leap into your governess’s beds… at least that’s what our documentaries tell us over here.
He’s a life-long bad sleeper, and sometimes when he was like 3-5, he wouldn’t stay in his bed and it was easier to just pull him into the bed and go back to sleep. That stopped a little over a year ago and is back out of nowhere somewhere yesterday and today. I would say it mostly depended on whether I was awake enough to have the fight or not. Now, its a hard no. This morning I explained to him that he doesn’t get to use any devices with screens for a week AFTER he stops pulling this crap.
So Brett, you are actually being a parent instead of trying to be your child’s friend? Kudos.
Maybe tell him only babies sleep with their parents, and if he wants to do that he’ll have to wear diapers .
Only Joe Biden sleeps with his kids, and if you want to do that Daddy will have to wear diapers .
All our kids slept with us for a year or so after being born.
I think we tried a crib with the firstborn, but after a while my wife gave up and said the kid can sleep with us.
I don’t remember when we made them go sleep on their own. I can’t remember any fighting about it. The younger ones probably all wanted to go sleep in their own beds to be “big” like their siblings.
We had the same approach to bed times too. The rule was that you had to go to your rooms at a certain time, but I could care less about what you did in there. As long as you got up in the morning, we had no problems if you wanted to play with your toys until midnight.
Our kids all slept in our bed too until they went to their own rooms/beds. No problem with the transition.
We don’t do bedtimes and haven’t ever had a problem. The kids usually put themselves them to bed 8-10 on their own. Occasionally, a couple of the night owls will stay up late with me until 11 or midnight. They each get up on their own before 630am. So far letting them set their own schedules has worked great. But we also homeschool so don’t have to worry about them making the bus or anything like that.
I sympathize. That finally stopped for me around age 8.
Florida Nazis, I hate Florida Nazis.
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A bear with a jar stuck on its head was spotted in Florida and wildlife officials are trying to capture it.
was the bear a Nazi?
He may have made a “Sieg, Heil” start motion with his paw.
Bears are communist. Eagles are fascist.
What are donkeys at a Tijuana show?
$20, same as downtown.
Satisfying.
The one I saw was in Juárez. Prolly related tho’.
I Ciudad there.
Victims of the Klan…..
Hung
Local Bears hardest hit.
“Troubled exotic dancer fatally shot in head walking home from IHOP job in NYC ”
Still not as good as “Headless Body Topless Bar”
They just don’t know about the exotic dancers that work at Waffle House — they get scattered and smothered.
A troubled exotic dancer who recently separated from her wife and lost her kids to foster care was gunned down execution style…
I’m having a better day than that.
I’m sorry, but fecal transplants as a medical treatment seems like bleeding and leeches to me. – don’t kink shame
Florida bear retreated to its home in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Morning, Brett! Always a treat to see you — hope you and your family and enjoying yourselves (and gator jerky and whatever else Floridians do…. 😉 ).
Did this suddenly become about Xi?
So how did we like Biden’s new square mustache? That supposed speech last night….
I guess political enemies are now informed that should they refuse to shut the fuck up and let the crime syndicate do what it wants, they will be dealt with…
Beat me to it. That guy is a piece of work.
You misspelled “shit”
You and OMWC have the bad habit of embedding the song in the post
Whycome you worry about the post being embedded or if this lady can love ya long time?
don’t be lacist
Is it lacist to love the ladies that love you long time? Cause if it is, then I am totes lacist…
Why come you hate Velcro straps?
I learned it by watching him! I haven’t been keeping up does that cause issues for our Non-merican readers? I can stop.
I’m just wondering if that insanely long (relative to her) handle (fretboard? I’m sure there’s a proper term…) on that instrument is needed for some reason. It seems like it would be rather tiring to play with your arms stretched out like that… but I’m no musician, so there’s probably a good reason for it (marketplace of ideas, thousands of years of culture for the Chinese to improve on it, yadda yadda…)
Neck. Looks like a Sanjian
Inquiring minds want to know…
If he was truly the most popular politician in American history and won a legitimate election, he’d be strutting around laughing at Republicans. He’s too stupid and demented to pull that off, instead he has to keep screaming at the people he knows legitimately won. Any time you call out a serial liar, they get mad and attack.
It was the most bizarre speech I’ve ever seen by a President. Makes me think we don’t have much time left and I need to hurry up and find that small farm in the middle of nowhere.
^This.
The speech was better in the original German.
The alternative is that Dem politicians are the largest private investors in firearm and ammunition companies and they’ve just been driving their value since 2008.
1. Weird speech
2. EO MAGA as a domestic terrorist organization (probably not that because that’d be nuts but the speech and the symbology and visuals was nuts so what do I know)
3. ???
4. Watch the world burn
I made the connection last night. He’s getting ready for Halloween! I can prove it. Look at some of these animatronic links from Spirit Costume. This was clearly his inspiration. The top one is the BEST. I mean, talk about spot on…
https://www.spirithalloween.com/product/7-ft-two-scoops-animatronic-decorations/222871.uts
https://www.spirithalloween.com/product/5-ft-shorty-animatronic-decorations-killer-klowns-from-outer-space/223409.uts
https://www.spirithalloween.com/product/6-ft-grim-animatronic-decorations/222883.uts
Weird. Why is my comment awaiting moderation?
Three links?
Three links.
Too much sausage for one man.
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He’s always been delusional about his ability to charm people as well. I’m sure he thinks he is the next JFK who will be remembered for his patriotic speeches.
The only charm he has ever had was as a bumbling idiot. The Onion always showing him as some loser with a TransAm is how everyone else sees him.
They’re setting him up to be assassinated. If they can’t provoke a rube into doing it, they’ll do it themselves and blame “MAGA.”
I’ve got no other explanation for that insanity.
Would not put it past the cabal to either kill this fool or kill Trump to keep him from winning.
They are desperate to make sure the sheep get the message they will let the sheep know what the rules are and also who will be the master..
He’s too fucking far gone to even realize what’s going on. Forget the speech, that set was nuts. A rational leader would have refused to do it.
That set was by design. The people that decided to go with that setup – and that speech – are sending a message. And they were not trying to be subtle about it either.
This was the machine telling the others they are on notice that they are the enemy, and the enemy will be dealt with.
Absolutely. Biden didn’t pick that set, he’s just a puppet. If it weren’t obvious before, it definitely is now.
If his handlers are paranoid enough to pull that stunt, they’re desperate and very dangerous.
I think they’re going to off Harris first, and replace her with SecDef Austin, then get rid of Brandon.
They will have to kill Harris to get rid of her. If they decide to just bypass her, black women will feel betrayed and then not vote, and even with cheating that margin of error would be too high to overcome.
That’s exactly what I meant by “off”.
They’re going to kill her. It will be a false-flag (obviously) and set them up for lots of new emergency powers, and it will be timed sometime fairly soon, actually, so as to maximize control for the elections. Austin’s proven he’s totally theirs, hasn’t got the visceral repulsiveness she does, and will actually get the support of all the idiots with Tom Clancy syndrome.
