Way too much of this last night.
The Phillies beat the piss out of Lance McCullers last night. Let’s hope the Astros can return the favor tonight. The first CFP rankings were released last night and the only two bug surprises to me were LSU at 10 and Texas at 24. I guess those pollsters need to prop Alabama up for whatever reason. Let’s see, uh that’s pretty much it aside from the UCL matches. Over there Spuds managed to sneak into the Round of 16 with some late heroics. And that’s pretty much it for sports.
This is curious to me. Isn’t it the pharmacy’s job to fill the prescription its handed? How the fuck are they liable for what the person who presents it does once they leave the store? I guess they’re pretty much responsible for other peoples’ actions now. Well, after the various states hamstrung them from filling scripts during covid, and now this, they’re gonna be little more than an arm of the FDA. Also, I noted it was the states that sued them, so I wouldn’t expect any so-called victims to see a thin dime of this money. It’s just there to bolster state coffers. Anyway, it sure as shit smells off to me.
Whoever has the most money is responsible, I guess.
Perhaps this is part of the reason they sued. Since their draconian policies led to massive depression, they needed a scapegoat. And who better than those awful drug manufacturers, right? God forbid these mendacious bastards would grab a mirror.
Wait, they’re walking around with IDs that don’t represent who they are? I think we’ve spotted the real crime here. Also “complicated process”? I call bullshit. They are who they were born as. A scalpel and a pair of fake titties ain’t gonna change that no matter how hard they try.
¿Por qué harían eso, pendejos? Well, hopefully they spend the rest of their lives finding out…while behind bars.
“Your borders mean nothing to us.”
Can’t wait to see the alternate headline that’ll be coming from much of the MSM: “White people in Texas shoot pepper spray at asylum seekers looking for better life” or something like that is what I expect. Especially since it’s election week.
New hope? Yeah, that’s one way to put it. Another way to put it is that his commie bullshit is gonna destroy an emerging economy. And yes, I know if predecessor had issues. But this guy is a fucking imbecile and that country is fucked.
LOL, this crazy bastard. Was this the speech yesterday where he claimed his son was killed in Iraq? Or the one where he claimed he went to an HBCU? Whichever one it was, it was a massive lie. And I’m not sure if it was the dementia talking or just the craven asshole hoping people are too stupid to know he’s full of shit.
That’s one ugly Jack-O-Lantern. And one with the power to do some damage. Ichabod Crane ain’t got nothing on him.
Continuing the oldies trend again today. What a solid song. And here’s another. They were so good. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, drear friends.
¿Por qué harían eso, pendejos? Well, hopefully they spend the rest of their lives finding out…while behind bars. – please keep the links english only. Thanks.
That’s it, we’ve got to find ever more obscure languages to include in the links.
Yes, I know spanish is not obscure, but I’m being contrarian towards Pie.
you do not have the proper gloves for it
*ਰਬੜ ਦੇ ਛਿੱਟੇ ਮਾਰਨ ਦੀ ਆਵਾਜ਼*
Isn’t that language spoken by a half billion people?
yes, but I was looking for something on google translate using a non-latin character set that wasn’t obviously cyrillic, kanji, katakana, arabic, or hangul. It was the first one I found in the list.
Rare Languages: The World’s Least Spoken Language
If you are the only one that knows some obscure language, can you just keep talking to yourself and get into arguments about improper use of punctuation?
In one of the tales of dying languages, there was one with only two speakers left – who hated each other and didn’t talk to one another.
it would be a more entertaining & Hallmark worthy story if all they did was curse at each other whenever they were forced to interact…
Least spoken language? That is easy: Rational.
De ce ați face asta, nenorociților?
I prefer American or at least Canadian links.
“New hope? Yeah, that’s one way to put it. Another way to put it is that his commie bullshit is gonna destroy an emerging economy. And yes, I know if predecessor had issues. But this guy is a fucking imbecile and that country is fucked.”
South America is choosing to commit suicide. Don’t worry once the shit gets ugly they will blame colonialism.
This must be the third time around by now. I don’t get it.
IANAL, but I don’t get it either.
They should sue China.
*Pooh laughs*
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure….
Also the only way to survive the retaliatory strike.
Look I get it, this is the Chinese revenge for the Opium Wars.
There is no country that has people with a greater chip on their should because it feels history stole it’s rightful place in history.
And Xi definitely wants payback for whatever perceived crimes he believes were inflicted on him personally.
From what I gather, China’s rightful place in hystory is a cycle. They’ll have a period of warlordism followed by a brutal dynasty that restores order, but is short lived due to the measures taken to do so, that is replaced by a slightly less repressive dynasty that starts out fairly virtuous and decays into corruption and power struggles between nobles, eunuchs, and bureaucrats. This dynasty breaks up into squabbling warlords. Repeat. We’re due for the brutal dynasty that restored order (the CCP) to collapse and be replaced.
I anal is a strange thing to keep saying
You are so judgmental, man..
This is why HM doesn’t come around anymore.
That’s one ugly Jack-O-Lantern. And one with the power to do some damage. Ichabod Crane ain’t got nothing on him. – hopefully the west is not dependent on china to replace critical components that can be damaged
“Wait, they’re walking around with IDs that don’t represent who they are? I think we’ve spotted the real crime here. Also “complicated process”? I call bullshit. They are who they were born as. A scalpel and a pair of fake kitties ain’t gonna change that no matter how hard they try.”
It’s another reason for them to tell you IDs are oppressive and are not needed for voting, but for everything else they are absolutely necessary. And this is a great segway into talking morons into getting an implant ID. They can remotely change your settings every day to accommodate whatever stupidity your mental disorder imparts on you for that day!
It’s well known that transgender dipshits are lynched on a near daily basis in conservative suburbs.
OTH – In NYC they are actively hostile to people who don’t hold majority viewpoints.
Man in Nazi uniform kicked out of Manhattan bar
It doesn’t seem like you can have it both ways – “look at me!” “no, wait don’t look at me!”
Que the story regarding the gay Texans recently beat in D.C. by a roving gang of black youths for being “monkey pox faggots”.
That’s different!
“Brazil’s ouster of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro this week is giving environmentalists hope for the future of the Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon — considered of major importance to combating climate change — faced increased logging and clearing under Bolsonaro, whose administration openly deprioritized environmental laws.”
Right-wing! Climate change!
Rainforests are carbon neutral.
“a standing tree is worth more than thousands of logs”
What a lumber business expert.
trees should be a renewable affair
They are. The people who plant more trees than anyone else by orders of magnitute – logging companies. They replant millions of trees per annum so they’ll have something to cut later.
Everything is renewable. We are all composed of elements formed in the big bang (H, He, and Li) and the ones later formed in the stars (O, C, and Stupidity). The issue is the process that recycles the elements.
