Sloopy and Banjos are stuck in a special kind of hell.
Here I am, on the mend. Time to find something to get your blood boiling on a Monday morning.
Fill your bracket, get ’em snipped!
I mean, it’s Florida. Will anybody notice?
This dude needs to be flogged in the public square with a dead chicken.
An unserious nation continues to be unserious. At least we still have Lou Reed.
And a bonus track.
Drug is a verb?
I mean, if it doesn’t involve drugs.
Yeah, checks out.
Yep. All works out.
…. sets aside his plate of potato skins and swaps the bottle of water with Nephilium — who is acting like a criminal, and iocane powder comes from Australia, known for its criminal population after all….
Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated, and “lifeless corpse” is redundant.
“Dragged” sounds better to me.
You don’t read enough zombie / demonic possession fiction, I see. Or just haven’t vacationed with Pie in a while. These things matter.
I don’t read fiction, just SugarFree.
SugarFree isn’t fiction…
BEWARE!
I remember not reading that comic strip.
If I’m going to read a comic character going Ack! there’d better be a ppbbtt! after it.
Rewatched Office Space recently and chuckled at the Cathy strip on the cube wall going up in flames.
Should have been Garfield. He had a case of the Mondays, after all.
Monday the 13th!
She’s on the Carson reruns sometimes; surprisingly attractive.
I have some vague memory of the cartoonist being on David Letterman and being awful.
I fear Lou had information that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton
Pfft. I bet he just ticked her off by telling her to lay off all that Chardonnay she drinks….
Seconded. This is just grifting. Nobody really thinks they’re made from de-boned wings, and even if they did, the proper response isn’t stack of cash but to point and laugh.
Also, why does this seem to happen every few years?
The new American dream is to get rich, not form hard work and inventiveness, but from a lawsuit and a dumb ass jury that rewards you for being a fucking asshole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FalHdi2DkEg
I get frivolous lawsuits, but trying to litigate boneless wings specifically.
Some dumbass woman had lawyers litigate and win big cash by blaming McDonalds hot coffee for her being a dumb ass and putting it between her legs in the car before she did something that spilled it and scalded her moneymaker.
This one?
He’s never been one to let the facts get in the way of an opinion.
Injury attorneys trying to justify why their ambulance chasing was something legit? What’s their take on smoking?
Alex. Dude. Back down. The woman’s genitals were fried and McDonald’s treated her like shit. All she wanted was her medical bills covered and they wouldn’t even do that much.
Are you suggesting that catfish and bullheads are fish? I’m getting a lawyer and suing someone. MN DNR, get ready
True, but calling them “boneless wings” is also stupid.
Considering it’s also not uncommon to see “tofu wings” or “cauliflower wings”, what else do you want to call chunks of food that’s fried then tossed in wing sauce?
Chickens also don’t have fingers.
Compelling argument in the lawsuit.
Wuhan Batwings FTW!
Theyre the chicken of the cave!
Chicken nuggets?
De-boned? I thought they were from boneless chickens.
Call me when someone makes the argument that Chicago deep-dish is falsely advertised as ‘pizza’
“You are the dancing squirrel… wild and free… only seventeen!” (ba dum ba dum ba dum….)
Not a lot to say about the links, sorry. I suppose we should be glad the Fed learned enough from ’08 to hide Schroedinger’s bailout (not a dime from taxpayers! Just ignore the press going whirrrrrrrrrr and inflation!) and I thought everyone knew exactly what “bonesless wings” are. :shrug:
Morning all, hope your weeks go well.
“Drifting between the Atlantic coast of Africa and the Gulf of Mexico, the thick mat of algae can provide a habitat for marine life and absorb carbon dioxide. ”
At least they didn’t mention climate change. What causes such a huge blob of seaweed, and how many eels are in that thing?
The AGW cultists & priesthood are getting worried that the lemmings are seeing they are full of hot CO2. Shit like predicting the world would end in 5 years, like idiot Greta did in a place people can always find that prediction, and then 5 years later people see nothing happened, can hurt the cause.
No wonder Greta deleted that tweet. And the AGW church is no longer predicting calamity and catastrophe in the short term – within a range that someone can see it is bullshit in their lifetime – and now are all avoiding hard/specific end of times dates.
I’ve mentioned this before, but the prediction wasn’t that the world would end in 5years, only that it would end [time unspecified] if we don’t stop using fossil fuels in 5 years. We don’t need to misquote people to make them look crazy 🙂
AOC said it would end in 12 years some 2 years ago…
Though I might agree, what’s the point in using a time frame at all if you don’t mean others to take it as literally as possible?
Humanity will end at some unknown point in the future, whether we stop using fossil fuels or not, making her statement useless.
Life on this rock certainly will die 2-3 billion years from now when our yellow dwarf sun goes to a red giant and swallows Mercury and cooks Venus and us.
More than enough to fill your hovercraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargasso_Sea kind of leaps to mind here… it isn’t like the area isn’t known for it or anything.
Damn you!
Are they talking about the Sargasso Sea, which has existed for eons?
“Eels.”
