Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Itās that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
J6 panel knowingly peddled false ‘political narrative’ of Jan. 5 recon of Capitol
Musk says Twitter now worth $20 billion, less than half what he paid for it
IRS agent visited journalist after he testified on censorship
California Lawmakers Pass Bill to Limit Oil Company Profits
SVB customers tried to withdraw nearly all the bankās deposits over two days
Man Arrested in Connection with 2022 Firebombing of Wisconsin Pro-Life Organization
Biden to issue new mandates to reduce emissions by 50% on cars, trucks by 2030
Minnesota ‘Trans Refuge’ Bill Strips Parental Rights
Horrifying moment thief who stole police car leaps from driver’s seat of speeding cruiser
That’s all I got for today.Ā I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“It’s my money, and I want it now!”
you should have kept it in lead and brass.
And steel!
*ponders import bans*
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Yeah, but there isn’t a bank in the country that couldn’t be crushed the exact same way.
True, but it’s less likely to happen if if you don’t have 97.3% of your deposits uninsured.
That’s the illusion of govt sanctity – but the truth is, how would the govt really back it up? By inflating/devaluing the currency.
It’s an illusion, but a necessary one in our current system.
It is only necessary because we’ve all but destroyed moral hazard. I believe we will soon encounter a certain ferrous rule in this regard.
I’m content to let that happen after the ECB and the Davos assholes are destroyed. If we have an actual foreign enemy, they’re it.
In the words of the great philosopher:
I thought 100% of every bank deposit was insured now.
Itās the only way to be sure People Who Matter donāt lose any money, after all.
Now they are. They weren’t on the day of the run.
I acknowledge the moral hazard involved. I also recognize that a systemic bank run would collapse the entire thing.
You say that as if it was a bad thing.
I feel like I need to post a link.
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm
Is it all now or just the ones who pose a systemic risk aka have deposits from the right people?
Well, SVB was explicitly not a āsystemic riskā bank, if memory serves, so that it wouldnāt be under the same requirements as those banks. So, I think weāre done with āsystemic riskā as a guardrail.
SVB lobbied to stay off the “systemic risk” bank list. They probably didn’t want the scrutiny on their crypto operations.
Not the old list but wasn’t that the justification for taking action this time? I thought the smallest and least politically connected banks were still left potentially fucked.
Semi serious question. Are there no financial institutions that *don’t* loan out deposits? Customer pays X amount of money to literally just hold it and safeguard it against theft.
That would be a custodial bank and they do exist.
The feds are doing their level best to make sure they don’t.
Never a run on JG Wentworth!
*rubs eyes, glances at links*
I see fascism is still alive and well in the USA.
*carries on*
*starts practicing goosestep*
The Bellamy salute is all American.
That’s when you salute with a comb, right?
Speaking to the IRS visit with Taibbi – the mafia is more subtle.
They have rules.
The mafia is more subtle out of necessity. I stress to people that you’re better off owing money to the biggest, baddest, meanest load shark there he. The loan shark likely wont kill you cause he wants his money. Maybe some kneecaps or some broke bones to make a point about the urgency of the situation. On the other hand, the gov’t will take all your stuff, freeze all assets, and put you in prison. Making you wish you were dead.
Unless of course you’re Al Sharpton still owing the IRS $8M and walking around freely.
(if he worked that debt out Im not aware of it)
heh….load shark.
LOAN shark
Candy gram?
I read that initially as “bitch to traffic about your co-worker”. But Im on my 3rd Tall Cansā¢.
whaddup doh’
Less than 9 hours until I’m unemployed. I’m strangely OK with that (and start a new job on Monday, so I’ve got that going for me).
Have you thought about getting into professional cycling?
Not in the least, I don’t do races.
Besides, then I’d probably have to shave my beard at a minimum.
How DARE you gatekeep womynhood!
Hello, fellows!!
Happy (??!) Vietnam Veterans Day.
https://m.emac.usaa.com/nl/jsp/m.jsp?c=%40irvk6FpxUr3HfmD%2FVAbLhWnDFnkD0ZPresYoMNvgMek%3D&TXID=EM:TX1:N6VSPJ1FE4
I got that letter (email) from Wayne yesterday. Wayne remembers.
A couple weeks ago I had a discussion with a friend, seems our local township doesn’t fly the black POW-MIA flag. He (who didn’t serve in the military) was complaining about it. I explained that there are no more POWS-MIAs to be found, after 50 years. Any MIA remains would be returned, the government of VN wants to be our friend.
