It’s always fun doing a difficult, high pressure, and late project. It’s even more fun when people try to be helpful. Ever try to clean with a toddler “helping”? At least you can give a toddler a toy vacuum cleaner to keep him busy; this is more difficult with scientists and engineers. I’m running between buildings where while I’m in Building A, an engineer is “helping” in Building B. I run back to Building B, where abashed engineer tells me he decided to make the machinery work more automatically by reprogramming it. “And now it’s not running at all.” Two hours undoing the damage from the “help,” and a frantic call from Building A, where a scientist who doesn’t understand the process has (unasked) stuck his hands in it anyway and ruined a batch of parts that took a full day to get to that point. Restart that, then a frantic call from Building B… yes, it’s Groundhog Day.
What could make me feel better? Birthdays, that’s what, and todays include a wonderfully named general; a rather petty individual; the only guy with this name worth shit; a guy who dared coach at Oberlin, and has presumably been canceled; a guy who dotted all his Is; a guy who showed that even men could have periods; a guy whose ashes were placed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnall’s porch; a guy who refined the art of grabbing his knee and rolling around; the absolute king of shitty pop culture; a brilliant, pioneering, and creative troll who has sadly faded away; a disgusting piece of shit who has elevated hysteria to an entertainment form; a musician whose shtick is limited yet insanely successful; a pretty decent bassist who, if I didn’t mention him, would cause me to be screamed at by Tulip; and the result of crossing a piece of shit with a different piece of shit.
Well, that didn’t help. Let’s try Links.
You mean nobody gives a shit about this? Huh, whoda thunk it?
I think this situation requires an absolutely futile and stupid gesture.
Why I’m hesitant to ride the subway: white supremacists.
Where’s my shocked face? I know I left it around here somewhere…
I still feel pissed off and shitty. Old Guy Music might relieve the pain a bit. This is a classic tune covered by like everyone. And I think is the best one of all.
“Where’s my shocked face? I know I left it around here somewhere…”
Have they ever been right? Like even once?
Never. That’s the brilliant part of it.
If you make an accurate prediction, somebody might be tempted to use it.
Their models say they’ll be right inside of 5 years.
And that supermodels should date them.
And that those jocks in high school are big, ugly jerks who won’t amount to anything.
We can’t predict the past but trust our predictions of the future.
I like the sidebar.
I’ll have to read that cold fusion paper when I have a chance to absorb it. What’s the nickel summary?
Science is often inhibited by areas deemed taboo. The risk-taking for real progress can end one’s career.
Was it written by Galileo? Kind of old news except the new inquisitor boards are other scientists and not priests although the motivation of ruthless self-interest remains the same.
It’s worse. Galileo was railroaded by people who were acting in a political capacity and concerned about what his discoveries would do to the social system and people who openly put religious faith before reason and facts.
The new priesthood is worse because it pretends to not be political and because they claim to be agnostics or atheists whose brilliant minds are unclouded by religious superstition.
It’s understandable for a person of faith to believe that the animals could fit in Noah’s Ark or that the earth was created in a week, even in the face of scientific observations that would appear to contradict those possibilities.
It’s unforgivable for a so-called person of science who laughs at the notion of faith and religion and claims to believe only in reason to continue to believe in the Ark or young-Earth creationism when scientific observations conflict with their theories.
One of Galileo’s problem was by that time he was and old asshole who not only insulted and mocked his opponents, but his supporters as well.
Some wag once remarked that science progresses one death at time. Meaning that only when the old guard dies off can true progress be made.
It’s true. Read Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything. Time and again scientific advancement is slowed down by The Science.
Seems apropos at the moment.
“Why I’m hesitant to ride the subway: white supremacists.”
He’s better dressed than I expected.
This is why I tell the kids to put their backs to the pillars or the wall in the subway.
I just avoid public transit.
Obligatory Old Lady Music
Classic. Also this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z_m4Qb0iW-o
😊 Caught a couple of friends playing music at a nice wine bar/deli Friday night, and they played that one (which prompted me to put in a “long-term” request for the one I linked.) When they played “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’,” I put in a similar request for this one.
Noice!
I have those Petula Clark and Frank/Nancy CDs. It’s not just Old Lady music, it’s enjoyable music that will last forever. Thanks GT
/Runs to the CD machine. OK, walks slowly to the CD machine.
