Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
Nikki Haley to announce presidential run
State Department Funded Foreign Think Tank Working To Censor Americans
Biden to sell 26 million barrels more from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Energy Secretary Granholm met with anti-gas stove organization, documents show
Americans’ Tax Refunds Are Nearly 11 Percent Smaller This Year, Early IRS Data Show
Federal judge in Illinois gun ban case requires state to show ‘each and every item banned’
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
I sell Firsts and Firsting related accessories.
Also, further proof that no one really knows what the fuck a catch is in the NFL no matter how much they pretend to understand the rules or how refs are going to call things on the field or after replay.
I just find these kinds of sports talk shows completely unwatchable. It’s a game, and watching guys (its always guys) get worked up about the technical minutiae of a game just grinds my gears.
That’s why Bro linked it to the other insufferable shtick.
There’s this cool [Nuke] [Mute] feature built in to the comments section. Control your own experience!
Whoops. I thought it just did the commenter, not the entire thread.
We need a KillBlogComment ability here. Or an ignore feature.
Oh wait, it did work.
I’m just going to reply to myself the rest of the day. 😆
*muted*
😉
What’s the point of being a sports fan if you aren’t getting worked up or invested in it on some level for some reason (gambling)?
So you got the circus part covered; where’s the bread?
JI gets it.
https://youtu.be/XyZtMfMWONI
Are they really worked up, or are they just filling airtime?
Biden to sell 26 million barrels more from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve – oil is a relic of the past anyway who needs it
*raises hand*
Me
Gas prices are rising again, so time to make another worthless political gesture.
The time for more-expensive Summer blend is approaching.
I drive so little it hasn’t affected me yet, but I was wondering why gas shot up over a dollar a gallon here. Turns out the California pipeline that supplies us with the country’s most expensive gas sprung a leak.
Frankly, I’m rather stunned we ship anything out given the constant attrition of refineries in this state.
I must admit I was a bit embarrassed at my ignorance. I knew we imported most of our fuel from CA refineries, but was utterly unaware how it got here. Sometimes I wonder how the fuck southern NV even exists with so many potential single points of failure.
Organized crime needed a good haven was the answer as far as I knew.
Energy Secretary Granholm met with anti-gas stove organization, documents show – this was like totally debunked man let it go
It’s not happening, and boy are you going to deserve it when it does!
“Suspect is 43-year-old Black male ”
So last we’ll here about it? Or will there be a bunch of articles written where the gun was the murderer, like that truck that killed a bunch of people?
The shooter, like the cops in Memphis, is clearly a black white supremacist.
“The shooter” is already making it about the gun.
Did he have a CCW? He could be in trouble if he’s breaking the law?
Mental health crisis.
Well, if its about the gun, and its a mental health crisis, I guess the gun had a mental breakdown?
Modern weaponry is suffering from mental fatigue?
State Department Funded Foreign Think Tank Working To Censor Americans – wrongspeak is not free speech
State Department Funded Foreign Think Tank Working To Censor Americans
This is the kind of shit the second amendment was intended to address. Among other things.
“The FAA implemented temporary flight restrictions over the university’s campus through Wednesday.”
And that does what exactly?
I guess it keeps news helicopters from taking video?
That’s all I can come up with. Seems pointless.
“We did something!”
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Just in case he had balloons, can’t be too safe.
Students can sleep now that jumbo jets aren’t buzzing the dorms?
something must be done. this is something. therefore we must do this.
Pie’s account has been hijacked by the vp!
Prevents someone from using a Predator clone they built just about as well as the “Gun Free Zone” signs worked?
Drones, etc. But pointless gesture
“However, the organization frequently classifies typical conservative discourse and journalism as hate and/or disinformation”
This is my surprised face.
You mean there’s gambling going on in here?
Remember how any criticism of Obama or his policies was racist? Well we are in Obama’s third term, so…
Please clap.
Like seals
Neo-Con Nikki is probably the first of many establishment rinos to throw their panties in the ring.
The Red fundraising wing of the UniParty likely has reserved her a slot on the ticket, so they can tick off a couple of woke boxes.
Because that’s the important thing.
Winning is the important thing. They think they need that to win and she very war mongery so their war boners are satisfied.
That’s not the only kind of boner getting satisfied when it comes to Nikki.
It drives me fucking nuts when people get excited about their big tax refund. Congrats! You lent the government your wages at 0% interest!
In this case — I think “grant me the serenity to accept what I can not change” would apply. Keep your blood pressure down, good sir…
Don’t worry, it’s a back-burner annoyance. There’s at least 200 other things that will induce my life-ending stroke before that.