Stupidity – the first forever chemical.
I am going to have to disagree with you there.
PFOS or PFOA has a 80 year half life in ground water. Much higher than the half life of stupid people in ground water.
Dinosaurs aren’t renewable. But neither are unicorns and dragons.
Oh wait, you’re not talking about fictional things.
Are… are you saying dinosaurs are fictional?
Are you actually Carl Everett?
Are you saying they were real?
Go to a museum. Enjoy that plaster and steel “replica” of something they don’t have a full skeleton of.
Conversation from the late 1800s:
“Here’s a bone.”
“Looks like a femur. And from that I can reconstruct an entire animal and put it in a museum.”
“Sounds good to me.”
Jurassic World dude – they couldn’t make a movie like that if dinosaurs hadn’t been real!!!
Conversation at museum:
“Wow, where did you find the bone?”
“In some sedimentary rock.”
“Where’s the rest of it?”
“Do you want your museum to make money or not?”
I understand that birds aren’t real, but this is something else.
I gotta think on it.
The Amazon was completely deforested in 1999. I learned that from environmentalists in the 90’s.
I learned it from South Park.
“Saving the rainforest is totally gay!”
“Planting trees is hard!”
/Eco-Barbie
“Nobre, the climate scientist, said that if the tipping point is exceeded, large portions of the forest will “degrade” into open canopy ecosystems and will generally shrink over a 30- to 50-year period. It would also release more than 200 billion tons of carbon dioxide over this period, he said. ”
That’s because he’s a political shill. If it became open canopy because someone magically got rid of the heat in water, it would sink more carbon and reflect more sunlight.
You’d think the Amazon would be tired of leftists using it as a fake topic of “concern” all these decades.
Isn’t it the pharmacy’s job to fill the prescription its handed? – I suppose there could be laws in place for the pharmacy to somehow check the prescription is legit or report suspicious activity like multiple prescriptions in a small time frame. But I don’t know the law in those parts. Also you Americans sue for anything and everything
Next they get sued for refusing to fill a prescription.
” I suppose there could be laws in place for the pharmacy to somehow check the prescription is legit or report suspicious activity like multiple prescriptions in a small time frame.”
There already is.
No we don’t!
Don’t make me sue you!
So color me totally unsurprised to find out that the Euro green movement youth champion that is a few cans short of a full six pack is really all about marxism and anti-humanism. The green movement is the new incarnation of the old and discredited eugenics movement. The people behind it have gotten wise to the fact that if you admit you want to kill off more than half of humanity, especially when you also want to implement marxism writ large after we all got to see by body count and misery index how evil that shit is, and have concocted a lie to give their movement the veneer of legitimacy.
It has always been about marxism how is this new? trendy commie hipsters dominate the movements
Yeah, but they pretend it is about saving Gaia to attract the dumb…
People are emotional animals.
“The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer – and they don’t want explanations that fail to give them that.” – Thomas Sowell
It’s the New Church
It is absolutely a new religion IMO. One that encourages ritual human sacrifices on a large scale and the implementation of hell on earth for the rest that are not part of the demonic council in charge of torturing the damned.
This reply in the comments was encouraging:
People may be interested in to know that in the recent ‘mock elections’ held in Swedish high schools every election year — which is a big thing around here — the Swedish youth are voting right wing. Moderaterna (i.e. mainstream right) got the most votes, with the Swedish Democrats getting the second most.
The new government (the real one) got rid of the Ministry of the Environment, and have a new Ministry of Climate and Business. It’s headed by Romina Pourmokhtari, who at 26 is the youngest Minister ever. She is from the Liberal Party, (which isn’t left wing here, though they used to be pro immigration). … In her first after her appointment she said that in her opinion environmental issues “had been given too much weight” in previous governments. “If we want to solve climate issues, it’s about transforming industry and the transport sector.”This is a pro-growth, pro-export, and pro-lots-of-new-Swedish-technologies Minister talking.
So don’t believe it when the media starts talking about Greta Thurnberg [sic] as the spokeswoman for her generation. Around here, her generation mostly isn’t buying it.
“The data shows our battle against drug overdose deaths is far from over,” DiNapoli’s statement continued. “State leaders must ensure an ongoing commitment of public resources and strategies, including new funding from legal settlements, and innovative, evidence-based solutions for the fight against this deadly epidemic to be effective.”
And nothing else happened.
They spent money.
Re: trans IDs,
Filling out my 4473 last night I noticed they added a “non-binary” box to the male and female options. The counter guy said “yeah, nobody’s been brave enough to try using it yet.” Although, I should be able to click any of the three boxes any time I want, right, or select different ones for different gun purchases? Surely they’re not racist against the gender-fluid? I should have tried to find out if the bigots in FedGov made those boxes exclusive or if you could select two or three options simultaneously.
It’s a trick, you get denied for being mentally unstable.
There is no doubt in my mind that NY will be cross referencing CCW licenses and MJ cards to arrest people.
I expect NJ to do exactly that with any firearm licensing of the multitude we have here and MJ purchases.
They’ve already been doing this for years in CA.
I filled out one three weeks ago, didn’t have it.
God forbid these mendacious bastards would grab a mirror.
They are too busy now pleading for amnesty. The Bee with riposte.
Now They Want a Pandemic ‘Amnesty’
They’re not even done punishing the dissidents and they want forgiveness for their own transgressions.
The hubris is astounding.
They also want forgiveness without ADMITTING they were wrong and excessive. Now THAT is hubris.
^THIS
there is absolutely no admission that what they did was well and wrong. These people should have been run out of town on a rail, or worse. Instead they still write for the Atlantic, etc.
WSJ is usually paywalled.
Anyway, Randi Weingarten hasn’t even admitted she was wrong.
I have a sub and can post public lists.
links!
You can, but most of us here can’t read them.
Did you try the link? Unless I copied it wrong – it’s intended to be publicly available.
They will end with “reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink”
I tried, but a pop-up came that wanted an email address. Seemed like that’s all I had to do to get to the article, but still not giving them more data.
Thanks for the heads up. I’m guessing ad-block stops it for me.
My usual response to those is none@none.com. If it goes through – great!
Maybe I just need to try it not on my phone… Thanks for trying.
Looks like the the WSJ changed it’s link policy.
It looks like it has become useless. Might be a bug or it might be permanent.
The article IS there under a popover. You could kill JavaScript and read it. But it now defeats the purpose of providing a link for non-subscribers that that the WSJ offers.
whaddup doh’
Whip Inflation Now
The Biden administration is providing over $13 billion in aid to help low- and moderate-income Americans lower their energy costs, including grants to pay electric bills as well other incentives to make energy-efficient upgrades to their homes.
