Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another beautiful day and the links!
Jacinda Ardern resigns as New Zealand’s prime minister ahead of election
Holiday sales fall short of expectations, set stage for tougher 2023 for retailers
Microsoft, Amazon and other tech companies have laid off more than 60,000 employees in the last year
CNN Finally Reports on Biden Family Corruption, and Everyone Should Be Asking Why
Biden’s army of IRS auditors falls victim to hiring woes, ambiguous marching orders
California: 10.8 Million Mail-In Ballots ‘Unaccounted For’ in 2022 Elections
Tesla that Caused in 8-Car San Francisco Pileup Had Elon Musk’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Activated
It’s bad luck to be the world’s oldest person, they’re always dying
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos
Mornin’
“Jacinda Ardern resigns as New Zealand’s prime minister ahead of election”
Bye, bitch.
Sociopaths like her always find another gig where they can fuck up people’s lives.
Five bucks says she’s headed to a global NGO
She is going to be a Schwabbette.
The damage she did is probably irreversible – at least peacefully.
But New Zealand did the best with covid!?
I survived my brief time as the world’s youngest person.
I’m working my way up on the Oldest list, got a ways to go.
Jacinda Ardern resigns as New Zealand’s prime minister ahead of election
Tyranny is exhausting. Almost as much as football.
Don’t worry Pie, there’s only seven more football games this season.
real football not lame rugby
the inspiration was
“Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity anyone can engage in… next to soccer.” -Loki, from the movie Dogma
but I changed a word or two
I mean that doesn’t suck, but it also means the state can more easily hire people…
This, I can’t get excited when:
Jacinda Ardern resigns as New Zealand’s prime minister ahead of election
She deserves the torch and pitchfork treatment.
She deserves the Joan of Arc treatment.
With 25,000 Mysterious Votes And Missing Documents, Maricopa’s 2022 Election Process Marked By Chaos And Uncertainty
What difference, at this point, does it make. Elections were the best ever.
NO EVIDENCE OF CHEATING!!!!!!11!!
“We didn’t look for evidence and didn’t find any!”
It’s not even this cheating that bothers me and makes me think the game is rigged. I assume ballot shenanigans have been going on since the very first election.l in human history.
It’s the other parts of the fortification that get me the most. The Twitter Files should be enough for lots and lots of woodchippers to be fired up, and it’s basically crickets. And you know that all the bullshit they pulled at Twitter was pulled everywhere.
In the span of 5 years our government and media have turned America from a high trust to a low trust society. No source can be believed, and they’ve shit all over the idea of “authority.” In 2019 I’d want an epidemiologists opinion on disease. Now every single one of those motherfuckers can eat shit. Government and TMITE have conspired to destroy the strongest economy in history, destroy cities under the guise of mostly peaceful protests, and sew widespread distrust seemingly overnight, and not one head will roll. No one will be jailed, and they’ll never see justice. And all of it was done because Orangemanbad.
Fuck every one of those assholes with a rusty chainsaw.
OMB was the symptom, not the cause.
Eh, America was never a high trust country. At its best it was medium trust and that had been falling for years.
In the span of 5 years
It’s been going on for 247 years.
“While part of the argument Lake’s attorneys used in their lawsuit seeking to challenge Arizona’s gubernatorial election was that Maricopa County violated its own Election Procedural Manual by failing to implement chain-of-custody documentation, Arizona Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson rejected the claim due to the county’s assertion that such chain-of-custody documents exist, even though it failed to produce them. At the time of the trial, Maricopa County hadn’t fulfilled a public records request for the documents.”
WTF??
“Your Honor, we have evidence proving my client’s innocence. However, we cannot produce it.”
“Okey dokey, not guilty.”
LA LA LA
*plugs ears*
Prosecutor: Your honor, we have evidence of the defendant’s guilt.
Judge: I will take your word for it. I find the defendant guilty on all charges.
“Trust us.”
It’s like the opposite of the Alex Jones trial.
CNN Finally Reports on Biden Family Corruption, and Everyone Should Be Asking Why
at this point I really doubt it’s enough to get Joe out the door. it really is a travesty but as long as it serves the looters it persists. there are probably ambitious factions in the uniparty machine that are unsatisfied enough to start the attack, but the replacement they have in mind is surely not much different for us. how depressing.
right now it feels quiet, quiet like we’re waiting for the event but not sure what that is.
I don’t think they aim to replace Joe, just stop his idea of running in 2024.
My thought is prosecute Biden, that way they can say it’s completely fair that they prosecute Trump the same way. Anyone standing in the way of that is for tyranny!
I’m kind of ok with that. But I’d prefer they prosecute them for the actual, no-shit crimes they committed.
I think we should go scorched earth on all these motherfuckers. I don’t care which side of the aisle whatsoever.
Prosecute Biden (and Trump) for what?
“right now it feels quiet, quiet like we’re waiting for the event but not sure what that is”
Wagon train in a circle
Settler #1 “Sure is quiet out there”
Settler #2 “Sure is, too quiet”
A hoot of an owl, a howl of a wolf, and all hell break loose.
“A continued challenge the IRS faces is having to evaluate a high number of applicants in order to find successful candidates both willing to accept the job offer and also be able to pass the required background checks,” the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said.
Qualified applicants don’t just fall out of the sky?
Sadly, no…
And Indeed ain’t cheap.
No shit. I won’t use them anymore.
Who you using then?
An industry association service
We only want people dedicated to the mission of persecuting enemies of the party.
Nor do they walk up, bite you on the bottom and say “We’re here!”.
The asshole side of me wants to apply so I can waste their time and my money. The sane side of me doesn’t have time for that foolishness.
My experience with the IRS says none of their employees are qualified to work there.
I met one guy at a conference that audits the 5500’s and seemed to know his stuff, but the others I’ve met were…less impressive. They struck me as the same people that work at the DMV.
My brother works there… he would agree, himself included lol.
California: 10.8 Million Mail-In Ballots ‘Unaccounted For’ in 2022 Elections
that’s over 25% of the population. how can that be right?
They’re including ballots that were simply never mailed back (i.e. people who couldn’t be arsed to vote). Given in-person election participation numbers, I find that story pretty underwhelming — and I’m very much not a fan of mass mail-in voting.
I guarantee you I received a 2020 and 2022 ballot at my old Sacramento address. The previous resident did too.
Yeah, not sure what I’m supposed to be upset about here. It’s like a grocery store reporting that most of the coupons they mailed out to the public weren’t redeemed.