I am bitter about the 60 K KIAs, as well as those in Iraq, Afghanistan and god knows where else tomorrow will bring. Did I mention that Biden, Trump, Bush 2, Cheney and Clinton avoided an Asian vacation while those 60K kids were up to their butts in mud. I will never forgive or forget.
Amen.
I don’t know if it’s ironic or what, but VN is currently the fastest growing economy in the world and their kids are doing better in school than ours.
Are we a failed state?
I never really understood the MIA thing where people were convinced that Vietnam was still secretly holding prisoners. To what end? Never got a rational answer to that, but I did get a lot of verbal abuse.
Why waste any potential resource?
They invested heavily in Hollywood revenge fantasies where vets went back in for MIA prisoners and didn’t want to dry up that market?
You leave Rambo out of this!
Chuck Norris hits hardest.
Holding prisoners? Probably not. Not wanting to disclose their disposition, including torture leading to death or rendered to another foreign power, possibly.
I think this is probably the correct direction. A little messy now to say “Oh, we gave those 17 guys to the USSR, and those 83 died after being beaten or tortured.”
COMMIES man, COMMIES. Some people just have a screaming hard on about COMMIES.
I didn’t realize it was a day and today, but out of the blue I was thinking about that yesterday driving by a fire station flying it. Was wondering if there are any MIAs left. And there are a number of unresolved cases from the Cold War generally, the Libya strikes, and the Gulf War.
I oppose the draft, so can’t hold avoiding it against them.
I avoided Kuwait/Iraq thru the process of not joining up.
We haven’t declared war on anyone since WWII, ergo, there haven’t been any POW’s since Hogan and Company were passing info to the French Resistance.
POPA (Prisoner of Police Action) just isn’t as snappy…
POAUMF.
It’s going to get amusing when only rich people can afford to drive anymore and all the public transportation organizations have gone bankrupt.
Who wants to invest in pedicabs?
Rhywun’s Rickshaws has a nice ring to it.
Invest in a mobile charger service business. Gonna be a lot of stranded idiots with their electric jeeps & trucks.
A couple of portable generators with the right plugs?
That is a porno waiting to happen.
We just had SXSW in the Austin area and I saw an “all electric vehicle” mobile recharging van, that had a diesel generator in back to recharge dead electrics. Some of this shit you just can’t make up.
A veritable perpetual motion machine
Perfect. They’re gonna need off road capability though.
Some of this shit you just canāt make up.
People make up nonsense crap all the time
One of my favorite made ups is ‘your fast charger is powered by a 250kW diesel generator’
As though nobody would ever notice a dozen noisy generators the size of a pickup truck around a fast charge location, or a single 1-2 MW generator the size of a box truck.
“they hide them behind a wooden fence so you can’t see them”
/facepalm
After we buy a house, I may need to buy my last car ever. I better choose wisely.
And get familiar with doing your own repairs because a lot of shops might start saying “we’re not allowed to work on these vehicles anymore”.
Dear Big Oil,
Please stop selling gasoline in California to protect consumers from price gouging.
Love,
Grumbles
If they just did it for a month the message would be sent and maybe a lesson learned.
2 days.
Gavin would run to the feds. Biden writes an EO mandating that gasoline be sold in all states equally or somesuch bullshit.
āThe refineries that make the only gas we can legally sell in CA are down for maintenance.ā
That’s actually an annual occurrence in the state.
But that would be collusion.
On the abortion bomber: https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/hridindu-sankar-roychowdhury/
His tweets are indicative of a schizophrenic lunatic.
A person no more stable than the Nashville shooter – unimaginable!
The Left seems to be collecting them. One might speculate that the attraction lies in their philosophy of perpetual victimhood and narcissism.
The left seems to have embraced their hate and anger, Vader style.
Claim others are the ones full of hate, while they plan vengeance against Christians day..
What did he identify as? His mom missed her big chance.
For those of you looking for some yummy, yummy infighting along with a HUGE helping of ideology > reality, aaaaaaaannnnnd ignoramai self-righteously lecturing about things they know less than nothing about, I present you:
https://www.intomore.com/the-internet/wtf/a-certain-cis-ally-is-being-dragged-by-trans-twitter-heres-why/
For those of you not involved in Rebecca Watson, Tropes v. Women, Atheism+, Tumblr, Gamergate or any of the other Always Online Social Justice Universe, allow me to mansplain.
