Unwatchable
Thursday night NFL football is completely unwatchable. Yet people keep tuning in. I tapped out at halftime and from what I understand, I made the right call. Oh well, the baseball playoffs start today with four games. And there’s some good college football this weekend as well. And the Japanese Grand Prix. And a decent slate of NFL games (on the day it’s supposed to be played). So it won’t be too difficult to get the taste of TNF out of my mouth. And that’s sports.
I’m not so sure this is doing any good. How about holding a summit? How about not saying anything? How about doing pretty much anything in the world other than saying shit like this? I swear, this dumb bastard’s handlers are gonna get us into WW3 in order to maybe hold on to the House and Senate during the midterms.
Hold her in contempt!
This is a good start. Now they need to race it through the courts and strike the whole piece of shit down. And send a warning to the state that any further attempts to undermine their rulings will result in contempt charges.
Well this is good news. Now if we could just convince people to stop engaging in risky actions that are known to cause human spread, we’d be all set.
But they’re saving the environment! Back in the days of Ralph Nader, these would all be taken off the roads due to this small risk. But I hate that asshole, so I won’t tout his ideas here.
Holy shit, this is HUGE! Which is why it won’t be reported on anywhere other than the Daily Mail.
No prize for you!
How could they snub the Z-man? I guess they figured he had enough money from what the US has dumped in his lap.
Third verse, same as the first. This is gonna continue as more and more investors realize these businesses are failing and overvalued. I feel bad for their workers, but this correction is long overdue.
Way to play to the stereotype, dude. Thanks a lot, dipshit.
Common sense prevails (temporarily). Just because you’re free from discrimination doesn’t mean you can flop your dong out in the ladies room, guys.
This group brought out the best in every member. Way better than their solo or other band stuff, in my opinion. And here’s their masterclass. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and beautiful weekend.
“Thursday night NFL football is completely unwatchable. Yet people keep tuning in. ”
Do they? I don’t even think I get it.
I don’t. For sure. I used to love football. then the woke shit caught on, my team dropped their name because woke white woman found it offensive, and the whole thing turned into a shit show.
Honestly, I don’t miss it a bit.
It seems less woke now than it was a year or so ago.
My wife turns it on if she happens to remember and if we don’t have something else going on. Definitely not the appointment viewing it was 5 years ago.
I flipped college football off last Saturday because they were filling the time in a blowout game with race wankery. It would have been one thing if it were a segment and then they got back to the game, but it was this lingering conversation that wouldn’t stop.
Thursday night NFL football is completely unwatchable.
That should have been the big take away from last week’s Tua incident: stop playing on Thursdays.
I’ve watched some Thursday night games before Amazon, but Sundays and MNF should be enough. Also, one of the MNF commentators should be drunk off his ass like Don Meredith.
Ah the night Meredith got Cosell drunk.
“I’m not so sure this is doing any good. How about holding a summit?”
Summit? Are you crazy? There is a lot of money being made and stolen with this fucking shitshow they hope on becomes the new forever war.
In the translations of Putin’s recent speeches, you can’t find real nuclear threats. He talks about readiness and responses, but doesn’t make specific threats. So this kind of talk from the Administration is scary – like they are psyching themselves up to do something incredibly stupid.
They aren’t trying to psych themselves up, they’re trying to psych the American people up so they DEMAND that we do something stupid and if that happens, hoo boy.
OtterBiden: I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!BlutoKamala: We’re just the guys to do it.I’ve noticed a distinct lack of quotes in articles claiming that Putin threatened to use nukes.
Any Team Stupid candidates running against a federal level progressive this election cycle should have just run ads saying: “Party of the little guy? Look how much they’ve directly funneled to Raytheon. Pfizer. Moderna. Boeing. Lockheed. Yale. Harvard (via student loan forgiveness et alia). And here’s who’s paying for it: You. Your family. Your neighbors. Progressing the slop down the trough is the only progress they care about.”
Ugh.
The problem the old time team red people have with this tactic, is that they are jealous this isn’t them anymore.
Trump said things like that, because he was more populist than Republican.
Populism scares the big government utopia fantasists. When you believe a top down command system run by a class of credentialed elites chosen by characteristics that have nothing to do with any kind of expertise or ability to accomplish things, magically somehow however getting everything right for the cause, people that tell you to fuck off and leave them alone to live their lives seem like the old kulaks & wreckers of ole’ marxism…
The PMC (i.e. credentialed elites) aren’t concerned with anything more than perpetuating their own status and power. If climate change is a useful scare tactic, they’ll use it; if anti-marxism was a useful scare tactic, they’d use that.
I could rant all day about how I think it is less “populist” and more that the current Elites broke the social contract (two tier justice system, zero accountability for OBVIOUS corruption, fraud and fuck ups) and the country is more desperately trying to find someone who can get some accountability and competence back — but I think y’all have heard me rant on this before (and it isn’t a rare view point around here) so I will spare you.
This is a great point. I forget if it’s Tucker Carlson or Dave Smith (or Smith quoting Carlson) “I’m not anti-elitism, I just believe in impressive elites, and these people that presume to rule over us are unimpressive.”
There used to be a compact, a sort of agreement, between the people and those we allowed to be our leaders. The expectation was that we would tolerate some crap from the leaders as long as they led well, did things that would allow all the people to see the future held opportunity for better, and in general accepted accountability when they failed big. The current crop of mediocre assholes don’t want to live by this compact anymore. They do not want to be held accountable for being awful and caring more about themselves than the people.
We’ve been on this track for 60 years or more. It’s just reached critical mass now.
Or do we still believe that it wasn’t the US government that killed JFK?
We’ve been on this track for 60 years or more.
Woody Wilson laid the ground work. FDR executed the bureaucratic revolution. Nixon and LBJ set the framework and pushed us over into full-on fascism. Bush 2 and Obama set the framework for authoritarian tyranny. Now we’re executing on that plan.
Not even a pretense of either Caesar’s wife or noblesse oblige.
I agree, but I’d add that they’re just throwing cash and favors to big businesses. Maybe that falls under “corruption”.
That’s one of the ad campaigns being run here in Ohio for the Senate race.
Electric vehicles catching fire in Florida after Hurricane Ian
At least they work well in cold climates.
Trump was right and Greta was wrong. But all the adults that hated bad orange man listened to the fucking idiot kid and her tantrum…
AGW is giving marxism a hard run for being the greatest racket foisted on humanity, and it is coming form the same sort of evil people through history.
ad before video was for solar power subsidies, which apparently run out 12/31 if you don’t act now. Because I thought we were saving gaia from combusting. So of course you wouldn’t want to make the subsidy more permanent.
“Well this is good news. Now if we could just convince people to stop engaging in risky actions that are known to cause human spread, we’d be all set.”
How are the odds some humans will see this and decide fucking their pets is the safe way to go?
Anybody who would do that was doing it anyway. Now they’ll just take off the condom to enhance their pleasure.
Sale of duct tape is about to go up?
+1 Lemmywinks.
Raw dogging the dog
“Just because you’re free from discrimination doesn’t mean you can flop your dong out in the ladies room, guys.”
If they are flopping their dong in the ladies room they aren’t actually transgender, because “hey look at my dick” is the opposite of passing.
What if I say “Hey, look at my hard and long clit”?
The verbiage in the EO was “identify as” not “had their sex bits mutilated.” So it definitely pertained to people who hadn’t had the work done.
I identify as a lady that wants to wiggle her wang at people that are biological females and get away with it because I am so brave!
I’ve haven’t read all the bathrooms laws, but the North Carolina one was based on birth sex. So work done wouldn’t matter in regards to that law.
Yup.
Took my fourth or fifth iteration in two years of the “harrassment” training the other day – it’s been spiced up with all kinds of “gender expression” stuff.
I could literally let my freak flag fly in the ladies’ room and there’s nothing anyone can do about it as long as I “identify” that way this morning.
That reminds me, I haven’t let the mandatory training play on mute in the background yet this cycle.
What happens when someone identifies as a religious conservative and finds all this talk of sexuality in the workplace offensive and they are afraid to speak up for fear of retaliation?
