“I would write something prescient, maybe even comforting, but you will probably misattribute it to Kipling.” — C.S. Lewis
I am actually writing this during my company’s all employee call. So I am multitasking. !Enlaces!
Chinese companies under US sanctions for Fentanyl production are fighting back! How? Denying it, of course.
Woof. That could never happened in the US. Nope.
These guys need to read a few Michael Malice books.
El Salvador has gone 67 days this year without a homicide. Except thats a slight mistranslation, this year there were 67 days without a homicide. Not 67 days in a row. Which still makes it safer there than Chicago.
While Cuba appears to have run out of other people’s money, El Salvador plans to open another “Bitcoin Embassy” in Texas. Whatever that means, it implies they already have one built or being built elsewhere.
New York Times wrote pretty much an identical article NPR wrote last week, so I will make the same joke: El Presidenté Dudebro is a few theatrical executions away from being openly declared the new Pinochet.
Music link today is for purposes of my sanity only. The CEO is now discussing the company’s DIE initiatives as they relate to Medicare/Medicaid delivery programs, such as the ones offered by my company!
They just need to make it legal. That’s how to fight it.
Interestingly, someone wrote a book about Micheal Malice. “Malice is also the subject of Harvey Pekar’s 2006 biographical graphic novel Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, illustrated by Gary Dumm”
“Except thats a slight mistranslation, this year there were 67 days without a homicide.”
In El Salvador? Not buying it.
The first three comments, all on topic. Nice!
Thanks, is your knee better?
Slightly. Heat seems to help, I took an Epson salt bath yesterday and I’ve been using a heating pad today. Thanks for asking!
Good that your knee is better.
Seconded. Gotta be healthy for the tourney!
Not all the way better, still pretty swollen but at least it’s leveled off. I don’t have much feeling from the knee down, so I’m sure I injured it somehow and didn’t notice.
I am enjoying the music link. Thanks.
If it don’t have Thunder-fingers playing the bass, it ain’t the right version of the song.
Fred Dizzurst all up in the hizzouse.
I like you MS but damn.
Don’t be a hater.
Team Stinky.
Would you rather hear the answer to the DIE initiatives question?
I am morbidly curious.
They hired a DIE coordinator. So my chances of promoting went up a bit.
HI BROWN MAN! IF GET PROMOTEDED, CAN GET STEVE SMITH MORE COCAINE? HIM WANT ALL COCAINE, NOW!
*stares into the distance*
Cocaine ‘Squatch?
The upcoming sequel to Cocaine Bear.
Taking our jobs!
I’ll recruit him for Swisscorp International.
Terk Ur Jerbs!
The city I work for created an executive level DEI position last year. Thursday my department is having a DEI photoshoot in which we are using a black guy who doesn’t work for us as prop.
rofl
Bahahaha!
Nice
So what did they do, call a temp agency, “Hey, do have a black guy we could rent for a couple hours?”
I think I saw that movie…
Did you have to hide in the closet?
Pictured
Who did not see this coming?
Of course. For years the cover picture on the annual report from my former employer implied that the purpose of the firm was to put attractive black folks underneath hardhats.
This isn’t new. Back when I was in college they wanted to take a picture of my Computer Forensics class.
Said class was an elective, and 100% white dudes, so they imported a female student from another major to make it look like there was a token interest.
This has been going on a long time. They have even photoshopped POCs into pictures.
This you?
Huh. Surprised Colombia has climbed farther up its own woke asshole than the US has yet.
Ugh. Reading links on an all-hands meeting that does not apply to me. Nice being a part-time evening person.
On day 2 of 4-6 weeks of training that has shifted my work schedule into one I loved when I was younger. 1000 – 1900 local… right when it’s getting nice enough to bike somewhere for dinner or the like.
I get to be the only person who has no recent experience with the product, so I get to find all the issues in the training documentation, such as using terms that aren’t in use in the system and have been depreciated several releases ago.
Daily Quordle 442
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Late to the game. Tough fucking words today.
#waffle445 5/5
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🔥 streak: 99
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wafflegame.net
I had four stars
Current streak: 166
Games played: 166
oops. 116 and 116. me no type so good.
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Cubans are facing shortages of food, medicines and petrol which have led to long queues forming at shops and petrol stations.
And checks in the checkbook.
Stupid Cubans. Why don’t they get EVs?