John Walker Flynt (basic white dude) transed in 2005 (Before Facebook and Twitter existed!) and married Frank Wu in 2008. Is now Brianna Wu. However, when Brianna is not testifying before Congress/the UN on the evils of gamers, or running for congress of a platform of preventing Elon Musk from dropping rocks on the Earth from orbit, xe tweets. And one of xer personal quirks is xe takes the phrase “trans women are women” literally. So she refuses to call herself a transwoman — just a woman. Xe also does not correct people who assume that xe xerself is Asian. Anywhoo, xe twitted that this whole “Trans Day of Vengeance” idea might not be the best thing PR-wise. This engraged the current cadre of very online, very angry twits, who scoured xer twitfeed for dirt on xer. Since xey could not find any references to BriBri calling xerself trans, xey assume xe’s a ciswymxn and a WYT CISWYMXN — who is YELLOWFACING!
*giggles*
Eating their own is just so delicious.
I remember diagraming sentences in elementary school.
Can you imagine having to do that to trans people?
“genocide watch”?
Good lord.
So does GoogleBot.
yes
yesCould just be grammar parsing. “Is an [adjective] [noun] a [noun]?”
Nah, it’s got a political agenda; you can tell from the complete response.
Reading your summary took more of my time than any of that deserves.
^^
Dude. Xe literally was using plot points from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress in xer campaign.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/321609-democratic-congressional-candidate-warns-of-militarization-of/
How can you not be entertained — especially considering the side xe was placing xerself on?
It just goes to show that there is no logical stopping point for their philosophy. They will successfully move the Overton window and then immediately demand everyone conform to an even more extreme standard or be labeled a phobe that’s trying to kill them.
Eventually, their fever dreams will come true.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2023/03/29/tolerance-and-acceptance-were-never-going-to-be-enough-for-the-trans-crowd-n1682394
Proof enough to me that none of this was ever about what they claimed.
Welcome to MN, come as a female/male, leave as a person of your choice.
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/house-poised-to-pass-bill-that-would-make-minnesota-a-trans-refuge-state/
More like come as a male/female, leave as a mutilated/mal-medicated male/female.
Their philosophy boils down to Nihilism.
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Eek.
Blossom Puzzle, March 29
Letters: E G M A O R T
My score: 255 points
My longest word: 9 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
terrorgram?
megagram?
remortgager? No idea what’s legal… I’m not getting sucked into another word game… have work to do.
Daily Duotrigordle #392
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 03:16.73
https://duotrigordle.com/
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There were several, aggregate was one.
Side-eye to BR.
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MEGAROT!! (Definition: a whole lotta rot.) š
That’s how this works, right?
megarotater
tatertot
teetertotter?
Caption from one of the photos in the police chase article:
“The suspect is scene leaping from the stolen CHP vehicle”
Nice job proofreading Dailymail.
I wonder if the leap was scene at the seen?
The scene, the seen, and the unseen?
What’s been scene cannot be unscene.
By the scene, by the scene, by the beautiful scene
You and I, you and I, oh how happy we’ve been
It was done for drama.
We herd them load and clear.
Musk says Twitter now worth $20 billion, less than half what he paid for it
We need a wealth tax so he can pay on $44 billion instead, with little cash.
He overpaid a bit but I think heāll be OK.
Might be able to live off the crumbs from Tesla and Space-X?
I saw it live on Smoke n Scan…crazy
“Smoke n Scan”? … Like “Toke up and follow wild police stuff”?
For those of you who like Scott Alexander’s style of fiction, he’s got a new short story:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/turing-test
Kipling poem in there…coincidence or am I an AI?
I think you’re just the human pretending to be an AI pretending to be a human!
Never go full AI.
The bad cat skewers Zizek.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/never-trust-a-fat-communist
Buy a capital letter, dude. Like double spaces after periods, they serve a purpose.
ee cummings haz a sad
Beavis & Butthead’s favorite poet in English class… heh…. heh heh…. hehehehehe….
“Drag shows and gender-affirming care for minors were banned in Tennessee this month, while assault weapons remain legal.”
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1640471945509519360
Classy.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Tennessee did not ban drag shows. Rather, the state Senate passed a bill stopping drag shows “in public or near children.”
Nor did it ban “gender-affirming care” for minors. Rather, the state Senate passed a bill prohibiting cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children.
Nice.
Live by the euphemism, die by the euphemism. āGender-affirming careā includes therapy to get the liāl TikTokers back on track with their actual gender, no?
It still seems like conversion therapy to me.
The one converting them to a different gender?
Sorry, yes.
Tennessee fucked up. They forgot to make murder illegal.
Did that person leave a “manifesto”?
Yes, sort of, it looked like one page of yellow paper with handwriting in black ink.
Or it could have been a fake.
Is the media not talking about it cuz I haven’t seen anything.
Worse. Part of the media is trying to get the courts to prohibit release of the document because it might lead to anti-trans discrimination.
Vaguely inspired by the thief, the leap, and the cop car, this.
Good morning, Banjos.
Is the song choice prophetic, do you think?
Congress Moves to Add āTranqā to Controlled-Drugs List
I’m sure making it even more illegal will knock this problem right down.
Crack-cocaine nods in agreement.
Worked on everything else, so far!
Double secret illegal!
“‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ WILL go ahead at the Supreme Court despite Nashville school trans shooter killing six in bloody rampage: Marjorie Taylor Greeneās Twitter account is suspended over post”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11914611/Trans-Day-Vengeance-protest-ahead-Saturday-despite-Nashville-school-shooting.html
“Press secretary for Arizona Dem Governor Katie Hobbs is slammed for saying she wants to SHOOT transphobes, hours after trans killer massacred three children, two teachers and custodian at Nashville school”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11914027/Arizona-Governors-press-sec-tweets-meme-SHOOTING-transphobes-trans-killer-massacred-six.html
Even just five years ago, if you told me people would riot over not being allowed to sterilize children, I would have thought you were nuts.
“Why was the FBI making a list of āTraditional Catholicsā but NOT focused on āTransgender Day of Vengeanceā?”
https://twitter.com/TaylorRMarshall/status/1640711926169894914
Scroll down for flyer. Don’t know if the Beetlejuice screenshot is real.
“This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules. Learn more”
If they had Lori Lightfoot’s “call to arms” – yeah, that was from a little bit ago, and real.
OK
https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1250n7r/to_take_a_sip_of_flaming_drink/
lulz
*memories of a similar incident in Costa Rica involving Guaro and a drunken coworker*
You can’t make this up.
No āSocial Policyā in Chips Act Rules, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Says
Iām sue chip companies love the idea of receiving billions of dollars it didnāt have to work for in exchange for building day cares on premesis.
If they build daycare for rugrats, Imma demand they make one for dogs so I can bring Lily to work with me.
Which chipmakers are paying below prevailing wages? When I worked in Austin, we paid stoners stupid amounts of money to push carts around (they were officially titled “Wafer Transport Operators.”) IF they NCNS’d they were fired. If they bumped the cart into anything they were fired. But because the money was THAT good for such a low-skill, low-effort job, potheads would make an effort to keep it.
Exactly.
I saw a tour of an Israeli Intel fab that had all the wafers transported overhead.
That’s the way it is in newer fabs, but retrofitting an OHT/AMHS system especially in a ISO3 or cleaner space is just a no-go.
SLD about otc drugs, but does anyone actually think otc narcan will make a whit of difference? Junkies won’t stock up and if you’re going to the grocery story when ODing instead of the ER…
I’m thinking that it might. When you have no idea about the strength of what you are buying it would seem like reasonable insurance.
Iām not sure expecting rational actions from irrational people is gonna work out.
The choice they will make isnāt āShould I buy this in order to keep from dying from drugs that I can see are killing people left and right?ā, but āShould I spend $X on narcan or just use that money to buy more drugs?ā, and I promise you the āmore drugsā option will win every time.
Eh, I dont buy the existence of irrational people.
Everyone acts rationally, they just sometimes have fucking insane premises.
Yeah. Especially since there is a vast range between “teetotaler” and “degenerate junkie.” Recreational opiate users and loved ones living with an opiate user would probably take advantage of the availability.
For hardcore junkies living on the streets, no difference. But I’d have to guess while the vast majority of homeless use drugs, the homeless are a small minority of total drug users.
For all of those living with family, like a spouse or parents, yes, it’ll make quite difference.
Also, if it’s OTC then more responders (eg. police, EMT-B) can carry it.
I’ve been seeing ads locally suggesting everyone should carry it. While I probably won’t start, and I’m unaware of the shelf life, if it’s stable enough, tossing one into a first aid kit probably wouldn’t be the worst idea.
First hit on Google says 3 years.
I eagerly await the first lawsuit by a junkie going after the non-certified person who saved them.
Good Samaritan laws exist for a reason.
Unlike QI or SI, they aren’t unlimited shields though.
Very true and 5+ years ago I would say it would be hard to not rule in their favor but people have become increasingly vindictive and see the courts as another route to screw over good natured persons in pursuit of their social agendas.
This is Minneapolis at it’s finest.
3 ODs in just a few hours yesterday.
They should put a fucking dispenser on the wall.
@$20, I’d put one in a first aid kit, even if I’m not at risk.
Probably of interest:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/great-espresso-isnt-hard-enough-so-heres-a-diy-open-source-machine-for-it/
I know Iām not the only thicc Glib Gal out there so I want to share the best thing evar for chicks who want to look professional but whose weight fluctuates or who need to squat down and look at stuff a foot off the ground.
These pants/slacks/trousers from Lane Bryant are ta bomb. And they are on a huge sale! They feel like comfy yoga pants but are much thicker and more structured so they look great and professional. Little zipper pockets too!
https://www.lanebryant.com/pull-on-ponte-boot-pant/prd-351842.html?utm_source=tm&utm_campaign=edc&obem=4nhPE3Jgsfy93f-gU13DPs1WxjbHmleiN-c3B2_phro%3D&bc_lcid=t5916003283017728lw4790352148733952
I think they might be discontinuing the āboot cutā (hence the ridiculously low sale price) but they are continuing with the straight leg version.
Ladies, take a look! Men, depending on your relationship status, it might behoove you to buy a pair or two for your honey if you know her normal dress/pants size.
Im about to get online and Hoover up the remaining stock in my size. Absolutely perfect for my work needs!!
You’re really trying to steam up Tres this morning.
My wife, when she worked in an office, used to wear something similar. Theyāre yoga pants disguised as work pants.
https://www.betabrand.com/
Oh cool! Thanks for the link.
I need some new tops now too. Love the ones I have, but the rotation is thin. Now that I am in an apartment I can acquire more stuff. Going straight to eShakti!!
NHL may cancel LGBT ‘Pride’ nights as growing number of players refuse to wear rainbow gear
I hope so. This shit has to end.
The whole 19 different jerseys worn during pregame practice skates is such a stupid gimmick anyway.
Ah, but money.
Sir! How dare you put a price on VIRTUE!
They could sell the items without forcing the players to parade the items. But the league thinks they can make more money with a forced endorsement.
ITS FUCKING HOCKEY. WE ARE PAYING TO WATCH HOCKEY GAMES, NOT BE LECTURED.
Geez, give your nuts a tug.
Another feature Balley Sports tried is to bring back the glowing puck but just during powerplays. That went away after 3 games. It did have a slightly better feature which gave a player tag above the skater with their name.
If it could be something that could be enabled on the consumer side, that would be okay.
Cancel all the stupid “theme” nights.
You know they’re going to have to do that in order to try to fend off accusations of alphabet-phobia.
Hockey Fights Cancer is their only noble endeavor that I think the fanbase all gets behind.
Yeah, MSG has a similar one for sick kids or something.
That can stay.
Cancel the national anthems and the flyovers and all that too. I turn on a hockey game to watch hockey and to get away from politics.
I like O Canada.
Easy solution is recording (Nascar is my fix), and then watching it later
Skip the commercials, opening ceremonies, interviews, cleanup from wrecks/blown engines/etc
Watch a 4hr broadcast in 2hrs
Flyovers at a hockey game?
Well, sporting events in general. There might have been a flyover for the Winter Classic though.
They do flyovers at hockey games?
the outdoor ones, yes
A Moment of Swiss-Bank-Bailout Truth
It’s always nice when they come right out and admit it.
Of course, this retardation can’t last forever and appears to be accelerating. Do they really think there is enough time to kick the can before they are out of office?
“Lance Corporal Henry Williams and a friend. Vietnam War, 1966.”
https://twitter.com/LaocoonofTroy/status/1641077755851980800
We’ve still got checks
But McCarthy also admitted Tuesday that he is growing pessimistic about reaching any deal with the White House, which has steadfastly ignored his calls for spending cuts and instead rolled out a budget proposal this month that called for nearly $5 trillion in tax increases.
āI am more concerned than I have ever been to be able to get this debt ceiling done because he refuses to meet with anybody and misleads the American public,ā McCarthy said of Biden in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday.
Democrats, meanwhile, say they wonāt negotiate with McCarthy until he shows he has the votes to pass a package of fiscal reforms with top-line spending numbers.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday dismissed McCarthyās letter as not doing anything to advance the discussion and said it showed the Speaker is feeling pressure to show conservatives in the House that heās getting somewhere with the president.
āI think heās really feeling pressure, but he has no solution. So he keeps saying the same thing, āsit down and negotiate.ā But as I said, if you sit down and negotiate, we have a plan, he doesnāt. What are they going to do? Talk about the weather?ā Schumer said, also calling McCarthyās broad suggestions āvagueā and āamorphous.ā
Spending our way to prosperity is the only possible solution.
Why has Schumer not fucking died yet?
Because soap boxes and cameras still exist.
I guess the strict gun control in NY is working?
The cure for poverty is to just keep giving away more and more money forever.
I’m kind of surprised LBJ didn’t figure this out.
Biden on Tuesday evening responded to McCarthyās letter, asking him to submit a budget plan before Congress leaves for a two-week recess on Thursday āso that we can have an in-depth conversation when you return.ā
But he added, āAs I have repeatedly said, that conversation must be separate from prompt action on the Congressā basic obligation to pay the Nationās bills and avoid economic catastrophe.ā
Give us some ammo for the propaganda barrage.
Oh, complete shock here. Total surprise they’d launder extra funds through existing contributor data. Nobody would have ever thought they could be doing that.
And nothing else will happen because they’re the Favored People.
*cough* FTX *cough* crypto *cough* Signature Bank *cough*
Mega-donor gives money to ActBlue because the donor has met existing campaign contribution limits
ActBlue takes the mega-donor’s money and uses it to make donations in the names of its small donors
That how the scam it seems to work?
I assumed “mega donors get information for sufficient small donors from ActBlue to donate in their names sufficient for however many shovels of money they want to send”, but yeah… something like that. If they passed the money to ActBlue first, I would think that would leave a trail. “Sharing donation records” would be more subtle.
There’s a paper trail either way – you just need somebody to follow it
For the wimmenz
For example, the Pentagon is now considering whether to move the US Space Command from Colorado, which protects abortion access, to Alabama, which criminalizes it. When the Pentagon makes basing decisions, like this, some of the factors it considers include number of available parking spaces, housing affordability and area construction costs.
Whatās not on the list? Whether the state prohibits abortion, imprisons doctors who perform them or turns its residents into bounty hunters against women.
Colorado Senator’s long anguished blah blah blah about “access to health care” for military women. Bottom line- don’t shut down the gravy train. What would they do with all those underground bunkers out there east of Colorado Springs? Turn it into a homeless shelter?
Who cares about AL’s abortion ploicies? Hochul has created a taxpayer-funded abortion tourism industry that will happily pay for transportation, lodgings and abortions for those poor deprived Alabamammys.
Proof positive
“High temperatures will continue to be below average for much of the West Tuesday-Wednesday, with highs in the 30s and 40s for the Northern Rockies/Great Basin and the 50s for most of California,” the agency said.
Some of those highs could meet or break the record for the maximum temperature on those dates.
I’m sure you could find a heat wave in Australia or South America, but I can’t help being amused by the Most Ferocious Winter Ever in the very epicenter of American climate apocalypse mania.
Depends on where you were over the winter.
Our winter was as kind as I can remember having.
Sunset is getting worse.
You People have cured me of any empathy for the fiend, but I still feel bad for us.
My rage is at all of those supporting him.
He is nasty and bitter, and evil people are manipulating him to do evil things.
Fuck him.
Sunset, you better take care
If I find you’ve been sniffing in my daughter’s hair.
*applause*
Yeah, I had some sympathy for him because I felt like an old man with diminished mental capacity was being used by others. But someone here pointed out that Biden had spent his life surrounding himself with these kinds of people and being that kind of people. So, yeah, no sympathy.
I hope he is suffering. Honestly.
Brandon Sanderson responds to bizarrely insulting WIRED profile
https://winteriscoming.net/2023/03/26/brandon-sanderson-responds-bizarrely-insulting-wired-profile/
I remember reading some of that wired article and it did seem mean spirited
I have a feeling Brandon is a lot more charitable towards the author’s intentions than is probably deserved
Jealous little shithead writes hit piece because author typifies everything he hates and makes shit-tons more money than he does.
/film at eleven
but the author is one o’ dem icky Mormons
With a normal family, gosh, how boring and conventional.
Markets are not neutral
It is politically advantageous to pretend they are ā but it is untrue
https://thecritic.co.uk/markets-are-not-neutral/
“With the pound collapsing and yields on government bonds soaring, politicians and commentators couldnāt stop referring to āthe marketsā as if they were a small child terrified by the appearance of a Truss or Kwarteng-shaped ghost.
As the reaction to the mini-budget demonstrated, there is a widespread view amongst modern liberals, rooted in the principles of Friedman and Hayek, that markets are omniscient arbiters of judgement and value. Markets automatically make calculations and respond to political events on a neutral, almost scientific basis. Kwarteng, who was trying to cut taxes at the same time as increasing borrowing, didnāt have his sums right and therefore bond yields went up ā markets were āspookedā.”
Just imagine how proud those Secret Service agents must feel. They have made it to the pinnacle of their profession, protecting the Most Powerful Man in the World, and they’re the functional equivalent of sheep dogs, herding him back to the limo before he drowns in a mud puddle.
You People have cured me of any empathy for the fiend, but I still feel bad for us.
Fuck him. The only thing I want hear about Joe Biden involves a “massive stroke” followed by “rushed to Bethesda Naval Hospital where he was pronounced dead.”
+1 President Harris
Since the President is a figurehead, does it really matter which braindead apparatchik is the figurehead?
Oooooh, guess who just sent a quote to Tom Woods for ebook formatting services!!! Thanks LtFish and Tundra!
I am going to assume that this is an author you wanted to work with. If true, congratulations.
https://twitter.com/ThomasEWoods
Is it Michal Jones from Little Rock?
I doubt there are very many Michals in Little Rock, but that could be my classism showing.
Woot!
Go Mo!
Quick quick quick. I need Glibertarian hive mind. Need bullet points on how fiction can shape a movement. I may have gotten myself a slot on Woods’s show.
Rand? Heinlen?
harry potter?
That’s not what I had in mind, but I can use that, most definitely.
If you’re going authors, don’t forget CS Lewis, Orwell, Huxley…
I hadn’t planned on using authors, per se, just general appetites for culture, focusing a lot on Wilder and Lane.
Battlefield Earth!
You may or may not be joking, but damn, that’s a good one.
As a GenXer, that may be the nicest thing someone’s said to me all week!
*mainlines irony*
Not sure how well I could bullet point it… but off the cuff attempt:
Introducing ideas and concepts through text and characters
Showing idealized and flawed implementations of concepts
Illustrating end results of polices with a slippery slope
Using an analogue to discuss issues that are not polite conversations (racism, sexism, etc).
Well, I would look at the progressive/socialist/commie literature of the early 20th century. Steinbeck comes to mind.
Literature can change the way you see the world, changing your framing to the one that the activist has. Suddenly, the noble sons of the soil are downtrodden and exploited, that kind of thing.
Sons of the Soil? Like the quarrellsome warriors that sprouted when Cadmus sowed Dragon’s teeth?
This. “Liberal Hollywood” have been promoting progressive ideas for decades through film and TV. Before it was through great stories. Now they lost the plot so to speak and have been hitting people over the head with “THE MESSAGE” Look at Top Gun: Maverick, an incredibly diverse cast that no one remarks on because the diversity was in the background of the story. As long as you have good art where the message is subtle you’ll impact the culture in the direction you want.
If you look at modern Christian music and movies. they’re bland, insipid, and pathetic. Why? Because they’re hitting you over the head with the message imbedded in bad art. In contrast, for centuries the greatest works of art were inspired by religion. This is a warning message for anyone trying to move the country in a freer direction.
I assume you need cases when the influence was clear I think anti slavery in the early 1800s in the US like Uncle Tom’s Cabin … Or maybe Dickens in England…. Orwell… etc There was a bunch of anti commie stuff that probably had effect…
Darkness at Noon
What ilk of movement are we talking about? My Craigslist fiction that got me laid a lot (and landed Jugsy)?
Or fiction like “The Turner Diaries” or “The Communist Manfiesto” ?
Or Saul Alinksy….
My first thought was “The Jungle” and people going “Eww, I don’t want that in my food”. But that’s not really a movement, and certainly not the worker-centric movement Upton intended.
No, but it did shape a movement, albeit not the one that was intended.
Well, cellulose is a good source of fiber…
I mean, the way to attract people is to literally give them a literal narrative. Plus fiction can show the supposed end goal of the movement, which tactics to be used and wich t be shunned, the type of people welcomed by the movement…
It would be a shorter list as to how fiction does NOT shape a movement.
Seriously. Stephen King has shaped no movements.
TBH, I just thought of that topic off the top of my head while I was typing up his quote. IOW, not a whole lot of thought went into this. I just didn’t want to say, “I want you to pimp me out.”
Go on… š
It can also provide a cultural touchstone/common frame of reference for adherents. In-jokes and references are a great way to build a feeling of community.
AND BY FEELING OF COMMUNITY, MEAN RAPE!
If you get on let us know.
CNN, MSNBC…. fiction to craft a human experimentation movement
Well, to me, the most obvious example would be Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and it’s influence on the Progressive movement.
Uffda. Class clown here, but I have some thoughts:
1. The rise of environmental panic fiction has definitely pushed the green movement over the top. Not only in books, but in movies and tv shows (remember Captain Planet?)
2. There is a fine line between propaganda and fiction when pushing an idea. “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” certainly pushed the concepts of individual rights = good, government = bad. It worked as fiction because it did not hammer home the issue on every single page, unlike some other movements (see the green movement).
+1 President Harris
When you’re headed over a cliff, stab the throttle.
Colour coordinating with Just Stop Oil Phoebe Plummerās hair this morning.
I particularly enjoyed her assertion that the Tories are responsible for āgenocideā, presumably she meant āecocideā. Either way, total nonsense.
https://twitter.com/CarverEmily/status/1641049813612388358
ehm… I mean would not probably… unless drunk
Is that the latest child doom prophet?
Can’t we do better?
I am somewhat overweight and not that handsome I am not sure I can do better
I hope you’re talking about the host, not the activist.
I mean 21 year old pussy is still 21 year old pussy
She looks really young.
That cold, contemptuous expression on her face is what I would expect to find in a basement at Lubyanka.
O’Brien (from 1984).
This window gives you privacy by using falling sand for blinds
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1641073417951518720
Need bullet points on how fiction can shape a movement.
Fiction can function as a distillate of experience.
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” helped shape a movement, unfortunately.
I don’t have any answers but letting them all roam the streets isn’t working out so well.
What movement?
Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill?
“Silent Spring”, also unfortunately.
Population bomb, and all of the other environmental doomporn.
Which actually traces back to a dipshit by the name of William Vogt. It was he that was instrumental in resurrecting Malthus.
My friend is an exotic vet tech and today a gecko named Dave came in because he got stuck in a skull.
https://twitter.com/maeisafraid/status/1640763722887987200
That’s not a real skull.
I am disappoint.
Bikini Show – Miss CittĆ Murata – Padova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNWrB1NTc4
“Musk says Twitter now worth $20 billion, less than half what he paid for it”
So it has increased in worth?
Seriously, still can’t believe he went through with it at that price point.
I donāt understand it at all. I would have thought he had more than enough obstruction of due diligence/discovery of bad facts to cancel the original offer and come back lower. With a carefully coordinated (if necessary) shareholder suit, I think the board would have been in a real box. Either he has shit lawyers, or there was something else going on we donāt know about.
He wanted to affect the election and the only way to get the deal done in time was to buy at the price he did.
That’s the only theory I can think of.
He may have been backstopped on his other ventures by interested third parties who wish to remain anonymous.
I think he was going to be tied up in hundreds of lawsuits if he tried to trigger his $1B out clause.
Who would think that demand for premium $100k plus EVs might soften in a recessionary environment.
Lucid to cut 1,300 workers amid signs of flagging demand for its EVs
They had that announcement on the news last night here in Tucson. My favorite was ā a larger restructuring to reduce costs as it works to ramp up production of its Air luxury sedanā.
Nothing says āramping up production to meet demandā like āweāre firing almost a fifth of our workforceā.
California’s oil price gouging law: based on what I read yesterday, the law requires the oil companies to basically allow this new Ministry of Plenty board unlimited access to their books. With a pinky-swear assurance of confidentiality.
What could possibly go wrong?
What movement?
“Fixing” the medieval mental health system, and shutting down the nuthouses.
I just didnāt want to say, āI want you to pimp me out.ā
Everything’s better with pirates. Lusty libertarian pirates.