Exactly. I try to figure our withholding so that we come out just about even at tax filing time. Little to no refund or little to no taxes owed.
I should more than I do — but mine is in the “typically a refund, but a bonus or RSU vesting or something odd can push me to owing easily” camp — so I just let it ride. I’m about 5% off (as in my refund is no more than 5% relative to the total taxes owed) most years, I figure that’s within my margin of error for figuring out tax law.
That’s pretty damn good .
I can never figure out my income so I just throw a dart at the board.
Actually a good sign, sort of. Maybe the tax payer earned 11 % less. Maybe taxes increased 11 %. Who knows? Throwing out random numbers is kind of meaningless.
If I cared enough to dig into it — I wouldn’t be at all surprised if some of that is COVID related “rebates” or “tax breaks” expiring from Fed or State levels.
But I don’t care, so I’ll just wildly guess in a half-assed manner per the above.
Yep, from the article:
Of course, how having less income (because less stimulus) generally results in paying more taxes (and getting a smaller refund).
Or something.
Technically speaking they’re probably conflating “refund,” “rebate,” and “handout.”
That is it, the government has less goodies to hand out this year.
That was my first thought, too.
But way too many people (and the media encourage this) think they’re making out like bandits if they get a large refund.
I always owe because I make freelance money on the side but it’s unpredictable so I can’t even pay them quarterly. Some quarters I can make $5k, the others, $500.
Making “Official” State Foods | Ohio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhIKV73pOx8
That does not represent the good, right thinking people of the northern end of the state.
which part is responsible for Logan Paul?
Appears he was born in a CLE west-side suburb. We did provide two brothers who played on opposite teams during the Super Bowl (it was the big story here).
I thought we gave Cincinnati to Kentucky?
I think Michael Bluth speaks for us all
Rugby Explained for American Football Fans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeTB9NdA_F8
Objection. Assumes any interest at all by American football fans.
Helps that I used to play, but… I find rugby to be far more entertaining than American football. I prefer Union rules and will not watch 7’s. Much more action and far less standing around talking. I was too bored to pay much attention to the Superbowl.
Scotland try vs. England two weekends ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYGus-kwRIQ
“Proposed Illinois legislation to require EV charging stations could make homes more expensive
House Bill 2206 and Senate Bill 40 require a new single-family residence or a small multifamily residence to have at least one electric vehicle charging station for each residential unit with dedicated parking.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/proposed-legislation-require-ev-charging-stations-could-make-homes-more
JustTheNews has too much shit on their website, my machine shows 21 sites and 11 trackers blocked.
I’m now imagining if these micromanagers were around in the 1900’s and mandated gasoline pipeline grids and pumps in every driveway. Boy wouldn’t that be a flaming hot mess….
I mean housing is excessively cheap in Illinois so this is good.
To be fair, more people are moving out than in.
*narrows gaze*
Because they’ve been squeezed by the big ad networks and pushed into shadier and shittier nth-tier ad networks, right-of-center sites like that tend to be absolutely abysmal on that score. It’s like visiting a late 90s porn site.
Except it’s ads blocking what you want to see instead of a full bush.
*fondly remembers the bush years*
“Headed for the 90’s, living in the wild, wild west”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vE5ewvxdfo
The Gateway Pundit is the worst.
I only use Brave with Glibs, and any links directly from Glibs.
I have over 63K ad/trackers blocked.
Yes! I notice that whenever I go there.
Proposed Illinois legislation to require EV charging stations
couldwill make homes more expensiveThere are definitely days when I feel moving away from the Articles of Confederation was a mistake. This is one of them… razing the IC and salting the earth is a start… apparently most of State (as has been true since the ’30s at least!) should follow… and DoE (both of them) apparently… there’s so little of FedGov I think is actually doing its job at this point that I have to fantasize about a complete reset… which is pointless because they’d just grow back without losing funding… and I’m back to wanting the Articles and its “Feds depend on the states for funding instead of the other way around”…
The anti-federalists were prophetically correct on nearly every account. Most of our venerated founding fathers were stupid sacks of shit, tbh.
What Patrick Henry was after the revolution is why he remains one of my favorites. Ardently anti-federalist, eventually said fuck it and moved to his [then] far west estate to be left alone for the last decade of his life.
Won’t matter – you’ll still have the same people and people are the problem. You want a solution? Soylent Green.
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1624800530512941056
heh
My Congresscritter is leading a delegation to Taiwan with the expressed purpose of “infuriating” China.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/02/13/members-of-house-committee-on-china-planning-taiwan-trip-to-infuriate-beijing/
I got nuthin’. We’re ruled by children with nukes.
