Go Croatia!
The Patriots took down the Cardinals, and that should seal Kingsbury’s fate. Texas has put their basketball coach on leave for choking. Argentina plays Croatia in the first WC semifinal today. And it’s not looking good for Mike Leach, as they’ve moved him to comfort care. And that’s a freaking shame, because he’s one of the greatest personalities in the world of sports. I’ll say a prayer and hope for a miracle for him and his family. UPDATE: The world is a worse place today. Fuck. And that’s it for sports.
This doesn’t sound right. The SEC is a regulatory agency, not a law enforcement one. They can accuse him of something, but “charge?” That needs to be done by a different department, no? And yes, I know the dude is a grifting piece of shit who should spend his life in prison, but I’m still curious if the SEC can charge someone with a crime.
“Just a few short decades away!”
This is gonna be awesome! And I mean awesome for the people asking for grants, because that’s how this always ends up working out. “We’re only twenty years away” will almost certainly be mentioned at the press conference. Wait and see.
Good. It’s time this was settled once and for all. I can’t wait for the entire left to go insane and call the courts illegitimate. Because it’s coming.
“Forced to flee” is doing a lot of work here. More work than Roth did fighting child porn online, anyway. Fuck that guy. He sounds like, based on his own words, a real piece of shit.
Took long enough. I wonder who will be next in that job. Perhaps there’s somebody who checks even more boxes waiting for a promotion.
How Chicago wants to keep it’s residents.
What purpose does this serve at this time? I wouldn’t question it so much if they weren’t the most notoriously corrupt LEO agency in the country. And no, they should not be encrypted. Anybody should be able to listen in on their chatter at any time of the day for transparency.
At least they at least didn’t use imminent domain. But I still don’t understand why the people who owned it didn’t just turn it into a park by themselves without taxpayers being forced to foot the bill.
**THIS LINK HAS BEEN CORRECTED AND I WILL NOW HANG MY HEAD IN SHAME AS AN ACT OF ATONEMENT. -sloopy**
I think I agree with these people. If you want local representation, you need to shrink the voting down to more localized districts.
Here’s one of the greatest rock songs ever written. I’ll fight anybody on that. And here’s another one. What a fantastic band. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
“And yes, I know the dude is a grifting piece of shit who should spend his life in prison, but I’m still curious if the SEC can charge someone with a crime.”
With six monitors he should have seen it coming.
If I remember correctly these agencies refer for charges and they’re essentially rubber stamped to go. From there the charges are pushed through white collar DOJ divisions and courts. So when you have a 100% referral to charging history and it’s a close knit group involved then you functionally do charge them at the referral stage.
It’s like how primaries are the real elections in some places.
“Good. It’s time this was settled once and for all.”
It served its purpose for the midterms.
You mean playing a bunch of idiots that were first sold the idiotic idea that they should go to college to study what they loved, pay a fortune for that shit, and if they were lucky enough to finish with a useless degree, blame society for that, for fools again by promising to have other people bail their stupidity out even though you knew this was not constitutional?
go to college to study what they loved
Obamacare freed them to pursue their passions instead of worrying about earning a living
No more evil a thing could be done to the young than to sell them this idiotic lie. If chasing your passions means poverty and adversity because you can’t make a living, and you chose it knowing that was so, you better not demand others now cover for your dumb ass.
playing a bunch of idiots
How many times did I hear Obama was going to de-schedule marijuana. Boy, he had them convinced, or should I say they had themselves convinced.
The purpose of government bureaucracies are never to find solutions to the problems they were created to address. if you do any of that you run the chance you actually fix that and then find yourself without a job. Instead they will go out of their way to find more of whatever the “it” is they exist to combat (even to the extent of creating it). The war on poverty has so far pissed away $39 trillion dollars and they claim we have even more poverty now than then. The war on drugs has also cost a fortune and a ton of lives, but they still refuse to accept the whole thing was a racket.
Also, no politician will ever fix a problem that they can campaign and get money from. Ever. The agenda is to milk the problem. Anyone that actually tried to solve problems the people care about would immediately become enemy number one of the bureaucracy and the political class….
“How many times did I hear Obama was going to de-schedule marijuana.”
The outright laughed at the idea.
I laughed at it too.
I stand by my prediction that it will be a Republican president that signs marijuana legalization into law.
I had to laugh at that. Like they’ll ever let someone with an R next to their name win the Presidency again. There are always more votes to count!
Gavin Newsom waves “Hi” from California where he keeps bribing the voters *cough* finding “COVID relief methods” just before elections…
whaddup doh’
The SEC is a regulatory agency, not a law enforcement one.
Every agency has a physical security component, a law enforcement component, and an intelligence community component. It’s the bureaucratic way.
+1200 SWAT
And more importantly, becomes another weapon the corruptocracy can use against the people that realize how fucking banana republic shit has become.
turn it into a park by themselves without taxpayers being forced to foot the bill
The same reason a dog licks its balls.
A dog does it cause it can. These fucks do it because they want to fuck others over.
“And no, they should not be encrypted. Anybody should be able to listen in on their chatter at any time of the day for transparency.”
I’m sure they’ve been trunked for a long time to make it more difficult for criminals to follow.
When I read “one of the greatest…” I thought “this better be The Who”.
Well done.
They should claw back every red cent from the politicians and other assorted grifters that took money from SBF.
Not a chance. What we will have is a lot of people committing suicide by two bullets to the back of the head…
Good old Yeol is…suspect…to say the least. Certainly not the kind of guy who should be the online head of security or safety or whatever bullshit title they have him. Honestly, it would’ve taken five minutes worth of research to know he was a guy they shouldn’t let anywhere near that job.
Dude, he’s in a victimhood class, not by virtue of being gay, but by virtue of being for the homoerotic sexualization of kids.
…or let anywhere within 200 feet of a child.