Oh, that’s right, only the right sorts of people can be intimidated and offended.
What if the religious conservative is a muslim?
Japanese Grand Prix? Eh… we’ll see how it goes. I’m just not feeling it this season (probably because I don’t like Verstappen all that much, Ferarri keeps tripping over themselves and Ricciardo is having a crap season / lots of drama).
I did not that you’re trying to kid us with the main page image there, Sloopy. Just know that you won’t get our goat. Good morning, anyway.
Also also… hope Mr. Lizard is doing well, whatever sun baked rock he’s currently parked on…..
I was really looking forward to going to the race at COTA this year, hoping I might get to see a championship decided. Now I’m just looking forward to driving it again in 6 weeks.
Now if we could just get to Monday and find out who was it wasn’t skirting the financial rules last year so Toto can lose his shit, I’d be happy.
I’ve tried to completely ignore all the team gossip / driver gossip this year (Andretti was snubbed in the girls locker room by Toto! Oh noes!). I didn’t like high school drama when I was in high school — and it is all way too much soap opera for me.
If I was God Emperor of F1 I’d trash the budget cap anyway — the sport is all about two things, driving skill and technical prowess. Let the engineers loose — see what they can do. (Oh, and screw carbon neutral — go do Formula E if you want that.)
I’d be fine with a sliding scale determining wind tunnel time (the more you spend the less time you get). Aside from that, I think it flies in the face of what F1 is supposed to be: spending money to put the best product in the track you can.
I’d also like a return to looser chassis and powertrain rules. Let teams develop what they want within very broad guidelines and see who figures it out. I fear the next rules package is going to turn it into open wheel NASCAR.
I would say I like your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter — but I’m already here, after all. 😉
How about making NASCAR stock car auto racing?
That’s crazy talk! We need three stage races and need to regroup the field every handful of laps. And “competition yellows” in case the 20k fans still showing up to watch live get bored.
NASCAR is already dead. They’re just trotting its corpse out week after week to fulfill the tv contract.
I’ve said it before — but just shut down an interstate and some parallel back roads for a weekend, give them all a budget and let them buy whatever cars or junkers they want and fix them up tag 1/3rd of them as “revenuers” and see who can make it there and back (I’d do Atlanta to Raleigh and back as at least the first race, but there are many options). Preferably at night.
Go back to the roots. Actually stock cars, fixed up in their garages. Road racing on real roads. Hide and seek with pursuit.
I like the idea of unleashing the teams within a loose set of guidelines, but give ballast on a sliding scale for winners.
Have a friend going to COTA this year, I’m a little envious. I also regret never going to any of the Hill Country PCA events back when I had my fun car.
I’m doing MSR Houston this weekend. And back to COTA the weekend before thanksgiving. I’d like to do one more weekend before the end of the year, preferably Barber or Road Atlanta, but I don’t think the work schedule is gonna allow for it.
I think you’ll enjoy MSR, thats my home course, maybe 10 minutes away. Not much in the way of elevation changes, but it’s fun.
I’m sorry, I would offer to meet up, and buy you a beer since you’re in my ‘hood, but I am absolutely booked this weekend. I imagine youll be pretty busy, too. Hopefully next time.
Do hit me up if you want any restaurant or bar recommendations, though. There’s not a lot to choose from, but there’s a few hidden gems.
I’m looking forward to it. It was there a few weekends ago for a charity thing and got to do a couple sessions of hot laps. It’s a fun track with some interesting technical sections.
I just wish it wasn’t so abrasive on tires. But paving is expensive as hell, so we just have to accept it.
Next time I’m down there I’ll give you a heads up so we can get together. I’m actually staying in downtown Houston because there’s just not much down that way. But I’ll change those plans if there’s something to do and somebody to do it with.
Oh come on, with the current state of the world, how could this not have been in the Genesis playlist today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7FKO5DlV0
This song implies the world is a giant shitshow because of confusion. it is not. We are where we are because evil inept people are in charge everywhere…
It’s only absent because I played it in the last few months. Trust me, I was tempted.
By the fruit of another?
Well now the truth has been discovered.
Why? What’s been going on?
A lot’s happened since you’ve been gone.
With Sloopy’s lead in line, I was actually expecting Traveling Wilburys instead.
I’d like to say TW was better than the sum of it’s parts, but I’d be lying.
“Holy shit, this is HUGE! Which is why it won’t be reported on anywhere other than the Daily Mail.”
Nothing pisses the pretenders more than being forced to admit they are all pretense. Their virtue signaling is always contingent on other people paying, directly or indirectly, for whatever crazy shit they support and force upon others to suffer.
If this somehow gets wide coverage, the narrative will shift to “but they notified NY and prepared them.” And “but they did it cheaper and it wasn’t a publicity stunt.”
Still, it busts the NYC/Chicago narrative of how can our cities be expected to handle this. Maybe because El Paso is being asked to do more than you?
El Paso should not be financially helped, cause the voters there are for the wrong things and are fascists therefore. NYC & Chicago however deserve to be showered with tax payer cash to float these people here illegally, because those voters hold the right ideology!
El Paso is run by the same party as Chicago and NYC.
Sometimes at the gym in the evening, I get subjected to all 3 networks news shows simultaneously. Usually they move in lock-stock from story to story with the same spin. During the Martha’s Vineyard immigrant crisis, I noticed the ABC broke ranks and went to a reporter in New Mexico at an immigrant tent city. Not sure what that crack in the narrative meant.
Not sure what that crack in the narrative meant.
Kremlinology is fun.
Yes, I play it too.
Of course, completely different.
I suppose he does. He was very respectful when the residents of El Paso said the migrants were stinking up the town. He respectfully moved them all to the outskirts so he could bus them off where nobody had to watch.
I loved this headline: “Biden hates Republicans so much, he would rather give oil money to Venezuela and Saudi Arabia than Texas.
Think that through. They would rather hobnob with the people they believe are the evil ones (while forgetting they are just as evil themselves) than do things that help America and Americans…
Anything that makes Americans less dependent on government is a bad thing to these cuntes. Democracy now means we grow the power of government, while fascism is anyone that resists that drive to grow big government and have it park its boot on people’s necks in any way.
Hell, what Democrat doesn’t long for Chavezista democracy?
“Look Jack — I was clearly elected to repood… repulsify… repudiate Trump, right? So I need to reject his policies? So how do you reject making America Great Again, that extremist MAGA Republican fascist policy?
That’s right man… we’re damned well going to Make America Less Again. And you’d better believe it, because those fascists tried to overthrow the country with a buffalo hat and disrupt DOKTOR Jill’s Pretty Pretty Princess Day… when her hair smelled so, so nice… And no one fucks with a Biden but me! End of quote, repeat the line.”
He’s also illegally importing every idiot Venezuelan who voted for Chavez but doesn’t like how that turned out – in the hopes that they didn’t learn anything and will vote the same way here.
Cut him some slack. Intentionally destroying the American economy while simultaneously buying midterm votes with other countries’ oil is a delicate balancing act.
Even when trying to defend Flyover Country, the Coasties fuck it up.
It’s almost like the activist set stirs up shit like this to keep the country’s attention away from things that actually matter.
You don’t think having the right to flop your dong at uppity XX chromosome people while forcing them to pretend you are one of them despite your XY chromosomes isn’t an existential issue? WTF! Next you will tell me we should be more worried about things like the people in charge wrecking our and the worlds economy, taking us to the brink of nuclear war so they can use the crisis to steal money from the productive, and their demands we go back to a life of pre industrial standards, should worry us more…
But, flopping your wang!!!!
A year or so ago there was a story out in LA about some woman who was upset that a transgender woman was in her spa. Lots of protests on both sides including Antifa. Story kinda of disappeared when it turned out the transgender woman was a convicted sex offender who liked to expose herself to little girls and had been walking around said spa with a hardon.
“the transgender woman was a convicted sex offender who liked to expose herself to little girls”
Don’t you mean “expose himself”?
I decided to use (in this case) the language our self-proclaimed moral superiors demanded. Since this made them look foolish because they said it wouldn’t happen.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Damn, a fire chief talking about the same story.