Then Brandon’s going.
Yep. This is why I think it’s a misguided notion that the government is intentionally trying to create a pressure cooker situation just to set a citizen off into doing something that they can retaliate against with new emergency powers.
If government wants to move on new emergency powers, they can just create a false flag event anytime. Look how easily that Democrat staffer working with Wikileaks was
murderedrobbed.If we are going Tom Clancy, can’t we at least have Congress get hit by a plane? (Isn’t that how Jack Ryan got to be president?)
Seems almost like a fair tradeoff.
*adjusts tinfoil hat* Ever notice how the only plane downed on 9/11 was the one supposedly destined for the white house?
(Pedant warning) By “Tom Clancy syndrome” I really meant the belief that being a General, wearing a uniform, etc. means they’re patriotic, serious, trustworthy, etc.
Trump had it bad, and this was the biggest (IMO) piece of his downfall.
By “Tom Clancy syndrome” I really meant the belief that being a General, wearing a uniform, etc. means they’re patriotic, serious, trustworthy, etc.
That was my biggest beef with Clancy novels. Some Lance Coolie would be super alert at all times and notice some crazy detail that would stop some commie bastard. And his CO would personally listen to the non-rate.
That didn’t jibe with my service at all. All us punk kids spent a shit ton of time fucking off and avoiding work. And the NCO’s would have never let us talk regularly with the CO about anything important. And the officers weren’t all that sharp either.
Im still on board with the theory someone posted here- Brandon steps down, Kamala ascends. Picks Hillary as VP. Then Harris steps down.
Whammo! She gets the seat she so righteously deserves. And maybe picks Michelle O. as her VP. Or Chelsea.
VP confirmation requires a majority vote of both chambers of Congress. If Kamala ascends she can’t cast a tie breaking vote in the Senate.
I’m sure Mittens or Susan Collins will go along to “cross the aisle” and “bring back bipartisanship” if it comes to it.
She was the most qualified candidate evah.
It is completely insane, and it’s the exact same conclusion I came to when mulling this over a few days ago. I bet they’ve even convinced addle brained Biden to go along with it. He knows he’s dying anyway, and they are constructing an opportunity for him to be the Glorious Martyr. His death will set us down a path to the New World Order. In their minds, all they have to do is keep antagonizing the backwoods hicks and the crazy MAGA zealots with all their scary hunting rifles. One of them will throw a match on the powder keg.
I don’t think that Joe has a clue. Dr. Jill is the one who is calling the shots.
Since she hasn’t gotten the same fawning press as Michele Obama as the first lady, maybe it is time to become the widow of a legendary Dem president who was assassinated. She’ll finally get the love of the world – that she so richly deserves – as the next Jackie O!
Nazis gather outside convention center.
Security can’t remove because they are on public property.
Nazis leave when convention attendees ignore them.
That’s the way to do it. I hate to say anything good about Nazis but Antifa/BLM wouldn’t just go quietly if ignored.
To be fair to Antifa (ha!) if the Nazis had the media and a good chunk of the political apparatus behind them, they probably wouldn’t either.
When I lived in Spokane, every fucking year until they lost the property, the Aryan Nations in northern Idaho would have their annual “parade”. Breathless headlines from the national news media. The local coverage was much more edifying: literally less than a dozen white supremacists, most members of the same family, outnumbers 8:1 by local and bussed-in protesters. When the clowns finally lost their property some even bigger clown bought it (from the tax authorities, IIRC) and razed the half dozen little shacks they had on there, where all 12 of the inbred family members constituting the organization lived. The national media framed it like the fucking liberation of Auschwitz.
There was an Aryan Nation meet up outside of prison? I thought it was just the group whites guys in jail joined to protect themselves from the black and latino equivalents.
The name was used by dozens, maybe hundreds, of disparate and often unconnected groups at the time. This particular iteration was associated with Richard Butler, and despite the breathless FBI warnings about a national, possibly even international, Nazi terrorist ring, even the fucking Seattle Times had to admit in the linked story that the “dozens” (and the pluralization of “dozen” may be a stretch) of them who marched in Coeur d’Alene were swamped by hundreds of counter-protesters.
A few years back, some faction of the Klan or Christian Nationalists, or just some random group of briars decided they wanted to hold a rally on our courthouse square. The media went-full, throttle, afterburners, all agog over what was going to happen. Fences were erected, cops were (gleefully) called in for beaucoup OT, and the climax built for weeks until….I think maybe a dozen of them showed-up. And they werent even from SW Ohio. Pretty sure they were all from Podunkville, Indiana.
*GT can feel free to fact-check me
and nothing really happened.
I’m sure the cops and the media had serious blue-balls over the lack of actual confrontation
Per the Dayton paper, nine Hoosier Klanners. For whose presence the city shelled out $650K for security.
Lol. Lmao even.
Is this what they call “asymmetrical warfare?”
“STEVE SMITHING the taxpayers”
These are fake Nazis – actors hired by The Party to gin up attention. If they don’t don’t gin up the desired attention, The Party won’t pay them.
Eventually, The Party will just hire a few Antifa and give then Nazi costumes.
Former DNI: DOJ Didn’t Find What It Was Looking for in Mar-a-Lago Raid..
So these cuntes can’t even do a fishing expedition thing right? Damn!
Looks like they need to change bait. Maybe a diet Coke or a piss hooker would work better.
They have run, they have crawled — they have scaled, these city walls….
Alright, just to get it off my chest…
In the pics of Brandon’s speech, taken from straight-on, it’s clear that the Marine on his right-hand side (left if you’re looking at it) is out of position. He’s supposed to be centered in the window position, like the other one, but is offset to his (own) left.
This is a Chinese propaganda. Lol, it’s fucking awesome tbh
https://twitter.com/Sorcerer_Azov/status/1565109308651708416
Needs more rainbow flags on the beast.
So that is what happened to the retired F-14s.
Badass
Selma Hayek in Dogma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq_EoqlwtsE
Selma Hayek – any relation to Salma?
or to Friedrich August von
twin?
If she’s Taiwanese, why does it look like she’s in Mongolia ?
That’s one of the main beaches the ChiComms would be landing their troops on Tres…
Get with the program…
Gary Glitter ruined it for everyone.
Or was that Vietnam?
Because she ripped off the Hu’s music and they place where they film their videos?
I’m going back to Chumptown, Chumptown, Chumptown… I’m going back to Chumptown… Hey man, I don’t think so.
It was close, though.
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Warmup round wasn’t much better.
Daily Duotrigordle #184
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 07:00.96
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I hit chumptown on both quordle and chessle. I should wait until I am awake.
I try to make sure I have at least a couple of cups of coffee and do the Duotrigordle first. Because no one (other than Hype maybe) cares about it, so there’s less shame in screwing it up. 😉
Daily Duotrigordle #184
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:01.70
AAAAAAAGH!!!! So f-ing close.
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5️⃣2️⃣
Hit the line in a little different fashion.
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GFY, upper left.