Why do you think they made him head of security? I do not get why so many people still struggle with the simple reason being that a bunch of foxes looking to promote an agenda put one of the most sly foxes in charge of guarding the proverbial hen house. Twatter was run by a bunch of assholes on a crusade. That crusade was about changing things in society to fit their crazy childish marxist wants and in too many other cases some real fucking out there shit. The fact most societies consider those things unconscionable if not downright destructive to cohesion and survivability was even more fun for them to thumb their nose at.
To some extent, but I also think that the dynamics of a society where you must celebrate those who subvert traditional social norms (let alone judge them) leads to those who are least qualified, but most unassailable, being put in positions of authority.
See also, how the fuck did the cultural revolution or Khmer killing fields happen?
Given how deep he was in on the Ukrainian money laundering operation and how many people he paid off – he’s going to get the Epstein suite with the faulty camera while awaiting trial.
I’ll be extremely surprised if he lives long enough to make it to prison or even to trial.
Unless he gets away during transport like Felix Sanchez did in “License To Kill,” which may have been the worst James Bond movie ever made.
In some alternate universe where the entire Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan eras never happened, maybe.
You leave Xenia Onatopp alone!
Goldeneye is the exception. But that could be the roughly 50,000 hours or so I spent playing the N64 game rather than the strength of the movie itself. It’s unquestionably the best of the Brosnan run though.
Famke at the height of her powers was glorious, but have you seen her lately? She went full Jocelyn Wildenstein. What a crime.
Chalk that one up to reporters who don’t really know what they’re talking about.
I guess I should have read the comments before I commented….
I did read the articles though.
“Roth wrote that, as underage youngsters use the app anyway, an age-appropriate version should be created to offer help to LGBT youth”
OK, groomer.
“On Monday night, Twitter also dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, a group of volunteers including civil rights leaders, advocates, and academics from around the world who had been advising the company on ways to reduce hate speech, child exploitation, and other problems on the social media platform.”
Good.
Still nothing in the article about why he was forced to flee his home — no mention of threats or anything.
He was forced to flee his home in order to portray himself as a victim.
Yeah, how exactly was his home unsafe in SF? What riotous crowd there was chasing them out?
Furries…
Coney-Barrett and Roberts save it in a 5-4 split. I’d wager 10 American cents on it.
They’ve been doing that since Donald installed that rapist.
Actually they do tat any time things don’t go their way with any institution….
I guess if you are fortifying things and you still don’t get your way, you have good reason to despise a system (the people that don’t see things like you do)…
A bet for 7 2021 cents?
GO CROATIA!!!!
I guess she has certain q-worthy assets, but I will say there are more beautiful Croatian women just walking down the streets of Zagreb.
I really enjoyed watching Tucker spent his entire first segment last night mocking our climate change prophets.
There is climate change. It has been happening since the fucking ball of rock we live on cooled down 3 billion years ago. The claim however that man, especially through the creation of CO2, a gas that isn’t either the biggest or most important in the atmospheric heat retention cycle as little as we still understand that, is however a fucking lie. We are still coming out of an ice age, the warming they speak of is historically not even close to what has already happened in the past, and they are praying on idiots that can easily be scared to use this crisis as another means to robbing us of our freedoms and our earnings.
The green movement is anti-humanist. It is peddled, behind a mountain of lies, by people that want to kill off between 5 and 7 billion of the 8 billion humans on this planet because they see other humans as parasitic entities. all as a means to reset things and bring us back to a feudal system where they will keep all the modern conveniences but the rest of us will be nothing but disposable serfs living at their behest and grace.
they see other humans as parasitic entities
All projection, all the time.
That’s a requirement to be part of that bubble.
Something something, the technology of the future, and it always will be.
Elon doing more house-cleaning.
How about the harem girls that fanned the employees with an ostrich feather? Good lord were those people pampered.
I can’t wait for him to tell the fucking woke asshats hoping to bring him down that he is moving operations to Texas (or anywhere else). The one way to save any of the idiotic Silicon Valley tech companies is to move them somewhere where woke idiocy isn’t the law of the land.
The mass booing on Chapell’s stage in San Fran likely sealed that deal.
If you are booed in San Fan then you can be sure you are doing things right..
A 1.1 million dollar MANSION in San Francisco?
Pictured
It’s a fixer upper but it has a lot of potential.
Yeah, I was gonna quip something about that getting you a time share in a broom closet.
Also relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nc88_ZEfxg
2 bed, 2 bath. So yeah, not a mansion.
Per the student loan forgiveness article: ‘A major obstacle facing those challenging the program is that they have had to show legal standing to sue by illustrating how they are harmed by the program.’
No lawyer here but shouldn’t the onerous of legal standing be on the executive branch to prove that they have the power/authority to do something as sweeping as canceling billions of dollars in debt with no congressional oversight, much less a vote from said body?
Yeah, right…
You talk like a bunch of white guys with wigs from 200-250 years ago think…
Long live the executive king!
Because of the doctrine of “presumptive constitutionality”, laws are presumed constitutional unless they can be demonstrated not to be. Which in and of itself wouldn’t be such a bad doctrine, except that standing has been interpreted so narrowly that unless some agent of the state is on camera ramrodding you up the ass with a truncheon, you can’t bring a case to the court and present your argument that a law is unconstitutional.
“Hooters waitress murder suspect, 21, ‘who cheered on bloodbath baseball killing of man, 23’ asks judge to lower her bond to $50,000 and tells him she’ll use money in her ONLYFANS account to pay”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11531953/Murder-suspect-asks-judge-lower-bond-says-shed-afford-money-ONLYFANS-account.html
Classy.
*clicks*
Definitely a violation of the hot/crazy matrix.
She doesn’t look at all hot in that court picture.
Make up is amazing. This is why you don’t go for overly made up girls. Yikes!
She missed her calling and ought to be a makeup artist. That verges on false advertising.
Lots of tutorials on YouTube.
Her true calling was to be used to make a case for serious mental health problems needing treatment…
Ick.
