Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another beautiful day and the links!
Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill placing Disney district under state control
Whistleblower Says He Gave DOJ Damning Information on Biden Family Foreign Business Deals
COVID Lab Leak ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Demand Apologies After Revelations
Deutsche Bank Forecasts US Recession in 4th Quarter, Followed by Rate Cut
‘Greater Idaho’ movement to absorb conservative rural counties from liberal Oregon gains momentum
New FDA authority to ban off-label uses alarms doctors
Study finds General Motors and Tesla have the most loyal customers
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with some songs and move along with my day.
“Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill placing Disney district under state control”
Prog on, fuckers.
I’m not at all convinced this is a good idea, unless good idea can be defined solely as “pwning the libs.”
Although Disney is far from being libertarian, the RCID was about as libertarian as it gets in the US.
A district, used by a sole entity, Disney, that operated their own services that would otherwise be paid by residents of the counties where Disney resides. A place where the only people who pay for shit like roads, water, and emergency services are those who use them, instead of being spread out to be paid for by those who don’t. Is this not what many of us advocate for as a matter of regular course?
Celebrating Disney losing this status makes no sense from a libertarian perspective. Those roads that Disney was building and paying to maintain? Now up to the residents of the entire state. Those emergency services Disney paid to keep and maintain? That cost will now be paid for by people who do not use them.
My understanding is that they will also be subject to property taxes to offset that.
In general it is less libertarian but has more rule of law- everyone subject to the same rules. Depends which you prioritize I guess.
Why are we worried about what a corporation will pay in taxes for the state to do a job it was already doing itself? It’s backwards as fuck, and a massive money hole for grift. Who benefits from that beyond government employees and grifters?
Why are we worried about a corporation paying taxes at all? Especially perhaps the most evil of all taxes?
I get that teaching Disney a lesson was a good idea, but socializing the services of Disney is not that lesson. You’re not teaching Disney much, but you are punishing the rest of the state that now gets to support a new cadre of state workers sucking off the teat.
I understand your point of view, too bad Disney doesn’t actually share it; their attitude is “Allodial title for me but not for thee.” They reap what they sow.
They don’t have to share an opinion. They do not espouse libertarian values, and certainly not publicly, yet they still operated by them in the ways that count.
We shouldn’t abandon our values as libertarians because it teaches someone a mythical lesson. The only people hurt by this are the residents of Florida who now have to pay for services Disney voluntarily paid for on its own.
“yet they still operated by them in the ways that count.”
You seem to conveniently ignore all their political operations that are not only the opposite of libertarian values but also far outweigh their remaining shreds of libertarian operations. Their operating principle over the last 40+ years has been oligarchy, not libertarianism.
‘Why are we worried about what a corporation will pay in taxes for the state to do a job it was already doing itself? It’s backwards as fuck, and a massive money hole for grift. Who benefits from that beyond government employees and grifters?’
The benefits are certainly a little more ethereal, though depending on outlays the may actually be a financial boon to everyone else
‘You’re not teaching Disney much, but you are punishing the rest of the state that now gets to support a new cadre of state workers sucking off the teat.’
You don’t think they’ll make sure the property tax rates are high enough to support wherever needs to be done with the district?
No.
You do? Since when does government work efficiently and operate in the black?
And even if the state did confiscate enough tax money from Disney to operate services Disney was already operating (and far more efficiently than any state could), how does that benefit anyone outside of more government workers?
Are we really in favor of government expansion just to teach Disney a lesson?
I kind of have a thing for uniform rules for everyone, so Disney getting what it deserves is just a side benefit of enforcing the same rules for everyone.
Of course, ideally we’d be moving in the other direction and opening it up to everyone.
“Of course, ideally we’d be moving in the other direction and opening it up to everyone.”
I think this is the key. I would prefer that but getting it right for someone is better than getting it right for no one.
I take the same view on immigration. Yes, open immigration would be better without the welfare state. But the two are independent, and while I would like to both eliminate the welfare state and open up immigration, I will take one as a move in the right direction.
Why are we worried about what a corporation will pay in taxes for the state to do a job it was already doing itself?
It’s crony capitalism. They’ve been bribing politicians for decades to have to not have to play by the same rules as businesses and build their own little nation state. It’s not libertarian in any sense. It’s corruption.
I’d gladly pay off my local county board to declare the SSD household essentially sovereign, not have to pay taxes, and handle police, fire, etc myself. What do you think the chances of success for me would be? Why is it okay for Disney but not any other business in Florida that doesn’t have the same political punch?
There are nearly 2000 such districts in Florida alone.
We shouldn’t disrupt libertarianism where it exists, and especially not when it is functioning well. We should be advocating for more special districts, not fewer.
Less government, not more.
Would you feel the same if Disney objected to CRT and a liberal governor and legislature revoked their status as an independent entity that pays for its own shit in order to “teach it a lesson?”
Special corporate governing zone does not = libertarianism to begin with. And as someone in Florida, I’ll pay the drop in the bucket to provide government services to the area to tell Disney to fuck off. Gladly. I think most Florida voters would agree, frankly.
Punishing its critics is baked into progressivism. What you are advocating for is crony capitalism where the right doesn’t even have fealty from its fucking cronies. It’s a cuck relationship where the right is supposed to defend the rights of mega corporations that shit all over its beliefs and constituents. Disney is getting the exact sort of government it advocates for everyone else.
And at the end of the day, this is nothing but crony capitalism. There are no principles behind Disney’s special status. Special rights granted solely to corporations are just as antithetical to libertarianism as big government.
There may be other special districts, but there are none with the range of powers that Disney has been granted. Most are essentially HOAs. Disney bribed its way to nation-state status. For example, Disney can seize property under Eminent Domain. Very libertarian there. Paying off the politicians so that you can seize your neighbor’s property under the force of law.
I would be very much in favor of allowing any business and residential home (or group of homes) to form their own special districts. That would be libertarian. Having such status granted by politicians in returns for bribes is not libertarian. It’s corruption and crony capitalism.
It’s like cheering on NYC’s “may issue” concealed carry licenses because at least some people are getting to carry. But that’s not the case. It’s only the politically connected that are getting the special privileges. The solution isn’t to expand “may issue” in return for more bribes to more politicians. The solution is to abolish special privileges and grant “shall issue” to everyone. It’s the same scenario here with Disney.
Disney took the stance it did because they thought it was the easiest and least costly. American businesses are infected with wokeism because when they evaluate the risk of pissing off the people that identify with the right vs. those that identify with the left, they see that the people on the right might get angry when they get fucked over, but that their reactionwill be to write a bunch of angry articles articles and bitch about it on social media, where they will accomplish shit, while the people on the left would actually both figuratively and literally burn their shit down. Can’t blame corporate decision makers for that risk assessment and decisions, cause it is logical. But until choosing to back clear and idiotic leftism also has a real life cost, like you lose autonomy and tax breaks Disney, that trend will not have a chance of being reversed.
Disney being kicked in the nuts basically puts all corporate entities that kow-tow to the left out of expediency that they will have to reassess their beliefs there is no cost in fucking over those that identify as the right.
it appears they miscalculated. I’m not sure this would have happened with any other red state governor in place of Ron D.
Would any other red state governor have had the stones to revoke Disney’s special status?
exactly. he’s willing to take the heat for doing what a blue state governor would do.
Disney decided to throw it’s weight around in ways that make no sense for it in any business manner so it had it’s special priveleges revoked. Fuck the pedos at Disney and everyone who supports their political stances here (which excludes MW here). This action was not taken in a vacuum.
I definitely don’t support their political stances. They’ve been fucked for a long time.
I do, however, support people paying for their own shit, and not forcing others to pay for it. Disney did that of its own volition, and even if I don’t support their wokeism, I support the fuck out of not socializing their services (and providing a superior solution).