I know, right?
Russian tractor engines are probably more reliable.
They should just drink a margarita and relax.
Right. Lime in the coconut, shake the bowl up..
Rum and …? probably more rum.
Now, children play soccer late into the evening on fields that were gang turf. Ms. Inglés gathers soil for her plants next to an abandoned building that residents say was used for gang killings.
Homicides plunged. Extortion payments imposed by gangs on businesses and residents, once an economy unto itself, also declined, analysts said.
“You can walk freely,” Ms. Inglés said. “So much has changed.”
Well… people respond to incentives. In this case, the gangsters are either doing their thing behind secure walls, or have been incentivized to keep their malicious activities on the down low. Either way, the ordinary Manuel on the street is the beneficiary.
Or maybe they really are all in prison.
I can’t believe the gangs can carry on their usual activities without murdering each other and terrorizing the innocent – so it has always been.
Maybe the government auctioned off the policing rights to the gangs?
So, Teachers Union vs. Norteno’s?
Seen at the gym: On the TV tuned to FoxNews, anti-Ron DeSantis attack ads. “Ron DeSantis has voted to reduce Social Security benefits!” “Ron DeSantis has voted to increase the retirement age to 70!”. It ended with, “Ron DeSantis doesn’t share our values. Ron DeSantis is not ready to be President.”
Are either of those things true?
I hope so.
DEG left out the best part:
“Signed, MAGA something or other.”
It’s a Trump attack ad.
I saw Newsmax on at once point at my gym, but nobody seemed to care.
Weird, that the governor of Florida is voting on, well, anything, much less SocSec benefits and the retirement age.
I think he was a Congressman for 3 terms.
Yes. He was.
To answer Count Potato’s question, I found this from the Washington Examiner on the ad.
So it’s true enough for an ad.
When Thomas Paine wrote Agrarian Justice and came up with the idea of an old age pension. He put the age at 50. That made sense in the Late 1700’s.
Now that the life expectancy has gone up (and birth rate has gone down) it makes sense to increase the age of receiving Social Security to make it actuarially sound. But that’s too much to ask of the electorate I guess.
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Paine1795.pdf
SAD MAD
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/04/11/al-jaffee-longtime-mad-magazine-cartoonist-dead-at-102/
WP won’t let me post a link without first entering some text. I’ve seen posts here that consist of nothing but a link. What am I missing?
A winning lottery ticket?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMyO2z4qLvs
works for me
I was using the “link” that Monocle provides. Entered my text in the one box and the URL in the next one and hit submit. I got an error, something like “you must enter text for submission”. I then typed a few words and pasted a link (like yours), no problem.
.
This is a link
If I type something (in this case a period) then it takes it fine.
Ceci n’est pas une lien
I use the link button all the time
I type in a phrase. Select it all with the mouse, then hit link. I then paste the url into the center field. Voila!
That’s what I was trying to do, but got the error. I guess I don’t post that much, anyway.
Did this work?
Yes! Thanks, kinnath!
sort of.
link goes nowhere.
you are welcome
Hmmm, strange. I’ll take a peek at the code in a little bit.
Oh, good you got it worked out!
RIP
I read a lot of MAD in the late 70’s and early 80’s. I’m sure it had some influence on my sense of humor. RIP.
Same here.
GenX for the morbid, sarcastic win.
Farewell, Jaffe. He influenced several generations at least.
Too bad. That was a staple of my yute.
Another thing that you could never get away with nowadays!
MAD and Cracked were the best when I was a kid.
Cracked went woke.
So did half of my childhood friends.
So did Mad. It became a horrible insult to the memory of old Mad. Then it went bankrupt and stopped publishing, thankfully.
I like trolling my congresscritter on his email surveys.
Which is the biggest threat to the US?
[ ] Russia
[ ] Iran
[ ] China
[X] Other – *writes in Washington DC*
HA!
*divebombs lynx*
“You can walk freely,” Ms. Inglés said. “So much has changed.”
Do the trains run on time?
Sure, that high speed rail to the megaprison is working perfectly.
https://youtu.be/gTd687mIrg8
That muted disco trumpet, gets me every time.
*tears up*
I did it all for the nuki!
