Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another lovely day! And the links!
Biden’s depletion of the strategic petroleum reserve was for nothing
Biden celebrates ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ as stock market tanks due to rising inflation
FBI seizes My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell’s phone
Democrats Spend $53 Million To Help ‘MAGA Republicans’ Win Primaries
Twitter shareholders approve $44 billion Musk buyout
Industry admitting true self-driving cars may be impossible
Is SNL Over? Rumors Float Show May Be On The Ropes
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
If we can’t have self-driving cars I guess we’ll have to force everyone onto public transit.
It’s ridiculous to say they’re impossible. I think we can be nearly 100% certain that it will be possible at some point, it’s just a matter of when.
Is SNL over?
The current administration doesn’t provide enough material for them to work with?
Making fun of democrats is treason, citizen.
Look at the Babylon Bee. They are killing it, but the jokes just seem to write themselves. If SNL were still a comedy show instead of yet another hour and a half of propaganda, they’d be killing it too.
third
Your twitter shareholders are talking about nuclear enrichment.
Curiouser and curiouser
The URL is nuclear enrichment, but the article is twitter.
It’s like when Congress does a gut and replace amendment to a bill.
whaddup doh’
whats goody
Not our finances.
“Inflation still going strong”
And the price of stocks is down.
Buy on the dip!
The downward trajectory of SNL, while predictable after running for so long, is still very sad for me. TDS broke so many people and things.
I don’t recall a time when it was funny, so I have no real felings on the matter.
Though admittedly, the sample size was small because once it had established itself as unfunny, I didn’t tune in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F02P2JO7yfc
Carvey, Hartman (et al); also 70s
Norm made fun of Bill and Hillary all the time.
True. Myers, Spade, Farley, Sandler had their moments too. The Carvey/Spade podcast is terrific.
There’s a Carvey Spade podcast?
Fly on the Wall, newish.
https://youtu.be/RxINRbE2R8A
Traditionally, a person’s thought of SNL’s peak is when the person was between 15-18.
That’s an interesting observation. It’s the age where kids still want silly humor but also want to be more “adult” and be seen to be concerned about more adult topics. SNL treats adult topics with the silliness of children (not necessarily a bad thing all the time).
The last funny bit I can recall from SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDSeb2zHQ0
Son of a bitch.
So what does it say about the show, that you and I could only come up with one example in 8 years of Obama getting made fun of?
I remembered that bit, but forgot they were roasting Obama’s excesses. I wonder how many writers got canned over that.
Mostly they “lampooned” Obama for being too smart and too brave, being beset by idiots and evil Republicans.
With you on this. If you put tied a monkey to a typewriter for 50 years, you’d have a higher success rate. And most of that time you’d just have a dead monkey laying next to a typewriter.
You could probably get funny material faster by killing the monkey sooner.
Like many shows, it stopped being funny long before Trump. While SNL hasn’t been funny in ages, most of the late night shows stopped being funny when Obama became President because they couldn’t make fun of a black guy.
Here was a rare example of SNL trying to skewer Obama. Not terrible but at least they were trying. Not a bad concept, but could have been been a bit more nasty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDSeb2zHQ0
Ended for me when they fired Norm for being too edgy.
Yep. TDS should be a real psych diagnosis. Which DSM V recognized condition might it be closest to?
Delusional Disorder
There you have it, on good authority.
Last thing that made me laugh.
https://youtu.be/evUWersr7pc
It’s the Soviet Union Taco according to Churchill.
This skit was a favorite for me. Yellow face trigger warning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVmybhXqtU
“Twitter shareholders approve $44 billion Musk buyout”
Wrong link?
No one reads the links.
As UCS pointed out the URL doesn’t match the content.
lets agree any issue is UCs’s fault and move on
Are you wearing your agreement gloves?
Just the one on my right hand, I am not a barbarian
What are you doing with your left hand?
“Lindell said that they began asking him questions about Colorado and Dominion voting machines, and eventually told him that they had “some bad news.”
The officers told him that they had a warrant for his cell phone, and would be confiscating it, to which Lindell replied that he needed it to “run five companies” as he doesn’t have a computer.
Lindell then spoke with a lawyer, who advised him to hand over the phone, at which point he said he did.
After showing a copy of the warrant, Lindell explained that he was not even given a chance to do a backup of his phone, that it was simply taken away.
He called the actions of the FBI “disgusting” and “garbage.””
No mention of the crime being investigated.
Questioning the Government in the 1st Degree.
Yup. Any questioning of the certification process or alternate electors is being spun into “conspiracy to violently overthrow an election” by the premise that the January 6th riot was such an attempt and that anyone, anywhere who raised questions fed into the protest which fed into the riot. It would be laughable if they weren’t doing it.
But going on and on about how Trump was “illegitimate” and “Russia hacked the election” was perfectly fine.
No mention of the crime being investigated.
Refusal to accept the Democratic Party as your benevolent tyrant.
Doesn’t it have to refer to some actual law?
The caught him with the goods.
I’m assuming it has to do with Tina Peters.
The pressure that has been brought to bear on her indicates that they are scared shitless of the evidence she has concerning the voting machines in Colorado. I didn’t give it much credence before, but it definitely has them riled up.
They’re behaving in a manner reserved for enemies of a corrupt monarchy.
They have nothing to worry about. Media ignores the story and Tina fades away just like Brooke Jackson.
I haven’t even heard of them?
Well, I’ve got six hours of driving ahead of me, and I’m behind schedule because I decided to sleep in until dawn. Now I get to cross into central time, where the clocks are all an hour slow.
See you guys later.
Have fun. Love the open road… though the Mark 1 deer interceptor last trip put a bit of a damper on the whole occasion.
In civilized Europe you could take a train and relax
Yeah, but over here in the States we don’t rely on freight trains moving our coffins.