Want to infuriate China? Revoke Most Favored Nation trading status and seriously get essentials at least back here. I was pleasantly surprised that someone else remembers the whole thing in 2020 about “Crap! All our medicines and medical supplies come from China and shipping is screwed up (plus they hate us and all!)”.
Communism should have been stopped in 1919. I have no idea how though.
Just like how we ignore our Constitution – you can’t stop people from being stupid.
I don’t think China was seriously planning to invade Taiwan until the war uni-party baited them into it.
It’s always at a slow simmer, and the ChiComs are as imperialist as Great Britain was 3 centuries ago, so I wouldn’t discount their annexation ambitions, especially now that the entire Western world is hopelessly dependent on Taiwan for chip fabrication. But we do seem bound and determined to fuck the situation up as severely as we possibly can.
Fuck that. They’ve had their eyes on Taiwan from day one.
Uh, let’s remember that as far as we were concerned, and for all of Chiang’s reign there, THAT was the govt of all of China. And one day it was going to be in control of the mainland.
+1 ROC
And yet people here are desperate to make it the fault of the Beltway Class somehow.
Fuck Chinese Beijing.
Ray o’ Sunshine.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1625228448024109061
Bonus Elon tweet:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1625377144137461761
Awesome funny!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen footage of it… but I wonder if wolf packs ever actually play or if that is tied to domestication (as part of retention of juvenile traits and behavior like they speculate…)?
In any event… thanks for that. Brought a smile to my face to see the happy pups.
Wolves play. At least, the pups do. I remember seeing footage of it.
The Sawtooth pack played, but it was almost always started by one individual. When he died, they stopped.
https://twitter.com/CarlBovisNature/status/1625206843181043731
Couldn’t help but notice 1 dog was hanging back, not joining in the fun. Kind of a Rudolph moment
The Financial Crisis of A. D. 33: A Keynesian Depression?
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/abs/financial-crisis-of-a-d-33-a-keynesian-depression/E2009FFC2E8E52CCFC819750371E9557
Huh… hope they’re right or they’ll just get crucified in peer review.
*narrows gaze*
All he said was this fish is good enough for…
Interesting, but not enough to spend $26 to finish it.
Well, crucifying the Son of God does have some knock-on effects.
‘Orning ‘Ordles — The Month of Meh continues.
Daily Duotrigordle #349
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 04:37.91
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Lower right can piss off. I had another word that I knew couldn’t be correct due to letter placement firmly stuck in my head. It took me forever to shake it.
Daily Quordle 386
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Michigan State University shooting: 3 Dead, 5 Wounded, Suspect is 43-year-old Black male with no ties to school
So you are saying there is no story here. Or we need more gun control. Or it’s white-supremacy.
How do they know how he chose to identify?
The gun clearly identified as a rando maniac.
EU lawmakers approve effective 2035 ban on new fossil fuel cars
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-lawmakers-approve-effective-2035-ban-new-fossil-fuel-cars-2023-02-14/
goddamnit stupid fucking shit
Then surely people will make this choice freely and manufacturers will be adapting to changing market conditions, right Jan?
No?
Because you’re full of shit? Oh, ok….
Operating costs could be lower, but the higher purchase price dwarfs the savings.
Losing money on every sale, but making it up in volume.
And I am not even sure that is true. Maybe after X amount of years…
From this we can see why we want to deplete our reserves and drive up the cost of oil/gasoline.
https://nickelinstitute.org/en/about-nickel-and-its-applications/nickel-in-batteries/total-cost-of-ownership-tco-for-electric-vehicles-ev-vs-internal-combustion-engine-vehicles-ice/
the least subsidies
If only the government gave everyone a free EV.
And, of course, there’s the question of resale value, given the need to replace the entire battery pack at some point.
Like lemmings.
Don’t worry, none of this will actually come to pass in the end.
It will greatly impoverish “the West”, which is kind of the point, but gas cars will still be available to the wealthy. Start saving.
Maybe we are witnessing the end of govt – when it is all engaged in futile, symbolic gestures. The demonstration of impotence has to have some kind of consequences – like seeing through a magic trick.
Never underestimate the power of the people to not give a fuck.
I’ve been thinking this for a while. Perhaps not the “end of gov”, but the end of something, and they’re not happy about it. The internet has changed everything. We now have access to information that isn’t straight narrative, and it’s causing seismic tremors at the roots of power. That’s why all the blatant gaslighting. We no longer accept shit-brain theories from academia without question, which is why they’re now being forced on us everywhere, oftentimes violently, via the brainwashed woke.
