That poor bastard.
“Fresno is still sad”
– Sloopy
What Sloopy fails to understand, is that Fresno has a place, and has always had a place. And that place is “sad”.
Links!
WHAT THE EVER LOVING FUCK?!? I don’t care if he’s a big hitter.
Imagine how much better “Morning Joe” would be…
The older you are, the more your body resembles the streets of New York.
Uhhh, I have questions. How many were priests? Just asking a question…
“Links!”
FINALLY!
“Nothing says power and confidence by announcing/not announcing your reelection to Al “I shart myself in the White House” Roker.”
Will the deep state “John F. Kennedy” this old fuckwad zombie and his sidekick the laughing loon?
They’re more likely to do it to JFK’s nephew.
I don’t recall who said it here (and am too lazy to go search) — but “They’re looking to recruit Xerhan Xerhan” still wins the damned internet.
That wisdom came from our Minnesoda pope…
Why? He’s already brain dead, no need to waste the bullet they could send to Ukraine instead.
They need a new less idiotic front man than this brain dead guy and his cackler sidekick.
I am somewhat interested in how they’re gonna pull off that switcharoo.
“Guys, I’m over here!!”
/Gavin
State funerals are great for the ratings, and there’s an inbuilt 15% sympathy vote for the person who takes over.
My prediction has 3 parts:
– Deep State (FBI or whoever) will off Harris. Shooter will be one of their cultivated MAGA-types.
– Replaced with SecDef Austin as VP.
– Brandon gets disabled before the end of his term, so Austin’s POTUS.
Oh great. Our own Idi Amin. I can hardly wait.
A reasonable scenario, but I’d say Buttgieg since he would be first (openly) gay prez.
Petey ain’t fully reliable when it comes to WW3. Austin is definitely onboard.
“WHAT THE EVER LOVING FUCK?!? I don’t care if he’s a big hitter.”
I blame all the libs this guy has been hanging out with…
They got him to go perv like they all are.
This helps me understand yesterday’s Babylon Bee headline, the article for which I did not not click.
https://babylonbee.com/news/dalai-lama-inundated-with-requests-from-public-libraries-to-lead-story-hours
“It’s not going to suck itself”
whaddup doh’
” I don’t care if he’s a big hitter.”
+ Gunga Galunga
“The memo, issued by the bureau’s Richmond field office, relied on information compiled by the biased Southern Poverty law Center about alleged “extremist” Catholic communities that prefer the Latin Mass and hold to conservative social teachings.”
First Amendment aside, why is the FBI so stupid that they are listening to the SPLC?
They’re not stupid. They’re agenda driven.
I am fine with calling them names for being agenda-driven.
As should we all.
Also, knowing whom sets the agenda is critical…
The FBI has been ordered to find enemies of the state (the progressive crime syndicates, in this case), and the masters have told them to manufacture it because it is an essential part of their game plan.
Baptists and Lutherans better start looking in the shadows too. This would not be exclusive to Catholics.
yep
Yup. However, I’m more afraid of morally-compromised congregants putting me (or others) on blast with the state or our employers for wrongthink than feds doing the same. That said, I’m not particularly worried about oppression. Christendom withers in comfort and grows explosively in oppression.
Yeah, Rome thought the early Church would just take it lion down, true.
It really thrives in the arena
Because it gives them a fig leaf to go after their political enemies.
Like, Duh! 😉
Because this is the result of decades of leftist control of the educational institutions. The SPLC is an accepted authority because they hate the correct people. Their word is dogma.
It was only a matter of time before it filtered through to the bureaucracy.
I believe that the person who wrote the report probably saw no issue with what they did. I’m sure they thought they were doing the right thing.
Nothing outside the party…
Uhhh, I have questions. How many were priests? Just asking a question… – In commie Romania many a priest were secret police informers. Confession was a good time to find out subversive thoughts.
Yeah… I’m not telling a priest anything now, let alone when the US goes full commie.
How are these priests supposed to get material for their spank-bank if people stop telling them the good stuff?
Youtube Dalai Lama videos?
I’m sure the commies had a hand in making sure that was spread widely. Just as good to destroy the church and religious practice.