The sell-off of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is either incredibly stupid or intentionally malicious.
It’s the kind of thing you do to get through a supply crisis like the BP oil spill. When the supply comes back, you stop selling from the SPR then slowly build it back up. But there has been no temporary interruption of supply – the Biden Administration is a 4 year interruption – and no event on the horizon that will change the supply situation for the better.
Unless the war in the Ukraine end soon, there is going to be a very nasty snap back this winter.
According to my lefty friends, using it as a political piggy bank is exactly what it’s for. Besides, we are going totally renewable by 2030! Theres a mandate!
With global warming we can just go solar.
We just need to stretch out the last fumes of the reserve until 2035 when we ban all cars.
Something we knew from the beginning. Now to refill, ha-ha, with more non-existent high priced stuff.
Mike Lindell is a real threat, what with giving me “One last chance” to save a bundle on his goods. He would have been a used car salesman, back when there was used cars.
Igor Danchenko is a Russian citizen so a DC jury will probably convict him, not for the crimes he’s accused of but for being Russian.
For Tundra
https://youtu.be/CDKku2TH_ng
That is absolutely unbelievable. I love the look on her face at the end when she gets busted!
Definitely a Ray of Sunshine! Thanks, KK!
Good morning glibs! Just poking my head in here before the kiddos get going this morning. We just got back from a 2 week road trip to my brother’s wedding and other assorted stops. It was not nearly as easy as last fall’s road trip (the 22 month old was the main difference… “unbuckle” was her favorite word), but we got to have a lot more fun since people aren’t so covid paranoid this time.
The 5 year old ended up taking a plunge off the wrong end of a waterside and falling 8 feet headfirst onto concrete. We feared the worst, especially since she was out cold when we got to her, but, miraculously, the CT scan showed nothing. In fact, besides a small knot on her left temple where her head hit, there was nary a bruise! We expected to be in concussion protocol with her for a couple weeks, but by that evening, she was mostly back to normal. The next morning it was as if it never happened. I’m pretty sure wife and I have had more lasting trauma from it than the 5 year old has. Miraculous.
Yeowch… glad your little muppet is safe. The felt must have helped. Also glad the family car trip went well (can just picture the excitement of the 22 month old to rip free of the harness and explore strange new rest stops…. to boldly go, where no toddler has gone before! Well, probably lots… but don’t tell her!).
Good deal, Trashy, all the way around. Kids are resilient, good thing for us parents. Then they grow up. Good to be home though, isn’t it?
Yep, I get 8 or 9 days in and the itch has been thoroughly scratched. At that point, I’m ready to mosey on home. A 10 day trip is about perfect for me.
I keep trying to put HH onto our itinerary for our fall road trips, but it just hasn’t worked out the last couple years. Hopefully there are no weddings or covid lockdowns to foul my plan next year. BTW, your honey was the secret ingredient in the sauce for the ribs I made the other day. So good!
Holy shit, trashy!
So glad to hear she’s ok.
+1!
We had something similar with our little one (minus the unconscious part) but she also walked it off. If I had done the same thing I’d for sure be concussed. I don’t know how they do it. I still worry about that fall every once in a while though.
Glad everything is ok. The kid should wear a helmet outside the house until age 21.
8 foot, wow. Glad to hear shes okay. That would be a nightmare to see happen.
My boy has decided its time to learn how to step up and down off of ledges and every time he does I get scwry thoughts of him stumbling and knocking his head open, and I’m not really an anxious person.
3rd son, almost 2 likes to climb up on tables and other furniture, stand up, and shake his head “no” while laughing. All I can do is ignore it and hope he doesn’t fall. I will say, having the Nugget futon couches has made him much better at changing levels than my first two were at similar age. The Nugget makes an excellent place for parents to lie down where crawlers and toddlers can get to them if you have the ‘vid or a hangover.
We’ve mostly curbed the daredevil tendencies of our almost 2 year old. She still likes to stand on her high chair at the end of the meal for some reason.
I forgot that she had a head-on-concrete experience the day before her sister did. She decided to take her balance bike down the front steps at our rental. She has a nice bit of road rash on her forehead from it.
Glad to hear she’s OK.
It’s great that they don’t weigh anything and their little bodies are so fast to heal. Glad she’s okay
Glad she’s OK.
What we finally learned to say about knots on the head after several similar instances: “Well, better out than in.”
Uffda. Watching your kids around heights has always been a scrotum scruncher for me. Your story doesn’t help (even though mine are all old now). I don’t have any real fear of heights for myself, but watching the spazzy kids around them makes me nervous beyond belief.
So glad to hear that your kid bounced back. It is amazing the punishment their little bodies can take. Mine fell off bikes constantly while trying tricks*. They’d cry for a bit and then get back to it. The summer I wiped out was weeks of pain.
Oops, I forgot to call out that asterisk.
* One summer they were re-sealing our street and the neighborhood kids spent two weeks trying to set the record for the longest skid mark through the little rocks they put over the the road. If I had been a savvy investor, I would have invested heavily in bactine and band-aids. I would have cleaned up that week.
Mine took up climbing, so I never get to stop worrying.
It’s easier to make a reckless kid less reckless than it is to make a cautious kid more reckless. My kid tsks me for going through yellow lights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNmnroyJSzo
Dear Lord, that would have given me a heart attack. Will pray that she continues to have a full recovery.
Yikes, that’s scary! I’m glad she’s recovering well without damage.
As a new parent myself, stories like this just got turned up to 11 in emotional impact.
Yikes.
I know EXACTLY how you feel. Mine fell on her head twice. The first time was when she was a relative newborn. I was occupied on the throne and she wiggled her way off the bed and fell on the stepstool I use to get in bed (yes, it’s that high).