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I see Darth Brandon spent the night threatening half the country.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/09/01/the-optics-created-by-joe-biden-communication-team-for-a-national-address-were-off-the-charts-creepy/
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Every last bit of that was intentional and it wasn’t Biden who picked it.
http://blog.bruteprop.co.uk/?wpsc-product=dictator
Nah man, that was a unity speech to save democracy. He was saying we all need to come together except for the people who disagree with him who should be crushed.
Yeah, he’s more of a Mussolini than a You Know Who, minus the charisma of course.
And the cool hat.
Biden = IL DOUCHEBAG
The motive for the slaying remained unknown, but the shooting of was not random, cops said.
Ultra-MAGA anti trans hate crime.
Disturbing times in the country and around the world. I ended up taking today off and am going to take the kids to look at dinosaur skeletons, buy some toys, and get milkshakes. A little contrast to balance out.
Question for any computer Glibs. I’m looking to upgrade my computer and found a decent laptop on sale with the below specs. After spending some time researching, I think this will let me run a game like Cyberpunk or anything Virtual Reality with no problem. Is that right? The details about processor cores and NVIDIA vs. AMD go right over my head.
12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700H Processor
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3060 Graphics, 6GB
16GB DDR4 3200MHz
I also found a desktop with the below specs for $200 less. But I don’t think this one is as good.
AMD Ryzen™ R7-5700G (8-Core) Processor
AMD Radeon™ RX 6600 Graphics, 8GB
16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM
The issue with laptops and graphics intensive games is always heat dissipation. So while on paper it looks good, it will not perform quite to those expectations.
If it were a desktop, I’d say that’s great. A laptop may get intolerably hot. Check the cooling.
Get an external keyboard and mouse, and run with the main laptop submerged in liquid nitrogen.
There is a total of 6 heat pipes on this device. Unfortunately, the CPU seems to be cooled by only two of them, but on the bright side, the graphics memory has active cooling.
I was concerned about cooling. I thought about buying one of those cooling pads, but I don’t know if that will actually do anything. Certainly less effective than submersion in liquid nitrogen.
They do little if anything. Setting the machine on a dish dry rack will accomplish the same thing.
Nah, pack it in dry ice. More readily available, cheap, and you dont need a dewar flask.
Use dry ice to prevent moisture damage. It’ll make some smoke that looks cool and Halloweeny, like the President last night.
Might as well game in your grow room so something can soak up the CO2 then.
If you want to do gaming, get a desktop…
Yeah, that’s why I have a really hard time giving purchasing advice. My mantra is go desktop, be aggressive on cooling (but not into water cooling if you can help it, tried that years back and changing out components / getting leaks was a pain), go as high spec as you can afford so things last at least a couple of product cycles. As such, tough to give advice on laptops. 😉
Look at you! Solving problems and creating value!
Back when Tom’s Hardware used to be good, at one point they tested various cooling techniques. They hacked together a clear acrylic case, and built four copies of the same specs. They then ran it to death with the following items filling the case:
1) Air – Burned out quickly
2) Water – Lasted until it shorted out
3) Distilled water – Lasted much longer, but eventually died
4) Cooking Oil – Ran fine, the comment was that it made your computer room smell like a fast food place
Use Fluorinert https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/data-center-us/applications/immersion-cooling/fluorinert-electronic-liquids/
Expensive as shit, but will not cause shorts or contamination.
The 3060 is a good card IIRC. The Intel processor looks good to me.
Both my (now-dead) Windows machine and current Mac have cards so old they aren’t listed on the ranking sites lol.
New machine is on its way from China…
I don’t know anything about AMD stuff.
If you’re on Linux you want AMD graphics. Their FOSS drivers are God-tier, while the state of NoVidya is abysmal. The proprietary drivers work, providing you’re using Xorg (I will never use Wayland, so not a problem for me, but everything that IBM/RedHat has their tentacles in is moving to deprecate Xorg in favor of Wayland), but the nouveau FOSS driver sucks dick, and Nvidia will not cooperate with kernel devs in any way, shape, or form. On Windows it’s irrelevant, and Nvidia’s cards typically achieve better performance than the equivalent AMD card.
*shrug* I use the akmod nvidia proprietary drivers on my desktop Firefox and can even game with them. rtx2080. So ymmv. And aren’t they looking to actually (finally) open source their newer drivers? Yeah — supposedly, anyway.
I’m on a 2070 Super with vanilla proprietary Nvidia drivers on my desktop. As I said, the proprietary drivers are serviceable – providing you use Xorg. But AMD is miles ahead on Linux support right now. I’ll believe Nvidia’s promises of opening their drivers exactly 10 minutes after they actually open source their drivers. They’ve been blowing sunshine up the Linux community’s skirt way too long to take anything they say seriously.
(Mea culpa moment — obviously meant Fedora, not Firefox… *sigh).
That would be a welcome change from AMD — I favor their processors, but I still hold a grudge against their gpu line from when it was ATI (I think my last attempt was not too long after they bought / merged / whatever). Their Linux drivers were crap, and so were their Windows ones. HW specs were in line, but the drivers just killed them… so I’ve been sticking with nvidia since.
AMD was indeed dog shit for driver support during the early transition from ATI after the acquisition, and for quite a while thereafter. The situation has changed a lot even in the last 3-4 years.
I used to play CS:S, through WINE, on a GT-220, with nouveau drivers. SteamOS, Proton, and now the Steam Deck have really upended the gaming situation on Linux. If it weren’t for anti-cheat malware in multiplayer FPS games I’d nuke my Windows drive tomorrow. What a time to be alive.
Thanks, the card seemed good. But I had trouble following the different naming conventions over the generations.
F’ing Nvidia has same model numbers for laptop video chipsets and discrete cards. They aren’t the same chip.
So they don’t line up all the time.
To fully answer the question we’d need more information. At 1080p/60 hz, either of those machines will play anything you throw at it. 1440p/120 hz? Adequate, but not future proof. 4k 180 hz? Forget about it.
With the laptop, make sure to read reviews before you buy. Ctrl-f “cooling”. A lot of gaming laptops have piss poor cooling and thermal throttle under load, killing performance. If it’s got good cooling, it will rival its desktop counterparts.
Bear in mind that the 4000 series Nvidia cards will likely be landing Q2 2023, so it may be worth waiting until then to either pick up one of the newer cards, or maybe get a deal when the retailers clear old stock (only applicable for the laptop, as Nvidia are Nazis about MAP/MSRP and do not discount their deprecated old shit, ever).
To fully answer the question we’d need more information. At 1080p/60 hz, either of those machines will play anything you throw at it. 1440p/120 hz? Adequate, but not future proof. 4k 180 hz? Forget about it.
Thanks. I’m following 1080p versus 4k, but have no idea about the impact of hz. I’m okay with 1080 though so that’s probably fine.
Bear in mind that the 4000 series Nvidia cards will likely be landing Q2 2023, so it may be worth waiting until then to either pick up one of the newer cards, or maybe get a deal when the retailers clear old stock
That’s helpful, thanks. My kids are finally getting old enough for computers of their own, so I’m going to get a new one for myself and hand down my current one. Which is pretty decent but not VR capable. We’re going to try to get some Borderlands coop going. Aiming for this year.