“TikTok-famous plastic surgeon accused of botching procedures and performing BBLs while LIVE-STREAMING is stripped of license”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11530553/Americas-suffering-BBL-epidemic-Doctors-warn-against-deadliest-type-plastic-surgery.html
Another incompetent blonde TiKTok plastic surgeon?
Considering the article on med schools using woke solidarity as a criteria for admissions, it probably won’t be long before board certification is bestowed on the basis of TikTok followers.
Worldle dump thread?
#Worldle #326 2/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Got the population wrong.
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Time: 04:52.52
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Burned a guess I knew was wrong just to eliminate letters rather than falling in a “guess the first letter!” trap on LR. Still think it was the right choice.
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I would not have thought LR was a legal word.
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That was harder than it should have been.
I like how Fox can’t be bothered to name the requisite “star” of Croatia.
“You-know-who and Argentina versus… uh… Croatia. Today at 2PM!”
They’re both Catholic countries, but Croatia is Slavic and also more based. Also, had a great vacation is Croatia, I need to try Argentina some day.
Go Croatia!!!
Both have strong Nazi traditions too, so there’s that.
Argentina is not a bad place to visit. Wouldn’t want to live there though unless you made your money outside of the country.
podcast on economics in Argentina…you deal in US dollars when you can. A crisp $100 bill is worth $100, if its wrinkled, it goes for a discount.
Richer Argentinians travel to the US and have bank accounts there to deposit US cash…some were surprised when US banks took messed up bills at full face value.
Why would a wrinkle change the exchange value of something that has no intrinsic value?
Why do wrinkled baseball cards go for less than mint ones?
Collectors be crazy.
But we’re not talking collectors here, but people exchanging currency.
Quote from podcast:
“Specifically, they want crisp hundred dollar bills. Ones that are not crisp, but they are a little torn or folded, they’re worth less. You get less for your money on those. I’ve actually not totally sussed out exactly why that is. But, people like their dollar bills to be really crisp and clean. And, if they have a tear in them, people may not even accept them.”
And from comments:
“In Nigeria, it is the same thing with an additional requirement that exchangers will only accept U.S. $100 bills that are no older than a certain age. If you can exchange those older bills, you get a lower rate. I assumed it had something to do with trust and/or counterfeiting risk, but I would love to understand more.”
“In 2006 I travelled to Myanmar which at the time was ruled by a military junta and under economic embargo from the west. Crisp $100 bills were worth 10% more than worn bills, and more than the cumulative of $100 in small bills. There were also certain $100 bill serial number prefixes that were suspect and not usable because they were suspect counterfeit.”
Wrinkled money more likely to be counterfeit and less easy to detect would be the root cause, I would think. Though once it becomes accepted that wrinkled means a discount, it just perpetuates itself.
“if its wrinkled, it goes for a discount”
Que?
Just checking out the transcript on econtalk and in the comments, a number of people are saying it is the same in lots of countries with failed banking systems. Nigeria and Myanmar are specifically mentioned.
I would love to check out Croatia – the coast looks amazing.
It is! I went in September and the weather was great (mid 70’s with light breezes) great food and wine, as well as architecture due to both Roman and venetian colonies there. The natural landscape is a wonder. On top of it all, it is not a very expensive place to visit.
(September several years ago)
“Yoel Roth and his boyfriend are forced to FLEE their $1.1m home after Elon Musk shared his thesis, which supported letting children use gay hook-up app Grindr”
The gays weren’t sending Twitter their best. Also, a $1.1 million dollar home can also be best described as a ‘shack’ in San Fran, right?
Correct. 1.1 m buys you a 1970s condo/former apartment.
Tard Tuesday: The OathKeepers Are Among Us
When there’s overlap between a government agency and some right-wing bogeyman paramilitary group, the infiltration is usually by the feds to the group, not the group to the feds, but go off.
^^^THIS^^^
Especially when you get the propagandist screaming about the inverse…
From the DHS website:
Department of Homeland Security has a vital mission: to secure the nation from the many threats we face. This requires the hard work of more than 240,000 employees in jobs that range from aviation and border security to emergency response, from cybersecurity analyst to chemical facility inspector.
300 past or current employees out of 240k. It’s a veritable right-wing invasion.
Now do BLM supporters.
When Oath Keepers was founded, being LE or military was a requirement. It was an organization of people who would have been asked to turn on the citizenry precommitting to not obeying that order.
HERETICS! They must obey without question or hesitation!
Not surprising. I suspect Oath Keepers is a glow op.
Hahaha, Rhodes can only wish.
Did I miss something in the Santa Nella article? All it reads like to me is a food critic style “Here’s a cool restaurant you may drive by on I-5”. (On the too local front, I’m about 15 miles north of Santa Nella, so I know the place though I’ve never gone in it). Nothing about converting it to a park that I could see…..
Then again, I’ve been banging my head against a python 3 code change one of my reviewers inflicted upon me because “I don’t like the way you changed the inputs on this inherited class!” when I had a fully working and unit testing solution.. and now everything is borked. grumble bitch moan complain…. I hate it when I have to code in bloody user space.
Code reviews suck. Never take it personally. You are still getting a paycheck.
May your review pool be large enough you don’t have to rely on opinionated reviewers.
Eat some pea soup, relax, and read the story I finally linked to because I do a poor job of proofing my morning links.
This is why they charged SBF yesterday. To force him to take the Fifth today.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/ftxs-sam-bankman-fried-says-he-will-testify-remotely-upcoming-congressional-2022-12-12/
As I pointed out yesterday: this guy is too soft. The people he was committing the crimes with/for see this. So they are taking action t make sure this kid can’t expose what they were doing. Now they can control access to him (meaning we will not be told what really happened and who was involved) and help him have an unfortunate accident if that is required to keep the story hidden. And nobody in the media will call them out on this shit. In fact, they are cheering it on …
How our obsession with ‘diversity’ obscures class
DEI is just being used as another tool for the already well-off to differentiate and compete amongst themselves.