The second time, she was 1.5 years old. She was playing on some gym equipment and fell on her head on the concrete and started having seizures. She had seizures all the way to the hospital, and then once in the CT scanner. Nothing was wrong and she never had another seizure, but I think it did do something to her mentally, and I certainly do think it caused her to have migraines. She had an MRI as a teenager but nothing was wrong there/then, either.
I had bad chronic headaches. Worse than migraines. MRI didn’t show anything either.
Ouch. Glad your five year old is OK.
I can’t imagine how horrible that was for you and mrs trsh. I’m glad to hear she bounced back quickly.
I am glad to hear she is OK, Trashy, and that you had a good trip.
The ‘orning ‘ordle report… preliminary was not great, but not horrible — the main event was about as bad as it gets without veering into Chumptown. Seed word productivity is down 75% — corny futures are building up to a strong market. Expect a drizzle of lame puns later this afternoon, narrowing to a gaze by evening.
Daily Duotrigordle #196
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 07:47.82
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 233
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Seems like anytime theres a choice between 2 letters i will inevitably pick the wrong one.
disappointing, From Tundra I expected it but not for you. shame.
I am shamed, and have brought dishonor upon myself. I must commit sudoku.
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Bleh.
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A good day. Could have gone for even better, but went to #2 seed rather than guess after first hit.
Chessle 214 (Normal) 5/6
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https://jackli.gg/chessle
Daily Quordle 233
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Pretty easy, all fell into place, missed a 50/50 on LL.
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Somehow everything fell into place today.
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Queen had secret Wii bowling talent, was gifted 24K gold Nintendo
https://nypost.com/2022/09/13/queen-had-secret-wii-bowling-talent-gifted-24k-gold-nintendo
FortNine did a recent video on why Tesla’s autopilot may be failing to see motorcycles (and subsequently killing the riders.)
https://youtu.be/yRdzIs4FJJg
Interesting video, thanks.
Will Harley riders start adding souped up wifi hotspots that swamp the spectrum locally in order to show up on autopilot radars?
“Loud Frequencies save lives” will be their new motto when confronted about them interfering with other wireless devices.
“REVEALED: 97 members of Congress or their families bought or sold stock that may have been a conflict of interest”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11209689/97-members-Congress-families-bought-sold-stock-conflict-interest.html
Only 97?
“We did a sample of 100.” – totally made up quote
“83% of all quotes attributed to me on the internet are not actually my quotes.”
-Abraham Lincoln
There’s a reason almost all of them become millionaires while in office.
“A man accused of ‘beheading his ex-girlfriend with a samurai sword’ in broad daylight, while her young children were inside her Northern California home, is believed to be a US citizen, despite previous reports claiming the contrary.
Karina Castro, 27, was beheaded with the weapon outside her Bay Area home Thursday last week by her ex-boyfriend Jose Raphael Solano Landaeta, 33, according to authorities.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11209477/Man-beheaded-ex-girlfriend-sword-legally-despite-previous-reports.html
They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re weaboos. And some, I assume, are good people.
How do you behead someone legally? Oh, wait, the actual headline had more words in it.
a samurai sword – the only sword a true man of culture would use
Hey now, sword canes are a time honored choice for distinguished gentlemen.
man of culture?
Japanese swords are for weebs and poseurs.
Cambodian swords are where it’s at.
Woulda been easier and just as effective to remove the tongue.
This will forever be the funniest thing I’ve seen
https://twitter.com/MuaazMia/status/1569686391801679876
not even top 100 tbh
it’s cute though
Authoritarianism
Both Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism
The problem with American politics isn’t polarization—it’s rising illiberalism.
Stephanie Slade
https://reason.com/2022/09/13/the-authoritarian-convergence/
“The American people, on the other hand, are instinctual liberals by and large—not in the sense of being left of center but in the sense of believing at a deep level that even one’s fiercest opponents have rights.”
And you people say reason dot com does not have a penchant for comedy
It sure explains the authoritarian convergence – because we’re all so instinctively classical liberals.
When you destroy the rules of the political game like the Left has, it will necessarily devolve into a pure power struggle at some point. The Big Lie is that the Left cares about civility in any shape or form if it doesn’t benefit them directly. They’re playing for keeps and have been for quite a while. “Fuck You That’s Why” is their motto.
The Right is just waking up to that reality and is going to adopt some of the same methods just to survive. Slade is over the corner yelling “Why can’t we all just get along?” while people are lobbing Molotovs. If she were arguing for a peaceful divorce I’d understand, but any hopes of a center coalition are dead and buried.
Yet another “both sides” Republicans Pounce take.
I get really frustrated with our colleagues on the left of the civil liberties movement.
With the conversion of the ACLU to a partisan organization, none of the major old-school civil rights and civil liberties organizations defend liberty first any more. They are all party men.
And the high-line libertarian media has been taken over by defacto democrats who, despite leaning libertarian, see the world from a partisan perspective.
So we have no major organizations calling out the left for all of their destructive excesses in censorship, debanking, deplatforming, pushing racist ideology in schools, etc.
Instead we get handwringing from reason over the Republican response.
Well? If you want a better result, don’t abandon the field of battle. Don’t leave DeSantis to fight corporatist attacks alone if you don’t want state action and authoritarian outcomes.
Don’t wait until Lindsey Graham proposes bipartisan regulation of social media to become outraged, fight the censorship that inspired it.
We really are alone here.
We have us.. the far right nutters, and on the left.. Glenn Greenwald, Tulsi Gabbard and a couple of others on Substack. Others that the left wrote off years ago, so they are innefectual.
As I told Reason, you keep complaining about how the firefighters are fighting the fire instead of pitching in to fight the fire, and the arsonists are going to burn the house down.
Perfect.
