Now I know I’m really back in academia. I’m doing a project to help promote the university and its technology and needed some resources from another department (in the form of about one square foot in their work area for three nights). So I talked to one of the professors I worked with there on another project and whose students use our lab routinely. The shitstorm that resulted from this request was epic- I have a 27 email long string that includes two deans, three department heads, and five professors all telling me that I completely did this wrong and I did not follow procedures (not that there actually are any). When I saw one of the other department’s profs out in the parking lot and asked her if she had a minute to talk, she stared icily at me and intoned, “All communication needs to go through the department chair.” And there’s going to be a faculty-wide meeting next week to discuss the absolutely inappropriate and unreasonable request from me. I guess what they say about academia (“It’s vicious because there’s so little at stake”) is true.
Also true: it’s an amazingly packed day for birthdays, so I’ll have to skip many that I’d usually comment on, but will not skip one of the most prescient, brilliant, influential, and not generally known scientists of the past few centuries; the older version of Mickey Rooney; a guy who cursed us with several more generations of imbeciles; my favorite Martian; Jethro’s dad; a guy whose fame was a dead end; a guy who thought he was Jack Kennedy; a guy who actually gave me some culinary training; a guy whose name wasn’t Shirley; the least interesting castaway; a guy who proved that pineapple =/= swinger; an actor who was actually an interesting human; frontman for one of my favorite prog bands; one of the dumbest people in the Senate, where there’s a lot of competition; someone you shouldn’t shake hands with; Animal’s favorite politician; a chick with famous nipples; and a guy who really walks the fine line between hilariously entertaining and stark raving nuts.
With that, we move (carefully!) on to Links.
This really should have been one of Riven’s links.
Balloongate was not on my 2023 checklist.
Local News: Strip and cavity searches of teenage girls is now officially a perk of the job. I may change careers.
More Local News: We’re Number One!
“How dare he? Jew-hate is the property of OUR party!”
Coincidentally, I used to play in a band called The Hallucinating Chatbots.
Old Guy Music features a birthday boy and it’s a fucking awesome song, as most of theirs were.
HAPPY ALEX JONES DAY!!
Are the freaking frogs gay yet?
*checks pants*
Nope, not yet.
I didn’t realize you were French.
ALIENZ!!!!!!!!11111!!!!1
And this is why I decided to avoid academia. Even as an undergrad lab assistant, I couldn’t stand the political bullshit.
Added to my list, along with K-12 public education, of “Roads I’m SO Glad Weren’t Taken.”
I may be woefully underemployed for the level of education I completed, but at least I don’t have to deal with as much life-sucking nonsense.
“You gotta go through channels”
/Often heard in an earlier career
Yeah. It’s the family trade, and I am sooooooo glad I dodged that bullet.
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that this was triggered by some combination of:
a. accessing labs at night, especially someone else’s lab, which is probably shared,
b. some other professor and/or dept head going “Hey! That is partly MY square foot!”
c. campus cops getting their panties in a wad over unauthorized nocturnal activities on campus, and
d. the general fact that academia has the world’s highest concentration of passive-aggressive assholes who say shit on email that they would not dare to say in person.
Also, re Gibbs: part of the reason he is not better known is that he was on the wrong side of the quaternion/vector divide for some time, and specifically because he made the mistake of saying something conciliatory to Heaviside, which would have been seen as blood in the water and an invitation to personal abuse. On the other hand, the main invited lecture at the American Mathematical Society’s annual meeting is the Gibbs Lecture, so he isn’t that obscure.
“Home to Alfred State College and Alfred University, Alfred is ranked No. 1 in a nationwide survey to determine the Ultimate College Town.”
congrats on your first
Doesn’t sound like a good place to live.
Depends on your priorities. Other than the inconvenience of multi-hour drives for dating, it’s ideal for me. Cheap, beautiful, hilly, close to wine country, and massively uncrowded.
“Alfred U’s purpose is to help its students identify and realize their purpose”
I dunno know, Man, I’m just looking for myself
Navin R. Johnson : Well, when I was a kid my mom told me THAT was my special purpose! And someday I’d find out what my special purpose was! Patty Bernstein : Today’s the day! [Whole trailer shaking as Patty “deflowers” Navin] Navin R. Johnson : Hey, this is like a ride!
“With this direct and heightened environment in mind, how will you work with other stakeholders to combat the rise of antisemitism on Twitter?” he (Mowskowitz) added.
Uhh, it’s Twitter. You write stupid shit, and trolls write stupid shit back. Either shut up and deal with it, or just shut up.
“Mowkositz, who is Jewish,”
Who could have guessed?
“In his letter Thursday, Moskowitz cited a statistic from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)”
There is a reliable source.
You can never be sure until you check the Early Life section.
https://twitter.com/RepMoskowitz/status/1623419329667600385
Comments are a bunch of groypers posting the same meme over and over again.