Is there any visible difference between 1440 and 4K on a laptop screen? I’ve always believed higher resolutions only really matter on bigger screens.
Yeah — 4k means I can turn the stupid UI scaling down to 100 (or lower if it will let me) and can fit a lot more xterms at once on the screen to keep an eye on things. 😉
Really only color depth – HDR. No idea if there are laptop panels that are able to really use the color depth.
I don’t think there’s much difference from 1440 to 4k even on a living-room panel, but I only wear my glasses when driving, so…
I’d trade off resolution for frames where gaming is concerned. Especially on a small laptop panel.
Don’t know Cyberpunk’s specs — but the raw comparison for the cpu and gpu looks like it favors the laptop:
https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3060-Laptop-vs-AMD-RX-6600/m1452971vs4128
https://versus.com/en/amd-ryzen-7-5700g-vs-intel-core-i7-12700h
I’m not a big fan of laptop gaming because of heat dispersion / fans, but otherwise you sound like you’re on the right track.
Ok… checking Cyberpunk at least on their System Requirements page — looks like “Recommended” and “High are both in the i7-4790 range, so that’s ok. VRAM is 8Gb for Ultra, so you’ll need to stay down at 1440p (High) at most with the 6Gb on the laptop. I don’t think that should be a big issue personally — a lot of folks still game at 1080p much less 1440p. RAM wants 12Gb in the High range (16Gb for Ultra) so that’s ok.
So yeah — I wouldn’t say “no problem” because I think being above the Ultra requirements are my standard for “no problem” (runs and will run things 2 years out okay), but Cyberpunk would be fine.
No idea on VR, don’t do that.
So yeah — I wouldn’t say “no problem” because I think being above the Ultra requirements are my standard for “no problem” (runs and will run things 2 years out okay), but Cyberpunk would be fine.
Thanks for looking up Cyberpunk’s specs and comparing against. I think the most recent game I currently play is ~5 years old, so my standards are a bit less.
We’ll see on VR. I’m intrigued by it but am not sure if I’ll pull the trigger or not. I’ve never had a machine capable before, so just want to have that option available.
I run Cyberpunk, Horizon Zero Dawn and other graphic intensive games on my laptop often at max settings: i7-11800H, RTX 3070, 32 GB. Scruffy is right about heat. It vents a lot of heat out the back but the sensors show internal temperatures aren’t dangerous. I have not delved into VR.
For laptops spec what you can’t change (CPU, GPU, display, cooling). Memory and storage is relatively inexpensive if you can upgrade. In my laptop I replaced 16 GB RAM with 32 GB and added a second 1 TB M.2 drive on top of the existing 512 GB for less than half what the manufacturer charged.
Yeah, I learned that lesson – this time I deliberately did not max out storage and RAM because I know they gouge the fuck out of you for those.
As long as the RAM (and sometimes SSD, looking at you Apple!) aren’t soldered onto the board. The ultra-thin / ultra-light craze has a definite down side on serviceability / upgrading.
Oh for the early days of Dell when you could customize everything.
Thanks, that’s helpful to hear. I don’t have the option to upgrade unfortunately, or I’d definitely upgrade the memory. It has a 1TB NVMe SSD so hopefully that will be enough space.
Did Biden disappear in a big puff of smoke at the end?
No, from what I heard, he shook hands with invisible people and had to be led away again.
He was just pointing at his friends!
Pooka everywhere.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I hope all the participants got a participation award, at least a ribbon. Kids having fun
Thanks PJ
I’m sorry, but fecal transplants as a medical treatment seems like bleeding and leeches to me.
Definitely a shitty practice.
Woof. Hard pun thread. But…
I think it’s definitely heading up the wrong alley.
Wipe this pun away .
That’s number two for you, mister! Don’t make me go to three!
I wonder what the His-asshole-tastes-like-strawberry-ice-cream! crowd are saying about Brandon’s Nuremberg moment.
They are too busy rimming it to comment yet.
“He’s right, MAGA are bad people. Let’s persecute them.”
Here you go.
https://democraticunderground.com/100217111351
A sampling:
Democratic Underground? What are the noninsane websites saying?
That particular post is a tweet summary of the broader Democrat nutjob base, like Dean Obeidallah
So they are all fired up to bash the fash. Good to know.
There are occasions when I think “you know, a low maintenance condo downtown/in the university area might be an interesting downsizing option”. Then I think about the near to mid term prospects for those areas, and I look at small rural towns, instead.
A condo strikes me as all the downsides of home ownership combined with all the downsides of apartment living.
Very old friend of mine lives in a condo. He can’t listen to a stereo unless it is through headphones; otherwise complaints. That would be a dealbreaker for me.
Sounds like he is married.
Thom Hartmann
Speaking of contemptible assholes with particularly punchable faces…
Jeff Tiedrich
the ‘fuck your feelings’ crowd is having a lot of feelings right now about being called out for their fascism. tough shit
Please define “fascism”.
By the real definition of fascism, we’ve been a fascist country for nearly a century. By the left’s retarded definition of fascism, last night’s speech by Brandon outclasses anything I’ve seen from high profile right wing.
The “fuck your feelings” crowd, by definition, could give a shit what Jeff feels.
BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️
LMAO, someone tried to interrupt President Biden’s speech with a bullhorn, and he just powered through.
Suck on it, pathetic MAGAts.
Dirty, conniving rats is what they are, obvs.
I mention it below, but I find it unbelievable that they would allow that behavior to go on unless he was a plant.
My guess is that After this, he plans to take this shit to court and buy Twatter for less than $20 billion (down from $44.5 billion).
And Twatter either takes the new deal or goes up in smoke….
Bitching.
I hate that I’ve been forced to warm to the corporate welfare whore, green energy scam artist Elon fucking Musk. Although using the left’s own virtue signaling money to fuck them with is based in its own way.
Elon’s less bad than the others. IOW it’s all relative.
Tallest dwarf contest. The fact that there exists not one single billionaire on planet earth who didn’t acquire their wealth through rent-seeking or inheritance is one of the reasons I no longer give two shits about “capitalism” or “free markets” anymore.
Don’t hate the player when the game is rigged…
I remind people constantly capitalism doesn’t exist. What we have is a new version of fascism. Fascism is the system where socialists use government regulation to control the private sector while maintaining the pretense that the private sector is not controlled like it is in marxism. That way the idiots that run government and man government bureaucracies can enact all sorts of ridiculously obvious bad things that will destroy the private sector and never be blamed.
The problem is that we have collectivism but the collectivists pretend the problem is capitalism: a system that doesn’t exist.
‘Capitalism’ exists in the same way that ‘The Fundamental Theorm of Arithmetic’ exists.
Caputalism is not an economic system, it’s a description of reality.
Musk tweets have no replies that are not bots/spam which seem fitting
The article within the tweet was paywalled.
I’m a former CIA cyber-operations officer who studies bot traffic. Here’s why it’s plausible that more than 80% of Twitter’s accounts are actually fake—and Twitter is not alone.