“The older you are, the more your body resembles the streets of New York.”
I have let myself go a bit in the last year and am carrying a few extra pounds, but I am not covered in shit, infested with rats, and hostile to humanity….
Dude — you’re here… citation needed. 😉 [I keed… I keed…]
“I am not covered in shit, infested with rats, and hostile to humanity….”
Does that cost extra? Asking for a friend.
I could have saved them a lot of time and research money…
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Future motivational speaker or life coach right there. Good kid. 🙂
I’ll take 1000 of him over that “I am woke” kid any day.
“You could be President…”
Now, there’s a threat.
Good kid, thanks, Jimbo
I read this WH report card thing, and am seeing a pattern I think people are not catching on to.
Our leaders are either so inept or so evil that they spend all their time social engineering people’s opinions/perceptions about issues and never doing anything at all about the issues unless they can set up some racket that allows them to do massive grifting. Problems are never solved, because the problems can be used to keep people distracted from the sinking ship. This leads to things falling apart due to neglect while idiots are made to believe all is fine and problems only exist because of the wreckers & kulaks interfering with the wise ones running things.
they spend all their time social engineering people’s opinions/perceptions about issues
This shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody paying attention to culture. #slacktivism, cancel culture, microaggressions, they’re all pointing to the supremacy of the emotional reaction over any true reality. Gin up an emotional response across our culture, and you can get 80%+ of people bleating in predictable ways. If you want to accomplish something, just select the appropriate outrage off the shelf and feed it to your influencer and media lackeys.
I said it just yesterday. The problem isn’t the problem, it’s people pointing out the problem. That’s why we need “disinformation boards”.
You hit the nail on the head TOK. These people no longer want to solve problems, mostly because they created them trying to solve “other problems” in the past, and are completely focused on influencing what people believe. This trajectory is unsustainable. Society crumbling and falling apart in the 60s and 70s because of the hippy shit going on eventually led to too many people seeing through the programming an then things changed. Hopefully we will get a reversal sooner than later, and before they really destroy the country this time.
California’s answer is to send Newsom to the White House, assuming that will be an improvement for CA.
Well, if Newsom can make America like California the tax slaves won’t be able to flee.
COVID lowers your resistance to bullets, blades, and bludgeoning.
I thought it was Bullets, Bombs, and Bigotry.
Bibles, bullets, and beans?
J&J is clotting though, so if you get shot it will stop the bleeding.
Fresno will be the place to live when the magic choo choo is running.
Joe Biden on presidential run in 2024: ‘I plan on running’
Brandon ain’t running anywhere.
They had Hillary Clinton’s double fake running in some lame add, so you are guarantied to see a Slow Joe double running a marathon sooner than later…
I can see an AI-generated push-up contest with Biden and Chris Christy.
I’m picturing Jack LaLanne for some reason.
Now, I’m just picturing Biden as Martin Short’s character in Arrested Development
“SWOOP ME, Dragon!”
I used to run into LaLanne at a seafood place in Morro Bay when i was younger. Man, that dude was always hammered. Three sheets to the wind.
push-ups
Biking? He’s good at that until he tries to stop.
Joe Biden, triathlete
In local news, after Abrams tanks Romania seems to be in talks to buy F35s
My condolences.
The American Taxpayer thanks you.
Romania can afford those things? Or are we selling them on clearance ?
poorer countries than Romania can afford expensive weaponry. Not much else but still…
Or the US government gives money from a slush fund to Romania who then gives it to US defense companies.
… who then give money to politicians and the circle of life continues.
‘Orning ‘ordles… Hello, ooooh… Chumptown calling!
Daily Duotrigordle #405
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 05:12.04
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 442
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4️⃣🟥
m-w.com/games/quordle
wtf
3 9
4 7
Daily Quordle 442
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, April 11
Letters: E I L M P S U
My score: 225 points
My longest word: 9 letters
🌹 🏵 💐 🌼 🌺 🌸 💮 🌻 🌷
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
supplies
mussels
sump pumps
simple
I’m assuming it won’t accept impulseless.