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to announce the new initiative while visiting a sheet metal workers’ training facility and union hall in Boston later Wednesday, a senior administration official told reporters in a call Tuesday. The announcement reflects the administration’s efforts to lower energy costs amid extreme temperature shifts from climate change.
Under the initiative, the Department of Health and Human Services will release $4.5 billion in Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding, which helps pay energy bills and energy-related home repairs for families. The amount will include $100 million from President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and $1 billion in emergency funding that the administration requested earlier this year, the official said
He should send everybody in America a Biden for President sweatshirt to wear around the house. And some fuzzy slippers.
Why don’t they just impose price caps on energy bills? That would punish the greedy energy companies and save money at the same time.
What could possibly go wrong?
Color me surprised.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pennsylvania-supreme-court-orders-undated-wrongly-dated-ballots-not-be-counted
Wait till they just ignore the decision in Philly and count them anyway.
The corruption in Philly is already factored in to any vote counting system. This is a turn-around from the ’20 election for those bastards on our state SC.
I think they see the writing on the wall. Three of the four Democrats on the court have not had retention votes yet.
All the crooks have to do is take the ballot out of the envelope and count it. After that move there is no audit mechanism to then discount that vote by tying it back to an incorrect/incomplete vote submission…
There was a ton of this in the 2020 election, for example.
Revenge of the Karens. It would seem that abortion access 24/7 has not been the successful strategy Team Blue hoped.
White Suburban Women Swing Toward Backing Republicans for Congress
One of the Ohio ads running for the congressional district that covers the Akron/Canton area shows on the screen, “They are against abortion even in cases of rape or incest.”, and then play an audio clip of the candidate saying, “Abortion should be up to the states to decide.”
They’re really grasping at the abortion angle here. Other then that, it’s inflation, opioids, and economic issues.
Democrats concede they can’t win state elections?
The candidate has come out and said they’re for a full on abortion ban for the state of Ohio… but she’s running for Congress. They can’t exactly call her a racist (credibly).
The irony of ‘racists’ wanting to reverse the work of those who really did want less minority babies in the populace.
I guess wiping out people’s savings and teaching their 2nd graders how to have anal sex aren’t real compelling policies after all. Whodathunk?
Texas radio ad: “Texas has one of the most extreme abortion laws in the nation, with no exceptions for rape or incest!”
The Texas law is the Heartbeat ‘carte blanche until 6 weeks or so’ bill. Does it take a typical woman longer than six weeks to realize she’s been sexually assaulted?
Depends on how long it takes for the guy to ghost them.
I think that was before Roe v Wade was overturned and all
abortions are now banned.
Good question. Texas is the state that sent Sheila Jackson Lee to congress, so maybe there are plenty of such women there..
Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, an estimated 700,000 homes will be weatherized due to the revised Weatherization Assistance Program, putting the administration on track to reach its goal of weatherizing 2 million homes, according to the White House.
“In sum, these programs will make these cost-saving upgrades more accessible for low- and moderate-income families as states gain momentum toward deploying at least 12 million heat pumps by 2030,” the White House said, according to a statement.
Did it hurt when you pulled those numbers out of your ass?
Of course it didn’t! They have plenty of practice doing that.
So, one of the many “Brave new World – 1984” style US Fed Gov bureaucracy agencies is telling people not to worry when election irregularities happen this time around again. What? They basically admitting if it happens it will be their or other government agencies doing again?
That and, like most shakedowns, the victim pays for reputation purposes.
Sounds exactly like the whole “It’s for safety” speeding ticket racket, and why I don’t ever pay until the courts have spent $5k to collect (or it is dropped like they now do whenever I plead “not guilty” n the spot).
Women’s mental health:
“Turns out what I needed was a giant ass”
https://twitter.com/diamondmolar/status/1587131581164146692
thicc?
Cause people will wanna tap that?
Yes. Does wonders for your self esteem.
So many desperate chicks with daddy issues.
OMWC‘s ears perk up.
Yes, but probably shopped.
I prefer giant ass. Is it just a trend. Don’t know.
I like it.
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1587402019517726720
brits share australians penchant for being terrorized by small birds
This doesn’t happen where people can own firearms. or even a BB gun…
and then there are the immortal rats
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1587771389758562304
But that does not mean there are no real, serious problems
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1587406263989813252
This problem was solved decades ago…
https://giphy.com/gifs/steve-martin-the-jerk-martins-first-movie-256bzbovqowBa
ROFL, I hope that’s real.
“For example, 8% of white eligible voting-age citizens didn’t have valid government-issued photo IDs, compared with 25% of Black voting-age citizens and 16% of Hispanics, according to 2012 data from the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.”
I’m calling bullshit.
It is bullshit.
Unless you are a hermit living in the woods, there is no fucking way you can function in today’s society without an ID. Especially in urban areas. Did they inflate the numbers of people without an ID by counting those with fake IDs or something?
Or children under the age of ten.
Agreed. If you are incapable of having an ID, you can’t cash a check, get a job, etc…If you really are that incompetent you don’t need to vote.
Pffft…
If you don’t do any of the other things, you more likely than not don’t care to vote either…But you are one of the key demographics that one party has voting for them. The others are dead people and people that vote more than once.
Hell, can you even collect welfare benefits without ID?
No. And you can’t have a job without one either (even illegal jobs require one). But they want you to believe that out of a population of some 48 million blacks, 12 million people fly under the radar without an ID. Think that through…
Repeat the count for Hispanics, where out of over 62 million people, that another 10 million people would simply be ghosts…
That adds up to 22 million minorities. They want you to believe that if you add the whites and white adjacent people without and ID, there are over 35 million people completely disengaged from society…
Right.
Stop, I can only get so hard.
Clearly they’re all in Galt’s Gulch.
It did say *valid* ID, so some unknown percentage of those are simply expired driver’s licenses, or licenses where the address doesn’t match the actual address because somebody moved.
I think I found the study:
https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/download_file_39242.pdf
“From November 16-19, 2006, the independent Opinion Research Corporation conducted
a telephone survey of 987 randomly selected voting-age American citizens.1 The survey
included several questions sponsored by the Brennan Center, asking whether respondents
had readily available documentary proof of citizenship or government-issued photo
identification, and if so, whether it contained current information”
If the respondents didn’t have proof of citizenship, how did the researchers know they were citizens?
Define “readily available” and “documentary proof of citizenship”
I have an expired passport sitting on my desk at home. Does that count since it is expired? I have a driver’s license, but it was issued by New York, who seems awfully keen on documenting illegals, does that count?
DMV dEsErTs!
So many DMVs in the ghetto, that’s part of why I hate going…
Who cares about these losers?
