Awesome.
Sometimes you get lucky and the reason to fire an underperforming coach presents itself. I guess you should realize that “slave” only ever means whites owning blacks in America. It can’t possibly have any more context even though it has literally existed everywhere man has lived and literally people of every hue were victims of it. Bah. This is sports. I shouldn’t get worked up about retards in Lubbock.
Awesome.
Especially since the F1 season got underway yesterday. And with the exception of Max driving immediately off into the distance, it was one hell of a fun race. The only thing that topped the race was the absolute raping of ManUre by Liverpool yesterday. 7-0, which is ManUre’s worst league loss ever (a tie), and it could have easily been 10 or more. LOL, fuck those guys. OK, on to the links.
Awesome.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! This sure is a wild ride. Unfortunately I don’t think the person running it knows what the fuck they’re doing.
Oh, this is just great. The crazies are completely in control of China now.
Awesome.
Nothing is less secure than a government website. It’s not that they don’t care about Asian-Americans. It’s that they’re incompetent. (With apologies to those Glibs who work in government IT.)
Remember, these are the leaders of a major political party. And they’re saying these things uninterrupted on a national media outlet that considered itself legitimate.
Awesome.
This fucking guy… I hate this fucking guy. And I’m going to keep paying him for the rest of his life, which makes to even worse.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I’ve got as much chance of winning as that dumb fuck.
$5,000,000 seems excessive. But it sure looks like somebody fucked up and they’re owed something.
Shut the fuck up, retard. I can’t put it any nicer than that. This idiot and everybody else involved in the city and county government needs to shut thew fuck up and let somebody else take over. They’ve failed miserably and need to go.
Here’s a lovely song. It doesn’t get as much play as it should. And this one is equally great. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends. I’m still enjoying that 7-0 scoreline. LOL, seven goals. Fuck you, ManUre.
Everyone knows that money is the one resource whose price is not subject to the knowledge problem and can therefore be set by central committee more efficiently than by markets.
+1 extra chocolate ration
Your 1 ounce chocolate ration will be increased to 15 grams.
With apologies to those Glibs who work in government IT.
IT at the speed and competence of government bureaucracy. How many forms and how many approvals does it take to make a change? All I want to do is bump a minor version.
I think there’s also an element of “If things are fucked up, does anyone pay a penalty?” A private company screwing up should eventually pay the price in the market… other than the U-Haul Index, no one seems to hold any of these sub-entities to account.
The biggest perk of working in government is that the only way you are held accountable is if you fuck up someone’s pronouns..
I once hired a guy away from the Minnesoda DNR IT staff. He was giving up because he couldn’t take it anymore. According to him, it would take 9 months between the time they requested a server until it was in a rack, provisioned and ready to go. So they were always requesting servers because they knew they’d need them and they couldn’t wait 9 months.
They were also forbidden from using the cloud because of “security”. He laughed and said he was working on a lake finder app. Everything was public. In fact if hackers stole all the data and distributed it they’d be doing the state a favor. But nope, couldn’t put that on Amazon. Had to be on one of those servers you were waiting 9 months on.
That’s sad.
While we were never allowed to buy physical servers, at my first agency we could get a new VM set up in about a day. We were appalled to see that the Office for Technology’s turnaround listed a VM at a week. Nowadays, I’d be overjoyed at a mere nine months.
It took six months to a year from request to procure, deliver, rack, and stack when I had servers in a government data center.
It ain’t just the government. In the Before Times I’d plan capacity for at least 3 quarters in advance. 1 quarter to order and deliver. 1 quarter to rack, stack and provision. 1 quarter because of Murphy’s Law. Now we’ve been waiting over a year for delivery.
Management once ordered servers for our use without asking us for specifications. They were powerful, too powerful, way more than we needed. They couldn’t be racked until the power system was upgraded. They sat in a hallway for a year.
Interesting. The Feds use cloud for lots of stuff.
It could be before the government contracted with the major providers to build government clouds.
I can’t believe this isn’t common knowledge, but your answers to your “security questions” should always be random text strings that you store in an encrypted password vault, just like your password itself. Or print them out and keep them in your filing cabinet, whatever works for you. Never use real answers to those questions, especially if you’re a social media user who lets it all hang out. Anybody with 4 brain cells can get the answers to most of your security questions from a 2 second perusal of your Facebook profile.
It’s a good thing I don’t have a Facebook profile.
Nobody will ever be able to figure out what elementary school I went to.
It’s literally so secret that only the upper echelon of Firsters know where it is and what it’s called.
^^^THIS^^^
Same here, rhy. I get the random character string is better, but I think the odds anybody outside my immediate family knows the name of my first dog are pretty low.
What squicks me out are the questions some websites generate about your life for their security screen – cars you owned, addresses you lived at, that kind of thing.
As I understand it, a random real but off-the-wall word is better than a randomized password. Since everybody nowadays wants a character, a number, and an upper case, all my real words are mixed up with those.
Correct horse battery staple
What you want is a relatively random pass phrase composed of several random words. A single word is wholly inadequate. Computing power has also increased quite a lot since that cartoon was published. A 4-word random passphrase of 44 bits entropy could be brute-forced by a simple dictionary attack in probably less than a day now. Password or passphrase isn’t terribly important, long sequences of randomness are. A 32 character random password with special characters included and a 14-word random pass phrase are in the same range of ~180 bits entropy. You aren’t going to remember either a 32 character password or a 14 word pass phrase, so your best bet is to generate random passwords or pass phrases and store them safely.
I used 1HorseB@ttery as a password for a while because of that comic.
Well, you don’t have a Facebook account. Everyone has a Facebook profile. Fortunately, when you don’t have Facebook account your Facebook profile isn’t public, unless a competent hacker or malicious Facebook employee makes it so. And yes, I just ackchyually’d myself.
I haven’t visited in years but when I deleted my account I vaguely remember promises that all my data would be deleted. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
By “profile” I mean your ad profile, which you have if you’ve ever visited a website that’s part of FB’s ad network. If you’ve been on the internet since 2006, you have. Resistance is futile, the best we can do is delay assimilation.
Even if the security question is “What is the first name of the first person you did anal with?”
Is that not a redundant question to the dog name in some circles?
LOL
BAZINGA!
And that question is loaded, cause you would know if the user was answering about pitching or catching..
Yup, terrible question — 90% of the answers are going to be a variant of “Yo momma.”
“What is the first name of the first person you did anal with?”
Guess #1: Uncle Sam
Guess #2: The IRS
Poor Pope, always a catcher, never a pitcher.
As a 13 year-old I blew out my elbow from over use, so I could never be a pitcher.
But you were a second baseman.
Just remember: the catchers call the game.
“Illinois Governor brushes away questions of a White House run”
That fat fuck hasn’t ran in decades.
How did he and those like him (I’m looking at you, Walz) ever get elected in the first place? It’s a race, alright, to the bottom. Walz is still claiming he took Covid head on and saved MN from total annihilation.
King Walz had some help from local judges.
Not only was it unconstitutional, it was ineffective. I bet Judge Bueltel has a hard time sleeping at night, knowing he put a person in jail for no good reason.
If someone unjustly penalized can learn the judges whereabouts, it could be hard to sleep, maybe, with phone calls at two and three in the morning from untraceable burner phones or subscriptions to explicit magazines pilling up in the mailbox.
The RNC should file an eleventy trillion dollar defamation suit using the Dominion v. Fox News case as precedent.
Progjection…
Team blue’s attack are always projection of the very things they are doing.
It is amazing. I have an ex-wife who was exactly like that so I understand that it happens. I just don’t know how someone lacks the self-awareness to realize they are projecting.
Ex-wife. Would?
She was cute but a handful otherwise.
Just one handful? Q is disappointed.
Thanks for the Monday morning Joe Walsh. A decade or so ago, my wife bought tickets to an Eagles concert at Giants Stadium. About halfway through I realized I’d rather be at a Joe Walsh concert. If he and Felder ever get a tour together, I’ll be there.
Glad you enjoyed the race, Sloopy. Between Max going to Ludicrous Speed, Ferrari yet again having reliability issues and Merc looking like they’ll be fighting for 5th at best most cases, I took it as (other than Alonso) a sign this season will be a repeat of the last. Yawn. I suppose Ocon’s escalating penalty woes were at least mildly amusing if you weren’t rooting for him.
And the F3 race was just terrible for poor Mini. Kind of annoying we never got a good look at just how he was supposedly out of his box at the start. It couldn’t have been by much. F2 was pretty decent, I was a bit surprised Pourchaire could keep his tires together after evidently using them too much in the Sprint Race.
Moving on — part of me hopes Xi cracks down hard enough (and the world has the sense to move things away from China) that their economy suffers and he invokes the one cardinal sin of the CCP — not providing order and economic security. Maybe they’ll knock down that rotten house of cards eventually. (He says from a country where our house of cards is proving more and more rotten to the core… sigh….)
I don’t think that’s even theoretically possible given how much control China has over global natural resources and tangible goods production by way of OBOR. The collective west transitioning to a “knowledge economy” based on arbitraging labor cost and environmental damage to places we don’t have to look at or worry about has left us in the slightly precarious position of depending on totalitarian communism for the actual production of actual goods. When the shit hits the fan, China can survive just fine without 300 million obese retards to buy the cheap shit being churned out from Guangdong, but the 300 million obese retards are utterly fucked without China.
I think you have it backwards. There is nothing from China we can’t live without. Their entire economy runs off exporting.
In a “shit hits the fan” scenario, I’m picturing both economies basically going into freefall – that’s a given. But China’s in the fortunate position of having manufacturing capacity and still actually producing tangible goods. If China’s export market collapses they will still be able to produce durable goods necessary and sufficient to keep their domestic society from collapsing. As we found out during the mild-by-comparison COVID hysteria, we’re a dozen years out if we started today from being able to even produce our own pharmaceutical precursors or computer chips. If China tells us to get fucked AND exerts pressure in their sphere of influence, there’s little from China we can live without.
The one thing I’d have liked to have seen was Gasly’s progression from back of the grid to 9th. Between that and Ocon driving really well, penalties aside, things are looking good for Alpine. They’re gonna battle hard in the 3rd-6th* constructors chase. And that will be fun to watch.
*Yes, I think Merc, Aston, Alpine, McLaren will all be about evenly matched this year. It’ll come down to reliability.
Probably. I think my problem is that I don’t find midfield fighting all that exciting typically. It is almost in the Whose Line is it Anyway class of “And the points don’t matter” between 7th and 8th. I know they really do at the end of the year to the teams… but it just doesn’t do it for me.
Ah well.
Lots of companies are exiting China now. Most notably Apple/FoxConn.
And the CCP reacting like this is gonna just make it more essential to get out of that shitshow ASAP.
The CCP going hostile earlier than the original plan to use the might the CCP military and banking got from buying & selling the rope the CCP was going to use to hang those capitalists with to the idiots once they had the strength, was a serious miscalculation.
As long as those companies are dependent on raw materials from China it will be a half-assed exit.
Why do you think we are in Ukraine? The fact that recent surveys showed that 1/3 of the world’s Lithium reserves were there might be part of the plan to get off Chinese rare earths…
So now the anti-war movement will shift from “No bombs for oil!” to “No bombs for electric cars?”
The old anti-war movement has gone all in on “Bomb them all to death” cause they want their EVs.. The new anti-war people, the ones that are worried about WW3, are just Putin stooges…
The old anti war movement disappeared the day Obama took office, and mostly sat silent while he expanded war. Claimed Trump to be a war monger, but had nothing to demonstrate that claim since he was actively withdrawing, and now claim Biden got us out of Afghanistan. Since then, it’s all crickets.
Already starting. It will take a long time, though.
The woke infection of any sphere of life that one cares about is reason enough to get riled up.
Hey, maybe he quoted from the Thomas Jefferson bible.
Her speech followed a week of similar warnings from the Federal Reserve.
Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said last Wednesday that he’s “open to the possibility” of a larger interest rate increase in the Fed’s March policy meeting, “whether it’s 25 or 50 basis points.” (That’s a quarter or half of a percent. A basis point is one hundredth of one percent).
The same genius who wanted to completely switch the economy off to stop the plague.
They can raise interest rates until Hell freezes over and it won’t stop inflation as long as Team Brandon keeps pulling money out of the magic hat and firehosing it into the economy.
We’ll need to print money just to cover interest payments.
I’m surprised that inflation is such a surprise. It’s almost like unintended consequences.
Who could have predicted that? What am I going to do with all these extra checks in my check book?
It is coming as a surprise to all the little kids who graduated from Hogwarts School for Imaginary Unicorns, which is 90% of the children’s crusade running the county right now.
All those years of quantitative easing has consequences?
$5,000,000 seems excessive. But it sure looks like somebody fucked up and they’re owed something.
IIRC this happens about once a year. It’s not rocket science. You do a head count when the boat leaves the dock, then you do another head count just before you move the boat each subsequent time. When the head count is off, you do a roll call. The fact that the “lifeguard” was all like “no, we’re not missing anybody, STFU” earns them the $5MM in my opinion. This industry needs to do better.
As one who has had to float at sea in 100-250’ of water, albeit only a couple of miles offshore, for about 2 hours, I will say they deserve big cheese.
In my case it was stupidity more than anything, and we were swept away in a strong current while diving off of a private boat, not left behind by a commercial operation. At the time I was a well trained and highly competent diver in full gear for a reasonably deep dive (around 150’ was our max depth plan), so I wouldn’t say I was scared. But it was pretty damn uncomfortable. We ended up floating for several miles as we were caught in a 5 knot current. Finally got picked up (reluctantly) by a fishing charter.
How many times did the mate on the charter have to hit you with the fish billy before you stopped flopping around on the deck of the boat?
Being that I was holding a speargun, none.
He wasn’t very happy though.
The Asian D’s are some of the most insufferable wokesters. The black politicians who say that shit come off as dishonest grifters. Like, Al Sharpton doesn’t care about gay rights. He doesn’t care about trans rights. He doesn’t care about feminism. But he’ll say all that shit to keep his cushy and lucrative MSNBC gig. The Asians who go in on that nonsense which is actively detrimental to their interests are true believers.
Fauci used the power of grants and funding to shut down any discussion of the lab leak theory. Like a week ago someone showed how a British researcher completely changed their position after Fauci exponentially upped funding for his research. He went from describing it as likely based on the evidence to a baseless conspiracy theory after one conversation with Fauci.
“He went from describing it as likely based on the evidence to a baseless conspiracy theory after one
conversation with$18 million vague research grant from Fauci.”Fixed that for you…
Apparently, the tweet I was thinking of was Anderson. The Post isn’t doing the story justice as not only did Fauci fund the paper while pretending not to, Anderson did a complete 180 on this subject after Fauci ordered it.
Concur about woke Asians. They may be the most insufferable of the lot.
They’ll scream racism, but at the wrong people. Apparently it was white supremacy that made blacks attack Asians during Covid. White supremacy that keeps more Asians from getting into elite colleges because yet other minorities couldn’t keep up.
It was 100% ginned up in reaction to the demographics of the 2020 election, too. You didn’t hear jack shit about Asian discrimination until it came out that they were surprisingly close to going for Trump. Then the left poured it on getting that particular lost sheep back to the flock.
And now it’s completely gone, unless brought up by a woke Asian, blaming the wrong people.
Or it’s big enough. Like the multiple shooting in CA, committed by an older chinese guy. Even that was labeled as anti Asian violence.
I particularly love the influx of Vietnamese offspring going full commie around here. Their parents and grandparents risked their lives to give their kids a better future and the little fuckers pull that. And the transparent bullshit like this:
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/01/state-elections-officials-chose-not-to-investigate-residency-complaint-against-new-democratic-state-representative.html
The fucker doesn’t live at his parents house nor did he even make the deadline with his false registration. Yet it was handwaved away with things like his “cultural background”.
F2 was pretty decent
That was the series to watch, back when it was GP2.
Yup — one thing F2 (and even more so F3) has going for it — lots more wheel to wheel racing, and lots less confidence that said wheel to wheel racing won’t end up with one of them hitting each other. Do I want wrecks? No… but I sure as anything pay more attention to “Can the whole field make it to Turn 4?” on starts / re-starts, and add in every pass can be a disaster and it holds your attention much more.
When F1 drivers finally get a chance to pass — either it is because their car just f’ing dominates, they have DRS and the other guy doesn’t or the front car is losing tires and messed up. And they’re all good enough (well, now that Kvyat isn’t racing, I suppose 😉 ) to leave each other room. Better for the cars, but passes are much more rare and much more predictable. To me, anyway.
Also, First. You may all begin now.
Still no fucking power.
Every other area within a 2 mile radius has power except for our small 12 house street.
What. The. Fuck.
Get you a 2-mile long extension cord, problem solved.
Music appropriate to your plight
I’m buying generator futures…
Do you live at the edge of your grid? Power restoration starts at the substation and works its way outward.
I used to live two blocks from the river and my section of the neighborhood was always the last to get restored after a storm. Nothing like driving home from work and thinking “yay, the power is back on,” only to find it ending just before my block.
These power companies also tend to prioritize which streets to go to once the grid is back in business based on who-knows-who…
Not sure. But we are quite literally surrounded by those with power.
We’re like the small island of rights in modern day America; powerless, lost in a sea of the able-powered.
That is the price you pay for being a Glibster. You are too well grounded to get reliable power to your house.
Glibs are known to be resisters.
If you don’t start conducting yourselves properly, we will be shocked by a narrow gaze.
Ohm. My. God. Watt are you talking about?!
Trying to step down Swiss’s eyes to a narrowed state?
At least the St Pete race was interesting.
Let NYC show you the way. Stop testing and pump up those graduation rates. Do you even equity, bruh?
Speaking of NYC:
I’m seeing youtube videos but can’t ascertain if the allegations are true or are people doomcasting. The allegations are:
Suffolk county is arresting people taking the live fire training for their handgun licenses because they are in possession of a firearm without a handgun license.
This sounds like something the left would do, but I’d need some verification before I really believed that.
If it’s only showing up on YouTube, it’s probably doomcasting. 2A YouTube channels have a terrible reputation in this area.
Then again, there’s pretty much nothing I wouldn’t believe of coos and prosecutors these days…
Good on covid, maybe on weed, bad about everything else.
Not a bad reply to that right off. Better than I would have said “Thinking the invasion was wrong doesn’t equal we must fight tooth and nail for some country that isn’t even a formal ally, asshole.”
“Not our problem” – sure.
“Yay, Putin” – no. To be fair, hardly anyone outside Russia has gone quite that far, but there is a certain undercurrent of it here and there.
The undercurrent that I’ve seen derives from Vlad’s ability to talk bluntly about the implosion of our culture given that he’s not yet subject to the jealous hegemony here in the West.
IMO, just because he can point to the emperor and laugh at his nakedness doesn’t mean Vlad’s good. This need to put capes on everybody who says an unpopular truth needs to go away.
I’ll repeat what I’ve said in the past – I’d rather be ruled by Putin than a modern progressive or some senile old fuck trying to pass himself off as one.
The constitution and remnants of Western culture are the only things that somewhat restrain our current elites. But I’d wager Putin has more principles in him than Hillary, Obama, or Joe fucking Biden. I may not agree with many of them, but he at least has them. And he legitimately gives a fuck about his country and acts in what he views as its best interest.
No honest analysis of Russia can honestly argue that it would be wise for Putin or any leader of Russia to allow NATO expansion to Ukraine.
Look fat, it’s a defensive alliance OK?
I’m now pretty solidly in the fuck Kiev camp. The siphon of our money to that corrupt shithole and recent calls for an American draft directly impact me. I’m not aware of any impact, positive or negative, that Russian has had on my life or my family’s. The 1950s boogeyman caricature of Russia is long past its sell by date. Or the idea that America, with it’s track record of invasions, is somehow the righteous world cop tasked with doing something.
I started out neutral to the whole conflict and considered our politicians in DC to be playing the role of the main villain orchestrating the conflict (the bad guy role now made even more clear by blowing up the Nordstream). Now I remain neutral on Russia, pity the Ukrainian people, and let the government in Kiev reap what they’ve sown through their corrupt dealings with DC politicians to harm the citizens of all three countries.
Slander – it’s what’s for dinner.
In answer to your question, Alex, I’d suck Putin’s cock on national TV just for the immense pleasure of pissing off warmongering neocon pieces of fucking shit like you.
Uh, whoah. Maybe a shirtless oil massage instead.
Well, maybe a little time in a Turkish prison first?
Pat the Cockholster strikes again!
Vladimir Putin doesn’t hate me (as far as I can tell). Which is better than what I can say about the people that “represent” me in Washington.
Maybe I’m just disgusted with all parties involved and have been for years now.
That just says you’ve been paying attention.
‘Orning ‘ordles — Marching through mediocrity proceeds apace. Honestly, starting to feel that since m-w bought quordle they’re intentionally picking words to not give any help against each other instead of random picks from the list. Annoying, but c’est la vie
Daily Duotrigordle #369
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:18.18
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 406
8️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 406
7️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 406
7️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
Well, that sucked.
Classic GIGO plus the usual “how many freaking words end with these four letters?!”
Daily Quordle 406
🟥6️⃣
3️⃣8️⃣
Yeah — I got positions 3 and 4 green on UR and a yellow that I was pretty sure was position 5 from my first seed word. Given the rest, I thought it was worthwhile to burn 2 further seeds that I knew couldn’t be right just to narrow down possible letters for that word – third seed word gave me green 1 and 2, so that let me avoid that mess.
Daily Quordle 406
4️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 406
8️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣🟥
Bleh.
Speaking to host Yasmin Vossoughian, Li began the segment fighting back against what she saw as conservatives such as Nikki Haley calling the Democrats ‘woke.’
‘Let’s be clear what anti-woke means. It’s anti-black,’ Li, who served on the Asian American outreach team for President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, said.
‘And I think people are very reluctant to say it, but I don’t mince any words, and that’s the truth.
‘That’s their way of, you know, sounding the dog whistle without being extremely explicit,’ she added.
Here, little doggy.
Never mind how often “woke” explicitly means “anti-white” and they say it openly.
Shhhhhhh!!!
That’s the part they’re trying not to say out loud, while teaching it to our kids in secret.
Tune in to The View some morning… they say it out loud all the time.
Hard pass.
I prefer to just not watch the news.
That’s what BLM is. like 26% of Black Americans from a poll said it was not ok to be white and 21% said unsure.
doggies
My daughter plays that game.
Pretty sure that was a Daily Ray not long back… but always good to bring a smile to most of our faces. (Except for those crazy non-dog people ’round here… 😉 ).
Protesters do battle with cops in Atlanta over the construction of a giant cop training facility and the death of one of their comrades. Scroll down to see the mugshots. Can you guess the race and class of the perpetrators? I’d ask you to guess the gender make-up, as well, but we’d be heading into…undefined waters.
And the protesters have apparently set up some sort of autonomous zone at the construction site. I’m old enough to remember a time when a couple of gun toting ranchers occupying a shack out in the woods that wasn’t going to be used for anything for a couple of months was a national emergency that warranted an armed stand-off and justified the use of lethal force.
The only time the state objects to militias and their antics is when said militias and their antics expose the ineptitude, corruption, and evil of the deep state, These fucking evil people in the autonomous zone are doing what the deep state wants: making the country so lawless that the only answer people have is the deep state offering a federalized police force….
This has been ongoing for some time.
One of the murderers from that standoff was just named as head of the state police. FYTW.
And he has a history of killings as a state police officer. Some probably deserved it but really calls into question his judgement and willingness as a police officer to pull the trigger. But all of that, including his name until another witness slipped up, was swept under the rug because icky people.
Antifa is just an idea, you white supremacist facist.
One might ask where the Feds are.
Can I hate both sides?
Yes, it turns out I can.
And people wonder why Richard J. Daley was popular – “shoot to kill” orders only upset the rioters, looters, and college professors. Now of course a Soros-backed state’s attorney would be the media darling and the poor, rich rioters would get sympathy.
Li then gave her summary of the annual event put on by the ACU.
‘Let’s also not ignore the fact that CPAC has become a gathering of sexual predators. Let’s be honest,’ Li said, referencing the investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz – which did not lead to charges – and accusations of inappropriate behavior by Representative Jim Jordan and organizer Matt Schlapp.
She then went further into a tirade, referring to Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene as an ‘adulteress’ and complaining that Representative Lauren Boebert ‘brags about carrying a Glock.’ Finally, she said: ‘Tonight, we have Trump, a serial rapist.’
The country is overrun with raving lunatics.
LOL, the Brit COVID dipshit whose WhatsApp messages were leaked to the press and were indicative of his complete disdain for the public willingly provided them to a memoir writer.
He actually thought they made him look good and not like a retarded tyrannical man-child.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-astonishingly-un-astonishing
In his defense, it was a pretty good bet that anyone in the media was a fellow member of the clerisy and would not only keep those quiet, but also interpret them as flattering.
That would be my own guess. I’m guessing plenty of the leaked material is him discussing how to hype up covid hysteria with members of the media. There’s one prime example in the article where a reporter offers to do his bidding to drive up testing numbers so he can his “target” for a few exclusive words from him.
I think the real question is whether the sort of person who is actually surprised by this will actually take it to heart and realize they were duped. Or will they just dismiss it as one bad egg in the good intentioned bunch that make up their government.
British pols are cartoonish at this point also why are there no upper case letters in that substack
because it’s written by a cat
I love this article and all, but he states this just a little after asking how these people thought they could get away with it. The answer is right here. They will not be prosecuted. Ever. They will not be held accountable in any meaningful way. It wouldn’t even surprise me if this twat found his way back into power someday. He’s only out of politics because he is a particularly offensive sort of stupid and arrogant. it wasn’t his covid policies.
The people who could hold him accountable are in on the racket and would have to hold themselves accountable. The people who could nominally put someone in power who would do something about it won’t because doing so would require them to look in the mirror on some level and recognize that they were duped. That they spent years attacking friends and family who disagreed on the hysteria, that they were taken in by people who are less cunning than the average street walking whore and that so many of the basic premises they have in life are just wrong and always have been.
That sort of self-reflection is painful and it’s far easier for people to turn a blind-eye to the people who manipulate them than it is to face the reality.
Suffolk county is arresting people taking the live fire training for their handgun licenses because they are in possession of a firearm without a handgun license.
“That’s some catch, that Catch-22.”
I can’t find any evidence of that actually happening. But there is a- lawsuit where the plaintiffs quote a SCPD policy of doing that and the SCPD reply of “these plaintiffs haven’t been arrested under this policy so they have no standing.”
Apparently Suffolk County has its own process where you can apply for a “pre-approval exemption.” It’s supposed to work like:
1. Get a job as a security officer.
2. Need handgun possession as part of this job.
3. Get pre-approval exemption.
4. Apply for permit.
5. You’re exempt from arrest during the approval process time so you can go to work.
Thanks. Please keep on this.
It is very annoying when people on “my side” exaggerate what “the other side” is doing wrong.
But hey, where there is money to be made off of fear there will be grifters, and the 2A community is no exception.
Let’s be fair to the fearmongers, “Try it and find out, worst case scenario you get arrested and spend the next 4 years bankrupting yourself in court.” isn’t exactly the most reassuring standard. Leaving aside the constitutional absurdity of needing a license to own a handgun in the first place.
The process for the audacity of trying to follow the rules is the punishment.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Good show, Jimbo.
How about adult families that get blended? My mother, a widow, married a widower with grown up kids. I never thought of those others as any sort of relatives, though they seemed nice. I never really knew any of them though.
In today’s “Weren’t you paying attention before now, Senator Manchin?” category….
In today’s shocking news category: Exxon facilities likely have garage pulls too.
Black Tape Project Tape Art Fashion Show NYFW Feb 2023 Powered by Art Hearts Fashion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9vwfJNxCFw
The young lady seems rather bored. Thicc?
Electric tape will never be the same to me…
No need. I don’t work on the website, and seeing how the mess is handled makes me all the more an advocate for paper processing. The key decisions are made by the most clueless for the sake of their own ego. I’m actually surprised these things aren’t more widely known.
How much California relies on imported natural gas might surprise you
An interesting read on California’s reliance on natural gas.
The constriction on NG pipelines into California was how Enron cornered the market. They bought NG futures then slowed down the delivery to create a supply constriction.
I can’t say it would surprise me at all. Until just maybe 4(?) years ago — natural gas was CA’s darling — solar was great as a supplement, but the power plants were gas, the vehicles were liquefied gas, the heating / water heating / appliances were gas.
Sure, they’re trying to go all gung-ho solar and wind now and decry nuclear and natgas, but there’s still a lot of infrastructure there from before. And I certainly expect CA to be shutting down any production / refining they haven’t already… because they’re stupid anti-humanity assholes and all… so of course, it comes from out-of-state primarily.
New York pulls the same shit. Shut down nukes for virtue points and then import gas from elsewhere. I wonder when Biden and Friends are done, where will there be left to import gas from…?
Follow the money.. You will find out someone made a killing shutting down cheap energy and local generation, and the pols that peddled the policies to do that got paid from that somebody. It is despicable.
Nobody who voted to put a serial rapist in the WH three times has moral standing to complain about sexual assault.
are you engaging in the most evil of actions, whattaboutism?
Chris Rock didn’t hold back on Will Smith
https://twitter.com/big_business_/status/1632268859888611328
No he did not.
Unclear if Will Smith is a bitch or not.
It’s never a bad time for Joe Walsh.
Back in my college days, I had a friend whose dorm room was across from the study lounge. Whenever he saw me in there, he would play “County Fair”. Which would inevitably involve me yelling “Turn that up or turn it off!”
Still my favorite Joe Walsh song. And he has a lot of great ones.
“End ‘colonial’ approach to space exploration, scientists urge”
https://www.samizdata.net/2023/03/end-colonial-approach-to-space-exploration-scientists-urge/
Genuine Guardian headline.
Humans boldly going into space should echo the guiding principle of Captain Kirk’s Star Trek crew by resisting the urge to interfere, researchers have said, stressing a need to end a colonial approach to exploration.
“Because if something that’s not here [on Earth] is seen as a resource, just ripe to be exploited, then that [perpetuates] colonialism.”
Conrad said such attitudes matter because a colonial approach can impinge on the rights of others to explore – whether in space itself or by looking at it from Earth.
Researchers have previously argued that light pollution creates just such a problem, with low-orbit satellites threatening to hinder the ability for astronomers to make new discoveries, and lighting associated with urban expansion and the use of LEDs making it increasingly difficult to pick out the constellations when stargazing.
Wut? Methinks that these same nitwits howl at outrage over the prospect of private space exploration by people like Musk.
These people live in a fantasy world where the world is united and the UN isn’t a pack of grifters and reprobates.
What they are really worried about is that exploitation of resources in space will undermine the green agenda planet side. If there’s an endless amount of minerals to mine in space on some barren rock, or people have an outlet to flee their shithole policies here, then they have less control. You can’t make people feel guilty about pollution on an uninhabited rock hurling through space.
Star Trek’s Federation didn’t have a “non-interference” principle when it came to uninhabited wastelands. They fought wars with other species, and set up their own colonies to exploit resources where appropriate. And that is considered a utopian vision of humanity’s future.
“What they are really worried about is that exploitation of resources in space will undermine the green agenda planet side.”
No, what they really are scared about is that private individuals will get there first and then government will not be able to pick the winners & losers.
For public sector scientists, what private sector scientists do is not science. They absolutely feel entitled to all of science because they do it “for the good of humanity” or done such shit. Anything else is illegitimate and should be destroyed.
They should be embarrassed that SpaceX can do things in a fraction of the time and cost it would take NASA to do those same things (if they even could do those things). Instead they decry it as “colonialism.”
These people need to fucking right off.
The great thing about, and probably one of the prime motivators for, escaping this planet is not having to see, hear, or think about the kind of navel gazing sad sacks who write those kinds of headlines.
SNL does a funny bit? Straight Male Friend
lol that was pretty good. And truth.
That actually made me laugh.
That was hilarious!
The world must be ending.
Good Lord, the comments are nothing but narcissism cloaked in praise for the sketch.
“As a gay man…”
“As a bi-woman…”
“As a straight male friend…”
Can’t they just say “That was some funny shit” and not make it about themselves?
No.
Life for them is performative, with every word and action on display for likes.
People need to take offense to everything.
I would describe it as mildly amusing with the potential to have been more. It still plays the bit as safe as possible.
This. Is. SNL.
Conrad said such attitudes matter because a colonial approach can impinge on the rights of others to explore – whether in space itself or by looking at it from Earth.
Muh viewscape!
Good morning, Sloop!
Retards in Lubbock is an excellent album name.
Tundra, can you explain where the false Firster MikeS has gone? Or text him letting him know that I am mocking him in his absence?
Sure. He’s busy as hell, but I texted with him the other day. I’ll make sure he knows!
“Straight Male Friend isn’t needy….”
Mammary Monday’s favorite sporting goods stores are Ass Pro Shop and Sportsman’s Whorehouse.
https://archive.ph/kSnld
https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1632471421514391560?s=20
No lamp posts in the Netherlands?
Whoops! Not supposed to be a reply, but I guess the Netherlands has plenty of hotties. So almost appropriate!
Yeah, but all those hotties are dikes….
They still need a finger in em though
Freebird on bagpipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27in81lrf6M
Nice lungs!
Would.
Ridiculous
First lady Jill Biden blasted Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s suggestion that politicians over the age of 75 take mental competency tests.
During an interview set to air on Monday, CNN White House correspondent Arlette Saenz asked Biden her thoughts on Haley’s proposal.
“Ridiculous,” Biden replied.
When Saenz asked if President Biden would take a mental competency test, the first lady replied: “I mean, we haven’t even discussed … we would never even discuss something like that.”
Haley, a former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, announced her 2024 presidential campaign last month. She made headlines with a call for mandatory mental competency tests for elderly politicians during her speech launching her campaign.
“In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire,” Haley said at the time. “We’ll have term limits for Congress and mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.”
The comments were seen as a shot at both President Biden, 80, and former President Trump, 76, who are seen as the leading presidential candidates in their respective parties, though Biden has yet to officially announce his reelection bid.
How dare she? Joe Must be allowed to breathe his last in his rightful place as Great White Father.
I’m actually with the good doctor on this one. If people are dumb enough to vote for a senile politician, or so weak-willed that they allow their elections to be “fortified” to the extent that a senile politician who spends the entire campaign cycle hiding in his basement to get elected than they get what they deserve. Good and hard.
There is no part of government that should have any say on what candidates are options for people to vote for. And anyone who doesn’t see how a mental competency test could and would be weaponized is a fool. Or they’re just a lying cunt. Take your pick.
I just can’t imagine watching and listening to Joe Biden and still being unsure if he is mentally competent.
Tres Sr. is soon to be 84 and is an order of magnitude more cogent than that pruny gov’t parasite.
Yeah, Joe is not aging well at all.
I like the term limits idea more, but tying it to age limits ensures that it will never see the light of day.
The problem I see with term limits is that it’s double edged- sure you get to kick out the career parasites. But there’s a system in place the few not-horrible ones can navigate. So every few years you get rid of them, and start with the freshman class.
Its like “everyone graduated so this is a rebuilding year” in college sports.
Well, there are way more parasites so I think the trade-off is worth it.
Can we term limit the Deep State?
We have term limits in California. I can’t say it’s been a good thing.
Term limits and jungle primaries? How is it not paradise?
Get that constitutional amendment started now before SCOTUS smacks you upside your head.
Jill Biden joins a number of prominent figures who have pushed back against Haley’s proposal, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is 81, calling the idea “absurd.”
Diane Feinstein was unavailable for comment.
Chuck Grassley ran by and flipped everyone the bird!
“The reality and advantages of socialism are manifested in the support and confidence of the people in it. Now that our socialism is based on the Juche-oriented outlook and attitude towards the masses of the people, it has become the most advantageous and powerful socialism
https://twitter.com/kimileyegenleri/status/1631717922321178636
If you stare into the derp, the derp stares back at you.
“A Rhode Island mom has revealed she was the topic of a ‘secret meeting’ held by the the the most powerful teacher’s union in the country, after she asked staffers at her child’s school whether or not they were teaching students radical gender theory.
Appearing in a televised interview to speak out against the meeting Sunday, 39-year-old Nicole Solas revealed that she has also been sued by the union, The National Educator’s Association (NEA), as part of a years-long ‘harassment’ campaign carried out by the union and staffers at her five-year-old daughter’s school district.
Laying the sordid saga bare to Fox News’ Rachel Campos Duffy, Solas said the disagreement started after she made a records request regarding the district’s curriculum, after learning students at her daughter’s school were were receiving lessons on gender reassignment and Critical Race Theory.
Initially met with pushback, the mother continued to submit the public information requests – a perfectly legal practice when it comes to taxpayer-funded institutions – but staffers still continually refused to answer her questions.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11823529/Rhode-Island-mom-slams-teachers-union-secret-meetings-asked-lessons.html
States need to start banning teachers unions.
Yeah, shit like refusing to provide a curriculum is absolutely unacceptable.
Why are people accepting it?
Not only are they accepting it. They are paying for it. Well, at least the ones with cars and houses.
Remember though, no school is teaching CRT but they will sue the fuck out of you if you dare ask if they are teaching CRT
“Pedro Pascal shows his support for the LGBTQIA community by posting photos of the rainbow flag to Instagram”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11823851/Pedro-Pascal-shows-support-LGBTQIA-community-posting-photos-rainbow-flag.html
Stunning and brave.
was he in Riyadh while doing it?
Who?
They took the game, made it into a somewhat compelling story and then turned it into a gay romance. There is no such thing as platonic relationships anymore, 99% of all characters have homosexual leanings, and if you don’t like what they did you are a bigoted Nazi.
Pedro should have stayed out of it.
‘Surely we have to look at the gaping empty shelves of our supermarkets and take the hint? That’s right. Perish the perishables. Maybe we shouldn’t be eating vine tomatoes and cucumbers in the middle our winter after all’
https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1632692709008855048
Wherein the Spectator becomes an apologist for the failed economic policies of the socialist British regime and its central bank.
Sackcloth, ashes and eating locusts are apparently the demand of their new religion.
I kid, of course…. as many of the lesser beings as possible dead and out of their way — that’s the demand. When they’re all about as useful as the gorram Eloi anyway and want to declare war on who they see as Morlocks.
aka Things I Don’t Like
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) said in an interview Sunday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) drumbeat of policies targeting Black, transgender and LGBTQ people are “fascism.”
During an appearance on “CNN Newsroom,” host Jim Acosta asked Frost, the first Generation Z lawmaker to serve in Congress, about how Democrats should take on DeSantis.
“We take that on by number one being bold in our messaging and calling it out for what it is,” Frost told Acosta, saying that DeSantis was not attempting to improve education with his policies, but was “acting on scapegoating vulnerable communities due to his failures.”
“This is what we’re up against in Florida right now and it’s hard to keep track of because it seems like there’s a new victim, there’s a new bill every day,” he added.
“But we have to call it for what it is he is abusing his power and using the state to target political opponents and political enemies. And there’s a word for that. and it’s fascism, and we have to be honest about it.”
Democrats would never do that.
Do you know who else had very strict laws against grooming kids (presumably)?
What failure is DeSantis trying to distract from, exactly? That’d be a fun question to pose.
Not being a Democrat, obviously!
A strawman for the ages
Also, I will repeat that there are a lot of useful idiots and mendacious cunts on the right doing the work of the left by attacking DeSantis.
I’ll gladly take the good with the bad with his culture war fight. Almost no other Republican has really waded into these waters in a serious way. I think it’s partly a generational thing, and some on this site may be guilty of it. The culture war shit is pretty important, and pretty galvanizing to younger people who lean conservative or who don’t identify as proggie.
The courts can toss out a few parts of the anti-woke bill that are of questionable constitutionality. The rest of it can stay. This is a fight that requires taking the gloves off and getting a little dirty.
Oh, fuck off.
Maybe we shouldn’t be eating vine tomatoes and cucumbers in the middle our winter after all
You’re getting there, but you really need to go full localvore and only eat things which can be grown locally, outdoors. That will bring you in touch with your roots.
So I need to construct a greenhouse (or indoors) and grow them myself ?
Or is that not OK ?
Greenhouses are only for growing marijuana, don’t ya know?
Both are looking like pretty good options. I’m testing out a DIY ebb and flow hydro system. If it works well, I’ll expand to large scale next year.
Wife wants to do aquaponics with tilapia. I’m intrigued.
Mmmm… Sewerfish.
I’m thinking sportsfish would prove too challenging.
Regardless, all fish taste inedible to me. Except for canned tuna.
My house was designed with passive solar in mind. 90% of the windows are on the south side of the house. We get a lot of free heat that way.
It also occurred to me (in the last couple of years), that I have a lot of space to grow veggies in the winter. It pisses me off that I have to think about things like that now.
Jesus H. Koresh what a long night.
whaddup doh’.
Now that would be a wacky post-Vatican II change… “The body of Christ… finger lickin’ good!”
I’m assuming that the wine would be replaced by gravy for the Blood of Christ?
Sweet Lightning Mountain Dew or GTFO
(Sweet Tea would also be acceptable as a substitute)
Im off tonight. This is my Friday. Im well-stocked with Tall Cans™ and not low-carb food.
Im also stricken with a form of rectal glaucoma- I cant see my ass leaving the Palatial 2X-Wide until work tomorrow night.
“It’s just a problem for Florida now, sure. But in a few years, it can be a problem for the nation,” Frost said of DeSantis’ political tactics.
“We need everybody to pay attention and talk about how he’s targeting trans folks, targeting not just Black history, but Black people in general, which is American history and targeting marginalized communities across this entire state,” Frost added.
Back in chains.
There are different IT certification renewal processes:
– take the same test that is required for first time certifications
– take a different recertification test
– attend recertification training
– play videos in the background while you do other things
Is there a legitimate argument that deficit spending is anything more than generational theft? It is quite blatantly taxation without representation. It’s people today voting themselves shit that people who aren’t even born yet will have to pay for. It’s an argument so simple that it’s the sort of thing serious people would never even deign to entertain it. But the shit shouldn’t even be allowed in anything but an extreme emergency (such as an all-out war).
Christ, you don’t even see anyone in the media point out how inflation is a back-door tax on the poor and middle class. There is no printing your way to prosperity. It’s far more nefarious than any tax hike because people are ignorant.
How many of the current problems which beset are government would be solved by simply making it mandatory that everything the government did had to be funded directly by incoming revenue?
“Is there a legitimate argument that deficit spending is anything more than generational theft?”
No.
Our culture doesn’t value living within your means.
It’s one of those things where it shouldn’t even matter. In libertopia, there wouldn’t even be the option on the table, as I’d see it.
I used to mock the Greeks when they were voting to demand the EU give them more money during their debt crisis (and the leftists who acted as if this was a legitimate use of democracy that the rest of Europe had to go along with), but we aren’t really any different. Even ignoring the whole taxation is theft thing for a moment, it’s even more dubious to argue that people have the right to vote to spend money that someone else who doesn’t have a vote will have to pay back.
It depends on your definition of “legitimate.” The orthodox Keynesian position is that deficit spending is not generational theft, because it raises GDP by more than its cost and is recouped in the form of higher taxes, leading to surpluses until the next trough of the business cycle, whereupon those surplus years that were used for debt repayment allow for more deficit spending, and the cycle continues. Which would be a “legitimate” argument in favor of deficit spending if two conditions were met: first, that the underlying theory regarding deficit spending juicing GDP during a recession were true (it doesn’t seem to be), and second, that there were some political mechanism in place to ensure that spending is restrained and surpluses are used to pay off the debt from the deficit spending after the recession has ended.
In reality, emergency deficit spending sets a new baseline.
👆👆👆
Right. It seems most of Keynes’ disciples stopped reading at the “monetary and fiscal stimulus” part and never got to the “austerity and debt repayment” part.
Times are good: Spend like drunken sailors.
Times are bad: Spend even more.
Modern government.
Lenny and Squiggy paying the rent with Monopoly money again.
Even pre-Keynes, Jefferson argued any government debt should be paid off within a generation.
I think he also favored a 19 year sunset provision on all laws.
So I need to construct a greenhouse (or indoors) and grow them myself ?
Or is that not OK ?
Greenhouse is cheating. You are permitted to dig a root cellar (with proper permits, of course).
Brahmaea wallichii, also known as the owl moth, is nocturnal and its wingspan is about 90–160 millimetres (3+1⁄2–6+1⁄4 inches)
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1632327175821991937
Just don’t let that thing near your sweater.
When they aren’t hitting and injuring pedestirans.
E-Bike Battery Fires Are Soaring, Especially in New York
Just wait until every building has charging stations for electric cars. And all electric stoves.
It’s batteries not wired electrical that is causing the fires.
And generally they are poorly constructed with poorly constructed battery management systems or the user has bypassed the BMS to charge a defective or poorly made cell in a pack.
Electric stoves (relative to gas), electric vehicles (relative to ICE vehicles), and charging stations all have elevated fire risks attached to them.
I expect a citation for the stove claim. The fire risk for electric vehicles are the batteries.
It’s much easier to accidentally leave an electric stove on.
Ah, stupid people are an elevated risk.
i looked. There are people who freak out over EMF on an induction stove. There people hate gas stoves too, and microwaves, so they fall into the crackpot territory. Provided for snark purposes.
https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/induction-stove-dangers-what-to-buy-instead/
There are raw foodists too, even raw fruitarians. Haven’t encountered any lately.
A friend of mine is dating a naturopathic hippie chick who has just recently latched onto the EMF thing. He can’t use his Bluetooth headphones at her place anymore…
Fires from e-bikes and other so-called micromobility devices such as electric scooters have injured 40 people and killed two this year, the fire department said.
It’s a reasonable price to pay to keep the sea from swallowing up the island of Manhattan.
Electric scooters aren’t replacing cars, they’re replacing bicycles.
A golden ram and stone lion from Gonur Tepe by the proto-Vedic/Andronovo BMAC civilization, north of Iran and India 5000 years ago.
https://twitter.com/mike_boreas/status/1631723614017048576
Prior to yesterday, I was somehow utterly unaware of Gordon Murray’s T50
Aside from the amazing Cosworth V-12, I cannot say I think it is an improvement on the original McLaren F1.
No one needs 12 cylinders
Bentley agrees
The Rise of Kickback Capitalism
Brainard is a goddamned commie and the Biden administration would have put her in charge of the Fed if they thought they could gotten away with it.
Everyone should thank their lucky stars that didn’t happen.
https://time.com/6120700/jerome-powell-lael-brainard-fed-chair-differences/
Never up for discussion is how the debt-driven economic model is what causes wealth inequality to rise. Brainard would be printing, printing, printing, while also telling banks to take on bad risks.
Sounds like most leftists, partially correct diagnosis, prescribed cure is worse than the disease.
Partially she’s right that the Fed should consider the effects of policy on people other than billionaire investors. The whole idea of needing to tamp down employment when employment is still not really that high is crazy. Yet here we are trying to torpedo the economy because they let the bible blow up for a year or two toy long and COVID policies that they can’t even fix using monetary policy.
Right now, I’m relatively convinced that the Fed (Powell specifically) is trying to save the dollar first. Unemployment and stocks have been relegated to the backburner.
I’ll support that priority simply because if the dollar fails in the near term, then the government will fold the Fed into the Treasury, end commercial banking as we know it, and we’ll really be fucked.
If only the federal reserve had some kind of mandate from congress telling it what factors to consider in its decision making processes (not that the existing triple-mandate isn’t self-contradictory and retarded in the first place).
Waters tried to expand it to include racial equity.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2543
That’s straight up trying to collapse the entire system. We have a very good idea of what they would replace it with.
The origins of horseback riding remain elusive. Scientific studies show that horses were kept for their milk ~3500 to 3000 BCE, widely accepted as indicating domestication. However, this does not confirm them to be ridden. Equipment used by early riders is rarely preserved, and the reliability of equine dental and mandibular pathologies remains contested. However, horsemanship has two interacting components: the horse as mount and the human as rider. Alterations associated with riding in human skeletons therefore possibly provide the best source of information. Here, we report five Yamnaya individuals well-dated to 3021 to 2501 calibrated BCE from kurgans in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, displaying changes in bone morphology and distinct pathologies associated with horseback riding. These are the oldest humans identified as riders so far.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade2451
we wuz kings and shit?
You waz steppe nomad raiders.
The WSJ is full of good kicks in the nuts this AM
What Will Be Harder for the Fed? Taming Inflation or Its Office Renovation Expenses?
How many people work there? Jesus.
3,000 civil servants, lawyers and economists (and Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B personnel).
From the comments it works out to $833k per employee.
Yeah, absolutely disgusting. I thought it ~100k/person was dumb-give me the money and I’ll work from home.
Rare wood furniture and 8k monitors cost money.
“the William McChesney Martin Jr. Building. It originally opened in 1974 and reopened at the end of 2021 after a top-to-bottom refurbishment that includes bathroom door sensors for touchless opening and a pair of hives of Italian honey bees on the roof.”
Nothing left to cut.
Also, they only have 3000 employees, the costs seem about 10x what I would expect. We had 300 employees at my old office and we were gutting and renovating an old building for ~20-30 million.
Well, it is the center of the world.
@lack, I don’t look for “soul” in Mies van der Rohe. It soothes my ADHD-addled mind. It’s quiet and peaceful. I wouldn’t live in it, but I’d LOVE having an office in it.
🙂
That’s interesting, lack of stimulus is beneficial to you. I like quiet and peaceful, but what that means to me is something more like the graceful curves and colors of nature (recreated in stone, etc.).
Yes, but all those windows means I can look out on nature, too. Don’t need any art on the walls.
And I only wouldn’t live in it because life gets messy, and you need random accountrement to live it (see: junk drawer), and I don’t want to clean it. It would make it untenable for me to HAVE to have these things but unable to find a home for them to maintain the aesthetic.
With enough junk drawers you could maintain the illusion of a lack of mess.
I dont know about you but I feel like I could waste too much time watching this guy’s video.
https://www.tiktok.com/@unclogging_drains/video/7172821756019838250?lang=en
Yes. I did not need to get started on yet ANOTHER unclogging drains vid marathon.
I’ll take anything over Dutch Colonial.
Brutalism?
My favorite college library was the square white glassy box, not the brick Romanesque one. Former was functional, latter dim and shadowy.
Yep. Gimme natural sunlight for studying over mahogany wainscot and banker’s lamps.
just found out i’ve been ordering dennys thinking it was a gourmet grilled cheese place don’t text
https://twitter.com/ryannoyance/status/1632227247871660034
It depends on your definition of “legitimate.”
If you accept the fabulist definition of “investment” as preferred by our lords and masters, along with their imaginary rate-of-return models, every penny spent by the government makes us richer.
+ multiplier effect – the multiplier can be less than 1
It can even be negative.
The non-war multiplier is damn close to zero, IIRC.
South Korea’s Plan to Pay Forced Laborers From World War II Meets Opposition
So you say they are being… forced… to accept the settlement?
Meanwhile in Japan the companies that will be funding this settlement will be doing so “voluntarily”. This, of course, means they are being forced, but technically they don’t have to. OTH, South Korea keeps trying to renegotiate this settlement every 5 years. There is no hero here.
I hear $5 million each is a start.
Saturday, I took my wife to dinner and then we went to see Operation Fortune.
Good movie, if you like Guy Richie’s stuff (we both do).
Not as good as Snatch/, but on the same level as The Gentlemen.
I wasn’t even aware of The Gentlemen, so that’s two I should add to my list of movies that I pretend I’m ever going to actually watch…
I enjoyed The Gentlemen. It wasn’t peak Guy Ritchie, but it was worth watching when it show up on streaming. I will wait for the new one to show up on streaming.
This one was entertaining as well.
Apparently, the release date got pushed back so they could edit it and not make the bad guys Ukranian.
*Insert eye roll gif*
And I only wouldn’t live in it because life gets messy, and you need random accountrement to live it (see: junk drawer), and I don’t want to clean it. It would make it untenable for me to HAVE to have these things but unable to find a home for them to maintain the aesthetic.
I imagine every one of those darling tiny houses showcased on the teevee has at least one 40 foot shipping container out back, crammed with the stuff there’s no room for.
I’ve been selling and giving away a lot of stuff trying to downsize as I prepare to move. It doesn’t feel like I own that much, but when I start doing the geometry to see how much of it I can fit into a Uhaul or a shipping container it’s suddenly a whole lot.
Where did you decide to go? I remember discussing far East Texas.
I’m still waiting on Medicaid to get off their ass and give me a decision one way the other on the disposition of this property so I can finalize my budget. I’m still eyeing east Texas (Tyler-Longview corridor) if my budget allows it. I’m also looking around Lubbock, Amarillo and Wichita Falls – there’s still some deals to be had there.
Be sure and check the yearly weather outlooks for Amarillo area before you settle on that. You need a concrete roof for hail. Tyler-Longview is pretty stable and doesn’t get the crazy weather every spring.
Oh yeah, I’ve heard all about that. It’s not my first choice by any means. I got the hint when even the cheapest properties there all have storm shelters. I was kind of surprised, but Lubbock isn’t much better when it comes to extreme weather. They actually had higher tornado activity. Any place with cheap property, there’s a reason.
No kidding.
There was one Hoarders episode with a stuffed 4000 ft² mini mansion with a 2-car garage and 3 semi trailers behind it packed full of stuff, and the lawn was strewn with crap. Dude built this house for his wife, died before it was finished, but hoarded half of it out before he died, and she kept at it until it was fully hoarded and then some.
This is my nightmare. At some point, you just have to call the fire department and say, “Hey, I’ve got a practice house for you.”
GlibFit adjacent:
Court Forces USA Powerlifting to Allow Biological Men to Compete as Women
My counterproposal: go fuck yourself.
Imagine what kind of psychotic asshole you have to be to pursue this for five years.
And then imagine what kind of psychotic asshole would rule for your case.
I’ll support that priority simply because if the dollar fails in the near term, then the government will fold the Fed into the Treasury, end commercial banking as we know it, and we’ll really be fucked.
Release Janet Yellen!
Ukraine Asks Merrick Garland To Leave As They Already Have Enough Corrupt Government Officials
“This is beyond crazy. I thought it was a bunch of Dame Ednas. Instead: this. When will gay organizations say no to this? Why the lockstep defense of the indefensible? The damage these extremists and crazies are doing to gay rights is incalculable.”
https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1631338544932298760
Guess he wasn’t paying attention?
At my school(woke liberal private high school) they recently held some like admiring and celebrating diversity. I’m a Latino as I am Brazillian, and I look at this and am just like, WTF. Now I’ve never really been around other Brazilians or Latino/a people as where I live there are really not that many. But I do know that 99% of minorities don’t want to be in the limelight and be celebrated, we just want to live. That 1% that is all super woke and blah blah blah, were all born here.
17 people went to that thing, 3 were minorities, 1 was born in NYC, the other 2 were born in Lousiville, all super liberal and Social justice warrior cities.
All it is, is white people pushing their agenda on everyone, that’s why there’s such a pushback to Latinx .
A big wind storm (gust of 60-80mph winds) sitting around 35mph on average came through last Friday and took out some 20% of my city’s power like 5k people are still out of power if not more just in this city. Big blow to electric cars.
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I was going to ask if you were in Louisville, then I saw your post above this.
I am there right now, visiting my Mom (going to a funeral tomorrow for a friend’s Dad).