Finishing strong
The Braves have won the NL East, and all the playoff matchups are now set. Aaron Judge broke the AL homers record. Verlander probably locked up the AL Cy Young after a masterclass in pitching. The Suns owner is about to learn a lesson in the repercussions of one’s actions. (Only it’s not the lessons you might think.) And across the pond, Liverpool actually managed to win a game. And the rest of the UCL matchups proved to be interesting, with another full slate today. And that’s it for sports.
For once the majority is correct. Although they probably should have added “covid insanity” to the list as well as “adult-influenced psychosis in children” for the lulz.
The Constitution is not racist. It is colorblind. And should remain so. The right to decide districts is distinctly a state’s right, and the VRA infringes upon that right. It’s time for that provision to go out the window, in my opinion.
He’s gone
“That’s some fine police work there, Lou.” It’s the fucking Keystone Cops at this point.
“Why can’t they just report our propaganda?” says doddering old man, irate that someone would dare ask him to explain himself. Jesus, does he want us to be more like China or Russia?
Ye gonna Ye
Wait, are they saying that white lives don’t matter? I’m confused at their pushback. And I’m laughing at his effective trolling.
The reaction to this was hilariously predictable. I think maybe the cops should have kept their methods quiet until they got a break in the case.
“See, everything is going great!” I wonder why Philly wasn’t near the top, since these people aren’t living in the real world.
Well…….good. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
And it’s on again. I hope it comes true this time. I want to see the heads explode when he starts allowing more speech on the platform that’s been banned the last few years.
Going back to the early days for these guys. I loved their early stuff. But they kicked ass a few years later too. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this fantastic Wednesday, dear friends.
“The Constitution is not racist. It is colorblind. And should remain so. The right to decide districts is distinctly a state’s right, and the VRA infringes upon that right. It’s time for that provision to go out the window, in my opinion.”
That’s why the current marxist movement based on race, not the old class one that would never fly in the US, hates that paper written by a bunch of old white slave owners so much..
It’s worth noting that the Constitution used to be racist — 3/5ths and whatnot.
Also, “the current marxist movement based on race” isn’t Marxist if it’s based on race.
It’s a metastasization of the origianl Marxist Tumor.
No, not really. Then call it communist or socialist. But it’s neither of those either. The left is all in on the current government and big corporations. They want to fuck the workers and commodify everything.
What do you think marxism is, in practice, if not exactly what you claimed the left wants to do.
Marxism in practice is overthrowing the current government.
And enslaving the serfs. Don’t forget that part… The proponents of marxism like that the most. Forcing other people to comply with real evil & stupid shit is what they get off on.
Because there weren’t any serfs under feudalism? Government power isn’t unique to any particular form of government.
Anyway, I don’t think this discussion is going anywhere. I have pyramids to build, sacrifice a bunch of people to the sun god, and try to conquer the Jin dynasty. So I need to round some fur hats before lunch.
That 3/5ths trope is about the dumbest fucking ignorant claim ever made. The constitution counted slaves as 3/5th of a human for census purposes. The people that wanted to end slavery knew that if they let the census count slaves, the south always would have higher representation, and getting rid of slavery would be nigh impossible. The south had a similar racket as the people today that demand we count illegals in our census even though they are not considered able to participate in our voting, and our forefathers cock blocked that so they had an avenue to ban slavery.
“The constitution counted slaves as 3/5th of a human”
That doesn’t sound racist at all.
If you remove the “for census purposes, as to avoid giving the south the upper hand that would allow them to prevent slavery from being banned”, it sure does…
That relly just says you have an in-built assumption that slavery is inherently race-based, and that any policy influenced by or attempting to influence it is as well.
That logic is how you can claim that government welfare programs are helping the poor, as you never mention or purposefully remove the part where they also make them dependent to government for everything and a bunch of reliable bought & paid for votes.
That doesn’t even make sense.
Proponents of the programs always tell you how noble and good they are… They leave out how it breeds dependency and serves their political purposes. When you get half the story, it tells you one thing. When you get it all, the meaning is practically always the exact opposite of what the half story tells you.
It sounds racist if you remove it from context. The context was explicitly taught to me in high school though. This is an education failure.
I’m well aware of the context, and it doesn’t make it any less racist.
It’s an inconvenient fact that more than just black people were chattel slaves, and more than just white people owned chattel slaves. Anthony Johnson, an Angolan former indentured servant, won a civil case against his own indentured servant, John Casor, allowing him to keep Castor as a slave for the rest of his life, which helped set the legal precedent for chattel slavery in Virginia.
The 3/5 compromise was a compromise between slavers and abolitionists, not racists and non-racists (let alone our modern notion of “anti-racists”). Not one person involved in either side of the debate would be considered anything less than a horrifying racist in the modern context. Regardless, the compromise had the effect of diminishing the representation of slave states. Counting slaves as a full person for representation purposes might have warmed the cockles of our non-racist hearts, but it would have given more political power to slave states. Which is more important, the outcome or the optics?
Which is more important, the outcome or the optics?
The single most defining characteristic of modern culture is their single-minded obsession with the latter.
I agree, yankees are racist.
“Not one person involved in either side of the debate would be considered anything less than a horrifying racist in the modern context.”
That’s true. Presentism aside, I’d say the abolitionists were less racist.
My point is that in the absence of racism, such a compromise would have been impossible.
“That doesn’t sound racist at all.”
Because it isn’t. It’s classist.
Free blacks weren’t counted any differently than any other free person.
^^^THIS^^^
I don’t think there is a skin pigment reference in the clause.
The dialectical materialism is still there, it’s just a relatively minor tweak of how to kick off the proletarian revolution because American proles still harbor bourgeoisie aspirations.
The bad race has oppressed your race and stolen your prosperity and your winnings! We need marxism!
I have repeatedly asked people to explain to me how robbing the poor, the people with nothing, makes you rich. If you want to get rich you go into government and your rob the productive.
I disagree on both counts. The last thing they want is any sort of “proletarian revolution”.
Neither does marxism. it’s just a means to removing the current people in power and replacing them with one even worse and more destructive & deadly.
Depends who “they” is, I suppose. Political power brokers just want political power, and whatever means is most convenient in the pursuit of that end is what they go with. However, there actually were, and are, “true believer” ideological Marxists that very much want(ed) a proletarian revolution and simply realized they weren’t going to get one in a social environment where the proles believe themselves to be upwardly mobile (regardless of whether they truly are or not). That was the innovation of the Frankfurt school in crafting what we today sometimes call “cultural Marxism”. They never abandoned dialectic materialism or Marxist economic theory, but shifted the revolutionary emphasis onto cultural issues. Protestantism to Marxism’s Roman Catholicism.
Oh, I agree with that (I wouldn’t say the Frankfurt school entirely abandoned dialectic materialism or Marxist economic theory, but they didn’t adhere to it either). I just don’t call Protestants “Catholics”. There was plenty of socialist thought before Marx, and many different kinds since. However, at this point, “they” — the Left, the globalists — are corporatists, not socialists.
I think calling them corporatists gets it wrong. They are more akin to fascists. a system where government controls the private section through regulation, favoring large monopolies and giant entities, while allowing for the veneer of legitimacy that gives them an out to blame the private sector for when their pick the winners & losers agenda results in massive failures that the tax payers are then ordered to pay for by said government.
I don’t call Protestants Catholics, but I’d call both Protestants and Catholics Christians. They differ wildly in the specific, but share a commonality by way of the person of Christ and his redemptive theology. Socialism is at least as old as the first century Christian church which practiced it, but Marx is to modern socialism what Christ was to Christianity. The Marxist critique of capitalism and Marxist revolutionary theory inform all our modern varietals of socialism, to say nothing of their importance even in non-economic fields where critical theory has become de rigueur. In a way, we’re all Marxists now.