🙂
A few articles on my next tournament, the Disabled Hockey Festival in St. Louis.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/entertainment/television/show-me-st-louis/stl-to-host-the-usa-hockey-disabled-hockey-festival/63-3dca80a2-4122-494d-96f7-297397f2d6a8
https://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/benjamin-hochman/hochman-disabled-hockey-festival-will-let-st-louis-be-part-of-something-bigger/article_2b133bea-8eeb-5332-bd5d-c919d7f80536.html
Both feature Steve Cash, the 3x gold medal Olympian who is in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He has since retired from being goalie, and has started playing as a skater. This year I played some games against him, including his very first game as a skater and his first goal. For some reason he likes hanging out with us B Team guys. I won’t play him but I’m sure we’ll hang out. (The second article is wrong, he will NOT play goalie).
He’s a really nice dude. And humble.
I had no idea I was hanging out with a superstar!
Forgot about that! He is really nice. When he was in Chicago to play us he asked if we’d be in town on Wednesday night so we could go to dinner.
Anybody else getting secure connection failed errors with archive.fo?
“One man was shot dead and three others injured in a “targeted” attack outside a funeral home in Washington, DC, police said.
The shooting erupted just before 12:30 p.m. after mourners had left a service for a murder victim at the Stewart Funeral Home in Northeast Washington.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/11/several-people-shot-outside-dc-funeral-home-cops/
OFFS!!
That seems like a gang thing.
On the bright side, it should be cheap to move the body. Think of the reduced carbon emissions too.
Do you really have to ask?
That shit happens all the time around here.
Funeral was for a guy who died on 3/24. Did they freeze the body?
Pickled.
No, you’re thinking of the guys at the Irish wake.
The local Target store has decided to lock up…. aluminum foil:
https://www.westword.com/news/fentanyl-use-denver-downtown-target-lock-up-aluminum-foil-16548957
“”Blues,” as drug experts call them, have led to a new shoplifting phenomenon at the downtown Target, where fentanyl users will swipe aluminum foil straight from the shelves and freebase the illegal blue pills right there in the middle of the store, according to security guards.”
WTF??
While not as good as tin foil, aluminum foil can work in a pinch. That’s why “They” want to lock up the supplies.
Pretty soon we’ll be going to the old communist shopping experience where all the goods are behind the counter. You point at what you want, get a ticket with the list of items, go pay at the cash register and then go back to the counter to get your goods.
Are you in Denver, BP? I thought you were in the wilds somewhere!
Yes. Longtime resident. Much change. And some of the folks around here are more feral than anything found on mountain or plain.
I’m in Arvada. If you ever want to meet up, shoot me an email at minnetundra at the evil ones.
Sounds good. I’m on the NW side of Denver, so we’re close.
On a semi-related note, why the fuck is Northglenn one word?
To further distinct them from South Glenn?
Apropos of nothing: I used to do a lot of contract work for an environmental company in Arvada.
I dont miss Denver but I do miss western CO.
I’m so far out on the edge that Denver might as well be in Nebraska. We somehow got a place that’s close to everything, but I see horses, alpaca, goats and cattle every day.
I am an hour north of Denver and closer to NE than you are.
Plus I have a poop farm just outside my neighborhood. As far as I can tell, they have cows and manufacture fertilizer.
I should have said Wyoming. But let’s get the band together.
” But let’s get the band together.”
yeah, maybe this summer. Aren’t there a couple of other Glibs who are Denver-adjacent?
I’d be happy to cross the mountains for a meet up. Should be on the west side roughly mid-June to mid-August.
Hey, guys, keep me in the loop. Denver is only a day’s drive away and I love 285.
To recap: We’ll source some aluminum foil and meet up this summer on a property in Northglenn with livestock viewing opportunities.
Lol.
OK. Send me your emails and I will put together a CO group. It will never be as cool as Honey Harvest, but we’ll give it hell!
Blue’s Clues : The disappearance of Steve Explained!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-sues-jim-jordan-over-trump-case-db603838
Paywall. But Bragg says only he is allowed to bend the law for political purposes.
That is some chutzpah.
Today, in more horny cop news
“An NYPD worker says her boss-turned-lover sexually assaulted her, sought threesomes — and threatened to throw her in front of a train if she ever spoke about their relationship, according to new court papers”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/11/nypd-boss-sexually-assaults-underling-while-seeking-threesomes-suit/
“Ammy Ventura – a 40-year-old single mom of two and civilian employee with the Police Department”
Aren’t they all civilians?