Their moves are ever-desperate, and increasingly fucking crazy. Those in power do not act desperately unless they feel that grip loosening. I think Star Wars has a very valid point when Leia says “The tighter your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers”, and emphasized even more in Andor when the title character says “Power doesn’t panic.”
The UK looks kind of smart right now. (Until they do something else stupid)
Guess they couldn’t let California out environment them.
“Bird flu may mutate to kill more than 50% of humans who catch it, as a result of ‘unprecedented’ outbreak sweeping mammals, experts fear”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11748537/Bird-flu-mutate-kill-50-humans.html
No.
Good. Maybe Waffles can be on time for work then.
Because viruses have never ever acted in this way before and governments (and health ‘experts’) didn’t fall in mad love with their pandemic powers. Nope, that can’t possibly have anything to do with things…
They always tell you what they’re planning.
SARS 3: With A Vengeance?
kill all birds?
My commute pisses me off to the point where the next time someone speaks to me about being 5 minutes late I’m quitting.
Why am I like this?
Needz moar Stoicism.
Yeah. It’s not great to have my blood boil every morning for essentially nothing at all.
this sounds like a red flag and should be reported to the FBI
🚩 on Pie.
Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will announce her presidential campaign Wednesday morning, becoming the first challenger to former President Trump in the Republican presidential primary.
Deep state candidates assemble!
Cue up the fawning articles in the Primaries about how she represents a return to sanity and dignity for the Republican Party, followed by the “She’s a Nazi who wants you in chains!” articles in the General.
Flood the primaries with neo-cons so they all split the vote and the populist wing ends up behind Trump (maybe desantis)
“Florida politician, 34, is found with cocaine in his SHOES after falling off his motorcycle: Councilman tried to flee a traffic stop with an expired license before he was cuffed”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11746703/Florida-politician-cocaine-shoes-attempting-flee-traffic-stop.html
“Where ARE things going wrong? Damning report finds there are 23 public schools in Baltimore where NONE of the children understand basic math – as parents blame Dem-led city’s ‘fraud and corruption'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11747209/Report-finds-23-public-schools-Baltimore-NONE-children-understand-basic-math.html
Well, no one running Baltimore can understand basic math.
math is racist so those kids are anti racist.
Straight As in CRT though.
Historically low, or well funded.
“School funding in Baltimore has been historically low”
Why do I suspect this is a blatant lie?
Well back in 2014, Baltimore outranked all other MD school districts.
I assumes that the politician with cocaine shoes was a Democrat since his affiliation was not mentioned. I dug around and discovered he is a Republican. Lost opportunity, yellow journalists!
“Filiberto, 34, has severed[sic] on the Palm Bay City Council since November ”
They’re not sending us their best.
Baltimore is keeping the tradition going.
Florida Politician.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11748959/Demi-Rose-turns-heads-sheer-white-backless-gown-flashing-boob.html
Nope. Nourished.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Hey use the existing thread like I did
Funny, Jimbo. Where would most of the Glibs fall on the spectrum?
The U.S. State Department funds and partners with a U.K.-based think tank that collaborates with online platforms to censor perceived mis- and disinformation.
You mean to censor information the regime doesn’t like.
“Biden is front-loading SPR barrels to avoid a summer gasoline price spike,” said Phil Flynn, analyst at Price Futures Group and FOX Business Network contributor. “There are growing concerns among the Biden administration that gas prices are headed back to $4 a gallon and the president is fearful of the political heat he will have to take.”
What do you think will happen once you deplete the reserve?
Run a pipeline from Russia?
Heh
Everyone will just drive electric cars. Duh.
$4/g would be a significant price drop here. Fuck Joe biden. The SOR was not created so he can try to save his reelection chances.
The SPR won’t be needed with the new BEV tactical vehicles and airplanes.
Here I am eating some freedom toast, reveling in my First. Life is good.,
What They Drank when Working in the Fields and How was the Drink Made?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3VP3y-MVo
spoiler: cider
Several more balloons spotted on Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.ph/uW2Ys
Give me ONE reason why any civilian needs access to something like this.
https://twitter.com/Thinkwert/status/1625321542291685380
Gives new meaning to “Cabbage Patch Dolls”
These things should, of course, be banned, but thanks to Big Ag’s undue influence in Washington the politicians will not lettuce do it.
No one needs high-capacity cabbage.
Its the slaw.
You leaf them alone. They’re just trying to get a head.
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm previously met with the leader of an environmental organization that supports banning gas stoves in new buildings, a watchdog group has learned via a public records request.
But they are not coming for your stoves.
But they are not coming for your stoves.
It’s sort of true, they just left out the “yet”.