Wait a minute, what if not having an ID is actually a good thing?
The natives that the honkeys wiped out to take their land, were all druggie peace loving hippies….
They really liked their child sacrifices in Peru.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mass-child-human-animal-sacrifice-peru-chimu-science
“That it?”
/Priest of Tlaloc
After the sacrifice they cut off the kid’s head and made snazzy adornments with it too UCS…
So, run of the mill precolumbian religious practice.
I hear these days this practice is back. Especially in Mexico, where even the dogs get into the game.
Are we still on the ‘spanish people are white’ bit again?
/Zimmerman remembers
Asturians, maybe.
I’ve actually known am Asturian, she was much whiter than my 1/16th Italian self… Now, obviously I’m not white, but yeah.
Still permabanned from Twitter for calling out the ancient Aztecs.
In other words, cracking down on prescription opioids caused the current synthetic opioid crisis, which is far more deadly.
If these fucks really cared about people dying from addiction and overdoses, they would be doing something about the fentanyl problem. This is a racket to get some money back from the pharma industry. You rob the bank, after all, if you want to make bank.
Of course, it’s just a shakedown, nothing more.
My company’s “wellness” outfit is trumpeting “successful” efforts to cut opioid usage among employees. I guess if you stick patients behind a thick enough door, you can’t hear the agonized screams.
I really hope that everyone who opposes effective pain management with opioids dies screaming of protracted ass-cancer, with nothing but Advil available to them.
Oh well, I had mild hopes for a recovery. Now its up to Winston’s Mom.
Were screwed
It’s like watching suicide in slow motion. Sorry CA Glibs.
As California expands its efforts to phase out natural-gas use in homes, the nation’s largest gas utility is trying to reinvent itself for a future in which far fewer customers use its core service.
something something what commies used before candles something
We want it to be slow, that way fewer will escape it and the risk of them contaminating other places is reduced, even just slightly.
Is hhttps a more secure version of https?
It let’s you avoid the “:” on the link too!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-natural-gas-bans-push-largest-gas-utility-to-find-a-new-strategy-11667340608?st=eist72qee8tzi9z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“CVS agrees to $5 billion tentative deal in opioid cases. Walgreens and Walmart will also reportedly settle”
I was explaining to my son, who at 15 is astute enough to say “but the doctors wrote the prescriptions” that there’s no real money in going after individuals. They need to shake-down the manufacturer, and then the supplier. DrugCo and PrescriptionCo have way deeper pockets than Dr. Feelgood.
A couple weeks back, I watched the Hulu mini-series Dopesick on the Oxycontin scandals. My takeaway from it was that the government regulators were heavily in bed with Purdue Pharma (as they kept hiring the regulators several months after questionable decisions). I fear that most who watched it didn’t see that the government having the power was the problem, and the issue was just that the big company could just corrupt those innocent regulators.
I’m amazed that everyone has forgotten how the medical establishment pushed for more aggressive pain management a couple of decades back – that we were too inclined to under prescribe for pain.
They did bring that up in the series, and strongly implied that Purdue Pharma was behind most (if not all) of the groups pushing for the more aggressive pain management.
I hope they included NIH.
I refused to watch that. I didn’t want to see the propoganda I assumed it was.
Who cares is opioids are over prescribed? If people are taking enough to get high, they know they are abusing them. That’s their choice. There are people in actual pain who might need them. Fuck the people who want those people to suffer.
It wasn’t bad. Focused on several different storylines that all weaved back together. About the only people portrayed as villains were the Purdue executives. As I mentioned, I probably took something different away then the average viewer though.
Dive into Ass Wednesday!
https://archive.ph/xTB2f
4 wins. 9 is the dude.
I’ll take 10 over 4.
8 is questionable too. 😛
No one is interested in calling out Biden’s obvious degeneration. Will you shut up man?
Why do you think they are so desperate to get a “Disinformation/Misinformation bureau”, huh?
Hey, leave the man alone, his son just died fighting Putin’s inflation army in Iraq! You don’t get over something like that quickly.
“Putin’s inflation army in Iraq”
Brilliant!
I loved the whining of people ticked off Elon was enjoying Halloween while getting ready to send a bunch of asshats packing at Twatter. That’s a proper Halloween story!
The twits had months of warnings ever since he floated the idea of buying the platform. They should have been planning their exits and looking for new work. Being caught up in it now is their own fault.
I dont know much about that industry, but I wonder how many prospective employers the motivated DID send a resume to looked at it and said “Oh….Twitter employee. Next.”
Okay you’re not going to find a $300k/yr job where you get to do nothing all day that easily, but sometimes you have to accept there will be a hit.
Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft are still hiring, aren’t they?
No, Google’s gone into a hiring freeze.
I think Facebook and Google are in layoffs. Tech is getting slaughtered by the rising interest rates.
Share price of Meta (Facebook) is down 70% YTD. They might not be hiring.
For in demand programmers and the like employers won’t care.
OTH, Twitter mid level “management” and the like…
But this is SF.
Hmm, Twitter content moderator … hey Lisa, do we need a janitor?
I was on a group work call and referred to the fired general counsel as the “Chief Censorship Officer” and cracked up more than a few coworkers.
That one who didn’t laugh has already reported all of you to HR.
For what? Hurt feelings?
Im glad I dont work in an area where I have to self-monitor my speech so much.
My wife saw this first hand. She majored in finance at a school that Andersen Accounting heavily recruited from. They were offering great starting salaries and amazing benefits. Something in her first interview with them rubbed my wife the wrong way so she decided not to seek employment with them. Instead she pursued a company she respected and through persistence got a very low paying position with them. Her friends all thought she was nuts, especially since she needed to work a second job bagging groceries to afford a tiny apartment. Slowly but surely, she rose through the ranks and by the time Enron hit was starting to make serious money.
After Enron, most of those friends found themselves struggling. People saw Andersen on the resume and just binned it. They had to start over, often at salaries below what they had earned their first year out of college and in other lines of work. She even encountered one of acquaintance who was bagging groceries at night and who confided that the second job was the only way he could afford rent for the apartment he had with his wife and kid. A bunch of them have struggled their entire lives since the 2008 crash happened just as they were getting back to where they were before Andersen cratered.
Meh, most of the Andersen people I knew went to work at KPMG or Deloitte working for their old Andersen clients. Even got a bump since they knew the clients.
They’ve got the bit in their teeth
Last week’s attack targeting Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at her home is highlighting the real-world risk of violence stemming from the online vitriol targeting women in politics.
The online abuse of women running for office, especially those of color, is more likely to be gendered, personal and invoke sexual violence than their male peers, research shows.