Down in the comments: “Brian Alkire, 1996 roof fell on him fighting fire. 4 years of recovery 40+ surgeries. 15 seconds in the fire. ”
What amazing strength of character to have something like that happen and say, “I”m still going to be a firefighter”.
The guy should be chief cop in Uvalde. Or governor of MN.
Well, shit. At mamagement’s request, I sent them a list of everything I’m responsible for. While this sort of request is usually a red flag that they want to replace me, that list is pretty long. Worse, I was a one man team for so long there’s nobody who’s going to have a clue how to find a lot of it even with the documentation.
I bet my next task will be to document it all and train my direct reports to handle it. Anyone wanna wager?
I ain’t taking that bet.
They didn’t take you Swingline stapler yet, did they?
If not, then you’re fine.
I have three staplers.
I rarely handle actual paper, but I have three staplers.
Red, white & blue?
Is one red?
No, they’re all state-issue black staplers.
A government employee getting fired, that’s funnier than Fauci and Colbert.
Who said anything about fired? There’s plenty of awful places to throw unwanted staff. I’m hoping for a rubber room instead of the DBA group.
So you should want this then.
I’d rather have my Grade 27 and a clear career path going forward.
Thing about being sidelined is that you never move up, and with inflation what it is, increase in grade level is required to stay at the same standard of living.
This is a sad truth everywhere.
Fauci Gets Boosted With Colbert And It’s The Funniest 6 Minutes You’ll See Today
Aaaaand they’ll both have covid within a month.
But they would’ve gotten it in two weeks!
And would have had much more severe symptoms if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
I think Dante missed one of the circles of hell….
Standard saline shot for show?
They’re really giggling at their hatred of and power over the rest of us.
Pamotherfuckingpathetic, just damn…
Remember, this is the same guy who gave the world dancing hypodermic needles.
He is one of the lowest tools in the drawer, and that’s saying something.
Anyone who proposes peace negotiations, compromise, referendums, or ceasefires is a Russian agent, this is known. Looking at you Elon.
We’ll see how this works for them once the Russian mobilization takes hold. So far they’ve fought outnumbered with one hand tied behind their backs. Unless I underestimated the incompetence of the Russian general staff things are going to get ugly for the Ukrainians, not that the usual gang of war mongers give half a shit about them anyway.
What’s the Russian vs Ukrainian casualty rate for all the successes Ukraine has had in Kherson recently?
It’s impossible to say because the propaganda from all sides is as thick as it gets. Any numbers released from anyone are unverifiable trash.
Yep.
Opposing Armageddon To Trigger The Libs – good rant.
I didn’t realize Bolton had crawled out from under his rock. Whatever he says let’s do the opposite.
👆👆👆
“eating bats”
Oh great, a new virus that turns everyone into neocon assholes.
Well it seems clear enough to me that the Russian leadership seriously miscalculated. The question is, is their math any better now.
Looks to me like the Russians were hoping that they’d get enough success early that they’d force Ukraine to negotiate and this would be over soon. Bad idea for them. Now they have to mobilize and fight this like a no holds barred war. Ukraine is going to be hellscape when this is over. The question is: will the rest of the world be hellscape, too?
In hindsight yes, they did, but they didn’t figure on the West going collectively insane. There was supposedly a settlement hammered out on March or April that would’ve been preferable to what we have now but the Brits torpedoed it. In a sane world maybe not but this isn’t a sane world.
Part of any leader’s calculation of the risk of an action has to be – what will the adversary response be. Putin is under no illusions about NATO, we are the ones with delusions about it.
I was reading that fucking up the first year of a war is practically a time-honored Russian tradition. So maybe Year Two of their Short Victorious War will go better. Still don’t know how many professional Russian soldiers have been fighting in this war. I know its not zero. And when the conscripts come on line next year, who knows where they will go – Ukraine, or somewhere else to free up professionals who I am sure are just champing at the bit to go kill some Ukrainians.
With the exception of Syria this checks out.
I’m thinking the conscripts may go to Ukraine, because now that Putin has declared the Donbas Russian territory, he can send conscripts there. Annexing the Donbas gave the green light to two things – using nukes and conscripts in Ukraine.
They (the Russians) have been fighting as such, imho. They have been using inferior ground forces and have been deliberately trying to avoid damage to civilians and civilian infrastructure. If both things change it is going to get ugly.
Wanting the US to not be involved and thinking both parties are assholes somehow makes me a Russian agent as well.
I don’t care so much about the bathroom and trans issue for adults. I get that it is a big shock to some, but it’s a place to get rid of bodily waste. I came to this conclusion after a 14 hour flight with a full bladder. I was at a urinal in an airport and noticed a little old woman cleaning three feet from me. I was shocked, but I had to go. It was weird, but I had no issues doing what I came there to do.
I understand locker rooms and changing rooms being an issue, especially for minors.
One of the local breweries has a “gasp” co-ed bathroom. Big room, with a communal sink running down the center. On the left and right hand sides there are stalls. Some are labeled “Urinal” others “Toilet”. I’ve seen some people be a bit surprised when they first see it, but I haven’t heard much in the way of complaints.
Hawt.
That’s cool. It’s marked co-ed. But that’s different than a locker room being labeled “Girls” and having a twelve year old pubescent pre-teen girl come face to balls with some dude toweling off before he puts his dress back on to continue living in his delusional state.
It’s not that weird. If they would just make a real stall without the peakaboo styles they use in most of the county almost no one would care. The beer bar I took you to when you visited had an actual trans bathroom, but when they made it it was supposed to be a joke (Men’s room a picture of Bruce and Women’s room one of Kaytlin Jenner).
This. It’s not hard to solve, just spend the extra few bucks on full stalls.
I worked in a grocery store where the stalls were framed in (as in there was an actual wall separating each stall) and the doors were real doors, just with a gap at the bottom and the top. I’m not sure why that model couldn’t be used everywhere.
Easy – They’re more expensive than the cheap plastic or fiberboard dividers attached by brackets to the wall.
Seriously, the problem was solved – proper sex segregation at the main entrance to the restrooms. There’s no need to do a full frame out of individual stalls.
My favorite for that is the Irish bars that label the bathrooms in Irish Gaelic.
For those unaware, the word for men is fir and the word for women is mná. It is tradition to not warn any first timers with you about this, and wait for them to come back bitching about walking into the wrong bathroom.
Mah na mah na
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3YkkmMxjV0
You don’t go in there to make daisies and small talk.
From what I can tell, thats pretty much what chicks do while they are in the bathroom. Well, maybe not the daisies part.
I’m guessing adult men and women are going to have very different views on this. Like you, I don’t care who is in the bathroom with me. I suspect most men feel this way. I also suspect most women prefer the opposite and don’t want men in there with them.
So the point isn’t to separate the sexes as much as it is to keep men out of women’s restrooms.
The FBI is all about parents that get uppity at school board meetings about abuses inflicted on their kids or the dangers of people that don’t bend the knee to the crooks running DC, but they have yet to be able to find anything substantive about the J5 DC pipe bomber. Maybe they really don’t want to find this person cause they need everyone to forget the story since they did it themselves?
There may be a small flaw in the plans.
I am less concerned with the technology not existing yet, cause we have not reached the point that the existing pool of innovators & inventors in the tech fields has goon up in smoke because of the failures of the educations system, but experience has shown these sorts of endeavors are never about delivering any value, especially technology, as much as scams to allow connected people steal piles of tax payer money without ever be held accountable or facing consequences.
Bolos, man… Bolos. We could make a good stab at a Mark I with today’s tech — one of those small modular nuclear plants. Nowhere near the plasma cannons yet, but have to start somewhere.
That’s such a cruel way to describe the expenditure of govt funds on bureaucrat salaries in both the public and private sectors.
So it’s like every other military modernization effort, ever.
See also: Energiewende, “no gas cars by 2030”, and on and on.
The technology doesn’t exist for any of it. One can only conclude none of this is to be taken seriously.
Trust me, the political (and therefore military) leadership believe that if you want something, you just have to spend enough money and it will happen. Physics be damned.