You’re quite welcome, 4(20)! You said something yesterday, I believe, about our musical tastes often being formed by what our older siblings listened to on the AM radio, then by the music popular in our own adolescence. I’ve found lately that even more than the music of my adolescence (a lot of which was disco. Ugh! I was a weirdo among my peers and listened to The Manhattan Transfer.) I keep going back to the music my mom listened to on the local “Middle of the Road” station (now in an all-news-and-talk format) and then what my older sister followed obsessively on the local “Top 40” station (now all sports.)
Came across this one in my iTunes library just yesterday – love it
👍🏼
This victim was walking along the track – no defense for that unless you grow eyes on the back of your head.
Also the perp exited through a gate marked Entry. There oughta be a law against that. He left his bag unattended, “That don’t fly, buddy”. Lock him up, I say.
Re: the subway. This is why I lean definitively on the side of “Anarchy would never work”. Human nature devolves to tribes and gangs quickly. Tribes and gangs allow “othering”. People will do insane crap against anyone they see as the “other”. (Forgive me for reading a LOT into that camera footage, I know… but it definitely looks to me like a man doing it for fun or a power trip, crushing his perceived enemies, not a crazy / insane issue). Of course, I’m admittedly more of a Law and Order type, so my own biases come into play here, I’m sure.
Dude… don’t go knocking on Weird Al. Yes, his parodies are what he’s known for — but you have to admit he and his long standing band have a lot of talent to consistently play across so many musical genres over the years, and his originals are good too. Sure, he’s not Wolfgang Amadeus F’ing Mozart, but barring that 5 year old mentioned a day or so ago, who is? Plus he seems to remain a generally nice guy, which is a lot more than almost all of the acts he’s parodying can say. 😉
Given the areas of research I thought you were in now — I wouldn’t want to be a scientist sticking his hands in your work. The third degree burns would be astounding… ow….
Good morning and thanks for the links, OMWC.
“This is why I lean definitively on the side of “Anarchy would never work”.”
It’s not like NYC has a lack of government.
But is that government being applied or is there a decided lack of enforcement over the last year or two of any real laws, resulting in systemic near anarchy for the favored groups?
Because it sure looks from the outside that they’ve stopped enforcing the laws, and anarchy is devolving from the situation.
It’s “anarcho-tyranny”, not anarchy. If people were allowed to be armed, and defend themselves and their property, there would be way less crime.
They’ve redirected all their law enforcement resources towards getting OMB.
“Under-pressure NYC Mayor Eric Adams appears to blame subway riders using iPhones in public for rise in subway crime – and tells them to stop using expensive Apple Airpods”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11344419/NYC-mayor-tells-subway-users-phones-headphones-away-avoid-crime.html
“And women should stop wearing such provocative clothing.”/Adams
What a piece of shit. “Law ‘n’ order candidate” my ass.
Yes, the use of government to attack political enemies is a real threat to America.
‘After long pause, president said Dr. Biden believes he ‘shouldn’t walk away’ in 2024′
Eh, unless they cut out part of the pause it wasn’t particularly long. I’m sure people on the left were getting all the juicy clips or if context of Trump also. I don’t think Biden is all there either, certainly not at a presidential level, I wouldn’t let him supervise a single employee let alone hundreds of thousands (millions?). At the same time, the right obviously tries to make it look worse than it is.
It wasn’t the… it’s not just the… it could be more than just… It seems to be more the… It might be how long it took to answer such a simple question than just the point where he wasn’t speaking at all.
Went to the same school as Weird Al. And Madden. Not at the same time though.
I went to the same school as a serial killer. Not at the same time though.
Well, Scott Peterson was there the same time as me, that counts, right?
“I run back to Building B, where abashed engineer tells me he decided to make the machinery work more automatically by reprogramming it. “And now it’s not running at all.”
Sounds like someone didnt follow theprocedure
(Also I seem to recall imgur links being much easier in the past, just called the jpeg directly, now its all fancy webp stuff)
That’s getting pinned up over my desk.
My wife got me a t-shirt that’s similar from a software perspective… can’t find a good sample link, sorry.
This pairs well with the labor chart heading today’s links.
I once reviewed the work of a senior programmer who was on our my and our boss’s shitlist.
