Last night the Monday Night Football game held in Mexico City drew my ire. No, not because the Cardinals lost, or they also had to cede a home game to play in Mexico—I expected them to lose. Its the um, person they got to sing the US National Anthem is technically from Mexico and had no incentive to sing a reworded British drinking song well at all. That’s not really my complaint, as its a difficult song to do well if you are not Whitney Houston.
No. My complaint is this is the lady they had sing the Mexican National Anthem. I feel like Mexico is trolling us.
For the links!
¡Mexico vs. Poland La Copa Del Mundo end in a draw! They at least didn’t embarrass themselves like Argentina.
AMLO supports the trolls.
Amateur. That’s not how you smuggle things into prison.
Maybe if there was a country that welcomed people that didn’t like socialism, these guys might have somewhere to go. Nah, they’re stuck with these morons.
An actual hero passed away.
Weeks after Bolsonaro asked them not to do this on their behalf, I am beginning to think these so called far right fascist leaders have absolutely no control over the so called fascist far right.
This tune suits my mood today. Have a great Tuesday!
Well, we’re going to the 48 to see family for Thanksgiving. So I got out my old laptop case to take along. It’s been a while since I used it.
But when I retrieved it, it smelled like a dead animal. I looked through it and didn’t find anything. Then I remembered…
…it’s a carrion bag.
That’s bad even by our standards.
I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.
Guilty!
Tip the veal and try the waitress!
Not guilty.
Was that the last thing in the bag?
No comment.
Booooo! Boo this man!
I’d let her sing my anthem.
Not the the one who sang, the one pictured.
That’s not how you smuggle things into prison.
Is it bad form to use your prison wallet for items you’re going to sell to other people?
It’s bad form to not put them in a tied-off condom.
“Authorities said cellphones are sold at the prison for at least $50,000 each and SIM cards for about $2,000 each.”
Wow.
Well, it’s a link to the outside world that isn’t monitored by prison authorities.
Had a customer who was performing contract work at a prison get in some trouble because one of his employees was smuggling phones into the prison with the construction supplies.
He managed to avoid charges, but his employee didn’t fare as well. On the bright side, he got to take one more trip to the prison.
One more reason they lie when the President declares “the border is secure!” and they cant keep “contraband” out of federal prisons.
I had a chance to visit a prison library.
It had its prose and cons.
I interviewed at a prison once. When it was my turn to ask questions, their answers were a little Guarded.
Chargers go for 100 grand.
(Just kidding, those numbers are also pulled out of the ass)
Don’t mind me if I decline the 100 Grand bar that came out of there.
What about Boggle timers?
I’m all out of sand.
Um… stupid question… where does a prisoner get $50,000? From “his guy on the outside”? Or he just pulls a fat wad of hundreds out of his prison jammies?
It’s likely the guy on the outside.
I’m guessing the guys paying that much are still running drug operations on the outside, and use the phones to coordinate. This means they both have access to funds and have a need to stay in touch.
The money is probably paid to the smuggler outside the prison by the prisoner’s organized crime associates.
Paying for a service and not necessarily the product.
Mexico is not sending us their hottest women.
They can rest on their laurels for a while
Not quite SF’d the link, but still
Bunk.
Heheh, somehow she slipped in.
I wouldn’t mind a little slipping there, IYKWIMAITYD.
She can be my muse. I even have some money in my wallet.
They need a separate visa category.
“You need to go to Line Q”
My complaint is this is the lady they had sing
Which, oddly enough, means absolutely nothing to me.
We are NASA, we totally got this
Too bad for that dream of humans living on the moon. Musk is busy with the Twatter, the twats shall rage on.
This is why we cannot have nice things.
Maybe not NASA’s fault after all. The cubesat was just hitching a ride on Artemis. For those who don’t follow such things, cubesats are microsatellites which often use cellphones as the onboard computer they have made space affordable to many researchers working on a budget.
I don’t so much follow these things, just sort of pay attention. My understanding was that NASA was using this thing as proof of concept that they could ‘soft’ land something on the moon (in prep for the actual moon lander). If that’s the case, it seems like a big fail for NASA.