One contention: the well off you are talking about are the credentialled and connected, whom actually hope they always are the ones making the decisions…
Sounds like an Upstart Crow rant about Oxford and Cambridge posh boys, just updated for Current Year. Don’t know why anyone in England is at all surprised when their country has always worked that way and all.
It’s an interesting variation on the whole “born on third, thinks he hit a triple” trope. “Born on third, advanced to home plate by the third base coach on the basis of xir race, gender, or sexual orientation, thinks xe hit a walk-off grand slam.”
Diversity is just another tool in the rebooted marxist toolbox. Class warfare in America was not possible because of the American middle class and economic mobility. It is not an accident that the left has been hard at work destroying the middle class – especially the blue collar middleclass – and the economy. That’s part of the agenda to make enough people desperate enough to accept top down totalitarian government (promises of saving you from the very chaos and destruction they have foisted on you).
Class, social standing, whatever – I’m very much reminded of the Heinlein quote about when we apes came down out of trees, and didn’t leave some stuff behind.
The upper class has connections. It is connections that really get you the opportunities. The networking at prestigious universities is worth more than the “education”.
Who didn’t know that this is what they meant when they told you about protecting democracy?
“We allege that Sam Bankman-Fried built a house of cards on a foundation of deception while telling investors that it was one of the safest buildings in crypto,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler said in a statement.
And what were you doing, all that time, Gensler?
I’m a firm believer in the “fools and their money” rule, but scams like this deserve to have some sort of light shone on them.
That sentence does not describe a crime.
FFS, what do FTX’s terms of service say?
According to snippets Dave Smith was playing of an interview with SBF, the interviewer specifically mentioned that the terms of service prohibit account holder funds from being lent to related parties without the consent of the account holder.
Yes. I just expect the chair of the SEC to be more precise in their language.
Now do Social Security, Gensler.
Or fractional reserve banking…
“Such a shift would result in a council makeup more representative of the Houston population, 45 percent of whom identify as Hispanic, according to 2021 U.S. Census data.”
I’m sure it’s a good proportion, but also no where near 100% of this number who are eligible to vote. Just a guess.
Sues again after shifting to district system. “The districts aren’t gerrymandered properly to ensure Hispanics win at least 45% of the seats on the council.”
Well, that’s obvious. If the council doesn’t end up majority Hispanic that just means the districts were drawn by racists.
I wonder if there’s ever an inter-agency turf war, say BLM vs. EPA, or IRS vs. GAO, they’d use their polices forces against each other.
I’d watch that for a dollar.
Those come AFTER they get rid of their mortal enemies.
The first two waves of people put on the wall and shot are always they real political enemies of the left.
All following waves, and there will be never ending waves of people put up against the wall and shot, will be other true believing leftists in the fight for what entity will end up at the top of the pack…
“Here’s one of the greatest rock songs ever written. I’ll fight anybody on that.”
One of the greatest rock albums ever recorded, If your a fan I recommend getting a copy of 2014 Blu-Ray audio release – it’s superb.
From my understanding of the fusion announcement, they’ve only achieved an excess of energy *above the energy used for the ignition lasers*, not a net positive energy release from the whole system.
There are other major loads including the power for magnetic containment, and of course, all the other auxiliary power users in the experiment, not to mention the auxiliaries that would be necessary for a functioning commercial power plant.
Did they have enough dilithium crystals?
The Ferengi tat sold it to them told them they did….
They obviously need to remodulate the main deflector and bypass the power couplings.
Unplug it and splice the wires directly? Seems reckless.
reverse polarity on the tachyon beam?
Inject fast neutrons harvested from fission plants to recrystallize the dilithium matrix.
Where are the NUKULAR VESSELS?
/Asked in a Russian accent circa 1982 Cold War era…
wessels!
Fission plants are nearly extinct because of mismanagement of their ecosystem.
NERDZ!!!
If I’ve been informed correctly, this is the NIL, so intertial confinement, not magnetic. Basic point is correct.
ESPN just now reporting that Mike Leach has passed.
So sad. Dude was a hell of a character and everybody loved him.
Yep. His dating advice on taking a girl to a steakhouse was fantastic.
Climate change could worsen heart deaths linked to extreme temperatures
Climate Change made the frogs gay!
Today they would tell you that was prolly true…
I love my dead gay frog!
Eskimo
What percentage were from it being too cold or too hot?
Every first snow in Buffalo a bunch of guys die from shoveling the driveway.
Found it:
“For every 1,000 heart-related deaths, there were an additional 2.2 deaths on days with extreme heat. There were also 9.1 additional deaths on days with extreme cold, the findings showed.”
Extent cold 5x worse than extreme heat. Bring on the ‘climate change’.
“Recent increases in heart attacks and decline in cardio vascular health are clearly due to long covid. That’s just The Science!”
Wait, what? That doesn’t really hold water and we’re getting called on it? Hmmm, let me try again:
“Recent studies tie climate change to increased heart attacks and disease! The recent exponential – no really, it’s 2 to the x! – growth in heart attacks is therefore a clear indication of worsening climate change! That’s just The Science, you can’t deny it. To combat this obvious epidemic of climate change, turn over all you money, cars, and wealth to your betters. And get your 10th booster. Which totally has nothing to do with this heart stuff, that’s all climate change!”
Man, that actually worked out even better than we expected! We can tie two of our most profitable grifting operations together!
But Bankman-Fried has previously admitting making mistakes while leading FTX, which he stepped down from last month after it filed for bankruptcy.
“Look, I screwed up,” Bankman-Fried said during a virtual appearance at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit. “There are things I would do anything to do over.”
“How was I supposed to know that money wasn’t mine to do with as I pleased? There was just so much of it.”
He knew is was not his to do what he pleased with because the people he funneled the money to told him so. Be careful here with the attempt to paint this guy as a loose canon. FTX existed as a racket to help the corruptocracy funnel money to the connected. Especially tax payer money sent to Ukraine. And a massive chunk of that money was used to fortify the 2022 election. Don’t lose sight of that…
Let’s not bicker and argue about who bilked who…
I’m listening to a longer interview with Peter Zeihan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSpT0yEtFBY
And I’m starting to wonder how correct the guy is. My first problem is he says “it remains to be seen if Biden will be a decent president,” and that the “Biden presidency has a lot of wins.” Maybe it’s because I get all my news here, but that just seems completely wrong.