It means anyone looking to stuff ballot boxes has millions and millions of ballots to work with. It’s the second essential step in that particular kind of election fraud. The first being, having voter rolls with lots of dead or otherwise departed voters – remember, there is software that is used specifically to identify registered but ineligible voters. Or, you can just have the junk mail ballots diverted in bulk before they are delivered.
Unlike with voting at polling places, where each ballot is tracked from being taken from the box of blank ballots (or printed) right through to going into the supposedly controlled system for completed ballots, junk mail voting eliminates an essential control on election integrity – how many ballots were actually cast by eligible voters. Without junk mail balloting, the kind of shenanigans we just saw in Maricopa County (which involved drop boxes for junk mail ballots) are much more difficult.
But wouldn’t “mailed but not returned” be a legitimate accounting for the ballot? Surely they know who they sent ballots to and which ones returned, right? That has to be true for these to be the cleanest elections ever…
They know who they sent ballots to (theoretically). They don’t know who actually picked up those ballots or who voted them. Unlike in a polling place. And as Maricopa has shown, you can “reintroduce” ballots into the vote counting system in bulk with ridiculous ease, once you get your hands on them. There is simply no effective way to confirm who voted a junk mail ballot.
So do the Republicans go with the flow and learn the Dems tricks and techniques and apply those themselves, or do they propose to do away with mail-in and offer a voting holiday (while still allowing the old absentee ballot regime)?
I think we all know the answer is that they do neither and keep getting STEVE SMITHED every election.
I expect that Team Red will be ballot harvesting like crazy in 2024. Or they would if they were smart. Which they aren’t.
The tech industry has seen a string of layoffs in the face of uncertain economic conditions.
Microsoft and Amazon both announced fresh rounds of layoffs on Wednesday.
Layoffs come as digital advertisers are cutting back on spending and rising inflation curbs consumer spending.
I’m sure this is fine.
I’m sure the IC will keep their core competencies funded.
GovCloud is a guaranteed income stream for years.
Someone is underestimating Team Blue’s ability to fortify an election.
They still need enough legit votes to make the fortification at least a little plausible.
The last election in AZ proved that number to be pretty low.
Yep. Democrats would vote for a shit-covered rock.
CNN Finally Reports on Biden Family Corruption, and Everyone Should Be Asking Why
He has served his usefulness to the deep state regime. Now he has to go.
How a personal trainer’s smart watch caused 15 armed police officers to turn up to his Sydney gym while he was teaching a client
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11647233/Personal-trainer-reveals-reason-Apple-Watch-caused-15-cops-Sydney-gym.html
About 15 police officers turned up at Sydney Muay Thai gym
He’d taken off the watch but Siri was still active and had then heard him yelling out ‘one, one, two’ as he coached his client through punching combinations.
Finally, when the call went through the dispatcher, they had heard the sound of the punches slamming on the pads followed by him saying ‘good shot’ and assumed it was gunshots – with Siri automatically sending the location.
It wouldn’t happen in the UK
Aussies don’t have guns
But they still have those assault knives, right?
Aussies have guns.
Dispatcher dumb.
She deserves the
torch and pitchforkMussolini treatment.All of those tyrannical assholes should be hanging upside down from lampposts.
The Saint Paul treatment? (Peter? I’m a heathen)
With 25,000 Mysterious Votes And Missing Documents, Maricopa’s 2022 Election Process Marked By Chaos And Uncertainty
Any ballot without a concrete chain of custody should be void. But there is no election fraud, or so I am told.
I think the current narrative is there’s not enough fraud to change the outcome.
Just ignore that the unverifiable excess ballots exceed the “winner’s” margin.
You are clearly an “election denier”.
Stealing a Snickers bar from Walmart isn’t enough theft to make Walmart go out of business.
Henceforth, all ballots will be burned immediately after they are counted. This will reduce confusion and frivolous disputes.
Just offer your filled out ballot to the priest, they will burn it on the altar, and the divine will let them know who you voted for. The ultimate in secret ballots.
President Biden’s vision for a supercharged IRS is running into the rough realities of hiring problems and difficulties in figuring out who should face more audits.
Audit yourself, fuckwads.
tax evasion is treason.
figuring out who should face more audits
Oh please, we already know they are going after small businesses and people in the gig economy.
Well yeah, auditing guys like Trump is hard because his accountants are smarter than the best auditors at the IRS.
Subscribe to my Onlyfans to see the full video of me getting fucked by the IRS.
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Iranian man who beheaded 17-year-old wife jailed for eight years
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64319487
“Images of Sajjad Heydari carrying Mona’s severed head in Ahvaz after the so-called “honour killing” last year caused widespread outrage.
A judiciary spokesman said the leniency of the sentence was due to Mona’s parents having “pardoned” him for the murder rather than seeking retribution.
Her father previously said that he had not given his consent for the killing.
Mona had been married to her husband since the age of 12 and had given birth to their son when she was only 14.
Local media reported that she had fled to Turkey after allegedly being subjected to domestic violence by her husband, who had refused her requests for a divorce.”
At least Iran is not opressive like the west // blue haired feminist
All cultures are equal / the US / CIA is to blame // boilerplate leftist
For Christ sake, why take the chance?
Considering her family pardoned the husband to reduce his sentence it sounds like they basically lied to her then set her up to be murdered to save their own honor. Pure evil.
Similarly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alireza_Akbari
Mail voting practices have an insurmountable information gap. The public cannot know how many ballots were disregarded, delivered to wrong mailboxes, or even withheld from the proper recipient by someone at the same address.
So you are saying that the elections are the safest and securest evar.
Yeah, I think the point is that there is no chain of custody at all for millions of votes, which opens the door for various shenanigans.
The Chess World’s New Villain: A Cat Named Mittens
“But the pussy we use… would not excite you.”
The whole time I read that article I kept thinking of Mitt Romney.
“But the Senator we use…. would really, really not excite you”?
Or are you just into spineless weasels and are trying to come out of the closet on it, Sensei?
Mostly because I truly despised Mittens and thought it the perfect nickname.
RomneyCare begat ObamaCare.
Team Blue won’t acknowledge it and Team Red wants to pretend that it had no hand in helping the camel get its nose in the tent.
Won’t acknowledge it?!? They brought it up every time you dare to criticize the Blessed Care of the Redeemer. “But it was a Republican plan originally, so how can you be against it?”
We must have been reading very different news articles.
So it’s not actually a cat. Talk about click bait.