This senior programmer was supposed to help me out with a particular task. I had set up test systems and other things based on a set of instructions I had received. I had no problems with this task. What I didn’t know was the the instructions for the task had been updated slightly. Not knowing about the change, I pointed the senior guy to the document with the instructions and told him which systems I had set up. The senior guy pointed out the current instructions didn’t line up right with what I had told him. I looked at the instructions, saw the changes that I didn’t know about. Oops. I apologized for not paying more attention to the instructions. I explained to him I didn’t know about those changes, but these instructions will work with the systems I set up, just do these steps differently. Basically, I gave him the old procedures which still worked just fine. The changes were streamlining and minor.
Everything should be fine right?
The senior programmer had completely fucked up what he had done. I asked him in a roundabout why he did what he did. In other words, I wanted to ask him, “Why the fuck did you fuck up this simple thing?” but couldn’t put it that way.
His response, cc-d to our boss? “I guess I accidentally followed the instructions.”
I thought to myself, “You really think this is going to help you?”
He was fired about a week later. I was happy.
The Dems need to concentrate on Jan 6th and late third trimester abortion rights with an occasional deviation into how racist Latinos are towards black folks. That’ll win them the brass ring.
If not the brass ring, maybe some brass balls at least.
You mean nobody gives a shit about this? Huh, whoda thunk it?
Not exactly. I have some neighbors who moved to the area about 5 years ago who have a “Never Forget Jan 6!!!!!” yard sign displayed proudly among all the other signs for statewide democrat candidates.
Good Old Guy music selection. This jerk liked it.
Lemme guess: Their Subaru has at least thirty political bumper stickers on it too.
Yeah, hard-core Dems are all over it. I bet most undecided voters don’t give a shit.
I am thankful I live in a community where I haven’t seen a single political sign. I bet there are plenty in the rich part of town.
“Native American actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather, who died earlier this month at the age of 75, has been exposed as an ethnic fraud by her two Hispanic sisters.
The model-turned-activist gained instant notoriety in 1973, when she took the stage at the Academy Awards in place of Marlon Brando. The actor, who had won the best actor statue for his role in ‘The Godfather,’ allowed Littlefeather to speak in his stead about the way Native Americans were treated in Hollywood.
Claiming to be a descendent of the Apache nation, Littlefeather spoke about the way Native American’s plight in Hollywood. The audience booed her, and she faced racist backlash for years.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11344055/Sacheen-Littlefeather-NOT-Native-American-biological-sisters-say-father-Mexican.html
Does anyone ever pretend to be white?
Does anyone ever pretend to be white?
A lot of my family.
A lot of Dems will give you a long list of certain people they claim are “pretending to be white”.
Clarence Thomas?
That hasn’t been a thing since the days of the swarthy Italian.
Yeah, I wonder if she knew that guy with the tear running down his cheek.
Wow. Can you imagine that today?!
No, I would be a standing ovation.
Weren’t a lot of college football players back in the day “Samoan”?
Most of the lizard people in DC do.
Not since Michael Jackson departed this realm.
Clarence Thomas, according to his detractors.
But we call those folks — morons.
“Trump calls for writers and editors of POLITICO story on leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade to be put in JAIL – where the prospect of being ‘the bride of another prisoner’ will force them to reveal their source”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11344909/Trump-calls-writers-leaked-Supreme-Court-draft-overturning-Roe-v-Wade-JAIL.html
Is anyone even looking at this point?
God, Trump is such a shithead. The guy who won him the election is about to go to prison because of loyalty to him and he’s saying this kind of garbage.
It’s Sunday, and though I no longer attend Sunday services I do try to give thanks for at least one thing.
Today I give thanks for the Deep State, in the absence of which people like Biden and Trump would actually be making decisions. No matter how bad things may seem to be, remember that they could be worse.
Ron Jeremy starred in Deep State didn’t he?
LOL. Mornin’, sloper.
That was the Vivid Video remake. The original had John Holmes and Seka.
Hey, l0! You said the other day you had “stories” – about snowflakes at the cafe, maybe? Did I miss those, or was it only Zoomers who got to hear them?