/s Unwashed
The preparations for the HH go on. Son is cleaning up the activity center, bees have relocated, Mrs F is back home from her vacation, daughter and husband come tomorrow. Friday I break out the honey from the freezer and begin to warm it up.
It’ll be great to meet the new folks and reunion with the old hands. Counting on seeing the gathering of introverts to liven up the festivities.
What’s the RSVP count?
Not sure, Tundra has more accurate info but those that are here will be well behaved.
Huh. I usually put my Honey in the freezer before the wife gets home. (Of course, I gave my Real Doll a name! Only a sicko would fuck an unnamed sex robot).
Altar Boy #1 and I were thinking of you and the HH this weekend Fourscore. We were out in Western NoDak collecting the usual tribute for you and ran across a LOT of bee boxes. I kept encouraging the boy to swipe some and bring it back for the HH. He was reluctant to put them in his car though.
* The Grouse God was good this year and I have a couple sharpies for you. (the Shooting God was not so benevolent this year)
I thought I smelled something funny.
Everyone is welcome, we don’t discriminate. OK, OK, maybe a little but we would accept Calis, just like regular people
We were telling jokes as we drove around. So I guess we would have smelled funny.
Sorry I won’t be able to make it.
FreedomFest and subsequent trips took a bit much out of me.
Sad, DEG, but that’s what next years are for, with any kind of luck.
Never cared much about SNL. I think the last skit I ever saw was from a link somebody sent me. It was “Black Jeopardy” with Tom Hanks. I’m sure it’s still findable out there.
And I thought it was actually great – but maybe not for the reasons the writers intended. Maybe so, who knows.
Anyway, the obvious subtext was that the MAGA character (Hanks) was firing on all cylinders as far as common connections to regular black folks. Which (at the time I saw it) was EXACTLY what you were seeing out here in the real world, contrary to the crazy/Proggie view that dominates media.
I kinda liked some of Just In Timber Lake stuff there e.g the immigrant sketch
Dick In A Box was funny.
Back then I liked several of the Lonely Island song, have not watched recently to see how they hold up.
I also liked Natalie’s Rap back in the day
The Hanks sketch was great.
Even the ending, with the Final Jeopardy category of “Lives That Matter”.
Doug! YouTube promotes that one a lot.
There is still good stuff on SNL, although it is harder and harder to find. The Democrat debates was good and the Trebek/Connery celebrity Jeopardy! stand out.
Was. Not is. Was.
The final nail in the coffin was the cold open of Hillary (McKinnon) tearfully singing singing Hallelujah. The idea that a major comedy show should openly mourn an election loss by one side like that was the absolute end of any pretense.
re: self-driving cars.
I have long thought their were two cases, one of which is easy, one of which is hard. The easy one is long-distance interstate driving. The second is street driving.
If the latter is too hard, I would be totally fine with an AV that switches into human-mode at the exit, if I don’t have to pay any attention for the 8 hours of interstate driving.
An interstate* full of AVs would be fast and efficient and not a hard case at all.
*between cities, interstates thru cities is a travesty for a number of reasons.
The second is street driving. – especially in Romania where there are not always clear signs and painted lines and stuff. Also you would need to adapt when crossing a border, e.g the dutch drive differently from their neighbors, Germans are terrified of seeing a car with Netherlands license plates.
Kind of how I feel about Georgia or New York license plates.
OHIO is the worst, IMO.
Not the worst drivers, just the inability to get out of the fucking fast lane.
I hate right side passing, but I got to the point that if a car in the left land had an OHIO plate, I wouldn’t even give them a chance to get over, because I knew they weren’t going to. OHIO plate…pass on right…extend middle finger.
apparently the dutch when changing lanes simply hit the turn signal and pull the wheel expecting anyone to make sure they make way, which is not how other countries do it. You have to take a look you have a gap to get in… Also it seems there are very few signs for right of way in Netherlands, it is mostly who comes from the right has right of way, and that is also different.
Sounds Bostonian.
Priorité au droit; don’t the French and German do that too? U.S. does that at 4-way stops.
That is true when there are no signs, but in many countries there are usually signs
You misspelled “Ontario”
They border each other (sorta). Probably contagious.
You misspelled Colorado.
Yes. I thought MN was bad, but this is impressively awful.
No one drives the speed limit in CO that I can tell. They may hand out to the left, but at least they are going 85.
OHIO is 65 in left lane, because that is what the sign says.
“this is impressively awful.”
Is NoCo driving that much better than Denver area or something?
I don’t drive in Denver much, but NoCo is pretty good. Maybe it is the lack of significant traffic.
From 475 to the Wyoming border, no one is doing less than 10 over the limit, so left side hangers aren’t really an issue. If they will get the construction around FtC done, it will be even better.
470, not 475. My KY bias is showing.
Denver south to Colorado Springs was awful. Maybe not exactly on the speed limit but whatever speed they were going, they were determined to stay in the left lane no matter how empty the right lanes are.
Increasingly have the same problems here. And CMVs staying in middle lanes.
Is NoCo driving that much better than Denver area or something?
By an order of magnitude. I’m out on the edge, so it isn’t too bad here, but I dread driving in Denver proper.
Here in Oregon, everyone sits in the center lane doing 55. Drives me nutx.
Come to Virginia for our rolling roadblocks as left lane cruisers combine with truck races.
I hear some states police lane discipline, but I’m not sure which those are.
Washington used to and was known for it. Dunno if they still do now that bunches of carpetbaggers moved in but there are definitely less left lane hangouts even just across the state border.
Pennsylvania, for a little while after the “keep right except to pass” law took effect, enforced it. Enforcement no longer exists that I know of.
Massachusetts used to enforce their “keep right except to pass” law, but only on people with out-of-state plates. I suspect it is no longer enforced.