Socialism is at least as old as the first century Christian church which practiced it
I’ve heard some good arguments that the passages you reference were very limited in scope. Something more along the lines of an extended conference or festival where everybody who traveled there pooled their resources to ensure that nobody had to leave early due to material need.
I’ve heard some good arguments that the passages you reference were very limited in scope.
And voluntary. Sounds pretty different than modern force and coercion.
So have I. There’s no indication within the text how long the arrangement in Luke-Acts lasted. Most of the debate on the topic in a modern context involves a lot of heavily motivated reasoning to support one or another political or economic ideology. However, reading Tertullian, St. Basil, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, and St. Augustine, it’s fairly clear that some form of socialistic ideal and opposition to private property persisted throughout the patristic age.
form of socialistic ideal and opposition to private property
Yep. Stewardship v. Ownership. You also see it in the OT with Jubilee, where land reverted back to its ancestral owners after a number of years.
This may seem like a leap, but my thoughts move to Peter lopping off the ear of the soldier. Why was one of the closest disciples of Christ armed with a sword? Maybe to protect life, limb, and property from highwaymen. If that’s the case, it very much narrows the scope of who one is called to freely share their things with.
We needn’t wonder, the narrative in Luke 22 explains it. Peter was armed at Christ’s insistence, and only because it was necessary to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah that the Messiah be “numbered with the transgressors”. And upon using his weapon, he is immediately rebuked by Christ.
I wish it weren’t so, but Christ really was a peacenik and communitarian.
Wasn’t Peter a Roman citizen? Swords were also a status symbol.
Anyway, fascism is national corporatism. “They” are global corporatists.
I’d also quibble about stewardship vs. ownership. Not because they aren’t distinct concepts, but because the church fathers didn’t frame their opposition to private property in those terms. St. Basil in particular hated wealth vehemently and believed the world was a commons not to be owned individually.
I’m not really seeing it. “Get your swords or buy one if you don’t have one” doesn’t really explain why they had swords with them in the first place. Jesus’s response wasn’t indignation that people in his group had swords, but an acknowledgement that 2 was enough for prophetic fulfillment.
Also, the rebuke was against trying to start a revolution in direct contradiction to Jesus’s prior commands and prophesies (e.g. “Get behind me Satan!”).
I don’t disagree with peacenik or communitarian as accurate descriptors, but it has never been clear to me exactly how far those descriptors go. Are Christians allowed to oppose wrongdoing, or are the anabaptists right about how to handle aggression?
Of course, the fact that it’s the government doing wrong adds a whole other wrinkle to things.
I am of the mind that aiding the less fortunate includes meeting agression with appropriate force. Preventing the infliction of harm upon the innocent by evil is nothing to be ashamed of. The caveat is that one must beware of being deluded about who or what falls into such categories, and the minefield of inadequate information surrounded it.
Everything taught by Christ and the apostles, as well as the examples they set with their respective martyrdoms, leads me to believe the anabaptists are probably right. I don’t think there’s any persuasive case to be made for self defense, nor retaliatory violence, in Christian theology. The government being the aggressor may arguably simplify the matter, in light of Romans 13:1-6 and 1 Peter 2:13-17.
““Why can’t they just report our propaganda?” says doddering old man, irate that someone would dare ask him to explain himself. Jesus, does he want us to be more like China or Russia?”
Programming the lemmings seems to be an absolute necessity for these inept and corrupt credentialed morons that fill the ranks of the top men. If they lose that power, people might figure out how big of a disservice and outright criminality the ruling class, globally, has degenerated into, and demand change. After all, the contract is that we let you rule as long as you make things better. These days all they do is champion whatever kink & perversion they like & engage in while destroying the economy in order to wipe out the middle class anywhere.
Will no one rid me of these troublesome reporters?
The CCP will frown on anyone taking action against their propaganda arm.
“Wait, are they saying that white lives don’t matter? I’m confused at their pushback. And I’m laughing at his effective trolling.”
That’s exactly what they are saying. These are the same people that also tell you when they call you an evil cracker and hope you die, that they are not being racist, because..
This. They hate you and want you dead.
His spokesman sees an opportunity to cash in by selling out his boss. This is a grift.
Asians and hispanics hardest hit.
Stop Asian Hate never had a nice ring to it.
“And it’s on again. I hope it comes true this time. I want to see the heads explode when he starts allowing more speech on the platform that’s been banned the last few years.”
Looks like we are back to the fucking assholes that want to control what people find out to combat “disinformation” (yeah, right) are back to ripping off their clothes and trying hard to find a workaround to this resulting in freer speech.
They’ll just flip to “All of Twitter is bots and liars”
They have a plan….
it aligns perfectly with what the globalist reset movement demands we all let them do to us, coincidentally…
Who is ‘we’, kemosabe?
The serfdom..
“For once the majority is correct. Although they probably should have added “covid insanity” to the list as well as “adult-influenced psychosis in children” for the lulz.”
You have to wonder if the insane are really running the asylum these days based on how they deal with reality (or try to avoid it).
FBI: It would be a shame if something happened to you if you don’t shut up and go away, wouldn’t it?
Alex, could you shorten those URLs before posting them? Everything after the question-mark “?” character is tracking bullshit and only helps google, the feds, etc figure out where you found the link which appears to be Citizen Free Press.
FYI, in a small number of cases, like Epoch Times links you need the BS because ET is registration-walled, but that’s easy to test.
WILCO,
Good morning sloopy! Good morning glibs!
The Constitution is not racist.
It’s a good constitution, if you can keep it. Today I have an optimism that we’ll somehow survive this latest batch of doom. We’ll see if I can keep that too.
Well at least he isn’t destroying our cherished free press like that really really bad orange man did.
MEAN TWEETS!
We have a world on the brink of nuclear war and already over the cliff heading for economic catastrophe, but we – THANK GOD! – no longer have mean tweets or that bag guy making fun of the propagandists and the stupid marxists.
There’s a dark irony that all of the worst predicted outcomes of a Trump presidency have come true under this one.
The left always accuses its enemies of the very things they are doing, are planning to do, or wish they could do…
These cuntes are all lying! We know there is no recession. The usual suspects have told us as much, and even went all the way to redefine the definition everyone had been using for close to 5 decades to make it so. wreckers & Kulaks!
At the end of this decade everyone will know that we could have fixed all our problems if only we had spent more.
The biggest problem with that evil orange guy, other than winning the election the mandarinate had rigged for the CCP favorite candidate in 2016 – Hillary – because the serfs got uppity, was that despite 365/24/7 sabotage by the machine he managed to get more done in a measly 4 years that the usual statists told us would never happen again, be it about the economy, energy, stopping government overreach, and so on. He made the plebes see marxist cabal for the evil and inept cuntes they are, and they despised him for that.
Amazing how fast they swept aside everything he did like energy independence.
His only lasting accomplishment is revealing everything – including how most Republicans are in on it.
Hasn’t been a lot of reporting on the Middle East (other than Biden trying to get the Pallets O Cash flowing to Iran as well as Ukraine), so that might end up being part of his legacy as well. Here’s hoping.
Even that was mostly by accident.
“Amazing how fast they swept aside everything he did like energy independence.”
The most glaring example:
Obama: you can’t drill your way out of high energy prices.
Trump: drill baby, drill, and presto in less than one year…
The evil cabal: RHEEEEEE!
This is insidious. The United States would be a in a great position now if we had just kept it up.
We could feed and fuel the world. And make good money doing so. But we have odd, suicidal “leaders”.
“His only lasting accomplishment is revealing everything”
Also, SCOTUS.
Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times
If there was no use of anal beads or cock vibrators, I don’t care….
I was actually looking for anything about that…
Totally. That would be the best scandal ever.
So, Alex wants anal beads and cock vibrators. Well, Ok then.