“And given Rowling’s transphobic statements and views in the past, people feel they are standing in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community by boycotting the game.?
The two gayest dudes I know have been raving about the game.
I’ve vaguely considered it a few times and trawled the Steam discussions… don’t like the part in the EULA about “We can monitor anything and everything from your PC as we see fit” — yeah, it is probably “We also put out online games and use the same EULA” crap, but I don’t like giving that permission if I can see it and avoid it. Plus, there’s a LOT of performance complaints / issues. Combined with not really having all that strong of an urge to play in the Potter-verse (I like the books okay, but I’m no raving fan), I probably won’t bother with it.
There hasn’t been a game released in probably at least 15 years that doesn’t monitor every other running executable on your machine to prevent, cheating, modding, or generally owning the game you bought.
I’m pretty sure https://store.steampowered.com/app/464880/Stars_in_Shadow/ doesn’t. 😉 Probably why I play it and the old Warlock: Master of the Arcane more than the rest of my library.
I play RPG and strategy games from vendors that support modding.
As we all should. Sadly, I only really play FPS games where anti-cheat is unavoidable. Maybe I’ll grow out of it when I hit 40.
$59.99 😮
That’s a no from me, dawg.
AAA titles were all in the 59 / 69 range already. With inflation, I’m expecting F1 2023 to come out at $89 or $99 and other titles to be in that range soon. And people will apparently pay it.
I had some FO money so purchased it. Performance issues look like they are in the default upscal8ng setting. Turned that off and runs fine. Enjoy the game play though weird playing as a 12 year old girl…maybe I’ll have to break my standard of playing female characters for this.
Weirdly, not every member of the LGBTQ+ community believes that their attraction to members of the same sex means they are, in fact, the opposite sex, and don’t really give a shit about the people who do.
” not every member of the LGBTQ+ community believes that their attraction to members of the same sex means they are, in fact, the opposite sex”
I don’t think anyone believes that.
I know you don’t, but I’ll take their word for it.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that.
Okay, I’ll say it. I’m a gay man who is glad to be a man, and who is only interested in other (masculine) genetic males.
BIGOT!
So?
I didn’t, and wouldn’t, claim there are no gay men who fantasize about, wish, or think they are women. I know a few mtf transsexuals, and one of personal heroes is (Wendy Carlos). But I refuse the blanket fallacy that some == all.
The personal [sexual] is political thanks to our leftist culture-setters. You are free to be exactly what we say you are.
Fair cop, that’s not the language the trans folx would use, but it’s a reductio ad absurdum of the logic of the activist class.
I couldn’t roll my eyes any further after that statement.
God damn… people are shit.
That’s because in reality, “LGBTQIA+” or other quiltbag acronyms doesn’t really include normal, average homos.
Ordinary Average Gay
At the rate we’re going, the trannies will have accomplished in the next 20-30 years what the dreaded religious right could never seem to pull off: the end of homosexuality. Any expression thereof is ipso facto proof that the poor soul is actually trans and will need immediate hormone therapy and surgery to become the correct sex for their orientation.
He likes dudes…quick, cut off his dick!
I so want to believe, that, but the gay people I interact with (yes anecdotal small subset in one of the most team blue areas of the country) are all in on the crazy, and believe anyone who doesn’t tow the line is a raging bigot. I have yet to see one group, or even sorta high profile individual speak out against the groomer allegations, and the LGBA;FLJ;TKLHE;ARWNAF;LVJ
movement gives more momentum to the arguments of the actual bigots every day.
It’s worse than that
“Anti-Hogwarts Legacy site tracking Twitch streamers playing closes down
A site that allowed users to track which Twitch streamers were playing Hogwarts Legacy on stream gave people a way to find out who was playing the game. However, less than 24 hours after the title’s release, the site has been closed.
This website was used as a way for boycotters to track which streamers were playing the game on their channel, so they could unfollow them.”
https://www.dexerto.com/hogwarts-legacy/anti-hogwarts-legacy-site-tracking-twitch-streamers-playing-closes-down-2054960/
Yeah, that’s what it used for. Definitely not to doxx and harass them.
What’s the point of having a little fiefdom if any schmo off the street can just speak to your serfs without permission?
Tenure – even better than fealty to the suzerain for promoting being an asshole for no reason.
I guess that tells us your answer to THAT eternal question.
They were obviously both way too old for him anyway.
Selecting Ginger over Mary Ann should be grounds for involuntary commitment.
Maybe it was a small car…
Or someone was a little off from 2015 again, yeah… run for it Marty!
Our next president will be a chat bot?
Let’s try it out in the press secretary position first. It’s bound to be an improvement.
Kelly’s Heroes, in the mine field:
Crapgame: Hey, I found one!
Big Joe: What kind is it?
Crapgame: The kind that blows up!
“Now woke biologists claim systemic racism is driving ANIMALS out of deprived areas as they ditching poor ethnic neighborhoods in favor of wealthier white districts
The findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11738875/Now-systemic-racism-driving-ANIMALS-deprived-urban-areas-creatures-ditch-poor-areas.html
SCIENCE!!!!!!