“Whistleblower Says He Gave DOJ Damning Information on Biden Family Foreign Business Deals”
Did the DOJ then tell the FBI to investigate the whistleblower?
They had Cyprus arrest him on unrelated charges. That’s why he’s squawking loudly now.
Yes, in fact they did. How did you know?
“ Luft’s threat to “name names” comes after his arrest in Cyprus on Feb. 16 on charges that he illegally sold weapons to Libya and China. Luft asserts that the United States is seeking his extradition as part of a “politically motivated” payback for his exposure of the Bidens.”
He sounds like a scum bag, so he probably really does know what the Bidens are up to.
“Subject matter expert”.
OMWC and I are back from visiting Fourscore and Mrs. Fourscore. They are delightful people.
I’m curious what kind of blackmail they have on everyone here that people only have nice things to say.
Hey, hey, hey, wait just a damned minute! They were trying to learn the secrets of riding the government bicycle without having to pedal. Swissie came with a big bag of random puns that he shared, OMWC was looking for a new source of orphans.
They brought cheer to some old people that rarely see sunlight for 6 months of the year. They, like all the other Glibs, are always welcome. I won’t mention that they cleaned the ice off the patio so we wouldn’t be slippin’ and slidin’.
“COVID Lab Leak ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Demand Apologies After Revelations”
Demanding apologies is conceding the fight. The people that KNEW the Kung Flu came from the lab lied to not just hide their own complicity, but for political expedience. They shouldn’t be let off if they just apologize. they need to be held accountable or we will keep having more of this shit.
👆👆👆
I don’t want an apology. I want scalps.
Yeah, “I’m sorry I lied to you to protect my fat pharma royalty checks” just doesn’t cut it.
But, nobody is going to be punished in any way. Hell, Fauci is lining up they six figure speaking engagements as we type.
I want them to be held criminally accountable for the destruction and misery they inflicted on people for personal, political, and spiteful gain.
We’re not going to get them. They will admit that “mistakes were made” and then we will all be instructed to move on.
Quite possibly true. But at this point, we should be making lists.
If they get away without some of them being raked over the coals, there is absolutely nothing from stopping them doing this shit again. Say around the whole AGW criminal racket.
Well that’s likely the plan. Declare an AGW “emergency”, and use emergency powers to restrict and control the serfs just like they did under COVID.
COVID is still an emergency… The planet dying well never stop and they’ve already brainwashed everyone under 30. A few more years and they can spring their trap.
They have already put up their trial balloons for a climate emergency with dictatorial powers.
I think those trial balloons are Chinese.
Defending a lie is not a mistake.
Yeah, “move on” from Covid. Now, about those slavery reparations….
At least we’ll get Covid reparations in 2200.
And you’ll get neither as damn near the whole political class is culpable to one degree or another. There’ll be hearings and bluster and false promises of getting to the bottom of this and that and that’s it.
What I get out of this is that a sizable portion of the DC think tank archipelago is a front for money laundering in addition to being a propaganda machine of monstrous proportions.
An Israeli think tank executive who served alongside Hunter Biden as an adviser to a Chinese energy conglomerate widely suspected of serving as a front for the Chinese Communist Party now says he provided the FBI with damning information about the Biden family’s foreign business dealings.
I’m sorry to hear of his suicide next week.
He shot himself in the chest, with a long rifle or shotgun that was not found on scene, twice, while hanging himself in some state park using jumper cables?
Apparently its happened before….
At least we’re not as predictable as Russia. Some crazy dangerous windows there.
The Abe Reles treatment. Better known as the Hans Gruber to the kids.
Oh, you mean the Prague.
They just like taking in the impressive views of beautiful Mother Russia after drinking a liter of vodka. Falling out of windows is just gonna happen from time to time.
“Senate Dems Resurrect Constitutional Amendment Experts Warn Would Gift Massive Wins To The Trans Lobby”
At this point, my suspicion that team blue is actually trying to find a way to implement eugenics without admitting they are doing that has become a certainty.
These people are the ones that believe that to save Gaia you need to kill off most of humanity but don’t want to have you catch on to that. it is not a coincidence that all team blue policies have severely negative impact on young people. That’s by design. They want them to off themselves and not have kids.
The rhetoric from the covidiots matches the hard-core eugenicists from 100 years ago. Or, as I like to say, three generations of socialists is enough.
“while cautioning that it’s not clear whether the agency could broadly interpret “devices” to cover drug treatments.”
+1 Chevron doctrine
That’s the next bullshit ruling that needs to go.
Look, that puddle seems pretty navigable to me.
Did you just spit on the ground? There’s another spot to regulate.
That’s an unauthorized discharge into the WOTUS, clean up the mess and pay a fine now.
I just watched an “Into the Shadows” episode about those medical devices in the lawsuit. Apparently they are used to shock mentally challenged kids into correct behavior.
https://youtu.be/92BUzUFPAq8
“California reparations task force set to discuss hundreds of thousands in reparations later this week”
Will Angela Davis receive or have to pay them know that we all now she has ancestors that came here on the Mayflower to start of the slavery boogaloo?
‘know that we all now ‘
*Dying*
But I’m not one to talk.
Damn you caught that that fast?
Must be a fucking engrish major.
Seems the snake oil salespeople being good marxists, will defend the guy that managed to stack the largest body count in the name of equality & equity in human history (from 55 to 75 million depending on who does the counting) because the only evil ever to happen was the American experiment.
You gotta break a few eggs to maintain a good grift.
They were the bad eggs anyway. /S
Is oppressor blood weighted the same as victim blood? Is one drop enough?
I’m good to go. I’ve got a copy of the Virginia state order that named my family as trying to pass as white in violation of state code.
You guys are fucked though.
trying to pass as white
“Nice try, Paddy”
I married an Italian woman, so my kids are gonna be immune to that.
Us Guineas were also not considered honkeys, brah…
But you weren’t the paler party in the comparison.
I wannsee those future reparations conferences.
She just has to pay herself.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Stupid dusty house
Study finds General Motors and Tesla have the most loyal customers
I wouldn’t imagine most Tesla customers to have had the opportunity to buy a second one.
Two car Tesla families. They are a thing.
You have a Tesla but also a dirty, evil ICE car. Get thee behind me.
Now that makes a ton of sense to me; have one E car if that works for your life needs, and one ICE car if that works for different needs.
What i can’t grok is having a hybrid. One car with two very different and elaborate propulsion systems?
In theory, a plug-in hybrid is ideal – electric for supermarket runs, gas for trips to see family.
In practice, it’s as you say.
From what I understand, although I could definitely be wrong, is that the gas basically serves to keep the battery charged at a good level while driving.
I do believe that’s the idea, but my experience with hybrids (rental cars while on business trips) is that the ICE shuts off while the car is stopped, say at an access road waiting for a good opportunity to merge into the highway traffic.
Then you push the accelerator pedal, the IiCE shudders to life, and at some unpredictable moment after pushing the pedal the car propels forward.
I *hate* that uncertainty.
One of the best things about driving a Tesla is zero lag on acceleration. Elevation doesn’t matter (doesn’t need oxygen), steep incline doesn’t matter, temperature doesn’t matter (at least within reason). You know if you press the “gas” pedal, you’re going to be first off the starting block.
When I rent a car (which is frequently) that has that “feature” I figure out how to disable it and do so.
The worst was when I rented a small Ford in Britain. I was trying to learn to drive a 6-speed manual right drive car while driving on the wrong side of the road, and it *KEPT SHUTTING OFF!*
I drive a stick all the time and I couldn’t figure out why the car kept “stalling” because I wasn’t doing anything wrong.
What model Hybrid did you rent?
I do not have that experience with my C-Max. If the ICE is off, it accellerates with the electric motor when I push the pedal, starting up the gas engine at some future point, but not as a pre-requisite to going forward.