In my stories and for my women…
Echoes of the FullTiltPoker scandal.
Did they find any weights inside the fish?
No, in poker they’re always sure to flush them out — unlike the chess folks that look to be a bunch of drama queens about the cheating. The press are of course, playing along — either white knighting or just being willing pawns.
Don’t get rooked into this.
The 2+2 forums when that was all unfolding were an absolute riot. It was all the weaponized autism of 4chan, only directed to something useful.
*narrows gaze*
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
Now you are just talking crazy!
‘Orning ‘ordles — a beautiful, wondrous set of puzzles guaranteed to bring a sparkling shiny wondrous quality to my day!
Just kidding… I sucked today. Bleah.
Daily Duotrigordle #217
Guesses: X/37
Time: 05:32.76
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Daily Duotrigordle #217
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:04.99
Not bad.
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SJWednesday: Hot Takes Are The New Science
Oh fuck off.
One might say that navel gazing, self-serious analysis of trashy “reality” soap operas is an example of white culture, and thus institutional racism.
So… COPS codified “white culture” tropes?
Just read in an article elsewhere (not enough meat to bother linking here) that Biden’s job approval rating is purportedly 42.7%.
The mind just boggles at the either the slanted polling or the pure TEAM lunacy that implies. You would think at least the “trying to start a nuclear war” and “strangling the economy through energy policy” might move the partisan needle down a bit. And that’s being generous and only considering the obvious stuff that there shouldn’t be disagreement on.
I’m going to have to go plant some onions so I always have one on my belt, I suppose.
Based on some of the poll questions I have been asked, I am not surprised. The questions are confusing and rigged to produce a positive result for what the pollsters are trying to get. That having been said, more than 55% of people are able to see through the bullshit still.
I suspect at least some people answer that question thinking, “2024 will be Biden vs. Trump again and I will have to vote for Biden.” IOW, approval doesn’t necessarily mean approval; people don’t always answer the question that’s asked.
Who sabotaged Nord Stream?
Incompetence of the people running and maintaining the pipeline is my guess.
White supremacists, duh…
“Several KKK hoods were found floating in the area…”
Next to a noose and a Subway bag.
What? No MAGA hats?
Next to passports of jihadists?
But who did it and why?
https://www.moonofalabama.org/14i/pipe1.jpg
The mental contortions on this to deny US involvement, even if another country acted as the trigger man, are almost beyond parody.
They practically admitted it.
Best guess I heard is the US did it to prevent Germany from straying from the fold and resuming gas imports from Russia.
Real Cortés burning the ships energy.
This is also why I’m so dour on the chance for peace without escalation.
That’s my personal theory too.
It’s on my list.
I’m still not entirely ruling out engineering catastrophe, given what little information we actually have.
This guy claims to have proof but I haven’t read it nor am I qualified to judge its veracity.
It appears to be crowd-sourced autists tracked flight paths and stuff.
Adjacent states have claimed that they detected underwater explosions. They should easily be able to tell the difference between a large explosion and the implosion of an underpressurized pipeline.
So in order to buy the “engineering disaster” theory, these states have to be in on it, or incompetent in precisely the same way.
I will also note that the US has a fleet operating there. They presumably operate extensive sonar. Sonar that would also have detected these explosions. Notice what the US has said about these detection events….
It wasn’t underpressurized, AFAIK – it was filled with gas, just sitting there. Thus, the methane-hydrate-plug-shooting-through-the-side theory.
I’ve also read (who knows?) that it was actually overpressurized because they were using it for storage since the Russian storage facilities were at capacity, due to not selling to Europe. And that overpressurized makes hydrate formation more likely.
Yes, I read that theory?/fact? that it was being used for storage.
I’ve seen this movie. It was SPECTRE.
Too competent.
It was KAOS.
finally
I recently ran into some online assertions that long-range sniping had to take into account the rotation of the earth in the aiming. This crops up every so often.
It also sets off skeptecism alarms in my brain, so I wanted a second opinion.
My analysis is that within the fram of reference of sniper, projectile, and target, everything begins with a common eastward velocity, and within the (at most) few seconds of projectile flight time, there is nothing that would separate the projectile from that common eastward velocity component, leaving just target motion, windage, and bullet drop to account for.
Is there something I am overlooking, or is the initial internet assertion just bull?
Define long range. Cause yeah, if you are trying to do a ballistic shot to hit a target at over 4 miles, you will need to account for that or try 69 times before you get a ht.
I am not aware of a sniper shot beyond 2 miles.
And what is the factor that necessitates expanding the frame of reference to ‘motion of the earth’?
I linked the new world record here the other day. It was a 4.4 mile shot. To accomplish it they had to do a ballistic shot (aim higher and hope gravity does the job) and try 69 times. A ballistic shot at that range would have to compensate for that detail due to the range.
That’s not really sniping, and are you sure it’s not just undocumentable windage at the high altitudes that’s making the aiming difficult?
Windage is always calculated in any long range shot that actually wants to land on target.
But can you actually measure it at all the altitudes such a high trajectory is going to travel on at the time of the shot?
Measure what? Windage? Yes, you have to. The motion of the earth? These days I would say yes. You have to aim small to miss small. And these days they have computerized sniper systems to handle all the parameters.
And what is the factor that necessitates expanding the frame of reference to ‘motion of the earth’?
Just a guess, but at rest in the gun, the bullet is being acted on by two primary forces, gravity and rotational (friction) force. Once it is shot in the air, it has a velocity component contributed by the initial rotational force, but the ongoing rotational force is greatly reduced (because it’s air resistance instead of a mechanical connection transmitting the force). As a result, the gun (and the target) will accelerate away in the rotational force’s direction from the bullet’s perspective.
I’d guess that the rotational compensation is a holdover, as the target would be ‘climbing the hill’ in comparison to the bullet.
(last sentence assumes a westerly shot, of course)
Thing is, within the travel time of the projectile, the eastward component of its velocity won’t be reduced relative to the ground. It’s already moving at the same speed as the surface of the earth in that direction.
Rotational force isn’t in a straight line. It changes direction as the bullet travels. This impacts the target much more strongly than the bullet since the target is anchored to the ground and the bullet isn’t.
In my mind, somewhere after 1 mile it becomes artillery rather than rifle fire.
I think the Coriolis Effect(?) is a (very) minor variable in long range shooting. Between the time you pull the trigger and the time the bullet strikes, the Earth is going to rotate your target “away” from your point of aim a trifle.
I was chatting with a former IDS special forces sniper recently who had gone hunting in Africa, and he mentioned that they had to re-zero their rifles on account of being in the Southern Hemisphere. Now, how much of an effect at what range, I couldn’t say.
It wouldnt be nearly as much as the changes in temperature, relative humidity, and altitude. A trained rifleman is going to re-zero at their first possible opportunity, whenever the environmental conditions change substantially.
Well in the Southern Hemisphere the bullets spin the other way too.
Might be the ’tisim flaring up, but you are joking, right?
I chuckled.
Funny you say that – the gyroscopic disruption caused when a bullet’s path actually crosses the equator is called “chuckling”. It’s going one way, and then suddenly all of the Coriolis dynamics are inducing the forces that make it spin the other way. But of course there’s no time to actually get the already-fired round to stop and then start spinning the opposite direction. So in effect it just suddenly decels and gets wobbly as it enters the other hemisphere. Visually this wobbling caused somebody to name it “chuckling” at some point.
Or, now that I’ve written that, I guess you already knew and were punning. Sorry.
Here’s a reference: https://sofrep.com/news/coriolis-effect-spinning-earth-affect-long-range-shooting/
I don’t often shoot at distances that require it, but my ballistic computer does include compensation for Coriolis effect and spin drift.
Hrmm…
Been so long since I had to think about that, I’ve forgotten why it works the way it does.