The poor will be just fine without raccoons, possums, coyotes, and rats I’d think.
Cuts down on the protein available for the gumbo, though.
Yeah… I live in the city because I don’t want to be surrounded by “wildlife”.
The city, town, village has way too much wildlife for me.
“The cattle are lowing, the coyotes are howling” are the sounds that cause sugar plums to dance in my head
They identified the effect, but just made up the cause.
FTA:The authors explain that various factors, such as densely populated areas, the presence of roads and railways, nighttime lights, and increased human land use, may contribute to the lower diversity of wildlife in non-white neighborhoods.
And these are due to racism? Citation needed.
You know who else built roads and railways?
Not the irish
“All communication needs to go through the department chair.”
By speaking to you directly, didn’t she just break that rule?
“You did not recognize your error — another error! You are imperfect!”
Knew before I clicked…
“This kind of artificial intelligence we’re talking about right now can sometimes lead to something we call hallucination,” Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at Google and head of Google Search, told Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
Bizarre delusions about personal autonomy and self-ownership?
Hey, that sounds like my diagnosis!
Too Local News: Conflict of Interest? We laugh at your petty bourgeois concerns!
A quid something…
she stared icily at me and intoned, “All communication needs to go through the department chair.”
No more NPR Ladies for you. You’ll have to seek companionship down at the farm implement dealer, or the truck stop.
So his van will have to both track her and trail her?
Date tonight is with the gerontologist I met last week. So far, she hasn’t mentioned NPR. Fingers crossed.
The girls at the farm implement store are very nice, but the missing teeth and extra toes are a bit offputting.
I don’t know, remembering the Girls of FFA and 4H. They knew some things that retread city boys still had to learn
‘Orning ‘Ordles… who ordered February to instead be a month of “Meh” anyway?
Daily Duotrigordle #346
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 06:44.74
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Bleh
OFFS. Who knew there were so many words ending in those 4 letters.
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Yeah, I burned a guess expressly using as many letters as I could think of that could be the other letter once I realized I was looking at that.
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An inglorious return to quordle.
Haven’t done it in a while, but:
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Bucketful of meh.
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What stupid collection of words that was.
Three of them ended in vowels, which is inconsistent with typical English
“NY park ranger loses job, denied law enforcement positions over text to wife about medical pot: lawsuit
Aponte says he was unfairly forced out of his job as an Islip park ranger — which he held for less than a year — and denied jobs as an NYPD cop and a state trooper simply because of his association with his mother-in-law, who had a medical marijuana license, according to a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit from Thursday.”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/10/ny-park-ranger-loses-job-denied-law-enforcement-positions-over-pot-text/
There has to be more to this story?
“The investigator went through Aponte’s text messages and found one of him telling his wife Maria Aponte not to smoke too much weed with her mother, Maria Marro.”
“Aponte said he handed his phone over thinking, “I have nothing to hide.”
Dude! You gave them your phone?
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was more to the story certainly. Then again, I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t, there are some seriously uptight douchebags out there.
Teds’S:
I had to look up that movie, and was thinking “why there’s no Ilse or Marta in this”….then I saw the dog’s name.
Prolly wont go over well.
Remember that idiot truck driver I posted about the other day?
It turns out the idiot was blindly following his GPS:
https://youtu.be/DOW_kPzY_JY
I was hoping that was the clip it was going to be.
“Students protest after New Hampshire school district bans urinals”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/10/students-protest-after-new-hampshire-school-district-bans-urinals/
What an idiotic mess.
No need to get all pissy.
Gotta take a stand for something!
I identify as someone with an urge to piss in the sink.
Who had “America falls to its knees during the Bathroom Wars” on their 21st century bingo card?
I can’t even make head or tails out of what’s going on that article, it’s all so goddamn tedious.
It sounds like basically a trans kid wanted to use the bathroom/locker room that matches their feelings instead of their naughty bits, the school board was happy to accommodate that because it’s 2023 so of course they are, but other parents objected, so they decided to compromise by making everybody change in the bathroom stalls, only the boys lavatories had few stalls and lots of urinals, so logic dictated that urinals be banned. Really, it was the only sensible solution.
Yep.
I’m surprised the school didn’t tell the kid to piss off. Milford is a heavily Republican town.
This really is some late-empire decadence shit.
I’d better start learning Mandarin…
Mandarin is sooo 20th. Urdu, that is where the action is.
Is that not what was happening under the old system where you use the bathroom that corresponds to your genitalia?
“You keep trying to make it simple and my life IS COMPLEX – why are you DENYING ME?”
And note that it’s not good enough to have private stalls. She must be validated in a bathroom with a urinal (!) where she can pretend to be just one of the boys.
I eagerly await the statement from the local triangle organizations talking about how this isn’t part of their agenda and how a few individuals are giving the rest a bad name.
