BEST NEWS TODAY: Oberlin college initiates payment of judgement in Gibson’s Bakery case.
UNPOSSIBLE! Residents of frozen socialist shit-hole not happy with their free, universal healthcare.
ALLEGEDLY CORRUPT GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL ARRESTED IN DEATH OF JOURNALIST: Clark County, Nevada, Public Administrator Robert Telles arrested on suspicion of murder of investigative journalist Jeff German whose beat was public corruption. Although you have to dig for it in the coverage I’ve seen, Telles was a Democrat. And what is a public administrator you ask? It’s a government official who oversees the estates of deceased persons until heirs and executors are located.
CNN CONFUSED, THINKS IT’S THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC: As temperatures cool this fall, it’s important to remember that climate change will be back next summer. That’s called weather, CNN.
JEZEBEL SWINGS AND MISSES: Surveillance Titan Peter Thiel Invests Millions in New Anti-Feminist Menstrual Tracking App. An app which nobody is required to buy or use, Jezzies, but don’t let that stop you hyperventilating. One of Jezebel’s many complaints about this is the privacy policy, which explicitly states that it will turn over user data collected by the app to police in response to a “court order, law or legal process.” Yeah, Jezebel, they kind of have to do that, privacy policy or not. Jezebel also questions The Science™ behind the app, only to take friendly fire in this lovely comment by “nosleeptillsmooklyn,” who wrote [j]ust want to give some credit to Alisa Vitti, a pro-science person and feminist whose take on exercising differently throughout the menstrual cycle they are stealing and rebranding in this regressive way. [link ours]
NASA STILL CAN’T GET IT UP: NASA scrubs Artemis 1 launch yet again, plans on-pad repair. There has been speculation at Glibs HQ that they don’t care if the mission fails catastrophically since the mission is unmanned, and the entire program is a boondoggle. Failure would be rewarded with more money and contract extensions.
WEST VIRGINIA WOMAN: Caches contraband in cooter, caught by cops with canine.
“BEST NEWS TODAY: Oberlin college initiates payment of judgement in Gibson’s Bakery case.”
Hopefully, they won’t continue to drag their feet.
Then after waiting for payment information, they can wait on their accountants, who then wait on their lawyers…..
Somebody’s going to Disney World!
Yeah — to stay in business they’re going to knead a lot of dough.
Buns? Swiss is going to slam the oven door and deflate your soufflé.
I want to know when the last payment is.
Ya beat me to the punch on the Oberlin story! Never go up against a Sicilian when links are on the line…
I hope they bankrupt themselves
Don’t look up the Oberlin endowment.
I had to walk into the squirrel room and stop the machinery, just like in the old movies about newspapers stopping the presses when a big story broke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfHu-UJaK0Q
For shame for shame for SHAME. /GomerPyle
At least they didn’t fall out of her ass.
“Sis Slams Synthetics In Slit! Fuzz Inspects Fuzz!”
… when the dogs begin to smell her …
Played that song in a set that ran Hush, Tush, Plush and Rush.
+1 You’re goin’ to hell for that one!
Natures pocket!
World’s longest understudy finally ascends to the leading role!
Chileans not as dumb as the assembly that drafted a constitution rivaling the DoD Federal Rules of Acquisition!
I went to Burning Man and came home with COVID!
And now we get to watch while the idiot Charles destroys what’s left of the monarchy.
Ending monarchy bad?
Yup. With all the stupid shit that has fallen out of Chuckles’ Spotted Dick hole, it seems likely he’ll just fuck things up more.
All hail King Kotex!
What’s the over/under on how long Chuck lives?
It’s already too long.
It would be droll if after all this time he ended cracking like an egg.
I dunno; what does he have on Hillary?
It’s not like the monarch does anything anymore other than grin and shake hands.
IIRC there are some rituals to be performed in front of Parliament but he doesn’t actually make any decisions or anything.
In theory he can withhold Royal Assent from bills, preventing them from becoming law, but I think the last monarch to do that was Queen Anne.
The monarch also appoints Governor-Generals for countries that aren’t the UK that still have the monarch as Head of State. The Governor-General can give or withhold Royal Assent on behalf of the monarch. In some of those countries, the Governor-General can also order new Parliamentary elections. The last time a Governor-General did that was in Australia in the 70s. It was an unpopular move which helped kickstart the Australian Republican movement.
‘As of 2021, former governors general are entitled to a lifetime pension of nearly $150,000 and also to claim an additional $206,000 in expenses each year.[188]’
hot damn, how do I sign up?
Well it isn’t like he’s ascending the throne in a time of massive inflation with looming energy and food shortages that are sure to cause social unrest or anything.