SJWednesday: Cry Harder
At this point I don’t get why we just don’t have baby sitters in class rooms to keep the kids from getting all unruly, and just use recorded teaching sessions by the best teachers on the subjects in question by grade out there for all kids. The standards are so fucking low anyway, and the subjects that actually add value – real US history, real world history, civics, basic economics, and shop – seem to no longer exist, anyway.
it is almost like the system produces woke idiots by design, and if that’s the goal it should all be allowed to go up in flames.
Because a lot of people (myself included) learn faster when we can ask questions of someone who knows the subject. I constantly inquire about edge conditions and non-standard circumstances to grasp how something works. The recording can’t answer, and the babysitter doesn’t know.
As someone that figures things out on his own and rarely asks questions I hear you, but you can have interactive video streaming to solve this these days. I think getting a dumbass teacher – and there are plenty of those too – or one that is more concerned with making you woke than teaching you anything of value related to the subject they should be teaching, is a far bigger problem, though.
This is a solved problem. Hire a TA to answer questions at office hours.
Just not a woke TA.
and shop
Besides birdhouses and candy trays…what exactly did shop class accomplish?
There’s a lot of value in learning how to use tools to make a finished product out of raw materials. But shop classes were mostly gone from schools by the time I was coming up, with the exception of the vocational/delinquent/”alternative” high school, so I’m not sure if they ever really imparted that. I learned the same lessons the old fashioned way, by fetching tools and getting yelled at by my dad.
I don’t disagree, I’m just thinking public school isn’t the best place for that learning. I’m guessing the huge liability associated with it is why we don’t see shop classes competing with soccer and dancing for an after school activity.
I’d prioritize coding/physics/engineering (I could have said STEM) instead.
Liability is definitely the primary reason it disappeared from the mainstream schools, although the collapse of American manufacturing also probably had something to do with it. Training kids how to competently operate machines has little practical value to show for the potential risk of injury if perhaps 5% of them at most are going to be operating machines professionally after they graduate. On the other hand, pushing them all into STEM doesn’t really work either. Not everybody is cut out to be a desk jockey. It’s all fairly moot anyway though, since our institutions of public education can’t even seem to master the art of graduating high school students capable of reading at a freshman level.
Ah, I hate that I sounded like a STEM-maxi. I’d push it, assuming public schools forever…
My ideal would still be school choice and the best method for schooling future generations, whatever that is, would eventually become the norm.
If I were in charge, I would push for more holistic learning experiences.
Teaching kids how to build a viking six-board chest allows you to cover basic math and geometry, tool use and woodworking, as well as culture and history.
So yeah, I think shop belongs in school along with home economics and a bunch of other life-skills type studies.
Kids need to learn that STEM is important because humans build shit to make life better.
If the racial justice and LGBTQ uber alles teachers are the ones that are saying sayonara the conservatives are doing a good job. Fuck ‘em!
Wow, how many logical fallacies can you squeeze into one short sentence?
Their woke community credibility goes up as a direct result of the amount of bullshit crammed into each sentence of the word salad…
the 300,000 voluntarily left their jobs BECAUSE of the social justice bullshit. Get rid of the SJW wackos and most of the 300,000 will come back.
Anecdotal, but we know a couple of teachers, and I think the driving force is the lockdowns. Good teachers hated them, and between the behavioral issues and the lost academic ground they caused, the return to classroom teaching has been hard on good teachers. They know teachers who left because of the lockdowns, and have seriously considered it themselves.
This reminds me of the arguments 20 years ago about “tort reform”, where it was argued that unless damages were capped to protect shitty physicians, all of the good physicians would abandon their profession due to fear of lawsuits.
Michigan election software executive arrested on suspicion of data theft
What a relief! The election was still the cleanest election ever conducted in the entire recorded history of elections.
One of these days they’ll realize that it doesn’t matter what they say or think. it matters what the mob thinks. But by that time, it will be too late for them.
He’s walking it back? I’ll never look to Kanye West, that bastion of stalwart sanity and emotional stability, for guidance on my cultural opinions and beliefs again. For marketing though, I absolutely will.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday engaged in an emotionally charged debate over whether to impose new limits on the Voting Rights Act and curb longstanding protections against race discrimination in the drawing of electoral maps.
Never mind that. There are several limitations on voting that should exist, such as being a net taxpayer.
Property owners and powdered wig wearers only.
Do I have to be both, or just one?
“There are several limitations on voting that should exist, such as being a net taxpayer.”
No only is that bad in principle, it’s utterly unworkable.
A legal resident, subject to the laws of the jurisdiction, should be allowed to vote on the laws of the jurisdiction.
Transients and non-legal residents get no say in the matter.
“They’re among the only press in the world that does this. Seriously. Seriously,” Biden told his guests as he opted not to answer any of the questions from the small daily press pool.
Something something first amendment.
It’s a new low for our press even though they’ve been doing the same thing ever since our press was a thing and if he marvels at that lack of decorum he needs to thank his lucky stars that he doesn’t have to stand in front of British Parliment.
That was before the press got taken over by white supremacist MAGA Republicans.
LOL. The administration doesn’t know how to handle a press that is totally subservient but getting frightened by their masters.
Only leader in the world who can’t answer simple questions coherently.
30-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage Average in the United States
Hello 1985!
It might be getting as good as it was in the 70s soon…
I did my refi at the lowest point just passed the 2020 marker.
We’re back to… 2008, when I bought my place.
Wait, are they saying that white lives don’t matter?
Well, no. Only black lives matter and only in specific circumstances. (For instance, black on black violence does not appear to matter…)
“That’s just their culture!”
/Childhood knife fights
Black people who don’t toe the line don’t count either.
Chicago may be the third largest city in the U.S., but it’s tops in the hearts of travelers.
Condé Nast Traveler announced the results of their 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards today and Chicago has been crowned as ‘The Best Big City in the U.S.’.
This is the sixth year in a row the city has won the title, a feat no other has managed to do more than three times in the Awards’ 35-year history.
Like NYC, it has a brand: Rats and violence.
I have never heard of this ‘Condé Nast Traveler’. I’m going to guess it’s Readers are not a representative sample of Americans. In fact, if you’re voting for Chicago, I’m going to wager their reader demographic skews wealthy, urban, and left.
That seems fair. I assume if you’re staying downtown and not venturing far from there, you’re probably in good shape. From what I understand, Chicago also still has a pretty good blues scene.
I have never heard of this ‘Condé Nast Traveler’.
It’s been around for 35 years.
I’m going to wager their reader demographic skews wealthy, urban, and left.
Not sure about the last two, but certainly correct on the first part.
https://www.condenast.com/brands/cond%C3%A9-nast-traveller#U.S.
I wasn’t exactly in a target demographic.
For some inexplicable reason – I’m sure we don’t pay for it – we get CNT at my office… along with Sports Illustrated, Essence, and the AARP magazine. I set each issue out on the coffee table in the little reception area outside the CEO’s office (where no one ever sits) to lie unopened until the next issue arrives and I throw the old one away.
It would seem to be a money-losing proposition for the publishers, but what do I know?
It’s mainly on the table in doctors and dentists offices.
You forgot cruel winters, massively corrupt police, and street gangs.
What about Beetlejuice?
Amazing pizza though.
*runs out of room and slams door*
Mmm…. Gino’s East.
They do make a fine casserole.
“It’s not pizza, it’s deep dish pizza” – Plato.
Technically a pie but those NY idiots call a flatbread a pie so they are all properly called pizza pies.
Good to know that you know nothing about Pizza.
Oh, you mean Ragu on a Saltine?
Not pizza!
You clearly never had pizza around here.
If the slice isn’t foldable, it’s not made right.
Oh hell yes.
Where is your god now?