Alphabet, which is still conducting user testing on Bard, has not yet indicated when the app could go public.
“We obviously feel the urgency, but we also feel the great responsibility,” Raghavan said. “We certainly don’t want to mislead the public.”
*guffaws, slaps knee*
Mornin’, reprobates.
Lovely time you are having with your “colleagues”, OMWC. I find it amusing that the cohort who preach diversity, inclusion, and kumbayya invariably turn out to be complete assholes in their personal encounters with actual human beings.
Interestingly, the people in the Engineering departments are, by and large, excellent and helpful folks. I had a “moment” a few days ago; I saw something odd in my experimental results. Within a day, I had two of the very top people in the field sitting in my office in a deep discussion with each other (and me) on what it could mean. A few hours later, another senior professor dropped in, took a look, thought my results were an experimental problem rather than something in the physics of the material, and suggested three or four control experiments I could do to pin things down. And of course she was right, it WAS an experimental issue, and I now know something new to look for in the future.
All in all, despite the stupid politics, this has been a remarkable experience.
That’s how it should be, isn’t it? Makes the background noise from the peanut gallery easier to take.
All those communications, and none of them went through the department chair?
Problematic.
Next time you are in a meeting with icy professor, I suggest you completely ignore her, and address all of your comments to the department chair.
“I understand Prof. Icy would like to use the lab on Wednesday mornings. I think that’s doable, if you could let Prof. Icy know that we will have overnight experiments on Bench 4 that need to be resulted that morning.”
Someone I used to know through Swing dancing had been a librarian at Harvard. He was a Democrat until he held that job. Afterwards, he was a Republican.
Why?
All the liberals, Progressives, and other Democrats were shitty people. The handful of conservatives and Republicans at Harvard were all nice to him. There were no exceptions.
Silicone Saturday finally confirms the rumors.
https://archive.ph/8JgGP
Doesn’t sound like a good place to live.
In a few weeks it will be Sundress City, I bet.
We all look forward to Halter Top Day
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Halter%20Top%20Day
Good morning, Old Man!
Sorry to read about your adventures. At least you are keeping them on their toes.
And for bringing us the news of the day, I give you orchid bees!
Nice! Even the bees are going green.
I’m envious
GAY
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21344566/secretly-sleeping-best-friend-girlfriend-after-threesome/
I got news for ya…
It’s “queer” now, get with the new English.
Unfair
From pesky fees charged by big retail banks to deep, structural imbalances in the U.S. tax system that favor wealthy people and large corporations, Biden’s speech hit on a perennial frustration in American economic life: how the deck feels stacked by big companies and institutions against ordinary taxpayers and consumers.
“If we – the poorer people, the middle class – pay tax, the big companies are supposed to do the same. This is right. So I think the President [said] something that is true. We need more tax to be paid by the big companies and then that money can go back to the poorer people to help people,” Jean-Michel Dossous, a New York City cab driver who watched the State of the Union on his phone, told The Hill.
Returning to the notion of economic fairness again and again, Biden touted numerous initiatives to bring down prices after a year of high inflation that has harassed American pocketbooks and that fiscal authorities, like Congress and the president, have limited powers to fight.
They could always try not creating money out of thin air. But that don’t buy no votes.
Who wants to tell him…?
“Cabbies Prefer Cash” bumper sticker
I am utterly and completely surprised that this guy ended up committing suicide.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/tragic-life-stalking-cat–29181939
…aaaaand someone whose tragic suicide we’ll be reading about in a couple of decades.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/i-love-body-modification-stretched-29146369
I, too, draw as much attention to myself as humanly possible to demonstrate how little I care about what others think.
By the way, what the everlasting fuck is up with people getting facial tattoos? I see at least one person a day with some idiotic thing scrawled across his noggin, from Thor’s hammer to some jackass who seems to have Wilberine claw scars in purple etched indelibly. I have a couple tattoos, but they can be covered when the situation requires it. But this is getting ridiculous!
The country is going Mad Max – they are the vanguard.
“A man whose life goal was to look as similar to a cat as humanly possible lived a life darker than one would imagine.”
Sure.
I think I’ll pass on clicking either of links.
Squick!
I assume it took him nine tries.
I don’t understand why you want your people removed from modern culture.
LeValdo and other Native Americans will be pushing again for the Chiefs to abandon the team’s name, mascot and fan-driven “tomahawk chop.” It’s the same goal they had in 2021 when the Chiefs were vying for a second-consecutive Super Bowl win in Tampa, Florida.
“People are trying to be really positive about Kansas City and what it does and how like ‘Yes, sports binds us all together,’” LeValdo, founder of the Kansas City-based Indigenous activist group Not In Our Honor, said at a news conference Thursday. “It’s not bringing our people into this celebration together. Really, it’s hurting us more because now it’s the bigger spotlight where you’re seeing this all over the world.” …
“The anti-Native mascot movement has always been about the betterment of our Native people, not hatred towards others who are football fans,” said Amanda Blackhorse, who is Diné. “We want to live in a world where our children can attend school and feel included and not met with reenactments of fake war dances on the football field.”