239
Quordle
9️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Daily Quordle 442
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In more local news, a Romanian member of parliament who has been on a 6 year one man war against cormorants is again calling for a cull of cormorants who apparently are costing fish farms 30000 tons of fish a year. There seem to be an estimated 90k in Romania and he wants them down to 9k.
Can you eat them? Or would they taste…fishy ?
I don’t know but remembered someone saying at some time that they taste foul (not fowl)
You would only eat them if you were stranded on some island and had no other source of food, and then you might end up gagging and puking.
as long as you don’t rub linseed oil into them.
Cat food.
Fucking cormorants and pelicans. Hate them both because of how many fish they eat.
Their population has rebounded wonderfully here in Minnesoda, but they are still “endangered” or something so the DNR won’t do anything. A couple of lakes where I grew up have went from great fishing lakes to basically worthless because of the local cormorants.
Now do loons, MN’s state bird.
Soon wild turkeys will take over from Canada’s gift goose as the most despicable form of avian life in MN..They domesticate easily, love humans. It seemed like a good idea to teach them to eat pine cones and snow. Bigger, aggressive and enjoy the fruits of your garden.
“Now do loons, MN’s state bird.”
I thought them loons were the twin city residents…
The turkeys here are very timid. Also slow to take to the air, preferring to run into the brush — which will not stop a dog. I no longer have nay on my property.
Doesn’t he know that birds aren’t real?
What crimes? Were the locals fucking the produce? Testing their drug needle craft on the fruit? Shitting in the isles? stabbing each other silly?
someone did something
Probably shoplifting.
Well, Whole Foods does sell wine…
Worker safety, theft, hostile patrons and bathroom drug use FTA.
Albany’s annual Tulip Festival is going to be even more inclusive this year! They’ve added a drag show!
Lol. I’m more amused at this point than anything else. When do the temple prostitutes return?
But enough about the media…
Romania can afford those things? Or are we selling them on clearance ?
It’s like when you were a little kid, and your dad handed you the money to pay for your ice cream cone.
Pelosi tries to score cheap gun control points and gets owned..
Those responses are on fire! And rightly so. She needs to retire.
It’s my birthday. I don’t generally mark it in any way but I am in need of some joy.
Thinking about doing the classic Halliburton Energy office tradition in which the birthday girl/boy is the one who brings in the treats. Nom nom! There seem to be some donut shops along the way to work…
Well Happy Birthday, HS! Sounds like a plan on the donuts, I’m sure your compatriots will enjoy them and wish you well. As do we, of course.
Happy birthday. Skip the donuts and get a bottle of champagne.
🐏 Mine is coming up. It’s usually when I do my taxes.
🎂🎉
Happy 21st Hayek. May this year be better than the last.
Happy birthday!
And yes, bring treats to the office. It will spark joy, which will reflect back on you. It’s one of those good deeds that if not unpunished, at least gets off lightly.
Happy birthday! May you have many more earth trips around the sun and be healthy and able to enjoy the little things.
Happy birthday! Also Pie has the right idea.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birfday, hayek!
Happy birthday ‘Splosives. Once more around the sun.
Hey Hayek
Its your birthday
Thats for real-real
Not for play-play!
t0ts out for Tuesday!
Happy 21st!
Happy Birthday! (maybe NSFW)
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! The Geburtstagkind where I worked in Germany always brought goodies on the day, a variety of stuff: Brötchen with salted and peppered raw ground pork; liverwurst–smoked and unsmoked plus various other of sausages; several kinds of pickles; pastries.
This was the former East Germany, soon after reunification. Celebratory toasts involved Schnapps, although nobody got hammered that I ever saw. That lasted until the American owners found out about drinking on the job.
Ugh, stupid Americans.
Happy Birthday, Missy. You’re gaining on me.
Enjoy your day anyway you want to.
HBD 🙂
Congratulation !
Happy birthday, HE!
I hope you have a wonderful day!
Happy B-Day HE! May the day only have light quantities of Everett “Spring Sunshine”.
Happy Birthday, Hayek!
Thanks for the BD wishes, all!