Left Lane Crusier…great band name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJZYT4NTCCY
Great cover of a great song
Massachusetts says HOLD MY BEEAH.
Texas drivers are fast on the highways, but they’re so flat and wide open it isn’t a big deal.. Where I’ve found they reign supreme is in running red lights. I’ve seen cars cruise through intersections in front of me almost a second after my light turned green.
New Mexico. I see one of those plates, and know if I get caught behind one, he’ll be going 16 mph below the speed limit.
How do the Dutch drive?
I hear Parisians (75-reg) hate suburbanites (92, etc) and especially Belgians.
Well, to be fair, everyone hates the Belgians.
And, to be honest, they should.
Even driving on the interstate can be a challenge.
Yesterday while we were driving at 75 along I-94 way out in the boonies of NoDak (just west of Mandan), we saw the car in front of us have an entire wheel leave their car bound across the other two lanes of the interstate and go out into a field.
Luckily the driver somehow managed to get the car into the shoulder safely and the loose wheel didn’t come anywhere near any approaching cars. But how do you program for something like that?
https://youtu.be/47cq3sjlUug
Adaptive cruise control and lane keeping assistance are a fine substitute for self-driving on interstate freeways. Self driving won’t solve delays caused by construction or accidents. There will still be construction and accidents even if all cars were self-driving.
There should be fewer accidents, that is the point.
Those features you mentioned are nice, but aren’t a substitute fore full AV on long trips. I want to sleep or read on my 8 hour drives. An interstate with 100% AVs is effectively a train.
Until something changes. Humans don’t all want to go from A to Z. Last minute pitstops, broken down vehicle in auto mode, screaming kid in the back…Taco Bell running its course….
Take the human out of the vehicle and I agree with you
You change your exit number and the computer adjusts. You might need to give it a 1/4 mile notice or something.
European lawmakers expected to approve EU-wide minimum wage for workers
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/09/13/european-lawmakers-expected-to-approve-eu-wide-minimum-wage-for-workers
The European Parliament is set to guarantee an adequate minimum wage for everybody on the continent, as rising inflation continues to hit citizens hard. – this mysterious inflation phenomenon hits when you least expected, out of the blue
The agreed legislation aims to ensure that minimum wages in all EU countries guarantee decent living standards for workers. – it is a good thing that decent can be objectively defined
Or they could look at Denmark with no minimum wage and realize it isn’t necessary.
UK didn’t either, until Blair or maybe Brown.
Increasing the cost of labor will reduce inflation just like increasing government spending reduces inflation.
Inflation will quickly make the minimum wage worthless – so no worries.
Ah, so it needs to have automatic inflation based* adjustments? Done!
*adjustments are only increases, if inflation is negative, wage rate will not be decreased.
But the indexed income tax rates will never adjust for inflation – so everyone eventually pays a “millionaire” tax.
+1 AMT
I think you may have sussed out why team D has such a hardon for driving inflation!
Tax increases without passing a tax increase! Brilliant!
So the poorer countries are going to be expected to pay rich-country salaries?
What could possibly go wrong.
It’s all Greek to me.
YEP ANOTHER HUGE BIKINI & FASHION TRY-ON HAUL | SWIMWEAR | TIKTOK TRENDS | ACTIVEWEAR | DESIGNER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GETb9nZBdE
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Lol.
Adorable!
They got confused thinking it was an Irish dancing class?
Campaign spending in support of other pro-Trump Republican candidates amounts to nearly $19 million, with the largest expenditure coming from the Senate Majority PAC, which has spent $3.2 million to help retired Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc win New Hampshire’s GOP Senate Primary. The PAC’s ads have targeted state Sen. Chuck Morse, a moderate candidate endorsed by Gov. Chris Sununu, as “another sleazy politician.”
Veronica Yoo, a spokeswoman for the PAC, told the Post that the attacks were in response to Morse’s criticism of Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, who is running for re-election in the state.
Democrats spent significant amounts in six gubernatorial primaries, two Senate primaries and five House primaries to support populist Republican candidates, according to the Post. These included support for Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano, who is the GOP nominee, where such groups spent $1.2 million.
The Establishment will ignore or shank Bolduc just like Mastriano.
WMUR says results are still coming in for the NH Republican Senate primary, only 88% reported for that race. The gap between Bolduc and Morse isn’t that big, but I read Morse issued a concession statement.
In case anyone thinks this is just Lindell, the administration is going for the brass ring here. They’re one micro-step away from outlawing political opposition.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/full-blown-political-purge-tucker-carlson-obtains-doj-subpoenas-targeting-trump-allies
I guess we don’t need to speculate about the legitimacy of the election any more.
This seems like a really bad plan.
No, it seems readily apparent that the thought of losing control, even for a moment, terrifies them. I have to assume it is because that what they’ve done is bad enough to destabilize the entire system.
Well, backing your opponents into a corner effectively does the same thing, doesn’t it?
They are boxing out “maga”. Look for the language such as “Americans agree”, insinuating and placing in people’s minds that an opposing views are not Americans. I hate to bring up Nazis…but it is very Goebbels
Yeah. My anger for the consensus historians of the 1950s continues to build. I need to write something on that sometime.
“Boxing out” is a good way to describe it.
Hey why not? It worked for President T shirt and no one, other than crazy Russian puppets, says anything about it.
The good news is, they’re fucking morons. The bad news is, they hold an incredible amount of power and are terrified of losing it.
SNL, 1993: https://youtu.be/Xv2VIEY9-A8?t=63
Farley was funny looking dude that was also funny. For too long now, they only go with the funny looking part.
My favorite: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MkyNaSz-zZA
From the sidebar https://youtu.be/wg5lIpQkoOg
Sad to see in those not so long ago clips how many aren’t around now.
Buh-BYE.