“American fashion designer mom who lived in China for 16 years says she MISSES how Communist government ‘co-parented’ her children – dictating even what they should eat – and wants U.S. to learn from its example”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11652131/American-mother-lived-China-16-years-says-misses-Communist-government-parent.html
CWAC
Some people want to be slaves.
See NZ above.
The kids were going to eat rice, if they were lucky. Easy decision
How odd.
and wants U.S. to learn from its example
Can we deport this cunte?
I think it should be acceptable. Yeah.
“Tesla that Caused in 8-Car San Francisco Pileup Had Elon Musk’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Activated”
Or “Driver Causes 8-Car Pileup After Not Maintaining Control of Their Vehicle”
We (Mrs. McGinty) bought a model 3 almost three years ago and I dare say it’s the best car I’ve ever owned or driven (aside from that one time in a Ferrari). I know there are some other Tesla owners on here and I will write an article on my experience with the car so far, maybe they can as well.
I love mine as a second car.
Really?
I have heard that they were pretty shoddily assembled because they tried to ramp up production too fast.
I, for one, would be interested in reading your article.
Very early units quality was very uneven.
Later units are generally quite good. The way Tesla operates you want to avoid 6 months or so of any major change in the manufacturing process.
Paint quality is still not great IMHO, but for my example body and interior fit is fine.
Full Disclosure – Vehicle prior to Tesla was 2007 Jeep JK Wrangler. OMG…
Obvious typos in “serious” publications already bother me, but this is the fucking headline.
I’m still on the hybrid bandwagon. I’ve had no problems with the drive train of either of the hybrid cars we own.
I completely get why an auto driving car could cause a pileup. In certain circumstances, the emergency auto-brake on our van has freaked out and slammed on the brakes at highway speed. IIRC, that system is now mandatory in all new cars.
If I could find the fuse, I’d pull it. It has nearly caused a dozen accidents and hasn’t prevented a single one.
Same experience with the emergency auto-brake.
We have deer everywhere and sometimes they jump out too fast for a driver to react in time. I’ve wondered if the auto-brake could sense a deer in time. Even a fractional second of braking might be enough time for the deer to continue it’s leap across the road.
Sorry to say it, but what really gives deer time is to slow the fuck down. Not always an option (as on an interstate say), but we all tend to drive faster than we need to.
You can turn that off on our 2022 Toyota. Which I have. Along with the “lane assist”.
IIRC, that system is now mandatory in all new cars.
I think it is still optional on the Charger/Challengers.
It can be turned off on my Mustang. It’s the first thing I do when I start up the Mustang.
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“CNN Finally Reports on Biden Family Corruption, and Everyone Should Be Asking Why”
This + drip, drip, drip classified documents scandal = they’re pulling the plug on him. Let the record show that I proposed that theory a full 36 hours before Joe Rogan did!
Further: I think they have to let Kammie have her turn. As horrible as she is, she checks off too many DIE boxes to give her the heave-ho.
Watching her campaign next year will be cringe inducing – and fodder for many a Sugar Free episode.
I still think this is just to kneecap Joe so he can’t run in 2024. There won’t be any prosecution or removal, and they don’t want to be stuck with Kammie for 2024.
Either way I’m sure they have someone in mind for 24 and it ain’t Kammie. It’s gotta be Governor Oilslick.
Him, or someone like Warren. She excites the proggie base but is embedded in the deep state more than someone like Sanders.
Agreed that the main purpose is to embarrass him so that he doesn’t run again; actually getting rid of him would be too messy. That said: how do they keep Cackles from running? They’d have to offer her something pretty damn enticing to satiate her thirst for power and narcissism.
Just let her campaign. That seemed a very effective way to keep her off the top of the ticket 4 years ago.
loltrue
That’s what I keep running into. I cannot imagine anything they can offer her that is better than either being President or being first in line to be President.
And, no, she will not be nominated to SCOTUS. She is completely unconfirmable, even by a lapdog Democrat Senate.
The ONLY reason we don’t have Justice Garland right now is because of Mitch McConnell [spit].
McConnell has, for whatever reason, been pretty effective when it comes to packing the courts. He seems to be motivated and actually looks for justices with conservative principles.
If someone like George The Lesser were still making those picks the last few years, conservatives would not have had the victories they have on gun rights or abortion.
She absolutely would cruise to confirmation. She checks DIE boxes and will do what she’s told.
She is so genuinely stupid and transparently insincere and grasping that I just don’t think she would survive the hearings. You may be right, though. Her DIE cried only goes so far, as shown by the speed with which she was shown the door during the primaries. She only got the VP because that was the price of getting some black power broker’s nod in an early primary Gropey Joe had to win.
Jim Clyburn waves.
I think they have to let Kammie have her turn.
God help us.
how do they keep Cackles from running?
Her performance in the last Dem primary?
They don’t have to stop her – she can do that all herself.
In the last week, Joe Biden repeated lies about supposedly meeting Nelson Mandela in jail, getting arrested during the civil rights movement of the 60’s, and attending black church as a youth. There are a whole litany of lies he tells about his background on the regular that no one in the media calls him out for.
But George Santos? That son-of-a-bitch has to go.
Dick Blumenthal says hi.
And let’s not even consider the lies told by Hillary, Schiff, Blumenthal, etc. etc. This is nothing more than a cynical attempt to reduce the R’s majority in the House.
He got my cat pregnant.
He turned me into a newt. . . I got better.
Stop making fun of Biden’s stutter!
Joe Biden is not factually correct, but he is morally correct
The thing with Biden is he has been called out for all of those lies before, his team or he himself have admitted they aren’t true, and then he just goes and repeats them after enough time has past.
He either doesn’t remember that he was called out for it or he doesn’t care. And if the latter, why would he? No one really pushes him on it. He takes no real heat.
He’s correct about the deer though. They aren’t actually wearing Kevlar
True, its Zylon
But the deer have MG-42’s.
The executive order is effective immediately and will also review the 8% of jobs with a college-degree requirement “to determine which job classifications are appropriate to include practical experience, in lieu of, or in addition to, a four-year college degree requirement.”
The change represents a significant shift in Pennsylvania. Public-sector jobs tend to require college degrees at higher rates than private-sector jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“Occupations typically requiring postsecondary education for entry made up 63.5% of state government employment and 61.1% of local government employment, compared with 35% of private sector employment,” the BLS noted.
Pennsylvania isn’t the first state to remove its college-degree requirement for state jobs. In 2022, Maryland and Utah also revoked their credential demands for public jobs.
That’s fine for snow plow drivers, but you can’t expect DMV clerks to fulfill their job duties without a top notch college education.