Tee hee… The details were discussed on the zoomy. Reader’s Digest version – the They/Them (who is a nice person and has potential as a professional chef) has spent the last several weeks alienating everyone around and being petulant about completing assigned work; while simultaneously complaining about lack of hours AND riding the clock to the tune of 8 – 10 hours per week. Their final shift was last night. The salacious part is that despite being a “they/them” and binding their breasts and wanting to be a little boy; they were engaging in some very CIS/hetero behavior in very adventurous ways. Oh My!
😲
In Spud’s basement yet. His description: “She was the ham in a pumpernickel and rye sandwich.”
Oh, well now that’s just rude to do it on/in someone else’s property and not invite the owner to participate.
I’m curious about how you can be a nice person and, apparently, an asshole.
But she does sound like she is on track to be a professional chef.
Oh, you said “nice person …and an asshole…”
I get it, a two part question and multiple choice.
Oh boy.
Dude.
That same survey also found that almost 40 percent of respondents are open to supporting candidates who voted to overturn the 2020 election results — a number that has left Trump’s critics dumbfounded. Asked about the figure, Pelosi was at a loss for words.
“I can’t explain it,” she said. “I think it’s a tragedy for our country that people don’t value the vision that our founders had about a democracy, what our men and women in uniform fight for.”
Okay, Granny.
the vision that our founders had about a democracy
Their vision was that it was not the form of government they wanted to enact.
“This is a real ad from a pro-Biden group”
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1583128053093306368
O.o
Inflation taking from your pocket, pocket, pocket.
*JJ Walker prepares lawsuit
That would earn an F as a middle school project. Wtf?
Max Headroom lives?
“The kids think he’s hip.”
/Joe
“They think he’s a righteous dude.”
It’s like a rejected skit from Tim and Eric.
Too well done for them?
This Dark Brandon nonsense is Peak Cringe. And it’s hilarious. And sad.
That’s a winning strategy right there. Keep reminding the chumps what chumps they were…
WTF?
The 7 percent of voters most concerned about democracy, as revealed by the New York Times-Siena College poll, appears to be a low number, but it ranks third among all issues — above crime, immigration, abortion, health care, China, COVID-19 and climate change.
Were those topics listed in the poll question, or were the people asked to name their favorite issue?
“Threats to democracy” in its widest sense includes counting votes which cannot be verified as legitimate.
Are there any groups that are actually a threat to democracy? Cuz i might wanna join. Democracy was sold in this country as an awesome way to protect individual rights. That is clearly false soooooo fuck democracy. Next.
The good news, fewer people are getting their news from Facebook. The bad news …
Twits still dominate.
Oddly encouraging. Only 26% of adults under thirty are unequivocally retarded.
“This headline is my favourite thing ever.”
https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1583942507234136064
LOL
“californians move to texas | episode 3: the church
the latest from @TheBabylonBee ft. @tedcruz”
https://twitter.com/morganisawizard/status/1583566650426634245
Zodiac!
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Blew a 50/50. 😠
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Daily Duotrigordle #235
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 07:53.11
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Knives out
A Democratic defeat at the polls is expected to prompt rank-and-file members to push aggressively to replace the party’s Big Three — Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, all octogenarians — with a new, younger generation of leaders.
President Joe Biden would also be in his 80s if he runs for a second term in 2024.
Even before Election Day, younger House members haven’t made a secret of their desire for change. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, 46, a moderate Michigan Democrat, has called for “new blood” and a “new generation” to step up and lead the Democratic Party. Rep. Dean Phillips, 53, another moderate Democrat who represents Minnesota, agreed, telling NBC News on Friday: “Rep. Slotkin shares the same perspective as me and the majority of the class of 2018.”
For the past several years, a trio of ambitious young Democrats — Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, 52; Katherine Clark, 59,; and Pete Aguilar, 43 — have been laying the groundwork to take the reins of the Democratic Caucus in a post-Pelosi world. And other eager Democrats, sensing the rare opportunity to move up in the pecking order, have launched challenges to that unofficial leadership slate.
Why do I assume the replacement leaders will just accelerate our headlong rush into the Abyss?
I am familiar with this guy’s output. Brace yourselves – he’s no “moderate”.
Ditto Slotkin.