I hear Helen Hunt isn’t too pleasant herself.
https://www.amazon.com/NIUMOWANG-Metal-Sign-Living-Poster/dp/B09CZ2XWY6
That looks like heaven.
Wow, Tesla stock is down to $300. Glad I got out when I did.
They don’t have enough dykes in the Fed to plug all the holes in the economic dam.
Didn’t it split 3-1 a few weeks ago?
Ah yes, it did. My bad.
Still, I guess it was $2,000 at one point before split, so roughly $900 or so equivalent.
“Poppy Delevingne displays her taut midriff in a satin bra at Edward Enninful’s book launch – amid claims her family are planning an intervention for sister Cara”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11211369/Poppy-Delevingne-displays-taut-midriff-knitted-coord-Edward-Enninfuls-book-launch.html
I miss the other Poppy.
Thats taut.
They’re one micro-step away from outlawing political opposition.
The Deep State is a myth!
Say the right does it to left, then … “But it was okay when WE did it! Because you’re icky and we’re not!”
It always comes down to the icky people.
This is why it sucks not being right or left in the American sense of the words. You get screwed in both cases.
I miss me some In Living Color or really a short period where we were all okay with making fun of each other.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=in+loving+color&t=brave&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DwC4VywdavV8
And Mad TV
In Living Color and Animaniacs did not hold up well.
Original Animaniacs is so adult but was fun as a kid. Also able to poke fun at the hand that feeds was great.
Yes, but all the pop culture references just didn’t carrying forward.
I can watch this on repeat:
https://youtu.be/V1508wboZXk
I laughed because they had James Taylor there singing “Fire and Rain,” a song about suicide.
Talk about being completely disconnected.
A song about suicide and drug addiction/rehab. You couldn’t make this shit up. Not even the Bee.
What the fuck is it with the left and James Taylor?
I mean, seriously, that is OldSadBastard music if there ever was such a thing.
Orange Man losing in the long run will be a good thing in that the inevitable economic collapse will happen under Democrats and will be blamed on Democrats even though Republicans are also responsible. The public still thinks Rs are the party of capitalism and Ds are the party of socialism. So capitalism will not be fully blamed. Not to say the corporate media will not try, but it will fail. The narrative has already been set in the public’s minds.
The second great thing to come out is the deep state tearing off their masks and going full Nazi. It’s scary in the short run, but will ultimately be their demise. 20% to 30% at the absolute most support this insanity. Independents are turning on Democrats and turning on them very hard. Who knows, maybe the west and northeast will finally secede after losing a few elections and leave Jesusville in peace.
I dunno. It’s amazing how many Democrats are buying their gas lighting right now. Most are laptop class and can easily deal with price increases.
And are far outnumbered.
Until their jobs are eliminated.
Economic reality always sets in at some point.
Will this happen before this election though?
Who knows?
There’s some serious economic pain coming, whether or not it’s severe enough between now and the election to push on the results even more is yet to be seen.
People do not give up their religion easily, and for a lot of people on the Left it’s a religion.
I just spent a week away from the computer away from amongst a bunch of people I hadn’t seen in a while. They fell into two camps: Very vocal people for whom everything came back to a guy who hadn’t been in office for 20 months, and others (including myself) who just kept their mouths shut. A couple of the very vocal ones are country club Republicans. I’m now on board with the idea that this is all status anxiety. As mojeaux notes above, most of the talk is basically about those icky others. Rubes. Conspiracy theorists. Nutjobs. The media has done an excellent job of framing this. No one talks about actual policy. It’s all palace intrigue. One long-time Democrat (he’s run for office in the past), in one of the only moments that conversation veered into actual policy, innocently asked, “Weren’t we energy independent at one point?” This brought down a rain of excuses and talking points.
It’s always ever been about the icky people, from time immemorial. For the first time, the Revolutionary War gave icky people the chance to be not-icky, the elite didn’t like it, and they’ve been trying to put the icky people in their place for the last 250 years.
And I see an awful lot of jockeying by people to be in the not-icky camp by loudly denouncing the icky.
Eggszackly!
No one talks about actual policy. It’s all palace intrigue.
Which is exactly why I tune it out. Horrible people being horrible to each other holds little interest to me, and has little impact on my life. Unless and until somebody comes up with a real policy alternative to the UniParty divvying the spools while the administrative state rules the country in pursuit of their lunatic utopian schemes, palace intrigue is all we are going to get.
I do look forward to being fully retired so I have no reason* not to point out that the vocal people are a pack of deranged conspiracy theorists (and not the kind who will be proven right in a few months).
Well, no reason other than Mrs. Dean. But when my sister-in-law wanted to debate COVID policy at Thanksgiving, she was amused by my rope-a-dope routine of pointing out the reasons why the OMG WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE SAFETY UBER ALLES was not just a failure on its own terms, but likely a net negative, and then just smiling and deflecting through the predictable canned responses.
*My boss would undoubtedly deny it now, but I have little doubt that, if I had stuck my head above the parapet during the depths of COVID/insurrection hysteria, I would have gotten it blown off.
The Democrats are not winning any converts. They are swinging far left, and their strategy is to openly berate and harass anyone who opposes them.
Dunno. The polls aren’t looking as bad for them as I would’ve expected.
Agreed. And that is even more terrifying. Who are these maniacs that increasingly support them?
You still believe polls?
^^ This
Trafalgar’s last poll had R +6 in the generic, and all the polls I have seen from the more accurate pollsters have Trump beating the hell out of the entire Democrat field.
Both parties are party to the systemic fascism.
The second great thing to come out is the deep state tearing off their masks and going full Nazi. It’s scary in the short run, but will ultimately be their demise.
Maybe. Even if quick, a lot of damage will be done in death throes. A lot of deaths. And that’s assuming the best case scenario of people refusing to submit and actually backing up their refusal with armed force.