Later, he talks about how the dollar is positioned to be stronger than it ever has, and how Russia is being forced to greater dependency on the dollar, and doesn’t mention BRIC at all. This interview is maybe a week old. That seems like a significant omission. So now I have to wonder about his analysis of China, which again seems to leave out the possibility of close cooperation between Russia and China when he talks about China’s need for nat gas and potash.
Biden does make the top 100 US presidents of all time.
Applause gif if I could.
Most of these types form a thesis early on and never waver from it even when current events would suggest that they need to.
If Russia and China could cooperate that would be significant. But there are reasons they don’t. How long would it take to build a nat-gas pipeline, or a rail-line for potash, etc. to China?
A Trans-Siberian pipeline?
Last I understood, the active Russian oil and gas fields were in the west. Siberian deposits have not been as extensively explored/exploited
Good news everyone… https://www.railfreight.com/railfreight/2022/11/17/china-russia-rail-bridge-is-finally-open/
‘It is designed for the alternate passing by being equipped with the Russian gauge (1520 mm) and the Chinese gauge (1435 mm) […] Construction was completed in August 2021, but the inauguration had to be delayed due to the Heilongjiang River flooding in the summer. The bridge has been in function since April, but freight transportation was not allowed on the grounds of lacking the necessary infrastructure.’
Sounds like a comedy of errors.
This story has been played before.
If Russia and China could cooperate that would be significant.
Yes, I may be attributing greater significance to BRIC than it merits at this point.
Assuming that BRIC is a real thing, and that it includes actual cooperation on trade, are there no Russian, Chinese, Indian or Brazilian flagged nat gas carriers? Russia’s rail network in the east is not great, but it does exist.
All I’m saying (about Russia/China, at least) is that it seems like he should have at least mentioned BRIC, even if it was to discount the significance. I still say his assessment of Biden is wildly wrong.
Is the country more divided, more impoverished, and less free than it was in January 2021? Because if so, then Biden is accomplishing a lot of what the Democrats want.
“It really is worth revisiting all of the people and news networks that promoted a conspiracy about Ron DeSantis using the police to harass a (fake) whistleblower based on police searching her house after she clearly committed a crime.”
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1601321683058425856
“Two years ago, Filipklownski resigned as one of 500 unpaid volunteers on a powerless commission in protest of Rebekah Jones being searched for a felony.
Yesterday, Rebekah Jones signed a document admitting that she did it.
Filipklownski has said nothing.”
https://twitter.com/MaxNordau/status/1601308127718039552
Obligatory Ukrainian flag emoji, check.
Jeez, the dirty dealings we endured during the past few years are just immense. It’s the total lack of accountability that has me worried. Sure we can and will find the truth, but no one is held responsible, ever.
Children’s Health Defense does some great work, but their obsession with risks from 5G and EMF is retarded.
Is it?
Maybe just from an effectiveness POV it is, but I don’t really trust anything. They’re making the frogs gay out there and there no reason to trust the experts. Endocrine disruptors are a bigger issue imo, but I wouldn’t discount emf, especially early in development.
If you want to protect your kids, just keep them off TikTok and social media in general. That’s the real risk from cell phones.
The risks from EMF are completely overblown and are not at all representative of the actual incident power levels.
Early generation cell phones put out a lot more transmit power than those of today. And if EMF were a real risk, every single military radar tech would be dead or sterile within a couple of years. Those guys work with actual high power devices on a daily basis.
Also the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing.
Absolutely
“If you want to protect your kids, just keep them off TikTok and social media in general. That’s the real risk from cell phones.”
Absolutely. Luckily wifey and I are in board there. To be clear I don’t do anything different due to emf risk, but I’m also not convinced they’re harmless.
‘And if EMF were a real risk, every single military radar tech would be dead or sterile within a couple of years. Those guys work with actual high power devices on a daily basis.’
Were you a radio operator at camp lejeune? Call us now to join the class action lawsuit.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29433020/
“Conclusions: The consistent association of RFR and highly elevated HL cancer risk in the four groups spread over three countries, operating different RFR equipment types and analyzed by different research protocols, suggests a cause-effect relationship between RFR and HL cancers in military/occupational settings.”
Dunno how rigorous this study is, but maybe there is a real factor here.
Like I said above, if there were going to be a canary in the coal mine, military radar techs would be it.
But keep in mind that the incident power levels for those guys are extremely high compared to the broader population. A radar transmitter can put out enough power to draw an arc from like throwing a fork in a microwave. They are also exposed to a variety of chemicals that most people are not.
In short, nothing is risk free, but the radiation from your cell phone is negligible.
I agree it’s a whole different amount of radiation, but if that’s your Canary, looks like he needs some fresh air.
Berenson off the rails again: Elon Musk crosses a line
If he has evidence that Roth or other Twitter employees supported child sexual abuse on Twitter, he should take it to an agency qualified to investigate.
Musk gave it the old college try.
an agency qualified to investigate
LOL, the agencies are facilitating it by handing underage migrants over to whomever these days.
To say nothing of the fact that several such “agencies qualified to investigate” were conferring with Roth and other censorious cunts at Twitter until Must fired them.
The reason why Roth and other would be bullies persist is that there has been zero accountability for their actions yet all the while happily destroying society to get at their bogey men. In a bygone era, the ropes would already be stretching.
‘If blood flows, it will be on Elon Musk’s hands.’
What a maroon.
What if he wears gloves?
Berenson seems to get as much wrong as he does right.
A stain on DEMOCRACY!
The European Union’s parliament was reeling Tuesday, it’s credibility under threat, as a corruption and bribery scandal damaged lawmakers’ careers and fingers pointed at Qatari officials accused of seeking to play down labor rights concerns ahead of the men’s soccer World Cup.