Nah, the thing was tiny and it’s nothing like the moon lander.
Oh, I see, it’s easier to land the big thing, so we can just pretend that will be OK. Ok, then!
It’s not like it was a smaller version of the Starship HLS or something. They just aren’t related at all.
Shame as Japan is known it’s omotenashi less so for asinine acronyms.
お持て成し おもてなし
hospitality, reception, treatment, service, entertainment
CommonNounKana-only
You have the right to strike and protest, but since you’re doing it wrong, we’re taking that right away.
You have a right to protest as long as the government approves of your protest.
“La Marisoul and Sofia Reyes perform American and Mexico national anthems pregame”
I would have been more impressed if they did it simultaneously.
…it’s a carrion bag.
What an offal joke.
Dung! Dung! We have a winner!
I CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION BUT MAYBE LITTLE TASTE OF HOOMAN
“BREAKING NEWS – Supreme Court ALLOWS Democrat-led committee to access six years of Trump’s tax returns: Justices block former president’s emergency plea in three-year legal battle”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11458611/Supreme-Court-OKs-handover-Trump-tax-returns-Congress.html
Rachel Maddow must be so excited.
They got him this time, wagons circling, something something…
This all seems familiar.
Well I’m reassured
“Myocarditis and pericarditis following vaccination remain unlikely for most, and it’s reassuring that when episodes do occur, they tend to be mild, short-lived and with full recovery.”
And what are the five year survival stats for myocarditis again?
“Oneeglio has made a string of false claims about vaccines…”
They’ve got some fucking nerve saying this after everyone from Biden on down spent a year telling us it will “stop the spread” and if you get a shot you “WILL NOT GET COVID.”
Well, what we meant is that you are going to get covid, but not die. As long as you get your next jab, forever. Otherwise, you will totally die. Glad we could explain that for you little people, now get in the line for your next jab.
I’ve been informed repeatedly that nobody ever said the shot would prevent infection or spread. Never happened. Nope.
And someone explain to me the biological process by which young people may get myocarditis from the shots, but others are somehow immune to that particular side-effect.
My understanding (may not be accurate) is that the mRNA nanoparticles escape the injection site and start inducing other cells to produce spike proteins. This includes organ cells like the heart. Drawn by the spike proteins, the immune system attacks these sites, causing inflammation and things get worse from there.
If the nanoparticles don’t lodge in the heart and induce protein production there, you dodge that bullet.
Last I checked, those biological systems are fairly identical across age groups.
Not really. the immune system is much more aggressive in young adults, and decline with age.
But extrapolating means that the mechanism exists, but the incidence rate will fall in a relatively linear fashion.
In other words, the admission that it is unsafe for young people also means that it is unsafe for older people unless their immune system is non-functional, and in that case the “vaccine” is useless anyway. You can’t train a dead immune system.
It’s the immune system reaction. Immune systems change with age.
Yes, it makes you wonder if almost everybody gets some minor heart inflammation, but in some cases it’s bad enough to produce symptoms.
There also seems to be a known link to problems with the circulatory system (hence “clotshot”). Circulatory damage in young people would probably not be noticed at all, but could cause serious problems later.
Sub-clinical is the term you’re looking for.
The problem with sub-clinical issues is that they have a nasty habit of showing up years later in a non-sub-clinical way.
Not so young people get the same potential risk of getting myocarditis from the shots. The only difference is that for older groups the background rate of heart diseases is higher, so the vaccine-caused myocarditis is not statistically significant.
I have not realized how well I have insulated myself from lefty nonsense. Until we were in the airport on Sunday. I have a teammate who worked for Republican presidential campaigns. He’s the National Review type. But we do have good conversations about politics, and Sunday I asked him his thoughts on the lack of a “red wave”. Then in jumps another teammate who apparently digests NPR intravenously. It’s just lefty talking point after lefty talking point. So tedious and frustrating. I did apologize to the first guy for starting that conversation in public. He said it was fine but I still felt bad for him and everyone else in the terminal.
I’m so sorry.