(Nah… it’ll be FINE — as one of our favorite ‘cross the Ponders is wont to quip…)
I’m sure he’s happy to not be a Hannoverian ruling over Germany.
Imagine if Robert Telles was a Republican. The MSM would be going berserk.
As it is – too local news.
Yep. More proof of how dangerous those MAGA insurrectionists are.
Either way, it’s not that big of a story.
I’m not sure if Jezebel is jealous that people actually read Evie, or that Brittany Martinez looks better than anyone who ever even thought about writing for them.
Caches contraband in cooter, caught by cops with canine.
*Ovation*
*commentariat commences cacophonous clapping*
Constitutional clause capaciously clipped
Fentanyl? Pshaw!
Everyone knows it’s c-c-c-cocaine in the c-c-c-clam.
Is your dealer K-k-k-k-ken, c-c-c-c-coming to k-k-k-k-kill you?
A lil something for everyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nztp7NBujaE
“Caches contraband in cooter, caught by cops with canine.”
He smells my dog!
H/T George Carlin
Oberlin College initiates payment of awarded damages in Gibson’s Bakery case
How much did you bet?
$1
Some rich old lady in the UK died.
She just died? Wow, I didn’t know that. You’re telling me now for the first time. She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman. Whether you agree or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I am actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear that.
*Another ovation*
Y’all are on fire today.
Indeed.
I’ve been listening to the Skate Rock channel on Pandora lately, and that song was on yesterday. First time I’d heard it in years.
Rich? I thought she was a welfare Queen
When you count the income generated by the royal family, they’re actually a profit centor for the UK government even before tourist revenues are included.
To elaborate, Georges III and IV signed over the revenues from their direct langholdings to the UK government in exchange for fixed payments from the civil lists (but not the ownership of the lands themselves). Today, that revenue exceeds the amount paid to the royal family many times over. So the Windsors got screwed by the Georges not setting an end date on the agreement.
The government would have nationalized it by now in any case.
Too Local News: More on Granite PAC
This might make the unity breakfast a bit awkward. Granite PAC, which I mentioned yesterday as the source of the attack mailer on Rep Melissa Blasek, spent money to go after six Republican House reps with primaries.
First, this PAC claimed that it exists for one purpose. To support Chris Sununu.
Curious whether the Oberlin payout is going to spur anything nasty from their Proggie allies. I could see students doing something just to be foul.
Oh perish the thought of the Oberlin administration caught between the hammer and the anvil. [I bet you hear me snickering all the way from here.]
Yeah, I’ve kept up with Jacobson’s coverage for years. They’ve been consistently petty and vindictive, and as he points out are clearly unapologetic. The administration has probably been thrashed enough by their lawyers to not say anything else, but I suspect there’s plenty of derangement in the student body, and I could see it getting out.
A bunch of racists run an attack ad against John Fetterman
Well, that’s how it will be spun.
A new ad hitting airwaves in Pennsylvania is hammering Democrat U.S. Senate nominee — and current Lt. Governor — John Fetterman for an incident that happened in 2013 when the then-mayor of Braddock held a black jogger at gunpoint until police arrived after apparently falsely assuming the man was involved in a crime.
The ad includes clips of an interview with the jogger-turned-victim along with quotes from an unapologetic Fetterman on how he “may have” broken the law when he pointed his shotgun at the man’s chest.
Totally racist, which Fetterman isn’t because he’s an authentic working class kind of Democrat.
[ok that’s not snickering, I’m howling with laughter]
Can we please do away with NASA?
Its all so silly when you look at what Elon is doing.
Hell NASA is making the Russians look competent.
If a period tracking app from a women’s magazine that grounds itself in conservative, anti-trans definitions of womanhood didn’t raise enough alarms for me,
LOL.
I wonder what the rightwing response would be if George Soros invested in an app that tracked individual gun ownership?
Fair comparison.
I think folks around here would be ok with a smart watch telling them when they have a gun deficiency, and when ammo goes on sale.
And to make sure you have a shooting period every month!
“PICTURED: Boy, 13, who killed himself on first day back at school after being targeted again by relentless bullies – heartbroken mom says children ‘taunted and hurt him’ as she urges parents to ‘teach your kids to be kind'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11194145/PICTURED-North-Carolina-boy-13-killed-day-back.html
Damn.
If that happened to my son, may God forgive me for what I would do to the motherfuckers who bullied him. I’d take a personal interest in watching them suffer, to quote Tom Berenger from Platoon.
And to the teachers and parents who allowed it to happen.