OK, a Philly question since we’re on cities:
Mrs. Tree and I are doing a long touristy/getaway weekend there at the beginning of November. Not getting a car, of course.
How to get from the airport to Center City? Is the train system decent enough for one to take one’s wife on? Seriously. It’ll be Thursday late afternoon heading into the city, and then Monday morning heading out. Uber otherwise I guess?
I used to go to Chicago for work reasonably often, staying in the loop or Wicker Park, and I’d always ride the trains to and from the airports, but there’s no way in hell I’d take my wife on them on a personal trip. so how’s Philly?
Just take a cab.
Philly trains and subways are not great. They are good for getting one from a suburb to the center city, but kinda suck at getting around once you are there. Take a cab or Uber.
In town we’re mostly planning on walking or a cab/Uber. Was mostly thinking just about to and from PHL. There’s a Septa line that goes right there, then maybe one change to a subway for a few blocks. Just don’t want any Chicago-style experiences.
I used to live there and always took a cab. I suppose now you could Uber.
I can walk across the city pretty easily. It’s not too big.
The subway’s just a faster way to get up and down market or broad. Do NOT go too far into West or North Philly.
Airport train to downtown is fine.
Chicago rats can’t hold a candle to NYC rats, but Chicago does have way more murder!
Chciago corruption can’t reach NYC dollar amounts, but is much more pervasive…. so maybe we make it “Corruption and violence”?
Corruption and Violence sounds like a debut album.
Rats and Violence could be a good sophomore effort.
How about Cash, Culture, and Violence?
Rape, murder, arson and rape?
Kinky
10 years ago I would have agreed.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this movie.
A top-of-the-line Russian nuclear-powered submarine has gone missing from its harbor in the Arctic along with its rumored “doomsday weapon,” according to multiple reports.
NATO has reportedly warned members that Russia’s Belgorod submarine no longer appeared to be operating out of its White Sea base, where it has been active since July. Officials warned that Russia may plan to test Belgorod’s “Poseidon” weapons system, a drone equipped with a nuclear bomb that Russia has claimed is capable of creating a “radioactive tsunami,” according to Italian media.
The drone can be deployed from the submarine at any time and detonated at a depth of 1 kilometer near a coastal city. Russian state media has claimed the device can create a 1,600-ft. wave that smashes into the coast and irradiates it.
Nice band name.
Well, it is October and all….
All of our “boomers” go missing every time they leave port. That’s the mission of a ballistic missile sub.
Officials warned vs officials said; Note the framing. Fox News sucks almost as hard as CNN.
+1 Doomsday Shroud
so time to prepare bunkers with a few men lots of young women to ensure rebuilding the human race?
I wonder what the ideal initial ratio is to avoid inbreeding in future generations while maximizing population growth.
I would say go 10 to 1 and see how it works
I believe we have anough data to calculate the ratio rather than blindly guess.
We cannot afford a mineshaft gap!!!
One of Our Subs is Missing?…
The original toilet paper patent from 1891.
Note the orientation for the roll: you unroll toilet paper from top to bottom.
https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1577469798107082753
Ignoring the fact that the spindle holder is the worst way to hold toilet paper, the original inventor can be wrong about the optimum or intuitive way to use their work. There’s been 130 years of time to test the presuppositions in that patent.
I conclude that the best way to hold the ol is upright, resting on the bar so that you can pick it up rather than endlessly unrolling it when trying to separate perforations.
you unroll toilet paper from top to bottom.
This is correct.
My bet is that this act of felatio will fall short…
*EDIT FERRY CAN NO HALP*
It certainly does.
Practically non-existent!
Swiss if you see this can you un-schedule Glibcrostic 10 so I can add a link to the online version, or I can send you the link and you can add it if that’s easier.
Right-O!
Sent back to Draft status.
Thanks, Fixed and re-submitted.
Submitted #11 as well.
Hurrah!
Thanks for including the link!
Nice pic…
Doing this sure will help you not to have to argue too hard that the ratio of defensive use to offensive use makes the concept worth it…
30 years ago, the greatest actors alive made the Citizen Kane of the modern age.
https://i.redd.it/48p1o2tk8ym91.jpg
The Stache with somebody’s mom.
https://i.redd.it/np7zrc7srlo91.jpg
Heh, cute.
Receive the ass on you solemnly celebrate Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.ph/sxenH
Seems to be another excellent gray, autumn day today.
not really, 18 degrees and sunny which is perfect weather
Cloudy and supposed to be in the 60s (in degrees Freedom) here.
Sunny and 70. Perfection.
Cloudy and low 70’s here. Just my kind.
Gray is the word. Been raining for three days here.
A company that has received billions of pounds in green energy subsidies from UK taxpayers is cutting down environmentally-important forests, a BBC Panorama investigation has found.
Drax runs Britain’s biggest power station, which burns millions of tonnes of imported wood pellets – which is classed as renewable energy.
The BBC has discovered some of the wood comes from primary forests in Canada.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63089348
when it comes to the BBC, better 10 years late than never… I mean this was common knowledge on those icky climate denial sites for a while now
Wood pellets were always a massive scam. They tried to build an export facility here for the European market. It went tits up in a couple of years.
Those aren’t wood pellets, it’s biomass; BIOMASS damnit!
Biomass Is Butchered Trees! They ripped them to little tiny pieces and are shipping them overseas to be burned!
Soylent Biomass is trees!
If only we could produce our own.
The Biden administration has launched a full-scale pressure campaign in a last-ditch effort to dissuade Middle Eastern allies from dramatically cutting oil production, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
The push comes ahead of Wednesday’s crucial meeting of OPEC+, the international cartel of oil producers that is widely expected to announce a significant cut to output in an effort to raise oil prices. That in turn would cause US gasoline prices to rise at a precarious time for the Biden administration, just five weeks before the midterm elections.
For the past several days, President Joe Biden’s senior-most energy, economic and foreign policy officials have been enlisted to lobby their foreign counterparts in Middle Eastern allied countries including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE to vote against cutting oil production.
Members of the Saudi-led oil cartel and its allies including Russia, known as OPEC+, are expected to announce production cuts potentially up to more than one million barrels per day. That would be the largest cut since the beginning of the pandemic and could lead to a dramatic spike in oil prices.
why do you hate clean water?
Biden really pissed off the Saudis. Now I’m not saying that the Saudis are somebody we should be kowtowing to anymore than we already are, but when the Saudis threaten to break the petrodollar arrangement and clobber your currency because of your lunatic war in Eastern Europe, you might want to take note.
Send the alphabet brigades! March the woke generals on Riyadh!
Please, the biggest favor the Saudis could do is to rid us of them.
Seems like he could just threaten the weapon supply and our support in Yemen if he really cared.
What really kills me is that these morons somehow thought grandstanding by insulting the Saudis, not because what the Saudis did was bad (it was), but because they wanted to virtue signal, wouldn’t later come back to bite their plans to destroy American energy independence. I mean, these idiots don’t believe their green tech shit will work and peddle it because it is a lucrative racket that has allowed them to squander trillions of tax dollars over decades, so WTF were they thinking pissing on the legs of the Saudis and telling them it was warm rain, and then wrecking the energy industry in the US at a time they were also wrecking the economy directly with a money printing racket?
We have checkers players pretending they can play 5D chess…
We decided to fight an economic war while hamstringing our own industry. Regardless of the ethical aspects of it all, it was insanely stupid.
I’m not sure these people can handle Candyland.
They would lose a Peek-a-boo.
As with most things, Biden failed.
OPEC+ agrees to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day, putting pressure on prices
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-environment/opec-agrees-to-cut-oil-production-by-2m-barrels-a-day-putting-pressure-on-prices
Isn’t higher oil prices exactly what Biden and the Green Democrats have campaigned on?