My V-6 Toyota has that feature. I have noticed zero issues with it restarting when the light turns green. I kinda like it, solely because it keeps a timer of how much time you spend at stop lights with the engine off.
Spoiler: its a lot of time.
What Toyota do you have? I have a ’21 Tacoma with the V6 and I don’t think it has that. I never would have tried to enable it, thought, so perhaps it is lurking in there somewhere.
Dr. Girlfriend’s Sienna Hybrid has the shutoff thing and it doesn’t really matter, since it’s a hybrid. But on a 100% ICE car, I find it annoying.
So it’s the honey badger of acceleration.
2022 Highlander.
Hybrids have the range of an ICE vehicle at lower operating cost and are less expensive than an EV.
310 mile range is enough for me.
Point is, to each his own. Butt out, government, and that includes trying to create charging “infrastructure”.
As always, the market will tend to itself, and the invisible hand will do its thing.
EVs that met my requirements were too expensive when I bought my last car. Maybe the next car.
Agreed. For my use case, EV makes no sense, because I’d need two cars for commuting and long hauls.
I’d consider an EV if the charging time were on par with filling a liquid fuel tank.
But I still prefer and ICE with a manual transmission.
It’s not even close to 310 when the temperature is in the 40s and the roads rainy which has a notable impact on efficiency.
Once you get in the 20s or lower it falls even worse.
Still love my Tesla as my second car however.
I could tolerate the charging time for my second, commuter car that sits in the garage. It’s not so easy if you don’t have charging at home or work. Planning trips would be more difficult if it was your only car. Hopefully you aren’t stuck waiting at a busy charging station.
I think for most multi-car families (or individuals), having one of each could make sense. For local commutes, most electric vehicles are probably fine unless you have one of those stupid low mileage models. We could probably go 2-3 days on a charge if 310 miles is close to accurate.
But anything beyond daily driving (which is most driving for most people), fuck an electric car. My wife just took a short road trip in a Kia electric car. Even the fast charge was over an hour long, making a medium length drive a really long one.
The problem is the start-up cost and charge time.
In order to make electric cars viable, the cost much drop dramatically, and charging homes need to be that of gas. I can fill up my 26 gallon truck in about 4 minutes from pulling up to pulling away. Until I can come close to that, anything that is beyond local driving is out of the question.
If your commute is less than 100 miles each day each way with a Long Range Tesla you are golden. Plenty of range.
You need charging at home or work however. Otherwise it will be a PITA.
I would not want one as my only car.
I’ve never gotten anywhere near 310 miles of range. 220 is as far as we’ve ever gone without a charge on the highway, and I think 260 would have been the ‘max’
But then it doesn’t matter because the non-stop range of the passengers almost never exceeds 150 miles and with only 120-150 miles between stops fast charging is fast enough to we pretty much stop, do our business, unplug and leave.
On winter road trips I find wind, air density and battery preconditioning to be the biggest reductions on ‘theoretical’ range.
The battery being cold in and of itself is no big concern (apart from the very first preconditioning)
Cabin heating is nothing as its typically only 1% per hour of above 15F.
Our last winter road trip was 15-30F, 600 miles in a day.
Winter or summer on this trip we stop in the same places because that is where the chargers(and just as importantly, good bathrooms/food) are.
Ultimately the time difference was negligible – I’d say 10-15m longer than same trip in summer, and really it was the cross winds that did it.
The only reason I got rid of my manual was issues with my left leg, otherwise I would still be driving pure ICE stick goodness.
As it is, I switched to a auto made before this fad of shutting of at stoplights BS. None of that for me. Simple is how I like it.
dorvinion – similar.
The issue is that it requires just a bit of planning that isn’t required on an ICE vehicle.
If it’s possible to plug in and preheat in the winter you definitely want to do so, but it’s not mandatory. But is again one more thing to think about. That said a nice warm or cooled interior before starting off is one of the best benefits of an EV.
The thing that makes EVs remotely feasible for most people is having your own home charging station. And that’s not possible for many people – depending on your risk tolerance, you may not want to put it anywhere but your own enclosed garage. So, many condos, apartments, some houses, certainly street parking would be counting on some kind of public charging station. That’s likely to be a stone cold non-starter for many people.
@Muzzled
The Kia was probably charging slow because most of the legacy automakers are still shipping their cars without battery preconditioning enroute to fast chargers.
To me its a self sabotage to not have this enabled. Preconditioning makes or breaks a road trip in an EV.
The only time you should ever spend 1hr fast charging is if you are trying to get a full charge – and really a full charge is something you only do when you have a specific need because charging from 80-100% takes longer than charging from 10-80%.
@Sensei
The longer I own an EV, the less I ‘plan ahead’ – to the extent we ‘plan ahead’ these days its make sure its plugged in (we don’t charge daily)
Precondition the cabin before we leave will give you an extra 10-15miles but that really only makes a difference when you are pushing the limits.
@R C Dean
A ‘home charging station’ is really just a glorified extension cord plugged into a 240v outlet.
Our first year of ownership, 90% of our charging was done on a 110v outlet. Granted our daily drives were all in-town so it was sufficient.
That 240V outlet will be something that needs to be installed in most places, but it may be less of a barrier than I thought. I assume you can unplug the extension cord/charger and put it somewhere safe?
I think I have a completely unjustified connection between “home EV charging” and “Powerwall” in my head.
RC – just a regular old $100 NEMA 14-50 outlet box is all that is required.
Mobile charge cord is around $200 and you can throw it in the trunk.
Mind you that running the wire to that box can get quite pricey. Mine was 2 feet from a subpanel in my garage and took me an afternoon and only about $150 in materials.
Still wondering how realistic that is in multi-family units. And of course street parking is right out. I also have no idea what percentage of people live in multi-family units or have only street parking. At this point, it’s academic as I’m sure the vast majority of them can’t afford an EV, but that will likely change over time.
@RC
We of course got a ‘mobile charger’ when we bought the car – and you certainly can use it daily (and we did for a year of course).
If we traveled we’d unplug this and put it in the car to bring with us.
The EVSE (charging station) we bought comes with a 14-50 plug on the end.
Its bolted to the wall and could be plugged into a 14-50 outlet, or if you have a lower amp 240v outlet, you can change the plug to match (at reduced power output of course)
Alternately you can remove the 14-50 plug and hard-wire it (we did this)
In our specific case we also had to upgrade our home service from 100A to 200A
Our breaker box was technically overloaded anyway so upgrading from 100A to 200A was something we would have to do at some point anyway – breaker box is technically overloaded, and we have an addition to the house planned.
Saying we did it for purpose of installing the EVSE means Uncle Sugar would cover 30% of the cost and get some of our tax burden back.
From a mindset perspective – if you buy an EV and don’t already have a 240v outlet in your garage just mentally figure on an additional 200-2000 (depending on your DIYisness and difficulty) as being part of the purchase price.
If we did not have a garage/driveway we would not have any EVs. Pure urbanites are gonna need some other solution before its practical for them.
In my cul-de-sac, there are 5 two-family houses, just one of which has a driveway. The other 8 families park in the circle but it’s not possible for everyone to park in front of their place, so “drag a cord across the sidewalk” would be “drag a cord the length of the circle. And this is a _good_ parking situation around here.
Digging around, this city has 24,000 parking spots, with 60,000 resident parking permits issued. The chance of getting a spot in front of your residence is slim.
That’s not even getting into the destruction of parking spots in order to install lightly-used bike lanes. (looks at freezing snow/rain mix coming down outside)
Yup, even though I’m going to let the Mr keep his after the divorce. We had two chargers installed at the house.
Never going to have a non-Tesla again.
My cybertruck deposit gave me a claim in that queue as well…
“It’s going to cost HOW MUCH to replace the battery!?”
Well to mine that you need 12 slave orphans and you have to expect three of them will die. That surprisingly adds up.