I’m done with morning meetings. Think I’ll go get some chowdah for lunch.
Montana Ranch For Sale – Horse Prairie Ranch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XagDqV7mSZk
I don’t much get farms in my youtube recommends, usually luxury house tour. But this came up and while in no way my thing, I always find it a bit uncertain when a majority of a farm’s land is leased form forest service / federal government, just does not seem the same as owning it outright.
It will be fine. Just ask the Bundy’s.
Very common in the American West. W/ almost 8000 acres of deeded land it has a much larger “base property” than most ranches. The US leased land can be lost if you quit running livestock since one condition of the lease is putting the land to “productive use”. Also by Fed law the leased land has no property rights and any improvements you make become property of the Feds.
@rhywun
From the ded thread; they made a comparison site:
https://text-to-diagram.com/?b=mermaid
I found that, thanks!
The syntax seems cleaner and the output is nicer too.
Gives me something to play with at work during a boring week with two more (((days))) off and no one’s around.
I miss FORTRAN.
Imagine how much better “Morning Joe” would be…
I though it was already hosted by NPCs.
What’s racist today? Today, eating meat is racist
https://twitter.com/LeoKearse/status/1645689277001367558
the comments call parody
‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Box Office: All the Records Smashed on Opening Weekend
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/super-mario-bros-movie-box-office-records-opening-weekend-1235577764/
The Guardian’s review of Super Mario is something else.
Finally someone brave enough to call out the child audience.
https://twitter.com/GeoffNorcott/status/1645691070322290688
Lol.
Obligatory
heh
I am glad. I hope to see it this weekend.
Me too. Kiddo has been so excited about it since the first trailer dropped.
I lived in Fresno for three years, on the corner of Wishon and McKinnley. I kinda liked the place. It wasn’t trying to be something other than a small city, and if anything happened there, everybody came out. Married and divorced my first wife there, my son was born there.
And, shocking to many people, I grew up in San Luis Obispo, which is often considered one of the nicest places in California, but I would rather live in Fresno. Less social signaling bullshit.
Russians under your bed
Some national security experts and U.S. officials have said they suspect the leaker could be American, but have not ruled out pro-Russian actors.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on the leak, but said: “There is in fact a tendency to always blame everything on Russia. It is, in general, a disease.”
We should just wipe the Russians off the map. Then our troubles would be over. Except for the Chinese. Fuck it; them, too.
Pulverize them all
Ok, President Clarke — just back away from the controls for the planetary defense grid please….
As part of its effort to identify extremists in the Catholic Church, the FBI recruited at least one “undercover employee” to “develop sources among the clergy and church leadership,” Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) revealed Monday.
The Federal Bureau of Entrapment needs to be dissolved along with 90% of the rest of the federal government.
The Black Tape Project Fall/Winter 2023/24 NYFW – Art Hearts Fashion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqRUpxMXC88
the main tape models seems the same as the previous show…
Albany’s annual Tulip Festival is going to be even more inclusive this year! They’ve added a drag show!
Are the going to dress up like Dutch girls?
Probably.
It begins with the traditional Dutch
free labor for the statestreet scrubbing by women in traditional dress.Gee, that sounds like fun.
As long as they don’t dress like dikes. Or dykes.
Go on…
So, any of you VA-knowledgeable types know what is going on? Is it a separation of church and state thing? Kickbacks? Getting rid of extremism in the military?
https://www.milarch.org/walter-reed-national-military-medical-center-terminates-catholic-pastoral-care-contract-during-holy-week/
Heard about that and no explanation was provided. I’m guessing your third theory.
Commies doing commie shit?
I make sure I have my own health insurance for a reason… Fuck the VA.
Walter Reed is run by DOD, not VA.
See? This is why I need to rely on glibs.
The FBI is rooting out right wing extremism in the Catholic Church now? It’s about time.
In more local news the Romanian orthodox church are finally thinking of unifying Easter with the catholics… But it will take years even if decided…
Return to the fold, brother.
IIRC, the Orthodox easter is more often in line with passover than western easter. So, ummm, yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzuYZi749CM
“Return to the fold” isn’t accurate.