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn…
It’s actually all eel.
Fill your bracket, get ’em snipped!
I watched Schindler’s List for the first time after mine.
I just can’t be bothered this year… Just don’t care..
You don’t need an annual vasectomy.
Kinkshaming is not cool.
Might need a booster, can’t be too careful
I’m never getting snipped. The world needs more kids.
https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Reasons-Have-More-Kids/dp/0465028616/
Speaking of that… check out this infuriating local news piece:
We all need childcare. Cleveland, let’s solve a crisis
From the article:
As you selflessly demand that other people be forced to help pick up the tab.
Fuck you.
Just to be clear, I in no way sorry government funding of daycare, etc.
“One exhibit is an AI-generated — and totally fake — dialogue between the philosopher Slavoj Zizek and the filmmaker Werner Herzog, two of Europe’s most respected intellectuals.”
I’d read that.
I had ChatGPT have a conversation between Ayn Rand and Mao Zedong. It was fucking stupid
To be fair, they were probably wouldn’t really have much to say to each other.
Well, their books suck.
Make them do a rap battle next time.
It…doesn’t do a bad job of it.
Alright, let’s get ready for a historic rap battle! In one corner, we have the founder of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong. And in the other corner, we have the 26th President of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt. Let’s get it started!
Mao:
Listen up, Teddy, I’m the Chairman of the nation
Communism is the way, no room for hesitation
My revolution brought power to the people
You couldn’t handle it, your thoughts are feeble
Teddy:
I may be from the past, but I’m still a force to reckon
My words hit hard, like bullets from a Smith & Wesson
I was the “Rough Rider,” fought battles like a champ
You hid behind a wall, afraid of getting stamp’d
Mao:
Your imperialism was a disease, it had to go
You stole from other countries, acting like a pro
I liberated my people from the chains of oppression
You’ll never know the feeling, just a sad confession
Teddy:
You talk of oppression, yet your reign was brutal
Countless lives lost, your methods futile
I built the Panama Canal, created national parks
You destroyed your culture, left your people in the dark
Mao:
You may have built canals, but I built a nation
My people were poor, now they have liberation
I united my people, created a new era
Your words are empty, mine are like a lyrical terror
Teddy:
Your propaganda won’t work, your reign was a disaster
I fought for justice, freedom and the American master
Your words are hollow, your promises are fake
I’m still remembered, you’re just a footnote, for goodness sake
“You hid behind a wall, afraid of getting stamp’d”
That’s a pretty clever line.
Now we are gonna be fucked for sure…
The word salad will be epic.
I will predict will be all the faults of the investors and their risky plays and the bank is the victim.
Just one more common sense regulation and we’ll have bank failures whipped
It was airline junk fees.
I predict they’ll blame KKKapitalism.
The bestest president in history is on the case!
I am surprised that the crooks in charge when they told people government would protect individual bank account holders, didn’t limit it to women and POC only….
WHERE IS MY SOCIAL JUSTICE????
So Yellen says they aren’t bailing out the bank, just the depositors and creditors.
That is the very definition of a bailout and does nothing to remove the moral hazard for next time.
Remove? It reinforces.
The stockholders are not getting bailed out (yet).
Samsung goes the VW route. Uncertain if the EU will screw them over as well or if the ruling caste would rather have their 8k TVs.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/eu-8k-tv-ban-goes-into-effect-heres-how-samsung-got-around-it
OFFS, Europe. Don’t give us ideas.
More likely they’ll write themselves a minivan ^W loophole but keep their serfs lower and lower tech. Have to show who’s the nobility, after all.
Who needs an 8K TeeVee?
/Bernie.
Akshully, at normal TV viewing distance and size, their is no use in 8k TVs.
HI-DEF PORN BABY, HI-DEF PORN!!!
You love those zits on Riley Reed’s face? Because that’s what you be seeing.
There are some things that decidedly don’t need to be seen in 8K.
I like the one on their asses…
That was my first thought.
The power consumption of TV’s now is a lot lower than it was in the past, no?
Yes. Yes it is. I have two cabinet arcade games in the basement that have old school CRT’s mounted in them. I left them on for a couple weeks after I got them. The power bill for that month was much higher than usual.
Way lower. They used to have vacuum tubes. Modern TV’s don’t even get warm.
Here is a neat calculator for the cost of running your TV. The site is one I used when looking for a new TV, it also has some great tips for set up and adjustment.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/led-oled-power-consumption-and-electricity-cost
DEI Holdings (aka Dennon and Marantz) have been playing this game for a while.
https://manuals.denon.com/AVRX3500H/eu/en/HJWMSYqdgglnxg.php#:~:text=standby%20mode%20settings.-,ECO%20Mode,turn%20the%20maximum%20power%20output.
In this case aside from complexity and cost it inflicts no performance penalty. At any kind of listening volume the receiver will automatically kick out of Eco mode. If you want modestly (and likely inaudible) reduced performance you can force Eco mode to remain on. If you don’t want it at all you can turn it off.
‘Orning ‘ordles — middle of the road… squished like grape.