What percentage of GM sales are government vehicles? I almost never see citizens driving GMs around, but lots of official vehicles seem to be GM.
How many of them are now sworn enemies of Elon Musk?
Tard Tuesday: World War 3 Gets No Respect
Jesus help me.
The left can’t meme.
Meming requires self-awareness on some level. The average leftwing memer is a 45 year old crazy cat lady who thinks she is still single because men can’t handle an independent minded woman.
You know that is one of the things that makes me laugh. People in general realize at some point or anther that when everyone you meet is an asshole to you, maybe the problem is you. This demographic you mention seems to be the only one that never has that reflection, and worse, if they ever think about it, conclude the problem definitely is with the men that ran away from them screaming.
Well, they do have most of society telling them in some way out another that is totally not them, and just the fault of icky men. When you get off from the mark, it helps to have everyone around you point out how dumb you were. They’re not getting that feedback.
Don’t get me wrong. Some men, including myself, can be real assholes. But in my experience the vast majority of American women are the most spoiled kind of entitled people ever. The Venn diagram showing how that overlaps with the types that become progressives and will be found a few days to a few weeks after they die with their bodies having been ravaged by the large number of cats that were their only companions.
It’s not just a meme, that comic strip gets published in write a few places (or used to). They’ve always been far left, but what far left means seems to have become more and more crazy. Oe maybe just more and more dangerous, I’m not certain which.
Yeah, typically in the city’s alt-weekly. And printed all shrunken down which makes the wall o’ text even more hilarious.
That’s true, but most the people reading it are deranged already, so even bonkers scripts like that get uncritically accepted by them.
Some family members who are otherwise good people, with ‘this machine kills fascists’ bumper stickers on the family car come to mind.
That strip used to be (maybe still is) in the Nashville Scene. I first read it when I moved here in ’95. That comic was stupid then, not funny, and liberal as hell. Eventually the whole rag went that way so I stopped reading it. It’s a shame; the Scene used to be really good.
I always read those for the news of the weird and the personals section. Both were funnier than the alleged comics.
Ah yes, News of the Weird! Loved that section. I might have to pick up a copy and see what they’re like these days.
All up and down the left coast you will see those “alternative weekly’s” with, among other things, that stupid Tom Tomorrow strip. Always the same things: Brezneys astronomy, a couple other comix, same articles. It’s like it’s a chain.
I think the conclusion is they agree with MTG.
Seriously. It’s amazing how much text is required to convey the point in a left wing meme/comic.
Pushing Russia to the brink of war is good think and Putin’s rightful punishment for getting Trump elected over Hillary in the first place. Besides, it pales in comparison to banning trannies from female bathrooms.
Whopper overload.
Too much text. If you’re going to write an essay, don’t pretend it’s a comic strip, which is a visual medium.
Shitty illustration and a wall of leftist bullshit text.
Hard pass…
TL; DR
COVID Lab Leak ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Demand Apologies After Revelations
We are still using this term even though it is now conspiracy fact.
La la la la la. I can’t hear you! Oh say can you see…..
[grabs co-worker and waves at coffee]
I guess I need more coffee….
Wait, you’re telling me it doesn’t say that?!?
Those sexual harassment HR meetings must be fun.
Deutsche Bank Forecasts US Recession in 4th Quarter, Followed by Rate Cut
So you are saying we need to send a few more billion dollars to Ukraine.
Defense industries would prosper!
yep.
The science, which was settled, evolved.
Or some shit.
I want these scumbags to explain to me when/why political expediency became the primary metric to drive “Da Science”!
It’s nice to know that the basic principles of “science” are still alive, at least when the results are properly aligned with the preferred political opinions.
If you’re at the forefront of this and you’re asking for “apologies” I’m going to assume you’re a fed or at the very least controlled opposition.
The force was tasked with researching California’s liability in racist practices that affected the black community and coming up with a proper figure of financial compensation. Its next meeting is due to take place on Friday and Saturday in Sacramento, according to CapRadio.
The answer is easy: $0.00
The only truly truly systemically racist system in America is the public education system, and that is because of the teacher’s unions. Abolish that racist legacy!
Affirmative action, minority set-asides, and DEI hiring and promotion are truly systemic racism. Just not in the way the proggies mean.
One bucket of fried chicken and two watermelons per person.
*CANCELLED*
Because he forgot collards?
Because he forgot orange drank.
A campaign to have rural eastern Oregon effectively secede from the blue state and join more conservative Idaho is gaining steam as leaders from both states express support for relocating the border between them.
InSuRrEcTiOn.
“Idaho would have the satisfaction of freeing rural, conservative communities from progressive blue-state law,” wrote Simmons. “We are dismayed by the manner in which Oregon government has marginalized our values and villainized our resource-based livelihoods. This is why our counties voted 75% Republican last year (Idaho voted 67% Republican).”
The left means to rule you. The cannot let you go.
Explain what this has to do with semiconductor production. Or perhaps this has nothing to do with anything other than control…
Child care a requirement for chip makers seeking billions in incentives under Biden rules
The easiest way to force compliance is by making people dependent on you and your money…
Ask any state in the union about that.
I would think highly qualified semiconductor engineer women could afford childcare
Sure. Put ‘em to work in the fab. I bet those little fingers are just the ticket for some jobs.
Because kids are a nuisance that get in the way of job performance.
I bet the fine print includes abortions, too.
That is basic healthcare, duh.
The announcement of a hearing on the ERA by Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Durbin was met with applause from prominent liberals, including Alyssa Milano, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and Senator Chuck Schumer. Democrats passed a resolution in March 2021 to remove the deadline for the ERA, a resolution which was reintroduced in February 2022. Removing the deadline for ratification would dramatically ease the pathway for adoption of the ERA into the U.S. Constitution.
Seems to me you missed the deadline on the originally proposed amendment which means that the states that did ratify need to do so again under the new provision. Otherwise this will not be legitimate.
Just wait until these idiot “feminists” realize that an ERA means no preferential treatment for women and they are also subject to the draft.
But it’s a distraction from Biden getting us into WWIII and that’s all that matters.
The SC ruled some time ago that a time limit on ratification was constitutional. With the current cast of Nazgul it would do so again.
‘Otherwise this will not be legitimate.’
I’m not sure they care about that anymore.
Who here is surprised to find out a scumbag lib lied about how much of the money he stole from stupid people that he funneled to buy favors, too often from team blue political entities? Seriously. When that much money goes missing and no tangible assets are left to be liquidated, that cash either went up somebody’s nose or was “donated”.
New FDA authority to ban off-label uses alarms doctors
How else are they going to prevent doctors from prescribing horse paste for the flu?
That’s really pernicious, off-label prescriptions are a very important part of a doctor’s repertoire.
My epilepsy drug is strictly speaking “off label” because it’s FDA approved only as an adjunct therapy to a more mainstream drug for seizure prevention.
But it has so few side effects, many neurologists prescribe it alone in hopes it will do the trick. For me and thousands of others, it does.
If this new law forces doctors to prescribe one of the sleep inducing depressive drugs, I’m gonna have to go on the warpath.
Just go keto it solves epilepsy / not medical advice
WRONG
CrossFit is the correct answer.
VEGANISM!
Urophagia?
A read of the article says this is aimed more at medical devices, not drugs, but given how willing the courts are to roll over who knows?
But how is that any better? The government shouldn’t be getting in the way of your medical treatment outside of provable malpractice or fraud.
I agree, I was just talking about Hayek’s individual case.
Multiple high capacity energy storage/discharge devices in garage? Check.
Background in directed-energy weaponry? Check.
OK, this is a warpath I am looking forward to seeing.
Glad to hear, BTW, that you’re settling in. I would think getting the new job going would be a big step along the road.
“Electro-Killdozer”
They can prescribe it – but what forces you to actually take it?
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4th try’s the charm on TL. 🙄
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Study finds General Motors and Tesla have the most loyal customers
I’m a Honda/Toyota person.