I don’t understand people on any side that regurgitate talking points. Unless I’m doing it and am blind, but I say little, so I don’t think I am.
Both parties have a random list of positions that just don’t go together, so if you find yourself agreeing with some people some times and other people other times, or your positions have an underlying reasoning behind them, you’re probably using your brain.
Yeah, I will absolutely not have a conversation that touches on politics in any way with anyone I don’t already know very well.
Shit-posting here excepted, of course.
Well, I know this is a self-selected ideological group, so I can predict the reaction to political commentary.
I have maybe a dozen people I can talk politics with. I just asked him too loudly apparently.
This. And I don’t have serious conversations with people I am in random contact with.
Then in jumps another teammate who apparently digests NPR intravenously.
My mother plays sled hockey?!?
I like Other Kevin’s observation that we will find some common ground issue with just about anyone. So start with the common ground, have them identify the principle, say you agree on that principle “so why doesn’t that same principle also apply to this issue on which we disagree?” This sometimes leads to a good discussion and provokes some thought. Or not.
I’m suspicious of that Brazil protest video. I’ve found some videos of actual pro-Bolsonaro protests, and they are nowhere near that big. If it is a video of another event, it wouldn’t be the first time someone passed a video of another event off as a pro-Bolsonaro protest.
Yeah, its hard because I happen to not speak Portugese, and I’m stuck trusting people translating.
“The word “groomer” is categorically an anti-LGBTQ hate word. It’s super homophobic/transphobic. It plays into the slander that LGBTQ people are pedophiles. It’s no different than calling someone a fagg*t.
If you call someone groomer, you’re inciting violence against LGBTQ people”
https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1594394194809716737
CWAA
OK groomer
Only appropriate response
If you are only capable of seeing people as a collective label, you are too stupid to be taken seriously. Either that or you’re deliberately being disingenuous to protect the pedophiles hiding in your ‘community’. That’s even worse.
Fuck off either way.
It’s nice that every gay person in the country voted and made this person their spokesman.
One of these days people are going to get sick of this shit and the entire wokesphere is going to collapse. And we’re going to stop election fraud and have fair elections. One day, maybe before the inevitable collapse of civilization, maybe…
Nearly all the horrible laws in California get traced back to this guy Wiener – he’s a psycho prog.
Dick move, Weiner.
“They Live is the perfect analogy for being radicalised into an ideology. ”
https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/1595120266757427201
He’s back on Twitter.
I forgot he existed.
Carpe Donkum apparently is still bannned.
So are plenty of other people.
Things will take time, but it seems to be moving in a good direction.
Y’all gonna be boycotting the woke NHL now?
Sure, why not.
Won’t be different from what I’m doing now.
(same)
Well, you’ve convinced me. Also MLB, NFL, slap contests, hotdog eating contests, the gamut.
What’s the NHL?
Its like UFC except they’re all Canadian.
I don’t know.
I know it’s fashionable to say “I’m done! Fuck professional sports!” but I love hockey.
That said, I cancelled my ESPN+ subscription and find myself giving less of a fuck all the time, so who knows.
I know hockey around these parts is way more popular than hoofball. Lots of Glibs dropped hoofball after the NFL demonstrated its woke bona fides. Just wondering if the same would happen now that the NHL made its position known so clearly.
What’s the news about the NHL? I must have missed it.
What else?
Trannies.
Fer fucks sake.
Meh, tranny leagues are a good solution to the problem of men on women’s teams. After all, “If you don’t like it, make your own league.” So they did. However we keep men out of women’s sports, I’m fine.
This is the target of my derision:
I’m a duck!
All fine and good until this:
If you take this seriously, it means men on women’s teams.
Or, what everyone else said.
You’re a duck too?
If trans and non-binary people want to have their tournament, I don’t see the problem.
I think the reaction is more to the 2nd Tweet. Because trans women are not women. And trans men are not men.
THIS!
Can we just fucking stop with the bullshit?
I don’t give a flying fuck what the tranny leagues do.
Oh, and many of my rec teams have had chicks involved. Somehow everyone managed to maintain their birth gender and still JUST PLAY HOCKEY!