I guess you have no reservations about removing natives from view.
Cleveland’s baseball team already changed their name, creating an untenable sutuation. All Chiefs, no Indians.
Man, I don’t have time to read through long posts like this. I’ve got a Tonto do today.
Some days I just feel like a Lone Ranger out here.
Cheer up, there’s always a Silver lining.
On behalf of the vast majority of Kansas Citians I’d like to say: Go fuck yourself. Team isn’t even named in honor of native americans. I personally find the Tomahawk Chop a little tacky. Not because of any cultural insensitivity, mind you, but because we stole that shit from the Florida State Seminoles.
“Team isn’t even named in honor of native americans.”
It isn’t?
They’re named after former mayor Harold “Chief” Bartle. Did they adopt NA iconography? Sure. Then again, hundreds of streets(Hell, the city of Independence has a road named after every tribe on the continent) and at least a dozen local area schools, and dozens of towns are named after the tribes so it’s not like it just sprung up from a vacuum. Plenty of NA tradition, art, and culture still lingers here and many people enjoy it regardless their race.
It’s not THAT he was called “Chief.” It’s WHY he was called “Chief,” and it wasn’t just because he was in charge.
In a roundabout way, it is.
H. Roe Bartle was a big-wig around here, and called Chief. Thing is, he was also a Boy Scouter who was in the “tribe of Mic-O-Say” in Boy Scouts, which is a) a Big Deal in Boy Scouting around this region and b) most definitely built on Indian cultural touchstones. Source: Dad was tribe of Mic-O-Say and had LOTS of Indian-representing things around the house. It’s a huge status thing in scouting, back when scouting was a huge status thing (because it took lots of $$$).
Bartle was called “Chief” because he was in Mic-O-Say, so, yeah. It is.
Tangentially: My dad grew up very poor and would never have had a chance to be in Scouts were it not for a neighborhood mentor who brought him in and paid for the lot. (I don’t know if he knew Bartle or not.) He always credits Charlie (don’t know his last name) for getting him out of the ‘hood and teaching him something better was out there for him. Then my great-uncle joined the church. My grandparents followed suit, and then the church sent him to Holland on his mission, where he found out that people who had money weren’t necessarily smarter than he was, so he ended up in college after one summer spent laying asphalt.
My son loved Scouting, but the church took it away and we couldn’t afford to send him go to another Troop, much less have my daughter go to Scouts (which she wanted to do). It is INSANELY expensive.
OK, Thanks 🙂
Interesting- I thought the nickname came from his habit of chasing after fire trucks.
I was in the Indian Guides when I was a kid. We appropriated the shit out of native culture. It was a blast.
Gen Custer hardest hit
Uh huh.
Wahoo! I am glad someone gets it!
One thing’s for sure, though. If they DO end up changing the name of the Chiefs, the tomahawk chop will not be going away and nobody will ever say anything but “Arrowhead Stadium.”
If they change the name and move to Kansas I won’t even acknowledge their existence. I only watch a handful of games anymore as is. I’ve really soured on the NFL in general over the last several years, to put it mildly.
I would like to think that if they move to Kansas, the fallout will be epic, but I doubt it. People will just drive to Kansas and bitch about it the whole way.
Bread and circuses. We must have our gladiators.
I doubt it as well. Seems like Johnson County residents make up a huge chunk of the crowd nowadays anyway.
Please please please change the name to the Settlers.
Better: colonizers
Run on gasoline in Vegas due to that pipeline leak…. Costco was probably 100 cars long line. Every gas station is full at 6am…
Ugh because of the NEVCAL pipeline shutdown gas shot up a $1/gallon.
This really should have been one of Riven’s links.
It would have improved the magic of Friday evening.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) penned a letter to Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Thursday asking how he plans to combat the rise of antisemitism on the social media platform after the congressman was the target of a barrage of antisemitic comments this week.
“Grow a thicker skin.”
I dunno, that’s not really an option, is it? Early life decisions are not easily undone.
Don’t many politicians go to DC for the graft?
Have to be flexible though, otherwise inflation can hit you really hard.
Sad but true.
Elon: “clean up your own back yard first.”
Surprise, surprise: An Irish freedom of information request (or whatever the Irish equivalent is officially called) reveals that the upper-class areas where the goodthinkful live aren’t taking in asylum seekers.
Of course, this being RTE, the report doesn’t present the idea that the rich, not having been flooded with asylum seekers like the poor, haven’t seen the negative effects. Instead, they talk to a Social Democrat TD who says that everybody he knows in his district wants more asylum seekers, not like those icky people on the right.