I hate the appeal to authority. However:
I was convinced long ago that nobody uses it (as there is no use case for the site), and things just keep validating my biases.
So much for “Select all boxes containing TRAFFIC LIGHTS”….
I hate those things. I much prefer the ones that “burn” CPU cycles. Although as computing becomes faster I wonder if those will continue.
The difference between a conspiracy theory and reality is less than 6 months these days
Well, we are all Tulpa here, so it checks out.
I’m not.
I’m Poppy.
Lies.
ONE OF THE CREW, ONE IF THE SHIP…
BY SHIP MEAN..
the cult of xrisk has a nonzero risk of becoming the defining death cult of our century. think of how many millions of people are killed by the FDA blocking access to medicines on the basis of the precautionary principle and extend that to every innovation in every field, forever
https://twitter.com/astridwilde1/status/1565223996395687937
where is Taleb to scream imbecile at anyone denying precautionary principle
Best death cult ever….
Has no one ever pointed out that antifragility and the precautionary principle are conceptual opposites?
How so?
Designing a system that benefits from uncertainty, would seem to require that system to be highly risk-tolerant?
Yup. Antifragility requires flexibility. The precautionary principle nails you to the status quo. It is profoundly, inherently, anti-change. Responding to crises successfully requires change.
You guys dont get it. The naive precautionary principle is not what taleb uses. the real principle only he knows
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NO FUCKING WAY!
What is most damning is watching all the old leftists that used to scream bloody murder about the abuses of power by government 20 to 30 years ago now defending the fucking censorship and abuses because that annoying orange guy now lives rent free in their fucking empty skulls.
Dork Brandon.
That is all.
Finally got to watch this.
The lies, projection and cringe in this are next level.
But the usual dumbass suspects drank it up like it was ambrosia….
Odds that the heckler was a plant for effect?
The crowd was definitely selected and any actual threat would have been escorted out in a hurry.
Amazon loses NLRB bid to reject warehouse workers’ historic union in NYC
Imagine tonguing Biden’s colon polyps and getting this for your trouble. Bezos might be the biggest cuck of all time.
as always I would have 0 problem with unions as long as there is no government involvement
HAH!
I’ve pretty much flipped my stance on labor. Capital is just as bad or worse, so fuck them in the ear sideways. You want “stakeholder capitalism”? Fucking great. Walk the walk, you virtue signaling little pricks. I’d rather see every illegal Guatemalan farm worker in the country driving a Bentley at capital’s expense than listen to some effete Black Rock SVP pontificate about the plight of the oppressed from their 4th beach house in Martha’s Vineyard.
you sound radicalized. It is the camps for you.
Cue extra delivery fees for NYC residents…
who cares about NYC residents…
Certainly not NYC.
lol
Been happening with B2B shipments for decades. Rail and LTL carriers publish their rates, the carriers that negotiate rates usually do it by zip code so the rates in congested areas are always higher. Most of the time the shipper just bulks the freight charges into the price the consignee pays for the product being shipped – and the consignee usually wants it that way rather than itemized. That might have made sense decades ago when there were so many producers the consignee could just find another supplier with a lower price (where the shipper merely negotiated a better price with carriers) – but as mergers and regulations slowly eat away at the number of producers, consignees don’t have that kind of leverage to the extent they used to. Makes the accounting easier, but lack of itemization makes it harder to analyze where cost savings can be had.
I’m hearing from local cartage companies – who’s charges never get bulked in – consignees are starting to hire in-house part-time delivery people to pick up at suppliers (in commercial vans) rather than pay a local commercial carrier. I’m not sure how long that trend will last but I found it interesting that is the happening with the one commercial freight charge that still gets itemized all the time.
The 300 IQ move that @real_lord_miles
used to evade the Taliban.
Well played friend
https://twitter.com/theaubservation/status/1565125994075377664
Doesn’t that guy keep going to different hot spots for the yuks though? Eventually his luck’s going to run out.
maybe, but not yet
For some reason, one of my comments was moderated. Was it too good? I pointed out the inspiration for Biden’s speech last night was from Spirit Costume. This is absolutely spot on:
https://www.spirithalloween.com/product/7-ft-two-scoops-animatronic-decorations/222871.uts
You had three links in it. That’s the magic number to be moderated.
Good information to know.
Color scheme…check; terrified child…check; is the clown senile by any chance?
Minnesoda handled their bear problem much better
This happened just down the road from my hometown. The locals were all amused at how much hate mail was sent to the town by people living in big cities.
Funny how idiots that never will be inconvenienced by standards they demand from others, set insane standards, huh?
I say we can solve most problems today by making it mandatory that the people asking for things be the first subjected to what they ask for…
Nothing like Big City Slickers lecturing rubes out in the brush about the correct way to handle nature.
Minnesoda…
Congratulations, You’ve Won a Butter Sculpture. Now What?
I know you aren’t throwing any shade at Princess Kay of the Milky Way!
Not only does Princess Kay get her mug sculpted in butter, but her entire court does as well. You can see them all when you go to the Dairy Building to get your malt.
Only Friday Funbags can defeat Darth Brandon.
https://archive.ph/TrvCy
“President Biden repeatedly slammed Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans” in an overtly political primetime address the White House billed as “the battle for the soul of the nation” — a speech ignored by all major TV networks and carried by just two cable channels….
The speech was carried live by few TV outlets. Only CNN and MSNBC ran the remarks live. ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, Fox News and Fox Business did not air it.”
So preaching to the choir.
I’m not surprised extremist right wing networks like PBS didn’t air it live.
“Only CNN and MSNBC ran the remarks live.”
So nobody saw it then.
A Guide to Detraining: What to Expect, How to Mitigate Losses, and How to Get Back to Full Strength
If you want to take time off of training (or you’re forced to take time off of training) what should you expect? How long does it take to lose muscle and strength? How long will it take to regain muscle and strength once you return to training? What can you do to mitigate your losses? This article will tackle all of these questions and more.
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/detraining/
Reposting for you morning people:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
https://www.city-journal.org/chicago-childrens-hospital-partners-with-local-school-districts-to-promote-radical-gender-theory
Remember when the left thought Big Pharma was evil?
Remember when the left thought Big Pharma was evil? – nope it was memory holed.
The democratic party, and the leftist lemmings that simply can’t disassociate themselves from their team blue allegiance, has morphed from the party of the little guy and fighting the machine to the party of the machine. It’s why all their policies hurt the small people and favor the laptop working class.
The Pritzker photo reminds me of an Adam Sandler movie…
“Viking Ancestry” 🎤: Hanna Evensen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbRGMN8xcGM
I said a few days ago about a joke by a scandi comic about how looking at the people in England the vikings didn’t rape enough, this was it and it was not as I remembered exactly, more PC less offensive shall we say
Regarding that Biden speech and the way it was staged: creepy AF.