Although misogynistic attacks are not new to politics, experts say the rise of social media and its secretive algorithms are increasing the threat level facing women in the public arena, in a way that could dissuade women from running for office.
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On Friday, Pelosi’s San Francisco home was allegedly broken into by David DePape, who told police he wanted to break the speaker’s knee caps, and was carrying zip ties, a roll of tape and a hammer, according to the affidavit released by the Department of Justice on Monday.
The speaker was away in Washington, D.C., but her husband, Paul Pelosi was at the residence and suffered serious injuries after being struck by a hammer.
Shaunna Thomas, co-founder and executive director of the feminist group UltraViolet, said the attack “wasn’t a random or isolated act of violence” but rather the result of years of right-wing media spreading a narrative “demonizing” the speaker with “violent and misogynistic rhetoric to galvanize their base.”
Everything is political. There can be no other explanation.
BTW, in San Fransisco, “Holding a hammer” has an entirely different meaning in some circles.
Wilfore said the disinformation and gendered attacks targeting women candidates shouldn’t be dismissed as “run-of-the-mill politics.”
“This is a big part of identity-based conflict — finding those touch points that create a sense of threat,” Wilfore said.
You weaponized “identity” and now you’re pretending to be surprised and hurt when that weapon is turned on you?
That shows the true depth of their intellects. These might be the stupidest people alive.
Cuck.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20282603/son-not-husbands-affair-decade-ago/
It’s clearly her husband’s kid.
Maybe. I think that she is either feeling guilty or thinking of having another extra marital affair, and advertising….
Thomas said in some cases the attacks against women candidates this year are narrowing in on a “sweet spot” of using sexism without “going as far as they did” with now-Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2020 race with overtly sexualized disinformation.
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She got where she is through hard work and talent.
Willy Brown’s willy agrees.
Maybe the current candidates didn’t “go as far” as Harris did.
The lockjaw struggle is real!
STEVE SMITH GIVE BIG GIFT EVERY TIME IYKWIM
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/bloke-claims-been-exchanging-presents-28192064
He’s gonna be disappointed when he discovers he’s been exchanging gifts with a chubby mountain man in his skivvies.
Takur said part of the problem is social media platforms’ attempting to make changes that address the problem as a whole, and therefore failing to address how these attacks target specific groups in different ways.
“The problem is not evenly felt, it’s not evenly impacting all political candidates across the board, some are worse off than others. So you have to adjust your strategies and solutions accordingly,” Takur said.
Obviously, not all hate speech is equal. You just have to know whom to hate. Some people deserve it.
Hate speech is anything the deep state and their lackeys in the dnc crime syndicate don’t want people to know about….
Is there like a list or something? I hate keeping all this hatred bottled up, not knowing who I’m supposed to hate.
Be a lot easier if there was a list and a schedule.
Two minutes a day and a whole week once a year should do it.
The desperation to stop unwoke people from knowing anything other than what the deep state wants them to, at work
Durbin is a piece of shit bar none.
At this point I assume that all of those fucksticks have dead kids in their closets and are being blackmailed by the agencies.
Speaking of dead kids in your closet…
One of the crazy but freaky rumors I heard about that whole Pelosi home invasion is that Paul is a fucking deviant serial killer in the mold of Jeffrey Damher, and that DePappe was his latest victim. The cops showed up before Paul could finish his entertainment, but now they are covering up for him because that’s the way the new powerbrokers roll….
Given what I have learned about the DC elite in the past few years, I’ll just assume it’s true until proven otherwise. These people are vile.
The Tony Podesta artwork collection is enough evidence of that.
I believe it was episode 2 of Martyr Made’s Epstein series that discussed the same shit in the UK. Some boys home used by the intelligence services to blackmail elites.
So many degenerates in positions of power. “Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.”
Narrator. “It never rains that hard.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/breaking-exclusive-numerous-anomalies-identified-david-depape-connected-websites-indicate-not-create-articles-websites-not-work-alone/
*adjusts tin foil helmet*
“<a href="https://tinyurl.com/25ajbbkm" target="_new"David DePape is a mentally ill, drug addicted, illegal alien nudist who takes hallucinogens and lives in a hippie school bus in Berkeley with a BLM banner and pride flag out front… What does this sound like to you“
He sounds indistinguishable from William F. Buckley, Jr.
You don’t think the agencies protect their assets? Paul and Nancy Pelosi in this case.
Needs a GP Trigger Warning.
This is journalism.
https://www.insidehook.com/article/sex-and-dating/future-method-just-changed-anal-sex-prep-game-again
Borat did call it the back pussy….
She also wrote this:
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a41721995/metallic-vagina-taste/
One time I was going down on a chubby girl, and she legit tasted sweet. I stopped and asked her “have you ever been screened for diabetes?”
That night ended abruptly.
“Capitol Police had live video surveillance outside Nancy Pelosi’s $6million home when a crazed man allegedly attacked the Speaker’s husband with a hammer – but weren’t watching it when the strike took place due to lack of manpower.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11379977/US-Capitol-Police-officers-reportedly-stopped-monitoring-video-feed-capturing-Pelosi-attack.html
OK, sure.
These are the same people that did security on J6…
Were these the same people tasked with watching Epstein’s cell?
And Epstein’s guards all went on break simultaneously while the closed-circuit was down….
I’m sure more the actual reason is they don’t when Nancy isn’t around. Whether it’s because don’t bother because they don’t have to or actively told not to because of Paul’s privacy (proclivities), is another question.
Mendacious gun grabbers are mendacious. Self described “responsible gun owner” uses a mall shooting where his brother/bil died as a reason to pass this referendum. Ignores it was stopped by a CHL holder with a Glock magazine that would be illegal under the new law, not to mention banning most shotguns and creating a gun registry. Well, formal registry. Or that the shooting took place ten years ago and nothing else happened.
I just opened my water bill and electric bill at the same time.
It was shocking.
Like running into STEVE SMITH in the woods?
What no gas bill to make it explosive?
These are the jokes.
It is always the same people behind the fucking mountain of criminal scandals from our dnc controlled fed Gov crime syndicate…
I had an appendectomy on Monday, so I’m currently pro opioid but a little weary of dragging it out too long. The morphine in the ER pre-op was very nice.
Get well soon man.
Get well soon.
I’m glad you’re on the road to recovery.
When I had surgery I found out two things – one, I have a strangely high pain tolerance; two, even with that after getting cut open and sewn up again, having the edge taken off the pain really does help with sleep. I could only get a dose every so many hours (I think it was four), but needed it for that first night.
I *still* have dull pain “down there” after my cut-open a couple years ago.
Rarely enough to need pills, thank goodness. Opioids make me throw up, anyway.
Thanks guys.