So, they are going to rise to the occasion?
With the new keywords that show extremism, like “red pill”, I wonder if we’ve been upgraded from just being on some lists to having our own spook?
Spook 1: Your assignment today is Glibertarians.com. Check out the AM and PM links and the feature article at 11.
Spook 2: Ok.
Spook 1: Oh you’ve got Glibertarians again Wednesday.
Spook 2: Goddammit.
You rang?
“Sir — Agent Smith keeps trying to report to someone called ‘Fetterlump’ again. I think Wednesday was too much for xim.”
I thought the majority of Glibs were feds already.
Not me. I actually work for a living.
Ix-nay on the ed-fay!
Greetings, fellow malcontents!
How do you do, fellow insurrectionists
Anyone got the deets on our next insurrection?
*puts on Ray-Bans*
Let’s commit a crime.
*grabs Tiki torch*
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
“Lets eat sushi, and not pay!”
The worst goddamned thing about the feds is how they’ve made my Wayfarers look shady…
It’s not the feds doing it…
“The last guy who got Wednesday afternoon needed three months of therapy!”
This sounds like a representative sample
A majority of Americans have felt the long reach of the nation’s gun violence epidemic in one way or another.
That’s one of the takeaways from a national poll released on Tuesday by KFF, a nonprofit that focuses on health care research.
Specifically, the poll found about one in five people report having a family member who was fatally shot. The same share say they have been threatened with a gun. One in six said they have personally witnessed a shooting.
20% is a majority?
Six degrees of Smith & Wesson.
20% have had family members killed? Were they only polling in inner cities?
Other than by disease, fire, or accident, none of my family members have died.
You must be young, and/or have a limited definition of family.
99+% of my family has died. Most decades before I was born.
Disease, fire, and accident account for a lot of people.
I think my family even survived the civil war.
You’re Irish, right?
I guess alcoholism counts as disease, and a drunken brawl as accident.
That’s an undercount considering most people are trans, and 41% of transfolx are forced into suicide and most suicides are by gun.
/WaPo Factchkr
“One in six said they have personally witnessed a shooting.”
Complete and obvious bullshit. That would be almost 60 million people.
“about one in five people report having a family member who was fatally shot”
So 70 million people have had family member killed? At least try to come up with plausible lies, guys.
Extended family, as in the Glib family, though it seems Glibs are shooters rather than shootees
I can relate to the fears about gun violence. I live in Washington D.C. There have been daytime shootings within blocks of my house, including at the park where my kids play. It’s interesting that the survey showed more than eight in ten people have changed something in their lives to protect themselves or a loved one from the possibility of gun violence.
It’s impacting all of our decisions – decisions to take public transit, to go out at night, to go to festivals. One in five parents have either thought about changing where their kid goes to school or have. So it’s not just the horrible news about another mass shooting, but the long tail that this has on all aspects of our lives. We’re a nation living in fear.
Nobody I know voted for Nixon. You live in a fucking shithole run by by crooks. Your brain is rotten.
“It’s interesting that the survey showed more than eight in ten people have changed something in their lives to protect themselves or a loved one from the possibility of gun violence.”
For a lot of people, that “something” was . . . Buying gun.
Changed something? Anything? I guess getting a CCW license counts.
Oh, and apparently “thought about” counts too.
I’ve changed my behavior. There was a time when I would take trips into DC.
Washington D.C., with the strictest gun control laws in the nation.
Disciplinary incidents in Fairfax Co. schools have more than doubled, new report finds
“Disciplinary incidents were much lower when we didn’t discipline.”
Good morning Spud!
I don’t care if he’s a big hitter.
Neither does the Sheik!
Nathan J Robinson
@NathanJRobinson
The latest thing I got the AI to make for me
https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1645642113269260288
marx was a leach not a street fighter
HIIT & Stretch with Georgia – 30 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI9wwhTPq7o
Some people watching that will do a different type of workout… Popeye arms…
Quack quack quack
A coalition of the nation’s leading experts in pediatric health has issued an urgent warning declaring the mental health crisis among children so dire that it has become a national emergency.