God grant I live to watch all these 2030, 2035, etc., dates come… and watch the laws get quietly rolled back…
Given that we’ll living in the stone age by then if we don’t put a stop to this crap and fast, I dunno if I want to.
I didn’t realized they passed this nonsense almost 2 years ago:
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35104768/massachusetts-ban-new-gas-cars-2035/
A vast number of people here have neither driveways nor dedicated parking spots. How exactly are on-street parkers supposed to charge their cars? Even if you added a charger to every spot in every city parking lot (cha-ching for some connected company), it still wouldn’t nearly be enough.
Nevermind that the grid couldn’t handle it anyway.
I’m sure this will result in some stupid, unintended consequence, like everyone buying light trucks as personal transport.
How exactly are on-street parkers supposed to charge their cars?
They’re not supposed to have cars.
Indeed, you’re clearly a prole, walk.
Now, now, you only have to walk to the nearest public transport.
The one that isn’t running?
You can see that this will lead to: “We know that we all can’t have the luxury of personal electric vehicles, so we need to use the transportation infrastructure we have in place already…..public transportation. All busses and trains run on pure clean electricity.”
The new green generation can barley remember that they used to be carted around in individual vehicles by their selfish parents.
The normal green shirt is dangerous enough. Having an all electric military in a war zone sounds like the biggest military disaster in history waiting to happen.
Can’t wait to see it!
E M P
But exactly how the Army will electrify all its vehicles, especially the heavy-duty ones, is unknown.
The more important question is exactly WHY.
BECAUSE GAIA!
Not to mention furthering your reliance on lithium, when China holds a monopoly on the processing thereof, is a dubious strategy.
OK, this was funny. Or maybe I am just no longer surprised by idiotic shit like this.
That lady was spaced out of her mind.
Painkillers and freeways are a bad combination.
Hmm, the car keeps pulling one way and is hard to drive, but yeah, I feel GOOOD! I KNEW THAT I WOULD!
What’s the powder, presumably?
Oxy.
Iocaine.
I thought the pink pills were the oxy.
Could be Norco.
That’s bordering on Russia-level road antics.
Yay for me – new job offer! Bit of a pay cut, but I can walk into the building without a vax.
Since you sound happy, I’ll congratulate you.
Congratulations.
Oh, and what’s the job?
Senior Project Manager at a big company 15 minutes from new home. Hybrid office / remote. Seem like normal people.
👍😀👍
Thanks – and good luck with yours. I once had to do that in order to get a promotion into a new job with an employer. Then had to hire and train my replacement. Got laid-off a week into my new job. Good times.
Congrats!
Excellent!
‘Orning ‘ordles — “Not a great plan”… er, day. Didn’t Chump, but that’s about the most positive thing I can say about it.
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The appropriate answer is “We have other more important things to worry about at the moment, but if you’re asking if I think an 18 year old should get sex offender status for sleeping with a 17 year old, the answer is “No”. At the same time those in positions of authority, like schoolteachers, should not be sexualizing their students.”
See how easy that is?
That’s not a very pure libertarian answer; it’s almost pragmatic. Whycome you hate libertarian philosophizing-pedantry?
If by “pure libertarian” you mean “autistic moron” then you are correct.
Legitimate LOL.
ding-ding-ding
If I am not mistaken, he wasn’t asked about age of consent, he brought it up on his own.
On that, I want to point out Victor is not Mises, as state level party officials are voted on next year. The Gillespie crowd is still in charge. He got his name on the ballot with resources outside the AZLP and most of the reason he was able to be affiliated with the LP is for purposes of ballot access in 2024.
Parting shots from the Twitter censors.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/peter-mccullough-welcome-to-twitter
With any luck, they’ll all be unemployed shortly.
Meanwhile:
Berenson with that Twitter immunity.
https://jeffgoldstein.substack.com/p/alexs-war
Keep getting those boosters Colbert.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/negative-vaccine-efficacy-keeps-rearing
Wow.
These healthcare organizations need to publish a lot more stuff like this.
So much of healthcare is based on scant evidence from pharma studies and not real world followup. This is really great. Everything should be followed in this way.
Pseudafed PE, I’m looking at you….
Thank God we had a box of the real stuff on hand this morning…
Hopefully, these healthcare organizations will stop mandating the shots to get/keep a job.
They’ll stop when the government stops leaning on them.
They won’t admit it publicly, but they’re receiving intense pressure while being shielded from liability so long as they follow the government guidelines. Not to mention the money involved.
This is actual, no-shit fascism. It’s just hidden behind layers and layers of bureaucracy and paperwork.
Now do a study on how that damage to immune systems will affect cancer rates. Hearing stories of people in remission who got vaxxed and the cancer immediately came back.
Propagandists like Colbert deserve that fate.
Related to music link: Freshman year of college, I “hacked” a friend’s account. He was a huge Genesis fan and typed his password with only his left hand.
It was ‘Stardew’, wasn’t it?
Stardew was not either of the music links.
It had to have been The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
But it can be typed with just the left hand.
Confession time.
I have been watching She Hulk on Disney+.
It isn’t the first show that I have watched, hoping against hope that it would get better. WB, I’m taking about your entire network.
The right leaning internet has been vicious on this show. I held off judgement, despite early signs of how it was going. But this latest episode sealed it…
They brought in Matt Murdock from the Netflix Daredevil series. My favorite MCU property.
And they had someone who never watched the show write the character. He is mostly an ass. But at least he is a competent lawyer, which is more than I can say for any other male character in this series.
Lord help, this show is just god awful.
Remember Shallow Hal? Hollywood’s attempt to show US that fat and homely women are really supermodel beautiful because they are beautiful inside and pretty people are really ugly because that’s how it works? How Hollywood is so tone deaf that they made an entire movie about not judging a book by its cover that only presented people’s worth as superficial physical attractiveness…. Yeah..
This show is the same thing, except it tackles “strong female character” instead. So, while telling us that women are strong and competent and completely besieged by men who are less competent telling them how to do their jobs and not appreciating them, it presents us with an entirely incompetent female lawyer who is continually given praise and awards and promotions entirely because of her physical appearance… And an appearance that she did not earn in any way, it was just magicked upon her.
While decrying stereotypes, it presents women who only care about clothes, weddings, one night stands, hair…
It is so actively awful…. Just…. Save your time.
And hope that the MCU does better by daredevil in bringing him back. Because this was terrible.
If they wanted to make it interesting, they’d have done a DC crossover and had The Flash break into her home and steal all her booze and clothes.
I can’t see Wally ever doing that… even in the immediate post-Crisis jerk-Wally days before the new costume.
Interesting would be having Lobo break into her house… for who-cares-what.. 😉
it presents us with an entirely incompetent female lawyer who is continually given praise and awards and promotions entirely because of her physical appearance
This part is believable.
There was one mildly entertaining dig about that. She-Hulk was going to an award gala to get a female lawyer of the year award. At the gala, they called up a dozen or so women, and gave them all the female lawyer of the year award.
Or perhaps that’s common now, I don’t know.
I wouldn’t know, I’ve never gotten a female of the year award. Those kind of awards don’t go to curmudgeonly unconnected white dudes in IT.
Most I got was recognition for work on a project RFP. They said it was for work on the project, but the only milestone at that point was that the RFP was finalized.
I did smile at that… But I wasn’t sure what the joke was.
They lean so hard into the “girl power” stuff and “women totally never get any credit” that it doesn’t seem like them to make a joke about buying awards or everyone gets a trophy.
All you have to do is (have your secretary) apply for awards, and you’ll eventually get a few. I have never bothered because I find it stupid and annoying and find that particular kind of gala and it’s participants insufferable.
When I hire outside counsel, I completely ignore the awards. They’re as relevant as high school GPA.
A gold medal at the great American beer festival or more like the J.D. Powers award?
The She-Hulk episode from last night caused me to lose faith in the Born Again series that Disney is doing now. All the review sites are cheering about the “iconic” scene of Daredevil doing the walk of shame the next morning, which is so far out of character for the man without fear it pissed me off.
Exactly. Everything about it was “not Daredevil”.