LOL!!! I saw Councilman Jefferies get arrested at the Caribbean-American Day Parade down Eastern Parkway. The side streets were blocked off for the parade; if one wanted to cross Eastern Parkway, one had to walk a block or two to find an open crossing. Hakeem decided he was too important to be stymied by the NYPD barrier so he climbed over it. The gaggle of cops (murder of cops? thug of cops?) did not take kindly to their authority being disrespected so they dog-piled him. I laughed and laughed….
A truncheon of cops.
Nice.
I like parades and such down 4th Avenue here – you can cut through the subway station to get to the other side, for example to reach one of my supermarkets.
I was pissed a few weeks ago when one of the marathons was going down Bay Ridge Parkway and I had no idea until I exited my other supermarket and wanted to get home. Those fuckers don’t give a shit that they’re in your way.
“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac”
Henry K.
Wait, 59 is young now?
Woo-hoo! *fist pumps, throws out back*
A collection of smaller titties for my mentally ill Glibs who prefer that.
https://archive.ph/92Tab
Slutty Sunday.
/Puts on straight jacket and dives in.
Can’t make it past #1
Keep beating that tin drum, little wind-up monkey
Giorgia Meloni, whose political party with neo-fascist roots emerged victorious in recent elections, was sworn in on Saturday as Italy’s first far-right premier since the end of World War II. She is also the first woman to be premier.
Meloni, 45, recited the oath of office before President Sergio Mattarella, who formally asked her to form a government a day earlier.
Her Brothers of Italy party, which she co-founded in 2012, will rule in coalition with the right-wing League of Matteo Salvini and the conservative Forza Italia party headed by former Premier Silvio Berlusconi. Those two parties’ popularity has sagged with voters in recent years.
Meloni recited the ritual oath of office, pledging to be faithful to Italy’s post-war republic and to act “in the exclusive interests of the nation.” The pledge was signed by her and counter-signed by Mattarella, who, in his role as head of state, serves as guarantor of the Constitution, drafted in the years immediately after the end of war, which saw the demise of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
Mussolini!!!!!!
Italy has shifted so far to the right it will tip over.
Hopefully she won’t be too much of a heel and they won’t have to give her the boot. She seems to still have her sole, which is rare for a politician.
I’m surprised you didn’t try to shoehorn one more pun in there.
It did seem like I’d be dipping one toe over the line if I had.
I was tied up in knots for a couple minutes, I’ll buckle down and see what I can come up with
Swiss will have an archly dim view of these puns.
In her campaign for the Sept. 25 election, Meloni insisted that national interests prevail over European Union policies should there be conflict. She often railed against EU bureaucracy.
The horror.
The HORROR.
One word: threesome.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20189251/best-friend-wants-sperm-donor/
DNA testing is a bitch
See something, say something
In a telephone call days after the 2020 election, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes urged followers to go to Washington and fight to keep President Donald Trump in office.
A concerned member of the extremist group began recording because, as he would later tell jurors in the current seditious conspiracy trial of Rhodes and four associates, it sounded as if they were “going to war against the United States government.”
That Oath Keeper contacted the FBI, but his tip was filed away. He was only interviewed after Rhodes’ followers stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The defendants are charged with plotting to stop the transfer of presidential power, and their trial is raising more questions about intelligence failures in the days before the riot that appear to have allowed Rhodes’ anti-government group and other extremists to mobilize in plain sight.
We should be able to pre-emptively lock up anybody who spouts any kind of anti-government rhetoric. All the cool countries do it.
It’s just like when the FBI failed to stop 9/11!!!!1!1!!
A concerned member of the extremist group began recording because, “he was an FBI plant”.
FIFT.
It’s unclear to what extent authorities were tracking Rhodes and his militia group before Jan. 6. But it has since become apparent that authorities had plenty of intelligence warning that some Trump supporters were planning an assault to stop the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.
Despite that, police left unprepared on the front lines were quickly overwhelmed by the mob that engaged in hand-to-hand combat with officers, smashed windows and poured into the Capitol.
It was the fall of the Alamo. None were spared.
So now they weren’t an armed mob? I’m so confused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyu3OIn5A00
Quickly overwhelmed by the mob they deliberately let in?
Just the facts, Ma’am
In the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on Oct. 2, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finished ahead of far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro but failed to secure an outright majority. The two candidates are headed for a runoff on Oct. 30.
NPR- serious journalism for serious people.