The declaration was penned by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Children’s Hospital Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, which together represent more than 77,000 physicians and 200 children’s hospitals.
In a letter released Tuesday, the groups say that rates of childhood mental health concerns were already steadily rising over the past decade. But the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the issue of racial inequality, they write, has exacerbated the challenges.
“This worsening crisis in child and adolescent mental health is inextricably tied to the stress brought on by COVID-19 and the ongoing struggle for racial justice and represents an acceleration of trends observed prior to 2020,” the declaration from the pediatric groups says.
If somebody tracked down everybody on the board of the American Association of Pediatrics and garroted them, I would consider that person a hero.
In a letter released Tuesday, the groups say that rates of childhood mental health concerns were already steadily rising over the past decade. But the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the issue of racial inequality, they write, has exacerbated the challenges.
My kids are doing fine. But then the local schools don’t push politics. I also don’t force a conversation for every event that trends on Twitter. I’m letting my kids be kids.
And that’s why your racist or facsist, or nazi, or transphobic.
I am so glad my kids are grown and that we homeschooled our last one.
orandPlus many more I’m sure.
Children up to about the age of 35…
So how many of you have gotten into a discussion with a moron that basically labeled anyone and everyone they disagree with fascists? I am flabbergasted how many leftards misconstrue the meaning of fascism while engaging in fascistic/marxist behavior. Our public school system is designed to churn out useless idiots…
“You’re a fascist and I’m going to block you so you can’t refute my weak arguments anymore.”
It’s amazing. Reasoning goes out the door with leftists, They even put words in your mouth. If you believe in women’s rights, that doesn’t mean you want to kill transsexuals. It goes beyond straw man arguments, now we have entire straw villages.
The female swimmer had someone just screaming in her face “trans rights are human rights!” over and over, just because she doesn’t think women should compete with men pretending to be women.
I don’t get into discussions with assholes (except for here, of course.)
Orwell complained about the misuse of fascist to mean “anyone I dont like”.
So the problem is about 80 years old.
The declaration from the pediatric groups notes that the disruptions children and families have experienced during the pandemic have disproportionately affected children of color.
A recent study in the journal Pediatrics showed that 140,000 children have lost a parent or grandparent caregiver to COVID-19. A majority of those children were kids of color.
The Negro brain is inferior, and generally incapable of higher reasoning and adaptability.
Stooge
As former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) caustically posted on his Twitter feed on Sunday, “Why is this always the French?” Why indeed? And, why now, in the face of Moscow and Beijing’s assault on the international order, as it has existed since the end of World War II, is Macron willing to play into Russia and China’s autocratic “multipolar world” designs at the expense of global democracy?
Macron’s pursuit of his vision of European “strategic autonomy” is nothing new. Neither are his repeated failures to pull it off. For all his ambition, he keeps misreading the room, particularly when it involves Ukraine. “New NATO,” Poland especially, wants nothing to do with his grandiose concept of a France-led European “strategic autonomy.” Warsaw painfully still remembers Paris’s failed pre-World War II security guarantees.
When war broke out on Sept. 1, 1939, after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, France — despite its guarantee to march on Germany — “merely advanced five miles into the German Saarland,” where it “stopped and stayed stopped.” Poland, after the war’s end, found itself on the inside looking out at the West. Warsaw’s reward for believing in France? Decades of brutal Soviet domination.
Yet, despite repeated rejection by NATO, Macron persists. On Sunday, while aboard Cotam Unité — France’s Airbus A330 version of Air Force One — returning to Paris from a three-day state visit to China, Macron’s never-ending machinations to establish France as a “third superpower” at Europe’s expense, took a far darker and divisive turn. The French president acerbically called for Europe to cease being “America’s followers,” lest the continent get “caught up in crises that are not ours.”
What a crazy foolish thing to say.
If any ad company has 0 chill its the fucking TV Licensing
https://twitter.com/Swamp_Jaws/status/1100488284466266112
That’s not creepy at all.
What kind of wannabe tyrant designs those ads?
the BBC people need their money
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Replying to
@micsolana
I think we should legalize it. The probability of overdose or a bad batch is greatly reduced if there is actual QA & regulation.