Also, I get the joke, but dudes don’t wear high heels, so carrying his boots makes no sense at all, daredevil wearing his costume just walking down the street makes no sense, like, none of it makes sense.
It is a very family guy approach to jokes… If you have a joke but nowhere to fit it into the story, just do a cutaway. Except family guy is actually funny.
I have to disagree on your last declarative.
Yeah, well, definitely eye of the beholder.
He had a non-sequitur joke that makes me laugh way to hard for no particular reason.
Lois tells Peter they aren’t gonna put him on TV and he says “They put Sarah Jessica Parker on TV and she’s got a face like a foot!”
Now. I have no idea what she did to get randomly blindsided punched like that, but it made me laugh.
I am also a big fan of the Netflix Daredevil series. I watched the first two episodes of She Hulk, found them just ok, and decided to do something better with my time. I will watch just that latest episode, just out of curiosity.
Painful.
I respect your discipline though. My history is littered with substandard shows from genres I like… With me just waiting and waiting for it to finally get good.
Ever the optimist, I suppose.
Maybe it is because ST:TNG overcame Farpoint and gave us a good run.
Daredevil – that’s the one where 1/3 of the show is the cute redhead crying, 1/3 is fat friend worried about his dudebro getting hurt, and 1/3 cool action scenes, right?
Don’t forget about Kingpin.
“America’s Adderall shortage deepens: Now a SEVENTH company warns it’s running out of ADHD drug after sales rocketed during COVID”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11289223/Americas-Adderall-shortage-deepens-SEVENTH-company-warns-running-ADHD-drug.html
I guess no one was paying attention.
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I don’t understand this. How long does it take to make a vat of Adderall? Heck, if you needed a new pill machine or reactor vessel, one run would pay for it.
Is it a lack of personnel?
Must be harder to churn out than fentanyl.
I seem to recall it was an issue with getting access to the ingredients due to the government making it harder to purchase them to try to stop the scourge of meth.
Well, at least that tracks.
Same reason I have to wait for the pharmacist at Walmart and get carded just to buy the good runny nose medicine.
I prefer good old biker meth anyway.
Don’t get all hyper about it.
If ADHD pills are overprescribed, is a shortage really a bad thing?
a requirement to demonstrate “good moral character.”
I helped an old lady across the street now gimme my damn permit, asshole.
But sir, she didn’t want to cross that street, and it ended with her being run over by a bus!….
Look Straff, shooting your pistola at an old lady’s feet and making her “dance” across the street doesn’t necessarily count as a good deed.
“Colorado baker who won Supreme Court victory over his refusal to bake a gay wedding cake challenges new ruling against him after he declined to bake a gender transition cake”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11290525/Colorado-baker-challenges-ruling-against-declined-bake-gender-transition-cake.html
Can people just please leave this guy alone?
He has defied them and thus must be punished. There is no forgiveness in their faith, only petty spite.
No, they cannot.
They’re fanatics, and fanatics don’t give up until they’re dead.
And Autumn Scardina is a legal troll that was looking for this confrontation.
“Your terms are acceptable.”
Unfortunately he’s the only baker in the entire state. You’d think some gay or trans pastry chefs would see this as a market opportunity. Alas they have to fuck with this guy instead of go elsewhere.
I need to get to Lakewood, apparently this guy bakes a great fucking cake.
I’d think that a woman baker would really make bank. I’m always seeing programs to assist battered women.
The world kneads more female bakers.
It’s the yeast we can do for them.
This comment got a rise out of me.
Although I’d have said “make some serious dough” instead of “make bank.”
You’re going to fry for that pun.
*narrows gaze*
They tried to do the counter-example with a Jewish bakery and a Nazi cake, but that failed.
Maybe they should find a suitable gay bakery and have them make a “detransitioning ceremony” cake. I dunno. There has to be a suitable counter-example that doesn’t require declaring yourself as a Nazi.
Maybe they should go try one of these bakers?
Autumn Scardina placed an order in 2017 with Phillip’s cake shop in Denver for a blue birthday cake with pink filling to signify her gender transition.
We’re all pinkish on the inside.
The color is not consistant once you get past the meaty layers and reach the offal.
“Make sure to mix some shit in with the batter to get the scent right too.”
With a layer of cadaver skin or tilapia skin?
Leave a wrong-thinker alone? Now THAT is a pure libertarian sentiment.
“Serena Williams has a dinner party at the beach where COCKROACHES are on the menu… as one of her guests samples one of the cooked insects”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11290397/Serena-Williams-dinner-party-beach-COCKROACHES-menu.html
No.
Don’t do steroids kids.
She has a 5 year old child, so apparently she didn’t gum up her reproductive parts.
Eat the bugs, it’s interesting how amenable small minds are to programming. Ten years ago this would’ve been viewed as straight up disgusting and crazy but now the usual suspects seem to be open to it.
I remember Fear Factor…
No beondegi for you!
This is everywhere in Korea. Sold from street carts all the time. I tried some and it turns out I’m allergic to them. Who’d a thunk that?
Huh, you can buy that stuff canned here. Looks very unappealing.
That is how my adventure with them started. The family was taking a ferry from Japan to Korea and I found a bunch of canned beondegi in the ship’s gedunk and laughed about it. It seemed crazy that with very limited shelf space, they would have canned bugs. My wife assured me that they were tasty and popular.
Later in the trip we were going to go hiking in Sereoksang and I bought a small cup of them from a vendor right at the trail head. I ate a couple (they tasted bad) and started climbing the trail. 10 -15 minutes into it, I was having trouble breathing and thought I was just more out of shape than I thought. Then I noticed – what I though was – a big zit on my back. Then I started noticing them on my chest and learned that they are called hives.
I had never been allergic to anything in my life before so I had no idea what was going on. Of course, since I was struggling my wife and entire Korean in-laws all abandoned me and my youngest son, so it was a couple hours later before I managed to limp back into the trail head and meet with them. They told me it was an allergic reaction and my MIL was adamant that I take my shirt off so she could daub the hives with dong dong ju (korean wine) which she was sure would fix me right up.
I was not in the best of moods at this point and refused to be “treated” with Korean folk medicine and just drank the dong dong ju instead. My kids still think that it is an awesome story.
I am gonna go out on a limb here and say that even though I learned to eat bugs to survive, I will side with HM and say i would rather eat ass unless it was a life or death thing…
I hear that termites are quite tasty when roasted.
Some people eat durian. I’m glad they are not sold locally in Walmart though
Rich people. SMDH. We only had one cockroach per year and that was split between us 14 kids on Christmas dinner.
So only six of you got a drumstick?
Who ate the roach dick?
Take shelter from nuclear war between these Friday Funbags.
https://archive.ph/iXMUh
Biden just needs to shut his damn mouth. Time after time he tries to play the tough guy, and ends up unnecessarily escalating things. “MAGA MAGA MAGA! Putin wont’ get away with this! Destroy the oil and gas industry!” That’s not leadership, it’s just being a loud mouth asshole.
They were fine with banning risky behavior such as going outside for a walk or to the beach on your own. But don’t say anything about actually risky behavior, that might upset the base.
Love that headline, which is completely the opposite of the truth. If that ruling does anything, it protects women, and puts the kibosh on people doing whatever they want no matter how it affects other people.
It’s all in the framing, bro.
I kind of appreciate the candor. Maybe the voters will wake up and take it seriously.
Maybe not.
Way to play to the stereotype, dude. Thanks a lot, dipshit.
“First time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat of the use (of a) nuclear weapon if in fact things continue down the path they are going,” Biden warned during remarks at a Democratic fundraiser in New York where he was introduced by James Murdoch, the youngest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, according to the pool report.
He added: “I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily (use) a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.”
The threat is of the west’s (and particularly US-gov’t-is-assho’s) own making. Additionally, the only way that we get nuclear Armageddon is a nuclear response from NATO in a conflict in which we have no vested interest. Your graft cannot be that valuable to you.
How did Kennedy avoid nuclear war? (besides being lucid and actually in command)
By accepting a proposal that had been retracted by the Russians?
The Soviets realized what a head case Fidel was, and took the first possible excuse to remove the nukes from his control.