Ireland has had predominately left-wing politics (like much of the EU) and the immigration issues are doing everything to change that.
https://unherd.com/2023/02/the-rise-of-irelands-anti-migrant-protests/
I thought Fine Gael and Fianna Fail were both right of center. It’s Sinn Fein who are the extreme leftists.
Your tax dollars at work.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11738533/Drug-addicts-use-food-stamp-benefits-purchase-bottled-water-recycle-bottles-cash.html
Am I supposed to feel bad when these people OD and die?
“Shocking” video
That just seems stupid. Sell the bottled water at a discount.
This looks like operator error on someone’s part, but I’ll be damned if I can tell whom it is.
An Oklahoma man says he stopped by Starbucks for a couple of cups of coffee and it wound up costing his family nearly $4,500.
Given inflation rates, Starbucks is just instituting its 2033 prices a decade early.
Of all the mentions of unfairness in the economy in Biden’s State of the Union, perhaps the point he hammered home the most was about unfairness in the tax code.
“I think a lot of you at home agree with me that our present tax system is simply unfair. The idea that in 2020, 55 of the biggest companies in America made $40 billion in profits and paid zero in federal income taxes? That’s simply not fair,” Biden said.
Steve Taylor, an adjunct English professor at the City University of New York, said he felt the same way, arguing that rich people and corporations need to be paying more.
“I think they should pay their fair share. They’re getting away with murder. These guys are not paying any taxes. I mean, come on. I pay taxes. What’s the median for working people, like 25 percent? Come on. What’s going on?” he said in an interview.
Critics of corporate tax hikes argue that big businesses still pay billions in other types of taxes outside of taxed income.
The views of Taylor and Jean-Michel Doussos on the tax system are held by a majority of Americans, according to a variety of public opinion polls.
Communism will fix unfairness and make everyone happy.
When I want advice on tax policy, I always consult an adjunct professor of English. It’s just common sense.
Maybe Biden should consult that senator from Delaware who voted for all the loopholes that big corporations such as duPont use to lower their taxes?
I’m sure those conversations happen daily, he just doesn’t know who it is he is talking to in the mirror and keeps claiming there is a doppelganger in the WH to his dogs.
What’s the median for working people, like 25 percent?
Now we know why he majored in English – no math skills at all. He would be shocked to discover just how progressive the income tax actually is.
I’m in the 12% federal income tax bracket, but by the time you add federal, state, FICA, and the “paid family leave” tax, each marginal extra dollar I earn has 26% or so taken out of it.
The unhappiness about the tax code isn’t on the corporate side, which he knows.
Ugh because of the NEVCAL pipeline shutdown gas shot up a $1/gallon.
Gas went up .20/gal here yesterday. That makes about .40 in the past two weeks or so.
Profiteers, I sez!
My brother sent me a link to a ticket site for a high priced Skinny Puppy concert ($100+), which I linked for rhywun last night. He, understandably, recoiled at the price. I checked a few other things, including the SuperBowl. The SB ticket prices basically start at $4,000. $4,000 for something you can see for free on your TV set. Cheap Trick is $56. Even that’s a tad much for nostalgia.
“The SB ticket prices basically start at $4,000.”
Wow.
SB ticket prices basically start at $4,000 – do you bang a cheerleader in that price? otherwise seems expensive. Actually even if you bang a cheerleader seem expensive
I’d have to agree. There are still tickets available, which I don’t find odd.
Sorry, Gametime does not support purchasing for events in your country.
This is unpossible! Only companies like Chevron are greedy.
Zwak – it boggles the mind.
Pie – get a VPN already. It’s 2023. https://www.expressvpn.com/
https://atlasvpn.com/deals?utm_source=2087&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=69&utm_term=&utm_content=&transaction_id=1026140fcb8448f3961fc5d1fb32c8&offer_id=69
Free money
Most taxpayers in the 21 states that sent out stimulus checks or tax rebates in 2022 don’t need to pay taxes on those payments on this year’s federal tax return, the Internal Revenue Service announced Friday evening.
The guidance clarifies how taxpayers should treat these payments and allows those waiting to file to move forward. It also means, for the most part, those living in the affected states who already filed their taxes don’t have to amend their returns.
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“The IRS appreciates the patience of taxpayers, tax professionals, software companies and state tax administrators as the IRS and Treasury worked to resolve this unique and complex situation,” the IRS release said.
On to the next manufactured crisis.
i want some free moneys
I’m hoping we shot down one of own drones that is operated in secrecy from one of the 18+ alphabet agencies. Will confirm when no information is given after recovery.
Which will justify an increase in those alphabet agencies secret budgets to arm up their drones. Spy v. spy in our own govt!
Spy v. Spy was so great. Even the video game was fun.
Yeah Spy v. Spy on C-64 was awesome.
That’s the one…though I think we had it for NES too
For all I know we just unwittingly declared war on the Klingons or something. Maybe the criticism has made them a little too trigger happy.
I’m not saying it was aliens.