I just can’t imagine being loyal to general motors.
After the bailout I’ve not been a fan of any kind. But the new C8 is quite tempting, but I can’t be the bald middle aged guy in a Corvette.
My friends just say I should play it up.
I think being bald is a prerequisite for a Corvette purchase.
Lol, go for it Sensei!
Nothing like the feel of the wind blowing where your hair used to be.
Mullet wig is the answer.
The small European nation of Switzerland beat sky-high inflation. Here’s how
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/27/how-switzerland-beat-high-inflation-why-the-swiss-economy-is-strong.html
The article is stupid in itself, but the title amused me. As if Switzerland is some obscure country no one heard about. I assume even with Americans legendary lack of knowledge of geography (at leas tin the minds of Europe) people know Switzerland without additional details.
*squints suspiciously*
Storehouse of Nazi gold!
Yes, my European Lord of Geography, even us stupit Americans have heard of Switzerland, with their chocolate, and army knives, and bank accounts. And we often envy how well you Europeans know geography.
You’re right, the title acts like it’s Transnistria, or some other oddball microstate.
Just criminalize the opposition.
Under House Bill 1333, the duties of the Domestic Violent Extremism Commission are to “identify community-led and evidence-based solutions to combat disinformation and misinformation, address early signs of radicalization, and develop public health-style responses.” …
During a public hearing last week, the state’s Attorney General’s Office and the far-left Anti-Defamation League provided examples of the “right-wing extremism” that will be classified as “domestic terrorism.” These include being anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-critical race theory, questioning election results, and calling the LGBTQ community “groomers.”
The state says that these “conspiratorial narratives motivate extremists.”
How very Soviet.
I say to the extent that there are “ultra right wing extremists”, they’ve been radicalized not by other right wing extremists, but by the left itself.
I’m quite angry in the way that would be described as “RiGhT wInG eXtReMiSm” by anyone who’s dumb enough to make these kinds of arguments, but it wasn’t because of any misinformation that wasn’t directly provided by government and its lapdog media. Lockdowns, mask mandates, mass censorship, the near total destruction of our economy, wokeism, and the constant gaslighting are what “radicalized” me. I don’t watch any news source outside of occasional clips on YouTube, much less having been glued to right wing conglomerates, hanging on their every word.
Fox News didn’t radicalize me. Nor did Trump, who I never voted for. The government and the rest of the news media/social media media complex did.
I agree with everything here except for one thing. Calling yourself a radical is accepting their framing. They’re the ones trying to push the Overton window into a perfect eclipse of Maoism. I refuse to accept that an unwillingness to go along with them is in any way radical.
Indeed
Nothing ‘radical’ about what was effectively ‘normal’ behavior up until about 10 minutes ago
Florida man found with over “one ton” worth of child pornography
https://nbc-2.com/news/state/2023/02/27/florida-man-found-with-over-one-ton-worth-of-child-pornography/amp/
“Detectives found countless photos showing child sexual abuse material.
MCSO estimated there were more than 220,000 images weighing approximately 2,600 pounds.”
Guy kind of looks like the old pedo guy in Family Guy
“25 counts”
Seems pretty low if he really had that much stuff.
“Florida man found with over “one ton” worth of child pornography”
Did he store them on a tape drive on a mainframe?
Carved stone tablets.
It seems odd that you are wearing another country’s colors.
“F**k Trudeau!” Yellers Interrupt Justin
Trudeau’s Speech
Canadians should wear Fidel Castro masks to Trudeau’s appearances.
“Conspiracy theorists demand apology”
It’s good to start one’s day with a hearty laugh.
A sugar replacement called erythritol – used to add bulk or sweeten stevia, monkfruit and keto reduced-sugar products – has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study.
“The degree of risk was not modest,” said lead study author Dr. Stanley Hazen, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Prevention at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/27/health/zero-calorie-sweetener-heart-attack-stroke-wellness/
‘participants in the intervention were already at increased risk for cardiovascular events’
Eh, given how many people this covers that’s not unreasonable. Three precautionary principle also looms large, until more is known anyway.
given how many people this covers
everyone vaxxed?
Meh. I’ve got a bag of it in the pantry for baking stuff. I’m not worried.
It was good to know ye….
*makes sign of the Cross*
I Found It: The Worst Art Job Listing Ever Created
Welcome to running a family office. Now a genuine family office would have multiple staffers handling exactly this. OTH, this is your typical NYC art multi millionaire trying to compete with his multi-multi millionaire pals.
“$65,000-95,000 a year!”
Sounds terrible?
The job duties seemed extensive though.
even $95k/yr doesn’t go far in NYC.
Um, the documentary from the 90’s known as Friends, disproved your theory. Do some research.
It’s basically indentured servitude.
If you get a text at 2am you will be expected to respond to it however is required.
Your vacation is the family vacation. You don’t actually get your own vacation.
Median (not mean) income in NYC is $67K.
Is that median counting government handouts, or treating those entirely subsisting on those as $0? If those were removed from the data set, what happens to the median?
It’s census data.
My assumption is transfer payments are ignored.
They are. They always are. It’s key to keeping the public assistance grift going.
“This job listing is no longer available”
There must be a reason for the treason of Stalingrad Steven.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday bestowed a state decoration on Steven Seagal, the American action-movie actor who also holds Russian citizenship.
The awarding of the Order of Friendship was announced on the Russian government’s internet portal. The order recognizes people who Russia considers to have contributed to bettering international relations.
The Republican-backed bill rebrands Disney’s self-governed Reedy Creek Improvement District as the “Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.”
DeSantis gained the authority to appoint the members of a five-person oversight board for the special district — a power that Disney formerly held.
Why not just abolish the district and shrink government?
I know…. I know…
The U.S. economy will slip into a recession in the fourth quarter of 2023, and the Federal Reserve will respond with a rate cut in the following quarter, Deutsche Bank said in a new forecast.
It’s only a recession if it comes from the Recession Region of the country.
Inside the UK’s Mormon missionary boot camp
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64790111
Every year, thousands of young Mormons go on missions to try to recruit others into the religion. The BBC was given access to their UK boot camp, where they learn how to teach Mormon beliefs and use social media to reach potential converts.
When 19-year-old Rebekah Cooper started her mission, she had to give up her first name, stop making phone calls to her friends and surrender any time to be on her own, other than to use the toilet or shower.
Known only as Sister Cooper during her religious mission, she also began a strictly-planned daily schedule – of prayer, study, exercise, volunteering in the community and seeking out potential converts – starting at 06:30 every morning and ending with a nightly curfew.
Along with general Mormon rules based on religious scriptures like a ban on premarital sex and drinking tea and coffee, missionaries aren’t allowed to stay out late or watch TV or movies. Typical Gen Z pastimes like gaming and TikTok are also forbidden.
Rebekah is one of tens of thousands of young Mormons around the world who volunteer to take part in missions every year, with the goal of recruiting others to join the religious group.
No tea is a deal breaker.
I was under the impression that Mormons were well known as a board gaming group. Or does the article just mean video games?
when I hear gaming I think video games myself.
The destruction must continue.
This sign from Jill points to a 2024 run — “He’s not finished what he’s started, and that’s what’s important. Look at all that Joe has done, has accomplished! He brought us out of the chaos.”
True, he hasn’t finished completely destroying America yet.
“He’s not finished what he’s started, and that’s what’s important. Look at all that Joe has done, has accomplished! He brought us
out ofthe chaos.”FTFY
At least there are no more mean tweets
“He brought us out of the chaos.”
He’s a modern day Moses.
And Jill is a modern day Ho-sus.
That is a hell of a filter. She’s also Q-worthy.
There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle on that one.
Also would.
Yeah she looks good before and after.
Yep, cuter before and hotter after-both acceptable.
I prefer before.
And she is Q-worthy.