And yeah, I guess it’s my terrible cynical/skeptical side that assumed appendicitis and an appendectomy are no big deal, but I get it now. For anyone who has theirs burst, I have no idea how they last that long. I was relatively early still (appendix tripled in size) and I couldn’t stand upright.
And yeah, sleep is hard at the moment unless I am medicated.
Get well. In a few days the pain will subside, in a few weeks it’ll be a memory, in a few months it’ll be a topic of conversation. Time has a wonderful way of dealing with a lot of things.
Good that you have a few proper meds for right now though
Mine burst when I was a teenager. 1995, I think. Incredible pain before it burst. It was impossible for me to stand up straight or lay flat on my back. It burst while I was laying in the ER exam room. After that it was intense cold. They were stacking warmed blankets on me, and I just couldn’t feel warm. Finally, the anesthesiologist showed up and put me under. That certainly wasn’t the end of the pain, though.
The morphine in recovery was awesome, and I can understand how people get addicted. It didn’t take me long at all to learn to push that button every four hours. It was the only way I could sleep for a couple of days. But still, fuck people that want to remove that option for people in extreme pain.
Feel better.
Once when I broke my hand, in the ER they gave me IV morphine. I instantly understood the allure of heroin.
I don’t know if it was the dosage or just my reaction, but the only response I had to morphine was that it didn’t hurt any more. Admittedly that was the intended outcome, but it also means I have no firsthand understanding of recreational users perspectives. I mean, without the pain equivalent to what I was going through at the time, there’s no incentive.
In the ER I was squatting on the floor with my forehead resting on the side of the bed from the abdomen pain..Then they dripped morphine into me and I could lay flat on the bed.
But yeah, when I am normally feeling fine I don’t know why I would want it.
Feel better!
I hope you have a speedy recovery.
Did they let you keep it? Who knows what they will do with it. They could be creating an army grown from their appendix collection.
Get well soon!
Reading headlines about the “exodus” of top level executives from Twatter, I have to ask:
What do any of those people do? Is any part of their jobs essential? Will day to day operations miss a beat without them? Will orders go unfilled? Will research and development grind to a halt? Will assembly lines groan to a halt?
Given what twitter employees themselves have posted, most only do about four hours of work a week, so you really only need 1/10th as many folks at most, depending upon what that work actually was. You probably need even fewer than that.
Good morning, Sloop!
I’m so tired of the Amazon bullshit. Before the Spanish the area was agricultural – the natives had tamed the fuck out of it. It reverted when they were all wiped out. But yes, by all means, let’s take a heavy-handed, science-lite approach and see if we can drive the standard of living back into the shitter.
Where’s that fucking asteroid?
Monkey Man is top five fave RS. Nice selection!
It missed us
Dealing with the poor always sounds good until you parse it.
A republican would be on his way to pound-you-in-the-ass prison for this….
You don’t pay yourself directly. You loan your campaign money at high rates.
Not the Bee.
“boosting” LOL
Republican contenders are Hitler – and evil – if they are running against team blue criminals. Once they are no longer an adversary and desperately trying to gain some relevance with the dnc information brokers that passes for legacy media, like Romney, McCain, Bush, Cheney, and so many other uniparty idiots, they suddenly become principled and good. that is, until they are no longer needed.
Isn’t Donald Trump Donald Trump incarnate?
I know plenty of grown ups and old people that are also this stupid and deluded. Colleges have been teaching this shit for more than 4 decades. I remember running into it while doing my masters and telling the morons taking these humanity classes where they made this idiotic point that life was gonna fuck them over real hard some day.
Step in front of that bus and get back to me on the concept of absolute truth.
I’m reading Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind and this features prominently.
They have been doing this for decades. And apparently they’re succeeding.
And who better than those awful drug manufacturers, right?
Joe and the Dems stood up to Big Pharma. It is known.
Wait, they’re walking around with IDs that don’t represent who they are?
Mine says “McLovin”.
Mine says ‘Girth Brooks’.
Richard Hurtz… My friends call me Big Dick… Bick Dick Hurtz.
“New York drug overdose deaths spiked by 68% during COVID pandemic”
Water under the bridge. Let’s not go on bickering and arguing over who oppressed who. Amnesty!
They don’t call it the bully pulpit for nothing
In the wake of scorching inflation and Russia’s war in Ukraine, major gas companies like Chevron and Exxon Mobil are raking in profits. And it’s got President Joe Biden hot under the collar.
“Record profits today are not because they’re doing something new or innovative. The profits are a windfall of war,” Biden said in remarks at the White House on Monday, accompanied by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
With gas prices still elevated, and an expensive winter ahead, Biden says he’s ready to force these oil companies to act — but while his words for these companies may be strong, he may not have the power to back them up.
Keep demonizing people, Joe. Spread your message of hate throughout the land. Let the people see who you really are.
They’re getting desperate. That much is obvious.
The authoritarian and totalitarian measures they have taken so far are only the warmup to the big show.
Let the people see who you really are.
Half the goddamn country agrees with everything he said.
Oh, the gov’t buys fuel from the same people. There is no doubt in my mind that the WH staff is telling the petrol companies “just let us make this an issue (wink wink)”.
Theyve been through it before. And its like nobody in DC knows the difference between profits and margins.
Next, do the insurance lobby.
Big pharma made more money last year than ever. But those profits are ok I guess.
I want someone to keep hammering him with “we’re not at war”.
We don’t even have a treaty obligation with Ukraine. We’re just funding a proxy.
WE ARE ALWAYS AT WAR!!!
With someone or something….Terror, Drugs, Poverty, Misinformation, etc.
And just like that, by next Wednesday this all goes away.
PA Bacon Fest is this weekend and the website dropped the language about masks on the shuttles. Hmm…
Sean,
I’ll be there on Sat along with a few others. Let me know if you want to meet for a beer and belly.
Will do. Not sure if we’re going though. Looks like nice weather for it. 🙂
I’m definitely going. Let me know. I’m usually reading if not commenting early mornings.
“Miss Argentina and Miss Puerto Rico reveal they secretly got married”
https://nypost.com/2022/11/02/miss-argentina-and-miss-puerto-rico-reveal-they-got-married/
LatinXXXX
Giggity.
My kind of lesbians…
I thought Puerto Rican’s hated Argentinians.
Or is it Mexicans? I cant remember.
Everyone loves pussy!
Over/under on the number of days till the first domestic battery charge?
Three.
What? They need to charge their batteries at home? Isn’t there some discreet place, like a drugstore charging station where the ladies can get their “toys” recharged?
I might be in my bunk for a while.
“The Reel — which has 2 million views and 142,000 likes as of Wednesday morning”
Odds that it’s a publicity deal to monetize their social media account/s?
Next stop, “Real Housewives of Latin America”.