Their policies are so confusing……
After the midterms, not now. That’s why they’ve been frantically draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
He dumped the strategic petroleum reserve and manipulated the futures market to try and keep gas prices down before the election, and now the rest of the world simply responds by lowering output.
Another central planning success.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Any day that starts with the Who is a good day. Thanks!
That guy’s pet in the cover picture seems like he might be sick. Hopefully he’s only a little horse.
NO.
Neigh?
Better rein it in there, Hoss.
Why are we saddled with so many rules?
SWissie, put a halt- er-something to this. I didn’t pony up a subscription for this
Wouldn’t want to be saddled with something like that
Refresh time
You’re going to have to pony up a better joke than that.
We may want to relax on all these puns, before the whole site gets put out to pasture.
HOOF! That one hurts.
But political violence is uniquely right-wing.
The 911 call made from the wife of a leftist man who has been charged with shooting 84-year-old Michigan grandma as she was canvassing agaisnt abortion has been released. Not long after shooting pro-life advocate Joan Jacobson, leftist Richard Harvey called her a “right-wing nut” during the conversation with the 911 dispatcher.
Joan Jacobson, a retired nurse, was visiting homes in Lake Odessa, Michigan to pass out literature opposing Proposal 3, which would legalize abortions up to birth in the state. After radical leftist Sharon Harvey got into an argument with Jacobson, her husband Harvey approached Jacobson with a gun and shot her as she was trying to leave the couple’s property.
Harvey has admitted to firing a warning shot at Jacobson before shooting the elderly woman but claims it was an accident. Jacobson and her attorney say that’s completely false and point out that Richard Harvey had already fired a warning shot and Jacobson had turned away to leave the couple’s property in her vehicle.
“If those filthy normies would simply embrace our ideology, we wouldn’t have to beat them up! Ergo, righties cause the violence by not being lefty.”
The assholes that tell you – with a straight face – that words are violence only see violence when people hurt their feeling or their person. Like with racism, it can only go one way with these fucking morons.
Don’t forget the nutjob who tried to kill Kavanaugh, the guy who ventilated the proud boy in Seattle and in turn got ventilated by the fuzz, Antifa, and groups like the Weather Underground who are lionized today. Oh, and eradicating environmental and animal rights groups, other than those and plenty of others the left are practically pacifists.
Radical not eradicating, Steve Jobs wouldn’t have stood for these kinds of autocorrect shenanigans.
The trial for the dude that ran down all those people at the parade is going on right now.
Not that you would know.
Next you’ll be making up some bullshit like a shooter at a Congressional softball game…
There’s a whole lot of dumb there. Giving media interviews after you’re involved in shooting someone indicates that they’re not in command of their faculties to begin with.
Damn guns. Even force a peaceful leftist to shoot someone.
Meanwhile, the FBI pulled a balls-out raid with 2 dozen agents with long rifles and a battering ram at the ready to apprehend a pro-life activist who got into a shoving match with some guy who was calling his son a faggot outside of an abortion clinic a year prior, despite the pro-life activist’s attorney agreeing in written correspondence with the assistant US attorney handling the case to accept the summons on his client’s behalf.
At some point, you have to call it what it is, a police state.
The double standard here is quite telling. This dipshit admitted to every element of his crime on tape. Why is he skating with an ADW charge, instead of Aggravated Assault and Attempted Murder?
Isn’t it obvious?
The US federal government has deemed right wing extremists to be the greatest threat to our nation. It was clearly an act of self defense. They stood no chance at trial so they took what they could get….
🤦♂️
Surely the prosecution has ample evidence for this serious (and hyperbolic) accusation.
Five members of the Oath Keepers facing charges of seditious conspiracy “concocted a plan for an armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy,” a federal prosecutor said Monday in opening statements at the D.C. district court, kicking off the high-stakes first trial for members of the far-right militia group.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Nestler told jurors the defendants, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, along with members Kelly Meggs, Jessica Watkins, Kenneth Harrelson and Thomas Caldwell, “banded together to do whatever was necessary” to stop the transfer of power between Donald Trump and then-President-elect Joe Biden — and that they saw U.S. Congress certification of the electoral college as their perfect opportunity.
We no longer live under a system where you presume innocence until a guilty verdict is issued, but now hold the accusation alone, especially against enemies of the state, as the proof of guilt. Even when we later find out the accusers lied for the umpteenth time.
The DOJ ceased trying cases in court decades ago. I think about 2% of them actually get before a judge. Their first and foremost technique is media coverage and character assassination therein. They poison the jury pool through leaks and interviews. Then they threaten the families of the accused with process crimes.
You’ve got to be a multi-millionaire in order to afford to defend yourself at all and you’ve got to be hard-boiled because they are going to make your life and your family’s lives miserable. Not to mention that they will try to freeze your assets so that you cannot defend yourself when they don’t just straight-up steal it.
According to John Brennan, “People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some kind of criminal activity.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__FXeIpQGWE
Is it really “high-stakes” if everybody already knows the outcome?
“armed” for extremely low values of “armed”
Its DC. They could just read out the charges, and send the jury back for “deliberation” and get their guilty verdict.
Do they really need to go through that formality? Can’t they just show pictures of Gadsden flags and get straight to sentencing?
Baby kangaroo entering mother’s pouch
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1577361807773237248
way to big kick the bum out
Fucking grifter..
I’m sure this will work out well. When prices go down it’s because Brandon is looking out for all of us. When they go up OTH…
As gas prices rise, Democrats scramble to lay blame on Big Oil
Right after they spend the last couple of months claiming prices their policies caused to go up, came down as they sold key strategic petroleum assets off to artificially lower the price after the Saudis told them to go pound sand, leaving our strategic reserves dangerously low and now needing to be refilled at brutally high prices, they pivot to blame others as this ludicrus strategy stops working….
Who could have thunk it?
FTFY
Whycome nobody here has given my sister from another mister her props, for finally admitting that, like me, she likes to much carpet?
It says “finally depicts Velma as lesbian” after years of speculation….
Velma has been straight in cannon for at least 20 years. In the more recent incarnations she has a thing for Shaggy, with the joke being that Shaggy is clueless and misses the signals. They do couple up several times though.
So making Velma a lesbian is not “finally letting her come out” nor is it a revelation of her character, it is a change to her character that violates cannon.
I think even applying “cannon” to Scooby Doo is a bit of a stretch. They don’t even deal with continuity of where doors lead to.
That is A list humor. Well played.
Oh, good.
Stupid cuntes keep poking the bear…
You know who else liked poking bears?
That guy in Super Troopers?
The Poles have lost their minds. That will destabilize the situation more than it will provide a deterrent,
The Poles I know really, really hate Russia.
They hate the Germans and the Russians. And I don’t really blame them, but that doesn’t mean that we should let their grudges determine our policies, let alone the fate of the world.
Agreed.
It’s becoming apparent that even if there is a short-term solution to the clusterfuck in Ukraine, NATO has a plan to keep the situation volatile and dangerous for the long-term. These people do not want peace.
I don’t follow Polish politics, but they seem to have gone from normal to insane really quickly.
Maybe they want to use them against the Germans
https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-minister-tells-poland-no-chance-for-wwii-reparations-as-warsaw-seeks-1-3t/
Has anyone seen Yusef?
Like Lia Thomas, all year, this new trans athlete, Natalie Ryan, has been taking home one trophy after another — and the thousands of dollars in prize money that comes along with them. And Ryan, who has instantaneously jumped into the rankings as the world’s fifth best-ranked women’s disc golfer, has only been playing the sport for a mere three years.
Disc golf has been shocked as Ryan has come out of nowhere to dominate women’s disc golf, knocking women out of the rankings which have been playing for many years.