Sometimes I think I’m a little paranoid about stuff, like buying my ammo at swap meets instead of traceable transactions, packing “bug out” bags with bare necessities and arranging rendezvous points with the spouse if we have to bug out separately,
And then I see this Biden “unity” shitshow in which he declares that anyone who wants to Make America Great Again is a terrorist, and I realize: nope; you’re not paranoid. They really are out to get you.
That unity thing sure as hell sounded like, “If you are not with us, you are against us, and thus terrorists”….
On the bright side, unless and until Biden actually decides to pull those F-15s out of the scrap yard and start strafing Republican districts, the best their side can seem to put up is a couple of child molesters and a spousal abuser who got brogued like a pair of fine Italian wing tips by a 17 year old manlet.
‘Brogued’ is my new preferred term for someone being shot repeatedly. Thanks!
My life is complete.
I woke up this morning to a message in my e-mail inbox stating that I’d been suspended from Twitter for violating their rules against “targeted harassment.” The post in question was me saying that people shouldn’t make a drinking game out of watching President Puddin’ Cup’s speech last night, ’cause they’d die of alcohol poisoning. I’m actually amazed I didn’t get taken out for some of the much more pointed things I’ve said about (for instance) Trudeau.
I feel so proud, although it’s just an algorithm trying to suppress dissent over what Biden said.
Life goes on!
Lolz. Congratulations on your suspension. Means you’re doing something right.
One of my friends got in Facebook jail last week when she posted a pic of herself and some friends at an airport where they’d just piled up on an electric cart. She made some comment about having an escort to get them to their gate.
INSTANTLY SUSPENDED!! The word escort was the trigger.
So *that’s* why the Hunter Biden story was suppressed…
Now that the cat is out of the bag and the world knows that the directions to censor in favor of President Most Popular are coming from the US government, I hope they all get sued into the fucking poorhouse.
You slay me.
It depends on if the sued media corps have “defense inside limits” or outside.
/Insurance
Fun fact:
Across the universe of malpractice claims, defense costs run about 80% of payouts to plaintiffs.
No, we don’t have “eroding” limits in our malpractice coverage.
Great news!
India joined an elite league of the world’s naval powers on Friday, when it commissioned its first domestically built aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant.
With the $3 billion Vikrant, India will join only a small number of nations with more than one aircraft carrier or helicopter carrier in service and become only the third country, after the UK and China, to have commissioned a domestically built aircraft carrier in the past three years.
The carrier has filled the nation with “new confidence,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a ceremony marked by fanfare at the Cochin Shipyard in India’s southern Kerala state.
Let’s get the party started. Watch yer asses, Pakis.
Romania is considering buying a frigate… maybe
Naw, they’ll look at the price tag and go ‘Frig It.”
Look, for the last time — we like the USS Constitution where it is!
I mean, it’s the greenest vessel in the fleet!
Seems like some decent patrol boats would suffice for the Black Sea.
Naw, they want the Bosporous and Dardanelles.
FREE BYZANTIUM!
Global superpower by
20202022202520403176!Miss Red Carpet 2022, Finale Nazionale, Hierbas, Jesolo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbTgUkNW5DE
But do the drapes match?
I haven’t watched or listened to a presidential address in something like 20 years. I’ll keep it that way for my own sanity.
But – based on the blood red photos I’ve been seeing from yesterday’s shitshow – I can only say WTF? The Hitler/Dictator/weirdness depictions are apt.
People asking WTF the people that set this up were thinking to do something this cringy miss the point: they wanted you to see the cringe, because that’s the message..
The message is clear. You will bend the knee or we will make you do it.
I woke up today in the early AM – after a long day of moving shelves, etc – and thought to myself: “Well then I guess I’m one of the baddies now.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
And that’s how we got trump.
If Bob Dole and MItt Romney are worse than Hitler, how bad can Trump be?
If supporting the idea of “Make America Great” is semi-fascist, people are going to embrace full blown fascism.
https://www.spirithalloween.com/product/7-ft-two-scoops-animatronic-decorations/222871.uts?Extid=sf_froogle
In case this hasn’t been posted yet.
Up against the wall!
Kristian Niemietz says: XR = high-status Trumpies
@K_Niemietz
This is like the Trumpies storming the Capitol, but in fashionable and high-status.
Donnachadh McCarthy
@DonnachadhMc
Replying to
@K_Niemietz
Nonsense. Equating peaceful direct action with rightwing violent attack on democracy is raw destructive propaganda.
Who funds IEA? Secret thinktanks have subverted UK democracy.
https://twitter.com/DonnachadhMc/status/1565667738483294208
Good morning, Brett!
The Wall is precisely right. I was waiting for him to ask “Who let all this riff-raff into the room?!?”
Pretty bad look. I wonder which libertarian pundit will praise it first.
They seem to be studiously ignoring it.
There’s got to be a Trump-supporting mole in the Biden administration. Who’s idea was that speech, with that backdrop? That’s going to be fodder for memes and the Bee for at least a year. What’s going to be next? “Sir, that speech went over great! But I think for next time, you should show your toughness by growing a small mustache, and wearing a military uniform. Maybe something in brown.”
Oh just wait’ll you see the raft of stories coming through today.
Klismaphilia.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19664724/unreasonable-wash-before-wild-sex/
Well, if he wants butt seks he has to make her want it too…
https://twitter.com/JackTindale/status/1565582144314941440
Speak Anglish.
Can’t. Willima the bastard spilled French in the language pool.
“EXCLUSIVE – The rise of childfree Gen-Z: As demand for female STERILIZATION for under-30s soars, ‘childless-by-choice’ women speak out about their decision and the bitter struggles they’ve faced – from doctors REFUSING surgeries to shock $28K bill
With rising inflation, soaring living costs, and increased anti-abortion legislation sweeping across the US, more and more young women are making the decision at an increasingly early age to be childless – a choice they believe in so passionately that they are taking permanent steps to ensure they can never get pregnant in the form of sterilization.
Over the past few years, the number of Gen-Z and millennial women openly sharing their sterilization journeys has sky-rocketed; social media apps like TikTok and Instagram are being flooded with posts shared by young ladies opening up about their choice to be child-free…
However, while demand for male and female sterilization procedures appears to be at an all-time high, many women have expressed frustration and upset over the difficulties in actually finding a doctor who will perform the surgery for them – with multiple young ladies revealing that they have faced numerous hurdles along the way, from sky-high costs to denials from medical professionals who insist they are ‘too young’ and claim they may well change their mind in the future.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11051355/Gen-Z-women-sterilized-speak-decision.html
No actual numbers though.
Urologists say hello
I actually had my doctor tell me when I asked about a vasectomy that I would need permission from my wife. I pointed out I had been divorced for 4 years by then and didn’t need anything from her. He still wanted someone else to sign off (do you have a girlfriend?).
Never went through with it cause I broke it off with the lady-friend that was trying to get me to be her new bank, but the whole thing fucking drove me nuts. Especially after the doctor told me a woman seeking an abortion would not need permission from her guy.
When I called to get snipped, they said I had to go to some educational meeting about vasectomies before they would schedule the surgery. They told me that the meetings were always on a Thursday and would I like to go to next Thursday’s meeting?