I didn’t think the Cubans ever had control of the nukes?
No way the Soviets let them have the button.
They were too close for comfort. The Soviets didn’t want to risk either an accident, or Fidel and Che losing their collective rag and figuring out how to flip a rocket at DC.
Kennedy was a cokehead… I doubt he was anything but a high functioning druggie.
By trading missiles in Cuba for missiles in Turkey, AKA diplomacy.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63166809
Well this is interesting! Although I’m sure it’s just going to be buried when the prosecutor declines to prosecute.
Remember how much attention the Trump sons got? And now we have a criminally corrupt President’s son cavorting with crack whores between banging his brother’s window…and the response is crickets. Oh well, it’s still juicy if you can be bothered to pay attention.
Now they need to race it through the courts and strike the whole piece of shit down. And send a warning to the state that any further attempts to undermine their rulings will result in contempt charges.
The ratchet only goes one direction…until it is forced otherwise…
The risk of people with monkeypox passing the virus to their pets is low
Not for goats in the middle-east…
No, it’s ok. I’ll see myself out.
Electric car owners have seen their rides catch fire after becoming waterlogged during Hurricane Ian and it can take hours to put the conflagrations out, a top Florida official warned Thursday.
Who could have guessed that magnesium fires are easy to spawn and difficult to douse?
Good morning all!
Revealed to me today – the only thing worse than the laptop class, is the iPad class…
Please define what you mean by each. I’m not sure how to react.
I think it means Sheldon hates children.
Lies. I like children, I just don’t particularly care about their well-being.
Laptop Class – people who pretend to work from home on their company laptops. Most of their ‘work’ involves emailing and Zoom-ing other members of the laptop class. Productive value approaches zero.
IPad Class – a member of the Laptop Class who is too lazy or trend-obsessed to haul around a plebian laptop, and who thus wants to pretend to work from home on their iPad, with all the support and security problems this entails.
Laptop Class – people who pretend to work from home on their company laptops
too close to home
Obviously.
If you get too far away, you lose the signal.
The saving grace is that I pretended to work at the office too.
I represent that!
IPads are mostly devices for consumption – you can’t meaningfully produce anything on them, email aside.
I do all my work on an iPad = I just attend meetings and write short emails.
(Waiting for the aktually, ‘I do all my coding / write reports / produce RFPs / write briefs on my iPad’ comments)
I doubt that many of those comments are forthcoming…
Worst. Contrarians. Ever.
Democrat-led El Paso alone has sent 7,000 migrants to New York City and Chicago – nearly FOUR TIMES more than Greg Abbott
So the Dems are trafficking humans then.
Yeah, but they care. They told us so themselves.
The Democrat-led border city of El Paso, Texas, has sent more migrants on buses to New York City and Chicago than a campaign by Texas’ Republican governor, a twist in an ongoing partisan battle over U.S. border security.
I’ve seen this in news other than the Daily Fail. I think it’s been going on for a while.
My Reliable Coworker just won Employee of the Quarter! 😃
For the second quarter of the year. Apparently we’re running a little behind.
“We must be sure the evaluations are as thorough as possible.”
What is the prize? I’m hoping an artist comes in and does a portrait. Then he can be Quartered and Drawn, which should be great unless they are dyslexic.
Thanks to inflation, that’s now only equivalent to being Nickled and Dimed.
Hunter Biden scandal? Russia and Biden conspiring to set off nuclear armaggedon? No, the local rag’s top of the page article was all about 11 turkey farm workers getting arrested for cruelty to turkeys when rounding them up and putting them on the processor’s truck. PETA made the complaint and a lengthy investigation was made by the authorities. What’s more, one of the farms has agreed to invest in body cameras for the workers who round up the turkeys! Page two was more of the same: the latest dustup between Tom and Giselle. Oh, and what a great job John Fetterman did in persuading Dr. Jill’s husband to pardon a handful of weed users (it only took 1 1/2 years).
Way to play to the stereotype, dude. Thanks a lot, dipshit.
There is a legit discussion to be had and we have to draw the line somewhere. I think 18 is fine as long as we acknowledge the possibility for honest mistakes, mostly on the part of males in the circumstance that a female lies about her age.
Sure. But an unsolicited comment about it at a debate is retarded.
As is the “let’s just all vote on it” comment.
True. I was merely comment on the topic.
I vote for him STFU about it.
Me too. On the list of things that need fixing, this is way at the bottom.
If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.
It’s a priority for MAPs.
How are those windmills working out?
The broader story is just as doomy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/german-natgas-consumption-too-high-avoid-energy-emergency
“with too much natural gas consumption”
No, dipshit. The consumed exactly as much as they needed. They’re fucked now because the supply has been cut off due to stupidity and hubris.
Who could have seen THAT coming….
…Klaus filing his fingernails as he stares out the window and chuckles softly.
Never mind the vary real allegations against his opponent.
Wallace asked, “How do you make women voters understand that to be the case?”
Former Rep. Donna Edwards (D- MD) said, “I think this is been the great struggle, especially in this environment. Once Donald Trump got that nomination in 2016 and then went on to win the presidency, even in the face of the allegations that were coming from multiple sources over multiple kinds of behaviors regarding women, not the least of which was the “Access Hollywood” videotape. But I think there is no longer a moral bar in the Republican party, that Donald Trump essentially opened the door to candidates like Herschel Walker.”
What are the very real allegations against his opponent?
I think it was domestic violence charges. But I might be mixing it up with another senatorial race.
jock fucks young woman
woman gets pregnant
jock pays for abortion
This disqualifies candidate if candidate = Republican
I take it with a grain of salt, but here.
There was also an accusation of sexual/physical assault at a camp for teenagers or something that he helped run. And he has had trouble with domestic issues for 20 years.
very*
Good lord…
I take it that GA does not think PA should have the biggest clown show senatorial race this election?
RE: The Access Hollywood videotape. Trump didn’t say that he just grabbed women by the pussy, but that he could do so because he’s rich. Maybe it’s not a big stretch to think that he actually did do so since he’s crude and obnoxious, but that’s not what he said. And besides, it’s not like groupies and hangers on don’t exist.
And if you actually look at the phrasing, “they let you” doesn’t sound like nonconcentual activity.
Right. He said he could do it because the groupies and hangers let him. I think if the guy isn’t a POS, he’s POS adjacent, but the legs that some of these stupid accusation have is absurd.
Here’s a stat I did not know.
https://leviborba.medium.com/the-uks-financial-system-will-crash-in-2023-but-they-don-t-want-you-to-know-4c84d8c72fb0
That’s a recipe for fiscal armageddon right there.
We need mortgage debt forgiveness!
Only take an adjustable rate if you truely believe interest rates are going to fall. Given the average three decade lifespan of mortgages, I don’t know how many of that 19% were from the 2010s, 2000s, or 1990s. I wanted fixed because 3.5% did not have much room to go down and plenty to go up.
How the *bleep* did the UK end up at 50% ARMs?
What risk? Is there some indicator of higher default rates for fixed rate mortgages? Oh, they’re loaning out other people’s money that they’re paying interest on. You really shouldn’t do that.
The risk is that with 8% inflation you are paying back pennies on the dollar after 20 years at 2.7%
Exactly. I am not planning on paying back mine over 30 years, but if the CD rate goes above my mortgage rate, extra payments will go into a CD instead and I will take 30 years…or until CD rates drop back to nothing.
From a quick google search, I can get a CD rate just a bit above my mortgage rate. Not enough to make the changeover worth it yet, would prefer being debt free. But if CD rates go up another 2 or 3 pts, I will consider it.
That’s why I was making minimum payments on my mortgage. My rate is below 3%.
Now… I pay extra each month. I started because I escrow and the loan servicer has fucked up my property taxes on more than one occasion. I was able to get everything sorted out with the taxes. I decided I would pay extra each month to get out from the servicer early. It’s not like I can refinance and keep that below 3% rate.
I remember the adjustable-rate, interest-only, balloon mortgages of the oughts.
My boss is in the UK and has an ARM. To hear him talk, I thought all mortgages were ARMs. I also think you can take the mortgage from one property to another.
u wot?