The worst case would be more peaceful Canadian Trucker Rebellions and the like that just lets more people get rounded up afterwards. No quick demise for the Deep State. Instead we’ll be looking at decades of pain. The Soviet Union and PRC are pretty damn good recent examples of how long the deep state can keep chugging and how much death and misery can be inflicted upon the populace.
Too many people to round up. Not enough true believers on the left let alone enough capable to take on the amount of people they’d need to round up. Sure, they can and will make examples of the leaders, but ultimately, the numbers are on our side in addition to the country being fucking massive and impossible to completely control. I know, I know, you’ll have the “just doing my job” types. There still isn’t enough of them. The Federal government is a paper tiger.
They won’t need to round anyone up. They’s just shut down your bank accounts and bleed you.
And then major cities turn into post apocalyptic hellscapes after just three days of truck drivers going on strike.
And people don’t think “just following orders” won’t be just as American as it was German.
True. But that makes desperate people. And desperate people do desperate things. You would have to titrate the pain very carefully to keep the wrongthinkers in line, but not push them over the line. I seriously doubt our devolved ruling class is that competent.
I fully believe there’s people out there brushing up on their welding skills.
But that ruling class is counting on 2 characteristics of the red-state serfs:
1.) “law and order” – even when they see the system crushing their neighbors corruptly, the functionaries will keep on doing the detail-level crushing because they’re “good citizens”
2.) local jackboots – the actual enforcers are still going to keep their power-boners going, even for reasons they know are evil
And they’re right. And when people get desperate and lash out, they’re counting again on these same 2 features to turn all the normies into willing slaves
Oh fuck off.
Clown World.
Geesh.
You forgot the “and die”
Peak late Republic.
Is that real?
Obligatory.
Happy days are here again
Thanks to the stock market sell-off earlier in the year, household net worth dropped in the second quarter by a record $6.1 trillion. That is not encouraging.
Meanwhile, even as Biden claims his Inflation Reduction Act will bring down our federal deficit – and inflation – the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget reports that Biden’s spending plans and executive orders will add an astonishing $4.8 trillion to our deficits over the next 10 years.
The group notes: “In 2020, policymakers appropriately enacted $3.4 trillion of additional borrowing to help fight the pandemic and stabilize the economy. Once the economy was strong enough, Congress and the White House should have stopped engaging in new borrowing and pivoted to focusing on implementing reforms to slow the growth of the national debt.”
That is exactly right. In particular, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, passed by Democrats alone in March 2021 as the economy was growing at 6 percent, led to an excessive increase in the money supply, and to inflation. The recent canceling of student debt adds yet more fuel to the fire.
Biden touts the questionable deficit-reduction and lower inflation promise of the Inflation Reduction Act, but he has yet to admit that the spending blowout of the past two years is in any way responsible for inflation he has called “transitory” and the fault of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Biden wants to make the midterms a referendum on Donald Trump, rather than his own policies. With country’s growth slowing, inflation above 8 percent and the average household spending $460 more each month to buy the same basket of goods and services as last year, according to Moody’s, he should.
It’s just a bump in the road on our way to a glorious future of utopian fascism. Once we have rounded up the political opposition and gained complete control of information, we will rewrite history.
Tres, why didn’t you tell me you were up this way?
After telling officer he has beautiful eyes, drunk man’s ‘shenanigans’ at restaurant lead to courtesy ride home: Broadview Heights Police Blotter
This just keeps getting weirder.
Did US chess grandmaster use anal beads to cheat his way to victory against world No.1 Magnus Carlsen?
“Fans speculated”….however, the kids these days are all about the butt stuff
The original fan speculation was that someone in Carlsen’s camp leaked his plans, which enabled Hans to study the line.
I think Hans just got lucky.
With no evidence whatsoever.
It is a weird story.
Carlsen went totally silent after his one tweet.
One thing that might change is that “live” chess matches might be on a 20 minute delay in the future.
Switching to renewable energy could save trillions – study
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62892013
The report’s findings are based on looking at historic price data for renewables and fossil fuels and then modelling how they’re likely to change in the future.
SCIENCE….
How very Austin Powers
That article is total horseshit.
We’re going to spend a shit-ton of money, increase risk, lower reliability, on unproven technologies, but you should totally trust us.
There’s a couple of fundamental flaws with all these studies of the cost of
renewablesintermittent energy sources:(1) Over time, they produce around 35% (is the number I’ve seen) of their “nameplate” capacity because they are, you know, intermittent. And those are the ones in good locations for wind/solar. So you have to “overbuild” by at least 3X to replace a non-intermittent power sources. They never multiply their costs by 3X in these studies, but go off of nameplate capacity.
(2) And that just gets you enough power to replace a non-intermittent source when generation conditions are ideal. You still have the storage problem, for when you vast new fields of solar and wind generators aren’t producing much because its, you know, dark or calm. There is literally no solution whatsoever for the storage problem.
This ain’t rocket surgery.
This ain’t rocket surgery.
No it is the digital version of reading the entrails of owls.
SCIENCE DENIER!!!!
Clown World.
You can’t have bread and circuses without clowns.
We Asked DALL-E to Imagine What’s Just Beyond the Frame of 10 World-Famous Works of Art. Here’s What the A.I. Saw
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dall-e-outpainting-2171195
Weird. As soon as I try to scroll down that page, it all goes blank.
At least they have plans?
One takeaway from the @RTE_France’s winter electricity outlook published today: France is counting on importing electricity through Oct-Feb from European neighbors, including the UK.
But the UK power grid is also counting on importing electricity from France this winter.
That reminds me, I was going to buy some shorts on the European markets today.
No U!