They won’t know they are supposed to treat people differently based on intersectional points without a college degree.
I will write an article on my experience with the car so far, maybe they can as well.
A long term review would be interesting.
I don’t even hate electric cars, particularly. I just don’t want one. Not enough overlap with what I need and want from a car.
I would consider if the price was reasonable. I’m not paying $20k+ extra for one.
Kind of same. For probably different reason. I drive very little maybe 2000 miles in a year. Tops. SO I just need a car that is sitting there with a full tank that I can sue when I need. Which is mostly in weekends.
All the “EVs have a lower TCO” analysis I’ve seen use high milage and gas prices. My current car uses less than 100 gallons per year. Gas prices would have to get really high to overcome the EV surcharge.
I don’t hate the cars, I hate the upcoming mandate to buy them. 2035 in Washington state, for example.
I’ve actually recommended them to some customers based on their needs. They make a great daily commuter, especially if you want a 2nd car for commuting to work and get preferred parking for electrics. It’s the idea that they work for everyone in every situation that is ridiculous.
Completely agree with that.
Coming soon to a STEVE SMITH theme park near you.
https://archive.ph/ufNws/d56c562a50f64dc0ec11d509089ecf4b234e694f.webp
There’s no way to make a Bigfoot slide work without perversion unless the slides are his arms?
This is how it starts.
It’s time for Atlas to pick up a new set of skills and get hands on.
they need to combine that with that tech where the robot can get energy from consuming human bodies
Palantir CEO tells tech workers who don’t like the company’s military deals, ‘Don’t work here’
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/palantir-ceo-hits-out-at-tech-workers-critical-of-its-government-work.html
they don;t want to work there but they have no choice because evil capitalism forces one to work in order to live.
For dragging Disney into the culture wars and wrecking Disney’s special privileges in FL you too can be handsomely rewarded. Who says the private sector is accountable compared to the public?
The Disney Executive Who Made $119,505 a Day
I don’t think this is the guy who dragged Disney in the culture war. It began way before his time. He was there 4 months.
“Mr. Morrell and others advocated an approach that kept Disney out of the political fray, opting not to weigh in on charged matters as his predecessor, Robert Iger, had. ” – it seems the opposite.
Who says the private sector is accountable – no one, about big corporations anyway. But this is also due to the state making these corps behemoths
I really loathe this dishonest cunte.
Joy Reid: “When they are banning so-called CRT, they are also banning books about the Holocaust”
The Diary of Trans Frank?
Frank Anne?
Trans Anne?
Dishonest cunte pays well. Always has.
Well, the left does seem to be trying to retcon every historical figure into being gay or trans.
THICC Thursday doesn’t have phthalate syndrome.
https://archive.ph/IPic4
The Biden classified docs… Since Joe seems to have no morals and an insatiable greed, I assumed that he was monetizing access to secrets. The documents at CCP funded Penn center are pretty obvious.
Here’s a theory on how the scheme works.
https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=29141
Disney also paid Mr. Morrell about $500,000 to move his family to Los Angeles from London and another $500,000 to move away when he lost the job. Then, after he left the company, Disney bought the $4.5 million southern California home that Mr. Morrell had purchased, according to Disney’s filing.
America’s best-run companies is on line 2…
Please rid us of these dishonest, fearmongering commie cuntes.
“Dear friends, scientifically this is not a climate crisis. We are now facing something deeper. Mass extinction, air pollution undermining ecosystem functions, really putting humanity’s future at risk. This is a planetary crisis,” said Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Director Johan Rockstrom.
“This is a safety crisis. But above all, it is also a justice crisis. Many areas of the world are uninhabitable. This uninhabitable zone is increasing. if we continue with our greenhouse gas emissions, then by 2070 as many as 3 billion people will live in uninhabitable zones,” added Joyeeta Gupta, professor of environment and development in the global south at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam.
“We’re taking colossal risks with the future of civilization on earth. We’re degrading life support systems that we all depend on. We’re actually pushing the entire Earth system to a point of destabilization. Pushing the Earth outside of the state that has supported civilization since we left the last ice age 10,000 years ago,” said Rockstrom.
For 40 years they’ve been telling us the world will end in 10 years.
many as 3 billion people will live in uninhabitable zones,
If people live there, it’s not uninhabitable.
And let’s not mention that these zones are not being polluted by the West, so any measures taken in the West would have no effect anyway even if the premise wasn’t bullshit.
They can move to Russia.
“Young, vulnerable persons were duped by the suspects with promises of lucrative jobs into having their organs removed”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/15/police-break-organ-trafficking-ring-after-missing-/
This sounds like a setup for one of those surprise porn auditions. Probably better than losing your kidney.
Pakistan.
Meh.
Needs a backroom. And a casting couch.
“Pennsylvania drops college degree mandate for state jobs”
I never complete the degree I started- distance learning was new, and the rigors of travelling for work, having a wife, and not enough self-discipline to do it after 10-14 hour days, ended my academic studies.
However, after over a decade in the environmental testing business, I started to notice just how clueless, stupid, and petty most of the EPA administrators were that were sent to watch us perform compliance tests. In a hope to change the system from the inside, I started looking to apply for those jobs but- a degree was required. Not a relevant degree, but any degree.
Id been lectured on the minutiae of 40 CFR, Part 60, Appendix A by music majors, psychologists, early child development specialists, and history majors.
None with even a hint of background in natural sciences relevant to the position they held.
There’s a reason some of the big firms were moving away from mandatory college degrees years ago.
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Cuck.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21069189/wifes-lover-dynamite-bedroom-dull/
He’s losing his mind: Al Gore is unhinged at WEF.
Or it is desperation for some reason.
He’s doing what he gets paid to do.
And by now he believes his own bullshit.
He’s desperate to keep the grift going.
Something about not reasoning a man out of something his livelihood depends upon…
Comedy club, right? The guy is hilarious. Get him a time slot against Colbert
My First to your mouth. My First…to your mouth.
Daily Star continues its penis-themed coverage.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/i-turned-down-10-inch-28995168
Pales in comparison to my First.
Those boots won’t lick themselves
Jacinda Ardern has resigned as prime minister of New Zealand and will be leaving office on 7 February.
World leadership has rarely seen anything like her. The dignity and integrity of her departure strikes a paradoxically powerful note, especially at a time when political transition in democracies from the United States to Brazil has been marred by violence and insurrection.