In a far-reaching article on Ryan’s sudden rise to top rankings in the sport, Quillette’s Jonathan Kay notes that most women feel compelled to remain quiet on the unfairness of Ryan’s miraculous rise to the top. Still, a few women did speak out to him anonymously for fear of retaliation.
The PDGA is freaking out about this. They sent a survey out to everybody today to figure out what everybody thinks.
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay notes that most women feel compelled to remain quiet on the unfairness of Ryan’s miraculous rise to the top
Then fuck you. You deserve what you get.
Yes and no. Yes in that this culture needs somebody with an ounce of courage to stand up to this shit. No in that most of these women are living out of vans and barely making ends meet by playing these tournaments. It’s not at all surprising that theyre hesitant to torpedo their careers over getting 3rd instead of 2nd at a couple tourneys.
Careers? They are trying to make a living playing a fucking game!
If they don’t have the guts, it’s time to grow up and get a job, or speak up and try to salvage their game. My sympathy for this shit is exhausted.
You know, it’s difficult to want to speak out against a person who is much bigger and stronger than you who has a biological advantage who also has access to you in hidden places, and is mentally unwell enough to think he’s a she and/or who is narcissistic enough to not care and churn the grift.
Concealed carry. Or, even better, open carry.
God created Man. Colt made them equal.
More of this please. The only way to end this shit is to utterly destroy women’s sports.
Wait until they come for the soccer and track scholarships. Only then will the suburban women put a stop to the mayhem they created.
“It’s an acceptable trade-off for half the human race to be forever shut out of athletic achievement. It’s for the Greater Good.”/Woke Brigade
I am actually stunned that it would make this much difference in disk golf. I mean, guys can throw farther on average…
I dunno… I don’t get the massive advantage in golf either. It is mostly form not power. You would think a top flight player could overcome a disadvantage off the tee… But clearly not.
The same goes for bowling, pool, darts, shooting…
I wonder how this is going to shake out.
At my son’s high school they have had a Lacrosse team for the women for years. This year they decided to start a boys team. My son went to tryouts. They had the girls there with the boys so they could practice together and the girls could teach the boys the game. By the end of the first day, he was better than any of the girls, many of whom were 3 years older and had been playing year round in travel leagues for a half dozen years. (And he isn’t even big yet.. half of the girls are taller than him)
Ignoring these biological differences just makes no sense at all. It is way more than “boys are bigger”.
*sigh*
Back on the hiring train. I hate meeting new people.
In 1971, a cement truck crashed near Winganon, Oklahoma. The mixer was too heavy to move so they left it. The locals have since repainted it to look like a NASA space capsule.
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1577060989815721986
That is excellent.
And they say there’s no good public art…
The little flag is a nice touch.
So Liverpool is able to win friendlies. Good to know.
Ha. I feel gross, but I do want them to smash Arsenal this weekend.
USA Network is actually showing it. 😮
Friendly friends even.
CupShe Resort 2023 Paraiso Miami Beach Swim Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOP9hMGQtaU
Never change Roger, never change.
Roger Waters: I’m on a Ukrainian ‘Kill List’
Putting a raging anti-semite on a kill list seems an odd thing for a Nazi regime to do.
“The right to decide districts is distinctly a state’s right”
I wouldn’t call it a right. I would be totally fine with a constitutional amendment changing the method. If that method was undistricted, single transferrable vote.
For example, using Colorado, there are 8 reps. So anyone getting 12.5% of the vote would get elected. If you have more than 12.5% of the vote, then a fraction of your vote is transferred to 2nd choices. And so on.
I have mentioned it before, but CA would be most interesting, as you would need less than 2% to get elected. The LP and the Greens and who the fuck knows would be able to reach that standard.
Why are votes for HOR state dependent? Getting rid of that would change enough, at least in my opinion.
Because we are a union of states.
Accidents will happen, eggs will get broken, people will get nuked, it just happens sometimes, no biggie.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-10-04/s-korea-missile-accident-panics-public-on-edge-over-north
Hey, on the bright side, at least their live fire exercise fuckup didn’t down a 747 filled with 200 and some odd people like ours did in ’96.
TWA 800?
While I’m fully willing to believe our government is incompetent enough to have accidentally shot down a domestic airliner, I also believe they’re too incompetent to maintain such a vast conspiracy to cover it up.
It would require hundreds of people keeping quiet about it.
I watched the Smithsonian Channel’s Air Disastors on that one.
They did a good job explaining what they think happened.
I agree with this.
https://nypost.com/2016/07/04/was-twa-flight-800s-fiery-crash-part-of-a-massive-cover-up/
I flew home from Moscow a few days after that happened.
I had about a dozen 19″ by 19″ circuit boards in my checked bag. They were broken and needed to come home for repair.
This attracted a wee bit of attention at the scanners at check-in at the airport.
Shortly after 9/11 I had to transport some expensive Telco boards in my carry-on. They had just started doing the hand inspections of bags. So I have these things carefully protected from static and from pressure or flexing… And this guy starts ripping the bag apart. I am telling him to be careful, they cost a couple of months pay each. So he finishes his inspection and proceeds to start putting stuff back. I keep telling him to let me do it but he won’t let me touch it.
He gets to the end and it isn’t packed right, so it won’t fit. He puts both hands on the top board and starts to just smash it down… So I reach out and grab him to stop him from wrecking the boards.
He gets all pissed… Because now he has to re-inspect everything, since I violated his space. Even though he had already completed the inspection.
Geniuses, these guys.
I was about half joking, although the official explanation was and remains unvarnished horse shit.
Why?
Old wiring sparking in a tank with fuel vapors seems plausible to me.
What am I missing?
It’s facially plausible, but direct evidence proving it’s actually true is scant. Some of the NTSB investigators who worked on the case have asked for it to be reopened because they were not satisfied with the conclusion or the process that led to it. Hank Hughes, in particular, has offered a fair bit of commentary on the matter. The FBI and CIA involvement in the investigation out of the gate and their aggressive cowboying of the case from the NTSB is enough to cast doubt in my mind.
Fair enough, we’ll see if anything new is found, but I doubt it.
Paging Glibs with certain interests and avatars!
Fat Bear Week 2022: It’s time to vote
TW: CNN
Honk Honk.
Female high school athletes in Burlington, Vermont have been banned from their own locker room after making complaints to school officials about the inappropriate behavior of a biological male teammate that identifies as trans.
Conflict among the girl’s volleyball team at Randolph High School began after a trans team member was allowed into the girl’s locker room, where students say he began to make comments that caused the females discomfort. Despite aggressive school policies defending the preferences of trans students, the girls decided to make a formal complaint about the locker room arrangement.
Rather than taking them seriously or establishing practical measures including giving the trans team member a private changing area, school officials banned the girls from their own locker room instead, hinting that “bullying and harassment charges” could follow.
volleyball girls are hot I would not have minded sharing a locker room in high school
Ban bitchez from bitch bathrooms?
The patriarchy is getting back at these #metoo-ers.
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And as usual the school officials fall back on “the state made us do it.”
Run the board out and replace them with people who don’t give a shit what the commies in the state legislature say.
So a male is allowed in the female locker room, and females are not. This is fine.
It’s amazing to me how fast all the progress women have made over 100 years is now being erased by men, and the usual suspects are cheering it on.
Good. More of this, please.
I don’t want the girls to have to go through this, but the only way this ends is incident after incident like this. When mama bear realizes what she’s done, she will kick these asshole politicians to the curb and roll back the policies.
Teenage boy in the girls’ locker room? Yeah, he was probably walking around with a boner.
students say he began to make comments
Bravo. We need a lot more of this.
Whoops. However, let’s not lose sight that this could still be something we could use to restrict liberty.
Former Northeastern employee arrested and charged with faking a bomb blast on campus
Someone needed an excuse to avoid a midterm or final exam?
He was an employee, not a student.
Either an attempt at some sort of monetary grift or just plain cray-cray.