Old and Busted: New Soviet Man
New and Hot: New Transit Man
Gee, why hasn’t anyone thought of these things before?!
Culture of safety…
There is just something about hearing men talk about safety in 90% of contexts that makes me cringe. I mean, I get it for the guys who do the climb up giants towers for a living.
Not a particularly relevant comment to crime on the shitty subway system. But a mini-rant.
I dislike the nambly-pambly culture of safety as well.
Life is about taking risks – yes, calculated risks, but risks none the less. You just have to have plans B,C, and D in case your risky action fails.
For fuck’s sake, you took a risk getting out of bed this morning. You took a risk commuting in to work. You take a risk eating cafeteria food. Joe Fucking Biden is taking several risks on your behalf poking the Russian Bear and taunting the Chinese Dragon. You can either be paralyzed by the risks (see my employer) or you can recognize and plan for the risks.
Does Brad Tabke have a degree in social engineering from an accredited school? Then what on earth qualifies him to engage in that? He’s lucky he doesn’t live in Oregon, where engineering without a license is a criminal offense!
Nikki Haley SUCKS! That is all.
Not that I don’t believe you, but do you have any photographic evidence to substantiate this claim?
personal verification is required
“Because the ban is so all encompassing and uses a great many vague terms that I’m not even sure that exactly what is banned and that’s probably why judge McGlynn ordered the state to do that so that we could find out what exactly we are arguing about,” Maag told The Center Square on Monday.
Because the idea is to ban everything.
He said “the state has a tough row to hoe,” especially given recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent that cases regarding the Second Amendment must review text and tradition, not a balancing of state interest versus individual civil liberties.
Which invalidates the ban in the first place.
☭Commie☭Angel☭♿🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇨🇺🇻🇪🇰🇵🇨🇳🇮🇷
@Commie_Angel
When Chernobyl happened, USSR evacuated the town. Every person was forced to leave. They were given new places to live & healthcare for the rest of their lives.
In Palestine Ohio, USA ppl are on their own. No hotel vouchers even. Nothing but lies & dead pets, & a scary future…
https://twitter.com/Commie_Angel/status/1624790054806728705
I’m not sure if I should have a hearty belly laugh or weep for the future that this does not appear to be a parody account.
Just don’t tell her about the biological robots who tossed pieces of graphite off of the destroyed roof. That being said, the responsible parties and the authorities have screwed the pooch on this one.
Furthermore, this could never have happened in the USSR, because the trains ran on time…
The Palestine thing needs a death toll.
Local NPR reporting that MA is banning all PFAS by 2030.
RIP Teflon.
We really do need to ban bans.
I imagine as soon as someone calls Governess Hochul and mentions how many tax dollars she’d lose if that rule was actually enforced in NY, she’d carve out an exemption for us. But she probably wouldn’t exempt ALL solid PFAS, just our “essential” piping/valves/seals/tubing/etc.
LOL-snort
Anybody who has read the article from Linda G. T. Gaines article on historical usage of PFAS knows that its not that easy.
short answer…its everywhere
I wonder if she’ll order people to go to their surgeons and have their implants replaced with green, renewable cellulose ones?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajim.23362
As someone that needs to define the problem for a AF heavy engine depot base, my first answer (we just need one site, the entire AB), was shot down.
I guess the approximately 500 gallons of Super Lube I’ve used during the course of my airsmithing adventures was an environmental catastrophe. Oops.
“ I’ve used during the course of my airsmithing adventures.”
If that’s what you call it.
I knew I was serving that one up, the only question was who would get to it first.
Well that’s a nuance I am trying to figure out.
If that barrel of superlube tipped over and hit the grass, then yes.
if the lube was used as cables/wires were pulled underground….then maybe….it depends.
So basically they’ve decided to ban the modern world another way.
I prefer ceramic on my pan anyways
The Ohio train derailment situation seems to be going well.
Thank God we’re not moving this kind of stuff in those nasty pipelines!
Putting a match to it was straight up retarded, insane really. They didn’t want it to cook off I suppose but there had to be a preferable alternative they could have at least tried.
No offense to Spud, but not all firefighters are extremely bright. Even those with HAZMAT training.
Hey, if it had been the Oregon Dept of Transportation [IIRC] they would’ve blown it up with dynamite!
The argument I heard is that this is the lesser of two evils. I’m sure that is debatable.
I was going to make another White Noise joke, but it didn’t land yesterday.
I wouldn’t want to derail your sense of humor.
Well, that depends on how he conducts himself.