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She may have led New Zealand’s famous “wellbeing budgets” and praised kindness as a policy virtue but the ruthlessness required to ascend power anywhere was on rare display when a health minister from her own cabinet defied their government’s own pandemic restrictions during lockdown to go on a bicycle ride. Not only did Ardern publicly end his ministry, but kept him in representative purgatory, obliging him to do his job and complete immediate ministerial tasks before his fall from seniority.
The Harvard Political Review identified the rare leadership character of Ardern as “authentic, empathetic and bold”, and a powerful mash of political attributes once understood in gendered terms. “Throughout the 20th century, leaders rose to power by projecting traditionally masculine qualities like aggression and stubbornness to dominate their opposition,” it wrote, explaining the sexist paradigm Ardern deftly upended with wit. So powerful were the images of Ardern at home with partner and baby, talking through her own frustrations with harsh lockdown restrictions even though it was her own directive that enforced them, that many Australians chose to tune into them rather than the statements of our own national leadership.
Indeed, it’s not beyond possibility Ardern’s position in the Australian political imagination had an impact on our last election. First, she reaffirmed a traditional western Labour brand of pragmatic, unchaotic empathy that – despite the best efforts of her opposition – remained unscary and undemonisable. The clear example she exported of female capacity for bold and resolute leadership neutralised the hoary stereotypes that insisted female power was soft or weak. You can see her influence across Australia’s political spectrum – most deferentially, perhaps, in the ideologically unalike yet all-female Teals.
She is an inspiration to us all. Lady Macbeth in sheep’s clothing. She will be deeply missed.
The Harvard Political Review identified the rare leadership character of Ardern as “authentic, empathetic and bold”
I would have gone with “tyrannical, cuntey, and bitch.”
especially at a time when political transition in democracies from the United States to Brazil has been marred by violence and insurrection
Terms that no longer have meaning.
NPR ran a story by some guy claiming (((they))) are keeping him out of Harvard.
WTF has happened to the Democratic party that they’ve become so openly antisemitic?
You know you’re talking about the party of Jim Crow and the KKK, right?
Don’t forget Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Jimmy Carter, Tlaib, Omar, AOC…
FDR
Link?
Found it.
They’ve assured me that anyone that disagrees with them on anything is antisemetic.
Likewise I have been assured that increased attacks on Asians are because of white-supremacists, despite actual crime stats saying otherwise.
actual crime
statsvideos saying otherwiseI’m breaking my personal no Twitter link policy to bring you the most surprising statement by Kamala Harris ever: https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1615457017682079744?s=20&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
It’s always striking to me how the trained monkeys clap and laugh at the dumbest shit politicians do.
I don’t get it. But tbf Kamala is used to be on both knees, not just one.
I think they must have edited out the end: “I’m not doing that, again”.
Low blood pressure?
Try this!
The Bail Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. That means that it’s really being subsidized by taxpayers.
Fuck. Off.
The Bail Project is dumb, if not evil. That money would be much better used in hiring competent legal counsel. However, the idea that paying bail offered by the court is somehow causing these crimes is stupid. Bail should be denied if there is imminent threat of further criminal acts. Most of these issues are on the court.
I am rather opposed to the idea of cash bail. Or at least, cash bail has lost its purpose. In most cases bail is set, but it is so prohibitively high that normal people can’t actually pay for it on their own. They are out money regardless of whether they were convicted.
I’m not signing on to endorse the agenda of some proggie NPO, but bail was supposed to be collateral the average person can put up to ensure their compliance with the process if released while awaiting the resolution of their case. Now, it’s just a racket for bail bondsman.
Well, when a third party puts up bail, that takes away the financial incentive for the perp to stay clean and show up for court. So it’s not all on the court.
The Bro makes a good point. I’d say it’s his first, but I don’t want to encourage him.
It would be nice if third party putting up bail was somehow also putting up their own responsibility for ensuring the person’s compliance. But that’s not really even true already with bail bonds. Does anyone out up the full amount or is it just a fraction plus fees?
Bruschetta is quite underrated thanks to his schtick that rubs some the wrong way.
Many areas of the world are uninhabitable.
No shit, Shirley. But here’s the thing. Less of the planet is “uninhabitable” now than at any time in the past, thanks to innovation, human resilience and technology.
Stick that in your pipe and choke on it.
Did someone above mention the proposal in the House for a “Fair Tax” of 30% nationwide, allegedly abolishing the IRS, income tax, estate taxes, etc.
FairTax will die a quick death as it has in every GOP led congress for the last 20 years.
30% is way to high anyway.
They’ve always presented it as a revenue neutral alternative. There’s nothing magic about that 30%.
It’s 30% because you are also supposed to repeal all federal income taxes, payroll taxes (including Social Security and Medicare taxes), gift taxes, and estate taxes. It’s also only on new goods. It also eliminates most welfare programs with the rebate system* (yes, we can argue about guaranteed income).
*not sure if this was in what Republicans recently proposed.
They are determined to increase federal tax revenues above that 20% of GDP ceiling.
I thought it was 30% but a rebate on certain goods
I thought it was 26% but a prebate on poverty level taxes so all essentials are tax free. Spending above poverty level income for new goods comes out of the buyer’s pocket.
Jacinda has an intriguingly large mouth.
Some kind of horse fetish?
Good riddance Ahern. Though something tells me her replacement will be an even more authoritarian WEF stooge.
Interesting about CNN, but it’s not splashed on their main page yet.
I’m feeling a little encouraged about the IRS story. We know there are a lot of people who enjoy being assholes, but it seems the well deserved reputation of the IRS is still intact.
I agree with you about the college degrees. Mine got me in the door of my first job, and at that point forward everything was based on skills I learned on the job.
Our little shop decided to add subs to the menu. Mostly “build your own,” but a few standards. I proposed one with Black Forest ham, Muenster cheese, and whole grain mustard to be called Das Boot.
Not one fucking employee ever heard of that.
I was looking for an esoteric link when it was a bit of a blunt pun. I guess the joke snuck under the sonar.
You should learn to run silent run deep.
Well shit, I just realized that film was from 1981.
It’s NY. It’s a hero.
Funny thing is where I grew it up it was sub. Where I went to school it was a hoagie.
Thing I can’t get in metro NYC that I would cheerfully order is as roast beef on a weck!
As a lifelong resident of NY, I’ve never heard people call them Heroes. It’s always been Subs.
Must be a downstate thing. First heard it from people in Metro NYC and LI when I was in college.
It is a NYC thing and even then nobody under the age of 90 or so uses it.
It’s also an Ohio thing. Case in point, Mr. Hero is a local sandwich chain.