I have purchased some of your American beef, which is not that common here.it was okay. Probably not the best, I remember reading one you dont even export the best, but don’t know if true. Also reasonably priced for non EU beef at 9 of your american dollars for 10 of you american ounces. Or the best cut for grilling. Salt pepper 3 hours in advance 1.5 minutes per side flipping 4 times, rest 10 minute. Somewhat overcooked. But overall tasted good. with a nice glass of Balla Geza Stonewine feteasca neagra.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/uE5GqZPSQBQ36Cpt8
Where’s the gun?
outside the law mostly
“Also reasonably priced for non EU beef at 9 of your american dollars for 10 of you american ounces.”
That’s reasonable?
You only have to flip it once. You can give it a quarter turn if you are one of those grill marks people.
That’s reasonable? – yes, for beef from outside the EU in bucharest supermarkets
You only have to flip it once – you can flip whatever but theoretically more is better
Theoretically?
if you flip more the temperature is more even in the meat
Now we know why he majored in English – no math skills at all. He would be shocked to discover just how progressive the income tax actually is.
I did a quick look for a chart showing tax revenue by income segment, but couldn’t find one. 20% of a million is a lot more than 20% of sixty grand.
The eagle is a well known symbol of white supremacy and totalitarianism. Why isn’t anybody protesting that Philadelphia team?
being from Philadelphia is punishment enough? Also in Romania Philadelphia is a type if cream cheese in stores.
Here too, when it comes to cream cheese Philadelphia is the crème de la crème…when it comes to cities not so much.
Was in center city yesterday for first time in several years. Fairly clean but half the pedestrians I recall before COVID. Still the same number of crazies and bums, however.
“So Much For Billionaires: Joe Biden’s IRS Is Now Coming For Waiters And Waitresses’ Tips”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/so-much-billionaires-joe-bidens-irs-now-coming-waiters-and-waitresses-tips
Waitstaff makes over $400K a year? I’m in the wrong line of work.
It’s really more about making cash transactions a pain in the ass by increasing the reporting requirements.
There’s not that much money to be raised by going after tips, but they have a huge motivation to kill the cash economy.
i wonder whether the eagles will win the super bowl. let’s ask some random nine-year-old from 2005
https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1623782139085877248
Gibberish in…
Angel died on Thursday from injuries she suffered following a car break-in near Wells Fargo Bank in Downtown Oakland on Monday. She was dragged 50 feet by a getaway car after she tried to chase down the suspects.
“We are really trying to orient towards her brilliant life, and that actually, she is not a person who would support the policing and imprisonment of the people who harmed her,” Harris said.
Family and friends say that Angel saw many instances of violence and theft as related to larger systemic issues around poverty and racism. In her passing, they are focusing on restorative justice, which they say was central to Angel’s teachings.
“Feels like absolutely an opportunity to stand in her values, and support the world that she wants. By actually showing that something different than actual policing and prosecution is possible, and is how we can have accountability,” Harris said.
“It definitely had an impact,” said Nenna Joiner, owner of Feelmore in Oakland. “As a female body, going to work every day, how is it to own a business in the city of Oakland with some of the difficulties. It won’t stop you, but it will make you pause and think about your own mortality.”
Joiner knew Angel from Oakland’s small business collective. She says she’s troubled by yet another violent death in Oakland, but was encouraged by Angel’s commitment to the city.
“Being in the city of Oakland, as an entrepreneur, as a small business owner, you have to know why you are there. And a lot of us are doing activist work as we are doing small business work at the same time,” Joiner said.
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On Friday night, the community is hosting a fundraiser, with the proceeds going toward a GoFundMe set up in Angel’s honor.
“If anything, maybe the positive that comes out of that, is that she reignites some of that spark and more of a spotlight on the work that needs to be done,” Stacionis said.
I think I can appreciate the underlying sentiment, but wrapping it up in SJW-speak just makes me assume all those people are morons.
A gofundme? If it’s to feed and care for her cats, I’m all for it. Something tells me it will be used to support a bunch of grievance mongering activist parasites.
By all means keep practicing “restorative justice” and see how that continues to work out. Let’s crank those murder statistics back up to ca. 1990 levels. We can do this.
The city across the bay:
“San Franciscans face about a 1-in-16 chance each year of being a victim of property or violent crime, which makes the city more dangerous than 98 percent of US cities, both small and large. To put this in perspective, Compton, California, the infamous home of drug gang turf wars, and which today remains more dangerous than 90 percent of all US cities, is almost twice as safe as San Francisco.”
https://www.hoover.org/research/why-san-francisco-nearly-most-crime-ridden-city-us
Ess Eff is property crime central, but it actually is pretty good for relatively low violent crime incidence. That has been changing back to a more 1970’s level as the proggies have taken complete control and especially since the Floyd reduction in policing.
Yikes. One thing I noticed when I lived there is that, unlike NYC, it is nearly impossible to avoid the worst parts of town because you have to go through them to get anywhere.