They don’t think so.
She wasn’t issued a weapon.
Fall of Civilizations podcast has a new episode out.
Carthage – Empire Of The Phoenicians
Some kind soul on this site linked this, which I found interesting enough to bookmark.
Cartago delenda est!
Oh, ye of obscure music, have you ever heard of this?
No! Cued up for later listening.
And thanks for the compliment!
The Hulkster teaches Mean Gene about nutrition
I miss the old days of wrestling.
What about those “vitamins” from Mexico?
I knew Hawk from the Road Warriors pretty well. Those poor fuckers were more delusional about their training aids than the football guys. I went to his funeral – I think he was 46.
I don’t miss that about the old days.
Look at all that global support for NATO’s war in Ukraine.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/egypt-secretly-planned-send-40000-rockets-russia-leaked-doc
I knew Hawk from the Road Warriors pretty well
I wasn’t into the rasslin like some of my friends were, but I liked those guys, for some reason. Maybe it was the time one of them (no idea who was which) was in the ring, and one of his opponents leaped off the corner post to do one of those flying body slam things, and the guy… caught him. He held him for a few seconds and then dropped him like an empty beer keg. There is no way to fake that kind of strength and athleticism.
It was probably Animal. He was a specimen. His boy made it to the NFL.
It annoys me when people claim that wrestling was fake. It was staged, but those dudes were amazing.
Bwuh?
Fake?
https://youtu.be/zrX9Ca7LSyQ
Speaking of John Stossel getting his ass kicked, his latest video on his covid experience put more than a bit of tarnish on his image.
(https://youtu.be/CUogvTyemzw)
Doesn’t even sound like him. What is the madness?!!?!?
So down for a couple days and on the back end less than a couple days later look healthy? Yeah scary stuff.
But it hurt like knives, OBE! KNIVES!!!
🤣
He’s actually a really great example of a whole class of people out there. The people who literally cannot process how far gone our society is and can’t comprehend how broad the rot is. He’s still in “a few bad apples” mode, writ large.
I guess commericals of our youth were ahead of their time. “Mommy it hurts when I swallow”
Yeah sort throats hurt..some more than others. Lost their minds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hMp65SzyTU
Yeah, staged, but you cant fake this.
When they started vaccinating zoo animals with human vaccines I knew that as a society we were having a psychotic break.
https://open.substack.com/pub/markcrispinmiller/p/lions-and-tigers-and-bears-and-many
That is absolutely insane. What was the reason given?
The Science!™
Trump, probably…
Who the fuck knows? Lunacy doesn’t make much sense.
It’s harder to become a veterinarian than a regular physician, so you would think they would have some explanation.
I am sure we will get a novel reason like “blue light at night is killing them” like we got for all our new suddenly
I know there are a lot of musicians here. My daughter has a Fender Jazz bass (Mexi) that she wants to tweak to make it easier to play. I don’t know of anyone in the Denver area, so that’s question one. Question two is can you recommend resources so she can do it herself? I’ve adjusted actions, but I feel like she needs more expertise.
I never had a Jazz, but I had Precision. Learning how to work on it is a steep learning curve, you need the right tools, and she could make it worse. So I would take it to a shop.
Thank you. That was my thought, too.
All I have done is rewire them. I have replaced pickups on some, changed Les Pauls from “50s” wire style to “modern” and back again. etc.
My work is clearly identifiable by the white PTFE (Teflon) Mil-STD wire soldered to MIL specs. It’s kinda pretty, and beats the shit out of the PVC crap they come with.
But yeah, you need a luthier if you’re going to change the body/neck, tension rod, etc.
OKAY! That’s DONE! Fabulous time. Wasn’t too nervous. Episode dropping tomorrow, I think. My mouth is as dry as the Sahara.
Awesome, Mo!
Congrats!
Thanks to you and Lt Fish.
Fantastic! I can’t wait to see it.
Was ist Das?
I just did a podcast with Tom Woods. I think the episode is dropping tomorrow.
Go you!
👍👍
No shit?
That’s awesome!
No shit. Lt Fish messaged me on Twitter where Tom Woods had put out a call for ebook formatters. Tundra posted it here for me. I contacted him, he hired me, I asked him if I could be on his show, he said, “Send me an agenda,” I sent it, he liked it, and no shit, there I was …
You gonna send us a link to the actual episode when it drops?