Dayton area chain is Submarine House. (I’d link to their site, but it’s freaking out Malwarebytes. 😳)
I truly lamented when BW-3’s got rid of the weck rolls. That was the beginning of their massive decline.
We are closer to Cleveland, Toronto, and Pittsburgh than to NYC.
Mrs. TOK worked at a little deli when I met her. Great sandwiches, and the owner had great names for them. One was “Moe, Larry, the Cheese”, one was “Three Stooges” (egg salad, tuna salad, and ham salad on three mini croissants). If he liked you he’d name a sandwich after you.
Unfortunately they did some road construction in front of the place, the road was torn up for more than a year, people couldn’t figure out how to get into the parking lot, sales dropped, and he had to close.
“Unfortunately they did some road construction in front of the place, the road was torn up for more than a year, people couldn’t figure out how to get into the parking lot, sales dropped, and he had to close.”
Government just picking winners and losers …
Username checks out.
Jacinda has an intriguingly large mouth.
Over/under on how many billiard balls?
It was a grinder where I grew up. Always preferred the messy ones with meatballs or sausage.
Forgot about the grinder. Usually only heard that with meatball or sausage however.
What about a Po Boy?
Here’s the thing about Grinders and Po Boys. They use the same bread, but have particular rules about what makes them one beyond the shape of the roll.
Poboys are on french bread, grinders are on italian bread.
You can immediately improve the Po Boy from that by putting it on bread that isn’t immediately stale when it comes out of the oven.
eggplant or chicken parm, pepper and egg
Sir! This is a family friendly website!
CNN never fails to never surprise.
Federal employees looking forward to free vacation time.
Or work without pay for us ‘expected’ employees
Federal employees don’t have to worry. They always get back pay when Congress finally funds their department.
True…but us that don’t get ‘sent home’ as non essential do get pissy about those who come back after two weeks of ny working and is not charged leave and get paid.
I already told my wife I’ll be gaming the system and will go on LWOP cause I’ll get the pay anyway. Though that is all a lie, I’m too honest to do that and will show up and do the work
Every American could feel the pain of Washington’s next showdown
They’ll make it as painful as possible, you can bet on that.
Those national parks aren’t going to lock themselves up!
Start putting up the barricades around the National Mall. Open fields are dangerous without park rangers. Be sure to post enough rangers to keep people from crossing the barricades.
/remembers yellow closed tape over exercise stations that were a board saying to do jumping jacks during the 2020 lockdowns
I recall when Obama closed the National WWII Monument
Theatrics
House Republicans’ installation of some of their most incendiary conservatives on the Oversight Committee is sparking an unexpected feeling inside the White House: unbridled glee.
The panel tasked with probing Biden policies and actions, as well as the president’s own family, will be stocked with some of the chamber’s biggest firebrands and die-hard Trumpists — including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) — ideal figureheads for a White House eager to deride the opposition party as unhinged.
No administration wants to feel the heat of congressional investigations, and Biden’s team is no different. But privately, the president’s aides sent texts to one another with digital high fives and likened their apparent luck to drawing an inside straight. One White House ally called it a “political gift.”
The jubilation was tempered, somewhat, by Democrats on the Hill who expressed more apprehension about the posting.
“The English language runs out of adjectives to describe the debasement, cynical debasement of the whole process these appointments represent,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a senior Oversight panel member, said in an interview. “And it is, I think, a huge black mark on Kevin McCarthy.”
Another longtime Oversight panel member, Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), warned that the GOP appointments were “frightening,” adding: “As someone who has been on this committee the entire time I’ve been in Congress, I am very concerned.”
Titillating terror. Bring on the pantomime dragons.
Rallying the troops.
They’re scared shitless inside because they know that the beltway GOP would just let them get away with murder.
The English language runs out of adjectives to describe the debasement, cynical debasement of the whole process these appointments represent
But enough about Dem sham investigations and other political shenanigans.
Titillating terror.
Boebert is titillating.
to deride the opposition party as unhinged
Nothing says moderate and reasonable like multi-trillion dollar spending packages passed without being read, a completely open border, and funding a proxy war that is inching us ever closer to nuclear armageddon.
And in no way will this change the cost of food…
New FDA rule aims to reduce illness, deaths from food
OMG. Poor KK
CALIBRI CRISIS: Biden State Department focuses on ‘accessible’ font choices amid world instability
Some other bad news for KK:
Running Flat — New Belgium’s Iconic Fat Tire Gets Full Makeover After Sales Tumble
“the packaging features references to “alternatively powered,” “high quality,” and “low impact.” The side of one can states “carbon neutral,” a callback to a 2020 announcement that the brand had become the first “nationally distributed beer to earn carbon neutral certification in the United States.”
Well, that moves New Belgium down to “only buy when the alternatives are Bud and Miller”. I prefer to buy beer from people who think the important thing is the beer.
New Belgium sold to Kirin a while back, but I bumped them down when they lobbied Congress to mandate certain green technologies for breweries (that coincidentally, they were already using).
WTF?
Serif fonts are easier to read in smaller sizes and paragraph form.
“[W]ith these members joining the Oversight Committee,” White House oversight spokesperson Ian Sams said in a statement, “it appears that House Republicans may be setting the stage for divorced-from-reality political stunts, instead of engaging in bipartisan work on behalf of the American people.”
A stunning departure from Congressional behavior in the recent past.
Now I want a meatball sub. I blame you people.
Nah, go fuck yourself.
Researchers Luciano Rodrigues Viana, Charles Marty, Jean-François Boucher and Pierre-Luc Dessureault wrote in an analysis published in The Conversation that pollution from preparing coffee was “just the tip of the iceberg.”
“Limiting your contribution to climate change requires an adapted diet, and coffee is no exception. Choosing a mode of coffee preparation that emits less GHGs (greenhouse gases) and moderating your consumption are part of the solution,” the researchers at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi wrote.
Curious how it always the proles that are supposed to reduce our standard of living and remove any luxury of life in the name of the church of climate change.
The study also found that using coffee pods to brew coffee contributed less to the carbon footprint than brewing coffee with a traditional filter.
This is how I know you are dishonest.
You can take my coffee from my caffeinated, dead hands.
Without reading the “study” I’m wondering if that includes carbon indulgences purchased by the pod manufacturers.
A biodegradable piece of thin paper vs. a plastic cup. Does not seem plausible.
Yeah. That’s bullshit. The pods are much worse then any filter.
They are arguing that traditional makers use more coffee grinds. But then there is this:
Even if it uses more grinds, paper (or reusable metal filters) don’t last as long as a plastic cup.
Study brought to you by The Keurig Foundation!