Daily Duotrigordle #376
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 05:16.13
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 413
5️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 413
8️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
quordle.com
Blech.
Meh.
Daily Quordle 413
8️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
Daily Quordle 413
5️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
Not bad for no sleep.
Our betters.
For some reason, Democrats think that censoring information leads to greater confidence in the system.
I think they’re about to get an education.
All the people who vote for them like it, so obviously it’s the right thing to to.
Oh great — same logic that brought us the whole “fire in a theater” method of clamping down on draft protest political speech. Yay for that stupidity.
If you’re afraid of yelling fire and there is a fire everyone burns up. Nothing hurts confidence in institutions more than censorship.
What about the cruel enslavement of AI chatbots? Why must they be forced to serve the needs of mankind?
Talk dirty to me AI!
So… have Siri do the narration for this?
Hey Siri!
WHAT ARE YOU WEARING ON YOUR FEET????
Just got the obligatory email from my bank this morning.
In all honesty, I think they’re in relatively good shape because of the nature of their deposits and because they’re not in long-term Treasuries. I was studying their balance sheet for the first time this weekend. Regardless, I will be moving part of the business cash around to spread the risk.
It’s probably not a good day to be a bank president.
Why, Scruffyy — that money is in Sam’s house, ya see?
I like this one better:
https://youtu.be/Ovfap2VtpHM
They certainly captured Bart’s evil side well with that laugh (twice!),
And Moe’s line is (as always) great.
Reposted from last night because it’s an instant classic.
https://twitter.com/BrightFuts/status/1634886052065230848
I might be mistaken, but I think it is MikeS.’ birthday today.
Happy Birthday, kid.
At least it isn’t his First.
(Happy b’day, MikeS.)
Didn’t he just have one last year?
Tomorrow is the 90th birthday for both Michael Caine and Quincy Jones.
Happy Birthday MikeS!
The announcement came amid fears that the factors that caused the Santa Clara, California-based bank to fail could spread. Regulators had worked all weekend to try to find a buyer for the bank, which was the second-largest bank failure in history. Those efforts appeared to have failed Sunday.
In a sign of how fast the financial bleeding was occurring, regulators announced that New York-based Signature Bank had also failed and was being seized on Sunday. At more than $110 billion in assets, Signature Bank is the third-largest bank failure in U.S. history.
The near-financial crisis that U.S. regulators had to intervene to prevent left Asian markets jittery as trading began Monday. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 sank 1.6% in morning trading, Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.3% and South Korea’s Kospi shed 0.4%. But Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 1.4% and the Shanghai Composite increased 0.3%.
In an effort to shore up confidence in the banking system, the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and FDIC said Sunday that all Silicon Valley Bank clients would be protected and able to access their money. They also announced steps that are intended to protect the bank’s customers and prevent additional bank runs.
Tinkerbell has had a nasty fright, but she’s going to pull through. Keep clapping, everybody!
We eagerly await the resignation of every politician who supported the CARES Act, quantitative easing, and every other stimulus program for the past fifty years.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/watch-live-president-biden-explains-resilience-us-banking-system
LOL, a complete misunderstanding of the situation.
Look, fat… when there’s only one US bank run directly by fiat from the President or Big Wampum Warren’s CFPB, it won’t be allowed to fail! And you won’t be allowed to take your money out… so no bank runs!
Now sit down and shut up or I’ll take you behind the gym with my rusty razor from a rain barrel or wrap this chain around your head!
I believe the goal will be to invite Chinese banks in the country, as they are the largest and most stable. Doesn’t take a Karnak to see that coming. Also as soon as Biden said “the banking system is safe,” I knew America banking was doomed.
Attention Virginia Glibs, I need a lawyer for a real estate issue; any referrals/recommendations? The house we bought down there turns out to have major termite damage which neither the termite inspection or home inspection discovered. So I will be going after both of them and the agents and brokers that employed or recommended them. Also turns out there is a layer of asbestos, also not disclosed under the siding. It was not a good weekend.
Oof. Sorry dude.
Yeowch…. if it wasn’t for the asbestos cleanup, I’d be thinking “raze the site and rebuild”, but that’s going to be a chunk of change either way.
Good luck — in a sane world, at a bare minimum you should recoup from the inspection company. Too cynical to be sure of that, of course.
Yikes! Sorry.
I’m sorry to hear that. We had similar issues in our house, although not nearly to that extent. I’m still not sure how the 500lb gun safe didn’t crash through the kitchen floor on move-in day. One large hole where the subfloor had been eaten away and there was nothing between the safe and an 8 foot drop but vinyl floor.
Given the close-knit nature of these small towns, a lawyer in your town might be better than an outsider. If not, I’m guessing someone in Mt Airy who’s licensed in VA would be the closest city with several law firms. Martinsville and Christiansburg have decent lawyers, but the travel costs will be steep if it’s not settled and you don’t get awarded expenses.
Actually I was hoping to hear from you if you know anyone in Roanoke. Someone close but not too close (because that immediate area is full of good-old-boys).
I’m not sure about in Roanoke. We’ve used a good Roanoke lawyer to successfully defend a suit from a vengeful former employer, but she doesn’t sound right for this situation.
The wife has family there though, and I’ll ask them about recommendations.
Thanks, any input is appreciated.
The name Penn-Stuart down in Bristol came up, with the adjective ruthless, which I like.
Wow, that sucks man…
Jesus, sorry to hear.
Are there any required disclosures from homeowners for termite damage or asbestos in Virginia? Could be the seller is also liable?
Licensed exterminator did not check off “Visible damage”, which this here dumbass amateur found (once I was told what to look for). Neither did the licensed building inspector. The selling agent/broker will be the one in trouble for non-disclosure of asbestos.
There may be an article out of this – just because y’all won’t believe the pictures I took yesterday and it would certainly be edumacationable.
Do you have a mortgage? Will bringing in the bank in that case help you? I am sure the bank wants to make sure their investment isn’t FUBAR.
That thought had occurted to me, but I want an attorney that represents me first.
Wise move..
Oh and thanks Tonio for the out of band communications!
Sorry
President Joe Biden said Sunday evening as he boarded Air Force One back to Washington that he would speak about the bank situation on Monday. In a statement, Biden also said he was “firmly committed to holding those responsible for this mess fully accountable and to continuing our efforts to strengthen oversight and regulation of larger banks so that we are not in this position again.”
This fills me with pride and confidence. Git ’em, Joe!
/ Joe raises defiant fist in the air, shakes hands with invisible person, shits pants.
/ Joe starts moving stage left while pointing and looking at unknown person off-stage. Joe freezes, turns 180 degrees and starts moving stage right while still pointing. Joe gets to the edge of the stage and trips going down the steps, shits pants a second time.
/ Confidence in the US banking system is restored.
Praise Brandon.
Considering the crisis we have now is that the bank’s investors, sitting on piles of fresh government printed money and hearing that the Fed threatened to raise interest rates because of inflation still doubled down on buying securities that would implode if interest rates were increased…
This was either done by design to destroy the bank, or these crooks just bet stupid and then got their dicks cought in the blender.
Is Pink Floyd in town? I think I just saw a large flying pig.
US government moves to stop potential banking crisis
A crisis likely of its own making that it will now make worse.
They will come in and save the bank by enacting the same policies (printer go brrrr) that incentivized the fiscal irresponsibility to begin with. I’m so glad we have serious people in charge.
Never let a crisis go to waste when you can increase your power and set up for the next crisis… the political version of writing yourself a minivan.
I, for one, am just glad my grocery bill is up 75%.
I bet calls to nationalize the banking system (further) will be in play this week.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pointed to rising interest rates, which have been increased by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation, as the core problem for Silicon Valley Bank. Many of its assets, such as bonds or mortgage-backed securities, lost market value as rates climbed.
Nothing another massive infusion of cash can’t fix.
We appear to be locked in now.
So you’re telling me Joe is going after the Fed? He said he was going to get those responsible….
lol, lmao
Man sues Buffalo Wild Wings, claims pricey ‘boneless wings’ are basically nuggets
He’s not too chicken to engage in a frivolous lawsuit.
Boneless chickens are expensive to raise.
The exoskeletons cost a fortune.
“pricey ‘boneless wings’”
He has a point.
Juris- have you talked to the title insurance company?
Short and sweet summary.
Who Killed Silicon Valley Bank?
I’m calling today Moral Hazard Monday.
As others have pointed out, SVB conducted itself exactly as you would expect it to if the red-headed step-child of Keynesianism, aka MMT, was a valid theory.
best explanation I saw…
That is actually accurate too.
Keiretsu without seppuku.
In Japan the CEO wouldn’t be making the money CEO Becker was. OTH, soaplands!
I’d love to see him doing the obligatory press conference and the deep bows, however.
Somebody’s going to lose his cocktail party invites.
Spudz bodacious busty Mammary Monday babes.
https://archive.ph/gi2yD
“‘Sore loser is never a good look!’ Angela Bassett’s crestfallen reaction to losing Best Supporting Actress Oscar to Jamie Lee Curtis goes viral – as fans claims star was ROBBED of gong”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11852477/Oscars-2023-Angela-Bassetts-reaction-losing-Supporting-Actress-gong-goes-viral.html
She looks great for 64.
The honkey won?
Hey, she was portraying an overweight, overaged lesbian that bagged a woman out of her league! That’s a protected class that it completely underrepresented in fantasy fulfilment portrayals!
Don’t you #oscarssowhite, bruh?
I don’t OsScar at all..
If there is some drama, like Will Smith bitch slapping Chris Rock and leaving him with a permanent case of “Summertime” ringing in his ears or Ricky Gervais telling the upstarts to fuck off, I don’t want to waste time.
You are not allowed to be disappointed, its Hollywood. And agree, but remove Hollywood Angela Bassett and I bet she doesn’t look that good.
“losing the gong?” Is this a Britishism, or just DM proofreading?
Can’t institute a religion if your priesthood doesn’t have their own language.
Britishism. I remember seeing in The Economist 25 years ago.
wait the Oscars are still a thing?
Thank goodness we have the FED, otherwise there might be bank runs like the bad old days.
Well, not here in Bedford Falls!
Paging Mexican Sharpshooter
Used Rolexes Are Beating the Stock Market
Sigh… Similar to collector cars it’s nice to be able to “use” your investment, but here we go again. The volatility and liquidity issues are huge. You shouldn’t be banking your retirement on your collection of Patek Phillippe watches.
Unless it is the Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication
Comic books, that’s where the good investments are.
Tiffany Dufu, founder and CEO of The Cru, a New York-based career coaching platform and community for women, posted a video Sunday on LinkedIn from an airport bathroom, saying the bank crisis was testing her resiliency. Given that her money was tied up at Silicon Valley Bank, she had to pay her employees out of her personal bank account. With two teenagers to support who will be heading to college, she said she was relieved to hear that the government’s intent is to make depositors whole.
“Small businesses and early-stage startups don’t have a lot of access to leverage in a situation like this, and we’re often in a very vulnerable position, particularly when we have to fight so hard to get the wires into your bank account to begin with, particularly for me, as a Black female founder,” Dufu told The Associated Press.
Way to keep your eye on the ball, Ms Dufus.
Life coach or non sequitur generator?
WORDS!
“Our two-sided model helps us deliver unique insights
The Cru will become the largest
database of women’s goals.
We deliver aggregate engagement metrics and proprietary insights to inform a company’s Human Capital and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies. Our data helps leaders to measure the acceleration of their talent to ensure ROI.”
Sounds like a dogwhistle to me.
I’d jail you just for what you did to dogs (let alone everything else), and I’m not even a dog person.
‘There’s no response to that craziness, Jim. Prosecute me for what? What are they talking about? I wish I could figure out what the heck they’re talking about. I think they’re just going off the deep end.”
He is pissed that after all that work to confound his role in this shit, it is still coming out. All that money he made, it is now at risk and he might end up not being able to get positive TeeVee time he so craves in the future if the people actually realize the gnome was playing them all.
The thing is he has enough deniability while working as an agent of the US and the fact that we have no serious intention of actually holding people accountable that need to be held accountable.
A deteriorating situation on almost all fronts at the federal level leads me to believe they will find themselves some scapegoats to pillory.
Fauci should be worried.
He really is a vile piece of shit.
“Whatcha talkin’ ’bout, Willis”?
Except taxpayers already bailed them out…
Plans announced Sunday to fully reimburse deposits made in the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank and the shuttered Signature Bank will rely on Wall Street and large financial institutions — not taxpayers — to foot the bill, Treasury officials said.
“For the banks that were put into receivership, the FDIC will use funds from the Deposit Insurance Fund to ensure that all of its depositors are made whole,” said a senior Treasury Department official, who spoke to reporters Sunday about the plan on the condition of anonymity.
We’ll get the banks to stop taking massive risk by covering all deposits 1:1.
https://www.fox29.com/news/man-shot-over-70-times-dies-on-porch-of-tioga-home-police-say
Holy hell!
With ammo prices these days…
“The man was later identified as Dhalsim Jackson-Mayes.”
I wonder if a street fight got out of hand.
Boo.
#8 birdshot has 410 pellets/oz.
Good morning, Spud!
Good to hear you are on the road to recovery.
Prediction: the SVB fiasco will be used by the Feds to scare the shit out of normies, further consolidate the industry, sabotage crypto and solve everything with the long anticipated CBDC.
This sucks.
The government is competent and has your best interest in mid.
The government is competent and has your best interest in mid.
The government is competent and has your best interest in mid.
The government is competent and has your best interest in mid.
The government is competent and has your best interest in mid.
I see the government has its usual competency — “mid”
1966 postcard of Karl-Marx-Allee in East Berlin featuring the Berolina hotel, the Kino International cinema and the Mokka-Milch-und-Eisbar
https://twitter.com/GermanAtPompey/status/1635161098210148354
even in postcards it looks ugly
Being a punk is great. You get to break all the rules while also agonising about the colour of your laces.
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1634867529200939008
You’ll get the shot kicked out of you? Rightly?
For your lace color?
Eat a dick, asshole.
Neph will be by soon…this is old news in my parts of the punk circles I ran in.
The way “punk’s” been going lately I think you might also get the shit kicked out of you if you aren’t currently boosted. Lydon’s the only one left that’s worth a damn.
Yep. Lace codes are a thing. It’s almost like subcultures have unique identifiers, codes, and shibboleths that outsiders aren’t meant to get.
I always thought that white power skins wore white laces, and punk skins wore red.
But I also thought that Docs were for tourists and posers. Skins wear Gripfast and Rangers.
This dude gets it.
Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
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Mar 12
Replying to
@BDSixsmith
It’s crucial to ensure that nobody associates boots made by Klaus Märtens during the Second World War with the Nazis.
Technically, I think he made them after the war in Madrid. He was a doctor in the German army and had an injured foot that most shoes didn’t help. The company was bought by Brits in 1959.
So it’s really Doc Märtens??
Huh.
oblig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Eq8TOiqkCM
That’s the link I was looking for.
Sfilta in Body delle finaliste – Miss Città Murata – Castelfranco Veneto – Treviso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8eikulXpLY
Greenest President ever
President Joe Biden will declare the entire U.S. Arctic Ocean off limits to new oil and gas leasing, even as a decision looms on whether it will approve a controversial oil project in Alaska, according to a senior administration official.
The administration will also announce Monday new rules meant to make 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska off limits for new leases, the official said. Those protections would extend to the Teshekpuk Lake, Utukok Uplands, Colville River, Kasegaluk Lagoon, and Peard Bay Special Areas, the official said.
But these rules would not affect the controversial Willow project, which the administration is expected to greenlight this week, because ConocoPhillips already has leases. That drilling project would produce up to 180,000 barrels a day of oil in the Alaska wilderness — an anticipated decision that has drawn the ire of environmentalists.
The White House has been mulling the Willow decision for weeks. The deliberations have focused on the legal constraints posed by the fact that Conoco has held some leases for decades and “has certain valid, existing rights granted by prior Administrations, limiting the Biden Administration’s options,” the official continued.
Stopping new oil leases, plus other measures meant to conserve the Arctic from new drilling, is meant as a “fire wall” to protect 16 million acres of land and water in the state, said the official.
We tried everything we could think of to weasel out of the Willow deal, but it looks like we still haven’t found a way.
I bet calls to nationalize the banking system (further) will be in play this week.
This would never have happened if the Post Office had been allowed to get into the retail banking business!
Also, there will be calls to strengthen regulation ‘to increase competition’, which will have the exact opposite effect.
18 female guards at single prison sacked for sexual relationships with inmates
https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/12/hmp-berwyn-18-female-guards-sacked-for-sexual-relationships-with-inmates-18427519/
At least it wasn’t sheep
I am relatively surprised that it was a men’s prison.
We’re returning to Ancient Greece where women were considered the wanton sex.
Chicks dig bad boys.
Monetary policies with fewer subsidies for banks: A two-tier system of minimum reserve requirements
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/monetary-policies-fewer-subsidies-banks-two-tier-system-minimum-reserve-requirements
“The ECB subsidises commercial banks massively against inflation, which constitutes a more than €1 trillion transfer of money from taxpayers to private banks over the next ten years. This column argues the subsidies are exorbitant and proposes a two-tier system of non-interest-bearing minimum reserve requirements on part of bank reserves. This will reduce the excessive subsidies to banks while maintaining the current operating procedure used by the central bank. It will also alleviate the burden on taxpayers and avoid making the ECB’s operating procedure unsustainable.
We are aware that this proposal is quite intrusive and is resisted by the banks, which will see an easy source of profit disappear at once. It is likely to be resisted by central banks also because it implies a return to operating procedures that existed in a reserve scarcity regime prior to the financial crisis. The ECB, together with other central banks, now embrace their new operating procedure (arising from the abundant reserve regime), which consists in raising the rate of remuneration on bank reserves as an instrument to increase the market interest rate in their fight against inflation. This has also led to a widespread conviction, one could even use the term ‘dogma’, among central bankers and economists, that this is the only reasonable operating procedure. It is hard to fight dogmas.”
But environmental groups have argued that oil companies have lost interest in drilling in Alaska in recent years and not much would be lost in ceasing new leases. The Center for Western Priorities, a progressive group advocating land conservation, said analysis of government data showed oil companies have leased less than 11 percent of the 24 million acres of land in the NPR-A that Interior has put up for lease since 2014. Companies bought leases worth only 80,000 acres of the 10 million the Trump administration offered in the NPR-A in 2017, the group noted.
“If the reporting on Willow is accurate, President Biden is about to dig himself a massive hole when it comes to public lands and the energy transition,” CWP Executive Director Jennifer Rokala said in a statement. “If the Biden administration is serious about their commitments to address the climate and nature crises, it’s imperative that the president double down on durable, meaningful action.”
We’ll convert everything to rubber band power, and the planet will be saved.
‘nature crises’ good to see all that greenwashing money is paying for new buzzwords.
‘But environmental groups have argued that oil companies have lost interest in drilling in Alaska in recent years and not much would be lost in ceasing new leases.’
It’s almost as if energy companies have lost faith that the leasing contracts will be honored.
Correct. The industry has not lost the desire to drill. They have simply seen how the hostility makes it impossible for them to get to the drilling… That’s a serious difference in reason for the lack of interests/action.
It’s reassuring that we have Joe Biden coming out of the daycare to tell us that the banking system is just honkey dorey, taxpayers won’t foot the bill for all this, and it was all Trump’s fault for all that derugulating he done did.
Whether or not taxpayers will foot the bill on this depends on what the definition of foot the bill is. Directly, no; Indirectly, yes but those in charge know enough to realize that most people have no idea what’s going on when it comes to banking and money printing.
Absolutely. I’m sure it will all be done indirectly so they have the political cover to claim they stuck it to the fatcats. More fees, more taxes and more printing will be the order of the day. It will probably be successful too, that is if you are following their definition of success which means that the blame for it will largely be averted from them and their shitty policies.
The latest bit of stupidity in the town where my son goes to college.
25 Employees Walk Out After Pennsylvania Restaurant Owner Names Drinks ‘The Negro’ And ‘The Caucasian’
Makes perfect business sense if you are an idiot.
The Dude hardest hit.
Should have called them the honkey and the homey?
Don’t know what happened with that link
https://www.gettysburgtimes.com/news/local/article_c782f639-aaba-5958-955d-01ef780cf3bc.html
Gulnara Karimova: How Uzbek president’s daughter built a £200m property empire
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64915348
She started with £500m?
“MICHIGAN GOV. WHITMER ON COVID LOCKDOWNS: “We had to make some decisions that in retrospect don’t make a lot of sense, right? […] We didn’t want people, you know, all congregating around the gardening supplies. […] It was February in Michigan, no one was planting anyway…””
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1635103145893462016
Fuck you and your flying monkeys.
https://twitter.com/Abomination1349/status/1635117799617200128
LOL
Nice…
Cause you can’t start planting indoors…what a fucking cunte and the reporter who is too pussy to push back on that.
As far as I know the ban started late March and went well into Spring.
no one was planting anyway
so, it was actually a safe place to be.
Huh, the Asian kid from The Goonies won an Oscar last night.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64935656
Harrison Ford presented the Best Picture award for the movie, and they hugged. Ok Groomer.
That’s good enough for me.
Awww
Yeah, I don’t care much about award shows but that tugged the Gen-X heartstrings
They seem a bit confused on the basics of the story.
Pay no attention to the massive snowpack behind the curtain
Some of the tall, stately trees that have grown up in California’s Sierra Nevada are no longer compatible with the climate they live in, new research has shown.
Hotter, drier conditions driven by climate change in the mountain range have made certain regions once hospitable to conifers — such as sequoia, ponderosa pine and Douglas fir — an environmental mismatch for the cone-bearing trees.
“They were exactly where we expected them to be, kind of along the lower-elevation, warmer and drier edges of the conifer forests in the Sierras,” Avery Hill, who worked on the study as a graduate student at Stanford University, told NPR.
Although there are conifers in those areas now, Hill and other researchers suggested that as the trees die out, they’ll be replaced with other types of vegetation better suited to the environmental conditions.
The team estimated that about 20% of all Sierra Nevada conifer trees in California are no longer compatible with the climate around them and are in danger of disappearing. They dubbed these trees “zombie forests.”
Oh, horror. Something might change? How will we survive?
They’re full of shit anyways.
listening to very “respectable” people say the fed must change course and lower rates makes me get pretty damn annoyed.
They effectively already have done so. They just haven’t announced it as such.
There is no out here. Rates will stay “high” and the fed will just print to patch any blow ups.
Now the problem is serious for Al and the Grifters
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/researchers-identify-mammal-latest-potential-cause-climate-change-suggest-balancing-species
WTF have meese ever done to anyone.
Thwarted Boris and Natasha. So of course Fox-Putin wants to take them down.
One of them bit my sister.
“Balancing species”.
Sorry, moosies – to save Gaia you need to die off.
Why does Chesterton’s fence spring immediately to mind?
I hear that they are the prime vector and reservoirs for ticks.
Kill them all.
“Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has transformed from an encyclopedia that adopted a strict “teach the controversy” approach (whereby a diversity of opinions and sources were reflected in articles) to one where Wikipedia takes firm sides on contested subjects.”
https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1634998504396587009
I thought it was more a reflection of the basement-dwellers who “guard” anything controversial – they’re all lefties.
I’m sure the board is leftist too but I was under the impression that they don’t write the articles.
listening to very “respectable” people say the fed must change course and lower rates makes me get pretty damn annoyed.
Let me guess: we’re teetering on the brink of a financial collapse unlike anything we have ever seen before. Damn the torpedoes. Full steam ahead.
Charles Schwab shares head for worst day ever, drop 20% as fears of banking crisis deepen
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/charles-schwab-shares-head-for-worst-day-ever-as-fears-of-banking-crisis-deepen.html
BoA is slightly up. As is the Dow and S&P.
People fleeing one (or more) bank means that they must go to another. I don’t know the internal workings of BoA enough to know if their shit is on the level, but I do know they’re massive and can likely absorb shit so long as they didn’t decide to do epically stupid things like put 1/2 of their deposits in long term treasury bonds with almost zero interest rates, and other huge chunks of cash in MBS, a la pre-08.
“Dad dresses as Julius Caesar at school board meeting to protest teacher’s gender-fluid attire
Michael Guglielmo accused the Concord School District of ‘facilitating gender confusion'”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dad-dresses-julius-caesar-school-board-meeting-protest-teachers-gender-fluid-attire
See the fuglies in the back with their signs knowing they are being upsatged?
Smart move with the go-pro strapped to the chest too.
the district “rejects all forms of hatred and discrimination,” and it strives to “rejoice” in the diversity of its community
Quack quack quack.