The fact remains that trans women are not women, nor are trans men men
It’s arguing by definition. Males shouldn’t be allowed in female sports though.
Eh, isn’t that what we wanted then to do? Go have their own league?
The cringe is the ‘trans men are men’ line.
Can I change my answer?
https://www.nhl.com/wild/news/native-american-heritage-day-112222/c-337913188
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1594921789200670722
https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1594766433497583618
LOLOLOLOL
I’m not super into TRHL, but that was pretty fucking good
LOL
That whole thread is hilarious.
Even better than I had hoped for
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday reflected on the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic in what was likely his last public briefing as the nation’s top infectious disease expert.
Nearly three years after Covid-19 first arrived on America’s shores, Fauci said he never imagined the pandemic would last so long and take so many lives.
“I did not imagine and I don’t think any of my colleagues imagined that we would see a three-year saga of suffering and death and a million Americans losing their lives,” Fauci, 81, told reporters during a Covid update at the White House.
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When challenged about mixed messages given to the public about the virus in the early days of the pandemic, Fauci said public health officials were dealing with an evolving outbreak.
Public health guidance changed because information about the virus changed from week to week and month to month, he said.
Initially health officials thought the virus spread from animals to humans, but subsequently learned it spread very well between people, Fauci said. It also became clear later that the virus was aerosolized and up to 60% of people were spreading it had no symptoms at all, he said.
So lethal you don’t even know you have it.
As for that “one million dead” business, it shouldn’t even be worth the effort to refute it. But it made him a star.
Fauci said he never imagined the pandemic would last so long and take so many lives
“Wow, if I had known then what I know now, I never would have funded that gain of function research in that dodgy ChiCom lab! Live and learn I guess”
“This thing has kept me in power for fucking years. Wait, did I say that out loud?”
He’s a fucking bureaucrat.
I would accept “the nation’s top health systems bureaucrat” because that is what he excels at. Unfortunately bureaucracy has fuck-all to do with good health outcomes and I’d argue they’re negatively correlated.
“I did not imagine and I don’t think any of my colleagues imagined that we would see a three-year saga of suffering and death and a million Americans losing their lives,” Fauci, 81, told reporters during a Covid update at the White House.
Despite the fact you loathesome ghouls were running around shrieking about 2, or 3, or 5 million dead, in the beginning.
The initial model from Imperial College they used to scare the fuck out of everyone said 250 million worldwide would die. Imperial College is also considered a world leader in climate modeling.
So what you’re saying is – we need better Oracles.
I’m saying that we need to stop treating these models as if they have even the slightest ability to predict the future. The models themselves apparently work well if you have the correct input data. It’s always the retroactive modeling that does well, because hindsight is 20/20 when you have the actual data to work with. Unfortunately, all the institutions that control them seem to have incentives to input numbers for future modeling that give politicians an excuse to live in a constant state of emergency where they can do whatever they want. It’s almost as though making science completely beholden to politicians for funding has made them *gasp* completely beholden to politicians.
Don’t you even grant fund, bro?
Oraclees, younger brother of Hercules.
Minnesoda’s first model (created in one weekend by a grad student) predicted 75K deaths in Minnesoda if nothing was done. If King Walz went with lockdowns, it would be only 50K.
Thanks to our Supreme Leader’s vision we have only had 13K deaths so far. Wow did we dodge a bullet!
https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1595052913688301569
Wow, the comments on this thread.
“He drove across state lines, bought a rifle went out into the street and shot people. The fact he got off was because of absolute lunacy & corruption of the American justice system & him & his defence lying, something that’s completely apparent from his trial reaction to him now”
I’d last about five minutes on Twitter I’m afraid. This guy can go fuck himself sideways.
Whoever posted that is blissfully unaware that they are reinforcing the original point that corporate media is a giant misinformation machine that coordinates fake narratives to serve the interests of the ruling class.
I wouldn’t give a shit if he wasn’t so smug about it. Ignorance really is bliss.
https://giphy.com/gifs/season-12-the-simpsons-12×9-l2JdSDAAwdtVa4bzW
“MASKS REALLY WORK!”