DesertedPIaces
@DesertedPIaces_
Decaying train on the bridge.
https://twitter.com/DesertedPIaces_/status/1624369437355950080
That’s not a train, there’s only a single engine. Without a car to pull it’s not yet a train.
THANK YOU
Apparently an AI art image.
Hmmm I did not notice that at first glance, but logically makes sense
Abandoned building covered with nature and roof becomes a pool.
https://twitter.com/DesertedPIaces_/status/1624771652742713349
The “authoritarian personality” also exists on the political left.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1623198921194446849
shocking
In case anyone was wondering why I have less respect for the anti-science of psychology than I do for cannibalism, this is one exhibit.
Also, “comprised of” is never actually correct, especially not in an academic paper.
language is fluid
It’s that kind of thinking that leads to “literally” meaning “figuratively.”
Which is just how languages work, “fast”, “inflammable”, etc.
Technically inflammable never changed meanings, we just concocted the word flammable to avoid confusion due to its Latin-root prefix. Nevertheless, all word meanings with which I was brought up remain fixed until I die. After that, society has permission to adulterate them.
As with all things, there is a balance. We are currently out of balance on language, due to a concerted political/ideological campaign against Western Civ. And it is shockingly effective. Note how the word “sex” has been entirely replaced by “gender”, unless the reference is to actual sex acts.
Communication of meaning requires a certain amount of stability, otherwise there is no shared understanding.
“Note how the word “sex” has been entirely replaced by “gender””
It hasn’t, but there a plenty of people who or either ignorant or deliberately dishonest.
I’ll just leave this here
https://twitter.com/fuckedupfoods/status/1624952497595990018
Im okay with that. The other way around, not so much.
Local NPR reporting that MA is banning all PFAS by 2030.
RIP Teflon.
No beneficial use. Dupont concocted it solely to give people cancer.
thicc?
https://twitter.com/ModernNotoriety/status/1623881959628832769
Happy Valentine’s Day to all the female Glibs. The guys, well, you’re on your own.
Naturally…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN9CjAfo5n0
Can’t not hear it this way anymore
All By Myself – Eric Carmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN9CjAfo5n0
damnit, Grumble!
I’m gonna go bait some fish hooks. I’m a master baiter, if not a master linker.
I prefer the Eric Cartman version.
There’s always March 14th.
Never heard of that. Hilarious!
Well then, today I am identifying as a female Glib.
All By Myself
We’ll do whatever it takes to ensure that CA doesn’t have to build a reservoir or desalinization plant! Pumping water from the Mighty Mississippi to CA is the least the rest of the nation can do
What a sissy! Everyone knows that you just put the Army Corps of Engineers on the job and everything will work out just fine.
Or, hear me out, we use the commies, watermelons, and econuts as slave labor to build nuclear desalinization plants. Done correctly, there won’t be anyone left to complain by the time the reactor gets started.
CA won’t build so much as a dam in the state, due to their exquisite environmental sensibilities. But they have no compunction driving an enormous pipeline across half the country. Pipelines are bad and make the Indians cry, except when they don’t, I guess.
Of course, why the rest of us “owe” CA this enormous boondoggle, nobody can say. If CA wants to pay for it, I say give it a go. Just make sure the entire length of the pipeline meets your insane environmental standards.
How about “No, you have plenty of local water, use it”
They can’t even build their rail line they are billions over budget and decades behind schedule
Good news – California’s new water project slated to be completed weeks before the sun goes supernova!
Maybe they could extend the high speed rail lines to Arkansas? Then they could attach water cars to the train?
Bonus: watching high speed rail fanbois argue with light rail fanbois about which type of rail should be used to ship the water.
So fuck up another river just so California can squander it away. I mean, didn’t work the first time, but maybe this time it will.
Exactly how are they going to get the water over the Rockies?
And the Colorado river is a small ditch at best near its source, it can’t handle the amount of water they are talking about.
Pumps! Ran on fairy dust cause it will be a net zero energy project and no use of dirty electricity will be allowed.
Tunnels! Bore through the mountains.
They currently use pumps to get water from the Colorado River and Owens Valley over the mountains to Los Angeles.
Once the straw is in place, California will suck and draw the water over the top of the Rockies. Gravity will take care of the rest.
Whoa! That better be pristine headwaters stuff, not that nitrogen laced field runoff from the delta.
Wouldn’t water fortified with runoff fertilizer be even better for CA and AZ to grow shit in their deserts?
Water in the Mississippi has been so low recently that barge traffic is seriously impaired. A huge amount of stuff, including agriculture products for export, has been stuck somewhere instead of shipped,
https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2022/11/low-mississippi-river-barge-disruptions-effects-on-grain-barge-movement-basis-and-fertilizer-prices.html
I was going to mention this. Shopping asking the Mississippi is more important than squandering all the water in the country on growing lettuce and almonds.