Agree — those “kisses” are a bit suspicious.
what is their onlyfans?
That was my first reaction.
OK, my second reaction.
Hawt.
Should we call this practice “The Biden 2020 election fortification maneuver“?
Biden has been waging a battle with oil companies over the last few weeks, but he escalated it Monday when he called on them to “act beyond their narrow self-interest,” to “invest in America by increasing production and refining capacity” on behalf of “their consumers, their community and their country.”
And if they don’t? Biden warns they’re going to face “a higher tax on their excess profits and … higher restrictions.”
Turn a knob, flip a switch, open a valve. PRESTO!
What a fucking retard.
No, the threat/warning here is directed to the people that buy gas. He is warning them that they will be punished for not voting for Biden’s team. Remember corporations pay no taxes. The customers buying their products & services and the share holders do.
excess profits
The fuck?
“invest in America by increasing production and refining capacity”
They will be demonized for this, too.
If you can work from home so should the House!
Will Pelosi Extend Proxy Voting—Again?
the House works?
I am okay with it if we expand the size of the House. If they aren’t going to meet in person, we can go back to 1 Rep for every 30k people. Nothing wrong with a 9000 member house.
The US Capitol should be turned into a museum. Senators and Reps can work from spaces in their states/districts with secure comms provided by the NSA (tee hee).
Yes, it will really gut the DC social scene. Boo hoo.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
If you tour the actual building, they take you to the original congressional chambers. As Congress grew, they added capacity.
These days, they should be meeting in a football stadium.
Finally – a use for the old RFK.
You want to make it easy for congress to do shit? Dude, did you have a stroke or something?
I’d think it would delay the Greenhouse Effect.
Pus, people protesting them would be more likely to be locals.
They really believe this!
That’s firmly in the WTF School of Legal Reasoning
“We want to discriminate based on race, which is clearly against the rules, what can we argue that would get us around that bar?”
These people are villainous, evil scum.
I have an obvious solution.
Private colleges – knock yourself out. Kick out all the whites and yellows if you want.
Public colleges – knock it off.
And since practically every private college not named Hillsdale takes tax dollars, most of them will have a decision to make.
Too reasonable.
Astonishing 35 percentage point difference between liberal-conservative women in infidelity attitudes:
✔️36% of liberal women say it is always wrong for a woman to have extramarital affair
✔️71% of conservative women say same
https://twitter.com/BradWilcoxIFS/status/1587507848506142720
also fewer women think it is ok for men to cheat than for women to cheat.
If one believes such polls, which one generally should not
Now you are just slut shaming!
“Astonishing” to whom?!
https://twitter.com/andysignore/status/1587253661184524290
Fake?
yes. to skinny for all that candy
Those tits don’t look fake to me. Q?
YES!!
so anti mask / anti vax people should be jailed… accountability
I give you a pass for a reading comprehension faux pas…
But I got the joke.
The headline seems clear to me
At the very least, let’s see some people resign. As far as I know there have been zero of those.
“…at Brown University…”
was about all I needed to read
Above average trolling for a republican?
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Missed two 50/50s on 4 and 6. Getting UR on 3 was entirely due to my seed words. That one could have been tough, I think.
I missed a 50/50 on turn 6 of chessle, so failed it.
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TR was in fact a tricksy one.
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Chessle 263 (Expert) 5/6
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https://jackli.gg/chessle
From what I’ve seen of your opening repertoire you might enjoy playing the black side of this. Pretty interesting gambit.
Una Ragazza per il Cinema 2022- Villa Bonin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8wA3ljsPsQ
But oil companies argue they’re already contributing to the cause. Exxon Mobil’s CEO Darren Woods took a moment during the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Oct. 28 to address Biden. “There has been discussion in the U.S. about our industry returning some of our profits directly to the American people,” Woods said. “That’s exactly what we’re doing in the form of our quarterly dividend.
The president didn’t take kindly to that, tweeting his response a few hours later: “Can’t believe I have to say this but giving profits to shareholders is not the same as bringing prices down for American families.”
Why can’t we be more like Venezuela?
That tweet was far too complete and coherent to have been written by Creepy Joe. And “can’t believe I have to say this but…” is a millennial phrasing. Creepy Joe would have used “malarkey” and “no joke”.
But this guy is a fucking imbecile and that country is fucked.
Election fortification ftw.
https://twitter.com/CatchyMelodyNA/status/1587781290153197568
some things should be censored on twitter
Kirn collaborates with Taibbi. This is a great look at Twitter.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday lashed out at Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as “Donald Trump incarnate,” zeroing in on a potential 2024 GOP presidential contender as he campaigned for Democrats facing uphill fights in next week’s midterm election.
I’m not seeing the problem.
“Governor DeSantis only cares about the White House, he doesn’t give a damn about your house,” Crist told the audience.
For Crist sake, what a dishonest cunte.
Think about that for a second. Is Donald Trump not already incarnate? Is he, rather, a spirit or demon that must flit between Earthly vessels?
These people are nuts.
‘Minutes later, Biden noted that the nearby Port of Miami recently received a $16 million federal grant due to one of his biggest legislative wins: the $1 trillion infrastructure legislation. He then pivoted toward DeSantis.’
For a port facility the size of Miami’s that is chump change, just to be clear.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that “free speech” is actually a $8/mo subscription plan
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1587647032457449473
Are her followers that dumb that this tweet is worth tweeting?
Are her followers real users or bots?
It’s not required if you don’t want the “blue check mark”.
But, we wouldn’t want to be disengenous.
Oh burn! Sizzling hot take!
Sexist
“I was born a poor, black man…”
While campaigning for @CharlieCrist in Miami-Dade County, @JoeBiden
claims that he went to college at a HBCU (Historically Black institution) Delaware State University.
He didn’t… He went to the University of Delaware.
It’s actually fairly easy to misspeak and mix UD (my alma mater) and Delaware State.
That’s what I thought he did, but I watched the video and he outright lied to pander to the crowd. I’m sure the the WP, NYT et al will get right on this.
but a congresperson needs the blue check-mark and cannot afford thew 8$ on the low congress salary
https://twitter.com/AlexGodofsky/status/1587686573843390464
are video games turning people right wing ?
Those are my favorite games and they absolutely do not do that.
However it’s absolutely worth noting that in Victoria 3 if you go full welfare state and high minimum wage with a developing economy you have seriously fucked yourself. So many people lose the game this way.
Btw, these games are just sandboxes and teaching people that welfare isn’t free doesn’t seem to me as especially right wing.
I’ve been waiting to decide on whether to buy that one. How is it in general, and what issues have you run into?
Not enough DLC released yet?
I see you’re familiar with Paradox’s buisness model.