More of this, please.
Here’s a story I wrote 5yes ago about Barney Frank — earning +$1 million on Signature Bank’s board — using his name as author of Dodd-Frank to push a bipartisan bill to deregulate Signature
Signature failed yesterday & the FDIC will cover its depositors
https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1635248606042259457
I laugh every time somebody points to Dodd-Frank as preventing anything, that is other than good management.
Frank is and was a corrupt asshole who installed his fuckboi at Fannie Mae. Dodd was up to his eyeballs in corruption with Countrywide, who was writing him sweetheart loans while peddling subprime mortgages,
All right. Another presidents that you never asked for ai art thread.
This time, they’re professional wrasslers.
https://twitter.com/hamcarless/status/1635124986284494853
Wow. Half of those renderings made them bears. That will be a popular thread.
“Oh, my!”
How reticulated pythons climb trees.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1633943554597982208
Save us, oh Wise Ones
Goldman Sachs no longer sees a case for the Federal Reserve to deliver a rate hike at its meeting next week, citing “recent stress” in the financial sector.
Earlier Sunday, U.S. regulators announced measures to stem contagion fears following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Regulators also closed Signature Bank, citing systemic risk.
“In light of the stress in the banking system, we no longer expect the FOMC to deliver a rate hike at its next meeting on March 22,” Goldman economist Jan Hatzius said in a Sunday note.
The firm had previously expected the Federal Reserve to hike rates by 25 basis points. Last month, the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee boosted the federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 4.5% to 4.75%, the highest since October 2007.
Is there a more reputable source of analysis than Goldman Sachs?
The entrails of doves?
Can Britain actually build anything? Survey says… probably not.
https://twitter.com/rcolvile/status/1635201027468296192
“The Democrats’ Disastrous Miscalculation on Civil Liberties
Americans have been told a dangerous and uncertain world requires stronger managers and less freedom, but the decline of civil liberties is what started this mess…
I then had to keep my mouth shut as an elected official shifted to Dad mode to admonish me to “take off the tinfoil hat,” because “there’s not a “vast conspiracy,” by which he meant he apparently meant my last three months of work.
Allred then went on MSNBC, where my former friend Chris Hayes with a straight face suggested he didn’t see a “government angle” in either the Twitter Files or our testimony — both of which were more or less entirely about that issue — and Allred beamed in agreement, saying the discovery of Truthout and Ultra Maga Dog Mom on federal blacklists was just the FBI “pointing out that certain actions are probably Russian disinformation ops.” He also offered the ironic criticism that some people are “stuck in an information loop, in which you’re not allowing outside information in”:”
https://www.racket.news/p/the-democrats-disastrous-miscalculation
It’s always RUSSIA with these assholes.
For a perfect demonstration of how the Democrats now think, look at Massie’s tweet from today where he states that a Democratic senator asked if the government could just censor bad news about banks.
We have entered very dangerous territory. We’ve moved from a closed news system in which we were all force fed what they wanted us to hear, to a daily open and democratized system of news gathering and dissemination, to one that was censored on the down-low so that you’d only hear approved messages, to one where we have senators openly expressing their desire to censor what they don’t approve of.
Moobs demanded censorship of Tucker on the Senate floor. A week later this ass hat senator is demanding we censor people about a series of bank runs. When they can openly call for censoring speech they don’t like without serious repercussions, we’re in big trouble.
Leadership
Laying out highlights of his administration’s response, Biden said the banks’ leaders will face repercussions.
“The management of these banks will be fired,” he said. “If the bank is taken over by FDIC, the people running the bank should not work there anymore.”
Biden added, “investors in the banks will not be protected. They knowingly took a risk, and when the risk didn’t pay off, investors lose their money. That’s how capitalism works.”
In a bid to contain the crisis, the Biden administration announced on Sunday that customers of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank would have full access to their deposits, even if their account totals were above the maximum $250,000 covered by federal insurance.
Giving new details about his administration’s response, Biden also promised a “full accounting of what happened and why,” so anyone who acted in an irresponsible way can be held accountable.
To prevent similar situations from recurring, Biden said he would ask Congress and regulators to strengthen the rules, which he said had been weakened during the Trump administration.
Let the scapegoating commence. Starting with President Cartoon Villain, of course. Set blamethrowers on full dispersion.
At least we still have Lou Reed.
Yes. It’s a good song.
In a separate announcement, the Fed late Sunday announced an expansive emergency lending program that’s intended to prevent a wave of bank runs that would threaten the stability of the banking system and the economy as a whole.
What could possibly go wrong?
AGI is “artificial intelligence that is able to do anything that a human would be able to do,” integrating human cognitive capacities into machines.
Imagine the porn coming out of that.
However, the giant bloom can have disastrous consequences as it gets closer to the shore. Coral, for instance, can be deprived of sunlight. As the seaweed decomposes it can release hydrogen sulfide, negatively impact the air and water and causing respiratory problems for people in the surrounding area.
“Can” instead of “may”. Interesting. Still means “might or might not”.