There’s plenty of cray-cray to go around these days.
One wonders if non-acute vascular damage from the clotshots is causing a general degradation in sanity.
The lockdowns. An entire culture can’t be suspended and expected to resume normally.
Deep Thoughts:
What if the goal of Twitter was to stretch things out, so Elon could make no real changes before the election, ensuring that he could not in any way damage the bolstering done by Democrats? He can have it now. Job done, he can do nothing before November.
It seems unlikely to matter. Even if the deal had gone through months ago, things happen slowly.
I disagree. I think he can make things happen rather quickly.
I bet all it takes is commenting out the “censor wrongthought” flag in the source code.
Nah. They’re gonna wanna keep their “hate speech” rules because someone might say the ‘n’ word or call someone a cunt or something, and they still want to ban it.
Elon might get them to no longer call “misgendering” someone hate speech but it will takes month and months of meetings and clarifying.
He can order Trump’s account be unfrozen within hours of taking ownership.
Which he won’t use anyway.
But whatever new policies and practices he establishes will take months and months to roll out. This is not a small company.
“Unsuspend the following accounts….[List] If not done, you will be fired by EoB today. If any of these are suspended for anything other than an obvious and blatant violation, I will fire everyone who even looked at the account. Sincerely, The Owner.”
Yeah I think he can do that part although I’m not sure he really will.
The popcorn is out and popping on the stove. Let’s all take a seat and we shall all see. The story pulls at everyone’s emotions because we all so desperately wish to see someone do something. I have ceased to get any hopes up.
I think people are fooling themselves that Elon Musk is some “right winger” or free speech absolutist too.
That’s just what the left labels those who won’t get in line.
He’s just a left winger with a slight amount of rationality and independent thought.
It’ll overall be a good direction for Twitter, but I wouldn’t expect a consistent ideological approach to anything.
He’s not a right winger, no. But he probably is a free speech absolutist, or very close to one.
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2022/10/lets-brew-wednesday-1885-kirkstall-pa.html
Best part: “Being a Stock Pale, it would have undergone a secondary fermentation of 12 months in trade casks.”
Those wacky 19th century Brits.
Do you like the flavor of Brettanomyces?
Yes
I prefer lacto. Not a fan of heavy Brett, but a little is nice.
I have a friend that makes an outstanding Brett Saison. But I prefer my Brett in a proper sour. Lacto-only (berliner weisse) is somewhat boring.
Speaking of that, one of the breweries around me (that I honestly thought had quietly closed over the past year) is doing a cask beer event for Cleveland Beer Week. We’ve also got multiple places getting their hands on sours for Lambic and Sour nights (including Cantillon and 3 Fonteinen).
The solution is obviously to prohibit those with insufficient Democratic Party leanings from working the polls.
Election officials are growing concerned about a new danger in November: that groups looking to undermine election results will try to install their supporters as poll workers.
The frontline election workers do everything from checking people in at voting locations to helping process mail ballots — in other words, they are the face of American elections for most voters. And now, some prominent incidents involving poll workers have worried election officials that a bigger wave of trouble could be on the horizon.
The Republicans should go all in and start a nationwide “Get out the vote” drive.
The DOJ & FBI would suddenly find reason to be against that sort of thang….
So they’re concerned that others will do what the democrats are already doing?
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!*
*Joe Biden’s unofficial campaign slogan
I thought the military had given up on the vax mandates?
https://www.theblaze.com/news/white-house-coast-guard-vaccine-manadte?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20221005SponsoredTrending-RevelationMedia&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News
There is still a “mandate” for “all workers” in NYC.
Nobody is rescinding these things willingly because that means giving away the game that it was always a sham.
Like the mask insanity.
The VA hospital let me in without one, but the lab wouldn’t see me to do a blood draw without it.
I got a phone call from someone asking about my complaint, when I explained about my headaches, she gave me my favorite answer, “That’s our policy”.
I asked if that means they won’t see me, she said “I never said that”, so I asked if I showed up without one, could I go to the lab, it was back to 1st base again.
I guess I’m not getting seen by the lab anytime soon.
Private lab?
It’s just for an annual check up, so I’m not too worried about it.
I might go back next week just to see if they kick me out again.
I ended up drawing blood at home myself. Blood everywhere except inside the collection tube. Miraculously, after pricking two fingers enough blood was collected. The lab where it was mailed to didn’t complain.
Just down to the Coasties, I believe.
He isn’t wrong.
Perfect.
The whole article is amazing, insanely long, interesting, but so questionably over the top written.
Collision Course The car wrecks were staged. The injuries were real. Led by a charismatic rogue, one family bloodied itself to pocket $6 million.
As everyone knows oil makes a heck of a racket as it drips from your automobile.
I don’t know how this scam works, but the number of “brake check a big rig” videos on the internet is staggering.
That seems like a really dangerous way to operate a scam. I cannot imagine the risk-reward curve being very attractive.
The hero the NBA needs right now (TW: TOS): https://reason.com/video/2022/08/10/enes-kanter-freedom-on-the-nbas-relationship-with-china-we-have-to-expose-this/
Sometimes it seems like they never shut up about “political injustice”. Oh, they mean the kind that isn’t officially promoted.
When
When they’re off the clock.
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Question for those of you into PC hardware: I have a lovely USB-C hub that I use with my Dell 15 5000. It supports dual HDMI and has plenty of USB ports for peripherals like printers and keyboard/mouse.
I have an (older) Lenovo Y70-70 that I would like to set up similarly (dual display) but it only has USB 3.0. Is video out supported through USB 3.0? Will the magic boxes I see on Amazon as “docking stations” perform the same as my USB-C ?
Yours in Christ,
Tres Cool
Type C is just the physical connector type. The actual USB protocol used with Type C is either 3.1 or 3.2 (or USB4 now). The USB 3.0 spec can handle video output regardless of which physical connector type is used. So a hub or docking station with a Type A connector and HDMI port should work just fine.
Yep, just bought one for my wife’s older lenovo so she could use dual montiors. Finding a dock with USB-A and dual HDMI ports isn’t hard, but is non-trivial.
I ask because being the cheap ass I am, I bought a USB Type A – USB C adapter and tried it with the current hub on my Dell.
Nada for video.
3.0 to 3.1/3.2 changed a couple of data pins, so the adapter is most likely the culprit.
I just jumped over to the user guide. You are SOL. Video has to go through USB-C and this doesn’t seem to have it.
To add what Pat said above you should be able to run an HDMI cable from the laptop to the dock.
“Biden: “I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home politically.”
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1577015656272494592
WTF does that even mean?
Everyone is corrupt.
His nanny didn’t vote for Nixon.
The same thing everything he says does:
It means if there was a biggest idiot contest, he would come in second.
Why would he come in second?
Because he’s an idiot.
Explained here.
Pretty sure he said “Pedo Rican”, not “Puerto Rican”.
Who wants to join in my suffering and read this AI Bill of Rights bullshit from Brandon and Kneepads?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/
No.
Why didnt they just steal Asimov’s 3 laws? I mean, he’s been dead for some time.
No doubt voted D, too
I posted it above…
I also read it. This is basically the Davos globalist reset people’s wish list to control “misinformation”….
Oh fuck no, no, man.
Besides, I already know what it says “The government will decide what reality is and what fair is.”
If there is interest, I have enough material to cover an article about getting back into astrophotography. Photos, triumph, disaster, triumph (new mount arriving today). This could then be recurring, with imaging session synopses and images.
Don
Dude, there’s always interest.
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Trying to get first light with the (unintentionally) completely new rig tonight before our daughter and almost-six y/o granddaughter move out back to San Antonio. Neither have seen another world with their own eyes in detail.
I have once again successfully guided a client through the publishing process, and he is a happy camper, thus, I am too.