They say it’s too shallow and has bugs but I’m a slow burn player and just don’t go fast enough to figure it out.
I’m enjoying it. I’m doing a USA run which seems like easy mode in that age.
GAMERGATE!!!!!!!!!!!111111!!!!!!!
Is it possible that reality has a right-wing bias?
“I had to out myself as transgender,” said Seaton, now 24. He had legally changed his name at the time, but the gender marker on his Tennessee ID still said “female.”
That outing, he said, “can be brutally dangerous, especially where I was living, which is a conservative suburb.”
“Brutally dangerous” in a state with constitutional carry. Sure.
“Brazil will fight for a living Amazon; a standing tree is worth more than thousands of logs — that is why we will resume the surveillance of the entire Amazon and any illegal activity, and at the same time we will promote sustainable development,” he added.
Lula can go fuck himself.
“Let’s hope the Astros can return the favor tonight. ”
Let’s not.
The 26 most beautiful castles in Europe
https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/most-beautiful-castles-in-europe
To be honest if i were a medieval soldier i would not like to storm some of these
A lot of those were built as palaces instead of forts after the interoduction of cannon made the classical castle obsolete.
but not all
“Have fun storming the Castle!!”
Strangely, my favorites were in Slovenia and Romania. Did not like the French and Dutch ones. Guess I like inaccessible rocky crags that tower above my orphans and peasants.
I’m not a fan of the inaccessable rocky crag locations myself. I always think of how much of a pain it’d be to get in and out.
I figure in Romania, one just waits until the evening and flies in and out?
Part on!
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is in a full-on sprint to push interest rates high enough to curb inflation. From Washington to Wall Street, he’s hearing an increasingly loud cry: Slow down.
With the Fed poised to deploy another supersized rate hike on Wednesday, financial markets are showing signs of strain, the housing market is reeling from the highest mortgage rates in two decades and economists are cranking up their forecasts for a recession that could throw millions of people out of work.
Against that backdrop, fears are mounting that Powell, who has vowed to do whatever it takes to kill the price spikes, is moving at literally blinding speed — jacking up borrowing costs before the Fed is even able to see the effects of its previous rate hikes on either inflation or the economy.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren this week led nearly a dozen Democratic lawmakers in telling Powell he was raising rates at an “alarming pace.” In a letter, first reported by POLITICO, they accused him of a “disregard for the livelihoods of millions of working Americans.” It was the largest effort by Democrats to question Powell’s actions and was striking because the party has been reluctant to criticize the Fed.
We’ll spend our way to prosperity. More guns! More butter!
BTW when will the damn articles go back to the usual hour?
After sunday,
takes you people long enough
It took me all morning to figure out WTF you and Pie were talking about.
Daylight Savings Time.
“The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.
The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board”: a panel designed to police misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. While the board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down….”
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/
Worth reposting.
Urge to drag bureaucrats out of their little comfortable offices and lives…
Look in the mirror.
“I think all of us remember that moment because it was reassuring that we could really disagree on stuff, but we weren’t going to go there. And now that’s where the party of the Republicans lives. They live in that really slimy little dark corner where all they want to do is lie. All they want to do is appeal to grievance to the worst common denominator.”
Wow, they could start a Cineplex with all that progjection.
Oh, McCaskill, you weasely little cunte.
One of my gun clubs is providing rides to the polls. I do not remember this happening before.
I saw that email. It’s a new experience for me as well.
My polling place is in walking distance, so I’m going to walk.
This could be interesting…
Starbucks secret: Dark French Roast ‘is not 100% coffee,’ says complaint
You and I will get a gift certificate for $2.99 and Dewey, Cheetum and Howe will get approximately $130m in the upcoming class action lawsuit.
I joined some class action lawsuit (something about an oil and gas company fiddling with a buyout value) a couple years ago and was told I’d get about $30. What the heck – I signed on.
Got a check last week for $1,062 in settlement. Apparently the pot was divided up among those who signed on and when very few did, the rest got quite a windfall. So maybe you’ll get a cert. for two free coffees! [Dewey, Cheatum and Howe will still get their villas in Tuscany.]
I refused the the “free” credit monitoring from Equifax and put in for the full $150.
Got an email last month that my check will finally be in the mail almost 4 years later. I’ve no idea how close to the maximum $150 I’ll get. I do seem to recall the that the three firms leading the class are splitting something like $100m.
In Austin there is a “Starbucks Reserve” which has exclusive coffee not available at their regular plebian stores. They do not allow dogs in.
Because the “Starbucks Reserve” smells like dog butt and drives canines crazy?
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/11/2/mcgilchrist-still-isnt-an-improvement-but-heres-the-math
This is great!
NASCAR driver stuns racing world with a move learned from Nintendo GameCube
I was there and it was insane.
As we filtered back towards the parking lot, 90% of the conversations were about that.
I’ve seen other people attempt similar things, but they’ve never worked.
Now, that is what an accurate computer model can do.
And with that move, he made it to the final four for a shot at the championship this Sunday! Go Watermelon Man! 😃🍉
So almost certainly NASCAR will now institute some rule against doing that, utterly oblivious to the excitement and publicity it generated. 🙄
I saw that – absolutely amazing!
How soon before the joyless fucks at NASCAR outlaw it?
Maybe they could just mandate rollers on the side of the car?
You mean the way the NFL wants the QBs to be strapped in mattresses before being sacked?
Nah, you have to kindly ask the QB to please stop and lie down so they can put a single, gentle finger on them to get them down.
Let’s go, Brandon!
I don’t even like NASCAR and I thought that was pretty awesome.
That was incredible that Ross just had the balls to try it.
That’s really cool.
Finally saw it yesterday. Incredible. It doesn’t look real. The kind of thing that would probably work one time out of ten. How he didn’t pop his right-side tires, I have no idea.
There was a piece on Inside NASCAR about that. The wheels on this year’s version of car have ribs and a center hub that stick out, and likely protected the tire from rubbing. They said older models might not have worked the same way.
hugged the wall, let go of the wheel, and allowed the wall to hold his car in place
The ultimate Darlington stripe.
How soon before the joyless fucks at NASCAR outlaw it?
It’s not like you can get away with doing that all day long.
Yeah, I don’t know how they could, really. Its the kind of thing you can only really do on the last turn(s) at a few tracks. Its pretty much self-enforcing – your car may or may not make it across the line, but definitely won’t be running worth shit for the rest of the race if you try it on any lap except the last one.
White women be fickle. Maybe they finally figured out that their lives and their friends’ lives are unaffected by Roe being overturned, but they sure as heck are affected by inflation and grocery prices. And no more weekly manicures!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11381551/election-2022-senate-midterm.html
Daily Mail gets the headline right: