Ugh.
College basketball enters its regular season stretch, and things aren’t looking good for a handful of blue bloods. UNC is likely on the outside looking in. And a bunch of teams like Ohio State, TTUN, and Louisville have imploded. Enjoy the parity. Not much else is happening unless you want to give me shit for Liverpool starting strong and then laying their biggest egg in the history of European soccer ever. That defense was so bad, I think a club team could have given them a run for their money yesterday. Simply disgusting. Oh well, on to the news.
LOL, this is complete bullshit. There was no history of actual anti-trans speech. There was no harm. And there was no reason to write this idiotic piece of shit article. But CNN gotta CNN.
Safe schools
Way to go, West Virginia. It’s nice to see common sense prevail for a change.
Well, what did we expect? You keep being adversarial to people and they’ll do likewise to you. But us arming a non-NATO country is perfectly fine to the people who are aghast at this development.
“But what about the children,” they say. More like “what about all that sweet teachers union cash that funds our campaigns.” Because the children are the ones getting fucked over by failing government schools. And people on both sides of the political aisle are starting to figure that out.
What a bizarre story. It’s like the arabic version of Alec Baldwin’s wife. “How you say ‘Allah Akbar?'”
Will it happen?
I could see this happening. And if it does, it won’t be pretty. That’s not just a bunch of rich peoples money. Those guys will be fine. This will destroy the savings and retirement of millions of Americans. And when that happens, shit will get bad.
Oh this is just great. Now we’ll have to listen to this crybaby moaning constantly for even longer. Why can’t he just go back to being a flying gas station attendant? No wait, he could do it in the Ukraine, since he loves their “democracy” so much.
Jeez, I had no idea there would be that much snow. I hope their power grid holds up. Seriously.
IT’S A TRAP!!! Trust me, you don’t want to get involved in shit like this. First they give one away. And before you know it, they’re requiring it by law. Fuck these people.
Here’s an absolute masterpiece. And since that album was so freaking good, I’ll give you a second helping. One of the ten best albums of all time, friends. Enjoy pure greatness.
And enjoy this lovely (here) Wednesday. Your weather may vary.
“Because the children are the ones getting fucked over by failing government schools. And people on both sides of the political aisle are starting to figure that out.”
Covid exposed a lot of it.
It is amazing that NY even has any charter schools at all. The educrat unions basically run things here – I have no idea how they allowed this to happen. There must have been some herculean backstage efforts.
“Houston and Harris County leaders just announced their latest initiative aimed at reducing gun violence.”
How much do safes reduce “gun violence”? Most shootings are intentional.
Well, it delays the retrieval, giving them time to stab you.
Or they might think it reduces thefts, but it won’t.
That’s why I say this is a trap. They want to offer safes. Soon they’ll mandate them. Then they’ll do something like set up an inspection scheme. And then 4th Amendment rights will be gone.
If I had the chance I’d grab one of the free gun safes and resell it, ’cause there would be shortage in the gun safe pipeline.
The pawn shops in Houston will be full of discounted ones after the homeless people who have time to stand in line to get one sell them…
I like how they “report” that 60 “children” had “died from gunshot wounds”. You know damn well they’re including 17-19 year old gang bangers as “children”.
Or more likely “we’re all somebody’s children”
1) Who is making money selling these safes to the city?
2) Are these the cheap ass safes that you can crack open by bashing a corner onto a hard surface?
I think it was “lockpicking lawyer” that showed how easy it was to defeat my shitty fire safe with a strong rare-earth magnet applied to the side.
Happily, Im astute enough to know its shitty, and it was purchased mainly for the fire-proof qualities
“lockpicking lawyer” that showed how easy it was to defeat every lock he tries. The best are merely speed bumps to his work.
The purpose of a lock is to remind the law abiding and slow the lawbreaker. At best it’s a deterrant by making obtaining entry a hassle.
To be honest, I reprogrammed my drawer-sized gun safe to recognize only my fingerprints when I prepared to bolt from the house.
I recognize that is a special case, and probably rare.
The crybaby wants his star. That’s his thirty pieces of silver.
Whosampled.com for that album is a total rabbit hole.; you can spend hours poking around.
https://www.whosampled.com/album/Beastie-Boys/Paul%27S-Boutique/
I’ve been down that road before. The amount of sampling they did was simply incredible. And it all worked perfectly.
And then there’s Endtroducing…..
You want samples? I’ll give you samples.
Resurrecting mashupbreakdown.com is on my ‘someday’ list.
https://github.com/brahn/mashup-breakdown
And I’ll straight-up brag that I’ve seen both DJ Shadow and Girl Talk live*
*As live as Girl Talk gets, anyway. Shadow at least was really spinning records.
Stock market could drop 26%.
I don’t know if anyone noticed but here are the results from 2022.
Nasdaq -33.1%
Russell 2000 -21.6%
S&P 500 -19.4%
Dow Jones -8.8%
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/just-how-badly-did-stock-markets-perform-in-2022
Yeah, I’m unhappy about the performance of the S&P Index funds that the bulk of my brokerage account is in.
I’m also unhappy about the performance of CDPR and Games Workshop which aren’t doing too hot either.
In fact, the only thing in my brokerage account that is doing okay is PepsiCo.
I’m glad I’m old, less time to worry.
I’ve consolidated my non 401k savings into one of those 4% savings accounts. The stock market doesn’t look good right now.
baselessly accusing them of harming cisgender women
Obviously there are no issues with biological men occupying women’s spaces.
And of course it’s just fine when biological men compete in women’s sporting events. What could possibly be the harm in that?
It’s not as if there might be competition for scholarships or anything.
Ladies, girldick in the women’s restroom is safe and innocent. It’s boydick you have to worry about. You’ll know it’s a boydick when it starts raping you.
If the dick is feminine it obviously belongs to a girl
(surprisingly not NSFW)
Not if you’re in the UK, there the person with a dick raping you is a woman and women cannot commit rape so you’re fucked.
Literally and figuratively.
All JK Rowling did, as she thoughtfully and thoroughly explained on her website, is point out that women who have been victims of abuse (including rape) by men really do need a women-only zone.
She points out that the dynamic changes drastically if there is a transwoman present, no matter how polite he he may be.
She’s right. The Transwomen don’t need to be run out of town on a rail, but they DON’T have the same rights as women.
Stocks might fall. But crypto prices have risen a bit over the last week.
Crypto scares me. You never know when big daddy government will decide to step in and fuck it in the ass.
Until quantum computing becomes practical, it would take them longer than most of our lifetimes to break the sort of encryption you should be using to store your keys.
Ahh, the tunnel vision of the technical nerd.
There’s no need to break your keys. If they wanted to get to you personally, they can break your knees. If they wanted to go after the chain, they lean on the point of conversion to real things and any exchanges, making the value evaporate as it is no longer able to access as many things.
If we’re at the point where the government is willing to use torture to get the key to my encrypted disk, then the key to my password vault ,so they can get my recovery phrases for my wallets, so they can get my 500+ character pass phrases, so they can retrieve crypto coins worth less than my car, then A) the value of my crypto will be somewhere near the bottom 2 or 3 of my concerns and B) off-exchange crypto transactions might just become so integral to resisting the tyranny that they actually increase in value.
Who said anything about trying to get into the vault? I was trying to illustrate why the crypto vault didn’t matter.
Once they’re applying direct force, the crypto toys are nothing.
I get what you’re saying, I’ve seen the XKCD cartoon. It’s true as far as it goes, but once we’re to the point where the kind of direct force you’re talking about is involved, then it doesn’t matter if it’s crypto or gold bullion you’ve got buried in a field, it’s no good to you anyway. In terms of the government trying to confiscate your crypto through any legitimate legal means, if you take the necessary precautions to secure your keys, the best they can do is take possession of the hardware where the keys are stored. The crypto isn’t worth anything to you at that point, but it’s not worth anything to them either, which defeats a lot of the purpose for confiscating it. They could, of course, shut down every exchange in the world, but it’s not going to end the blockchain. Fiat exchanges were a mistake to begin with.
It doesn’t need to be of use to them. If they’re seizing the hardware it’s to force you back into another ecosystem. If they want the currency, the fines for repeated contempt after failure to disclose will rack up quite quickly.
Crypto is past its prime and is going to hover where it is, just like gold does. Until Walmart starts accepting Bitcoin as currency, it’s just a speculative instrument with little margin for gain.
I was thinking about a way to mitigate the disaster that is DEI practices in promotion and hiring. It is hollowing out our institutions. The solution seems simple, even if it will invariably add budgetary bloat.
We just need to create some more made up titles with no authority. They come with the pay, unfortunately. I mean, it’s like the diversity offices already established, only stripped of all ability to fuck things up for the productive members of an organization.
Even the Firsters have not been immune to calls to diversify. But I will never allow Firsting to become a skinsuited movement. Firsting first, genitalia and skin pigmentation not at all…
This is how you end up with more employees than students at Stanford. And more administrators than professors.
Both those statements are true, by the way. That university is a lost cause.
“genitalia and skin pigmentation not at all…”
So, firsters are asexual albinos? That makes a lot of sense.
That must be why we had the fucking hurricane force winds all night here. No snow. Yet.
But us arming a non-NATO country is perfectly fine to the people who are aghast at this development.
“It’s different when we do it!” – Neocon cuntes
These idiots have us hemorrhaging hundreds of billions in Ukraine while China seizes the opportunity to help Russia in order to bleed us dry so they can gain power and influence.
Glad the fucking “adults” are in charge.
It’s General Turgidson’s world now, we’re just living in it.
“Xylazine — otherwise known as “tranq,” “tranq dope” and “zombie drug” — is wreaking havoc in major cities across the country with its devastating effects: It can literally rot the user’s skin.
While approved by the Food and Drug Administration for veterinary use, xylazine, a non-opioid, is not safe for humans, and those who overdose on the drug do not respond to naloxone, or Narcan, the most common overdose reversal treatment.”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/21/skin-rotting-drug-tranq-infiltrates-big-cities-zombifying-bodies/
Reason #1,789 why drugs should be legal.
2-3 years from now, of course, we’ll find out that the drug does absolutely nothing of the kind, just like the face-eating-zombie-making-bath-salts scare.
Have you learned nothing since Krokodile, Jenkum, Rainbow Parties, Butt Chugging, and Vodka tampons?
WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?
As far as I know, krokodile is real.
Real in the sense that it’s a street name for the chemical desomorphine. Just not real in the sense of the scaremongering media hysteria about a flesh-eating biblical plague. Like with the vast majority of street drugs, the rather rare extreme side effects like necrotizing tissue are caused by adulterants the street dealers use to cut the drug, and production byproducts of 9th grade dropout clandestine “chemists” producing it.
“rather rare extreme side effects like necrotizing tissue are caused by adulterants”
I’m not saying it’s not caused by adulterants. That’s the point.
What worries me is the people who are thinking of the children.
I wouldn’t be so sure.
Reason #1 why drugs should be legal: The constitution does give the fedgov any authority to restrict or ban them.
“Does NOT”
dammit
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Look at that white privilege.
See, you always leave HH too early. Stick around and bring your dancin’ shoes.
Love it.
Thanks, Holiness!
“Black elementary school children in California are sent racist drawings from their classmates: Cards read ‘you’re my favorite monkey and cotton picker’ and show stick figure being lynched hanging from tree”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11777929/Black-California-elementary-students-receive-racist-drawings-depicting-monkeys-lynchings.html
“‘Reject the woke assault, close ranks!’: Oldest US military college breaks out in chaos as former students launch online warfare against its first black superintendent for pushing diversity, equity and inclusion policies”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11779043/VMI-alums-lash-black-superintendent-diversity-policies.html
The duality of man.
What are the odds that the racist drawings and cards were done by black kids?
I’d take the elementary school drawings with a grain of salt considering how often this shit turns out to be some attention seeking parent or grievance monger, but presuming they’re legit, maybe constantly bombarding children with images of slavery and racism from the time they enter pre-kindergarten has something to do with it. When I was in the 2nd grade my best friend was black and neither one of us was particularly concerned about slavery, lynchings or cotton picking, and neither were any of the predominantly white kids with whom we associated.
Good point, when you make everything about race and slavery, young kids are going to absorb that message and make everything about race and slavery. Just responding to what they’re being indoctrinated with.
Same. It wasn’t until jr. high that “race” all of a sudden became an “issue” and it wasn’t the black kids who were on the receiving end of the mischief.
Same in southern California. Very diverse elementary school with no concerns about race. It was confusing to me to watch all the non-white friends gravitate toward their visually similar groups once we hit junior high. And also likewise, those new groups loved to pick on the nerdy white kids.
If anyone wants to experience real racism, work in an environment that is majority black or where black people are predominately in positions of power. It aint just the white people who get fucked over.
“Congratulations! Your relentless depictions of past racism against blacks has deeply embedded the image of blacks as monkeys and slaves into the minds of children! You must be so proud that your “anti-racism” has borne such, err, strange fruit.”
Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
Strange Fruit on the Sycamore tree.
The oldest senior military college in the US has found itself embroiled in a very modern form of cultural warfare, after a group of alumni organized a campaign furiously protesting the school’s recent diversity push.
Good.
What are the odds that the racist drawings and cards were done by black kids?
Perhaps. Or this is the result of 1619 project-esque bullshit being pushed on the kids.
The VMI alumni network still has significant pull. We’ll see what happens.
I think some researchers are having fun with numbers.
No mention of all the cardiac events young people are having after getting the vax. Maybe they had their heart attacks right after getting the vax? I guess technically that dying from the vax is a “success”? After all you can’t get it or spread it after that.
Yes, absolutely, introducing trillions of copies of the same viral protein that causes the cardiac damage is guaranteed to reduce the risk factor.
In other news, I’ve decided that drinking gasoline is the best way to not die in a gasoline fire.
https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/covid19-influencers-again-promote
Vinay wrote about why this study is trash.
Yes, Dr. Prasad has been hitting hard on all the bogus COVID papers.
“The study, led by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, drew on medical records from over 1.9 million patients who were infected with COVID-19 between March 2020 and February 2022. Of those 1.9 million patients, a “major adverse cardiac event,” namely a heart attack, stroke, or another cardiac event, was identified in 13,948 patients, and 3,175 died following the event.”
We live in strange times where people simultaneously claim to believe in the systemic discrimination of minorities, women, gays, and the trans…but in which increasing numbers of people are willingly identifying as these oppressed groups. It’s quite the conundrum.
It’s because they’re so brave and noble for identifying as something that might get them killed, bigot!
… or so I am screamed.
Slave morality. We’ve elevated victimhood to a place of privilege, people want to be in that place of privilege, so they bend over backwards to make themselves a victim of some sort.
But, of course, people aren’t voluntarily becoming actual victims. They are assuming roles that a broader culture labels as victims, but which are really just privileged.
Of course. Once that becomes the dominant moral framework for society, the incentive is there to claim victimhood status, but there’s a twofold problem: nobody actually wants to be a victim, they just want the moral authority that victimhood carries, and there just simply aren’t enough actual victims to go around.
Plus those are the people you’re “not allowed” to pick on.
This is just emo goth (teenage) attention whoring dressed up with binders and fake tits. The problem is, emo goth, tattoos, piercings, and all other previous expressions of “individuality” are not even given a side-eye. There is no shock, no disapproval, no fawning approval of “brave” and “different.” There is no naturally occurring segment of disapproval for these things in society anymore. The ones who do disapprove will die soon. Thus, we must create our opportunities for shock and awe, for “individuality,” to get the attention we so desperately need.
I guess “having an actual personality” is not a thing.
I guess “not giving a shit what other people think” is also out of the question.
People care what others think, even us introverts care to some extent. There might be some who truely don’t but true “don’t give a shit” is probably a mental disorder. Though not being ruled by other people’s opinions may be closer to the spirit of what you meant. I don’t know.
Personalities are hard to come by, mine was on backorder and I ended up with a bootleg one.
You’re right about the spirit of what I said about not caring what other people think. In high school, I often found mockery (directed at me) to be funny and/or it completely went over my head and/or true so I couldn’t really say, “STOP IT!!!” and it totally deflated the mockery. But that was a quirk of my personality, not some deliberate attempt to brush off what people said. Some of it hurt, but a lot of it I just didn’t notice or I went along with it because it was funny.
Trump’s visiting Ohio today while Biden is warmongering and pledging more money to eastern Europe.
We should be working to get the belligerents to the negotiating table with the goal of stopping the war with a return to the status quo ante. But no, we must continue the fucking war forever no matter how great the cost.
Negotiate? We have a President and senior State Department people talking about invading Crimea, then regime-changing and partitioning Russia.
It’s like they don’t even understand that Russia is a serious nuclear power.
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We’re so used to beating up Third World countries, they think the same shit will work on literally the biggest country on Earth.
Come back this afternoon for an article link as to why worrying about toxic chemicals in Ohio is racist.
That’s easy – it happened in a white town, so that’s the only reason people are concerned, if it was a majority black town nobody would care.
“Why the East Palestine toxic derailment is a good thing.”
You know it’s those damn white MAGAts living in places like East Palestine.
Did we finally find the WMDs that Colin Powell promised? And they set one off in Ohio?
“failing government schools”
Thanks for using the correct terminology.
The sponsor of the backpack funding bill here in Florida has been using that phrase too. It really helps open your eyes once you stop using euphemisms.
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Bleargh. Ridiculous words today.
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Proponents argue the stunning data indicate charters provide families of color more educational choices, as many progressive lawmakers and politically powerful teachers unions gripe the schools siphon off resources from the public education system.
Just throw more money at it. That always works.
I strongly suspect that, above a certain point, there is a negative correlation between per-student spending and student achievement. And the causative mechanism for both is the power of teacher’s unions. The more powerful, the more spending, and the more the schools cater to teachers rather than students.
Per-student spending is not an indicator of academic achievement. Nor is smaller class size, teacher pay/credentials, the scope of school facilities, etc.
The best indicator of academic achievement is parental engagement, but you can’t fix that by throwing money at the teacher’s unions.
The kids are all depressed as well.
Public schools exist as a mechanism to transfer money from taxpayers to the DNC. Union thugs must get their cut of course. Educating kids is about #100 on their list of priorities.
100th place seems awfully high.
Are you sure it’s even on the list?
Government schools exist as a mechanism, etc.
“When school children start paying dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.”
– Al Shanker (probably; although the AFT disputed it 30 years after it was published and Shanker was dead)
whaddup doh’
I’m off tonight…..TALL CANS!
Seattle becomes first US city to ban caste discrimination
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64727735
Loophole: that law only applies to humans and since we all know that Republicans and Trumpsters aren’t really people, we can toss them on an ice floe as much as we want.
Left unreported: any evidence of actual discrimination in Seattle based on Hindu caste designations.
I’ve seen indicators of it, but only among people who were raised in India.
What this really tells me is that Seattle is over-reliant on imported labor.
Someone has to work so the locals can be druggies and hobos.
What this tells me is that south asians are perceived to fuck over their own based on habits brought over from their shitty (literally) countries.
What is not apparent to me is how this is any business of government .
“Ever since my final falling-out with the GOP, on the day of the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump’s followers, I have wanted to tell the inside story of how my party and also my faith have been hijacked by extremists who represent a real danger to our democracy,” Kinzinger said in a statement.
Sounds like you have had some struggle. Perhaps that is a good working title for your book.
Who would.have thought one heart attack can cause so much
His faith was hijacked? How is that possible?
If he doesn’t like his church, there are plenty of woke churches out there with empty pews that would love another cry-baby liberal.
It’s more like Rachel Dolezal.
I would spend an hour with her- I have many questions.
Example- how do you get white hair (that based on her childhood pics was blonde and stick-straight) that kinky and curly? Must be a lot of effort.
I really don’t get the whole race thing in this context. So she claimed to be Arab and “Latin”. Arabs are also white people. Plenty of white Latinas too. Muslim is not a race. Seems like a whole shitstorm over nothing.
You have an awfully broad definition of white. I’m going to guess you even include Italians in that label.
Well, maybe not Italians. Or those damn Irish.
The wogs begin at Calais.
“Raquel Saraswati, 39, has been accused of lying about her alleged ‘Latin, South Asian, Arab’ descent”
She is simply lying about her ancestry. I suppose one could quibble about whether she’s actually claiming to be non-white based on . . . something. In the circles that matter to her and her paycheck, she is claiming to be a POC, not white.
She is certainly lying, complete with brownface, in order to advance her career. I mean, even Elizabeth Warren didn’t go so far as to wear brownface. Probably because she didn’t need to, since Harvard was all too eager to pretend to be taken in by her “Native American” ancestry.
That’s where the addition of “brown” to POC has come in. Now people “of color” extends to black and brown, whatever that means. There are very few people whose skin comes close to literally black.
I think it’s an attempt at saying “non-white” while specifically excluding oriental asians.
My favorite part about that article is that it was written by Aneeta Bhole.
One well-placed hyphen would make it hilarious.
Ass Wednesday is better than a fake Rolex.
https://archive.ph/APM1I
I woke up this morning, realized it’s Ash Wednesday, and smiled thinking of Q posting about Ass Wednesday.
I expect something inappropriate for the occasion.
Because ‘small-government’ means letting the groomers/race-baiters have their way with your children.
Potential GOP presidential candidates like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have made education a top issue and are cracking down on schools teaching race and/or gender.
@LarryHogan: “I’m a small-government, common-sense conservative, and, to me, it sounds like big government.”
You don’t get elected governor of Maryland by being small government.
Like the NH autocrat bragging yesterday about being a principled free market conservative.
It’s big government to control what the government is doing?
Weird decisions there bro.
If either were a small-gov con, they would abolish their respective departments of education.
I see someone read my comments on albums without a dud in the bunch.
“Face up to the fact you are making a choice every time you have sex with other women.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21436388/wife-kicked-me-out-gym-fling/
I just tripped and fell into her! One-in-a-million shot doc!
The ER’s are full of people tripping and falling onto objects which somehow find their way into a body opening.
“To prove the haters wrong, she ditched the safety gear”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/female-carpenter-works-bikini-no-29278735?int_source=nba
Prove them wrong about what? That she has a room temperature IQ? I mean, would; but not really understanding what point she’s making other than “LOOK AT MEEEEEE!!!”
I’m sure that really made the old men angry.
She needs to ditch the bikini and really stick it to them.
Hopefully the surgeon who reattaches her severed finger is a woman, lest she be forced to cut it off again to prove she don’t need no man.
Very smart! When your local OSHA representative arrives maybe he’ll be impressed enough with your tits to avoid the citation and fines.
How is she still alive?? Holding metal and using a clamp are two of the most dangerous things a person can ever do!
Rockin’ bod, tho.
Keith Olbermann is still fascistic and insane.
“It is time to de-platform and close down FoxNews as a threat to national security.
“@SpeakerMcCarthy has given @TuckerCarlson 41,000 hours of 1/6 Video so he can gaslight the coup AND next time provide a roadmap past detection.”
There comes a point where you have to recognize that a sizable portion of the populace will never admit the mistakes or relent in their efforts to destroy you.
It must be Hell in that man’s head.
I’m half convinced it’s all just a performance. I mean, nobody could really be that idiotically unhinged, right?
We don’t commit the crazies anymore.
Wrong! Not wrong in his case though, he’s not so much unhinged as he is an authoritarian lying unrepentant hateful sack of dog shit.
Showing actual unaltered video footage would be the opposite of gaslighting.
“Gaslighting” is one of those terms like “racist” that’s been sufficiently molested as to lose any semblance of meaning.
I’m still not 100% certain what it means.
Same with “astroturfing”.
Astroturfing is fake “grass roots”. Or at least started with that meaning. For ex Extinction Rebellion – it is not a bunch of eco conscious prople who got together- it was top down created.
Habe you seen the Ingrid Bergman movie?
He is of a breed that can’t conceive of anyone who isn’t a lying propagandist like himself.
More footage = gaslighting.
Same.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1628252747500777472
“Up yours, woke moralists. Tyranny is always petty–and petty tyranny will not save the planet.”
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1628292293173342208
Seems an overreaction.
Also, “waste not, want not” is a very “trad” value, or at least, should be.
Not much else is happening unless you want to give me shit for Liverpool starting strong and then laying their biggest egg in the history of European soccer ever.
I would like to enjoy this moment.
Football related: I learned today that there have been 14 managerial firings in the English championship so far this season. There are 24 teams in the league. Three teams have fired two managers this season.
Carnage.
Potter out!
This was a fun tweet.
My son is a Chelsea fan. He’s having a rough go. It’s obvious they didn’t get a target man during the transfer window. I mean, Enzo Fernandez is a great player, but he’s not going to convert those goals.
Yeah defensively they are fine, just can’t score.
“Biden’s new executive order creating a national DEI bureaucracy has a special mandate for woke AI. The order instructs the federal government to “[protect] the public from algorithmic discrimination” and to deploy AI systems “in a manner that advances equity.””
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1628070308870787073
Those nutless companies were already doing that anyway.
But now we are going to have David French defend government propaganda robots.
So Biden can use an EO to create a new agency with sweeping powers, but his hands are tied when it comes to the railroad regulations Trump allegedly removed with another EO.
GAY
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/my-open-marriage-allows-date-29215857
Great Scot! Its Carrot Top’s crazy Aunt.
I’d rather hook up with Carrot Top I think, at least he might be good for the occasional laugh.
I’m astonished she managed to find anyone of either sex willing to give her a go.
In her wildest dreams…
Prove them wrong about what? That she has a room temperature IQ? I mean, would; but not really understanding what point she’s making other than “LOOK AT MEEEEEE!!!”
Like male carpenters don’t ever work in a pair of shorts and no shirt. Unless she’s working barefoot, there’s not that much bravery involved.
Did you not see that she is using clamps without safety equipment?!
See is clearly owning the old men who hate tits and ass.
Just wondering — are there any Nashville Glibs? I’m heading up there this afternoon for a week, and wouldn’t mind bending an elbow with a fellow miscreant.
I’m in the greater Nashty area, just southeast. bret haas [one word] at protonmail dot com. IB McGinty is nearby, too.
For Christmas my youngest kid got the Mrs. and I 12th row tickets for last night’s Blackhawks game. She spent too much, but this might have been Patrick Kane’s last home game as a Blackhawk. Great game. Vegas got a delay of game penalty with less than two minutes left, Chicago tied with less than a minute left, Kane scored at the very end of overtime, but it was disallowed because it was 0.01 too late. Then Chicago won in a shootout. Somehow I tend to be at the really good games.
I watched on the teevee. Really great game. That shootout was nuts! Couldn’t have scripted it better.
And Kaner really is da man.
So the Blackhawks keep doing stupid things like winning? Like the CBJ, they need FEWER points, not more!
I think they’re winning just enough to keep it fun. But I think they’re still in last place.
The bill strictly prohibits the open carry of a firearm on a college or university campus and allows institutions of higher learning to implement exceptions.
“Implement exceptions” – Why does this sound like the hole the colleges can drive a truck through?
If one’s “ancestry” was irrelevant, it wouldn’t make a goddam bit of difference if you lied about it, so why would you bother?
And JPMorgan strategist Mislav Matejka argued in a note this week that equities will not hit bottom until the Federal Reserve concludes its aggressive interest-rate hike campaign and starts cutting.
Bring back the free money train! This business of expecting companies to generate real returns is making things hard for everybody.
But a slew of hotter-than-expected economic data reports, including the blowout January jobs report and a disappointing inflation report that pointed to the pervasiveness of high consumer prices, has raised the specter of a higher peak rate.
I’ll wait for the revisions.
I keep thinking about bargain hunting, but It’s hard to get off this comfy pile of cash.
Does anybody believe those jobs reports any more? After last year’s convenient debacle where the overstated job creation by more than an order of magnitude?
I thought my company hit a DEI low when the CEO sent out a company wide email describing his white male privilege.
Nope, turns out that wasn’t even close. “Woman” is now a banned term in the office. “An individual who was assigned female sex at birth” should be used instead of “woman”.
Won’t do it. Don’t care. This shit is getting beyond tedious. These people are fucking insane. Not the ringleaders at the top, but their loyal ground troops coming out of universities indoctrinated and pushing DEI claptrap like a pathogen everywhere they go. Mentally unbalanced doesn’t even come close.
Yes, that’s just nuts.
But what about someone who identifies as a woman but was assigned *spit* male sex at birth? They weren’t assigned female sex at birth. What are you supposed to call them?
For that matter, what about women who want to be called women? Why are we disregarding their preferences?
So, how hard is it for you to find another job, at a company not run by lunatics?
Because so many companies are run by lunatics, and those that aren’t tend to just keep their heads down.
I start my new job on Monday. Part of it is writing a very brief bio paragraph for the company directory. I believe that pronoun preference is required.
I’m considering something royal. “We/her Majesty”? “Empress/Your Majesty”?
I’m open to Glib suggestions.
I was known as Madam Megawatt in a previous job…
promote to Gigawatt Gal?
Grow/Up?
This language control initiative particularly pisses me off. You do not get to decide how other people refer to you in discussions with third parties.
“Declined”
they’re/real
And/spectacular
Over/It ?
Or my perennial favorite, from the Cerebus the Aardvark graphic novels, Most Holy/Most Holy/Most Holy’s
Crow/Murder
So/Hot
What/Ever
Flmxg/Flmxgs
Make sure to scream at them if they mispronounce them, and also scream at them about not enacting their labor by teaching them how to pronounce them.
AIWAAFSAB just rolls off the tongue.
Get a set of size Z udders, put them under your shirt, and scream “how dare you misgender me!” every time someone refuses to say woman.
Aren’t we assigned sex at conception, not birth?
Nope.
McDonald’s customers will be able to order plant-based McPlant nuggets starting Feb. 22, with Germany being the first country to roll them out.
The nuggets are made from peas, corn, wheat, and tempura breading.
You trying these?
Setting aside the fact that I haven’t eaten anything from there in years, that sounds particularly sad and unappetizing.
Besides, I should cut down on carb intake, and that sounds more carby than chicken.
If there are no chemical additives (like the Impossible burger shit) they may not be that bad. I’ve had the Morningstar nuggets and they aren’t bad. Also recently ate some cauliflower wings and they were tasty. Now, they’re not really wings, but they’re not awful.
Yes. I like Morningstar food stuffs. Their grillers prime are also decent tiny burgers. I haven’t tried cauliflower wings yet. It should just be fried cauliflower and not try to taste like chicken.
Morningstar seems like an unfortunate name for an alternative food company.
Either your Venusian and very gassy, or you’re Luciferian and very satanic.
Or… you’re a blunt object meant for bludgeoning people’s brains out.
What, no bugs?
Get with the times, WokeDonald’s.
-The Secret Bias of Chat GPT Revealed
https://youtu.be/ETJ3huriwa0
Interesting little vid. AI is only as good as its programmers.
AI is only as good as its programmers.
But it is AI. We must submit to it’s wisdom to
create a leftist dystopia save humanity!The government agents/agencies that told them to burn it, creating an environmental catastrophe, will be held to account as well, right? RIGHT?
PA Gov Josh Shapiro:
“The combination of Norfolk Southern’s corporate greed, incompetence, and lack of care for our residents is absolutely unacceptable to me.”
Did they make them do it or did they fold to Norfolk Southern’s demands? Serious question…doesn’t absolve them of blame but that needs to be known.
The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?
I’m not reading this until NYT gives equal coverage to the positives of mask mandates!
Just don’t read the comments.
“Will any lessons be learned?”
Short answer: No.
Long answer: No.
The study said that masks did nothing because people didn’t wear them properly or consistently. That’s not the same thing as them, inherently, not working. Notice how surgeries are still masked environments?
We still have Michelle from East Bay believing that surgeons wear masks to stop the spread of respiratory viruses.
Every particle not visible to the naked eye is the same size, more or less.
Never forget: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/08/facebook-posts/no-vaping-demo-doesnt-prove-masks-dont-work-agains/
More of a spit collector isn’t it?
Yeah not spitting into an open wound seems to be the bigger concern.
Coughing, sneezing, etc.
Multiple studies have said that they don’t work even when used “properly or consistently”, Michelle from East Bay.
Well, I’ve already spent all this money on masks, it would be stupid to not wear them now…
I finally threw out my box of masks last week that I had in my car (I was lazy). I read one last time the side of the box where it said “does not protect against vinuses.” Incorrect spelling was not me.
LOL. That’s perfect.
I had to go to urgent care last week for my foot sprain. They were still requiring masks, but instead of body blocking people outside the main entrance and forcing the masks on you, they were just on a side table to grab casually as you walked from the entry door up to the front desk.
Totally window dressing at this point. To whose benefit, I know not.
1. Vindication is not enough.
2. Most of the pro-maskers will never admit they were wrong. They are too invested.
3. The costs of mask wearing are not readily apparent, but they are there.
The worst cost of masks is how much dang elastic there is now floating around the ocean choking the wildlife.
All the folks who were up in arms about plastic straws sticking in sea turtles’ noses have naught to say about the elastic tangling up turtles, seals, fish. That stuff don’t biodegrade.
I realized the cultural change had happened in regards to COVID when the various localities started pushing people back to single use grocery bags away from the re-usable ones. And the proliferation of single use silverware and single sized condiments provided even after places started opening up again.
If you try to mention societal damage caused by mask wearing to one of the believers, all you get is blank stares, maybe a little rapid blinking as they try to process knew information, but, in the end, you can physically watch their brains reject the new information.
How is that far right monster Bret Stephens still allowed to write for the New York Times?? REEEEEE!!
Never Trumper.
Vindication is not enough. Vindication won’t stop “do-somethingism” from boning us up the ass again. There need to be the kind of consequences that instill fear in people.
No lessons will be learned, but it is at least somewhat heartening to finally see it acknowledged by the legacy media. My kids are in a heavily Asian school, but at least 25% of the kids still wear masks. I hear in Asia masking is still pretty much universal in most public settings. That doesn’t bode well for the future at fucking all.
I think your “but” should really be an “and”.
Way back before Covid, it was super-common in Chinese airports to see people wearing paper masks. It must have been a leftover from one/some of the SARS/flu/whatever seasons. Not a majority, but still plenty. And not just oldsters – healthy-looking young people were wearing them.
“An individual who was assigned female sex at birth” should be used instead of “woman”.
I suppose “chromosomally XX” would be frowned upon.
Nope. The term is “Woman”.
I was a biology major undergrad and had to give a capstone presentation. I opened my presentation with a biology joke:
Q. How do you tell the sex of chromosome?
A. Unzip its genes.
Everyone, classmates and professors, had a good laugh. That wasn’t even 20 years ago. If I said that now, expulsion would probably be the least of the actions taken against me.
LOLgetfucked
Of course, it presumes a binary.
Just wait ’til you go to the hardware store to buy plumbing fittings and have to figure out how to tell the clerk what you need without uttering the words “male” or “female”.
The sort of people interested in gender identity aren’t the same sorts of people who visit hardware stores. I think you’re safe for now.
These are the same a-holes trying to get master/slave relationships removed from any and all usage: brake systems, computer controls, etc.
It has moved into a war for total domination.
Did they make them do it or did they fold to Norfolk Southern’s demands? Serious question…doesn’t absolve them of blame but that needs to be known.
I assume we’ll never know.
Then we know it was the state requiring them to do it. If it was Norfolk Southern’s decision, it would be all over the news.
This year’s raise was higher than last year. But still well below the rate of inflation.
So three straight years with loss of purchasing power.
But, I’m not angry or bitter or anything.
You get raises?
you get paid?
Q. How do you tell the sex of chromosome?
A. Unzip its genes.
NOT WITHOUT CONSENT!
In triplicate. Enthusiastically.
Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste-based discrimination
2% of all inhabitants of Washington are Hindu. #winning
Would that withstand a challenge I wonder? For the Hindu religion isn’t that kind of inseparably baked into the pie unlike other forms of discrimination?
What happened to multi-culturalism? Sounds like a bunch of bigots in Seattle, to me.
ahem
With apology to Pie for my inattentive scrolling…
Now do “race”.
Of course it’s the commie.
My company got sued for caste discrimination. I’m not sure what the result was. I can believe that it happens. I can also believe that a lot of managers are completely oblivious to it and don’t even know it’s a thing.
There was a letter to the editor in yesterday’s local fish wrap:
Reader’s View: Snow tires in Duluth: let’s make it law
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/letters/readers-view-snow-tires-in-duluth-lets-make-it-law
or with a paywall buster: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.duluthnewstribune.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2Freaders-view-snow-tires-in-duluth-lets-make-it-law
Why do you hate poor people Yauhen Karatai? The cheapest snow tires available at Costco this past winter where $800 for a set of 4 (Costco won’t sell you just a pair.)
Wonder if my brand new all terrain tires would count.
Here it has been law since like 2012. It is a hassle to switch them twice a year but then again I drive little and do not have to replace them to often, time not kilometers
Just so long as they aren’t studded snow tires… (they banned them in the last place I lived that had snow).
Studded tires are banned in ‘Soda but allowed in ‘Sconnie
what about chains ?
Oh, now you support slavery!
Or, wait, was that what Biden was talking about?
Those are required in Quebec City (so a taxi driver told me).
Brutal end to Atherstone Ball Game 2023. The last half an hour of the Pancake Day tradition saw punches thrown & a betting shop damaged as teams battled to gain control of an oversized ball.
https://twitter.com/Urban_Pictures/status/1628099487141855232
It appears the nation is once more helpless in global warming’s viselike grip.
this but unironically 15 C and sunny
All welcome. The #Chavez legacy, ten years after his death; and what is happening in #Venezuela today? Join us at the #MUA building in Sydney (365 Sussex street) on Tuesday 14 March. The speakers’ list is headed by Ambassador Daniel Gasparri
https://twitter.com/timand2037/status/1628326577539784707
Hilarious. A bunch of people who have never lived under Chavez rule having a Chavezfest.
“It’s official: Our movement has WON a historic, first-in-the-nation ban on caste discrimination in Seattle,” tweeted Kshama Sawant, the councilmember who introduced the legislation. “Now we need to build a movement to spread this victory around the country.”
Imagine my surprise.
This is where
ropes and lamppostsnoncompliance comes into play.So what is #Minnesota up to? Banning the sale of lawnmower and other lawn implements.
These people are not serious. They are tyrannical and need to be ignored. Do not comply with this nonsense.
Get ready for your glorious future of battery powered everything. It’s going to be pricey.
I spent a couple of hours talking to Vanguard engines last week. They’re introducing their battery system for small engine replacement. It’s better than Honda’s by a long shot, but a battery that buys you about an hour of run time on a 4hp equivalent motor will cost about $2,000.
Alternatively, small single-lung horizontal engines are going to transition to fuel-injection and electronic throttle control over the next couple of years. In order to meet EPA regs, they will have to add catalytic converters to them and the upgrades to the fuel system are primarily to cope with the increased back pressure and improve fuel economy.
TLDR: small equipment is going to double in price.
Fuck.
/Remembers trolling around the lake with my dad and a 5 HP Scott-Atwater. We’ve come a long way, in reverse.
WTF does electricity come from? I seem to keep forgetting. The old windmills we used to see around farms weren’t for making electricity, they were direct drive mechanical pumps to water the livestock.
Life is becoming like a reverse Rip Van Winkle.
But did it save even one life?
Sad.
Well, we could get ventilators for party favors, look at it that way! What a great way to inhale that surplus nitrous oxide bottle. I’ll bring the cake and balloons!
Save? Those things were used to kill a lot of people.
Saw a basement full of them in a large NY hospital, very creepy. They collected a lot of COVID money for filling up their morgue with those things.
But did it save even one life?
Never used, so no.
But it’s the thought that counts, plus being able to attack OMB.
their mere existence created a city wide placebo effect which saved millions of lives. Maybe billions.
This is the correct answer.
Our models show it would have been much worse without our grifting.
Never forget what the enemies of Stalin took from us.
https://twitter.com/MirekIGG/status/1628084845636202500
parody?
A doctor in London takes home only £1671.47 ($2024.03) per month after tax.
That’s barely enough to pay for rent and public transportation in London.
https://twitter.com/ReviewsPossum/status/1628255279014977536
I call bullshit. Hell they make that in Bucharest
Fuck you, cut taxes?
even the 2800 before taxes seems low
Clap for NHS!
I suspect it’s bullshit massaged numbers too. There’s been a recent push to dump even more money into NHS lately. I would be surprised if this isn’t part of it.
The “A” in “A doctor” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
PhD.
So I assume mental health?
Ahhh. A therapist.
dunno. then again 9 years at uni is way to much. And 40 hour weeks is strange, interns and beginner doctors usually work way more than that because they have those night shifts which I do not no how to call in English. My buddy in germany worked quite more than 40 hours as an intern.
Probably ought to move out of London, then.
For CPRM,
President’s play Elite
The voices in this video are not quite presidential, but are close enough. AI created
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/118if7n/presidents_play_elite_ep_1/
Spoiler alert: She’s a surgeon.
https://twitter.com/PandasAndVidya/status/1628330560648085504
could be
Why the west fears a Ukrainian victory
So far, the West has been having a good war in Ukraine—above all, because its present course still allows the West to behave as if the war is not its own. The West’s political discourse, rationalized in the ivory tower language of non-escalation and nonprovocation, is still basically about how best to ensure that exposure to the continued risk of military aggression and death is restricted to Ukrainians. In a basic sense, the West has always been afraid of a Ukrainian victory.
——-
Ukraine’s victory over Russia would indeed mean a genuine revolution for the West. It would require, foremost from Europe, a radical transformation. Eventual European Union and NATO enlargement are necessary—but only what lies on the surface. That is the same reason why the European Union couldn’t accept the political outcomes of Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution of 2014. As a political marketplace—or agora, in ancient Greek—reclaimed by its citizens, the Euromaidan revolution dragged Europe back to its roots of democracy, justice, anti-oligarchy, and freedom. In its revolutionary nature, Euromaidan was so fundamentally European that it turned out to be too European for today’s EU. Ukraine appeared to be a test that Europe failed to pass. But Euromaidan is not just a story of an exciting revolutionary past; it has allowed Ukraine to survive and effectively resist Russia’s atrocious war of aggression today.
Somebody who has followed this more closely than I have might be able to make sense of it. He just sounds like a wistful commie to me.
Because Ukraine is a hotbed of democratic classical liberalism?
Riiigggggghhhhhht…..
And the freezing rain has started.
better you than me
Been ongoing since before I woke up today. Supposed to be in the mid 60’s tomorrow.
Never forget what the enemies of Stalin took from us.
Terror? Oppression? Suspicion and distrust of your neighbors?
Asian parents try chili for the first time… I see beans so i assume not the good stuff
https://twitter.com/BornAKang/status/1627909936008122371
Hits pretty close to home.
Seeing VN kids try different foods and really enjoying it. We called one kid “The Peanut Butter Kid”, she really didn’t care, either. Pepsi and chips, forget about it, if you’re not first you’re too late.
“Hope their power grid holds up”
Since I lost power for an hour last night from the winds, the answer is it will not.
Also my gazebo collapsed. Those were sone strong winds last night.
Wind strong enough to defeat the Dread Gazebo?!
parody?
What the bloody hell? Is that some sort of Stalinland theme park?
But did it save even one life?
It put food on somebody’s table.
“Not much else is happening unless you want to give me shit for Liverpool starting strong and then laying their biggest egg in the history of European soccer ever.”
Yes, and by the only recent decent Everton hire too.
I think Dyche may work out, but don’t know for sure. Carlo would have worked, but Real came calling.
Alternatively, small single-lung horizontal engines are going to transition to fuel-injection and electronic throttle control over the next couple of years. In order to meet EPA regs, they will have to add catalytic converters to them and the upgrades to the fuel system are primarily to cope with the increased back pressure and improve fuel economy.
I always wanted a $10,000 push mower.
I bought a brand new Honda push mower last fall. I think I saw a news story about a month later that Honda was discontinuing the model.
Awesome. Probably need pressurized oil systems too instead of just splash lubrication.
Also, good luck adjusting the engine once it’s EFI.
Dude, by then everyone will have a Megasquirt app on their phone, so instant downloads for setting optimal fuel consumption (subject to Big Brother’s approval, of course!)
It’s kinda windy here 😬
beans in chili?
Hi KK! I was late to your article, but I really dug it!
It’s my favorite DD album and made my list of albums without a dud.
So thanks!
Romania’s old power infrastructure doesn’t help fight carbon emissions
https://www.euronews.com/2023/02/20/romanias-old-power-infrastructure-doesnt-help-fight-carbon-emissions
Oh woe is us
I don’t know about top 10 of all time, but Paul’s Boutique is indeed a fantastic album and right up there in the top 50. The sample use is tremendous, as Pat said above it’s only rival in that is Endtrouducing by DJ Shadow. At the time it was released I don’t think it got anywhere near the recognition it deserved. I know “Hey Ladies” got a lot of play, but I don’t remember anything else on it getting much play and I think it sold a lot less that License to Ill, even though it is miles ahead a better album.
Now I had to throw on the whole album as I hadn’t listened to it in a year or more. The second track is just fricking amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BptQHAW2T5M&list=OLAK5uy_nqPWHD8c9N4DnlFGUg4DVqFQvupzxFSkA&index=2
agreed. That song has such a great flow.
BTW from yesterday that object in Japan would seem to be too big to be mooring float.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/22/japanese-officials-investigate-mysterious-sphere-washed-up-on-beach/
This is important:
https://twitter.com/landofthe80s/status/1628410555219181570
“Similar legislation has already passed in 11 other states, including Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas and Oregon. If signed into law, West Virginia’s bill would go into effect in July 2024.”
False. You have to have an ‘enhanced’ concealed carry permit in Idaho.