The second great thing to come out is the deep state tearing off their masks and going full Nazi. It’s scary in the short run, but will ultimately be their demise.
Judging by the lack of widespread outrage over the Jan6 purge, I have my doubts.
Flashback to 2020.
‘Bailout for Big Oil’
Good thinking Chuck.
The report’s expectation that the price of renewables will continue to fall is based on “probabilistic” modelling, using data on how massive investment and economies of scale have made other similar technologies cheaper.
Assume an infinite supply of easily obtainable and refineable lithium. Or nickel. Or cobalt. Or…
John Daly is my spirit animal.
Boss.
that guy needs to lose some weight as an athlete
Throws a strike in flip flops.
I don’t think I’ve ever anything other than the first pitch either not making it to the plate, or just barely making it. That was a great throw and he made it look easy.
“I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.” ― John Daly
Fookin legend.
Good lord. There are early reports that people will be standing in line for 10 hours to view the queen’s coffin.
It’s really incredible.
I mean, people here go through the motions when a president tips, but the Brits seem to really love her.
Maybe Hoppe is onto something.
She sounded like a pretty nice girl. Witty, animal lover, unexpectedly made heir to throne aged ten. (Margaret: “Poor you.”) Although she did give the world Charles and Andrew, and urged the country to get their clot shots.
She had been queen longer than anyone else in history. This is extra historic. I’d probably wait in line too.
Today, in employers exist for the sole purpose of handing out paychecks
Anyone who has ever been on a job hunt knows that it is often difficult to find out what a new position might pay.
That could be about to change. The governors of California and New York, both Democrats, have bills on their desks that would require companies to post pay ranges on job advertisements. Those two states — and their outsized economies and populations — could spur most larger companies to adopt the policy nationwide, advocates and experts say.
All workers could be affected, but evidence suggests that more transparent pay practices are particularly helpful for women and people of color, who are more likely to get lowballed in salary negotiations.
“What’s it pay?”
“I don’t know. What are you worth?”
The ultra-rich-yuppie-kids high school down the road is on lockdown due to a report of a “possible weapon on campus.”
There are two news helicopters orbiting as we speak.
And, the helicopters are gone.
The weapon is probably going to end up being a cantaloupe.
cantaloupes are disgusting, to be fair
Maybe it was an assault cantaloupe
Olive loaf.
Drawing of a knife.
Gnawed Pop-Tart in “the shape of a gun”.
“There continue to be some really bad actor companies that work really, really hard to continue to underpay women,” said Colorado state Sen. Jessie Danielson, a Democrat who sponsored the law there.
Gospel. Fact checkers keep out.
Today in youtube
Some of our followers sent us a massive bucket of honey for the bears to share! Check this out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3LmWLA3TKM
the darker colored bear got honey after the lighter colored one. I will let others draw the conclusions
Doing his part for “Climate Change”.
Biden Jets to Delaware to Vote Instead of Using Mail Ballot
I wonder if he still really qualifies as a Delaware resident. Isn’t his home there essentially a vacation home at this point?
He spends more time there than the White House…
Mere physical presence elsewhere, although a possible factor depending on state law, is not enough to switch your residency.
Hi, we’re in Delaware? 🤷♂️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQEwJdhfddk
Reverse Dieting: Hype Versus Evidence
This article will explore the actual research related to reverse dieting, which tells a much different story than the hyped-up anecdotes you’ll see on social media. It will also explain why “dynamic maintenance” is a more flexible and less tedious strategy that offers every single benefit that reverse dieting actually delivers.
https://macrofactorapp.com/reverse-dieting
Good article.
Super low bodyfat looks cool, but doesn’t seem too healthy.
This is a 300-hp, all-wheel-drive, manual-transmission performance car.
Wow. Pricing is reasonable too.
something tells me in Europe it would be less reasonable.
You people need to tax cars a lot more
Also like every other Toyota that thin is ug-lee
Neat-o!
Hmm…
A 3-cylinder hatchback starting at $37k is reasonable?
If it drives like an Audi S3? I’d say so.
This. Looks like fun!
I’ve rented a couple of hot hatches in Europe on previous vacations.
After I got over my initial disappointment at seeing the dinky little vehicles we’d rented, about 10-15 minutes into driving ’em the Spousal Unit looks over at me and says “You haven’t smiled this much since our wedding.”
Damn, those things were fun! I tried to buy one of the equivalent Volksies here, but no dice. Sad face.
I can’t help wondering how the power pulses work on a four stroke three cylinder. Presumably it has a 120 degree crank. It seems to me you’d have a skipped beat which might create problems. I’d like to see an animation.
A three cylinder two stroke, on the other hand, would be a dervish.
One of the nerdier auto channels.
ENGINE BALANCE: Inline 3 vs. Inline 4 vs. Inline 5 vs. Inline 6
Hey- a three cylinder two stroke turbodiesel!
*pantomimes sticking finger down throat*
*laughs in 6 cylinders*
Thanks, Sensei.
That guy has been doing a lot of interesting stuff. I started watching him when he was doing the motorcycle carbs on his MR2. I actually was wondering if he had something like this.
He did one on flat crank vs ninety degree V8s. One of the more interesting parts was how hard Ford worked to make the flat crank Mustang not sound like a flat crank. Because tradition.
I watched that one too!
A 3-cylinder hatchback starting at $37k is reasonable?
Don’t forget the turbocharger.
Pfeh. Superchargers FTW.
Reason bringing a good one to our attention:
https://reason.com/2022/09/14/kansas-sexting-crime-teenagers-snapchat-children/
Kid goes beyond normal sexting and tries to extort more pictures out of other teens.
Feds wait until he turns 18 so they can arrest him and federally charge him for interstate CP trafficking. All acts occurred within the state.. so how?
The internet servers used to send messages are out of state.
So they want 70 years.