Before. I hate cake face.
Yep yep yep.
THICC
Would with extreme prejudice.
Before: Marry
After: …you know the drill.
Inside a $100,000,000 Oceanfront Mansion in Malibu, California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPvJ5jRih8c
Why the right will always lose.
People ask for apologies from authoritarian leftists who tried to destroy their lives during covid.
There are a bunch of morons who call themselves libertarians and conservatives attacking DeSantis for revoking special privileges granted to a corporation that is actively hostile to them. They call this principled as if there are really principles behind granting a special governing status to a corporation in the first place.
I hate to say it but ^^^^this.
The Left acts as if it’s at war, the Right (libertarians included) acts as if we’re playing a gentlemen’s game with rules and referees. Further: the Left has no principles whatsoever beyond what will gain and maintain power. This is not to say that the Right must approach things the same way, but it does need to be a lot more ruthless in pushing through policies that align with its principles when it does have power instead of whining about how the world is unfair.
The right is boxing with Marquis of Queensbury rules. The left is fighting gang-style, prison riot, shank you in the kidney before I make you my bitch and sell your ass for a candy bar and a pack of cigarettes, rules.
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
…Hillaire Belloc
“Let’s order a round of pangolin poppers for the table” is still not racist.
Perhaps clueless TV hosts should also “stay in their lane”.
Because a comedian promoting experimental medical treatments is staying in your lane.
‘comedian’ he claimed, without evidence.
Pathetic hack knows who butters his bread, news at 11.
The intelligence analysis at DOE don’t have the right credentials.
Unlike Colbert who is a foreign intelligence expert.
Look at all that Joe has done, has accomplished! He brought us out of the chaos.
*head explodes*
There is a significant part of the US and world population that believe this…..let that sink in
The stupid will always be with us.
Yes, their biggest fear is populism: Brexit, Trump, Bolsenaro, that dude in Hungary, the list goes on. The idea of people doing what they want, and not what “our betters” think is important scares the shit out of them.
It is why they hate capitalism, and love socialism. The latter flatters the intellectual, while the former denies this.
Nestle in between warm pleasure pillows on Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.is/ID2c6
Just say no to fake Dirndls.
At least there are no face diapers.
Damn, is #5 cute or what
SKIMS TRY-ON HAUL | Swim & Valentines shop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbJ1RiPsJ8U
glibfit?
Yeeeeep.
Mob justice
Cartoonists across the country are applauding editors and publishers for condemning Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, after his recent tirade against Black Americans.
“I’m proud and happy to see publishers, magazines, and newspapers are dropping him because there should be no tolerance for that kind of language,” said Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, a cartoonist for The New Yorker.
“It’s a relief to see him held accountable,” she added.
Preach it, sister. Let your hate and envy flow.
Wrongthink must be crushed.
Helps when the wrong think is the only amusing competition they have.
All he said was to not hang around people that hate you.
And that’s wrong! You have to just blindly walk into deadly situations to prove you aren’t racist.
Censorious cartoonists? Pamotherfuckingthetic…
Adam’s true crime, the reason they have been trying to cancel him for half a decade, is/was that he told people Hillary Clinton is a crook and he liked the bad orange man whom he pridected would win in 2016.
Absolutely and the offended will bide their time until something is said and then they’ll pounce. Once you voice certain views on air it’s all just a matter of time. What he said was actually pretty tame when listened to in context but they don’t give a shit about that.
Hi Hayeks – just saw your post from last night/this morning. That area you’re looking at was pretty nice when I was in the area 2010-2012. I lived in the Bella Terra apts around the corner. That whole area was pretty nice at the time because I could just do my PT by jogging around that massive block and staying off the main road. A lot of nice restaurants within easy/convenient walking distance – not sure how many of the originals are still there but maybe a few.
But cartoonists say Adams has a long history of spewing problematic views. In the past, Adams has inaccurately described people who are not vaccinated against COVID as the real “winners” of the pandemic.
Oh, horror.
NPR has a long history of sPeWiNg horseshit.
Women do not enjoy exercise as much as men. That is the stark revelation to emerge from Sport England’s latest findings as it launches its latest ‘This Girl Can’ campaign, which aims to tackle the so-called ‘enjoyment gap’.
The cost of living crisis, concerns for safety and fear of judgement while exercising are among a wide range of practical and emotional barriers that are preventing women from getting active.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/womens-sport/2023/02/28/why-women-enjoy-exercise-less-men/
Because women don’t actually have to be fit to successfully mate?
Because being very thin and toned isn’t particularly attractive (compared to being curvy e.g)?
Saving up fat stores for the future babies.
Physical capability is not typically a defining feminine virtue?
Because being very thin and toned isn’t particularly attractive (compared to being curvy e.g)? – maybe not very, but thin and toned is attractive to me. I am not a fan of curvy.
So you enjoy pre-pubescent boys?
Just kidding. I prefer athletic but with lady-like curves.
“the so-called ‘enjoyment gap”
If they’re talking about the thigh gap, I, too, would like to tackle some of that.
Despite Adams’ unapologetic stance, Knight hopes that the Dilbert creator’s departure from newspapers will be an opportunity for a more diverse group of artists to share their work, adding that the industry can be tough for artists of color to break into.
“I say it all the time: Cats have better representation on the comics page than people of color,” Knight said. “Maybe this is an opportunity to diversify the comics page.”
Cats are funny.
https://twitter.com/wmcarterelliott/status/1614785693619990529
Sugar Mama.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21520777/partner-paying-prostitutes-my-money/
But my post-holiday glow disappeared when I found a prostitute’s card in his wallet. – wait prostitutes have cards?
Sounds like an analogy for big government.
She should have kicked him to the curb after the first offense.
“But the first real test came when he was made redundant ”
This has to be the first euphemism I’ve seen that sounds worse than the normal term. ‘fired ‘ sounds better than being made redundant.
“Made Redundant” is the common britishism. They’ve been using it for years. It’s a layoff, not a firing.
I know, there are differences in context in terms of fired versus laid off, but that still feels like a euphemism.
Pimp’n ain’t easy, but it’s necessary!
Bad Socialism Takes (USSR state-affiliated media)
@BadSocialisms
You can’t measure my tankie-ness with patreon-style subscription system
https://twitter.com/BadSocialisms/status/1630493139210473474
The Khmer Rouge, well pol Pot, did it right. You prog the hardest when you kill 1/3 of your country’s population.
Controversial, but correct, answer to discussion from last night: Milky Way.
I used to eat those as a kid… not in a long time.
Peanutless Snickers aren’t bad at all.
True, but mounds are the best.
I am allergic to coconut.
Personally, I prefer a Three Musketeers bar to either Milky Way or Snickers.
100 Grand bar
THIS.
Dark chocolate Midnight Milky Way.
I made a mead that tastes just like it.
I read somewhere that US Midnight Milky Way are the same as UK (undifferentiated) Milky Way.
Reese’s or GTFO.
::fist bump:: That is, in fact, the official GOAT of mass market candies. As it should be.
I got an email from my gas company for a contract for next year with the same price as this year aka very high I thought it would go down in my stupidity.\
Fun part the government put a ceiling price of .31 Lei per Kwh and the offer I got is 0.3099
Some government asshole will tell you to feel lucky he didn’t set it to 0.50 Lei per kWh.
What are your blackout hours going to be?
Be thankful you’re not burning blood-tainted Russian gas. Do your part to support Ukraine and pay up.
I would rather be using cheap Nuclear electricity than any gas.
Same here.
Good morning, Banjos!
California reparations task force set to discuss hundreds of thousands in reparations later this week
Good. The Chinese slaves were treated terribly.
Study finds General Motors and Tesla have the most loyal customers
Riiiiiight. The two companies most renown for their craftsmanship and reliability. Pull the other one.