I said sure. The next week came and I was in the middle of a huge clusterfuck at a client site, so I said fuck it and missed the meeting. I’d just go next week. So I called to get a new appointment and they said, “well we only do those every six weeks and the next one would have been Thanksgiving, so that is cancelled. And six weeks after that would be Christmas so we canceled that. We can get you in middle of February.”
Our third kid was born in September. I guess I came home from basketball just too good looking for my wife to handle one night in January.
I could almost have taken this in stride except the informational meeting was a) watching a ’70s era video where every stereotype was on full display: Indian guy with 20 kids already, a black guy who had a bunch of kids out of wedlock and a Catholic who was good even though he was defying the Pope, then b) some nurse saying that it would mean we’d never have kids after this surgery. FUCK!
Glad we have Altar Boy #2 now. Even if we are one of the rare people who’s Ooopsie baby is the youngest and not the oldest.
Tell the urologist you’re an otherkin and your wife is a minotaur of indeterminate gender and he’ll you have you vasectomized and out the door in half an hour to avoid the inevitable discrimination suit.
“In that case, we’ll just use garden shears and take it all off.
I have no recollection of getting asked if Mrs. Tree approved. Would be fine with the question – it’s her property and all.
Anyhoo – my vasectomy story is that the anesthetic didn’t work. At all. That happens to me sometimes, like at the dentist. So it involved the 2 little slits like 3/8″ long, and I felt every bit of it. Just decided to zone out and try to mentally convert the pain signals to cold or something. Didn’t want to sound like a wimp, or startle him, or make it last any longer than necessary, so I didn’t say anything. Doc was ticked at the end when I told him.
Definition of ‘BAM’? Jogs home from his vasectomy.
Except that what actually did hobble me was that the adhesive they used in lieu of stitches actually glued my underwear to my, uhm, self. Hard to walk much that way, much less jog.
I remember be sold on my snippage as “scalpeless”. Sounds awesome. Except the alternative is just to puncture your scrotum and then spread the hole super wide to get at the innards.
My dope worked, so I didn’t feel any pain. Just a weird sensation of tugging at parts that shouldn’t be tugged at.
$28K bill? Color me skeptical.
And the outrage over doctors refusing to do this is what you get from people who don’t realize doctors get a say in what they do. This is where “health care is a right” leads.
I posted a photo from last night’s speech to my FB account and asked WTF. So far, my progressive friends have remained silent. I expected to get shit upon for that post.
That’s what I’m wondering – what percentage of “progressives” will feel any shame? I’ll put it at a very, very low percentage. Anything to keep up the narrative of Trump being the most dangerous person in the world.
*squints suspiciously*
My techs claimed that they have been unable to finish this compare report because it would run for sixteen hours and the server would reboot, or that they would time out their twenty four hour remote connection on their laptops. It’s been running less than two hours on my work desktop and looks to be half done.
Maybe it’s because my work desktop has eight cores and neither the VM nor the laptops had that many… but I’m only at 15% CPU utilization.
The search continues
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is asking former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to voluntarily sit with its investigators, claiming he advised the Trump team in the days after the former president’s loss in the 2020 election.
“Information obtained by the Select Committee suggests that you provided detailed directives about the television advertisements that perpetuated false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, that you sought ways to expand the reach of this messaging, and that you were likely in direct conversations with President Trump about these efforts,” the committee wrote in its letter to Gingrich.
According to the panel, Gingrich was in touch with a number of Trump’s advisors, with his communications ranging from weighing in on ads that he said needed to include a “call to action” to influence voters to even reaching out to high-level White House staff like chief of staff Mark Meadows about how Trump could challenge electors from key states.
Even the night after the attack Gingrich was in touch with Meadows about Trump’s false elector effort.
We will track down the plotters and traitors and make examples of them. None may oppose us and survive.
That’s what they’re working on. Remember though, the fascists are on the other side.
…false claims about fraud in the 2020 election…
Quite a bit of base-stealing there.
Twitter is Testing a Long-Awaited Edit Button
You can be saved from stupidity for only $5!
So for $5 per month can we get an edit button?
*squints suspiciously*
CPRM’s animation budget hardest hit.
As has been pointed out, Twitter does have an ‘edit’ button — you can delete a Tweet and just re-type it with your corrections.
So yeah, stupidity.
So was the Jackson, Mississippi water problem an attempted grift or incompetence?
Yesterday we heard the water plant was broken, irreparably. They said water was gone “indefinitely,” and they’d need $1B to fix it.Today, the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers showed up, turned the system on, and it seems to be working fine. Can’t make this up.
*rechecks valve schematic*
Whoops, it says COUNTERclockwise. My bad.
Why not both? It’s both a floor wax and dessert topping!
“Have you tried turning it off and back on again?”
So they did kindly do the needful!
I’m afraid I can’t be doing that.
I have spent less than a week in Jackson, so I am no expert, but I do know the Jackson airport is a very special level of hell.
See also: Animas River, The EPA, and their contractor.
I learned the other day that Jackson is “the most radical city in the world” or some shit.
But yeah… could be either or both.
While not as impactful..I’ve done that….equipment broke. Troubleshoot for days and in the weeds and someone comes on shift and hits a button and it works…..it sucks
Gotta look for ways to save what with inflation the way it is.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/certified-pre-owned-sex-dolls-27893597
If you buy one from auction, is that Sloopy seconds?
Only if it is all sticky…
Hang on….
I have a tremendous degree of respect for men who can maintain a boner with that uncanny valley shit in their face.
They say you should not kink shame people but sometimes maybe you should
Toyota Cuts Ties With Its Top Editor Over Sexual-Assault Allegation
“Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon,
Why do I imagine a half-dozen salary men all pressing the bra to the face and sniffing it?
I kept trying to think where I’ve seen the color scheme used for Biden’s speech last night. It wasn’t 1984, it was this.
The set designers knew exactly what they were doing.
…Gingrich wrote to Kushner and Miller about the strategy.
“The goal is to arouse the country’s anger through new verifiable information the American people have never seen before[.] . . . If we inform the American people in a way they find convincing and it arouses their anger[,] they will then bring pressure on legislators and governors,” Gingrich wrote.
Oh
my
GOD!
It’s the verifiable part that makes them nervous.
Engaging in politics is terrorism when it opposes the regime, comrade.
The set designers knew exactly what they were doing.
The next one will be from inside a secure
bunkercommand center deep below the White House.Tucker Carlson: Does this make you nervous?
SEMI FASCISTS!
I knew it! It’s those deplorable OTR truckers!
I dislike much about carlson but he occasionally gets it
I watched half of that last night.
I can only cope with Carlson in small doses.
But he was on the money.
Victims of the State
Math and reading scores for 9-year-olds in the US fell between 2020 and 2022 by a level not seen in decades, a foreboding sign of the state of American education two years after the Covid-19 pandemic began.
The results were part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress long-term trend reading and math exams, often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. The exams were administered to age-9 students in early 2020 before the pandemic and then again in early 2022, the group said.