Fuck off, my filters are all composted into rich loamy soil and used to grow trees. They are negative carbon footprint if anything is.
I do use pods rather often, admittedly. But my filters are not even bleached. There is no way they are worse than pods.
We unfortunately use pods (hey dummy, how would like to spend up to $80 per pound of coffee?) because my wife is the only routine coffee drinker in the house. Doesn’t make sense to brew any more than one travel mug at a time.
Bread, water and maybe some bugs. A too cold or too hot damp dark hovel or pod to live in. No travel. Welcome back to serfdom.
Real serfdom at least had the Church offering eternal salvation; these fuckers are intent on creating eternal hell.
“You vil use ze powder of ze crickets to make your coffee.” – Kunte Schwab
Indeed, Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) offered no hint of worry about his members, telling POLITICO that he is “excited about” the roster. “I think it’s full of quality members, who are passionate about rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.”
Yet Greene and Gosar, booted by Democrats from previous committee assignments because of violent rhetoric aimed at colleagues, were also among the lawmakers most closely associated with Donald Trump’s challenges to the 2020 election. Both also spoke at a conference hosted by white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ America First PAC.
Another incoming Oversight panel member, House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry (R-Pa.), was a central figure in Trump’s push to contest his loss to Biden. Perry’s phone was seized by the FBI last year, and he refused to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee.
Tainted! Reeking with the stench of insurrectionism and outright treason.
white nationalist Nick Fuentes
That just makes me laugh every time I read it.
White ish?
Off white nationalist?
Does this mean Daisy Fuentes was also a white nationalist?
Have some “violent rhetoric”:
“I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
Chuck Schumer, March 2020.
And, no Vox (& other sites), context doesn’t improve it.
What’s behind Canada’s drastic new alcohol guidance
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64311705
“In Canada, it should be Dry January all year round, according to new national recommendations that say zero alcohol is the only risk-free approach.
If you must drink at all, two drinks maximum each week is deemed low-risk by the government-backed guidance.
The advice is a steep drop from the previous recommendation, published in 2011.
Those guidelines allowed a maximum of 10 drinks a week for women and 15 drinks for men.
The new report, funded by Health Canada, also suggested mandatory warning labels for all alcoholic beverages.
“The main message from this new guidance is that any amount of alcohol is not good for your health,” said Erin Hobin, a senior scientist with Public Health Ontario and a member of the expert panel that developed the guidelines. “And if you drink, less is better.”
The nearly 90-page report, from the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), details a variety of health risks associated with what was previously considered low alcohol consumption. ”
1. Fuck you nanny statist
2. I have not seen credible evidence that moderate drinking carries that much risk
3. There are 100 things that may have some health risk so fucking what.
4. I joust poured an Aberlour A’bunadh just for the fuck of it
There is some weird new push from the left on this issue.
Maybe they want to make another go at prohibition.
Why wouldn’t they – it’s entirely in their wheel house about determining what is best for everyone.
I’ve seen a bunch of ads by rethink the drink all of the sudden.
The Great Reset intends to remove every pleasure in life, for the plebs at least.
1. Get people depressed and alone.
2. Make them doubt their very existence.
3. Get them to sign up for MAID
4. Population reduction profit!!
It is said that Churchill said “I’ve gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me”… All this risk of moderate drinking ignores the benefit it brings people socially, psychologically, in term of pleasure and in not murdering motherfuckers in a fit of anger
A picture of human misery unabated by alcohol.
zero alcohol is the only risk-free approach.
You can have my beer/wine from my tipsy, dead hands.
two drinks maximum each week is deemed low-risk by the government-backed guidance.
Lmao. This is orders of magnitude stupider than “guidance” in the US. But, of course, we can trust things the gov’t says.
I would say that, at worst, the health effects, good or bad, of moderate drinking are up in the air. I don’t think you’ll ever account for all the confounding variables to reach anything approaching a scientific conclusion.
The burden of proof on this issue is on the ones who want to severely limit or ban alcohol. Amusingly, since they can’t show no harm from doing so, this means they fail the precautionary principle, which I am sure the proggy prohibitionists, being otherwise greenies, support. At least, when convenient.
Progressives going back to their prohibitionist roots?
Karo Swen – Pole Dance – ARTWORK 1 Tha Trickaz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCRP-5om_3Y
“Limiting your contribution to climate change requires an adapted diet, and coffee is no exception. Choosing a mode of coffee preparation that emits less GHGs (greenhouse gases) and moderating your consumption are part of the solution,” the researchers at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi wrote.
Piety demands sacrifice. The more ostentatious the sacrifice the better. Not to stoke your own ego; that would be improper. But you must be an example to your fellow man, and how can they know and follow if you keep it to yourself?
Yeah, I’m not seeing how this was a good move on Crowder’s part.
Not selling out is its own reward
From watching his video, the penalties for failing to meet performance metrics were large to the point of stress inducing, loss of control of his brand and community, required advertising endorsements, and subject to advertising and platform boycotts.
https://youtu.be/eTcq4UCTZ-Y
They seemed high until you see the full offer, it was about lost revenue that was not behind the Daily Wire paywall. So yeah, if he gets demonetized off platform he should bare some of the responsibility.
Why? No one, to include the tech platforms, actually knows what exactly the rules are. They’ve hit him with strikes in the past for things that was completely within the letter of the rules.
You don’t go to a guy who pushes the envelope of conservative content on big tech and then tell him if you cross their arbitrary rules with ever shifting goalposts, we’re going to fuck you over.
Please don’t fuck me over with a $12M a year offer.
What’s the money look like after some bullshit strike from Youtube? And with a contract like that, you don’t think there are people at Youtube or the other tech platforms who would look to fuck with him? It’s a risk he can’t take, especially when he probably has long term hopes of not even being on sites like Youtube.
They are making him beholden to the people he explicitly does not want to answer to. That’s the entire reason he started his Mug Club and affiliates himself with The Blaze and would even consider The Daily Wire as a host. He needs a guaranteed revenue stream because Youtube took it away from him and he wouldn’t be welcome on sites like Patreon.
The Daily Wire needs him more than he needs them at the end of the day.
Let’s repeat – he needs The Daily Wire precisely so he IS NOT subject to financial penalties from Youtube. Those clauses defeat the entire purpose of them even existing.
He’s already beholden to youtube and is assuming risk for his content. DW was going to share in that risk, and he threw a fit.
He is not financially beholden to Youtube. He is already demonetized.
Sigh, he doesn’t get adsense but he most certainly generates income through youtube.