Also, crime flourishes when substances are made illegal. Alcohol is very much a “drug” – it’s just a legacy drug from olden times when we had no technology!
Prohibition of alcohol in the United States caused the greatest increase in organized crime in our history. How many times do we have to learn this lesson!?
https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1645530607491985410
The female swimmer had someone just screaming in her face “trans rights are human rights!” over and over, just because she doesn’t think women should compete with men pretending to be women.
That NPR thing about the pediatricians’ urgent plea for better mental health care specifically mentioned teenage girls as being particularly vulnerable. But they didn’t offer any examples of likely stressors.
I wonder if being shoved aside in favor of teenage boys pretending to be teenage girls might have an effect.
Or propagandized into believing that they’re not actually female, they’re whatever they want to be today…
Or being told that without a victim classification they have no moral or societal worth…
I despise the adults that are mentally abusing the kids this way.
‘I’m A Victim!’ Yells Trans Activist While Punching Woman In The Face
Good morning glibs, hows things?
Happy birfday HE! Getting older sucks eh?
Hey Yu! You were missed in your absence.
Did you get the email I sent?
Here is a link to the “study”:
https://www.kff.org/other/poll-finding/americans-experiences-with-gun-related-violence-injuries-and-deaths/
“Karl Lagerfeld’s cat is alive, well — and invited to the 2023 Met Gala”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/10/karl-lagerfelds-cat-choupette-invited-to-the-met-gala/
What a relief!
We got an email about how totes awesome the housing market is. Something stands out to me:
Consider these facts:
• Richmond remains in a new home supply deficit;
• 50% of new renters are coming from outside the Richmond market, meaning we need more housing inventory than initially planned;
• Resale inventory remains historically low, furthering demand for new construction;
• The pipeline of new residential communities is decreasing throughout the region;
• Historically, interest rates are low and home buyer traffic remains stronger than the first quarters of 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020;
• We need more communities both approved and developed, and we need more homes.
I wonder why…
We need more homes but I continue to design subdivisions in which I cannot afford to live and there is a dwindling market of existing, more affordable houses. How very curious.
Check the regs on “affordable housing”, and you will probably see the answer.
Yeah, the market is just peachy.
I’ve seen softening in our target market since last summer, but no price crash yet. Well priced listings are gone within a week (of listing or of price reduction). Overpriced listings sit for a few months before taking the hint and reducing. Then they sell within a week of the price reduction.
I looked at the houses we’ve owned in the past decade, and at their current values they’re right around the same affordability for us as when we bought them, despite my income having doubled and tripled, respectively.
The mantra going through my head repeatedly is “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”
Affordable housing has almost always been fancy housing from last generation.
The problem can be reduced to one word: zoning.
End zoning and other building regulations and let small time builders build. That you have to be a big money developer building a big project to fight thru the approval process is about 90% of the problem.
Historically, interest rates are low
Compared to the 70s and 80s, maybe.
90s too.
My first mortgage in 98 was something like 8.125%. I thought it was low.
I refi’ed to 7.25% a few years later and thought that was so freaking low I would never need to refi again.
My 3.5% and 3.45% rates are too high.
Those should be past-tense, the loans have been paid off.
I am 3.25% on the current house.
Locked on 12/31/21 just before things got crazy.
Good thing I’m not looking for a new loan.
The credit score report my CU just started offering includes suggestions on how to improve it. They say my already high score could be higher if I took out an installment loan.
Nice try, but I’m not falling for that one. ::knocks wood that beloved Subaru keeps running for many more miles::
My mortgage is currently 2.5%.
I have a HELOC set up that is tied to the prime rate. It is currently at 8%. I have a very low balance on it right now. But we are replacing the roof, the siding and a deck in the next few months. Just waiting on bids to roll in and for my insurance to let me know if they are paying for the roof.
Seems appropriate to insert Jimmy McMillan here:
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IT’S TOO DAMN HIGH!
Might as well jump!
She was so damn cute.
She still is.