The “authoritarian personality” also exists on the political left.
That’s just right wing disinformation!
The Journal of No Shit is my favorite.
https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1625165340924600321
OFFS!!
Down at the bottom: “UCC”
Where Congregational Churches go to die.
Demons said “We are legion.” Their pronouns are they/them.
Funny… I seem to recall one of the few times God said anything on the subject it was: “I AM.” not “WE ARE”. Pardon me for taking the Supreme Being’s word over y’all’s, you twits.
We used to be able to burn disgusting heretics like that.
Why Smart People Hold Stupid Beliefs
Low brow, knuckle-dragging, Christofascist book-burners.
A new Idaho bill would open schools and public libraries to lawsuits for allowing minors to obtain books, films and other media that depict sexual content deemed “offensive.”
The legislation, from Rep. Jaron Crane, R-Nampa, would allow parents to sue schools and libraries if employees gave their child “harmful” material or if the institution failed to take “reasonable steps to restrict access” to “harmful” materials for minors.
The bill mirrors a current Idaho law that prohibits giving children under 18 “harmful” material that features “nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement or sado-masochistic abuse” when it’s lewd or “patently offensive to prevailing standards” among adults.
“Sexual conduct” under the law includes depictions of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse and physical contact with genitals and female breasts.
“Seeing as these public school and community libraries are funded by Idaho taxpayer dollars, it is in the best interest of our state that these institutions make a reasonable effort to restrict access to children when it comes to these materials in libraries,” Crane told the House State Affairs Committee on Monday.
Conservatives have a hard-on for upsetting the groomers.
Seems overly broad though. Limit it to without parent consent, otherwise the church ladies will be back in force.
Good morning, Banjos!
Happy VD!
Clap Your Hands!
I too was thinking of the clap it seems
We have a shot that will clear that right up for you.
I’m feeling too crabby.
happy venereal disease?
♫♪ How do you solve a problem like Kamala? ♫
I dunno. As long as they replace her with somebody further up the victim stack, who would care? These tokens are there, by definition, because they check boxes, not because of their competence or capability. One is as good as another, for purposes of virtue signaling.
It’s going to be Michelle Obama and she’s going to win.
Tinfoil hat take: It won’t be anyone that popular, because the entire purpose of our modern “fortified” election system is to rub the plebes’ noses in their powerlessness in order to demoralize them into complete and total submission. A candidate who could actually plausibly win would be useless. The worse the candidate, the better it is when they win in an electoral landslide. In that sense, Kamala would be just about perfect.
As long as she is breathing is could also be Hillary.
Is proof of life still even a requirement?
Michele Obama is my prediction too.
Because she’s trans?
You’ll just have to take our word for it
The US and Canada may not be able to recover the debris of the three objects recently shot down by the military at President Joe Biden’s direction, a senior administration official said Tuesday morning, a day after the White House tried to tamp down on burgeoning conspiracies.
“If it can’t be recovered, it’s going to be extremely difficult to say with great certainty what these things were,” the official said Tuesday morning.
Asked what option the administration has to learn more about these objects if the debris ultimately can’t be recovered, the official said that they are leaning as much as possible on the US intelligence community to assess those objects. Observations of the objects by US military pilots, as well as the objects’ flight patterns before they were shot down, are all being studied, they said.
Since three objects were shot down from the sky over North America in recent days, administration officials have emphasized efforts to recover the debris and the hope that finding their remains will be able to shed important light on their nature. But all three objects were shot down over terrain that is remote and challenging to navigate, which has made the recovery efforts uniquely difficult.
Threats were neutralized.
“conspiracies”
Sure, shooting will down three objects in NORAD airspace and conveniently being unable to retrieve the debris (whoopsie) despite having the resources to do so without too much trouble makes perfect sense. The military wouldn’t be able to access these areas with little to no additional preparation? Bullshit!
And of course let’s just ignore that it makes no sense to shoot something down if you don’t know what it is that you’re going to destroy.
Yep I highlighted yesterday that magically no footage has been released from either the aircraft monitoring it, even a radar blip, etc of these new objects but trust us, we are keeping you safe unlike the previous administration that allowed these to go unnoticed by even ourselves!
The specialized dive teams that would be needed to retrieve the debris are all over in the Baltic Sea working on a pipeline.
Distractions.
Dominated the news cycle and pushed out the Nord pipeline didn’t?
Lingerie show 2023🔥 – The underwear fashion show – Bikini Fashion Show #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdZiIm6XeLU
First blonde out of the chute makes me feel a certain kinda way.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1624997952740810752
OFFS!