At least they didn’t call Lula a “moderate”.
I had actually brought that very same point up to my wife. Lula is an actual no-doubt communist. Bolsanaro has them scared so TMITE is pulling out all the stops, as usual. Interesting that they’ve weaponized language so well, “far-right” has so many negative connotations.
I asked when she’s going to go to the consulate and vote, she said she would rather pay the fine than vote for either of them. She thinks Lula will win, even though Bolsanro is much more popular than the media would have you believe.
“How the borders have changed over time”
https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1583650462859153408
Interesting. No idea how accurate it is.
“CDC director today: Just tested positive for Covid (5x vaxxed!!!)
CDC Director a year ago: “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus and don’t get sick” 🤡”
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1583872500064452608
Maybe the 6th jab will take.
As far as I know, Michael Crichton was an ordinary writer of ordinary fiction. What’s so bad about him?
Im really fond of his techno-thrillers. Andromeda Strain is an absolute classic, and Prey is a good one, too. I read Jurassic Park probably 100 times when I was a kid, the book was so much better than the film
The Great Train Robbery was not what I expected from a Michael Crichton film.
“In the ONE YEAR since Gov Abbott singer permitless carry into law, there has been a 100% increase in the number of Texans shot or wounded. Even if the 40 people killed or wounded in the Robb Elementary mass shooting are excluded, the increase is 79%.”
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1583991796387835904
Don’t read the comments.
Now do NYS, which enacted multiple new, unconstitutional restrictions.
“In the ONE YEAR since Gov Abbott singer permitless carry into law, there has been a 100% increase in the number of Texans shot or wounded”
Is that true?
Shannon Watts is a Disarmamant activist and a known liar, so I’m going to say the assertion is baseless.
According to them the number went from 190 to 340…which really doesn’t seem like that many to me considering how large our population is and how quickly its growing.
Also, even if the known liar were being truthful, lets look at the numbers.
She asserts that 40 people represent 21% of the increase. Lets round off to an even 20% to make the math easy. She’s saying the number went from 200 Texans out of 30 Million to 400 Texans out of 30 Million.
Right. So, only 400 Texans were shot or wounded last year? Really? The entire state has less gun violence than Chicago?
I figured it out, the tweeter is lying about what the article actually says. It’s specifically talking about “mass shooting” casualties, not gun violence in general. And as we know, “mass shootings” are a statistic that’s heavily gamed.
I’m just extrapolating from what Ms. Watts claimed, I didn’t look up the actual numbers.
But it does seem to imply the adage about an armed society being a polite society.
I was using that math to call out her bullshit.
How many of them had it coming?
We all have it coming.
A big deal
Tributes have been paid to Dietrich Mateschitz, the owner and co-founder of the sports drink company Red Bull, who has died aged 78.
As well as turning his energy drink into a market leader, the Austrian billionaire also founded one of the most successful Formula One teams in recent history.
His death was announced by the company on Saturday, ahead of qualifying for Sunday’s United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, where the Red Bull team can win a fifth F1 constructors’ title.
“What he achieved and what he’s done for so many people around the world, across different sports, is second to none,” Christian Horner, Red Bull’s F1 team principal, told Sky Sports F1.
“So many of us have to be so grateful to him for the opportunities that he’s provided, the vision that he had, the strength of character and never being afraid to follow and chase your dreams.
I suspect this will have a major effect on motor racing in the next year or two.
I run back to Building B, where abashed engineer tells me he decided to make the machinery work more automatically by reprogramming it.
Fix it until it breaks.
“You have to recognize that they are undermining our democracy,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this week in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “And if people think that they can be casual about that, they just don’t realize how serious the Republicans are about undermining our democracy.”
Sounds like projection to me.
Chanting crowds marched in the streets of Berlin, Washington DC and Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that country’s morality police.
Color Revolution cells are activating.
Old Guy Music is great. I like how the picture in the video has all sorts of old-timey touches including the “33 1/3” speed.
Right. So, only 400 Texans were shot or wounded last year? Really? The entire state has less gun violence than Chicago?
Shush, you!
“You have to recognize that they are undermining our democracy,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this week in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “And if people think that they can be casual about that, they just don’t realize how serious the Republicans are about undermining our democracy.”
“They want to undo all our hard work loading the dice in our favor!”