The scandal, which started unfolding publicly last week, has scarred the reputation of the E.U.’s only institution comprised of officials elected directly in the 27 member countries. It has undermined the assembly’s claim to the moral high ground in its own investigations, such as into allegations of corruption in member country Hungary.
“It is so profound because it jars so fundamentally with what parliament pretends to stand for,” Ghent University Professor Hendrik Vos, an E.U. expert, told The Associated Press. “The parliament pretends to stand for transparency, unable to be bribed, to defend fundamental values. And then then you get something like this.”
Eva Kaili could corrupt me any time.
Given she is a socialist politician – definitely a question of hot/crazy.
For Olivier Hoedeman, a coordinator for lobbying watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory, the scandal is more about long-known shortcomings at the parliament.
“This horrific unfolding bribery scandal is a product of years of negligence which have come back to haunt EU institutions,” he said. “Earlier this year a ban was imposed on dodgy Russian lobbyists way too late. Today, Qatar is in focus. These are both wake-up calls. It’s not good enough to take reactive measures after yet another scandal.”
Corruption? In Brussels? Preposterous!
Elon Musk’s archaic management style prioritizes profit over people
well, yeah.
“Oh stewardess, I speak gibberish.”
Avoid MBAs from University Canada West – noted.
Wow
That article is purely the result of endless money creation. We’ve completely forgotten what makes the economy tick.
We should all be able to pursue our passions and be paid based on our sense of self-worth.
That anyone would dare to articulate something this dumb today tells me how far we have fallen…
From each according to its passions, to each according to its wants.
I am reminded of a line from one of the secondary antagonists in one of the Mission Impossible movies: “I admit it, I am in business.. to make money.”
I suspect the writer thought it made the guy seem more evil, but it only highlighted to me the absurdity of people appalled that businessmen are in it to profit. No one can put in the effort required without the potential payout.
🤦♂️
profit over people is one of the dumbest meaningless phrases around. wtf does that even mean?
It means you’re talking to a “democratic socialist”.
A humanistic approach prioritizes emotionally healthy workplaces, gender equity, respect, anti-harassment, employee engagement, the benefits of intrinsic over extrinsic rewards (feeling good about your work versus making lots of money) and conflict management. – while paying high wages and benefits and not going bankrupt one would presume
Emotional intelligence – a retarded concept, pardon the expression
I’ll be sure to demand all those things at my next blue collar, construction related job.
Want to get a good laugh out of the new boss?
I do believe you’d get your ass kicked for that.
Word salad shit right there…
Management professors make a name in “research” by creating elaborate schema to explain things that successful managers do intuitively. “Emotional Intelligence” is an academic name for paying attention to the workplace environment and trying not to be a dick all the time.
This sentence…
“Extensive research on emotional intelligence, including my own, shows that it increases morale, productivity and goal achievement.”
…would seem to contradict this…
“Musk is setting a dangerous precedent for other businesses to follow. If his approach to management proves to be successful for Twitter, it could result in other business leaders following his example.”
Musk is setting a dangerous precedent for other businesses to follow. If his approach to management proves to be successful for Twitter, it could result in other business leaders following his example.
If you’re so sure his approach is wrong you wouldn’t need to worry about it succeeding. You just claimed your approach “optimizes organizational performance”, so surely Musk is doomed to failure.
Serious question:
What did the suckers at FTX even think they were buying?
Future money greater than current money.
They wanted to be in early on the Ponzi.
But if SBF took customer deposits and used them to shore up his own accounts in violation of the TOS, then that’s a crime.
I don’t know if they ever directly took customer deposits, just used them as leverage to borrow funds for the VC fund.
If an exchange doesn’t have your money it means they were lending it out/doing other things with it.
Access to bigger suckers?
You go onto FTX and wire in currency (Fiat.). After this you get to take those funds and buy and sell crypto currencies. FTX gets a small fee.
What you don’t expect is for FTX to send money to a separate company which is a hedge fund to help it recover losses.
They expected FTX to be an exchange.
“A work setting that takes a strategic and comprehensive approach to providing the physical, cultural, psychological and work conditions that maximize the health and well-being of providers, improves the quality of care and optimizes organizational performance.”
What, exactly, would you say you do here?
Within days of taking over Twitter’s operations, Musk fired top executives and half of the company’s 7,500 employees, ignored advice to not disproportionately fire employees representing diversity and inclusion and has likely violated employment labor laws and breached employee contracts.
Merciful heavens!
OMG what a monster.
disproportionately fire employees representing diversity and inclusion – diversity in coding skills?
Does Python have an ebonics plug-in ?
Do you have any idea how oppressive the class hierarchy is in object-oriented programming?
GFS with coldest, most snowcovered Christmas morning in US since 2000 and likely 1989
https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/1602641142331351040
almost no chance of snow in Bucharest… I don;t even know when we last had snow for Christmas but at least 6-7 years ago
Mais ou sont les neiges d’antan?
We are over 8 inches so far this year (zero on the ground right now). Another fraction of an inch coming this afternoon though. Last year we were at 0″. I think we had one dusting before mid-December. Denver missed that and set their record for latest first snowfall.
No snow on the ground here. Absolutely fine with me.
Kansas City area with a foot? I’ll believe it when I see it.
That color chart is awful. It goes thru purple twice. WTF?
It’s possible. Remember the winters of 1978 and 1979?
I’m totally hoping for that this year. Don’t have to worry about kids going to school or staying home, and my husband and I both work from home.
Hey, it happens once every twenty years or so…
“Snowfall” in the US is entirely regionally dependent. In Colorado, it is expected. In Kentucky, a white Christmas was rare but possible. In coastal South Carolina, snow falls every 30 years or so.
Buffalo, on the other hand, can get 60 inches any given day.
Well In Bucharest snow was a yearly thing back before climate change (TM)
Now we haven’t had real snow in the last 4 years… I don’t think I needed my snow shovel at all in the last 3.