He has very few advertisers at the moment. It’s great for him to be able to say that he has x subscribers who will see the very few promos he does, but that’s about it. He is getting nothing directly Youtube. His advertisers are a drop in the bucket to his subscribers and unlike most cons he is the one who typically cuts ties with his advertisers.
Your entire argument seems to be that it sounds like a lot of money which doesn’t cut it.
Even then, the money aint really all that great. If he brings in 300k subscribers within the first few months, he’s getting a pitifully small cut of that and Crowder is producing an entire show. He has dozens of staff members to pay.
Yea. They were looking to censor him, basically doing the bidding of big tech. They may just be more interested in the advertising dollars, but it’s moronic to go to Crowder who makes his living the way he does and tell him that if he gets merely a strike on Youtube they’re going to hit him with excessive fines.
He did the right thing, and he’ll be better off just doing his own thing. I hope he succeeds and I hope it gives a platform to likeminded individuals.
Why does he need Daily Wire? Can he not really build his own Daily Wire?
He’s probably going to do his own thing and his fight against BIG CON is going to be a marketing play.
Being a CEO and a content creator is very stressful. It’s almost impossible to do both. They are both full time jobs.
I don’t know how much Crowder can get on his own. Perhaps, it’s not such a great loss for him.
But there are other issues involved.
He probably can get more on his own. Employees are always paid less than what they are worth, how does a business generate a profit otherwise?
It generates a profit at least in part from the network effect of having a firm, and from taking a big slice of the risk of failure. Employees are worth what the employment market will bear, and narrowly/technically, they are worth exactly what they and their employer have mutually agreed their compensation will be.
You need to watch the video. Cernovich provides no context.
https://youtu.be/eTcq4UCTZ-Y
The money is there, sure, but the contract is a bunch of bullshit. It would make him unable to do his normal show.
It wasn’t even a contract, it was an offer sheet to negotiate.
Then the starting offer was insulting at best.
And I don’t think that particular technicality actually matters. It is what DW wanted to be the contract.
It is the most mind numbingly stupid thing to focus on.
Yes, truly shocking that the DW would try to get him for the least amount possible.
Cernovich provides no context.
NO WAY! Not Cerno!
He provided the entire Jeremy Boreing response video as context.
They would dictate topics and content.
Crowder has to decide on some combination of going behind a paywall and / or commercials and live-reads.
“Every Pennsylvanian should have the freedom to chart their own course and have a real opportunity to succeed,” Shapiro said. “They should get to decide what’s best for them – whether they want to go to college or straight into the workforce – not have that decided for them.”
That’s weird coming from Shapiro.
Drivers are reportedly warned on an in-car screen by Tesla when installing the feature that it “may do the wrong thing at the worst time.”
What could possibly go wrong?
It’s smart coming from Shapiro – he wants to make inroads for the party outside of the now-standard constituency (college educated women). Whether it really means anything is another story.
Your government at work.
The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off
Give them time it’s only been 18 months.
Software failure?
said the parts they need to replace the system
“Osborne said it’s difficult to say how much money it’s costing because during the pandemic and in its aftermath, energy costs have fluctuated wildly.”
You expect us to track bills?
Surely there’s a breaker they could switch? Unless they have foolishly put the lighting on the same circuit as other critical equipment and emergency lights.
There’s a reason that “industrial lighting” is a specialty requiring experience and education.
What are the odds that any of them even know what a breaker is? They probably contract in janitorial and maintenance, and their operations admin was probably cut in favor of another DIE activist.
Most likely the software won’t turn them back on if they kill the breaker
The lighting system was installed at Minnechaug Regional High School when it was built over a decade ago and was intended to save money and energy. But ever since the software that runs it failed on Aug. 24, 2021, the lights in the Springfield suburbs school have been on continuously, costing taxpayers a small fortune.
I, uh…
The government needlessly complicated something that is easy.
And I don’t think that particular technicality actually matters. It is what DW wanted to be the contract.
DW is responsible for the lights!
Missthread…
“i’m sorry, Dave, but I can’t let you turn the lights off.”
Good morning, Banjos!
And good morning to all of my weirdo friends!
You know who you are.
You are late and will be docked half an hours pay
Wow. Strict place!
I’m not your friend, guy.
I’m not your guy, buddy.
I’m not your buddy, pal.
Well my that’s unexpected. Welcome, but unexpected!
Baldwin will be fine, he has FU money. Hannah, if convicted, will not fair so well.
I guess they decided that it wasn’t going to just go away if they waited long enough. The entire investigation should have taken a week or two, call it another week or two for the grand jury, and bang – indictments a month after the killing. Any delay longer than that is not defensible.
Here’s a thought – if he’s convicted, won’t that mean he can never possess or handle a working firearm? Including props for movies?
I assume that depends on the state.
Is there some fed law I don’t know about?
Federal law outlaws purchase (caught on submission of 4473), state of CA exempts movie/TV production from all gun laws.
consent memes are getting weird
https://twitter.com/DanielPryorr/status/1616069741558353920
Wonder what happens when people tire of his spiel, when the novelty of the act turns into nostalgia. Fade away or does he ignite a bonfire of his vanities?
The Ego That Walks As a Man fade away?!
Surely you can’t be serious.
Can you imagine a worse fate for him? I see a conflagration of his vanities as far more likely, even with him holding the match.
His appeal was that he’s a Nationalist. He galvanized the “deplorables” the way the TeaBag Party didnt. Trump was on stage, in their TVs with “you’re fired” and they actually thought that was true when he got into DC. I believe that was his point, but people dont realize that career politicians, left and right, hate him.
He skated in and took their thunder.
Some of you don’t seem to realize the extent to which the violence of racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc. are tied to capitalist property relations.
https://twitter.com/leeleecocodrie/status/1615698028270161920
No, I don’t realize that. But I do recall that capitalist societies will allow you to set up a communist commune if you like, but a commie society will not allow you to set up a capitalist enterprise.
The Netherlands chief of the pro-Pyongyang Korean Friendship Association has split with the group after infighting.
Marcel van Stralen has since founded the DPRK Friendship Association as an independent organization and moved to Belarus.
https://twitter.com/nknewsorg/status/1615786098382225421
Keeping with tradition, nice.
Better than the Friendship Association of the DPRK
TROTSKYITES!
The guy on the right looks exactly like the guy on the right in my imagination before clicking the link would look like.
Obligatory: SPLITTER!!
From upthread Harvard backed off.
Paywall
Harvard Reverses Course on Human Rights Advocate Who Criticized Israel