Fauci said that one of the most difficult parts of the pandemic for him was the politicization of public health under the Trump administration.
Noting that many people have refused to get the Covid vaccine for ideological reasons, Fauci said, “As a physician, it pains me because I don’t want to see anybody get infected, I don’t want to see anybody hospitalized and I don’t want to see anybody die from Covid.”
The whole truth, and nothing but.
It’s a real shame how they let politics get in the way of him and the big pharma companies that made record profits off this.
I think he’s sincere about not wanting anyone to die from COVID. It’s 30-year-olds dying from heart attacks after taking mandated experimental gene therapies that he doesn’t give a fuck about.
I think he’s sincere about not wanting anyone to die from COVID.
I don’t think he is.
I’m still convinced he wanted to be known as the next Jonas Salk, and has pursued that since the 80s, and it’s shown in his pro-vaccine bias in treatment. So he needed people to be scared and he needed people to see him as the one to deliver the cure
Sure he is. He feels super guilty that he likely funded the creation of it by moving all the gain of function research to a lab in China with a history security breaches after said research was made illegal in the US by black Jesus for the potential dangers it posed if such a virus ever escaped. That was a total accident and no one could have seen it coming.
The “vaccine” deaths aren’t an accident. He knew they were probably dangerous, but they brought a dump truck full of cash to his house.
See the difference? If people die and he doesn’t profit, he feels guilt.
See the difference? If people die and he doesn’t profit, he feels guilt.
Nicely done.
In late March 2020 when the reports appeared that Hydroxychloroquine and zinc were effective early treatments I thought okay this pandemic is over. But then Fauci and his ilk deliberately designed trials that showed that Hydroxychloroquine was not effective. The hospital data was outright fabricated in the most influential study that Fauci used to ban Hydroxychloroquine. At the same time Fauci promoted Remdesivir that kills patients.
I think Fauci was perfectly happy with people dying from COVID as long as he could push for vaccines and Remdesivir.
Again, he’s sincere that didn’t want people dying FROM COVID. He doesn’t care if the actual cause of death is related to taking a medication that he holds part of the patent to. Could we please give him a little credit?
Fauci said that one of the most difficult parts of the pandemic for him was the politicization of public health under the Trump administration.
I don’t see much evidence that the Trump administration was able to significantly block Faucists from politicizing public health.
Aw, what a good person. Give him a Presidential Medal of Freedom or something. He can hang it from the cross he so nobly bears for all of us.
From your lips to Brandon’s ears. I also expect the American Constitutional Center will give him their highest award too for his “fealty to the U.S. Constitution.”
This guy will be given so many faux awards and honorary degrees that he will have to build a 15,000 sq. foot trophy room to hold them. Using his $multi-million speaking fees and book deals to pay for it.
Teh gays love him.
This is the start. Fauci, that Amnesty piece in the Atlantic, the FDA backing off on Ivermectin, all of it. This is the start of the bargaining for forgiveness. It is trying to get in front of it.
Fuck them, him, and all of the others who want us to forget.
Once again:
“I will never take Trump’s vaccine.”
/every Dem before January 2021
Oh hey, Ubisoft has finally decided to release Assassin’s Creed Valhalla to Steam.
Since their own storefront is shit (and won’t take my money), I’ve never played it – how woke is it?
I don’t remember it being woke at all. I probably put at least 30 hours into it and to be honest I don’t remember really anything about it. That series has become so monotonous from over exposure. They all just start to run together. They also make you think that it’s going to be a Norse game, but you spend 90% of it in England. You can pass, you’re not missing much.
NH Recount update
A superior court judge ruled Tuesday that a recount of a New Hampshire state representative seat in Manchester can move forward.
Land of the Free my ass!
They aren’t serving booze, why the fuck does a city council and/or planning commission have any say in “allowing” a business to open? It’s a place where nerds play board games and drink bubble tea.
The council needs guarantees they won’t play Secret Hitler or other offensive games.
We’ve got board game cafes that do serve beer and liquor.
And those are great.