The off label med thing is troubling. I’m starting to think never getting sick will be an important survival tip when dealing with the health care bureaucracy.
‘ I’m starting to think never getting sick will be an important survival tip when dealing with the health care bureaucracy.’
This is the best plan to have. It’s expensive, slow and not good at it’s job outside acute situations.
The paint on Model 3 exceeds the quality of the paint on my 2007 Jeep Wrangler.
So roughly the quality of 1980s level GM.
Current GM paint is like Mercedes Benz in the 80s compared to either the Jeep or Tesla.
Allow? Or compel?
The Republican-controlled U.S. House is expected to vote on Tuesday on a bill to block President Joe Biden’s administration from allowing retirement plans to consider environmental, social and corporate governance, or ESG, issues in their investment decisions.
Republicans believe they could have enough support to fast-track a companion bill and pass it in the Senate. That would force Biden, a Democrat, to decide whether to sign or veto the joint resolution that would prevent the Labor Department from enforcing a new ESG regulation.
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The measure is the latest salvo in the Republican culture war against the use of issues that promote environmental interests, social equality and corporate responsibility in business and investment decisions.
The battle is only likely to intensify as the 2024 presidential campaign gets under way. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, widely seen as a leading White House contender, has already made his own fight against “woke” businesses a hallmark of his image.
The Labor Department rule, which covers plans that collectively invest $12 trillion on behalf of more than 150 million people, makes it easier for plan managers to consider climate change and other environmental, social and governance factors when they make retirement investments and exercise shareholder rights, such as proxy voting.
Right wing culture warriors! Whycome them hate shareholder activism?
How dare they defend the financial interests of people who can’t choose their own plan managers.
All he said was to not hang around people that hate you.
It kisses the foot, or it gets the cattle prod.
Also- on that ESG bill. I like the idea that Congress might actually be making an attempt to reclaim its designated powers, instead of letting agencies run rampant.
Peanutless Snickers aren’t bad at all.
Wait, what? A “peanutless Snickers” Is not a Snickers.
Aka milky way?
ATTN: Mojeaux.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/mormon-mum-shares-sneaky-way-29333513
Two points – 1. Based on the LDS girls in my high school, there’s no need to proselytize, just unleash horny boys. Almost universally hot. 2. “Technical virginity” has been a thing for a long time and, in my experience, was usually anal.
Very attractive lady. Is she part Grey or part Sleestak??
I dunno. I’m getting a crazy vibe from her eyes.
Looks like a filter to me.
True.
BYU is the University of Southern California – Provo Campus
As for “technical virginity,” I only know that’s a thing because of a bunch of news articles that float around in batches every so often. I don’t imagine it’s any different in any other tightly-sexually-policed religion. Unless they’re diddling kids.
Fun part the government put a ceiling price of .31 Lei per Kwh and the offer I got is 0.3099
Yeah, well… One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
“‘Cocaine Bear, hold my beer’: Production company behind ‘Sharknado’ is set to release ‘Attack of the Meth Gator’ this summer
Like Cocaine Bear – which is directed by Hunger Games star Elizabeth Banks – Meth Gator is loosely based of a 2019 PSA from Tennessee police to not flush meth down the toilet.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11800205/Production-company-Sharknado-set-release-Attack-Meth-Gator-summer.html
I would watch that…
https://twitter.com/scotthortonshow/status/1630578002839863296
Waco anniversary.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/biden-admin-blasted-for-abrupt-and-uncoordinated-afghanistan-pullout/
SIGAR report dropped while we were watching other things.
You know who else has an abrupt and unfortunately pull out?
Fuck. 😂
Uncoordinated, kind of like my typing skills.
Only unfortunate if you get the timing wrong.
Bottoms Up!
8 months. Ex – CNN. Looks like she lacks the skill set to hold down any kind of soft landing.
I wish I’d never seen this proof that you can sail from the UK to New Zealand in a straight line, it feels like cursèd knowledge that no mortal man should hold
https://twitter.com/ZiziFothSi/status/1630154028045815808
That’s going to be a rough trip.
That would be a hairy voyage with a decent chance of dying if you aren’t an expert sailor.
Fucking math scares….
I think Clifton sums it up.
https://twitter.com/cliftonaduncan/status/1630266919407218688
Alec Baldwin?
Nope six COVID vaccines. But just imagine how sick she could have been!
These people are absolutely deranged.
Safe and ineffective. Also not safe.
If you’re in reasonably good health and less than 65 or 70 why take it?
Because Pfizer and Moderna have bills and politicians to pay.
DON’T TELL ME MY TALISMANS DON’T WORK, HERETIC!
Anyone who has read the Bible knows 6 is imperfect. Seven is perfect. Just one more jab to immunity!
Deep Squats, Shallow Thoughts had the right response:
“I’m 99% sure I got covid for the second time the other week too, but I didn’t test because it’s pointless, and I didn’t whine and bitch about it on social media, because I’m not a whiny little bitch. Today I pressed 225×5, 265 for a single, and 185×12. JFC with these people.”
Check and mate, libertarians!
In a bright-red county in a state allergic to regulations, there is a ban on growing grass outside new businesses. Only 8% of a home’s landscaping can have a grass lawn in this booming corner of Utah, about a hundred miles northeast of Las Vegas.
And if any developers want to add another country club to this golfing mecca, “I don’t know where they would get the water from,” said Zach Renstrom, general manager of the Washington County Water Conservancy District. “And I’m telling you, I know where every drop of water is.”
Like lots of spots in the West, the combination of more people and less water makes for an uncertain future around St. George, Utah. While this winter’s generous snowpack could buy precious time, the entire Colorado River system remains in danger of crashing if water gets too low at Lakes Powell and Mead.
Only government can solve problems like this.
Tucson is looking at those kinds of rules, as well as some kind of surcharge for high water use.
At some point, water shortages become a collective problem that require a collective response. It does no good to point out that the shortage is self-inflicted, when the solution requires years. Trying to limit usage solely with pricing is going to run into problems – Letting rich people run their taps all day while poor people are strictly rationed is not a recipe for social cohesion.
I don’t know. I think a C from community college in Economics puts him near the top of Congress for expertise.
Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles didn’t want you to see his college transcript! We got it anyway
At least he can probably balance a checkbook.
An economics degree, even if your average GPA is still a C, is still better than an A+ GPA score in any fucking studies or humanities (sorry humanities majors) disciplines.
No offense taken. I hated the useless School of Humanities mandated courses. I can at least tell you the names of most of the art styles I don’t like.
Economics isn’t a humanities major? It’s not science, that’s for damn sure.
I still think my combo of history and philosophy is very useful for a lot of things. Most definitely including navigating the current Narrative-rich environment. Keep in mind, many of the people pushing Modern Monetary Theory probably have economics degrees, so it’s not like they’re immune to bone-stupid fads and ideologies.
+1 Krugabe
At my university social sciences (which include econ) is distinct from humanities.
Could someone please refresh my alleged memory – did we ever see Barry O’s college transcripts? Just wondering, since apparently some folks think that’s important.
Why would you need to see them? Obama knew more about each subject than the professors.
Team Blue has made sure that that stays buried.
The big issue there is if he claimed foreign birth which would likely have resulted in easier acceptance.
I saw them. He got straight A’s in narcissism.
The 25 Best Science Fiction Books of All Time
https://booksofbrilliance.com/2023/02/27/the-25-best-science-fiction-books-of-all-time/
Inread 15 of those.
I’ve read a bunch of them, but disagree on them being the Best. Or even Science Fiction for some.
Which isn’t SF? That part seems right at least. No fantasy sneaking in.
I count at least five fantasy and two contemporary fiction titles.
Agreed. Frankenstein is Gothic horror, A Wrinkle in Time is young adult fantasy, A Clockwork Orange, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Brave New World are dystopian thrillers, and all the Hitchhiker’s Guide stuff is sci-fi parody.