How’s a portable mortgage work?
I don’t have any clue how to process this. We’re well into wacko land now.
Nor do I have any clue how to post a full comment.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20014751/ukrainians-organise-orgy-event-nuclear-bomb/
I mean, if you are going out, go out with a bang!
I’m not quite sure the timing will work out for them.
All I need is 20 seconds.
Like I tell my wife, “I might be small, but I’m fast!”
Did the world move for you baby?
So the petite mort before the grande mort.
I think we know where the FBI’s priorities are…
In early March of 2021, a group of individuals committed to saving the lives of preborn children visited the Carafem abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, as part of a “rescue” — an event meant to reach women seeking abortion, to persuade them to choose life for their preborn children instead. Today, October 5, 2022, that event of more than a year ago culminated in a visit from the FBI to at least one of the activist’s homes. Other individuals, who either participated or were merely present at the facility that day, were ordered to report to their local authorities to be charged under the federal FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act along with charges of conspiracy.
…and it is basically an anti-American, authoritarian institution at this point. It needs to be dissolved. Likewise for the Dept. of Injustice.
Telling people they can’t protest or proselytize on a public sidewalk is a gigantic infringement on the 1A. I hope they prosecute these people and it gets fast-tracked to the SC.
FACE Act has been around 25 years, though I have no idea how many have been charged over that time. Could well be it was passed as symbolism and smarter prosecutors stayed the hell away from it.
Sooner than later one of them conservative justices on SCOTUS will be the target of the US 3 letter agencies that enforce the crime syndicate’s will, to make sure the others play the game the mandarinate wants them to…
And so it begins…
Snow flakes this morning. I’m not yet ready for winter.
Are you sure it’s not fallout?
Good point.
*strips off clothes. Runs towards Kyiv*
Winter isn’t until almost Christmas.
Listen, fat.
Biden CAUGHT on a hot mic:
“Nobody f**ks with a Biden.”
Who the hell does he think he is?!
Fake News! 9 Times Someone ‘F—d With a Biden’ and Got Away With It
There were some sensible chuckles in there.
Biden fell off a Trek? I am never buying from another bike brand ever again.
Privileged, powerful, AND an asshole: He must be such a pleasure to be around.
I’m looking forward to the Japanese GP this weekend as it is one of the best tracks on the calendar. I’m a Verstappen fan so I’ve been enjoying this year, but I would’ve definitely have liked to see Ferrari keep it a closer race for the championship. They have really made some team blunders aside from anything technical with the car or the drivers. I tuned in for a bit of the practice session last nite before turning in and even though I expected it it was disappointing to see not only the entirety of the fans in masks, but all the teams look like they are required to engage in mask theatre there. I guess that places like Japan will never again show their faces in public. I’ve always wanted to visit and my wife lived there for a couple years, but I have no desire to take part in ritualized face covering.
The age of consent should be a bright line I’d say for various reasons. Depending on how you feel about Kip Winger it should be between 16-18. That dude (not Kip, the candidate) is just one more reason that the Libertarian Party has never gotten a single seat in Congress. That’s utterly shameful after 40 plus years of existence.
Caught FP1 last night, since I happened to be up.
I’ll be watching the actual race off the DVR on Sunday – 1AM start is a bit much for me.
Right on slum. Have you been enjoying the season? I will probably watch this one live as I should be able to make it to midnite to finish the race on Saturday nite. I used to be such a night owl, but this past year has really switched my schedule up. I like what the new regs have done to the cars this year, there has been more close following and overtakes for sure. Hopefully they won’t fuck it up in the future with all the “carbon neutral” bullshit. As said above, if I wanted that I can watch Formula E. Too bad that Haas has really been underperforming, I’d love it if they could somehow snag Ricciardo as McLaren is going to be paying him anyway for next year. I don’t know if he would be into it though, as he said previously he wouldn’t consider bottom tier teams. He may end up sitting next year out.
Mostly enjoying it but it’d be far better if Ferrari didn’t keep shitting the bed and kept it competitive, as you say. How is Binotto not on the chopping block? All these problems, both technical and human-error, and nobody’s been given the boot? After a while, you gotta think the guy in charge is part of the problem.
The ability to follow closely is a big improvement; I suspect Mercedes will get their shit together a bit more next year, as will Ferrari, which should make for a competitive season.
Like you, I’m sad to see Haas underperforming – always #1 in my heart. Like you, I don’t think Ricciardo would go for it, as much as I’d love to see it. I’m also not sure “a year off” turns into anything other than “exiting F1”. Too few seats, too much talent.
Yeah, hopefully next year we will see a real competitive three way race for both championships. Indeed Binotto should be shitcannned but I don’t see that happening. Totally agree about Ricciardo, and I wonder if he doesn’t see that himself. I’d say there is at least a possibility of him joining Haas when nothing else comes up for him. As you said, too many good young drivers chomping at the bit, and as he underperformed at McLaren his stock isn’t as high as it was. I was happy to see the other Dutchman, De Vries, make a good showing at Williams for his sit in race. Really one of the highlights of the season so far.
De Vries was the feel-good story of the season. Scoring points with, what, a 2-day notice?
Feel-good for everyone but Latifi, of course. That Sofina Foods sponsorship only gets you so far.
I had missed that they made it official a couple weeks back.
Crazy sub-plot to that – Albon ended up on a ventilator after appendix surgery gone wrong?!
Yeah, I was surprised that Albon made it to race in Singapore, especially as that is a tough physical race. No joke after being on a ventilator a couple weeks before. Williams needed to ditch Latifi, he has consistently under performed. It will be interesting to see where De Vries ends up, I’m hoping at Williams, but I’d say Alpine is more likely.
Speaking of masks, I was thinking of going to a conference in Munich next month:
*sigh*
Fuck off, krauts.
You would’ve thought that by this point the absolute lack of good evidence that the non clinical use of masks does much of anything would have somehow seeped through. My kids haven’t worn one since Greaseball decreed face freedom last March, but I’d estimate about 40 percent of their classmates still have the damn things on. Granted we live in a heavily Asian area and their school is at least 60% Asian, but it is still disheartening that they will grow up this way. At least it has shown them from an early age the capriciousness and idiocy of government and the fact that large groups of people will obey the most ridiculous edicts as long as authority decrees it.
If they have a conference in the UK instead you can go there in full face freedom and without health papers. My wife just went back home for 10 days to visit her fam and she said it was mercifully free from all that bs. She said she hardly even saw anyone there with a mask on, which is different from here where many people still wear them in store and such.
Mask wearing looks to be _increasing_ around here. Lots of people walking around outside, in the sunshine wearing masks.
If I go look out my kitchen window, I am certain I will see masked children in the playground next door.
It’s depressing.
It’s still rare around here.
I’ve seen an increase in masking in certain parts of southern NH. Wealthy parts. Interestingly… those are also Republican parts.
Swing dances in the Boston area are still requiring masks and proof of vaccination. No thank you. I’ll go to PA for dancing.
There shouldn’t be any dancing in Massachusetts!
/Cotton Mather off
There really doesn’t seem to be any good evidence that cloth or surgical masks do much of anything in regards to indoor transmission of respiratory viruses, but the outside thing also just kills me. At least with the indoor thing, there is at least some possibility that there is somehow a smidgen of protection (and obviously I don’t think they should’ve ever been forced), but the wearing of them outdoors really gets heavily into the cargo cult area. I have playground age boys and I would never make them wear a mask outside (and only indoors when it was forced upon us). I had a number of negative interactions with other parents at playgrounds and such during the Panic. “Billy stay away from those kids without masks” and the like. I had to tell a few people that no, my kids weren’t going to wear them, deal with it, we have a Covid repelling rock that has been working just fine for us.
When they are being sold to us in the social media blitz, the whole idea was it prevents you from project large globs out at a distance if you cough or speak really loudly…. which might contain some covid
Wearing a cloth covering for 5 minutes in the store just didn’t seem like a big deal for “slowing the spread” as doom and gloom scenarios were being trotted out.