Fuck I remember 2012 the snow that was cleared of streets and sidewalks was piled so high it needed till april to melt
Been in PA 8 years and have yet to have a white Christmas.
not even in your dreams?
Stossel interviews Maj Toure:
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2022/12/07/black-guns-matter-n2616829
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYdk9gSp2Kw
You go onto FTX and wire in currency (Fiat.). After this you get to take those funds and buy and sell crypto currencies. FTX gets a small fee.
So they were using “real” (government backed fiat) money to buy imaginary money, and expecting that imaginary money to perpetually increase in value.
I have these magic beans, and if you’re nice to me, I’ll let you trade me that cow for them.
I though we covered Fiat in yesterdays links
https://youtu.be/XMIIahxK5Jk?t=25
What is Aleppo?
Fiat is not real money nor is it a real car.
Christian influencer mocked for calling masturbation ‘witchcraft’:
https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/christian-influencer-mocked-for-calling-masturbation-witchcraft-this-cant-be-real
Summoning the spirits.
Fuera Satanas!
cock magic?
just like oglaf I would think
https://www.oglaf.com/bedknobs/
You are playing with your wand…
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Musk’s cold, impersonal approach to management and leadership is antithetical to what we have learned about kinder, more humanistic approaches to work. Management approaches like Musk’s threaten current business management practices that advocate for healthy, happy and engaged workplaces.
The ever-popular corporate-headquarters-as-giant-day-care-center model, with the CEO as Nurturer-in-Chief. A tried and true winner.
Mike Leach has passed away. All college football fans are flying their pirate flag at half mast.
And fuck the CFB HoF if they don’t waive their silly .600 win rate requirement for a coach. Leach finished at .597 primarily taking over bottom dwelling programs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4veYug5pFo
That’s the clip that was running through my head this morning.
Ain’t it funny how people that have experienced the vileness and evil of marxism and totalitarianism personally, in general, know better?
people that have experienced the vileness and evil of marxism and totalitarianism personally, in general, know better? – you’d be surprised how many in former commie countries are still commies
Let me orientate you to this sign. It would behoove you to read it.
https://twitter.com/RenoCavalry/status/1602314303289401354
Spellcheck is not your friend if you can’t read.
#RESIST
RESIST WE MUCH!
Musk is setting a dangerous precedent for other businesses to follow. If his approach to management proves to be successful for Twitter, it could result in other business leaders following his example.
Just think of it. If Musk manages to turn Twatter around, who knows what horrors might be unleashed upon our precious DEI laptop warriors? What if they are expected to demonstrate conclusively their contributions to the bottom line?
The first gnawing awareness of their own parasitism?
They could be subjected to the horrors of … the private sector!
https://youtu.be/RjzC1Dgh17A?t=17
“on your mark, get set, go!” hajime sorayama, 1981
https://twitter.com/borgposting/status/1602227897661530112
Good morning, Sloop!
Here’s one of the greatest rock songs ever written.
You’ll get no argument from me. I love that album so much it’s nearly impossible to pick a favorite song.
Here’s another top 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2h1MY70uag&list=PL705A234F43DA0E34&index=2
That bass!
Salt truck
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjzoLdmVEAAGgnV?format=jpg&name=360×360
I LOL’d.
I hate that I know who that is.
Commie Canadian acquaintance on Facederp: “The cyst on my leg is getting worse and all the doctors have either brushed me off or done the wrong thing to treat it and now I have to go to the hospital!”
Same Commie Canadian acquaintance: “The U.S. is so backward & dumb for not having Commie health care!”
Please refrain the urge to suggest assisted suicide, it would be in poor taste
No worries, Canadian health services are way ahead of you.
There is a conservative spin-off subreddit for methamphetamines users who found the regular meth subreddit too left wing.
https://twitter.com/EclecticHams/status/1602494105019453444
*checks Reddit*
I…uh…yeah…
Headed for the retirement home?
The Los Angeles mountain lion known as P-22 —or the “Hollywood Cat” — was captured Monday for a health checkup after signs of possible distress were observed, wildlife officials said.
P-22, whose home range is in Griffith Park, was sedated with tranquilizer darts in the nearby Los Feliz neighborhood, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the National Park Service said in a joint statement.
The mountain lion is believed to be around 12 years old, which is “a remarkably old cat in the wild,” the state wildlife department said last week when it announced plans to bring him in.
The animal is believed to have killed a leashed pet last month and “may be exhibiting signs of distress,” it said. The animal was captured around 11:30 a.m., a spokesman for the park service said.
Let’s hope he has been mentoring a replacement.
I can still hear my F&W professor beating that chemical immobilization of the wildlife does not tranquilize them nor is there anything gentle about the process.
In Popehat’s farewell to Twitter, he says he will delete his tweets “as he can’t stomach them being available to promote this enterprise”. Apparently Popehat was carrying Twitter almost fully on his back. Who knew.
https://twitter.com/just_mindy/status/1602526368666984448
LOL. True to form.
Who?
Popehat
Jimbo?
Who?
One of the guys who was at that lunch with you, me, and Leap.
The bike thief?
The same one who has been MIA recently?
Ex federal prosecutor. Built up a nice good ol’ boys network there. Which he then monetizes by keeping rich people out of jail.
Did he mistake himself for Iowahawk?
7 Lingerie Fashion Show / Показ мод нижнего женского белья #petraksenov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQuuXBzhO8
Your tax dollars at work. Not the worst thing they’ve been used for.
https://twitter.com/Rodoflondon/status/1601958013702926336
That’s tax money well spent.
In the early days of the war, that grifter was posting all kinds of glamour photos of herself with weapons. The pro-war segment was eating it up.
Meh. She appears to have put on a not small amount of weight. That, and her choice of bra that day, likely explains it.
Yeah, she ain’t going hungry.
the right has “groomer”
the left has “racist
the far right has “jew”
the far left has hepatitis c
our native weapons must be of a different kind (refusing to take ppl seriously when they bumptiously demand it)
yet: theyre no less potent for it. let their beauty guide you
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1602599307416322049
Rain and howling wind. At least it’s not snowing today.