Righting wrongs
A location in Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park is getting rid of its “offensive” name.
Indian Garden, a popular stop along the park’s Bright Angel Trail, will now be called Havasupai Gardens.
The name change is an effort to right a historic wrong. Members of the Havasupai tribe, who had been there for generations, were removed from the inner rim canyon area by the National Park Service’s policies nearly 100 years ago.
Afterward, the area the Havasupai referred to as Ha’a Gyoh became known as Indian Garden.
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The timing of the announcement is auspicious, as November is National Native American Heritage Month.
“Every year, approximately 100,000 people visit the area while hiking the Bright Angel Trail, largely unaware of this history,” said tribe chairman Thomas Siyuja, Sr. in the statement.
Calling the former name “offensive,” he added the “renaming of this sacred place to Havasupai Gardens will finally right that wrong.”
When will we get serious, and start using “the I-word” to refer to this dastardly slur?
“We’re all good now. You won’t hear a peep from us about anything.”
Narrator: And all of the visitors and locals continued to refer to it as Indian Gardens.
NH Marijuana legalization might come up in next legislative term
A bipartisan coalition is expected to move forward with a marijuana legalization bill in the N.H. House of Representatives, in hopes of ending the Granite State’s status as an island of recreational cannabis prohibition, surrounded by places that have legalized the drug.
“It’s obviously come to a point where something has to be done,” said Ross Connolly, deputy state director for Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a conservative political advocacy group. “The status quo can’t continue.”
The bill — which likely will be introduced early next year — will include a private marketplace and low tax rate that are “tremendously different” from the past efforts, according to former state Rep. Timothy T. Egan, D-Sugar Hill, who chaired the House Democratic Cannabis Caucus until losing re-election earlier this month.
He feels super guilty that he likely funded the creation of it
Not buying it.
I don’t think Foochy is capable of honest introspection, much less guilt.
He didn’t feel guilty enough about botching the early years of AIDS to quit, so yeah. I don’t think he’s capable.
Six more hours until I get back to high speed data. This month I made it to within 3 days of not going over my high speed allotment.
Like sloper said, it’s probably time for Space Karen’s little satellite thingie. Anyone got a spare $700?
Sadly no. I would love to hear a review of the Space Karen Satellite.
Not a detailed review, but one of my coworkers lives in the sticks in northeast WA. He’s been pretty happy with Starlink, and I haven’t noticed any disruptions when I’m on a meeting with him.
Yep.
Friends in rural WA and OR are both thrilled to be able to watch videos!
ISTR Dr. Mossy Lawn has Starlink (among other access methods).
Because we all need something beautiful, this is one of the most incredible displays of dynamics control and interpretation for this piece ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucBfXpCA6s
And just because this is a crazy good performance of Liszt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdH1hSWGFGU
I’ll note that she’s been cancelled for having the wrong political opinions,
Holy shit!
That’s wonderful! Thanks, Scruff.
Every single thing I hear her play, I say to myself “Oh THAT’S what the composer intended for it to sound like.”
I’m not even a classical fan and I’ve just watched a bunch of her videos.
Art.
Oh, I FLOVE that woman.
Once Toronto’s orchestra cancelled her concerts and since she has signed a three year record deal and has over ½ millions subscribers on you tube. I should be so cancelled.
Get some talent and practice long enough and you might.
In the meantime, I’ll be waiting to see if she can or will ever play in the states again.
So you admit she was cancelled.
Yes she was cancelled once, wait scratch that…further research show that she was also replaced one other time due to her politics, however meanings have words and ‘cancel culture’ and being ‘cancelled’ can’t just denote having a show or two cancelled, being persona non grata doesn’t entail 3 year record deals and nearly seven hundred thousand followers.
Also I’m not keeping track but I wonder if anyone upset about this ever told Bruce or Neil Young or Tom Morello to ‘Shut Up and Play Guitar’
Bruce is the biggest musician asshole of all time in terms of preaching lefty BS to captive audiences. I’ve witnessed it personally. Neil Young can also go fuck himself.
You weren’t allowed to leave?
Whoosh?
Hey anybody hear from “First” lately?