But it quickly became insane and exaggerated and lasted long after it was obvious the curve didn’t need to be “flattened”.
of course. And of course it become a super important moral issue too.
We are 34 days from destiny.
I had a date with destiny once. But that might have just been her stage name.
Worst.
Rule 34.
Ever.
“You’re my density.”
“I’m afraid of worms, Roxanne!”
If I watch one more Broncos game this year it will be one game too many.
Lol. The announcers even spent the second half laughing about how terrible the game was.
Perfect ending though. You got two game ending chokes.
I tuned out long before that. I should go see what happened…
Last night was two teams who thought, early in the season, “awesome! we’ve locked in an experienced QB!”.
Ooof. The Colts aren’t on the hook for a quarter of a billion dollars, at least.
Maybe Russell will turn it around.
I’m looking forwards to the 30 for 30 of this game.
I’ve used so many user-unfriendly pieces of crap software, but Teams is definately gunning for the gold in so many areas I’m gobsmacked that anyone actively chooses to use it over more sane options. Garbage interface, countintuitive responses to user actions, both insufficient and too much functionality, bizarre design choices… *shakes head*
Is there a commercial collaboration package out there that isn’t at least as much of a shitshow?
This isn’t to defend Teams, so much as to berate the state of document collaboration in general…
We (IT) _just_ went through a competitive analysis of unified communications, since there’s some discontent with Webex;
long-story short, we’re sticking with Webex, though they all scored fairly close to each other.
Note that this is for all-singing, all-dancing unified communications apps – Webex, MS Teams, RingCentral, 8×8. There was an explicit decision not to go “best of breed” and go Slack for IM, Webex for voice, etc. since that’s a huge support version.
For just document collaboration, Google Sheets/Docs isn’t bad at all. But then you’re in the maw of Google.
s/version/burden/
The problem is trying to create some omnifunctional bundle in the first place.
A good tool has a single well-defined function so that it can be made to perform that function well. Doing many things poorly is only useful in an emergency when the right tool might not be at hand. (ie, swiss army knife versus a toolbox of quality monopurpose tools)
This. Problem is, the Laptop Class is either too lazy or too inept to put down one tool and pick up another.
Counterpoint: Mrs. Dean has a WFH job now, and they have gone “best of breed”, which means she has to flip between 8 apps to do her job.
Best of breed sounds good in committee meetings, but you tend to lose sight of the fact that “good enough is good enough”.
What, you don’t like coming in and seeing dozens of notifications that you have to click through to clear them out?
I found where to disable those.
I like Teams. We use it quite a lot.
This slightly warmed my cold, black heart.
What kind of candidate can’t even to manage one hair sniff in that situation? What a loser!
I know right? And what a great opportunity she had, with a child in her arms, to declare how important late term abortions are.
Ill accept a correction from our spanish-speaking Glibs, but point of order: she called herself a “gringo” when I think it should be “gringa”.
Or blancacita.
I spel gud.
Lilith with her babies.
https://twitter.com/ebilmeeki/status/1578382948214226951
Russians say Russian things.
A growing list of failings and defeats in Ukraine have spawned angry outbursts from Russia’s elite, who still support the “military operation” but have gone as far as to suggest army chiefs should face the firing squad.
Before September saw a series of battlefield reversals, public criticism of the army was rare.
The offensive had been presented as a sacred, patriotic mission and speaking ill of the armed forces could lead to a long stay in prison.
suggest army chiefs should face the firing squad. – pour encourager les autres?
No, no! That was supposed to be French Admirals!
Byng was French?
This comparison of the Su-57 production line versus the F-35 production line really sums up the most important difference between these aircraft.
One is the most technologically advanced fighter in the world. The other is practically artisanal.
https://twitter.com/AlexHollings52/status/1576003763675856896
I don’t see that much difference
I see that the photographs appear to be deliberately deceptively framed, focusing on a single airframe in function for one and showing the whole line in the other. That is not a like for like comparison.
Don’t you be knocking our f-35s. We all personally owe mucho debt because of that amazing piece of machinery.
It’s a matter of framing. And despite its flaws, the F-35 is superior.
But is it more cost-effective?
Shooting down an expensive enemy plane is better than having your expensive plane shot down.
But what are their K/L ratios? Are they really shooting down enough enemy planes for their higher price tag?
Idk that the F-35 or Su-57 has been in any real air-air engagements. But there is always the possibility. And that’s what you have to be prepared for.
With the current direction that the gov’t is heading we might get to find out.
Good morning, Sloop!
I didn’t even make it to halftime. FFS, Wilson makes Cousins look like Joe Montana. Bleh.
Besides, who gives a fuck. Hockey season, the best season, is nearly upon us.
*angels sing*
>ESG
>Negative Screens:
>Nuclear energy
Major tip-off that ESG is scammy bullshit.
https://twitter.com/PandasAndVidya/status/1578266637576404992
Why is that age-restricted content? Seems ridiculous.
Because a lot of people don’t log in or have had their accounts banned, so the data will not circulate as fast.
A lot of what twitter does is nonsense
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Naw…
meant as a Pie-reply
‘Game of Thrones’ Fans Boycott George R.R. Martin’s Next Book, Accusing Coauthors of Racism
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/house-of-the-dragon-george-rr-martin-new-book-boycott-coauthors-racism-1235388107/
Critics have taken issue with Antonsson’s blog posts, some dating to more than a decade ago, in which she decries the casting of people of color in “Game of Thrones” to play characters that are white in Martin’s books. In one post from March 2012, for example, Antonsson complained about Nonso Anozie, a Black man, getting cast in the role of Xaro Xhoan Daxos, who is described as pale in the books. Five months later, she celebrated the fact that white actor Ed Skrein was cast to play Daario Naharis, despite a rumor claiming the network was looking to fill the role with someone of another ethnicity.
More recently, Antonsson wrote that the character of Corlys, portrayed by Steve Toussaint on “House of the Dragon,” was miscast. “There are no Black Valyrians and there should not be any in the show,” she said of the common ancestors of Velaryons and Targaryens.
Critics sound like they’re the bigots here. Name them.
I assume they are a bunch of woke twiterrers
I am huge George RR Martin fan (don’t care for the show) and I remember their complaints in 2012. They were accurate but with such minor characters in the tv show who really cares?
I have not seen the latest show, but a black Valyrian is indeed dumb. I think people don’t understand they were supposed to be rich, white, inbred assholes convinced of their divine right to rule so it’s not clear what political motive having a black one is accomplishing. It seems literally the exact opposite of what they think.
Also the two people who co-wrote his histories for him (taking his notes and putting them into book form) are the most milquetoast nerds ever. It’s really hard to ascribe any level of malevolence to them. They are just really hard core super nerds about getting the world right.
It’s really hard to ascribe any level of malevolence to them – but it is easy to bully them. Cause neeerds
Takes one to know one.
This place is infested with Nerds!
Is it still The Expanse guys or are they busy with their own stuff now?
This is legitimately the funniest “welcome” I have ever seen in my life. “Come thru but don’t bring NO vibes or NUN. And like it!!!!”
https://twitter.com/oeste/status/1577780395856351233
Today’s Covid & Coffee
There is so much I can’t really excerpt it, but HHS just bought a shit load of
Except that’s not what it’s for. Crazy fuckery is afoot.
Every single asshole psychopath at State needs to be strung up. All of this shit is beyond irresponsible.
Oooh, time for another rant from upper management! I wonder what it’ll be about today
They are bringing in the Bobs.
Those do not sound like consultants from Minority and Woman Owned Enteprises. Babek and Babette maybe.
M-WOE?
Foretelling….
Contemplate this on the Tree of M-WOE.
The ‘Me-be-We-bes’ (MWBEs) are a longstanding tradition of bigotry here at New York State.
Often the owner ends up being a figurehead.
4K – “Miss Mondo Emilia-Romagna” by Paolo Zaccaria – La Corte – Rubiera (Re) – 16.09.2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4TsRzsq0Zw
Since Biden talked about marijuana legalization, will Congress have to hold a joint session ?
I imagine the rhetoric will be blunt.
Chronic insanity will ensue.
It’s all going to pot.