Freezing rain followed by 9″+ of snow. Yay.
Looks like the worst weather is going to track north of us. Best of luck to NoDak and MN.
Up to 12″ of snow!
Stock up on milk and bread!
Hunker down!
Whatever, moroons, that’s just winter in Northern Minnesoda.
/aint skert.
/got 4WD
*realizes there’s a typo in the alert when twleve feet fall*
What’s worse than a box that contains venomous snakes?
A box that should contain venomous snakes.
Coming soon- fiscal responsibility- no, seriously!
Back in September, we wrote in these pages about our disgust with reckless spending in Washington and the historic inflation it was forcing on American families.
In that op-ed, we made clear that for the spending to stop, Republicans must unite in opposing another spending bill and demand that we pass a continuing resolution (CR) that simply maintains current federal spending levels – and not a penny more – until a new Congress begins.
Now, with the government funding deadline just days away and the start of a new Republican majority in the House coming in mere weeks, we again demand fiscal responsibility and urge our colleagues to stand strong in opposing the Pelosi-Schumer spending bill.
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It’s also worth repeating our total rejection of the failed and ridiculous thinking here in Washington that the only way to get some things done is to shove them into a giant spending bill negotiated in secret and pass it before anyone has time to read it. That’s not how any family or business operates. In the real world, you make plans, meet deadlines and live within your means because failing to do those things means failing to survive and prosper. Congress should be treated no differently.
And just like that the spending fairy waved her magic wand, and the nation was saved.
And they all lived happily ever after. The end.
Ladies and gentlemen our next panic.
‘Gas Station Heroin’ Is Causing Intense Withdrawals. It’s Legal in Most States.
Never heard of it. No idea on efficacy for pain, if it does bind to opioid receptors or if it is addictive. But the important part is that we know what Chuck Schumer will be discussing on the Sunday morning talk shows.
I’ve heard that the atypical stuff like tramadol and even that kratom goop is just as awful to withdraw from as any more common opiate. I feel fortunate to have little affinity for this type of substance.
Hear, hear. Opiates make me throw up.
“Can you trust these folks that are really looking to make money and only do that? Do they have the same safety practices that pharmaceutical companies would or the same degree of oversight from the FDA?”
I don’t even know what to say to this, except, wrong?
“He said he plans to move back to Alabama, where tianeptine is banned. Despite the difficulty of his withdrawal, he said he celebrated his 10-day detox by taking 12 pills. But he doesn’t believe it will override the detox. ”
That’s hilarious.
I saved up for a ‘mommy makeover’ — but was left with nightmare amputations
The Mexican surgeon may have been board certified, but was the nurse?
The SEC is a regulatory agency, not a law enforcement one. They can accuse him of something, but “charge?” That needs to be done by a different department, no?
The SEC has an enforcement division which handles prosecution of civil suits. The division also investigates violations of securities law, which I assume is turned over to a US Attorney for criminal charges. Note the article you linked mentions a US Attorney handling an indictment.
Press secty IdiotChild delivers scathing rebuke
The White House on Monday condemned social media attacks against Anthony Fauci days after Twitter owner Elon Musk posted a tweet mocking the infectious diseases expert.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, asked about Musk’s tweets criticizing Fauci, called them “personal attacks” that are “incredibly dangerous.”
“They are disgusting, and they are divorced from reality, and we will continue to call that out and be very clear about that,” Jean-Pierre said, noting Fauci has served under seven presidents, both Republicans and Democrats.
“We are fortunate that he has devoted his career and his life and his exceptional talent to America’s public health, and that’s what should be discussed right now,” she continued. “That’s what we should be thankful to him about, and, again, these are incredibly dangerous and should be called out.”
OMG how can anyone question America’s Foremost Authority?
That’s crazy.
How is she so bad at her job?
Strawberry had no soul, but I had to admit she was good at lying and seeming smart.
This girl looks lost.
I think I heard the writer gagging on Fauci’s balls.
None of the selection criteria included “Is able to perform the duties of a press secretary”, so the candidate they got was not suited to the role.
Is that a defense of Fauci or J Edgar?
Ode to the Deep State
In a mere five words, Elon Musk, emerging darling of right-wing extremism and CEO of Twitter, managed to contain two hallmarks of the fascistic state when he tweeted Sunday: “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.”
The main offenses: criminalizing lifelong public servants whose political views deviate from those in power and scapegoating minority communities.
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To the first hallmark, it is absolutely crucial to democratic governance that the civil service be depoliticized. While the balance of power will shift between political parties at federal and local levels, the civil service is what keeps government functioning and preserves democratic ideals. The danger of targeting civil servants was brought into sharp relief in 2020, when then-President Donald Trump issued an executive order at the end of his term allowing federal agency heads to fire civil servants tasked with devising policy, removing long-standing employment protections that prevented civil servants from being fired for having incongruent political views with those in charge. This is what Musk was calling for, taking things a step further by suggesting we criminalize such civil servants.
Troy Cribb of legal forum Just Security has explained why moves like Trump’s executive order — and by extension, Musk’s suggestion — are so dangerous. “Now more than ever, our government needs experts with long-term institutional memory who serve to protect our national security, enforce our laws and preserve our health, safety and economic well-being. This order does just the opposite,” Cribb wrote. “It puts government on a constant learning curve, disrupts critical operations, and potentially sabotages future civil service reform. Despite claims to the contrary, the new order makes government less effective and less efficient.”
Fuck democracy. Rule by powerful and untouchable bureaucrats is where it’s at.
There is no such thing as Peak Derp.
Psst… nobody tell MSBNBDNC what “fascism” really is.
They hate it so much – maybe it’s worth a try?
2022: a hallmark of the fascistic state = criticizing the vast Fed bureaucracy
🤡🌎
And in this delusional take, it’s a private-sector business owner who somehow represents the state.