Oh of course!
👍👍
Dang.
So proud of you.
Awesome
Huzzah! Yay for Mojeaux.
Also reminds me to get back in the habit of listening to Tom Woods every night before bed. Used to be a routine for me but it fell by the wayside.
Congrats!
I was just checking out the web page for his show. When do you get your picture on the Featured Podcast Guest section?
Vince Vaughn
Scott Atlas
Rob Schneider
Mojeaux
Jordan Peterson
Thomas Massie
See my avatar.
Wow! Our Mojeaux, running with the big guys. Break out the champagne, even if Moj doesn’t drink.
And…home. if I take a job that had me traveling often I need to get pre-check cause nothing says safety as paying the government, better luggage, a pair of good shoe to walk/travel…..or just RV it all over the central United States instead.
Weren’t you in Oklahoma? I thought I had at least one weekend to come by.
I was. We crushed the class and ended early and I just enjoyed a do nothing weekend with no dogs, kids, wife….well missed the wife, chores etc.
Nice. If it happens again, I will take you to some local BBQ. I was right around the corner in DFW. Many friends in OK.
Do any firearms experts know anything about this:
“Popular handgun fires without anyone pulling the trigger, victims say”
According to WAPO, the Sig Sauer P320 just fires itself whenever it feels like it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/popular-handgun-fires-without-anyone-pulling-the-trigger-victims-say/ar-AA19ImQH
Seems mighty fishy to me. Comments, anybody?
Let’s see if they file a lawsuit against Sig.
If they do not, I think you have your answer.
Sounds to me like excuses from people who mishandled their weapons, but I know nothing about pistols.
Interesting, apparently the P320 does have a history of unintentional discharges, like a teenage boy.
It’s a striker gun, but the pin is under spring pressure at all times which is odd.
I’ve never fired one, so I only know what I read on the internet, so I know it’s all true.
I have one. I haven’t had this problem.
If you stop commenting here, should we assume you’ve had the problem?
“When he’s dying he’s not going to carve ‘Arrggggghhh'”
“Maybe he was dictating?”
Sure it does.
Barring a very serious confirmatory testing regime, my default is “Bullshit”. Being pushed by gun haters and people hoping to score a big settlement.
It’s used by the military (more than one); the testing they put guns through would almost certainly have shaken loose any issues.
Sounds fishy to me. I’ll continue assuming “blaming the pistol for user mishandling”. It does smell like bait for a class action suit. “Cherchez l’avocat” as the French might put it.
Its a well known “defect” that is I believe is overblown. I wrote about it some time ago.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2021/06/the-heros-journey/
Personally I think its bullshit, even though DOD did figure out how to get it to fire in a drop test, it has to be dropped in a very specific way. It’s extremely unlikely.
If there is any validity to it at all, I am certain the military bought a large enough number of them and has enough retards to find out the hard way.
Hey, if anybody is in the mood for a Hayek birthday Zoom, I’d be game!
I don’t know how to host a non-work Zoom though. Do I need a paid account?
If there is interest, can one of you pro-Zoomies do it? Otherwise I will drink my champagne alone.
Or as Mexican Milhouse put it, “Once again, I must sugar my own churro.”
Oh, no, I can’t! I have to work.
HAPPY BARFDAY!
Thanks! I will try to keep the Barfing to a minimum.
Unfortunately, the HomeChef delivery was delayed due to Easter and also due to weather. so I got no vittles at home. Might have to try DoorDash.
So what you are saying is that you will be drinking on an empty stomach.
Well, I have one Atkins shake, if that counts…
That’s not food, that’s penance. Much like gluten free bread, which is just nasty 🙁
I keep ’em around so that if I have no time, at least i have SOMETHING.
But I am actually hungry, and it’s my birthday, dammit!
Might just go to this place: The Keg.
They have a lovely lobster tail and steak thingy.
https://thekeg.com/en
Happy birthday, HE. I’ve always felt that ones b-day was a “go for it!” day.
Savor it.
Fancy!
I say go for it.
Ohhh, wedge salad. Do it!
11$ for minimalist salad? I’m in the wrong business.
I hereby withdraw and cancel my Zoom request.
See some of yas tomorrow!
Well happy Birthday anyway