The average scores in 2022 declined 5 points in reading and 7 points in math compared to 2020 — the largest decline in reading since 1990 and the first ever decline in math, the organization said.
US Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told CNN on Thursday the drop in scores was connected to the lack of in-person classroom education during the Covid-19 pandemic and said the US is in an education crisis.
“That is very alarming. It’s disturbing. But it’s not surprising, keeping in mind a year and a half ago over half of our schools were not open for full-time learning,” he said. All schools are now open for in-class learning, he said.
Easily foreseeable consequences are not unintended.
It’s not just the Covid pandemic that caused learning disruptions, Carr said.
“School shootings, violence, and classroom disruptions are up, as are teacher and staff vacancies, absenteeism, cyberbullying, and students’ use of mental health services. This information provides some important context for the results we’re seeing from the long-term trend assessment,” she said.
It were the ultra-MAGA semi-fascists what dunnit.
Give us more money, and this time it will work.
We don’t have to fear Herr Brandon because his military is completely unserious.
A division of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), the branch tasked with confronting China, has ordered its senior leaders and commanders to stop using gender pronouns in written formats, saying the shift to more neutral language will help improve the fighting force’s “lethality.”
“In accordance with the Diverse PACAF priority, ‘We must embrace, promote and unleash the potential of diversity and inclusion,” states a May email sent to senior leaders and commanders at the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, which operates under the Pacific Air Forces, according to a partial copy of the order obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Leaders at the base are instructed, “Do not use pronouns, age, race, etc.” when writing performance reviews or other materials, such as recommendations for awards. “Competition against near-peer adversaries requires a united focus from the command, the joint team, and our international partners. Welcoming and employing varied perspectives from a foundation of mutual respect will improve our interoperability, efficiency, creativity, and lethality.”
Come to think of it, due to how EPRs are structured, back in 07 I wasn’t using pronouns. They are bullet points of achievements.
A1C last name performed…
A1C last name accomplished….
My NCOERs from the 90s didn’t use name, rank, or pronouns (generally no subject) in the bullet points.
Which makes me think this might be policy to keep woke NCOs from slipping them in…not catering to them
No escape JUSTICE
An attorney for the far-right, anti-government group the Oath Keepers has been indicted in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Kellye SoRelle, who was arrested in Junction, Texas, is latest person with ties to the group to face charges stemming from the insurrection. A grand jury in Washington, D.C., handed up an indictment charging her with four counts, including conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding and obstruction of justice.
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SoRelle is a lawyer and close associate of Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers. Rhodes and other members of the group are slated to go on trial at the end of September on seditious conspiracy and other charges for their alleged actions in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The government says they sought to use force to stop Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s election win.
The Inquisitors will never rest in their godly pursuit of heretics and unbelievers.
By that logic, if I have a lawyer on retainer (I do), and I commit a crime, my counsel is guilty of conspiracy?
and/or obstruction of justice
According to their math….you’re right.
Defense counsel’s job is to prepare the defendant for conviction and execution.
“Ive done all I can….”
/plays golf with the prosecutor
I like today’s music.
Leaders at the base are instructed, “Do not use pronouns, age, race, etc.” when writing performance reviews or other materials, such as recommendations for awards. “Competition against near-peer adversaries requires a united focus from the command, the joint team, and our international partners. Welcoming and employing varied perspectives from a foundation of mutual respect will improve our interoperability, efficiency, creativity, and lethality.”
Fuck it. Just randomly pull names from a hat.
Names are forbidden.
Well what is a guy supposed to do? You can’t just give them a number because we all know math is racist.
Give them number and beat them if they dont answer when the number is called
Job Applicant.
Guidance Counselor
The Vice President of Argentina was almost assassinated.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1565532324942737408
Yikes.
From what I saw, and the comments….its as atrocious as Jan 6th
But did she have it coming?
We all have it coming, kid.
Taurus strikes again.
Bersa, I read.
I have to hand it to the Dems. They really are being true to the whole Nazi/Hitler thing they have going on.
The Mar A Lago raid is obviously so they can put Trump into jail for a while. There he can write a book Mein Deal that can be used when he gets out and runs his next campaign. The lack of jail time was definitely a glaring problem with their current comparisons to Hitler.
Tom Luongo would probably argue that Biden attempting to incite civil war is being done at the behest of European banks (ie Davos) and Chinese handlers, all of whom benefit from a weaker and fragmented USA.
At this point, I don’t what the actual motives are, but it doesn’t matter.
Meanwhile at the BAFTA
https://mobile.twitter.com/elliot_gonzalez/status/1565425186278621187
Heh
Well what is a guy supposed to do? You can’t just give them a number because we all know math is racist.
Just line them up and do “eeny meeny miney moe”.
Catch a . . .
Nope, try again.
Monstrous
Pennsylvania Republican Mehmet Oz, after squandering much of the summer, is attempting to shift the focus of the state’s US Senate contest with a series of attacks from his campaign questioning Democrat John Fetterman’s health following his near fatal stroke in May.
Top Oz aides have mocked Fetterman’s health, diet, and recovery in statements and social media posts, seemingly trying to taunt the lieutenant governor into agreeing to a debate. The mockery, which has been derided by Fetterman and scores of Democrats, has seemingly cleaved Oz’s Senate campaign, with the GOP candidate at one point bizarrely suggesting that his own spokespeople — whom he pays to communicate his message to the public — do not necessarily speak for him.
“I can only speak to what I’m saying,” Oz said in a radio interview this week.
The new approach has shaken up the Pennsylvania contest, something Republicans argue had to happen after Oz’s struggles. But it has also exposed the Republican to questions about personal decency, allowing Fetterman to question what kind of doctor would ridicule a stroke survivor.
Asking if your opponent is up to the job is like totally not fair.
Dems would never criticize the apparent health of an opponent. Just look at the kid gloves treatment of Trump.
The GOP should run Terry Shaivo. I’m sure no Dem would question her qualifications.
Wouldn’t a Senate full of 100 vegetables be an improvement?
“what kind of doctor would ridicule a stroke survivor”
An ordinary one? Doctors are not like the scripted underwear models on TV, you know. They are just as crass and profane as anyone, only with bigger egos.
Your own doctor, when you’re not around?
I remember when getting the ole snip snip and the banter and crass talk about another patient between assistant and doc. Yes they are normal people that make normal people jokes, bad as they may be
Democrats hated sexism until they started to wonder aloud how Sarah Palin could be Vice President and a good mommy at the same time.
She swallows.
The US has a ruling class – and Americans must stand up to it
Bernie Sanders
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/02/the-us-has-a-ruling-class-and-americans-must-stand-up-to-it
Bernie x the guardian. Cringe as the kids say
TheBern! would know. He is a member.
Toronto news anchor Farah Nasser swallowed a fly while reporting on the floods in Pakistan.
Did she snatch it out of the air with her ten inch long tongue?
More importantly, does she know why?
Perhaps she’ll die.
Way gonna deadthread this….when the fly drops 6 inches, the reporter is sure to swallow