Teach your kids that the solution to bullying is violence.
Would it have mattered in this case? Who knows – it’s terrible to even read about. But somebody who’s a “relentless bully” in 8th grade needed to get his ass kicked way before that. And “the system” should reward that kind of ass-kicking.
The system punishes that kind of ass-kicking.
Anyone who refuses the boot on the face young learns all kinds of wrong lessons.
When my son was in 6th grade, he was being bullied. So I told him what to do:
As far as I know, he didn’t have to act on this. But I think hearing that he had a parent in his corner, so to speak, put some steel in his spine.
Told my son pretty much the same thing. I don’t think he ever had to use the advice either, but I found out recently that he smacked the shit out of someone who hurt my daughter. So there’s that.
I taught my daughter a similar approach, only with a nut punch, not a face punch.
God dammit.
I wish I would not have clicked on that. Poor little guy.
Yeah. That was a rough read.
Peak Florida Man doesn’t exi…
A cascade of bad decisions turned him into a lefty.
Merda learned his lesson. “Leave them gators alone.”
Words to live by.
Went back through my vaccine resources and found this video from MIT I had forgotten about.
I seriously recommend everyone watch it, and then go beat that idiot Ron Bailey over the fucking head with it.
https://youtu.be/yYQ0lwzFgu8
Bailey wrote recently: Disclosure: I have been fully vaccinated (Moderna) and boosted twice (Pfizer). I also had a mild case of COVID-19 earlier this summer that I treated with Paxlovid and I experienced Paxlovid rebound. Nevertheless, I intend to get an updated booster in early October. Everyone should take their own circumstances into account as they update their risk preferences with respect to COVID-19 boosters this fall.
I take my statement back. Beating Bailey is unnecessary, he’s going to kill himself.
They ran old Liz right down to the cords. Got their money’s worth, they did. They just don’t make monarchs like they used to.
No shit about not making them like they used to.
Hopefully Chuckles won’t run it into the ground before Wills and Kate have their opportunity to restore good will.
And better hope nothing happens to William, to spare the world a woke King of England.
Well, all William’s kids are in line before Mr. Markle.
OK. I don’t follow this stuff so I didn’t know that. I don’t even know what kids he has.
He has 3. Harry is 5th in line to the throne.
I am hoping that Chuckles will boot him from the line of succession altogether and strip the Markles of their Duke and Dutchess to titles.
Well, it’s not like Chuck is Harry’s real father…
Boy, Webb Hubbell really got around.
I am hoping that Chuckles will boot him from the line of succession altogether and strip the Markles of their Duke and Dutchess to titles.
He has no power to kick Mr. Markle out of the line of succession. I think an Act of Parliament could do it, but Charles can’t.
The UK switched to equal gender primogeniture so it is currently Will then his kids in order. Each additional kid or future grandkids of Will are before Hank.
Based on his parents longevity, he’ll probably be King for 20 years.
And what a cuck for not going with King Arthur, since that is one of his names.
He’s not worthy. He knows it.
He is spineless and unwise.
Yeah, he was kinda stuck. Phillip is too European for a British King. Arthur takes balls he doesn’t have. George would be legit, and he gets a bigger roman numeral. But he’s been known as Charles for so long that he kinda has to stick with it.
He is spineless and unwise.
In which case he’s quite right to become Charles III.
I’m wondering if some lore or superstition hasn’t grown up around the prospect of another King Arthur, such as it being a harbinger of the end days or (less apocalyptically) the fall of the Kingdom. Can’t turn up any such belief in a cursory web search, so I may have just made it up.
The last Prince Arthur died in his teens, leading to his widow marrying Henry VIII and then the whole mess Henry made trying to have a viable son.
And before that, apparently Arthur, Duke of Brittany, was named heir to his uncle Richard the Lionheart, but was almost certainly killed by his uncle John, so….not a great track record. (::recalls the fun, dysfunctional family portrayed in The Lion in Winter::)
I wonder if the the next Arthur would be Arthur II. I think you would almost have to do that even though the first one probably didn’t exist.
Well, they reset the regnal numbers when Billy the Bastard murdered Harold the last true king. So he’s be Arthur I under the new numbering system.
For reference, There were three Edwards who were King of England before Edward I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward
The English monarchy traces back to Alfred the Great uniting the Saxons. King Arthur was a legendary king of the Britons who the Saxons replaced. The Saxons never claimed that crown so he would not be part of their line.
https://britroyals.com/royaltree.asp
Well, they reset the regnal numbers when Billy the Bastard murdered Harold the last true king. So he’s be Arthur I under the new numbering system.