I know someone else who was killed in exactly the same way in Oakland. Had his laptop grabbed from a cafe, he ran out to try and stop them and got caught in the getaway car and dragged a distance to his death. We have an underincarceration problem in this country. The left is trying (and succeeding) in doing what they accomplished from the late 60’s onward through to the 80’s when they shifted blame from the individual to society for criminal acts. Those criminals that did that to this very naive woman will be back out there today creating more victims as they have likely done hundreds of times before.
There’s not that much money to be raised by going after tips, but they have a huge motivation to kill the cash economy.
We are well on the way to redefining cash transactions as illicit black marketeering.
Sometimes the birthday guesses are easy “whose name wasn’t Shirley”. Others are a wild crapshoot “one of the dumbest people in the Senate”
It’s a toughly contested title but maybe they come in blocks of 5 or so
War on Medicine
South Dakota is set to prohibit nearly all forms of gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors after a proposed law gained sweeping approval through its state legislature.
The state Senate passed a House bill banning surgical and non-surgical gender-affirming treatment for minors on Thursday in a 30-4 vote, advancing the legislation to Gov. Kristi Noem’s desk. Noem will sign the bill into law, a spokesperson for the Republican governor told CNN on Friday.
The legislation bars puberty blocking medication in patients under the age of 18, as well as sex hormones and surgery related to gender transition.
Opponents of the measure say it would be harmful to transgender children and is an intrusion by the government into medical decisions.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, in Salt Lake City.
Utah governor signs bill banning gender-affirming hormone treatment and surgery for minors
“Surgeries-gone-wrong are simply not happening in South Dakota,” said Democratic state Sen. Liz Larson while announcing her opposition. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t need the state Legislature when I’m in the doctor’s office.”
Susan Williams, who heads of the transgender advocacy group Transformation Project Advocacy Network in South Dakota, decried the measure.
“Our community is sad. Our community is angry. Worst of all, our community is scared,” Williams wrote in a post on her group’s Facebook page. “I feel betrayed by the elected officials who are supposed to protect my family that just voted against us.”
Why do Republicans want to force people to live in the bodies they were born in? It’s inhumane.
The shitstorm that resulted from this request was epic- I have a 27 email long string that includes two deans, three department heads, and five professors all telling me that I completely did this wrong and I did not follow procedures (not that there actually are any). When I saw one of the other department’s profs out in the parking lot and asked her if she had a minute to talk, she stared icily at me and intoned, “All communication needs to go through the department chair.” And there’s going to be a faculty-wide meeting next week to discuss the absolutely inappropriate and unreasonable request from me. I guess what they say about academia (“It’s vicious because there’s so little at stake”) is true.
WTF?
As investigators review material recovered from the Chinese aircraft, US officials added six Chinese entities to an export blacklist in connection with Beijing’s suspected surveillance operation.
I’m not saying it was aliens….
“Students make up an astonishing 85% of the town’s population” when semesters are in session, he writes. “If you go left at the town’s only stoplight, you’re on one campus. Turn right, you’re on the other. Now that’s a college town.”
I hear there is also a nice cafe there.
A few parts of Old Guy Music makes me wonder if the band was channeling Jethro Tull… or vice versa.
This week’s Powerline fun.
South Dakota is among several Republican-led states that have been proposing – and advancing – anti-trans measures in recent years. Last February, South Dakota became the first state to disallow transgender women and girls from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender at accredited schools and colleges.
Where’s my Newspeak dictionary?
Hicks stick it to chicks with dicks.
South Dakota became the first state to disallow transgender women and girls from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender
So bevulvaed people have to compete on the boys’ team if they claim trans?
Ordered Disobedience
Wild story.
cool
Awesome, Tundra.
Now another book to find/read
Cataclysmic what-if-ing
Though no one died in the accident, the catastrophe serves as a wake-up call to the potential for more deadly freight rail derailments, public health advocates warn. By one estimate, 25 million Americans live in an oil train blast zone, and had the derailment occurred just a few miles east, it would be burning in downtown Pittsburgh, with tens of thousands of residents in immediate danger.
Ineffective oversight and a largely self-monitoring industry that has cut the nation’s rail workforce to the bone in recent years as it puts record profits over safety is responsible for the wreck, said Ron Kaminkow, an Amtrak locomotive engineer and former Norfolk Southern freight engineer.
“The Palestine wreck is the tip of the iceberg and a red flag,” said Kaminkow, who is secretary for the Railroad Workers United, a non-profit labor group that coordinates with the nation’s rail unions. “If something is not done, then it’s going to get worse, and the next derailment could be cataclysmic.”
You don’t say.
Ban chemistry.
Union hack advocates for moar union hacks. Film at 11.
News flash: trains carrying toxic chemicals have been derailing since long before these workforce cuts he’s bewailing.
Golly gee, if only there was another way to move petroleum products in bulk. Maybe even underground would be safer.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1624241345740042240
OFFS!!