I disagree…I think all of them fall safely in SF.
And 1984 doesnt get included in your dystopian thriller category?
or F-451?
Dystopianism is a very standard SF sub-genre.
1984 is a bit of an edge case.
Science fiction has two definining characteristics that separate it from fantasy and/or thrillers. First, the story universe has to be internally consistent. Second, the core dramatic conflict has to be resolved (successfully or otherwise) through the application of reason.
A Wrinkle in Time and Hitchhiker don’t bother with internal consistency and are actively hostile to solving problems with applied reason. Most of the dystopian thrillers have the first part down, but rarely the second.
Looks like a pretty standard list.
I would include A Mote in God’s Eye.
And there should be something from Bear and Vinge.
In addition to Bear and Vinge, I would include Stephenson. Probably Cryptonomicon.
That list is actually pretty good. I could pick at some nits, like if I was choosing one Heinlein, I would choose Mistress over Stranger. But that is personal taste.
Stranger was really more of a sci-fi flavored character drama, than hard sci-fi. Still a good story, but I would have picked Have Spacesuit, Will Travel for R.A.H.’s contribution.
Stephenson should be on the list, but I legit can’t decide between Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon. Maybe both?
Snow Crash
Both are great, but I would lean towards Cryptonomicon. Although Snow Crash is more pure SF, Cryptonomicon is more a mix of SF and historical fiction.
So, yeah, I am gonna agree with you. For a SF list, Snow Crash.
The correct answer is obviously The Diamond Age.
I lean this direction as well.
Good choice.
I gotta re-read that, it’s been a while.
I don’t think of Cryptonomicon as SF. More alt-history?
The near future part was SF.
I’ve read or watched all but three of those. Mostly read.
I’ve read every one except for The Martian.
Surprised to see Dark Matter on the list, I didn’t think it was very good.
The Martian is good – recommended.
The Martian was excellent, and possibly the hardest sci-fi on the list.
Yeah, that’s an oddball entry. It’s OK.
Wayward Pines was more fun.
Stranger in a Strange Land signaled that Heinlein was losing it. Nowhere near his best.
I’ve read well over half of those, and watched almost all the rest.
I’ve read 15 on that list.
It’s not a bad list. I agree with UCS and Sheldon, not all are Sci-Fi.
I’ma let you Finnish, but…
“I see that the future of Ukraine is to be part of the European Union and a member of Nato”, says Finland’s prime minister Sanna Marin.
…you people are insane.
Still would.
Yes, although electing hot chicks to lead your country seems to be very stupid.
What the fuck is wrong with this cocksucker?
More NATO madness.
Same as spree killers and 400# purple-haired transwomyn – attention is the most important thing in his life.
Does Amazon still carry potassium iodide tablets?
Yes.
The real question is whether there will be a Ukraine.
Click your heel and make it happen.
last day for 20% off whole wheels:
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Not sure how they get away with shipping raw milk cheese, last I checked you could only buy it directly at the place of manufacture.
LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken
The Hunt for Red October Andrei you have lost another submarine
Doing work stuff on non-work computers is bad
Mixing work and personal passwords in a password manager is bad
Doing one or both the above when you are a senior employee on a project with critical security considerations is insanely bad
Dunno how people who have such a security focus would ever think this was a good idea
Yeah, but they probably have their pronouns squared away. 🙄
Christ, this is gonna be a mess.
Fortunately, from what I understand of LastPass’s architecture, you still need the individual’s master password to decrypt a backup of their account. But there are so many security bad practices coming to light, I’m hesitant to believe very much about what comes out of LastPass’s corporate cakehole..
So, how does LastPass work? Does it have a cloud-based file?
I have KeyPass. VERY long ago (as in, I have no idea how I did it), I encrypted a folder on DropBox only me and my husband have access to, and I keep the password file in it. You’d have to go through a couple of layers of security before you could even get to it, much less open it.
Lastpass stores an encrypted copy of your password vault file.
The LastPass extension in your browser (or client software) downloads a copy of the encrypted file, then decryption happens locally.
Its the ‘proper’ way to provide such a service, and in theory user vaults are secure even with this breach because you still need to user’s master password to decrypt their vault.
All my personal passwords are saved in a text file, in a personal mnemonic code, on a thumb drive that’s always on my person.
That doesn’t work for corporate passwords, of course. Corporate IT is increasingly coming to resemble adult day care…
‘threat actor’
What does that even mean? Crimini.
Rice at American Rivers says a shift in mindset — especially among Eastern transplants ignorant to living with drought — is vital to future desert survival. Instead of focusing on the pipeline, he hopes desert leaders like Mayor Hart will tap into the unprecedented federal funding for water reclamation projects in both the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act.
“There’s about $12 billion that could be deployed in the Colorado River Basin not only for municipal needs but agricultural needs and watershed restoration,” he said.
Last time I looked at a map, California was not east of Utah.
And, of course, the Inflation Reduction Act. What doesn’t it do?
“What doesn’t it do?”
Reduce inflation?
I like the way you think, young man.
Reduce inflation?
https://fee.org/articles/the-hero-of-the-holodomor-who-exposed-stalin-s-horrors-and-paid-with-his-life/
Good article.
Yes. Thanks.
A movie came out about him a few years ago. I have not seen it.
This?
Looks pretty cool. Thanks!
From that page: “On the April 1st, 2022 installment of “The Lawfare” podcast, screenwriter Andrea Chalupa reports how during the course of filming “Mr. Jones”, they reached out to the New York Times for permission to quote directly from Walter Duranty’s article that denied a famine had taken place in Ukraine, but the Times refused to grant permission.”
I watched the Mr. Jones movie recently.
I did wonder if it was government-sponsored to build sympathy for Ukraine in advance of the current shenanigans, but otherwise thought it was decent. It was pretty damning of Duranty.
Looks like it came out in 2019. Doesn’t that seem like a different age?
I don’t really know what to say about this other than prison is probably the only place appropriate for that kid. The window for correcting that kind of violent behavior is permanently closed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11802533/Teen-knocked-teacher-arrested-THREE-times-battery-charged-adult.html
From the sidebar:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11800195/RAPHAEL-ROWE-El-Salvador-mega-jail-hellish-prison-earth.html
I mean, what else do you do with them?
Helicopter rides?
“Not just for commies any more!”
But that’s just it. What the fuck do you do with them? Are you really gonna rehab them?
Here, we spin felons out the same day to go off on their merry way and victimize more people.
I don’t see much hope.
Not seeing a lot of regret in that mugshot.
Prison isn’t going to help much unless you keep him there for the rest of his life. At this point, it would be better just to kill him and get it over with.
Dunno man, seems like a gentle giant to me.
Hands up, don’t shoot
You haven’t seen how fast I can draw from hands up…
“According to Fox there used to be a school dedicated to troubled teens in Flagler County, for pupils who struggled to function in a traditional classroom environment.
That included those who had been convicted of a crime, or were considered too violent to attend classes on traditional campuses.
But Flagler County voters failed to pass a 50-cent property tax levy to pay for the school back in 2013.”
Obviously, this is all your fault, Mr. Flagler County Voter.
I don’t really know what to say about this other than prison is probably the only place appropriate for that kid. The window for correcting that kind of violent behavior is permanently closed.
He just needs a bit of finely targetted tinkering from a Progressive endocrinologist and he’ll be right as rain; ready to take his place as a cheerful obedient productive member of society.
Good question.
I actually did see this on twitter, but it’s a virtual media – er – blackout.
Same sort of reason you’re not getting coverage on the foster-kid pedophile ring case.
If we protest hard enough maybe we can get the SC to ignore the law.
Student loan borrowers camp out at Supreme Court, praise Biden forgiveness plan
With the exception of the usual few media sources the coverage on this has always been about “the feels”.
I’ve been assured these people are “hard-working”.
They seem to have the time to take off work.