I have a vague memory of a case in the UK which stated a monarch gets use whatever regnal numbers the monarch wants.
I found the wiki page on the case. It looks like the court had several reasons for dismissing the case, one of which is the regnal number is part of the royal prerogative.
Interesting graphic. Germany’s responsible for a third of that tree.
Will they return Obama’s iPod or is that displayed with the crown jewels?
That was chucked in the garbage.
I would accept that as an axiom.
Come on down and check out our low low prices!
General Motors’ second chance at establishing itself as a mass-market leader in all-electric vehicles is expected to begin next year with the arrival of the Chevrolet Equinox EV.
The all-electric crossover is scheduled to go on sale in the U.S. next fall, starting at around $30,000 – a price level many automakers haven’t been able to achieve as the cost to build electric vehicles and the batteries needed to power them continues to rise.
GM executives expect the 2024 Equinox EV, officially unveiled Thursday, to become a high-volume seller for the Detroit automaker, as it transitions to exclusively offer electric cars and trucks by 2035.
You can set the price anywhere you want, as long as you don’t mind losing money.
Ask Mary how many running versions exist.
And I’m sure everyone will have confidence that 7 years from now the battery won’t be discontinued and be $15k or anything. Because GM never ever does anything like that….
Most EVs come with an 8 year 70% of rated capacity warranty on battery.
Most EVs aren’t Equinox (GM’s cheapest-of-the-cheap SUV and with plenty of GM’s “design by Tupperware philosophy”), aren’t priced down at $30k starting (barring the golf carts) and don’t have GM’s lovely tendency to discontinue models out of the blue.
But otherwise I see your point. 😉
EVs don’t readily replace ICE in lots of applications, but for some they can be just if not more economic.
This thing as a second car in a suburban area could be quite economic.
Also keep in mind, to have an EV you need to be in a wealth bracket that supports having a house with a garage, and you’re probably going to need a workplace with a charger.
I’ve been looking (pre-accident) at a cheap commuter car, and there are a lot of hidden costs to an EV beyond the car itself.
If your round trip is 125 miles you only need home charging.
I’m guessing GM will have a new easily swappable battery kit. Couple dozen AAs, at that price.
You can also go Tesla’s route and say you make a car starting at $30,000 but it is currently only available with packages that raise the price by $15-20k.
The model 3 is north of 50k.
It was promised to be $35.
Bailey wrote recently: Disclosure: I have been fully vaccinated (Moderna) and boosted twice (Pfizer). I also had a mild case of COVID-19 earlier this summer that I treated with Paxlovid and I experienced Paxlovid rebound. Nevertheless, I intend to get an updated booster in early October. Everyone should take their own circumstances into account as they update their risk preferences with respect to COVID-19 boosters this fall.
“I’m a good little doggy, I m.”
Holy crap! A politician doing something that at least doesn’t sound stupid? I didn’t think that was allowed in 2022….
I’m sure she’ll get on that right after she nukes Russia.
Apparently the UK will cancel premier league games on down for the next 10 days, except United* and West Ham played home games this afternoon, after the news of queen dying. The champions league most likely will still be played next week, where Chelsea, Liverpool, and City all have home games. How does any of this mournfest make sense?
*United played with a moment of silence and black armbands today. Of the 22 starters on the field, 21 were not British.
Well, the other club was Spanish.
The perfect gift for your Doomsday LARPer friends and loved ones
The rugged Watch Ultra, designed for extreme outdoor conditions like snow, deep water, high winds, or heat, is for serious outdoors athletes: ultramarathon runners, rock climbers, big wave surfers of Nazaré, scuba divers, heli-skiers. Buttons that are bigger and easier to press with snow gloves, tougher glass for when your hand smashes against the rock wall, long battery life for 48-hour runs in the desert, diving features like water temperature and pressure. At first glance, this all seems like happy and useful things for affluent sporty types with an REI co-op membership. But something darker lurks beneath the surface…all these features are for extreme climates — the kind of climates that we all may be living in soon.
Although the watch seems like it’s a fun device for a weekend hobbyist, it’s just as practical for survival in a post-climate-apocalypse. Droughts, tsunamis, avalanches, blackouts, outrunning roving gangs of cannibalistic bandits…this is the Apple Watch Ultra’s time to shine.
The most exciting feature of the new iPhone 14 series is the satellite emergency calling. For the first time, your regular phone can connect to a satellite when it’s off the cellular grid, allowing you to make emergency calls from the middle of nowhere (Apple will have its own staffed emergency call center, which will then connect you to local services.) Like car crash detection, this will undoubtedly save lives; there are hikers who die each year in US national parks after getting lost without cell service.
But there’s something eerie about the most exciting feature of the latest iPhone being “it might help if you’re about to die of exposure while lost in the woods.” We’re used to new tech products hinting at dystopia in more sci-fi ways: surveillance in our homes, algorithms running our lives, companies dry-humping our personal data. This hints at Old Testament dystopia: floods and plagues and wandering alone through the desert for 40 days.
THE END IS NEAR.
He said “the sheriff is near!”
Serious journalism from Buzzfeed.
“there are hikers who die each year in US national parks after getting lost without cell service.”
Stop expecting to have service while in nature, you morons. Take a paper map, or at least download a map to your phone.
Christ.
Gaia GPS is a cheap, brilliant app that lets you download or print maps.
This is just marketing… Apple already tried to lure the fashionista’s with the Apple Watch Edition.. with Gold, etc.. it flopped miserably.
This is just another attempt to rope in an affluent , trend setting group… Don’t you want to be seen as a real explorer? etc. minor product differentiation for the in crowd.
Until it has continuous (< 1sec) O2 monitoring, I will pass.
I was not aware that either of those was a hazard for watches. Mine seem unaffected by Tucson summers, and I can’t recall a watch every crapping out because it was windy.
I’m going with the tower of babble.
But will it survive a massive solar flare?
Will someone enact my labor for me?
How / where can I stream the NFL game tonight? I cancelled my Fubo subscription and am not sure if I need that new NFL+ channel to get the game.
Tonight is NBC, next week it goes behind Amazon Prime.
That’s just un-American.
Then again, I think Thursday night football is too much.
It’s on NBC. Not sure if you can stream for free on the network’s site.
Worst case scenario, Sports bar.
Worst?
How / where can I stream the NFL game tonight?
Do you have Prime? Peacock, maybe?
Seriously.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3634277-klobuchar-pulls-vote-on-bipartisan-tech-bill-says-agreement-blown-up-by-cruz-amendment/
Newsrooms get government bargaining power.
She’s not wrong. Although I am curious now as to how the quasi-monopoly and all-collusion tech platforms avoid anti-trust scrutiny, now that she mentions it.
avoid anti-trust scrutiny
Services rendered to the state?
So the Queen is Dead?
Maybe, someday they can have a real queen.
A Farewell to [Queens]
May be appropriate?
The queens we use would not excite you
There it is.
Bravo, Sir! Bravo!
Blinken unveils $2 billion in aid for Ukraine, other European countries threatened by Russia
Well, since you don’t need approval from Congress to go to war, why would you need approval to fund one?
The ROI from the Burisma deal is amazing.
Heh
https://westernrifleshooters.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/b7bbf49b5a4de971.png
Thieves, nothing but thieves
The gypsies and tramps are across the border in Romania?
Music for Charles III
https://youtu.be/b9ygIvMtcdw
NASA should probably get Thiel’s new app first. Could save them some trouble.
*slow clap turns into torrent of applause*
This won’t be well received by the Covidians
Let me highlight Fatty Bolger’s work from the prior thread when I mentioned the outrage this created.
https://i.imgflip.com/6spl85.jpg
That’s nice.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaRws6FhZ7Q
I finally found the Anglish Wikipedia
It looks like Old English not Anglish.
I was going to just call it the English Wikipedia.
The surreal part is how some of the text makes perfect sense and other parts are “I have no idea what that says”
I may have found peak derp.
There is no limit to derp.
This is gold.
I don’t know, ROAT — that’s pretty stunningly close to the Derp Asymptote.
Derp is the ultimate renewable resource.
Calvin Coolidge I would accept.
Swiss consider jail terms, up to 3 years, for those who heat homes above 19 C.
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/switzerland-considers-jailing-people-who-heat-rooms-above-19c/article_46f2ea36-2edd-11ed-a650-c79d22935574.html
The 3 years is the duration of the restrictions “Switzerland is looking into imprisoning people who warm their rooms to 19C for the next three years”. It says there will be fines with “continuing scofflaws facing jail time”.
So I can take a long, hot shower but only at normal times.
Unmentioned in the article: Also, a jail term of at least 5 years for bad puns.
There are good ones?
My puns are good.
And 6 for good ones?
Hah!
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1532708007263477763?s=20&t=2XTdvwjkfe2ve7a4HR-i8Q
She always did seem like a well adjusted person.
The New Mexico State Fair just started and, as typical of events, there is a contest for the most unique food item.
I’m not sure about the caramel apple but some of those sound pretty good.
https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/outside-the-box-contestants-compete-for-most-unique-food-item-at-nm-state-fair/