LOL
BRVTAL
Could be one of those out-y pussies you know.
blurf
Post that all over the wall, problem solved.
Pipelines are bad and make the Indians cry, except when they don’t, I guess.
That particular pipeline is vitally necessary. California needs water to keep the almond milk flowing.
And the alfalfa and cotton… IN THE FUCKING DESERT. Arizona looked at California and decided to make their desert bloom too!
As long as they replace her with somebody further up the victim stack, who would care?
They can always put a dress on Mayor Petey.
Codswallop! Harry Haddock inflatable fish banned for match in Southampton.
Well, that’s what you get for having a white fish as your mascot. Queue up those s’piscine puns!
That’s the most British story today. Also makes me want to see “The Grimsby Brothers” again.
What a Crappie decision.
Oh, fudge
Stocks fell Tuesday, reversing earlier gains, after the January consumer price index report showed that inflation grew at a 6.4% annual rate, slightly higher than expected.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
slipped 250 points, or 0.73%. The S&P 500
shed 0.75%, and the Nasdaq Composite
fell 0.82%. Treasury yields ticked higher, with the yield on the 6-month U.S. Treasury on track to close above 5% for the first time since July 2007.
A stubbornly high inflation reading sent stocks sliding. The consumer price index rose 0.5% for the month, which translated to an annual gain of 6.4%. That was slightly higher than economist estimates of the basket of goods and services rising 0.4% on the month and 6.2% on the year, according to a survey by Dow Jones. In addition, the December report was revised to show a slight gain instead of a decline.
Stubbornly high. Unexpectedly.
But the guy in the suit said in front of Congress that inflation was going down. Your article is promoting falsities!
It is going down relative to the insane high it was at so no cause for alarm even though it’s high as shit.
They redefined the dataset used to measure inflation, and still failed to make it look good.
I wonder what the inflation rate for Defense Consumables is.
I have done my utmost to avoid reading anything about the train derailment.
Has anyone provided any info on the cause? I can only say there appeared to be nonstop maintenance being done on the rail line across southern Montana.
Aren’t trail derailments rather common?
Yep, like close misses at airports, it just comes down to what the news wants to report and wants to ignore.
“The question remains if inflation will be able to fall to the Fed’s target levels with the labor market as tight as it currently is,” he added. “That could be the recipe for a soft landing, but it remains to be seen when the Fed will shift away from rate hikes and if the labor market will lose its resiliency.”
Pay no attention to that giant avalanche of newly conjured money behind the curtain.
“The FAA implemented temporary flight restrictions over the university’s campus through Wednesday.”
No balloons getting through that dragnet!
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1625378176859009026
Complete psycho.
“We know that the nuclear family is the single largest abusive force in the world when it comes to children, but admitting this is so painful and would require such drastic change to address that we invent bogeymen and project it onto them.”
https://twitter.com/scumbelievable/status/1625319852402479107
Everyone knows kids in foster homes, for example, are much safer and suffer less abuse than if they were in a stable family situation.
We should check in with our resident Romanian on the subject of children raised by the state.
Any East Germans in the house?
From down below your link: I want this shirt.
Oh my.
Nope
Snakes in the motherfucking ceiling!
Just burn the whole neighborhood down.
That space is kind of constricting.
At least the snakes that get in my house top out around 4ft
Reticulated Pythons. I like snakes, but a pair of adult Retics is a bit much even for me. They tend to be pretty bitey, and they’re big enough that the bites can cause real injuries…
Democracy
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced a list Monday of 30 wide-ranging bills that he has designated his legislative priorities, including providing property tax relief and increasing natural gas plants to improve the reliability of the state’s power grid. He also detailed more specifically his plans to push a socially conservative agenda that would ban certain books in schools, restrict transgender student athlete participation in collegiate sports and end gender-transition treatment for young people.
In a statement announcing his priority bills, Patrick said he believed Texans largely supported his proposals because they “largely reflect the policies supported by the conservative majority of Texans.”
What about the wishes of liberal Texans? Don’t they get a say? This winner-take-all politics kind of sucks, if you don’t happen to be one of the winners.
Let’s see…
:: Flips through Democrat playbook ::
Ah, here it is. If Democrats win, it’s a mandate to do what they want, and the other side should be ignored. If Democrats lose, the other side should reach across the aisle and give Democrats what they want.
A VD card for yall.
Just burn the whole neighborhood down.
Take off and nuke it from space.
I have never linked to twatter before.
There’s a first time for everything
haha
If you didnt, I was about to.