Astronomers Spy a Giant Runaway Black Hole’s Starry Wake
A candidate “rogue” supermassive black hole may weigh as much as 20 million suns and has sparked a trail of star formation that is 200,000 light-years long
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-spy-a-giant-runaway-black-holes-starry-wake/
Or being told that without a victim classification they have no moral or societal worth…
What does it mean to be a teenage girl these days? Heaven forbid a girl would want to grow up and be married to a man who loves her and treats her well, and raise a family.
What does it mean to be a teenage anything, for that matter? There is a large group of people intent on destroying traditional notions of identity and self-worth. They are obsessed with “freeing” people from the constraints of traditional cultural stereotypes, but have no meaningful vision of what might come after.
The destruction of the family is the goal because the family is an impediment to the goal of total state power.
Same with the church, see the infiltration of the Catholics mentioned above.
And commercial banking…
Etc…
Fresno? Fres-yes!
I didn’t read it until this morning, but great article on the race. Thanks for writing it up!
Thanks.
Passed with a 97 which in FedGov world I am a try-hard cause anything over a 70% is showing off. What is good is I swapped my flights and don’t have to stay an additional 3 days since we are ahead of schedule. Now to offload beer and non-perishable food items
Congrats?
Hey, like, check your Competence Privilege, maaaan!
(Seriously, bravo! Well done!)
Thank ye!
“Passed with a 97 which in FedGov world I am a try-hard cause anything over a 70% is showing off.”
Well, enjoy the target on your back.
NO FREAKING WAY…
Well, another suspicion that was voiced turns out not to be a conspiracy theory but the truth…
The crime syndicate running the WH and the country is evil.
And nothing else will happen.
It’s like caloric intake matters.
A man who has vowed to eat nothing but McDonald’s for 100 days has revealed that he has lost a total of 34 pounds and has lowered his cholesterol as he nears the halfway point of his experiment.
Kevin Maginnis, 57, from Nashville, Tennessee, has been chronicling his weight-loss journey on TikTok after announcing in late February that he would be ordering breakfast, lunch, and dinner from the fast-food chain for the next three months.
Per the rules he set for himself, he is only allowed to eat half of what he orders, but he has free reign to get whatever he wants, including dessert. He also adheres to eating just three meals a day without snacks and drinking water instead of soda.
This guy did it too.
He’s still fat, and consuming junk calories.
That seems stupidly wasteful. (Also, s/b “free rein.” Learn English! 😉)
Free rain!
Anyway, if he overorders and has half, that’s still easily too much.
Yeah his rules make no sense. Just order based on macros.
I don’t think fast food is all that unhealthy as long as you stay away from the soda and milk shakes.
It’s carby, sugary, and packed full of preservatives at most places, but no worse than the carby, sugary, preserved crap you can get in the freezer section of most grocery stores.
Clean and green, safe and effective
A 7-year-old boy and a teenager were killed in a fire sparked by an e-bike’s lithium-ion battery in New York on Monday, marking the city’s fifth fatality in connection with the batteries so far this year, officials said.
Calling the incident a “terrible tragedy,” New York City Fire Department Chief John Hodgens said the blaze started in the vestibule of the first floor of a residential building in Queens.
The blaze quickly traveled upstairs, where a father and his children were staying, NBC New York reported. Four people were able to jump out of windows, but two did not survive, Hodgens said in a social media post.
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The incident comes amid a rise in the number of fires caused by lithium batteries across the United States.
Monday’s blaze marked the city’s 59th fire and fifth fatality caused by a lithium-ion battery so far this year, Dan Flynn, the department’s chief fire marshal, said.
If these weren’t part of the new green agenda, there would be Democrats on the floor of the Senate calling for a complete ban.
Yep. “Putting profits above safety.” But putting their agenda above safety is fine.
The article yesterday noted they were using the wrong battery charger and blew up the battery.
So, 1) stupid users; 2) the batteries are too dangerous to be in the hands of stupid users; 3) that’s no reason for the government to step in.
I think that’s how it usually is. I see these bikes all the time; they look like jury-rigged junk.
You are correct. And yes, the things are damn dangerous. Production is speeding up too, and quality is dropping. That cannot happen with these complex batteries.